Sep 2nd, 2010 @ 2:26 pm
"Real" Possession
io9.com has a great round up of videos, images, and quotes on supposed cases of real exorcisms. The one I liked the best is the Demon Chair. It’s just so simple, so unpretentious, that it has an eerie ring of realism.
Aug 25th, 2010 @ 1:00 pm
Guillermo Del Toro, creator of some of my all time favorite movies, including Pan’s Labrynth and Chronos, is “reinventing” the 70’s classic horror TV movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. He has some interesting things to say about how the movie changed in his memory to almost become a totally different movie. This was back in the days before Netflix, DVD, or even VHS. So you couldn’t see something over and over again. There’s something to be said for that. There are many movies that I saw as a child that have taken on a level of profundity that is most likely something that grew from my own imagination. Frankly, I’m not interested in watching those movies again, because I’m pretty sure I’ll like my version better.
Del Toro said they were expecting a PG13 rating for the new Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark because there’s no gore, sex, or graphic violence. But they got an R. When they asked why, they were told because it’s just flat out too scary.
I can’t wait.
(via Underwire)
Aug 22nd, 2010 @ 3:53 pm
They Might Be Giants - “They’ll Need a Crane” (Lincoln, 1988)
Inarguably, a fantastic song. But, wow. Talk about some candy-coated misery.
Linnell has such a genius for writing these incredibly sad songs that, at least on the surface, don’t sound incredibly sad.
But, once you actually listen, of course, you can see they’re ironic little short stories about a life falling apart.
Seems to me that, with Linnell’s adenoidal crooning as the perfect presentation medium, the distant tone and absence of mawkishness make everything feel twice as brutal.
The truth is, no one finds sad people all that interesting. But, sad robots and sad puppets and sad night lites — all of whom have no idea how sad they really are?
Man, that is Literature.1
Viz.:
Don’t call me at work again
No, no, the boss still hates me
I’m just tired and I don’t love you anymore
And there’s a restaurant we should check out
Where the other nightmare people like to go
I mean nice people—Baby, wait!—
I didn’t mean to say, “nightmare”
Lad looks at other gals
Gal thinks Jim Beam is handsomer than lad
He isn’t bad.
Call off the wedding band
Nobody wants to hear that one again
Play that again
They’ll need a crane
They’ll need a crane
To take the house he built for her apart
To make it break
It’s gonna take
A metal ball hung from a chain
They’ll need a crane
They’ll need a craneI mean, come on. Fucking ouch.
Addendum @ 2010-08-22_12-02-03
“As far as I’m concerned, for what we do, it’s not interesting just to publicly cry, you know? It’s not—it doesn’t even have the effect of making me sad if somebody else is doing that. I think the thing that’s really sad is when somebody represents some kind of inner sadness in some other way.” - Linnell
And, there you have it. Thanks, Valerie!
Reblogged from kung fu grippe.
Aug 20th, 2010 @ 10:25 am
Steam-man (via io9)
@ 9:45 am
Put This On: A Web Series On How To Dress Like A Grownup
You will not look graceful when you’re wearing jeans, an untucked double-cuff shirt, and a suit jacket. You will look like Ryan Seacrest, circa 2004.
Just one of the many quotes that makes Put This On, along with Minimal Mac and io9, one of my must-read blogs. I will be thirty-four next month and it has begun to dawn on me that I cannot dress like a twenty-something hipster forever. And yet, there is something deep within me that rails against “dressing nice”. Perhaps it’s the fact that I went to an all-boys Catholic prep school with a fairly strict dress code. Or perhaps it’s some sort of straight-guy “if I care too much about what I look like, people will think I’m a weenie” mentality that still clings to me, even though I should know better by now.
This blog’s creators, Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor, have with humor, a keen sense of taste, and an open mind for self-expression, suggested to me that “dressing like a grown up” doesn’t have to mean dressing like a an uptight douche.
Who knows? Perhaps I might actually develop a sense of fashion from all this…
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