The tierd old moon is descending (year overview )

Here we are, 185 (186 if we count this one) posts have passed and our beloved year 2009 comes to an end. So how was it? Well for me I guess the first part was smeared with shit and misfortune while the other part was fine and dandy. The good part was when I got a new gramophone, bought a few comics, bought a bunch of music and bought myself the Blade Runner OST for Christmas. I also went to a few gigs and I also had 3 gigs as Smetnja (check myspace for photos etc.) and all three were a lot of fun. Another notable thing was that me and Khaos opened up Opium Fields which despite very low exposure had quite a lot of visits these past few months. If you haven't checked it out you might want to consider visiting it but take note that all links are rapidshare. The blog is mostly Khaos doing but I contribute now and then. There are also bad things that happened like the death of my hard drive. Now I know it might not sound like a big deal but it was to me. I have a habit of not burning anything on DVDs or CDs so I had all my photos, videos and everything dating back to elementary school there and it was all lost in one crappy day. I also regret that I didn't go to this years Supersonic festival which was held in Birmingham because I missed out a lot of bands that I'll probably will haft to wait 5+ years to see them again (or longer, I live in a great place). I'm sure it would have been a lot of fun but things just didn't work out.

Oh well, enough of my angst. Flying Teapot prospered well enough this year, I searched a bit around google and yahoo and it looks like FT is being mentioned around (mostly in the guro department and manga) on forums and other blogs. I guess I can thank my guro and manga posts for that but I think the music and movies also contributed a bit. There were a few fuck ups as well, I'll never do a themed week again. -_- I also haven't fixed any dead links that I promised to do. I feel bad about that so I hope to fix them during the holidays now that I have a bit more time.

This image is fucking hypnotizing D:

In any case here are some stats:

Numbers taken on 25. 12. 2009.

Top 5 most downloaded music:

01. Original Soundtrack - Howl's Moving Castle (1465 downloads)
02. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (695 downloads)
03. Original Soundtrack - Tonari No Totoro (690 downloads)
04. Sun Ra - Supersonic Jazz (666 downloads)
05. Mono - Under The Pipal Tree (661 downloads)

Top 5 most downloaded manga:

01. Junji Ito - Museum of Terror part 1 (1250 downloadS)
02. Hiroaki Samura - Bradherley's Coach (1079 downloads)
03. Junji Ito - Museum of Terror part 2 (1039 downloads)
04. Junji Ito Tomie Vol. 1 (799 downloads)
05. Toshio Maeda - demon beast invasion Volume 1 (759 downloads)

Top 5 most downloaded guro:

01. Hiroaki Samura - Hitodenashi no Koi (3967 downloads)
02. Hell Season (2103 downloads)
03. Uziga Waita - Modern Stories of the Bizarre (2022 downloads)
04. Suehiro Maruo - 28 Scenes Of Murder (Artbook) (1121 downloads)
05. Waita Uziga - In a Quagmire - Nukarumi no Naka (1073 downloadS)

All I can say is, wow. I'm very surprised by these numbers. Half of these things here I thought they will never be downloaded a lot (Mazzy Star what the hell? :D) while some things I thought that they will be downloaded a lot aren't so. If I remember right (too lazy to check) Totoro OST was first last year and now it fell down two places. Ironically another Joe Hisaishi soundtrack topped him haha. I'm mostly surprised with Mazzy Star and Mono because I thought stuff like that everybody has so I didn't expect that much downloads. I saw my link for Sun Ra in a few places so I guess that explains the high number.

Mangas didn't surprise me much except maybe for Toshio Maeda making it in the top 5. For such a thrashy manga it has quite a lot of downloads. Museum of Terror kept its first place and looks like it's far ahead of everybody. Funny how the second part has less downloads. I always wonder why second or later parts always have less downloads form the first one (even if you have to download all parts). All in all Junji kicks ass and deserves those 3 spots up there.

Guro being guro and me being a fan of it I'm actually quite happy it's being spread around. There's no way that many people visit this blog so I'm guessing my links are being spread around a lot and that's a good thing and I encourage it. So whoever you people are keep doing what you are doing because you are making me very ureshiiiii~

Total Storage Used 28.61 GB From 499 total files

Total Downloads Served 106,003 Since May 31, 2008

Est. Bandwidth Served 5.38 TB

I always wet myself when I look at this. :D

For future plans I intend to post much more hot jazz and swing next year and some new guro I found all over the place. I'm also hoping to find some more art books but they are a bitch to find. I'd also like to thank everyone who helped me out find things on my wishlist. I still can't believe how hard it is to find Kazuo Umezu mangas scanlated. I'm also considering to post comics that are not from Japan and by that I mean American comics mostly, I guess. While I do read a lot of superhero comics I don't think they would fit here and I hear they are quite cheap nowadays so there's no point in me sharing them but Marvel and Dark Horse also do other stuff that's rather interesting to read like Alien comics which have some really great art. The question is would people be interested in it? I would also love to share some European comics but most stuff that circulates on the net is in Italian which sucks. I'm considering to do one scanlation of Dylan Dog myself but I have no idea in what I'm diving into so I have no idea how will that go if I decide to do it.

That's about it I think. This is the last post of this year. See you next year. Till then my darling please wait for meeee, till then no matter when it will beeee...

