Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the pinnacle achievement of all human endeavours, TEENAPE!
Most importantly we have Teenape vs. The Monster Nazi Apocalypse in FULL! So, sit back, fix up some black tar heroin, and pump that magic right into your eye-holes!
The knife/mic and nose/cock combo work together to form something called the FACé_Tar. From the website: "A concoction of Music , Character Design , Creature Effects and
animatronic control , Anklepants was born in 2008 , This project is
prominently electronic Music ,many Electronic and acoustic instruments
including guitar , oud , voice , animal sounds , any sounds , field
recordings and custom electronic instruments / controllers / microphones
bent and mutated toys.
Recent additions to the ever mutating Anklepants Live show Have been the custom mic/ controller “facé control wün”
The instrument Is mainly used to Modulate voice processing with 16
buttons and 8 axis of jotstick controll it can also be used to control
the animatronic facé and activate accelerometers in Reecards Suit wich
then modulate voice effects parameters and etc.
The mic also has its own accelerometer Where x-y position of the mic
is also used to modulate and automate voice / track effects is also
possible with for example Rhythmic gestures as to is looping and all
kinds of sample manipulation."
Aggrotech, EBM, Witch House, Cybergrind, whatever you wanna call it we're celebrating it tonight! Starting from the top we got the BBC Four doc Krautrock, a sober and reflective journey through the birth pangs of the genre. In the middle (where it at?) we're featuring the totally unauthorized Rammstein rockumentary Industrial Angels. Then on the bottom a full length Suicide Commando live show because, you know, stuff and things and... shut up. You find me a watchable third industrial music doc that isn't in a buncha parts on a playlist and I'll put in slot three, until then, suck it.
Ok let's get this straight right out the gate, dig? We are not here to mock the goths, far from it. Well, not too far from it, at the very least nearby it. First up we have the classic 2005 American Goth doc. Lotta fun there to be had both with and at. Even if you hate goth music, and many of us do, it's still a great watch almost a decade later. After that we found an out of print gem, The Height of Goth: 1984: A Night at the Xclusiv Nightclub. It's over two hours at a goth club in 1984, for the most part uncut, so you know does what it says on the tin I reckon. Finally we got A Light in the Darkness, A Gothicon Documentary (2011), haven't found the time to sit through this one, so, yadda yadda yadda.
Have at it O Lost souls of perdition.
Did someone say SATAN?! No? Ah well, whatever. Here we go in part of of tonight's posts celebrating fringe culture around the world.
First up we got us some black metal with these three lovely docs: Black Metal - A Documentary (2007), True Norwegian Black Metal (2011) from Vice magazine, and finally Out of the Black (2013). I haven't watched these yet, so let's do this together, shall we?
Directed by Patrick Meaney Starring Grant Morrison, Karen Berger, Warren Ellis, Frazer
Irving, Geoff Johns, Frank Quitely, Cameron Stewart, Jill Thompson, Mark
Waid and more.
IMDB sez: "Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is a feature length documentary that
takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the man behind
such pivotal titles as Batman RIP, The Invisibles, All Star Superman,
The New X-Men, and many more. Featuring candid interviews with Morrison
and his most important collaborators, Talking with Gods reveals an
intelligent and thought provoking side of comic books that is often
overlooked in Hollywood adaptations. "
What WE say: Even if comics are not your bag, there's plenty to chew on in this doc. I mean we don't just have to talk about comics. We could talk about... um, Chaos Magick? CHECK! Drugs? CHECK! Comics? CHE... oh, wait. Yeah, I see what you did there, and it wasn't funny the first time. So what are you waiting for, let's get watching!
The original short that gave birth to Boogie Nights! In all it's bootleg VHS glory, and you know how much we adore that VHS look. I could tell you all about it but then you would fail to learn how to use Wikipedia properly. You know... your mother and I were just talking about that the other day and we feel that someone your age really should be a bit more hip to internet things, don't you? Now, go on, run along and watch The Dirk Diggler Story! You'll thank us when you're older!
What IMDB sez: "A "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive
footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying
bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence."
