My thoughts on the Evil Dead remake (contains spoilers)

OK, so for some reason my University was giving out free tickets to see an advance screening of Evil Dead, so I decided to go. Anyway, it was fun but most of it was just OK (except the ending part, kind of loved that although I would have changed something). Also it was pretty awesome how all the special effects were practical effects and not CGI, so refreshing to see. Oh, and The new remake of the Evil Dead is kind of like a mish-mash of Evil Dead 1 and 2, along with some original stuff. So, now that I got that out of the way the rest of this post is going to have spoilers and just my thoughts about the whole movie, so if you don't want to have it get spoiled then stop reading.......... Now (oh and my thoughts will be in depth since that's how I do things lol).







So the movie starts off with the original Dr. Guy's (not sure his name lol) daughter being tied to a pole and having a ritual preformed on her because she opened the Necronomicon and after they preform the ritual it cuts to the people traveling to the cabin.

So, the new reason why people are at the cabin is because the main character's sister is a drug addict and she's wanting to quite the drug cold turkey. Now I have a few problems with this. 1. Quitting cold turkey is one of the worst ways to stop a drug addiction (depending on the drug of course. They never explicitly said what she was using (at least I don't remember) but I'm willing to not have a problem with this since it looked like she was using cocaine which seems like something that quitting cold turkey actually helps with). 2. This was just kind of stupid, I mean they go to some random cabin that hasn't been used in such a long time that it's broken down (and was used in the ritual of the opening scene). I don't know, it's just kind of a stupid reason to stay in a cabin they haven't been there in a long long time, she has tried to quite before (was she at the cabin last year too? If so why is it all messed up, and why are the not that freaked out that it was broken into and messed up? Why not change the story a little bit? Make the group drive up there because the brother and sister's mom died (she seemed to recently die in the movie anyway), and she wanted to have her ashes spread where the old cabin was (the reason the cabin was never used in this version is because nobody knew about it besides their mother), the tension between the brother and sister could still be there since the brother didn't see his mom in the hospital but now he's back for spreading her ashes, while the sister was still there (and the sister could still have a drug problem, heck she could have developed that as a way of dealing with her mom dying in the hospital). I don't know, I just really hate the premise of why they're in the cabin, and I know the director didn't want them to be in the cabin just to have fun but there are better ways of doing it than a drug addiction thing with hardly any medical supervision or anything like that.

Anyway, they go the cabin and the sister in withdrawal (Mia) says she smells something, and people chalk that up to her cocaine use, this wouldn't be so bad but they have a doctor with them who's a friend but is also supposed to be monitoring the whole situation. Well, doctor, did you know olfactory (smell hallucination  aren't a symptom of cocaine? And can't you smell the dead bodies too? I know, I know I shouldn't be using logic in a movie, much less a horror movie, but still why can't people research this stuff before they do it? It doesn't take that long! (Also, I am a little biased because I really don't like the premise of why they're there, it's just stupid, what if she goes crazy? Just having a single doctor there is not a great idea).

Moving on, the group finally finds the trap door to the basement (I thought they lived in that cabin? So, why didn't they know about the basement in their own cabin?) and they go down, find the dead animals for the ritual, and they bring up the Necronomicon. The guy with long hair (Eric) opens up the Necronomicon and it unleashes the evil within (oh and rain, lots of rain). Mia goes outside to try to take her mind off of not having her drugs, and ends up seeing a woman. She freaks out and goes inside. Now people don't believe the girl because she's in withdrawal from cocaine, right? But wait a minute, it's kind of uncommon for cocaine to have hallucinations as a withdrawal symptoms, shouldn't the doctor of the group know that? I mean she is supposed to be mediating this stuff right? Seriously it's a bad idea to have a doctor in a group in a horror movie, it takes some people who are kind of nerdy and know some basic stuff out of the movie and wonder how this "doctor" got her job.

(fyi, I'm talking about these parts very briefly since this is when it starts getting good and I don't want to ruin anything for someone who is reading this even though they know it has spoilers lol)

So, because Mia is freaking out and nobody believes she saw something, what does she do? Grab her keys, jump out the window, and attempts to drive home of course! This brings up a few questions. 1. Why does the doctor ask her brother to not take his sister back if she asks him to drive him home (he has a car, and she has a car, who will drive the other car?)? 2. If Mia is scared from the girl she saw outside, why does she go outside instead of saying inside the cabin where 4 other people are?

Anyway, it's raining a lot (blocking the way out, yay for being more realistic about why the road was blocked off!) and Mia ends up seeing the girl again, so she tries to miss her and crashes. Then tree rape happens (which, like the original is the way the evil is passed). Mia ends up back at the house and there she starts to do the rituals depicted in the Necronomicon, then she turns into that one demon thing (a deadite I believe), that was in the basement of the trailer (and the original, I believe) and attacks the gang, with the shotgun and then throwing up on the doctor's face. They end up locking Deadite Mia up and stuff settles down, until the doctor ends up getting possessed, and when Eric goes to check on her, she attacks him.

Next, there's a girl I haven't talked much about... actually I haven't talked about her at all since up until now she's kind of a throw-away character which is kind of sad. But she ends up getting possessed, I'm not going to give away what she does, but it was pretty great, gotta love their throwback to the older Evil Dead movies!   

After this, the brother decides it's time to stop his Deadite Mia (who is still locked in the basement), so he ends up trying to bury her alive.....

(MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD)

And it works! This actually pissed me off because it could have been awesome if Mia pretended to be ok, but then when her brother turned his back she killed him, and the reason she was actually a Deadite was because her brother had to say a prayer over her live burial. Sadly, that didn't happen. Instead Mia is fine, and it looks like it will be a happy ending so her brother goes inside and gets the keys, and gets stabbed by Eric who is now a Deadite saying that it will rain blood soon (or something like that), he then goes toward the brother but the brother shoots the shotgun at the gas cans in the cabin and boom! So, is this the end? Nope! I actually really like this, because it starts raining blood! (I'm not sure if it's because the brother is dead and the evil only needed to possess maybe kill 5 people, or if it's because the evil took over Eric and in the opening we saw that the girl was possessed with the evil so it really only needed to possess 4 more people, I'm really hoping that it was the second option because that would make it so much better, but either way I'm glad that they actually ended up with the books telling actually coming true, instead of just having a nice little ending. However it's kind of really lame how it ends).

So, it's raining blood and you think the evil demon would come to Earth right? Well, she does and it's just one girl coming up from the ground, WTF? Seriously, this is the evil doom that the book was talking about? This was the thing that we had to be scared of? It's just another human girl, what makes her scarier than any of the other Deadites we saw earlier? Anyway, now that Mia is fine (and her brother is dead) she has to fight off this Deadite, and she does that with none other than....... the chainsaw! It was pretty awesome, there were tons of practical effects and nods to the originals which were greatly appreciated. But after the single deadite died, the movie ended....










(END OF MAJOR SPOILERS)

Ok, well actually the credits started, and they actually did stuff during the credits! I love it when they do that, it actually makes me want to sit through the credits. They also had some quotes recorded from the guy who found the book of the dead (kind of like the original Evil Dead when the group played the tape player), and there's something else at the end for fans of the original! So yes definitely STAY THROUGH THE CREDITS!!!!!!!!!


