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It’s that time of the year, the falling leaves and grey skies make one remember the gloomy music of your youth, the apple pie taste of a Djarum black, that extra strong cup of coffee drank at a Denny’s at 3am, watching a crappy VHS tape of Return of the Living Dead in your friend’s basement, musty used books, scuffed Doc Martins, Ritt black dye that never dyed things dark enough, getting your ass kicked by the football team…
It seemed to rain a lot more often back then, didn’t it?
Enjoy this mix, everyone gets to be a little goth now and then, even though cloves are now illegal and your mom’s reading Twilight.
73 minutes of gloom, 84mb of sorrow. Download.
Tracklist:
- Bixio, Friizi & Tempera – Siete Note in Nero (7 Notes in Black)
- The Cure – Prayers for Rain
- Concrete Blonde – Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
- The Catherine Wheel – Black Metallic
- Siouxsie & the Banshees – Dazzle
- Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
- Sisters of Mercy – More
- Ministry – Everyday is Halloween
- Public Image Ltd. – The Order of Death
- Leonard Cohen – Avalanche
- I Love You but I’ve Chose Darkness – According to Plan
- Peter Murphy – Strange Kind of Love
- Coil – The First Five Minutes After Death
- Goblin – Suspiria
- 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.
Tracklist:
- The Smiths – Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before
- Glasvegas – Geraldine
- The Jesus & Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
- Ride – Seagull
- Amanda Palmer – Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing)
- Mogwai – We’re No Here
- Suicide – Cheree
- TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
- The Cure – Prayers for Rain
- UNKLE – In a State
- Gorillaz – Dare (DFA Mix)
- Massive Attack – Unfinished Symphony
- The Stone Roses – Fool’s Gold
- New Order – Regret
- I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – Fear is on Our Side
- Joy Division – She’s Lost Control
- The Editors – Lights
- The Arcade Fire – Intervention
- Peter Murphy – Strange Kind of Love
- 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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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.
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.
Buster, Plucky and whatever the pig was named drink a few sips of beer and instantly become Craig Berry. That’s exactly how it works. Seriously, this makes Leaving Las Vegas look like total bullshit.
Yeah. We know. She’s a porn star. Pretty much THE porn star of the moment. And we really don’t care much for many porn stars. Let’s just say that while many of them look good, they’re mostly dumb as a brick and then there’s the whole had sex with 10,000 sketchy dudes thing. Needless to say not really Bitch of the Day material.
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say:
Sasha Grey (born Marina Ann Hantzis, on March 14, 1988, in North Highlands, California) is an award-winning American pornographic actress. A. O. Scott of the New York Times described her pornographic career as “distinguished both by the extremity of what she is willing to do and an unusual degree of intellectual seriousness about doing it.” She is also active outside of pornography through modeling, acting, and music.
Sasha Grey is probably one of the more intelligent people I’ve seen in pop culture, period. Which is why she gets to be Bitch of the Day. While our current culture shoves stupid women like Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson down our throats every day, it’s a very telling about our society that a young woman this intelligent and talented could rise through the ranks of porn and crossover into mainstream acting.
That’s right, she’s appearing in a movie that you won’t have to wear a raincoat to go see in the theatre. The Girlfriend Experience, the new movie by Steven Soderberg (Traffic; sex, lies and videotape; Schizopolis). It’s even released simultaneously in theatres, dvd, on demand video and digital download as part of Soderberg’s new media experiment that he’s down with his latest films, starting with Bubble.
Hell, even her personal top five movies list in this interview on rotten tomatoes rules. Seriously, 4 Criterion Collection art house films and Escape from New York? No way. Most pr0n chicks would probably put down something like 4 Will Ferrel movies and The Da Vinci Code.
Not to mention that she’s named herself after the lead singer of KMFDM, one of rowtow.com’s favorite bands and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Not exactly your first pet’s name and the street you grew up on. She cites Jean-Luc Godard and David Bowie as influences on her life and career.
She also has a music project called ATelecine, which sounds like somethig I’d have totally rocked back in High School when I was in the Trench Coat Mafia.
Here’s her on Tyra, amazingly sounding rather intelligent in the face batshit hysterical daytime talk show people:
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