What WE say: Nowadays, in the age of THE INTERNET! and reality TV, you might find this little piece of film rather quaint. Full of "shocking" footage that wouldn't even qualify as an opening round on Fear Factor. But that's not the point, really. This bad boy of cinema was the dang gum FIRST! film freakout. People lost they damn minds back in the day watching this shit, man. Like fainting in the aisles and getting the vapors and whatnot. So, what do you say we talk a trip back in time and pay a visit to the olden golden days of underground cinema with MONDO CANE!
What WE say: Um. Yeah. Well... IT'S ART! We know that much. Both disturbing and beautiful, it's pretentious beyond human reason, there are no words to wrap your head around this baby. We've chose the numerical first in the series instead of the production number (which is part four, dontcha know) for no other reason then my constant and obsessive need for order to be imposed on an orderless universe, where dark beasts of flame and shadow stare back at us from unending nightmare worlds barely seen nor understood waiting to devour our pulsating masses of flesh and bone and soul the first time we let our guard down the merest hint of failure screaming unto our... ahem. Just watch the fucking thing, I gotta go wash my hands... again.
What IMDB sez: "A graphic, disturbing film about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas."
What WE say: The Day After, aka, the movie that prevented World War 3. No, really. According to legend, after Regan watched The Day After... well let's let Wikipedia tell that story:
"President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983.[6] He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed,"[6] and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war".[7] The film was also screened for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
A government advisor who attended the screening, a friend of Meyer's,
told him "If you wanted to draw blood, you did it. Those guys sat there
like they were turned to stone."[6] Four years later, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed and in Reagan's memoirs he drew a direct line from the film to the signing.[6]
Reagan later sent Meyer a telegram after the summit, saying, "Don't
think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did."[3]
In a 2010 interview, Meyer said that this was a myth, and that the
sentiment stemmed from a friend's letter to Meyer; he suggested the
story had origins in editing notes received from the White House during
the production, which "...may have been a joke, but it wouldn't surprise
me, him being an old Hollywood guy."[6] The film also had impact outside the U.S. In 1987, during the era of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, the film was shown on Soviet television. Four years earlier, Georgia Rep. Elliott Levitas and 91 co-sponsors introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives "[expressing] the sense of the Congress that the American Broadcasting Company, the Department of State, and the U.S. Information Agency should work to have the television movie The Day After aired to the Soviet public."[8]"
What IMDB sez: Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government issued
propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb
was not a threat to their safety.
What WE say: You kids today with your smart bombs and iPongs and such, you kids gots it easy, I tells ya! Easy! Y'see back in my pappy's day they had this shit, right there. Every second of the Atomic Cafe, my folks lived that shit, for reals, yo. By the time us Gen Xers rolled around the idea of a nuclear holocaust was just a given. "Only a matter of time, kids. Best to try and not think about it and just dream about, um, wars... in the stars... or something. Hope the bombs don't fall while you sleep, night love!" Fun times. Still, it's a wee bit more relaxing than some (re: all) of the other picks on this nuclear eve special! Enjoy your iPongs you little shits and feast on this bit of madness!
DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE UNLESS YOU ARE THE LEAD GUITARIST OF A DEATH METAL BAND! SERIOUSLY!
If you do choose to watch Threads, then I'll let you have at it. A VERY bleak teleplay about nuclear war that will traumatize you on every level. You want info about the flick, fuck you. Go Google that shit, I won't be bothered to do you any favors this time, yer on yer own, man. Seriously, I cannot stress this enough, a harrowing experience you must endure before IT'S TOO LATE! Or something.
What IMDB sez: "A documentary presenting mankind's most ambitious effort at perfecting
the means to its own annihilation. Featuring newly unclassified atomic
test footage."
Lots of shit blows up real good, for like, hours. The Shat narrates. What more do you need, man?
A movie so lost, so forgotten that IMDB only has a tagline for it with no plot summery. Full disclosure here, I've spent so many years looking for this thing in all its glorious terribadness that I can't watch it. I've tried three times now and this shit just is not happening until I round up a couple cases of really cheap beer and some "friends".
Long story short, guy in a tricked out wheelchair kills motherfuckers, real good. Dude, ain't got no legs, man! NO LEGS! Tagline: "Don't Cross Him or He'll Cut You Down to Size!"