************End Spoilers******************

Overall I kind of liked the movie, it had a pretty good ending and I loved how they left in many of the elements from the other evil dead movies, but used them so that it worked with the movie and that they were able to add some of their own creativity too! The acting was mostly good, and I loved that one of the characters  (not sure if that was intentional or not)  , I do wish the movie was more on the comedy side (although the original Evil Dead was more horror than comedy), and that they had a better reason why they were at the cabin (I still like my idea of the cabin area was where their mom wanted her ashes spread, and through her will that was how they found out about the cabin and they had to stay there because it started raining and it was late and their house was a long ways away but that's just me lol), and I wish there was no animal violence but overall I enjoyed it, gotta love all the throwbacks to the older movies while still making it accessible for new fans too! I'm also glad that the film got so much better when stuff started happening, if it didn't I don't think I'd be able to recommend this movie. Also, I love that they used practical effects, so much better than CGI! It's also a very gory film, which I don't really care much about. I mean personally I think if you only rely on gore for a horror film then it's not a horror film, it's just a gross-out film that kind of sucks. Thankfully, they did the smart thing with this movie and actually didn't rely just on gore for the horror, instead they tried to make the movie genuinely scary and then added the gore for the gore fans. Oh, and I can't comment on acting, usually I just see it as good unless I see some really bad acting and then it either is funny (which I don't mind, I mean I love Terror Toons 2, come on lol).

So, do I recommend the film? YEP, I do. I can't speak for people who haven't seen the original Evil Dead movies, but for me it was fun, I really liked all the homages to the original but the movie still being it's own thing. It was definitely a lot better than I thought it was going to be

OMG Is there another Gothic Person At University

Probably, but sadly I have yet to run into one. It seems like I'm the only Gothic person here which kind of sucks but I guess it's OK I'm glad my life doesn't revolve around blacks, bats, and... yeah I was going to say something else but couldn't come up with anything clever so... I'm glad my life doesn't revolve around just being goth, even though I love so many Gothic things I also like so many things that aren't Goth too.

Anyway the reason I'm making this blog is because I thought I ran into a Gothic girl at work on Saturday, she was dressed all alternatively and looked awesome but since she had her work uniform on it is kind of hard to tell how she usually dresses. I started talking to her and it turns out she's not goth but more of a metal-head kind of person lol. That still doesn't make her less awesome though, but I would still love to be able to at least meet another gothic person at University.

Happy Halloween 2012 (Super Short Story Time)

Yep it's that time again, hopefully everyone has had a great Halloween!

So, for a Halloween blog I have a story planned. This was actually something I was planning on doing as a normal blog thing, but I ended up not doing that. Anyway here's the story:

Bobbie was an 8 year old child, going to Grandde Elementary School he had an older sister named April who would always go trick-or-treating with him, and was very protective of her younger brother.April also loved to scare her brother just before they went out trick-or-treating because she wanted Bobbie to be in the perfect mood for the time of year. However this Halloween was different, April had a very bad cold and could not take her younger brother trick-or-treating this year. Bobbie was very sad about this, but Ashley suggested he should ask their parents if he could go by himself, so Bobbie did.

"Mommie, Daddie can I please go trick-or-treating? I'm old enough to go by myself!" His parents discuses this together and they finally decided that he could "But be careful Bobbie, we don't want you to end up like that one kid who was kidnapped and killed all those years ago!". Bobbie agreed to be careful and then ran back to his big sister telling her the good news, "April, April I can go trick-or-treating!" He was so excited, and April was happy for him. She asked him to come close because she wanted to tell him the traditional scary story before he left. This scary story was about an old sacrificial burial ground in a place called the Omanama Park, it wasn't too far from where they lived which made it an even scarier story! Anyway, the story started off that Omanama Park was an ancient sacrificial burial ground where people used to sacrifice humans to the gods to protect them from a beast that was terrorizing their town. The sacrifices didn't work, however because there was something with the ground and everyone who died on that ground came back to life exactly 15 years later and killed the first person they saw as their revenge for being murdered.

After story time with his big sister, Bobbie got dressed into his Friday the 13th Jason costume, grabbed his pillowcase, and started going trick-or-treating. Right before the first house Bobbie noticed that his pillow was still in the pillowcase, so Bobbie threw it on the ground and rang the doorbell. "Trick-or-Treat!"

A few blocks down a creepy guy with broken teeth, and an eye-patch was sitting in his car. Bobbie passed the car and soon the creepy guy got out "hey kid..." Bobbie looked back and remembered what his mother said to him when he was running out the door "be careful of strangers, hunny, tonight is the night when many kids go missing so whatever you do, don't go near adults who aren't in a house, especially if you don't know them." So Bobbie turned and ran, but the man started chasing him! Bobbie was running past cars, over fences and even made it to his school, but the creepy man still followed. "How am I going to lose this guy?" Bobbie thought to himself, "ah,ha! I got it, I'll lose him in the old park!" So Bobbie ran to the old park, he was confident he would get away, but something poked up from the ground, grabbed his ankle, and he tripped.

A few seconds later the creepy guy arrived at the park "Hmmm, where did that kid go? All I wanted was to give him back the wallet that he dropped." The man looked for the kid a few more minutes, but with no luck he headed home. The wind picked up later that night, it was so strong it blew some of the bushes around, allowing the park's sign to finally be read "Welcome to Omanama Park".


.... yeah I know, this wasn't a very good story and it's totally told and not shown but hey, who was fone?


What did I do this Halloween? Well nothing except go to class, have dinner with a friend, and watch Hocus Pocus ( a movie that I think I remembered watching as a kid). What did you do for Halloween?

My Horror Video game Recommendations

OK so Halloween is coming up and what better way to celebrate it than to play some creepy videogames? Here are some horror-themed video games that you might want to check out.

1. Silent Hill 3 (PS2, PC) - My favorite Silent Hill game, it's a sequel to the first one where you play as Heather a grown woman venturing into the evil town of Silent Hill. It's basically one of the last really good survival horror games, in my opinion, and because it's a survival horror game it has those tank-like controls. It also has a few bonuses in the game depending on how you beat it (with 3 different endings), and it also has some awesome places you go, like the Amusement Park, and Robbie the Rabbit making this my favorite Silent Hill game. Also this game is out in the Silent Hill HD "Collection" but I advise against getting that since I hear that it has a ton of bugs, different voice actors, really dumb changes, and the people who made the "collection" already stated that they will not patch/fix the Xbox 360 version.


2. Illbleed  (Dreamcast) - Possibly my favorite Dreamcast game. It's basically a haunted house simulator where you go through different levels that have different stories, but the main story in the game is that the   . There are multiple endings (with 4 different end bosses and you choose to fight one of them), and quite a few different places you go to, from a real haunted house to a mall. It also has decent controls (they're not great but the game is still playable!), a really unique health system and gameplay (you have 3 different meters, one for how much blood you've lost, one for how scared you are, and one is your general health, the main way you get injured is through traps that either scare you, make you bleed, hurt you, or a combo of all 3 but you can detect the traps to avoid getting injured it's very unique and there's no other game like it!), it also has some amazing dialogue, and by that I mean very hilariously bad dialogue and voice acting, it's pure B-Horror-movie fun! Sadly it was one of the last games on the Dreamcast and got overlooked by a lot of people, it's also getting rather expensive now, I got my copy (complete with everything) for about $25, and now the price for a complete version is in the high $30's.


3. Lone Survivor (PC) - Don't let the 2D retro graphics fool you, this game can get really creepy. Actually this game is probably the scariest game to come out in a long time (with Silent Hill and Resident Evil dropping their survival horror elements and becoming action games) I love Lone Survivor because it shows that you don't have to have flashy graphics to be scary, you just have to have a creepy soundtrack, scary sounds and a haunting atmosphere.


4. Obscure (PS2/Xbox/PC) - Want to play a survival horror game with a friend? Here you go. I think this is the only survival horror game to actually include co-op besides it's sequel (Obscure: The Aftermath). I know Resident Evil 5 has co-op but it is not a survival horror game, at most it's action horror. Anyway, the story for this game is that something is happening at your high school and you're locked inside the school when looking for your friend (idk what kind of high school it is since it's gigantic, but I wish I went there instead of my high school, well you know without all the creepy monsters and stuff lol) You have many different characters to chose from, it includes co-op, there are a few extras, it's like a teenage B-horror-movie (think the movie The Faculty). Sadly this can also be a little pricey (the PS2 Version I have is now $27 - $37

5. Fatal Frame series (PS2/Xbox) - The scariest games I've played, you use a camera to kill the enemies (ghosts) and you do more damage the closer they are when you take the picture. It's really scary when you have to wait just until they are right up in your face about to hurt you.