Raison d'etre - Requiem For Abandoned Souls

There isn't enough ambient around this blog so here you go. Raison D'etre is a Swedish dark ambient project which is fairly known I think. This isn't exactly his magnum opus but this happens to be one of my favorite ambient albums of all times. It has everything that I usually want from ambient music. It has those dark drone passages, bells, moody sort of yelling etc. It's Cold Meat Industry so you can't go wrong. ;D

Tracklist:

1		In Abandoned Places,	9:11
2		The Shadow Of The Soul	7:25
3		Disintegrates From Within,	9:40
4		Towards Desolation,	8:27
5		Becoming The Void Of Nothingness	15:15

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Lucia & Luis

LUCIA from diluvio on Vimeo.

LUIS from diluvio on Vimeo.

Hiroaki Samura - Love Of The Brute (Russian Unofficial Version)

Why am I posting this again? Is it attention? Well no; it just happens I accidentally one day found a superior version of this art book from what I previously posted. From what I managed to decipher from the Cyrillic text this is an unofficial Russian version of the manga and it seems like it's some sort of internet exclusive version.

So why is this different from the last one?

For starters this is scanned perfectly so you can see the whole image without any shadings or bent papers and the brightness is just the way it should be so it's not too dark nor too bright. The art book itself contains more pages that it did in the last version I posted. While the last one had about 89 pages this one has about 100 pages of art which means it has some new images that were left out on the previous version I found or perhaps were just added for better enjoyment (either way we win :D). The average resolution of the images are 1100x1600.

The art is very brutal and all victims are female so if you are a feminist or something like that, you won't like this. If you like guro you'll adore this and I know a lot of people do because last version I posted had 3k downloads, you sick fucks. :D


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Fort Wayne - Resignation

Oooh tiny cover(!) and so is I guess the popularity or common awareness of this album. Both the band name and the album name is a bitch to search anywhere. But oh well, it found a way to me because of some nice people. You might not guess from the title but Fort Wayne is from Japan, as is most stuff here. It's kinda like Bluedawn I guess but the vocals are much more uh under some effects to make it sound more dreamy. There's also much more experimentation with sounds and different approaches to song composition from your usual folk singer (or at least the ones I looked >:|) so there are some trippy and more electronic songs in there. I'm not really sure what to think of this album, I guess it's up to you to decide if you like it or not. D:
Tracklist:
1 Worship
2 About Today
3 I Know
4 Dirty Hands
5 Surely
6 The Last Summer,The Last Night
7 Give My Car Back
8 Useless Decoration
9 Resignation
10 From Far
11 Home


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Cokiyu - Mirror Flake

Cokiyu is Yukiko Ito. She was born in Ehime, Japan in 1978. She finished her master degree of musicology study in a music design course of Kunitachi College of Music in 2002. From her student time till now, she creates the tape works using Max/MSP, the works for voice and woodwind instruments, and percussion instruments. In 2002, she started to do live performances in Tokyo.
Relaxing electronic music. I don't know what else to say except that it's quite good. D:
Tracklist:
01. More 4:14
02. Hedgehog's Wedding 4:51
03. Mirror Flake 6:18
04. Storm 2:21
05. Gdb 2:38
06. In The Air 4:57
07. Org 2:04
08. Piano And Frog 4:23
09. Roadz 4:22
10. Star Takes A Rest 5:17


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I'm Just Two.

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Illustrated World War 2 with countries portrayed as beings. It's cute. :D

Crushing The Holy Trinity

Oh I don't really know where to start with this one. I uploaded it a long time ago actually but never really found the appropriate time to post it. Since Christmas is around the corner why not post this delicious blasphemy now? What we have here is a massive 3CD or 3LP (depends on what you bought) compilation of some sort. It is separated into three Christian deities which are: Son, Father and the Holy Spirit.

Father:

The Father part has two bands. The all famous Deathspell Omega and another relatively known band called Stabat Mater (another one of Mikko Aspas children to be exact and I keep calling it Sabat Mater). Both contributed one relatively long song. The Deathspell Omega song is possibly the best one on this compilation but fanboy~ism on the side the track sounds something like their EP Kenose and Chaining the Katechon blended together. Starts of slow with a very weird guitar riff which later goes on into some sort of trance like riffing and then drifts off to black metal department of business to be finally ended with choirs of course (and there's some acoustic masturbation along the way). Nothing too frantic which might be a let down for some (fans of FAS specifically). Ironically Stabat Mater is possibly the worst song on this compilation to me. Nothing really interesting happens through the 17 minutes that the song lasts. Vocals are simply terrible here, now that I think about it I never really liked the growling that Mikko does anywhere. Can't say I really remember what the song was like, quite dull.

Son:

The Son part kicks in with the classical modern "raw" black metal (I don't know what I just said) by a band called Musta Surma (and I keep reading Sarma not Surma - what is wrong with me these days?) from Finland! They play their thing mostly mid-paced and sort of melodic (as far as black metal goes) so it's quite fun to listen. Nothing overly original or complex but it is plain good old fun. The other part of the Son was done by a band called Clandestine Blaze who are also from Finland and Mikko Aspa is also in it... -_- Clandestine Blaze is fairly popular among the scene so I don't really feel inclined to explain how this part sounds. All i can say is that Mikko here again growls and that kinda ruins the whole thing for me but it's still enjoyable music wise and in terms of composition.

