The 1991 album The Lament of Souls by Embalmed Souls, features Gustave Doré’s illustration, The Lustful, as the cassette art.
Find The Lament of Souls here.
Find The Lustful by Gustave Doré here.
Contributed by Gianluca Giuseffi Grippa
The Dante Game
“When the Pope issues a sweeping edict calling for a yearlong war on drugs, no one is more surprised than the Vatican to find the campaign a success. In every Catholic corner of the world, young people throw down their needles to pick up crosses. In Florence, thousands of them converge on the Duomo to thank Christ for their newfound commitment to sobriety. Nearly everyone is relieved by this development—save for Leonardo Bindo, banker and druglord. To get his business back on track, he seizes upon a simple plan: Kill the Pope. Standing in his way is Homer Kelly, transcendentalist scholar and occasional detective. In Florence to teach at a new international university, Homer stumbles on Bindo’s scheme while investigating the disappearance of a beautiful young student. His Italian may be lousy, but Homer is the only man who can save Italy from itself.” —Jane Langton, The Dante Game, Amazon (1991)
Seinfeld Season 3, Episode 10 – “The Stranded” (1991)
“Seinfeld is an American sitcom television series created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends: George Costanza (Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and his neighbor from across the hall, Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). It is set mostly in an apartment building in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City. It has been described as ‘a show about nothing’, often focusing on the minutiae of daily life.” —Wikipedia
In Season 3, Episode 10, entitled “The Stranded”, George remarks that his current office relationship makes it feel as though every day is a date to which Jerry replies, “That’s one of Dante’s nine stages of Hell, isn’t it?”
See our other post involving comedian Jerry Seinfeld here.
A Divina Comedia (1991)
Released in 1991, the Portuguese drama film A Divina Comèdia was written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira.
Judecca – Super Robot Wars
“Additionally, although it is not clear how these techniques actually work, the Judecca is capable of several devastating arcane attacks that warp its opponents to hostile subdimensions (for all intents and purposes analogous to “Hell”) in order to cause damage.
[. . .]
AGX-14 (AGX-18) Judecca
- Height: 70.3 meters
- Weight: 389.1 tons
- Pilot: Levi Tolar
- Armament: Large Claw (mounted on arm), Beam Emitters (many)
- Special ability: Warp Field
- SRW Attack List:
- Energy Drain
Chaff Grenade
First Hell: Caina
Second Hell: Anetenora
Third Hell: Ptolmeia
Final Hell: Judecca” –Neo Roanoke, Gears Online
Learn more about the 1991 video game series Super Robot Wars here.
