Fuck I am allllllmost tempted to shell out for Netflix again just to watch that Manosphere doc with the kid
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Guitar feedback, magical realism, neurodivergent parenting, demiurgical materialism, gochujang
Went and saw Night of the Living Dead w kid and friends at Cinema du Parc. I confess I had never seen it before and it’s a starkly effective movie still. Interesting to think about how shocking it was in 1968 - it’s not exactly a documentary style film, but it has an unadorned realism that doesn’t ask you to suspend a lot of disbelief. The kids were engaged, if not utterly horrified. The sound design is fucking awesome, by someone named Richard Lococo, and I wish I could find what kind of echo device he used because whatever it is is all over this movie and it’s mesmerizing. I spent a good chunk of the movie annoyed with most of the characters, and it’s only on reflection now that I realize Ben was only able to behave with such composure in the face of this erosion of human reality because, for a Black man in America, such existential violence has always been lurking around the corner, the whole world’s already infested with ghouls. When we got home I remembered this thing from a few years ago, where Yamantaka // Sonic Titan did an original score for the movie, which I am now watching:
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN - Night Of The Living Dead with New Score
Every once in awhile I am reminded that I have vestigial 90s emo guy sideburns.
Clikatat Ikatowi live at Spin Records 1995 #punkhouseplaylist
Clikatat Ikatowi at Spin Records (1995)
We were feeding squirrels, it was before girls
You tried to cut the jar wide open
You looked up at me with twinkling eyes and crazy smile and stabbed right through your hand
Right there in that meaty part
Between the thumb and forefinger, it dangled
Poking through the other side was just the tip
You laughed at the absurd and time stood still and then you cried just like a baby
You cried just like a baby
You laughed like you were watching from afar
Then you cried just like a baby
You were prone to violence, god no wonder with the way your father hit you
You passed it down to me until my mom somehow made peace and that was how we became friends
I heard you ended up in jail and then the military
Or was it the other way around?
You were such a crazy kid, I barely understood half of the things you did
I think I get them now
I think I get them now
You tried to cut the jar wide open
You looked up at me with twinkling eyes and crazy smile and stabbed right through your hand
Right there in that meaty part
Between the thumb and forefinger, it dangled
Poking through the other side was just the tip
You laughed at the absurd and time stood still and then you cried just like a baby
You cried just like a baby
You laughed like you were watching from afar
Then you cried just like a baby
You were prone to violence, god no wonder with the way your father hit you
You passed it down to me until my mom somehow made peace and that was how we became friends
I heard you ended up in jail and then the military
Or was it the other way around?
You were such a crazy kid, I barely understood half of the things you did
I think I get them now
I think I get them now
I have been trying for several days to get through the movie Under the Silver Lake. I saw someone make the claim that it was an “important” movie, I really liked the director’s previous work, and on paper it seems to contain all the elements that I like in film, but this thing is just not doing it for me. It even has the Mulholland Drive diner dream guy, why is it so annoying?
A friend suggested we try and write some thrashy hc songs as a project, so like a dork I had to put together a pedalboard before even writing a note*. I’m sure I’d still fail the “does it chug” guy’s test, but this gets pretty fuckin gnarly. Stacking a Dirty Rat into a Turbo Rat totally kinda does the HM-2 chainsaw thing
*This is not entirely true, I have a couple ideas in the bag
Just realized that I should have been using the #cinemadupunk hashtag for this entire thread, sorry!