Holy Spirit:

While Father was a bit epic in its design, Son was slow and brooding which means Holy Spirit will be fast and furious and hopefully without Vin Diesel. Furious indeed it is. As far as I know Mgla had its first appearance in the world through this compilation (Mgla, surprisingly for this compilation is not from Finland or connected to Mikko Aspa, the ubermann of Finland). If you liked his albums and EPs he released after this you'll certainly enjoy this. While in comparison the production here is far more weaker from his later works it doesn't really destroy the mood. As usual Mgla offers very nonlinear and interesting compositions that never make me bored or uninterested. The vocals aren't too high pitched nor too much growled, in fact, they are exactly what I seek in black metal vocals. Great stuff and not to be missed imho. The second half was done by a band Exordium (THE FINNISH ONE OF COURSE, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? ;D) and similar to Mgla they also delivered some fast Marduk type of black metal blasting. Now I know some people might be offended because I compare underground bands with modern businessmen of Marduk but they kinda do sound alike (the vocals remind me a lot of how Legion used to sound). So if you like Marduk you'll like this but Exordium tries to be a little more creative and crazy with their riffs. The last song though is slower and kinda monotonous.

I warmly recommend this to people who are into black metal and are looking to discover some new great bands, otherwise I don't think you'll find anything of interest here.


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Kenji Hamaoka - Rome-rome

So here I am. It's about 2 in the morning and I just finished watching Near Dark which made me really sleepy. For some reason while I was watching the movie it kinda made me remember this cute little one shot. Haven't read it in a long time so I thought I should refresh my memory. Well, in a way it has something to do with Near Dark, it's about family and bonding. While Near Dark is a vampire flick (presumably) Rome-rome is a zombie flick. Funny though, I didn't read a lot of zombie related mangas (care to recommend something dear reader? just don't mention Zombie Loan :| ) but this one was a peculiar ride. I first heard about this searching for something that was similar to Historie and since it was called "Rome-rome" I thought it had to do something with Romans or Rome. How wrong I was. -_-

In any case, I would not really dwell in the story plot department because I would kinda ruin the whole thing and besides it's just a few pages long anyway. Artwork is kinda wacky, sorta childish but in a good way.


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Fanfare Ciocărlia - Queens and Kings

Here's some Balkan music for you foreign dogs to enjoy.

This is what I listen when I get drunk.

And yes, these guys were the ones who made the soundtrack for Borat (not all songs though, I think).
Čaša u čelo.

Original Soundtrack - Nausicaa Of The Valley Of Wind

There are several versions of this soundtrack from what I gathered. The one I'm posting is supposed to be the "image album" (whatever the hell that means). From all the versions this one is my favorite simply because it holds my most favored songs from the movie and in their best versions (best versions for me at least :P).

In any case, the movie is set in a world that was destroyed by huge god-thing giants in 10 days. Humans survived and are struggling for existence while the Earth regenerates. The destruction though happened a very long time ago so it's now mostly legends and the world today is slowly regenerating through killing every human on the planet. :D The reign of humans is long over and huge bugs now dominate the food chain. That's a bit basic plot of the movie. It later gets on more complex and goes into bible epic proportions. The manga on the other hand (which I warmly recommend, I think I still have it somewhere so I might post it in the near future) is far more political and more warfare oriented which makes it far more complex.

Since the movie was made in 1984 you can expect the usual cheesy electronics, synths, electronic drums etc. but they happen to be very well orchestrated and the soundtrack isn't as bland as I might have hinted. It was composed by Joe Hisaishi and this was the first collaboration between Miyazaki and Hisaishi so this soundtrack also has a historical meaning of sort. In a way the songs on this soundtrack a bit remind me of music that were in games of the 90s. Especially the third track, reminds me so much of one game I used to play when I was kid on Turbo Grafix 16 but sadly I can't remember the name (it was a racing game I think, with F1 formulas).

To make it short. If you liked the movie, you'll like the soundtrack because a large deal of the atmosphere in the movie was contributed by the music. If you like 80s electronics and stuff you'll like this as well (probably) and finally if you collect soundtracks made by Joe Hisaishi you need to get this because of its historic importance.

Tracklist:

01. The Legend of Wind
02. Toward the Far Away Land... -Nausicaa's Theme-
03. Mehve
04. The God Warrior - Torumekian Army - Her Royal Highness Princess Kushana
05. The Sea of Corruption; 06. Ohmu
07. The Dorok Army Strikes Back
08. Battle
09. The Road to the Valley
10. The Days Long Gone -Nausicaa's Theme-
11. Bird Person -Nausicaa's Theme-

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Amen Break

Blue moooonn

Dragon Age
You saw me standing alone
Without a game in my heart
Without a love of my own
Dragon Age
You know just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

<3

Try it if you haven't already, it's really good.

Hisae Iwaoka - White Clouds

This is one of those stories that are sad and happy at the same time. It's sad because it's about dying and about losing memories of those who are gone (or waiting to respawn after another campfest in Italy, fucking campers! >:( ). But there is also happiness in this because there is still hope that we will see our loved/hated ones when we die as well and that's pretty much what this one shot is about. An old man walks a dog and takes care of an plastic bottle for no apparent reason.

;_;

Kan Mikami - Yo-You (or 女優 [Jo-You])

Well, if you like Kazuki Tomokawa you'll probably like this as well. It's along the same line, not exactly as good as Kazuki but close to it. There's more chaos in the guitar work and last time I checked Kazuki had an acoustic guitar while this fellow is has the electric guitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.

So yeah, folk fans should be happy about this. The rest of us can gtfo because I have no idea what to write.