6. Vampire: The Masquarade - Bloodlines (PC) - OK, so I know this isn't really a creepy game, but I absolutely love it and it is a good game to play for Halloween. I haven't played a whole lot of this game (like only 21 hours worth lol) so I don't know the whole story but it seems like you got turned into a vampire and now you have to do all these quests for them.... in case you were wondering, yes this is an Action RPG game and it is so much fun. You can customize your character (sadly the only real customizations are the name and type of vampire, I don't think you can't change the face :( ), and you can do a lot of side missions if you want to (I always do, it makes the game more fun that way). The only huge downside about this game is that it has tons of glitches (you can find a patch online though so it's not that bad) and it seems to have a hard time running on steam.


Other games to check out that I haven't played all that much so I can't comment on them:
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Amnesia the Dark Descent
Blood


Well that's about it, I think I'm also going to stop posting on the weekends since I know this upcoming weekend will be a little crazy.

Even More Music Pickups! Remix Addition

So, I bet this is getting kind of annoying having so many music pickup posts so close together, so I swear the next blog will be about something else and will actually have substance unlike the previous blog lol.

Anyway here are some CD's I recently bought

Bis - Plastique Nouvau



OK, so I basically got this CD because it was obviously a DJ copy with write saying what tracks would be good to play in the club and what songs are dancible lol, but it is actually really really good. If you don't know who Bis is, they were an indie pop band who did a song I bet many of you remember, The Powerpuff Girls theme song! Anyway, this was their last CD and it's basically straightforward electronic music! Yep, that's right a pop group that had a CD full of electronic music with very minimal singing. The whole CD reminds me of another band, Alice in Videoland. This Cd actually sounds so good it makes me wonder why Bis wasn't an electronic band, but then I remember I still like their poppy music too lol. Anyway here are my favorite songs on this CD

"Protection (Nude Mix)"

"The End Starts Today (Tommie Sunshine's "Nail Me Down" Glasgow Summer Freestyle Mix)"  - Ok so this track does actually have a lot of singing, but hey, I think it's most singing on the whole CD lol.                                                  


Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (and The Perfect Drug [Versions])


 


I originally wasn't going to get any NIN Cd's because for some reason I don't like getting CD's from extremely popular bands since I think their CD will always be available and other bands (like All Gone Dead or Ashbury Height) will either go waaaaay up in value or won't even be available when I want to buy it. However I ended up caving and buying these two CDs when I was at my local used CD store (the one really close to my house isn't a good one though, it's basically like a gigantic Wallmart, but they do have a huge collection of old CD's and video games, as well as books too, however their huge selection usually doesn't have any of the CD's that I really want and only a few bands I actually listen to (which is crazy since I listen to a ton of bands, but then again I don't listen to a whole lot of popular bands since I find most of my music on the internet lol, although I do have to say that I would really doubt a store like this would have Turkish pop music... yes that is the kind of music I loooove to listen to and it's totally the opposite of goth, Blaspheme! Lol.).....

Anyway back on topic, The Downward Spiral is OK and The Perfect Drug is a great single. The Downward Spiral has a few well known NIN songs like March of the Pigs, Closer, and Hurt, and The Perfect Drug has 5 different remixes with 4 different bands (yes, NIN did their own remix lol), including Meat Beat Manifesto, and Spacetime Continuum. My favorite songs on these CD's are

"Heresy" 

"March of the Pigs" 

"The Perfect Drug (Meat Beat Manifesto Mix)"

"The Perfect Drug (Spacetime Continuum Mix)"

Both of the remixes aren't on youtube so here's the original song

Front Line Assembly - Re-Wind



So this is basically just a whole remix CD, on the first disk FLA did all their own remixes, however on the second disk there are many different artists/bands that did the remixes (like Front 242). I really like this CD since it's more on the electronic side of FLA and not really metal sounding like some of their earlier stuff (ex. Millennium) Anyway my favorite tracks on this CD are

"Aftermath (We All Shall Perish-Mix)"

"Evil Playground (Chainsaw Mix)"


Wolfsheim - Popkiller



Wolfsheim's 4th album, 2nd CD. This is probably my least wanted Wolfsheim CD, however since Wolfsheim is such a hard band to find where I live I had to get it, and since I like Wolfsheim anyway it still ended up being a good CD. I don't believe it has any of their popular songs though  (Tender Days and Lovesong might be popular but idk, the songs I remember from Wolfsheim aren't on this CD lol). For those of you who don't know, Wolfsheim is basically in the slow and more emotional synth-pop/electronic music like the band VNV Nation, if you like them you'll probably like Wolfsheim. Anyway my favorite songs on this CD are

"Entropy" - Actually one of my favorite Wolfsheim songs

"Tender Days"

Let's Talk About The Weather!

Actually how about not since that would make a very boring blog, unless we talk about global warming or something like that, but I'm not going to do that, sorry random person wishing I would talk about global warming.

Anyway I don't really know what to really blog about, I'm trying to do a post every day though so I need to come up with something.... How about I do a blog post about coming up with a blog post and then the blog post I come up with is a blog post about doing a blog post about a blog post.... Nah, that would be too confusing for people.

OK so now being serious I have nothing to really talk about in this blog post, I mean I recently got these nice pants on amazon but I have no clue if I can wear them and not get crap for it or if they're too girly (I have a huge problem of not knowing what clothing is for guys and what is for girls, and because of that if I'm unsure of the clothing and it's something I like I'll either get it or try to get it and it turns out being for woman lol I'm so bad at "being a guy" lol. and I'm probably totally weirding you all out, but what do you expect from me? :P )


Laces (above) No Laces (down)



OK, so more music pickups will most likely be the next blog, followed by some actual Halloween themed blogs (omg Halloween themed blogs in October what is going on?) if everything goes to plan and I actually keep on posting blogs!

Until then I'm off to get some sleep (I ended up almost missing class because I basically slept through my alarm lol, gotta get to bed earlier tonight!) Also if anyone gets the title reference you get 20 goth points! lol

The Stereotypical But Unusual Emo Post With Special Guest Mr. Music Pickup.

I want to start out this blog by saying sorry it's been so long since my previous blog post, I intended on making a "moving into my dorm" post but the day was too busy and I ended up forgetting, so here you go a new blog post just 2 months late!

Anyway, University has been going pretty badly, not because of the classes (there's only one I don't like) but because I think it basically kicked up my gender-dysphoria (with soooo many reminders that I'm not a girl) which in turn kicked up my depression. It seems like whenever I'm alone or I'm not hanging out with my friends or family I tend to think about myself and that isn't exactly the best thing for me to do because I reflect on everything and I get depressed because I think of myself and cannot stand that I was born a guy, along with other things like not having many friends that live in the dorm (I have like 1 or 2, and all the friends in my classes drive to University from where they live), or not having a girlfriend, or other stuff.I hate saying that I'm depressed because I hate and it makes it seem like all Gothic people are depressed when they are not! I also hate it because my life isn't as bad as other people I am in University, and I already my Associates degree, I have a job (just got that at University a few days after I got here), I have some good friends even if I can't hang out with them that much, heck,  I even won a guitar at some University event! But to be blatantly honest I would give up that guitar in a heartbeat if it meant I would have a great girlfriend or amazing friends in the dorm, or I would especially give it up if it meant I could start life over as a girl.

However, lately I bought a Genesis and some video games and that seemed to help take my mind off of this stuff for a bit which is good for now, but I still need to see a gender therapist in the future though I'm just kind of scared and nervous about starting therapy.

OK, enough depressing news here's Mr. Music Pickup to save the post from being too depressing! Here's more music I picked up from over the summer to now.

