“They’re awful, they frighten me, they’re evil and wicked and dangerous!” – Nicky Gore, The Changes
A mate went to see Stewart Lee perform live recently, and we discussed how odd it is for him to be now considered a member of the comedy “old guard” when he is in fact the same age as me. [...]
You must surely recognise the film being referenced here in this fine photograph. I’m normally dead set against the idea of remakes but if she was going to play Varla in a new version of Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!, then I’d be all for it. In fact, I think I’ve already found the perfect theme [...]
Black is the colour of my true love’s hair
His lips are like some roses fair
He’s the sweetest face and the gentlest hands
I love the ground wheron he stands
Espers – Black Is The Colour
I couldn’t let Halloween pass by without using this amazing photo. Vincent Price personifies all the rubber skeleton crapness and fabulous dark mystery of Halloween, and he’s the type of character that simply wouldn’t be allowed in today’s mediascape.
Siousixe & The Banshees – Halloween
As stated last week, True Blood is my favourite TV show of the moment, and one that I make the effort to tune in for every week, which is remarkable in itself as I usually despise most of what gets squeezed down the Glass Teat. I’ve also long-harboured a dislike for much of what constitutes [...]
The film version of Cormac Mcarthy’s novel The Road looks like it might now actually be released upon thousands of unsuspecting multiplex goers. As previously stated, it’s my all-time favourite novel, read annually just to remind myself why nothing else is ever going to quite match it in terms of language and emotional impact. Based [...]
Let’s get the the countdown to Halloween started with a shot of the beautiful Caroline Munro getting bodily fluids splattered onto her chest, backed up Lemmy demanding that you “shake your blood.” Who’s gonna argue with Lemmy?
Probot – Shake Your Blood
The Road represents for me the end of fiction. There’s nothing else beyond it as far as I’m concerned, and with very few exceptions I’ve found I can’t even read fiction anymore. There just doesn’t seem to be any point – the same tired old cliches trotted out, the same weary prose, the same implausibly [...]
“Is it heck tame. it’s just trained that’s all. It’s fierce, an’ it’s wild, an’ it’s not bothered about anybody, not even me right. And that’s why it’s great.”
“The sound of a long-lost childhood…The smell of a damp school cloakroom, from an age when comics were still printed on newsprint…But this is more than just [...]