Tracklist:

1		長崎の原爆	3:46
2		ああ創価、身延の山は波木井の里か	4:31
3		俺の「運」	6:50
4		美空ひばりの時計	3:02
5		これ	3:29
6		女優	0:16
7		訪問者AかB	3:33
8		グルの御崎	2:15
9		傷ついだドラマー	2:18

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Katsuhiro Otomo - Visitors

As much as the front page and the name associates the plot with ghosts it has nothing to do with ghosts. This one shot isn't really focused on the plot, it's much more focused on the experimental narrative approach. The whole thing is drawn from the perspective of a person. You can't hear his (yours) words or anything, only reactions to his (yours) reactions. The plot can get a little confusing if you don't pay much attention because it shifts from retrospective to present a lot. All in all it's a fun ride, if it was longer it would get annoying.

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Ring 0 Original Soundtrack

I posted this a long time ago on TNA, twice, and the links died out pretty fast. I was never really bothered to reupload it because afterwords I felt that this is a little out of touch with the blog. That's why I'm posting it here with some additional thoughts and interesting (I guess) experiences with watching the Ring series. The soundtrack related text starts at the bottom of the second picture.

I was fairly young when the first remake got out in Europe (I was about 12). I found out about it through some trailer that was on a video tape of some other movies. When I saw the trailer I was kinda glad that I don't really need to watch this movie because I thought it would freak me out a lot. Then a few weeks later I was surfing through the local video store with nothing really gaining my interest. And then this little interesting tape caught my eye. "Hey it's that movie... uhh should I watch it or not?" and yeah I did.

It's interesting how can something influence a persons psyche and subconsciousness so much by just showing a series of moving pictures also known as movies. A story that practically had nothing in common with my life and yet it had everything I was afraid of. Especially the "cursed tape", every fucking scene of that tape had a thing that I was afraid of. Mirrors (I am disgusted by them, I can barley look at them for some reason), that stare, black and white color, cliffs, dark water and yes, I am actually afraid of ladders (I'm unable to climb more than one step of ladders, I freeze and can't move -_-). Another interesting anecdote I had with this movie is that upon the first view of this movie I completely kicked out the final legendary scene out of my head. I had no idea I watched it. I only realized it when I watched it for the second time about a year after. I'll never forget the moment when I completely freaked out screaming "THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN THE FIRST TIME" while watching the scene and having flashbacks of me watching it for the first time and completely erasing it from my memory.

After that second watch I decided to avoid the Ring franchise because it didn't really affect my mind in a good way. It took me about 5 years to force myself to watch it again. I found all the movies and even the Korean one (which was terrible actually). I watched them all, twice, in hopes to flush out my silly fears. Yeah; that didn't really help.

Among all the sequels, remakes etc. there stood just one more thing I didn't yet watch and that was Ring 0. In all previous movies the girl was portrayed as something unhuman, unnatural and vengeful over mankind. This movie showed her human side, in this movie she was the victim and people were the monsters. It showed her fragile and natural side which was something something I never really expected when I watched it for the first time. It was at that time when I realized that she was actually human before and that there's a good reason as to why she became after what she was.

The soundtrack is naturally quite fitting, the opening and ending tracks were made by a visual kei band (larc en ciel, something like that). Both of those songs were very uninteresting and I can't really tell that I listened them to more than twice. The rest of the soundtrack on the other hand is quite good. It was composed by Shinichirou Ogata (he also did one Ghost In The Shell soundtrack, can't remember which though) and it mostly orchestral music. But there are ambient and some noisy passages that make this soundtrack very fitting for the whole setting of an somewhat Shakespeare plot. It's funny how one track gets to be sad and melancholic flute arranged piece and then all of the sudden the next track falls deep into ambient and sort of eerie sound. I like that, it never gets boring that way. It brings you the sad mood of a tragic, inevitable violent death of a person that was just simply born that way.
I don't need to watch Ring movies anymore, the people and the places appear in my dreams on regular basis ever since I watched it for the first time.

Hako Yamazaki - ハコのお箱

This was originally posted on the Abstract blog I used to visit but apparently it was closed down for (surprise surprise) legal issues. Looks like Carmen Maki didn't really like the idea of foreigners sharing her albums.

Anyway, I posted Yamazaki's stuff before and it received a lot of downloads so I guess you guys/girls/hermaphrodites might want some more. Since she never really gained any popularity outside Japan (or even in Japan I think) there's not much info about her albums. This one isn't even on discgos. It seems like a compilation of her songs done in an acoustic arrangement. Previous album I posted had all the instruments that the usual acid folk singer in the 70s needed. This time it's just one wooden guitar and a bit more matured voice for the most part of the album. Terribly underrated imho.

Tracklist:

01. 望郷
02. 橋向こうの家
03. ヨコハマ
04. 歌いたいの
05. 白い花
06. 冬の東京
07. 気分を変えて
08. 綱渡り
09. 水車の都
10. 織江の唄
11. 夢
12. 私が生まれた日(サウンドトラック・ヴァージョン)
13. 呪い

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Sun Ra - Lanquidity

Sun Ra has a huge discography and while this is great it is also very bad at the same time for those who wish to start listening to Sun Ra. Lanquidity is one of those albums I would certainly recommend to a casual jazz listener to check out if he never heard of Sun Ra and I would also recommend it to those who heard his other works as well. So why is this album exceptional? I love Sun Ra and all that but there are some albums that just drift too much in the noise sphere or sometimes are just plain swinging jazz we heard in the 40s and 50s. Sometimes on albums there are few calm songs and a 20 minute experimentation which can ruin the mood. Lanquidity on the other hand has that perfect balance. It's not exactly straight forward jazz experimentation yet it's not total random bollocks he sometimes did. It has that special things of his I can't really explain exactly.

