I've enjoyed the movie reviews over on the Blackpilled youtube channel. Some, like American Beauty, I'd caught wind of a good chunk of how awful it was despite being, at teh time, all in a "art and indie movies about weird shit are cool" immature phase at the time. Others, like Pleasantville, I had not. One that I had, and had never liked the movie, could feel how off and forced it was, was Forrest Gump. So yes, there is a sense where you never know what will come at you. After all, the…
One of the things I've mentioned recently is that I've gotten back into music, and am doing so by learning a new instrument, the guitar. Lessons of course, are available, and I've availed myself of a couple, but that gets expensive very fast even if one hasn't fallen down the rabbit hole of all the cool gear you can buy to modify sound, better amps, and of course inputs to record and produce music on your computer. For clarity - I'm not an utter newb, though I recall far less,…
Filed under "probably should have figured it out sooner...". Cue cheesy video. The name of the band is "808 state". I used to hear the above track a lot along with KMFDM, Eon's "Spice", Depeche Mode, Book of Love, New Order, Sisters of Mercy, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Skinny Puppy, Manufacture, and Front 242 at an "off limits" club in Florida. But it wasn't until overhearing a recent comment invoking a Roland TR-808 drum machine that I made the connection with why they chose their…
On the recommendation of Cataline Sergius over at his new blog [https://darkherald.net/2019/02/11/cataline-highly-recommends-the-death-of-stalin-a-comedy-of-terrors/] , I tried out "Death of Stalin". Glad I did. Not hysterically fun, it is an exceedingly black and dark company that transforms into straight-up dark near the end, and yet has a number of moments worth a chuckle as the actors and script manage to both play it utterly straight, yet slightly ridiculous. I'm also somewhat shocked -…
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