So I did end up watching The Crow last night. I sometimes forget how overwrought and earnest 90s art could be, but I loved nearly every minute of it (the visuals, action, and soundtrack mostly) - it was like being transported back to 1994.
@Tim_Eagon I haven't watched that movie in so long, my goth soul feels like I need to revisit it and see how it stacks up my vague like 13 year old memories
In my new project of watching every episode of the original run of Unsolved Mysteries on the Roku Channel, it only took until the 2nd episode until we got a #DnD and LARPing referencing Satanic Panic segment. It simply wouldn't be 1988 without it.
@Tim_Eagon Oh yeah it totally did me too, I watched both reruns and first runs tons when I was a kid and I loved it, but it definitely freaked me out sometimes, especially when they'd do supernatural stuff like UFOs or whatever.
Ebook readers have spawned a new category of book: enormous anthologies that would be bound in multiple volumes if they were printed on paper, which they will never be. I have enjoyed a few of the affordable Megapack anthologies. Now I am slowly moving through The Weird, a huge 2011 story collection edited by A. & J. VanderMeer. I read it only at night...
#Castlevania games are ridiculously hard. Even mid-level bosses (like Frankenstein's Monster and his little companion, Igor, here) are super hard to beat and it takes hours and hours to build muscle memory required for it. I don't think it's worth it, so I am giving up. I like gaming, not torture.
@kotnik I am simply not a good enough gamer to get very far into any Castlevania game I try. So instead, I enjoy what I can: the incredible soundtrack work the series has had from 8 bit well into the 21st century.
Trying to convince myself I do not need to spend over 60 dollars buying a John Cassavetes 5 film box set even though there is nothing right now I want more #cinemastodon#cinema
@Daojoan Fugazi were so, so good. This song of course stand above most, but they never released a less-than-good album and 13 Songs and Repeater soundtracked much of my youth.
In my lifelong defense of the classic Smashing Pumpkins albums despite Billy Corgan being a crazy person, I just argued that Disarm is the song Peter Murphy in the 80s would have made if the label would have spent on a full string section. #music#AltRock
@jcrabapple Oh man, not talking about his wrestling's promotion embracing the right wing, I used to read his blog posts back in the day from the early 00s religiously, and they were just documents that his pure insanity began at a young age, they were amazing. Just pure crazed memoirs.
It is kind of fucked that the Jedi and the Senate were just like okay with the Clone Army when pushed came to shove, flesh and blood beings with inner lives, when their opponents were primarily droid armies. Why the heck didn't they just make their own droid army? #starwars#movies
@danjac I feel like that is a weak excuse, how hard is to build droid factories? Are those the only planet possibly capable of building battle droids? They just wanted to use their doppelganger child soldiers.
Not gonna lie, I'd rather listen to Yoko Ono's very nice, accomplished experimental music than I would like 3/4ths of the Beatles' Pablum-filled solo careers. She's got a number of albums I quite dig.
Acquired the audiobooks of the original Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn, because I've just gradually decided I'm not super interested in the modern Disney-era #StarWars canon and only want to explore or re-explore the very fun stories of the now-Legends era, spurred on by the recent sales on Legends-era games. #bookstodon
38 years ago
Flip Your Wig is the fourth studio album by American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in September 1985 featuring the single "Makes No Sense at All"
@historyofpunkrock It is probably the weakest of the post-Zen Arcade albums and STILL contained some of the best songs of the entire 80s underground. Husker Du at their weakest were better than most.