Tracklist:

Lanquidity	8:19
Where Pathways Meet	6:30
That's How I Feel	8:09
Twin Stars Of Thence	9:30
There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)	10:58

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Tetsuya Saruwatari - Riki - Oh

Oh wow.

Uh, this guy has a huge star of David on his hand and he goes around; beating the shit out of everyone. He was also shot 5 times. Not exactly 50 cent tough guy type but close to it. :D

A long time ago when I was out (by out I mean in my room; alone and on the internet) hunting for manga and I saw this peculiar story. Tried reading it but everything was in Japanese. Not so long ago I found it again, translated! So yeah I started reading this. The story at the beginning goes something like this. A guy comes into a jail and he's tough. If you look like you have concrete not muscles under your skin you are bound to get in trouble with someone. And so I was reading and yeah, it was belivable. Then after a while he did something to which I kinda said "yeah I guess this is could pass in real life". Few volumes after a bad guy installs an electric device in our protagonists heart so that it electrocutes him if our hero does not obey. Then our hero takes a machete, rips his stomach and pulls out the device attached to his heart with his hands. Few moments after while he bleeds all over the place he kicks someones face so hard that his hand goes through his head making a hole in his face. By then I was fairly convinced that this isn't very realistic. The manga tries to be serious but it just can't. :D

There is a plot and there are a lot of characters. There are some interesting ideas but the main thing in this manga is fighting. And there's a ton of fucked up fighting and lucky for us the violence isn't censored at all so you'll see blood, bones and such splattering all over the place.

THERE ARE ALSO KILLER KITCHENS


In short it's all good fun and gore. The plot is there but it's not exactly original. The manga also steals some bits from others but you won't care. Art is ok, nothing exceptional or over the top artistic but it delivers. The story is also very politically impolite. You'll be seeing a lot of swastikas and stars of Davids combining and such. :D There's so much manliness here that it's leaking out everywhere.


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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5


There are also two unrelated stories included.

Texas Pandaa - Days

Back to business after a while!

Well it's autumn and everything is kinda blurry so I'm listening to a lot of jazz and uh blurry music so here's something from the blurry department. Blurry as in dreamy and post rock~ish. There are vocals as well so it's not straight forward post rock but it's not actually that far from it either, there are a lot of instrumental sections. Sometimes it switches the pace so it doesn't get boring and repetitive very fast unlike some post-rock bands that I could mention (but I wont >:|).

In any case, if you like dreamy music you'll like this.

Tracklist:

1. Intro
   
2. Days
   
3. Blind
   
4. Old Times
   
5. Dry Me Up
   
6. Sway
   
7. Inside the Sad Cafe
   
8. And What Flows
   
9. No Recall
   
10. Blind (meow version)

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We've met before, haven't we?

Been preparing for exams that will be this week etc.

Once I dislocate my spine from studying I'll do some posting. I collected a bunch of interesting things so it should be fun.

Calvaire

Year of release: 2004
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Genre: Drama
Duration: 88 min
Language: French (with separated English subtitles)

Somewhere in Belgium is a man who is trying to become a successful singer. A few days he spends in a retirement home and decides to move onwards to bigger cities. He drives and drives. His van breaks down. A man finds him. A man leads him to an inn. The innkeeper and the protagonist share stories and have a nice chat. A nice and loving story. Or is it?

Ask the pigs.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8

Use HJ split to patch up the files.

Just tick "keep broken files" and the movie will extract just fine.

I won't reveal anything important about this movie because I think it would ruin it. I'm giving you the chance to experience it as I did.

Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum

The pages of the booklet were too big for me to scan them sorry. :(

Speaking of metal here's something completely awesome. Deathspell Omega is a well known underground (or is it?) black metal band that caught the attention of the scene when they released Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice. Before that they were pretty much a Darkthrone clone with a little special touch their own. After SMRC they released an awesome ep Kenose and a few splits etc. And then came something even better. Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum.

Fas album was out in 2007 on Norma Evangelium Diaboli. And holy shit, when I first started listening I didn't really realize what's going on. But on the second listen I was completely amazed by its sound. The band is serious business so they give a lot of thought in their lyrics which are all connected on their albums. This is the second part of a trilogy that started with SMRC. First one was dealing with the relation between humans and god/satan while this album is dealing with the realtion between angels and god. The lyrics in the bootleg are constructed as a story, there aren't any song titles in it. It all looks like one big monologue of an angel.

The music itself while black metal in essence it's not really that straightforward. The song structures are very unorthodox when compared to more classic bands like Darkthrone, Marduk etc. There are a lot of dissonant sounds, bending, squealing and all sorts of weird note to highlight the overall insanity of the whole concept. Subjectively speaking I love this album, possibly my favorite black metal album ever. Nevertheless a lot of people hate it especially because of its chaotic style of playing.

1.	Obombration	04:48
2.	The Shrine of Mad Laughter	10:37
3.	Bread of Bitterness	07:49
4.	The Repellent Scars of Abandon and Election	11:40
5.	A Chore for the Lost	09:15
6.	Obombration	02:07

In delicious flac:

Part 1, 2 and 3.

Peace Sells

Argh, yesterday I left the movie to upload over night by of course my delightful connection decided to drop out so only 2 parts were uploaded. So sadly it's going to be posted tomorrow! >_< In any case, if you have nothing to do here's something neat.

