RowTow 2.0

They’re goth but they wear all white? and film videos that look like Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade? Good song, strange video. I miss 120 Minutes, although I guess VH1 Classic shows Classic 120 Minutes now.

A mixtape about sleep from a guy who can’t sleep. It’s a sleepy mix of songs about sleep interspersed with some ambient tracks. Perfect for counting sheep or browsing the internet at 3am. Insomniac.

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1. Tycho – The Daydream
2. The Orb – Sleeping Tiger and the Gods Unknown
3. Wu-Tang Clan – I Can’t Go to Sleep
4. Kate Bush – And Dream of Sheep
5. Aphex Twin – Blue Calx
6. Cowboy Junkies – Dreaming My Dreams with You
7. Primitive Radio Gods – Standing Outside of a Phone Booth With Money in My Hand
8. Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream (78rpm mix)
9. Jackson Browne – Sleep’s Dark and Silent Gate
10. Moby – My Beautiful Blue Sky
11. The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Tonight
12. Biosphere – Chukhung
13. Stevie Nicks – Dreams (Deep Dish mix)
14. The Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
15. The Magnetic Fields – Asleep and Dreaming
16. Jakatta – American Dream
17. The Monkees – Daydream Believer
18. Global Communication – 4:14
19. Roy Orbison – In Dreams

“The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” -Albert Einstein

A mixtape about nuclear war. When I was growing up in the 1980s, I really felt that there was not going to be a future. It just seemed inevitable. What better way to deny the inevitable than with a dance party?

Of course we didn’t know to much later that the Russians were cooking the books and that by the end of the decade they’d be insolvent and the Cold War would be over. Any young person these days probably think it was all very ridiculous.

But it did produce some great songs:

1. Anne Clark – Poem for a Nuclear Romance
2. Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark – Enola Gay
3. The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes 
4. Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Two Tribes
5. Psychic TV – Eve ov Destruction
6. Fischerspooner – We Need a War
7. Time Zone (feat. Afrika Bambata and John Lydon) – World Destruction
8. Sting – The Russians
9. Nena – 99 Luftballoons
10. Alphaville – Forever Young
11. Black Sabbath – Electric Funeral
12. Sun Ra – Nuclear War
13. Colonel Bagshot – Six Day War

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Tracklist:

1. Bixio, Friizi & Tempera – Siete Note in Nero (7 Notes in Black)
2. The Cure – Prayers for Rain
3. Concrete Blonde – Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
4. The Catherine Wheel – Black Metallic
5. Siouxsie & the Banshees – Dazzle
6. Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
7. Sisters of Mercy – More
8. Ministry – Everyday is Halloween
9. Public Image Ltd. – The Order of Death
10. Leonard Cohen – Avalanche
11. I Love You but I’ve Chose Darkness – According to Plan
12. Peter Murphy – Strange Kind of Love
13. Coil – The First Five Minutes After Death
14. Goblin – Suspiria
15. Bahaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead

I made this mix a while ago, just fucking around with Mixmeister. I really wanted to make a mix of shoegaze/indie songs I loved. It’s best listened to after a rainstorm.

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Tracklist:

1. The Smiths – Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before
2. Glasvegas – Geraldine
3. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
4. Ride – Seagull
5. Amanda Palmer – Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing)
6. Mogwai – We’re No Here
7. Suicide – Cheree
8. TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
9. The Cure – Prayers for Rain
10. UNKLE – In a State
11. Gorillaz – Dare (DFA Mix)
12. Massive Attack – Unfinished Symphony
13. The Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold
14. New Order – Regret
15. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – Fear is on Our Side
16. Joy Division – She’s Lost Control
17. The Editors – Lights
18. The Arcade Fire – Intervention
19. Peter Murphy – Strange Kind of Love
20. DJ Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World

First off, FUCK SAW. That series is one of the most braindead, boring series to ever blight the genre of horror. Pretty much the only people it appears to are Frat Boys who get chubbies from fake gore and don’t need such simple things like a story.

Second, FUCK remakes, unless they’re by John Carpenter. Hollywood just churns out remake after remake of classic horror movies because they know that today’s emo teenager is too clueless to actually watch the classics and will line up to see these cinematic abortions. Much like how they idolize Fallout Boy and My Chemical Romance, but have no idea who Fugazi or The Cure are. But I digress.

I made this list not to be all inclusive or to highlight rare films, I made it to share a list of ten awesome horror movies that provide excellent entertainment value for watching this Halloween. So, please enjoy.

Near Dark

Basically this movie is the anti-Twilight. The cast of Aliens (Bill Paxton, Lance Hendriksen, the tough Mexican broad) are a clan of vampires that drive across the lonely highways of the American Southwest in a Winnebago with blacked out windows, leaving a trail of blood and terror in their wake.

This is the vampire as what it’s supposed to be: a remorseless killer driven by insatiable bloodlust. No sparkling pretty boys to be seen. Directed by Katherine Bigelow, who directed the excellent Iraq war film this summer, The Hurt Locker.

Level of Rowtow:  Some good gore, great performance from Paxton, but no drugs or perverted sex. Minimally Rowtow, but an excellent movie.

Trailer on Youtube | IMDB | Wikipedia | Pirate Bay

John Carpenter’s The Thing

The only remake allowed on this list. John Carpenter took a novel idea from a vintage 50s monster movie, stripped it down and created something better. A remote Antarctic research station is infected by an alien lifeform that takes over other people’s bodies. The survivors must battle paranoia as they try to determine which of them is actually the alien. Kurt Russel delivers a winning performance as Macready, the base’s helicopter pilot. Groundbreaking levels of gore and a taut, psychological story drive this movie.

Level of Rowtow?:  Insane-o levels of gore, some hardcore boozing and Kurt Russel dumping a mug of whiskey into a computer after it beats him at a game. Pretty goddamn Rowtow. Also, it’s got Wilford Brimley.

Trailer on Youtube | IMDB | Wikipedia | Pirate Bay

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Louis Vincent Albano, 76, was a professional wrestler, WWF personality and actor, best known for his connection to the 1980s “Rock & Wrestling” phenomenon. He was famous for appearing in Cyndi Lauper’s videos as her fictional father and playing Mario on the live action segments of the Super Mario TV show in the early 90s. Possessing a loud mouth and a larger than life personality, the man was famous for his antagonist manager role in pro wrestling and his cheek piercing.

The man made me laugh more than any wrestling personality, not to mention he was the best live action Super Mario.

So long, dude. Enjoy some classic Captain Lou vids after the fold.
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I spotted a full on fursuit wearing furry at Subway today.

Duster Bitch done got her shit together.

Seriously.

NOBODY PUTS SWAYZE IN A COFFIN!

Man, this guy kicked cancer’s ass for a while, but there’s really no fighting pancreatic cancer.

I’m sure Julian is quite bummed.

Guy was straight Rowtow, fo sho.

via Vice.

This is the type of ass clown I run into 3-4 times a week. He’s a deeply spiritual person who’s into massaging auras in between classes at Naropa.