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McClurg’s Musicalia #143: Saltings
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #340: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 36
And so we return to the pile. And we also return to a series I’ve written about multiple times in the past, but one I can’t stop going back to as the entire structure of it has been fascinating. We see in a series like Christopher Cantwell, Alex Lins, Luis NCT, and Mar Silvestre’s Briar that we can expand on Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #352: The Unexplained
“Okay,” the pimply assassin said, panting for breath. “I’ll tell you whatever you want.” The Revenging Manta pressed the knife into the assassin’s throat. “Do you work for the Goose Lord and His gang?” the Revenging Manta said while he gently pulled the knife away. “I don’t know anything,” the assassin said and the Revenging Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #142: Kissed and Cured
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #339: They Do Long to Be
Let’s talk about Phonogram. Or, maybe, let’s talk about the idea of Phonogram and the phonomancy that pulls its story. The idea behind it is to dig into a song and pull from it that essential spark that gives it power. In a way, you create magic with how you listen to and use the music closest to Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #141: Keeping Things Whorled
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #338: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 35
Did you expect the pile to be so easily finished? Even though it’s been a month since I last dove into it, that doesn’t keep the series from piling up further and further. But this is one that’s been sitting in the pile for a few years now—it’s been nearly four years since I looked at the Continue reading
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Video: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Queer
Here is John King speaking with Matt Peters about William S. Burroughs’s second novel. Check out The Kerouac Project of Orlando. Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Onibaba Japan 1964 Director: Kaneto Shindō Cast: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Taiji Tonoyama A film begins the moment the credits appear on screen. As we see with Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and Scorsese’s Cape Fear (1991), the conception of the opening credits is important. You don’t talk; you don’t reach for popcorn. You don’t even Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #351: Tremors
The assassin of the Banana-man moaned through his helmet as the Revenging Manta dragged him from the destroyed Golden Corral sign. No sooner did I pull up that Edwige hopped on over to the scene. Simmons and I got out of the car and rushed over. The ninja vigilante removed the helmet to reveal a Continue reading
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