I'll Bill and his friends (Necro etc.) are all rappers but they show a lot of interest in metal. Ill Bill made a song called Peace Sells which turns out to be full of references to metal bands, albums, songs and musicians. I spent a little time reading the lyrics and finding the connections. I don't think I found them on so drop in a comment if I missed something. I also added the lyrics below and a numbered the references and added the detail below. Here's the song:

Lyrics:

I'm a creator of terror berserk teens no escape from the toxic traits (1)
Pop ya face storm 'em with madness and blind faith (2)
The angel of death (3) read between the lines out the heaven
Expectable youth divine intervention (4) teachin' y'all a lesson of violence (5)
Doctor Death injectin a virus apocalypse
I'm a horseman in the circle of tyrants in debts for era
Posessed like Jeff Parcera (6)
Consuming impulse (7) drown you in the depths of terror forever

[Chorus]
Peace sells but who's buying (8)
Who's tryin who's crying who's lying in a pool of blood dying
Peace sells but who's buying
Who's tryin who's crying who's poppin with a four pound iron (9)
Peace sells but who's buying
Who's tryin who's crying who's lying in a pool of blood dying
Peace sells but who's buying
Who's tryin who's crying who's lying in a pool of blood

Stranger in hell buy America day to betrayal
Brainwashed by a system that's created to fell (10)
Freedomer fire securetron arm in his fate
Fear factory (11) manufacturing hi-tech hate
A slave new world (12) world gone mad a world without heroes
Used to go to show surrounded by weirdos
Lovelomoss masterin the science of war
Read metal forces magazines dying to tour
Power hatchets & carnivals livin their life for agony
Where to go we got to know like Harry Flanagan
I lecture funeral children of a grave behind a wall I sleep (13)
Be afraid kill 'em to be safe
I don't need society down for life foul & trife
Ill Bill dirty rotten imbecil down to fight
Give me my taxes back money god's a liar
Speak truth to deaf americans like Tah Meraya (14)

[Chorus]

Psychic vacuum jab you with a knife & stab you
Rival this medicine try veconvictions as heroin
Experiment macrosolutions to megaproblems
Let the revolvers solve 'em chaos miners a cosmic drama
Peace sells but who's buyin so I stay with the funds
We real so you die find you laced with the slugs
With the quickness you callin me my sacred love
I got bad brains the reason I spray with guns now listen

References:

1 - toxic traits (could be Toxic Trace song by Kreator)
2 - blind faith (Hirax - Blind Fate)
3 - The angel of death (obviously Slayer - Angel Of Death)
4 - divine intervention (another Slayer reference, this time its the Divine Intervention album)
5 - a lesson of violence (Exodus song)
6 - Posessed like Jeff Parcera (Jeff Benjamin Becerra, vocalist of the band Possessed)
7 - Consuming impulse (Pestilence album from 1989)
8 - Peace sells but who's buying (obvious refrence to Megadeth and their song)
9 - poppin with a four pound iron (not sure but could be Razor - Shotgun Justice?)
10 - Brainwashed by a system that's created to fell (uhh, System Of A Down? :S)
11 - Fear factory (US band)
12 - A slave new world (could be mockery of Iron Maidens song Brave New World)
13 - I lecture funeral children of a grave behind a wall I sleep (Black Sabbath songs:
Children of the Grave, Behind the Wall of Sleep and when he says "I lecture funeral" it kinda sounds like Electric Funeral.
14 - Tah Meraya (very likely Tom Arrayas (Slayer vocalist) name spelled wrong)

I'm sure there are more, so add some if you recognize them! :3

Jun Hayami - Hentai Shounen

About the movie, I'll be uploading it during this night so it should be up here tomorrow, along with something else I got in the email today.

But anyway, on to the post. It has been a long time since I posted something from this peculiar man. Lets get things strait, most people will find this very offensive so don't read it unless you are into guro, and I mean some serious guro. :P

Now what exactly is supposed to be offensive? Well I find this word kinda ironic. Especially since there are bands who supposedly support death and destruction but when asked about the holocaust and the nazi regime they do not wish to be connected with them. As if its offensive, it will give them a bad name. But they promote death and destruction. And there aren't a lot of nations who did so effectively. So why not support them? But nazism is offensive so they childishly avoid it because it will hurt their sales and venues won't ask them to play.

What all this has to do with this manga? Well, this manga, and this artist in general, is possibly the most direct and most perverse of all guro artists that I have come across. There's no political correctness here nor the attempt to dodge the "offensive" themes. It's not all drawn so pretty and user friendly like what Uziga does nor it's artistic as Maruos works are. This is just a direct slap to the face of everything that's considered to be moral and good. Hentai Shonen looks like a compilation of all the perverse needs that this author has. It does not matter if its a decapitated leg or table masturbation (it was quite funny to read it though) it tells the story so absurdly that you can't help but to wonder what the hell this man is thinking. Not to mention that the main character is named after the author so he might have actually done some of those things in reality (there's a rumor circulating that this author is in insane asylum, but that's just rumors).

I'm sure all the cool kids will be all over this just to show how sick they are. I don't read it for such purposes. I read it for other purposes. And no, I won't tell you why because I don't really have the need defend myself. You will either like this or hate it. It's up to you to decide.