Alien Sex Fiend  - Fiend At The Controls



Alien Sex Fiend is a hit-or-miss band for me, some of their songs I just love (like E.S.T Trip To The Moon, and Magic) but then there are some songs that I just cannot stand at all (such as Smells Like..). However I think this CD is pretty good! It has tons of dubs (I believe those are basically instrumental remix tracks), other remixes, and a few demos and original tracks, and one interview. Oh and apparently it seems like this CD is kind of expensive, so I guess it was good I found it for $7 basically brand new! My favorite tracks on this CD are


"Comatose (The Ultra Mix)"

"Mrs. Fiend Goes To Outer Space (Edit)" - best song on the whole CD in my opinion


ASP - Hast Du Mich Vermisst



In my opinion ASP can be a really good band when they sing in English in German they're ok. However I found out almost all my favorite ASP songs were on this disk so I had to get it lol


"Where Do The God's Go?"

"Sing Child"

"Imbecile Anthem"


Emilie Autumn - Liar/Dead is the New Alive EP



When I saw this CD being sold at a decent price on Amazon I knew I had to buy it, it's one of the hardest Emilie Autumn CD's to find, the only one that might be harder is her Laced/Unlaced album, and it has some really great acoustic songs that are found only on this CD, not to mention some great remixes! There are remixes on this CD from Brendon Small, ASP, Angelspit, Dope Stars Inc, and Velvet Acid Christ). Now I basically have every EA CD (besides some of her early EP's) I just need to get Laced/Unlaced and Enchant from "real" labels and not the stupid IronD one... Oh and the best part was that this CD was autographed by Emilie Autumn! My favorite songs on this CD are (hint some of the only acoustic songs EA ever did)


"In the Lake"

"Let It Die" - learn the lyrics in Spanish! :P


Project Pitchfork - Dhyani



One of my favorite albums by Project Pitchfork (it's also their first) it is pretty much great electronic-industrial music at it's finest and some people think it sounds similar to Skinny Puppy. I see that a little bit because they both sing oddly, however Project Pitchfork is easier to listen to (if you haven't heard any Skinny Puppy before, if you have then they're both not that hard to listen to lol), and they are still both very different bands. You can really see that now if you compare their new stuff. It also seems like this album might be a little bit rare, but who knows lol.Anyway there are some really good songs on this album that are my favorite songs I've heard from Project Pitchfork They are

"K.N.K.A"

"2nd Step"


Well it's getting late, so I may end up posting a new blog in the future with more CD's, I need to start making more blogs on here, so maybe I'll try to post almost every day in October from now until Halloween? Idk

Pickups from late-ish 2011 to Now, A Few of Many

Sorry, for some reason blogger messed up and I have no idea how to remove the text background color completely :(


I was going to make a blog last week, but I just felt horrible about what happened in the Aurora Theater shooting :( I feel horrible for everyone who was effected by that disgusting event that took place and my heart goes out to everyone. I wish I could not make this as generic as it sounds but I am never great at saying how bad I feel for the victims :( RIP, you deserve to be remembered and not the insane homicidal maniac. The victims will live on through their loved ones and will never be forgotten. 


Now that I got the sad part of this blog out of the way, let's get into new music I got (it's totally important right? Lol nah, I just make these blogs so others may find new bands to enjoy)! I bought a lot more music than this but I am just going over the highlights (and more "gothy" bands, since I bet more of my readers will be into that kind of music. I doubt many people would be super thrilled that I got Junta from Phish or Riot! by Paramore lol). Oh, before I get started I just want to say all the links in this blog will open up the music in a new tab so don't worry about having to constantly hit the back button.


1). Santa Hates You - Crucifix Powerbomb . This is one of my favorite CD's I own it's like industrial mixed with techno with aggressive singing but not too aggressive (I know that isn't the best description but it's a hard band to describe lol). I love how this band doesn't take itself seriously and is basically Peter Spilles' band that he uses to make "fun" music. that being said, you cannot discount Jinxy because PS is such a huge name, she is also amazing. This is basically accessible dance industrial music made by two people having fun, and you will be hard-pressed to find another band like them. Yeah that sums it up well lol. There is one thing that I hate about this band though, they have never toured in the US. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? They have been around for 5 years (possibly more) and it doesn't seem like they went on many tours so far (I guess it's understandable but still I want to see them live lol).


My Favorite Songs


EVERYTHING (Lol ok, so I have to pick 2 since I don't want to list every single song, so I'm picking the two songs that have music videos out, just to show you how "serious" this band is. If you like them you should definitely check out their music video for "Raise The Devil" it is pretty funny, oh and if you're not in the mood for music then maybe check out their mini FAQ video, it's hilarious). 


Rocket Heart


Hexenpolizei 


2) Hannah Fury - The Thing That Feels. Hannah Fury is an artist who has both of her full length albums sold out! This kind of sucks because both of the CD's are good. Anyway, The Thing That Feels is Hanna Fury's first full length album and I really enjoy it, all she uses is her piano and her voice. Hannah Fury sings all of these songs in a manner that almost gives you chills! If any of you have heard of Kate Bush, Hannah Fury kind of sounds like her, and she also kind of sounds like Emilie Autumn (with EA's more slow-piano songs). This album is also pretty interesting because almost every song is based on the book Wicked: The Life and Time of the Wicked Witch of the West. I believe this is a sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and it got turned into that play "Wicked". I love listening to her songs because you can tell what characters she is singing about (however I never read Wicked so I don't really know the story). However, even though I do love this CD there is one BIG downfall, almost every song sounds the same! I actually didn't mind that on this album but it does limit the album, especially if you don't like the style of any track since there really isn't much variety in this CD :( 


Favorite Songs (because every song sounds so similar I'm only going to be linking one even though I love the entire CD).


The Vampire Waltz 


3) Hannah Fury - Through the Gash. Hannah fury keeps her haunting tone, but now she adds some drums, overlapping vocals, and her music seems a little bit more electronic now. This is definitely a step up from The Thing That Feels  for two reasons, she does have some variety in this CD, and she seems to be growing as an artist, by now adding more instruments! There are some really interesting songs on this CD like the ironically named "Don't Be Scared" which creeps you out and is very otherworldly at the same time.... actually Hannah Fury is the first artist that comes to my mind when someone says ethereal! 


Favorite Songs (The first actually has a music video out, and tell me she doesn't look like Kate Bush lol)


Carnival Justice (The Gloves Are Off) pt 2


Status


4). Ego Likeness - East . This is an AMAZING EP! For those of you who don't know, Ego Likeness has made 4 EP's, each of them based on a direction (South, West, North, East) I believe they have all been limited edition but I do not know how many of each (except for East, only 300 of those). This is what I hate about this CD I wish so many more people could experience how great this EP is (I can't lie though, I do kinda love that this CD is going to be hard to find and I have it lol). However, seeing how Ego Likeness operates they might make a few songs on this CD free to download off of their website (they're awesome like that, makes me want to support them more).


Favorite Tracks


Persona Non Gratis


Tea in Sahara 


6). Emilie Autumn - Fight Like A Girl. What can I say except I was kind of let down with this album. I think my biggest disappointment was that none of these songs were adapted from a poem or a play. EA's main CD's (Enchant and Ophiliac) both had amazing song adaptations of old pieces of literature (like Shalott, or my favorite of EA's songs, Juliet) and those were some of my favorite songs on her CD's. Sadly this CD is basically just the musical from her Asylum book (from what I understand). That's not to say there are not any songs I love off of this album but there are just songs on here that I simply can't stand, which is very hard for me to say since I love almost everything Emilie Autumn has put out and there has been so few EA songs I didn't like before this album came out. In all fairness though Emilie Autumn did tell everyone what kind of CD this was going to be. I do think it was a mistake to release the CD and not have a whole extra part of a live show because it really sounds like a soundtrack to something that could be an amazing play.


