A Musical Escape

To those of us of a certain age and musical taste, this is manna from Heaven. I received this compilation from a friend (a collection of 12 albums—156 songs—for a total of 13 hours) several years ago when we were living in Denver but for some reason it’s been languishing in iTunes all these years with me scarcely paying it a second glance.

A few weeks ago I was looking for something I could just put on in the background while working from home as I’d grown weary of the offerings of our FM jazz station. Sleaze is a collection of disco and dance tunes from the late 70s to the early 90s that encompasses all the various sub-genres. While a few of the transitions are absolute train wrecks, it’s a stellar collection of the music I used to dance my ass off to. It’s become my go-to commute and working-from-home background soundtrack because I can just put it on and it will run all day without repeating.

I mean, look at this playlist!


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Highly recommended if you can find it. A cursory internet search returned squat.

They’re Succeeding

“Please understand, they are safe as long as they are not discovered. That is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated.” – THEY LIVE (1988)

Pumpkinheads

Dead and already rotting; hollow and empty with a hole in your head; a grotesque false grin; completely unnatural; aping and appropriating pagan traditions; forced by someone else to be something you were never intended to be; the light existing independent of you being a pumpkin, and placed inside you actually creates more shadows; irrelevant and unnecessary the overwhelming majority of the time.

When you realize something can be both completely fucking mental and completely fucking accurate at the same time.

What’s Your Opinion of Religion Used in Horror Movies?

Perfect place for it. Makes those movies super-creepy.

Especially considering the fact it’s “real” – in the sense that people believe it in the real world, and think it’s good, while nobody thinks Michael Myers actually exists.

It’s a horror story we’re surrounded by, not just something the writers came up with for the film. With menacing symbols, demented rituals, blood-thirsty villains masquerading as benevolent, and a pervasive sense of fear that permeates the world of the faithful.

Not to mention centuries of horrific death, torture and destruction it has already wrought that forms a long, sordid tradition of bloody prequels.

The Dark Lord Yahweh is perhaps the most popular horror story villain of all time. Not very well written, but astonishingly successful nonetheless.

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