Another thing I find very interesting is how people react to this. I don't really try to hide the fact that I read and watch shit like this to people. I find it entertaining to see how they will react. It's entertaining because media like this is everywhere. Have you ever read any Cannibal Corpse lyrics? Yet they are an world wide popular band signed to some major record company. They sing about killing in very brutal details but no one seems to have a problem with it that much anymore. It's a trend nowadays to be like that anyway. Another example are the Saw series. But when it's so direct and so honest like this one it's suddenly offensive? In fact his newest book had to be published only as an ebook because there was no printing company in the whole USA and Japan that wanted to print it. How absurd is this? Well I'm going a bit off topic. I might debate this a little more further in another post.

Very explicit content (read at your own risk, don't cry about it in the comments):

One more kiss, dear.

Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen - A sense of place

Here's something that's very overlooked. I really don't know why because this is really good. So what the hell is this? Well Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen are a couple that goes around America playing some fine folk songs. Last.fm tells me that they are country singers but I don't really notice the country influence here? Well not at least the American one. It reminds me more of Irish folk. Most songs are very calm in their nature, there are few merry ones but most are actually very sad sounding which goes along with the title. "A Sense Of Place", the music is really like that. Get this ye hippe fucks. ;D

Tracklist:

01. Tide and the River Rising
02. Sunrise
03. Reel Beatrice
04. Eclipse
05. Traveler
06. Margery Grey
07. Buddy & Carol's Waltz
08. Ou Vas-tu, Mon Petit Garcon, Point au Pic
09. The Architecture Song
10. Shenandoah Falls, Cincinnati Rag
11. When the First Leaves Fall
12. Long, Long Trail
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VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone

An interesting dream.

So I had this peculiar dream last night. It was in sequences but I only remember the last sequence of the dream. I was located somewhere in the countryside that's very similar to the countryside where I live. It looks something like: rocks, rocks, dead trees and more rocks. So I was walking through these fields a little until I came to a street (not a modern asphalted street but a dirt road) with a few houses. Each house was turned backwards from that street so each house had a small wooden gate and a backyard. I entered in one of those backyards and saw two people there. One of those people happened to be a childhood friend of mine that I haven't seen in a long time. Apparently they were just standing there until a local celebrity was sort of walking by them (the guy on the left). This friend of mine then yelled "HEY THIS GUY IS SERBIAN" and so they proceeded to beat the shit out of him (see this for explanation). When I saw what was happening I looked around and picked up a medium sized rock, Apparently when I'm in dreams everything seems to be really heavy to handle so I was having a real tough time picking it up and moving it. Eventually I managed to hit my friend with that rock in the head. The other guy ran away and the celebrity I was mentioning was already dead. So with nothing else left to do I started hitting him with that rock, in the face, repeatedly. Since the rock was so heavy or whatever I was hitting him very slowly. In fact so slow that I didn't do any actually damage I was just peeling the skin of his face with every hit and his eyes dropped out at some point. Eventually all that was left was his skull covered in blood but he was alive for some reason. I smacked his bloody skull again and a part of it came off to which I yelled "Die already!" and then he asked me "What am I?" so I said in frustration "Dead!" and he asked me after that "Does that mean I'm Croatian or Serbian?". :S

After that he fell on the ground and I moved on. I got back on the dirt road and entered another small back yard where there was a big black tree with no leaves. In front of the tree there was a small black wooden cross fixated in the ground (possibly an animal grave? I had a rabbit once). On each side from the cross there were three girls. They all had black hair and kinda pale white faces with very tired blue eyes. What's interesting is that they were missing a few, uhh, parts. From just a little down from the neck to all the way down to the hips they were just bones. Every other organ was there except that certain area. They also had for some reason white knee highs and dark maroon panties and their arms had those black gloves that went all the way to their elbows. They were all around that cross; pleasuring themselves. After that I kinda freaked out and started touching their bones for some reason and then I woke up.

If dreams have meaning man what the hell is this supposed to mean?

I don't do drugs by the way. :D

Sasquatch - Sasquatch

Sasquatch was formed in Los Angeles, California in the year 2001 by Philadelphia transplant Keith Gibbs and Detroit native’s Rick Ferrante & Clayton Charles. Sharing the stage with some of LA rock’s finest, Fireball Ministry, Nebula and Unida has helped the band become a local favorite and developed a name that is synonymous with quality kick ass rock. Drawing on influences from 70’ metal, rock and psychedellia their songwriting approach is simple and mainly relies on the theories of feel and technique, a sorely missed aspect of most modern day rock amalgamations.

They aren't very famous nor did the exactly reinvent the genre. But it is some good old school stoner rock fun. It has the groovy riffs, the distorded guitars and those signature vocals that a lot stoner rock bands tend to have.

Tracklist:

1.	Intro	00:22
2.	Chemical Lady	03:37
3.	Roller	03:22
4.	Dragonfly	02:56
5.	Believe It	02:53
6.	Cracks In The Pavement	02:30
7.	Knuckle Down	05:34
8.	Money Man	06:04
9.	Boss Hog	02:56
10.	Untitled	00:09
11.	Cyrus	04:11
12.	Untitled	00:30
13.	Yetti	04:31

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World Burns To Death - No Dawn Comes... Night Without End 7'' EP

Here's something a bit more harsh than the usual music that I'm lately posting. World Burns To Death is a crusty hardcore/d-beat whatever punk band from Texas. World Burns To Death’s music reflects the tradition of ’80s purist American hardcore (Negative Approach and Minor Threat), European bands influenced by, and including, Discharge, and japanese hardcore punk (Burning Spirits). Also in the mix may be hints of black metal and crust. In any case if you want some good violent fun get this 7''.