   Oh and I should say that even though I did not get my CD in the mail yet, the Digipak looks amazing! I do love collecting Emilie Autumn's CD's and even though this is my least favorite of hers it does have some good songs and I don't regret buying it. However if you were expecting that "Harder" stuff I believe EA said (I think I saw someone comment about how she said Fight Like A Girl was going to be harder than Ophiliac if I remember correctly, sadly that was only true for a few like maybe 4 or so out of 17! However it is great to see that this CD has quite a few songs on it), you should download the harder songs on itunes (when it's out on there, you could also visit her website and listen to song samples if you want). However, I really really really recommend seeing her live because I feel like this CD was made for her live show instead of a stereo, and since EA always has amazing live shows, I'm thinking this will be her best one(s) yet!


Favorite Songs (I'm adding more because of how hard I came off on this CD lol)


Fight Like A Girl


Time For Tea


Take The Pill


Goodnight, Sweet Ladies




OK that's about it I might end up making another blog about more CD's I picked up and my thoughts on them. Peace <3

Addendum to previous blog "A Short Rant on Discrimination..."

So I was thinking of adding to my older blog "A Short Rant on Discrimination Plus a Game Plan for Future Blogs", but as you know I'm obviously kind of lazy lol. So, instead I found this really good video that basically just says what I would have said in my blog.

Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAdJUm79xi4

That's about it for this blog, don't worry I'll make a decently long one soon! (and I don't think it'll be another chapter "review" of 50 Shades of Grey, unless anyone wants me to read another chapter *shudders* lol)

Hello Love - A Poorly Written Review of the Poorly Written First Chapter of Fifty Shades of Grey

I glare with terror at the book in the front of me. What the - did I just write an awkward sentence to post in this blog post? OMG am I'm cursed with the curse of bad writing? What kind of horribleness is this?

           OK, I'll stop now, but wow this book is badly written. I was amazed when I read the first chapter of this book and almost died of brain damage, I mean I heard that this book had some bad writing, but I didn't think the writing would be as bad as it is. I honestly don't know if I can write a review of the next chapter, it's been such a chore to read this awkwardly written literature... I should say story shouldn't I? Literature makes it seem like it was professionally written.

           Background: To start off, Fifty Shades of Grey is a book written by a woman named E. L. James. This book started off as a Twilight fanfiction, that's your hint that the book is not exactly what you might call impressive. However I hear that there are some fan fiction stories that are actually pretty good, so it isn't really all that fair to judge this book just because it started off as a fan fiction novel.

          Also, to be fair, I actually did not mind the first Twilight movie (obviously based off the book, and I know it's blasphemy so put some tar on me and throw feathers this way lol), but that movie just didn't have super irritating characters (yet), they were just bland. So I was thinking, hey there might be a chance that I won't dislike this book. Well, sadly, that is not the case. So far the main reason I don't like this book is not because it is horribly written, but because it was a best seller, turning it into a symbol to how low the intellectual level has fallen. People actually think this is good and decently written! I admit, I'm not the best writer either, but I'm pretty sure I'm a better writer than the author of this book! I guess the difference between E.L. James and I is that I'm not narcissistic and I realize that I should not be writing books (or at least if I ever end up write one I would have someone check them for mistakes over and over again). I mean oh my god, this writer sounds like she is 15 years old and is writing her private romantic fantasy novel about that one guy in her class whom she fantasies about being with. There is nothing publish worthy about this, how did it not get rejected? Did this woman even pass English class? I'm sorry if I'm sounding so harsh but it is amazing to read something published with such badly written sentences, I'm still in shock at what I just read. Didn't E.L. James' writing teacher ever tell her to show not tell?

          Anyway moving on to the plot of the first chapter. It starts off with Kate (the protagonist's roommate) having the flu so the protagonist (named Ana) has "been volunteered" to do an interview with a "mega-industrialist tycoon". Kate tells Ana that she is once again her lifesaver, and we realize how the author sees this character, the savior of the story (which I believe will come up later when she tries to "save" her future lover from his "awful" bdsm lifestyle. Which, by the way, is not a lifestyle people need saving from if they are in it >:( but I'll get to that if or when I come to it).

        Ana goes to the "headquarters of Mr. Grey’s global enterprise" AKA Grey Enterprises Holdings Inc. (Interestingly enough this is the first time Mr. Grey's name is mentioned, we the reader do not know who Mr. Grey is, and all we can assume is that he is who Kate was supposed to interview. But is Mr. Grey the CEO, is he owner of this enterprise and thus not the person Ana is going to interview, or is he both? We do not know because he hasn't really been introduced). Finally she starts interviewing him after meeting two of his blonde receptionists. Finally we get a name, Christian Grey. These two talk and do the interview is done (finally we know that Mr. Grey is both the CEO and the owner of the company, and an interview is "totally" not a lazy way of flushing out the character of Christian). During this interview Christian asks “Are you colleagues on the student paper?” (James, 14), this either makes me think that Christian has a bad time with the English language or that E.L. James or her editor did not look at the story close enough to see a basic mistake.  Anyway, back to the story. Christian ends up offering Ana an internship at his company, but she turns him down (at least right now), and she leaves the building and drives home.


      Review for this chapter: It was horrible lol, but I do suggest anyone who does not think that a book would be published with such terrible writing go check this out, read a chapter on Amazon. WARNING: You might give yourself a concussion by the time you're done with reading a page of this book, PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

     Also, I would like to ask why there are so many references to the color grey, Ana's last name is Steele, the love interest is named Mr. Grey, the building where the interview takes place is made of steel, the outfit the secretary has on is black and white (mixed together = grey), Mr. Grey has grey eyes, etc. This author repeats words so much on some instances while I was reading the story I was like "let me guess, you're going to say that the desk is sandstone again", or "OMG I bet I can't guess what color Mr. Grey is wearing is, and what color his eyes are. They are purple right? Totally won't be grey, nope not at all" (sorry, sarcasm is hard to show on a computer).

    Quoting Fifty Shades of Grey "Nothing changes" (James, 8), this is the perfect quote to express the extent of repetition in this story. EVERYTHING IS FREAKIN' GREY!!!!! What is the author's obsession with Grey? Is that her favorite color?


Random Works Cited For Fun (yay)!

James, E. L. Fifty Shades of Grey. Waxahachie, TX: Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. Print.

A Short Rant on Discrimination Plus a Game Plan for Future Blogs

Sorry it took so long for a new post, I'm still taking classes (and sadly I'll be taking them all summer, but at least I'll graduate when I'm done with the summer semester lol).

Anyway I was thinking about doing a blog about this topic a while ago but school kind of got in the way, luckily classes haven't been as hectic so now I can do a blog about discrimination.

Since discrimination is a gigantic issue I'm only going to be covering the Goth discrimination against other Goths since, obviously, this is a Gothic blog lol and I do find it pretty sad that some of this stuff is happening.

So, narrowing this type of discrimination down even more, this is the discrimination that (mostly older) Goths do to either younger Goths, or people that are new to Gothic culture.

 I don't understand this, I mean we are already discriminated by society so why do some Goths feel like they should discriminate against newer or younger Goths? You would think that people who know how discrimination feels would be less judgmental of others, but yet there are Goths who make fun of, hate on, pick on younger Goths or people newer to Gothic subculture calling them "posers" and the like, and not paying any attention to them.

I personally say if these people want to be called Goths and look Gothy then they should go for it, I'll support them . I mean everybody has different preferences, some people might love the Gothic look but hate Gothic music, some might love Gothic art, and literature but can't stand the look.

Even though I am extremely supportive for anyone who wants to enter into the Gothic subculture, I will easily hate anyone who comes into this subculture as a way to justify their hatred, anger outbursts, depression, and other things such as a way to get attention. These kinds of people are what makes other people afraid or makes them dislike Gothic culture and helps fuel the prejudiced that they have.



