Infested is a new spider movie on Shudder that I had high expectations for, but it's reliance on CGI for hordes of attacking arachnids, along with its penchant for peppering what would be creepy sequences with loud French rap music distracted me. It borrows from REC, and the final sequence felt lik...

Very nice, Hex. Thank you!

FM Pasta's lovely wife celebrated her 50th with friends and the music of Vacancy Chain and Tijuana Hercules

New Ringo Starr single sounds like Jet.

Thinking of you, Nick, and everyone else dealing with this crap.

I love a good ghost tale



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Kind of boring to me as stories, maybe interesting as psychology Do you mean the relating of personal experiences or genre authors? Personally I think believing your special self must somehow be more than a silly sack of meat is typical of human ego, but I tend to be pretty down on the idea of high...

Thinking of the mythical undersea world of Drexciya, along with the real life tragedy of the Middle Passage and its ensuing horrors one wonders why the ghosts of enslaved Africans (oR tHe IrIsh) haven't wreaked havoc upon America.

^ huzzah! This is my song of the year from what could possibly be my album of the year once I'm able to penetrate (or not) it's dense, cosmic world-building of texture and sound. Just an absolute stunner of PNW shoegaze and dreampop without being beholden to any one signifier. Featuring a couple of ...

Anna von Hausswolff is in town singing at Joffrey Ballet for Midsummer Night's Dream. I just happened to run into her and made a bit of small talk. So lovely, warm, and gracious.

I've never seen a ghost and this upsets me. There was once a thread on the old forum about spectral encounters, and reading that was a gas. Again, never had a personal ghost encounter, but I did experience something too odd to be coincidental: I watched my mom die after a couple of years of fighting...