Tracklist:

A1		No One Is Right, If No One Is Left
A2		Silent Hunger
B1		Curse Them Forever
B2		Night Without End

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Crazy People - Bedlam

Crazy People like many other psych rock bands were active during the 70s and didn't last very long. I don't think they released anything else besides this overlooked album. There's not much info about them on the net but from what I understood this is some kind of supergroup. It's only rumored though because the identities of the band members were never released so it might be just a marketing trick to make people buy it.

Musically it can't be any more psychedelic than it is. The usual set up of instruments. Those church sounding organs, cheesy porn movie sounding bass, drums and guitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar. Along with the usual set up there are some weird experimentation and a habit of interrupting the jam with some weirdo sounds. I'm not very knowledgeable about the whole psych rock scene so I can't really give a detailed description. :(

Tracklist:

01. Parade At The Funny Farm
02. Head Amusement
03. Raunchy Boog-A-Loo
04. After Six
05. The Truth
06. Head Games and Other Assorted
07. Head Job
08. Happy Academy
09. Trans Luv Airlines
10. Let's Split

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Weeee

Got one of my favorite black metal albums ever the other day so I must brag:



It's the out of print LP version from 2007. <3 Got it for surprisingly a cheap price. It was merely 14 dollars from some Spanish distro and it was unopened and unplayed. The booklet is huge. :O If I manage to scan it I'll post it, along with the flac rip of the album :3

MUTO

Isaac Shepard - Deep Joy

Everybody has their own favorite instrument. My happens to be the piano closely followed by harp and cello but I'll always rather listen to a piano rather than a cello and so on. Well this album is all about the piano. From what I read Shepard tends to switch to several genres with every album but he made this and another one (can't remember the name) that's solely composed for piano. I found about him through a (good) video game actually, some indie crap on IGN.

The music itself is very soft, sometimes a little energetic but mostly calm and relaxing. Perfect for this autumnal time of the year and wrist cutting. ;D

Tracklist is messed up a bit, the songs aren't numbered.

But anyway:

01. Back to Basics
02. Before Dawn
03. Evening Chat
04. Facing the mirror
05. Felicity
06. Fleeting Moments
07. Gentle
08. Leaves in the Wind
09. Letting Go
10. Romance of the Seas
11. Softly, Sweetly
12. Struggles
13. Triumph of Love

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Anoice

This feels nice.

Junji Ito - Lovesick Dead

Undying love or Lovesick Dead, whatever you want to call it is a pretty much overlooked work by Junji Ito. I think it's overlooked because most people who eventually find this somewhere they have already read the popular ones and are thus let down by this one. Is it bad? No. It's definitely not horrible or bad. Ok, maybe the scanning could be better but that does not mean you can't enjoy the story. I'd say it's good, not as great as is Uzumaki but still good.

In this work Junji Ito explores the urban legends and superstition. The story takes place in a small port town in Japan. Nothing special about it, ordinary people, ordinary happenings but the teenagers in this town have their own special little game. The game goes something like this: you wait on a foggy day on a street, cover your face with something so that people can't recognize you and ask the first person who goes by to tell you your future and then leave. Childish little game but soon events start to take off in an interesting way because it is rumored that a handsome young boy goes around town telling future to other teens but those futures aren't so bright and they die in *seven dayssssss*. Ok not seven days, but they die; a hideous death. :D

That would be a somehow crude explanation of the plot. Of course there are also main protagonists and much more in depth plot twists but everything seems to focus on that game and that mysterious boy. How will it all end? Well it's up to you to find out. ;P

Art like in many other Junji Itos mangas is amazing. Especially the facial features. There are good scares in every chapter of the story and it won't let you down in that department. The only real downside is that this isn't scanned very well. By this I mean that the scans aren't in a large or medium sized resolution which sometimes damages the overall enjoyment of the reading but it's not that terrible so that it should be avoided. The resolution is usually 500x700 (give or take smaller changes). If you can get pass that minus I'm sure you'll love it as much as you loved his other works.

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I cought a deer...

... with my camera today during my usual walk through the woods. :P

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Toshio Maeda - Ogre Hunting

Ah here's something that does not require a brain to read. :D This is just some pure old school beast smashing fun. It has women with big boobies, tough guys, bad beasts and lots of action. Just what a no brainer needs. They are all put together nicely so you won't get bored (assuming you didn't get this for the sake of story). It's kinda like those thrash horror movies from the nineties. Except this one has huge ogres that eat people and rip them apart among other things.

The art is pretty much the same as is in his other work that previously posted.
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Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams

You know those lonely nights when you sit in a bar, staring down in an empty glass? Then a few steps away you barely see from all the cigar smoke three people playing. One sits on a piano, one on a bass and one on drums. They play a sad melody as if it came right out of some noir film and you relax with deep introspection.

Yeah, this album is pretty much like that. The legendary Bill Evans trio! It was formed by one of the most influential pianists of our time. Evans’ focus in this trio was jazz standards and original compositions, with an emphasis on interplay among the band members that often bordered on collective improvisation and blurred the line between soloist and accompanist. A truly marvelous work of art. Sometimes it's smooth and cool and sometimes it's fiery and non melodic. Just what jazz needs. Just what I need for my hangover. :P

Tracklist:

01. Re: Person I Knew
02. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
03. I Fall in Love Too Easily
04. Stairway to the Stars
05. If You Could See Me Now
06. It Might as Well Be Spring
07. In Love in Vain
08. Very Early

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