Now that that is done, it's time for a "happier" subject. I've been racking my brain trying to think of something to blog about and I could not think of anything, but luckily one of the people I'm subscribed to on youtube made a video about a bestseller book that sounds horrible, so I thought "hey, why read it over the summer and post blogs about each chapter!" So, on the next blog prepare to see an overview of Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One. I'm sorry if I'll be offending anyone by the review, but it does sound pretty bad, poorly written, and anti-BDSM culture :( So I just couldn't resist lol. How does this tie into Gothic culture? Well it ties in loosely (probably very loosely) to Gothic culture by the BDSM part, but who knows maybe some of the characters are Gothic. Oh, and I guess it originally started off as a Twilight Fanfiction novel, yeah that book hardly has anything to do with the Gothic culture too, but it did unite most Goths who all started saying how horrible the author's depictions of Vampires are. I guess this book is kind of like the same but instead of Vampire lovers uniting against Twilight, it's BDSM lovers and supporters against Shades of Grey... but that's just from watching a long video about the book, maybe I'll change my mind when reading it?

Wait, I'm Alive?

Who knew? Especially since I haven't been on blogger in quite a while lol. I'm sorry to all the blogs I'm following, it's just been a really busy year for me, a pretty interesting one too! Since this is my first blog in a while I might as well just talk about what has happened to me this year, sadly it's not going to have a ton of gothy stuff, but it will have some lol.

1) Possibly the most significant thing that happened to me this year was that I found out that I'm a woman in disguise! Yep, it's kinda like a secret agent thing, but with my body as my disguise, lol jk. But seriously, I am transgender (technically transsexual is the correct term for myself, but I don't like using it because I personally think it's more confusing since it makes it seem more like a sexual orientation thing and being trans doesn't really have anything to do with that except with the labels. Now I get to say that I'm a lesbian or a homoromantic woman instead of a straight man, which actually seems right to me as strange as that sounds). Oh and I actually didn't time this to be a day after the lead singer of Against Me! Came out lol, it's just an awesome coincidence!

I hope this isn't a surprise to anyone, I mean looking back I can totally see myself just being so much more of a girl than a guy, even when I was trying to hide my girlishness lol. It's funny, I think I have to thank either ending up calling myself goth or calling myself asexual to finally be able to call myself trans, even though it still took a month or two on a transgender chatroom (where I met one of my best friends at), as well as a journal, and I ended up taking a class on gender just to make sure (kind of like when I took a philosophy of religion class to make sure I was definitely an atheist). Actually, I wonder what is going to be going through my Psych of Gender teacher's mind when she reads my paper about gender lol. I might talk more about being myself being trans in a future blog but I don't know how many of you would want to read it, I'll probably just put it on my other blog that I'm hopefully going to be updating more frequently.

2) Speaking of other blogs I hardly use this account anymore, it was my backup one for youtube and when I started with school I ended up concentrating on that and forgetting about blogger (the class I really had trouble was 日本語, yep Japanese class. Other than that I got two A's and a B; and I barely got that B since it was a 89%).

Anyway, I lost my main account on youtube because they want me to pay them to give me a new password and log in, which is stupid. I also don't have a credit card so it wouldn't matter even if I wanted to do this. So you would think the smart thing would be to make this account my main one now right? Nope! I made another youtube account, this time for all the trans videos I want to watch and all the ones I want to comment on and stuff, and it kind of turned into my main channel lol. So, if you want a blog that I'm planning on updating more frequently (maybe once a week or once a month), and that won't have Gothic stuff as the main subject (it'll just be about anything i want to talk about, from LGBT issues to gothy stuff, to music, to rants, to whatever). Then you should check out: http://aprilsmoon.blogspot.com/ No posts have been made yet but I'm planning on posting something soon.

3) I ended up watching the first season of "The L Word" online, I think it's pretty good, I wish I lived where the girls did, it seems like a fun place lol. Speaking of this, I ordered the whole series for my birthday (got a few gift cards), and now the tracking number says it was delivered but I never got it. Why is it that the mail man for my neighborhood is the worst one out there? First he delivers tons of mail to the wrong people, and now he says he delivered the series to my house when he didn't. I know because I was here all day! It's possible that this guy delivered the mail to the wrong address but wouldn't he have checked with the person who answered the door to make sure the address was correct before he says "screw it, back to the seller you go"?

4) Well, time to move away from my frustration with the local postal service. This whole trans thing tied into an awesome gothy event! When I finally accepted this and stopped trying to deny myself I got the courage to go see Emilie Autumn live with my dad (he's been in the concert spirit recently). This was possibly the best concert I've seen all year and it was so much fun, Emilie basically made her whole concert into a play and it was so much fun to watch. It was pretty cool, the venue was packed and it seemed like this was where all the goths from my town went, I've never seen so many goths in on place! Sadly, I never really see many goths outside of concerts though.

5) Now that I have probably lost half my readers it's time to move on to my trip to Miami lol. You may think "oh Miami, that's not a very Gothic place," but you would be wrong! It is true that on the outside Miami might look like a nice place with lots of sun and a Goths worst nightmare, but I found a used CD shop that would prove you wrong! This place was mostly awesome, it was kind of dark and it had quite a few great bands like Bauhaus. However it did have outrageous prices which lead me to only buy two CD's: "Mask", and "Burning From The Inside". When I was at the cashier he saw that both of the CD's I was getting were from Bauhaus so he asked me if I knew who Peter Murphy was, of course I said I did, and said that he was the lead singer of Bauhaus and the cashier said that someone had dropped of some stuff that they didn't want and he gave me an autographed Ninth cover, sadly it was just the cover so I still need to get the CD but I was pretty happy about that!

6) The last gothy thing I've done since my last blog was play Lone Survivor. If you like survival horror games you should definitely pick this game up as long as you have a decent computer to run it. This game is like Silent Hill 2 with the music, the monsters, and the setting (mostly in an apartment complex, but you do go outside into a foggy deserted town. This game also messes with your mind if you let it (I think, but only if you take the pills that you find, I never did so I'm not sure lol). It's actually pretty funny, this game is scarier than all of the newer "horror" games being released today.

7) That about wraps it up, I did make a few changes to this site/blog by removing the list of Gothic bands (let's face it, that was a horrible failure on my part lol), and I have to apologize on the blog about Voodoo, I really do enjoy learning about it but I don't know if I'll ever get around to writing a blog about it :( I can say something quick about it though, snakes seem to be gods or god like to people who practice voodoo, which is pretty interesting since in Mythology I learned that snakes are bad in Western mythology but in Eastern mythology they are good.

So there you go, that's about what has happened in the past school year, I'm hoping to make more blogs but I don't know, I'm taking two summer classes this year so I can graduate and be able to move on to the college that I've been wanting to go to (and that has accepted me).

Oh and I've noticed that I've gotten some more followers since I last logged into Blogger, I have to say thanks for following me, I'm sorry you basically got nothing after you started following me but I'm pretty happy you've stayed around <3

Recent Band Findings of the First Half of 2011 Part 1

Here's just a short blog about some bands that I have found in 2011 that I really enjoy listening to. I got this idea from Tenebris In Lux

So without any more of an introduction here are a few bands that I have found and enjoyed this year. Oh and there won't be anything from previous blogs on here.

1. The Creepshow (A Horror Punk, Psychobilly band that I really recently discovered a few days ago and they are also one of the rare bands that I love almost every song they've made). The song that is being linked is their cover of The Misfit's 'Halloween'.

2. Siouxsie & the Banshees (A punk rock, gothic rock band that I never thought I would like. I listened to one of their songs about a year ago and didn't like it but then ;Kiss Them for Me' came on when I was listening to pandora and I ended up liking this band. Oh and as a sidenote I was listening to their song 'Spellbound' a couple days ago when I was really tired and I ended up tripping out somehow lol). The song I linked is their song 'Arabian Knights'. This is a little off topic but doesn't Siouxsie look beautiful in this video?

3. The March Violets (A Gothic Rock band.. This band formed in the 80's but ended up disbanding in 87. Good news though, they reformed in  2010 with all of the original members, and they're putting out new songs too!) The song that is being linked is their song 'Electric Shades' which I believe is only available on their record of the same title, and that is only on vinyl or cassette.

4. Amanda Palmer (An Alternative Rock, Punk Cabaret band that I found out about when I was looking for bands similar to Emile Autumn). The song that is linked is entitled 'Astronaut'.

5. The Velvet Undeground (A rock group formed back in the 60's. I listened to their song Heroin and couldn't help but be amazed, I think this might be one of the first songs that I think is perfect musically). Yes, the song I linked you to was their song 'Heroin'.

6. Ashbury Heights (A synthpop, electric band that broke up in 2010. I found this band to be really good, first song I heard by them was Spiders which I got introduced to from the blog The Ultimate Goth Guide . I looked on amazon.com and for some reason their "Three Cheers For The Newly Deads" is well over $100!!!! Luckily there is a website that caters to people who love this type of music and sells CD's like this for reasonable prices, stormingthebase.com There's also discogs.com too if you don't mind getting used CD's ). The song I am linking is called 'Christ'.

7. Blitzkid (A Horror Punk band. One of my friends recommended this band to me and I ended up really liking them. They also do a song calls 'As the rope Bridge Sways' that has to be one of the best slow punk songs I have ever heard). The song  that is linked is called 'Let's Go to the Cemetery'.

There are many more bands that I could include on this list, however, I do not want to bombard you guys with links so those bands will have to wait for a part 2 or 3.

An unprofessional review about the movie Super 8

Sorry I haven't made a blog in a little while, I've been too busy watching TV... OK not really I've just been really lazy and tired the past few days but hopefully that will change sometime soon.

Moving on. This review will be an unprofessional trying to be professional meaning that I will critically look at the film but by no means do I classify myself as a professional movie critic (although some movie critics are
pretty bad). Also, this "review" will have some spoilers in it.


Here's a little background information about Super 8 before I start the "review": Super 8 is about 8 friends who love to make movies, they are trying to make a movie at a train station when the director of their film sees that there is actually a train coming toward them. This is perfect, he thinks and he tells everyone to get ready and that they will film the scene when the train is passing by. Seems innocent enough right? Well for some reason a car gets on the train tracks and crashes head on into the train derailing the train and everything goes to hell. It turns out that there is an alien as cargo and it is let loose because of this crash. The army then comes to the town and looks for the creature. The kids and the main characters dad try to figure out what is going on in their town. Here's the trailer if you want to either know more or want a better explanation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpzUCA5i6zY

 I saw the movie Super 8 on the weekend and didn't really think much of it, I mean it was an ok movie but I didn't really see anything great in it (besides the acting). However after I saw it I was bored and check out the reviews and to my surprise it got pretty good reviews from film critics. Now I'm not a film critic but I do have to say that I don't know why the critics gave it such high marks, I mean even Roger Ebert (my least favorite film critic on the planet but someone who people respect for some reason) gave it 3 and a half stars (and yet he only gave kick ass 1...).


Why exactly did this film get such high marks? Well one of the main reasons I believe is the aspect of nostalgia, now I wasn't alive in the 80s (ok fine, technically it's 1979 but close enough)  so there was no nostalgic factor for me in the movie which might be why I don't care that much for when the film was set (although I do have to say it is cool how they did that). I did go see this with my parents though, and my mom pointed out that they messed up on some parts, such as saying that the 7 eleven they have there is modern. I'd like to say that this is true but I cannot because I wasn't around in that time and I could not see any old photos of a 7-Eleven unless they're too old.

 Another thing could have been the way that the alien was reviled (it was actually pretty cool how the did this. The alien was in many early parts of the movie however the audience never got to see the creature until close to the end of the movie) although I think it might have been better if you never saw the creature or if you only saw parts of it like a leg, foot, hand, and/or arm. Maybe the acting also helped it get high marks? That could be true because the acting was pretty good, however the problem with this is that a movie could have great acting but that doesn't make it a good movie.

However there are quite a few major flaws in the movie. One of them was that the main character (Joe) notices that his dog is gone right away, but for some reason it takes him a day or two to realize that his dad has been kidnapped? How is this even supposed to work, he sees his dad every night so he should know that his dad

And speaking of the dog, the film does not show any dog ever again after the police find out where the dogs are. So did they get the dogs or did they just leave them in the town the dogs were in?

Another part I don't like is close to the end of the film when there's some symbolism, which I think is great, however the way that this symbolism is portrayed was a huge flaw. The part of the film I am talking about is when the necklace that Joe has is getting pulled to help make the aliens space craft and in the end Joe let's go of the necklace. The symbolism here is pretty good, it's showing that Joe is finally letting go of the past, however there is a major flaw here. The space craft has a gigantic magnetic pull, you see it pulling soldiers equipped with guns up from the ground, however Joe doesn't get pulled up, nor does his necklace break in half or go right through his hand due to the magnetism. This part of the movie could have easily been done if the director wasn't super happy about magnifying things.

The town where the movie takes place also gets set on fire (well the grass close to the town does, and that is why they evacuate the town) however the fire seemed to die down when the kids go back to their school to get information about the alien they are up against. I have no idea why the fire died down because I thought the point of the fire was to draw out the alien, not to evacuate the town. Maybe I was just missing something.

Another major major major flaw was that at one point Joe's love interest (Alice) was tied up and hanging from the ceiling. Joe gets her down but her feet are still bound together, not to worry though because there is a random person who doesn't have her feet tied? That just woke up and the camera goes to her, then back on Alice who suddenly does not have her feet tied anymore but Joe didn't cut the weird black cocoon thing that was binding her legs? Maybe the ghost did it! There's also an appearance of the police chief who was seen hanging from the ceiling but is suddenly on the ground without bound feet. Wow this ghost surely works hard! Yeah, this is just a huge flaw of the movie.

There might be some other major flaws I'm missing but I cannot remember any more right now. So besides those there are a few minor flaws (tanks that suddenly shoot rapid fire even though they can only have 1 shell at a time and have to be manually reloaded), a few things don't get explained, a guy magically survives a head on car crash with a train but the train is totaled. Explosives being carried on a train with cargo that seems too valuable to be in a train with explosives, the commanding officer knowing that people saw the accident and seeming like he will do something about looking for them but hardly does anything about it, the alien being too tall to actually be in one of the cargo holds on the train, ect.

In closing this is a decent movie, but if you look though it in the eyes of a movie critic it might not be that great. However, assuming none of you are movie critics or really care about analyzing movies (I think I'm the only one I know who does that, and I only do it sometimes like when critics say a movie is good. That is one of the reasons I like Black Swan so much, but it's not the time to talk about that movie), I think that it's at least worth a watch.

Also as a nice little side note I got a new follower :) Shout out to Incensis. I hope you will enjoy the future blogs.


Reminder for this blog: There's a difference between looking at a movie like a normal person and looking at one like a film critic, you can enjoy a movie a lot but that doesn't mean that the film is good from a critical view.

OK, so It's a little different: Asexuality

First off, let me just say that there will be sexual terms in this blog because this topic deals with sex. However it is being used in an educational manner therefore it should not really affect you that much, enjoy the blog. I also want to warn you that the text may change fonts, I've tried to keep it one font but for some reason when I copied my Microsoft word text it said there were two fonts, so sorry about that. Well here we go (I guess it didn't take me as long as I thought, I guess that's good news).

 Sexually oblivious rhino strikes again

What exactly does it mean to be asexual? Well according to Wikipedia it is a mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single parent, and inherit the genes of that parent only.  However I am not going to talk about that kind of asexuality and instead I’m going to talk about the human asexual orientation. Asexual in this context means a lack of sexual attraction and the lack of interest in or desire for sex.

Simple and easy right? Well not quite as there are many different subtypes of asexuals or similar orientations to that of asexuals:

1.    1.  Aromantic asexual: These are the people who don’t want a relationship nor do they want sex.

2.    2.  Demisexual: These are the people who do not have sexual attraction until they grow very close to a person.

3.    3.  Gray-A: These people either have low sexual attraction, don’t experience sexual attraction that much, don’t have a desire to act out on their sexual attraction, or people who only like or want sex under certain circumstances.

4.     4. Bi/hetero/homo/pan romantic asexual: These are the people who are romantically attracted to others but do not desire sex.

Things you may not know:

+ Asexuals can find people attractive (not in a sexual way but an aesthetic way. It’s a way of seeing that someone is beautiful and instead of wanting to have sex with them they may want to go out with them and get to know them).

+ Asexuals can have sex and may enjoy it, even though some asexuals think that sex is disgusting.

+ Some asexuals enjoy pleasing their partner with sex and such, even if they do not have a desire to have sex themselves.

+ Some asexuals masturbate and watch porn

+ BDSM seems somewhat popular with asexuals (most likely because it’s more about psychology than sex).

+ Some asexuals can be sexual arousal

+ Many asexuals are sex-positive (pro sex), however some of them are antisexual (againt sex)

+ Some asexuals can joke about sex like everyone else. However other asexuals don’t seem to get sex jokes and thus the humor is lost on them.

+ Some asexuals are oblivious to flirting and some aren’t

(+) I think that you can still be asexual but interested in researching sex, just as long as you don’t have a desire for it. In this context the researching about sex is more like researching about mythology and the like since it’s something you don’t really care to do [like worshipping Zeus] and it can also be psychological such as why some people like certain things. This is kind of like me, I like reading about this kind of thing because it helps me get a better understanding of different people, and their kink/fetish however I don’t really imagine doing most of the research I look up. 

So what am I? Well I’m pretty sure I’m a heteroromantic asexual (At least people on AVEN thought so, and it does kind of make sense. I could also be demisexual but I’ll have to get a girlfriend to find out, and since I am very particular in personality to want to go out with a woman that might be a while lol I’m also pretty oblivious to flirting lol).  But why would you care to know :P

If this topic interests you here are some websites to check out.

http://www.asexuality.org

http://www.asexualexplorations.net

http://asexualadvice.tumblr.com/

http://asexualsexologist.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/resources-for-the-asexual-kinky/

So there you go hopefully that's talked about major points, if you have anything you want to add feel free to do so in the comments, or if you want me to go deeper into asexuality, or if there's something more you wanted me to discuss, just say so in the comments and I'll make a blog about it. 

A quick blog about the night

So I ended up failing at my goal to do a blog a day, well hopefully that won't happen again but who knows.

Night. The time where shops close down and most people go to sleep. Many of these people also prefer the day instead of night. Well not me. I love the night, as do many other people. Why do I love the night you ask? Well I love how peaceful night is. The typical thought of night is being scary and that it's the time where criminals roam the streets looking for their next victim, well that's not what happens where I live. At night almost nobody is out wondering the streets. This making it nice and peaceful, not many cars running, not many people out and about talking or running, the only noise is the relaxing chirp of the crickets.

It is also a beautiful sight to see the moon peer down from the clouds casting light among the darkness that is covering the town.

Night is also the time where some great events take place from going to a night club, to going to an amazing concert nighttime is a time for fun and relaxation, it's the best time of the day.

That's the blog, writing at 3AM is a little hard to do so hopefully I got everything looking OK and I got all my thoughts about what I think of night (I'm probably missing some stuff right now but whatever lol). The next blog will be the one people seem to be waiting for, the asexuality blog. It may take a few days to write though (I really want to get everything right as well as getting the most information I can get) so I'm going to be cross referencing and writing the blog in microsoft word so I can save it and work on it multiple days.

Music Pickup # 4: Fat of the Land,First And Last And Always, Headhunter 2000, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse, Wishfire

In my previous blog I talked about getting a few CD's on vacation, and here they are.

 Fat of the Land - The Prodigy

I went to FYE when I was on vacation (I don't have one close to where I live) and ended up finding a few CD's that I wanted, this was one of them. Fat of the Land came out in 1997 and was the CD that really got the Prodigy into the mainstream (everyone I know has heard at least one of their songs and the songs they have heard are on this CD, either Firestarter, Breathe, or Smack My Bitch Up), and the CD has gone double platinum in the US. This band has been around since 1990 and are considered to be one of the pioneers of the music genre Big Beat  which is music typically driven by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in common with established forms of electronic dance music such as techno and acid house. (yep got that whole thing from wikipedia).

Anyway, you can see it's a promotional copy that's not supposed to be sold, I guess FYE didn't care so I ended up paying 4 bucks for this CD. It's basically the original CD but with a special sticker, branded case, and gold lettering. It's actually my 2nd promotional CD I have but it's definitely the best.

First And Last And Always - The Sisters of Mercy

This is a CD I got from a different used CD store that was pretty cool, it was really small but packed full of CD's and records. Anyway this was the first album by The Sisters of Mercy, however it was not their first recording, it was actually around the 4th record that they made (the first 3 all being EP's with amazing artwork). First And Last And Always was released in 1985 and was pretty successful in Europe but sadly not the United States. This CD has also helped shape the Gothic Rock music genre even though the lead singer of The Sisters of Mercy refuses to acknowledged that their music is Gothic. Also, talking about The Sisters of Mercy, they started way back in 1979 and are still around today (with different members other than the lead singer).

Anyway i found this CD to be a lot better than I originally thought (I heard a few tracks but I only really liked Marian and Black Planet at first). Which is great for me but not for this blog since it's going to be hard to pick my favorite songs on this CD lol.

 Headhunter 2000 - Front 242 (original song, but it's mostly made by many different bands that remixed Front 242's Headhunter song)

This CD is a pretty long CD (1 hour and 45ish minutes) and it's just remixes of their song Front 242 so there's not much to talk about except that Headhunter 2000 was released in 1999. Front 242 started in 1981 and are still together today . This band also influenced many electro-industrial and electronic artists.

I found this CD to be OK, it's a good remix CD but I wish it had more than 1 song that was remixed 17 times.

 Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse - Skinny Puppy

Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse was the second album that Skinny Puppy released in 1986. This CD was very influential in industrial music which influenced bands like Nine Inch Nails. An interesting fact about the cover, it was actually a picture of a scene in a porno movie and it seems to be one of the main reasons that there are parental advisory stickers on CD's today. Thanks to Tripper Gore (I wonder what would happen if she saw the Voodoo U album cover art?). Anyway Skinny Puppy started in 1982 and are still around today. They is considered to be the founders of electro-industrial music which is pretty cool since I love this type of music.

I find that it takes a little while to get used to Skinny Puppy since the vocals sound so weird, however when I did get used to the music I found it to be pretty good.

 Wishfire - The Crüxshadows

Finally, the last CD I got on vacation. Wishfire was released in 2002 and it has quite a few goods songs. The Crüxshadows were founded in 1992 and are still around today. They are a dark electro band.

I found this CD to be pretty great, I found out about this band from the first blog I ever followed The Ultimate Goth Guide which I find interesting to read most of the time. The funny thing is that the girl who writes the blogs, Amy, just wrote a blog about this band recently.

I'm finally done, so let's get to the music links.

Fat of the Land

Narayan

Mindfields

Funky Shit

First and Last And Always

Every track.... OK fine I'll pick 3.

Marian (Version)

No Time To Cry

Nine While Nine (it has some of the exact same lyrics as Driven Like Snow but it's still great)

Headhunter 2000


Headhunter (Remixed by Front Line Assembly)

Headhunter (Remixed by Apoptygma Berzerk)

Headhunter (Remixed by Talla 2xlc)

Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse 


It's hard to choose because it has quite a few really good songs but I went with these three.

Stairs and Flowers

Dig It

Chainsaw 

Wishfire


Another one that was hard to pick what 3 songs I was going to put up, so I decided to have 4 different ones because one of the songs is very short (1:51)


Return (I'm Coming Home)

Spectators 

Carnival 

Resist/R

Those are the newest CD's I have right now (I'll probably pick some more up on the weekend since I'm going to be visiting a 4 year college at that time so I'll hopefully be walking around town too).