Hailing from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, I'm a big time film nerd (with a particular love of David Lynch & 20th century horror), an avid reader of a broad range (but 70s 80s horror and sci-fi paperbacks and political history are my jam) and part-time poet when I'm less stable/more inspired, indie rock geek with a strong Americana twist. I'm ace-leaning and a committed friend of the Trans community, genderqueer he/they, mental health awareness advocate with schizoaffective.
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Last Notes npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! I often think that the best vocalist to come out of #90s #emo was Tim Kasher of Cursive and The Good Life. He has such an expressive, husky, and tuneful voice relative to the rest of the scene that really sets him apart. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Shane van Gisbergen is easily having the best "oval" performance he's had thus far in #NASCAR today, steadily worked his way up through the field, competed at a top level, and scores a top 5 finish. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Breathtaking! npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Fuck Lou Dobbs royally. His racist obsession with immigrants for much of his career, long before it was the total norm in a GOP with the likes of Bush and McCain taking a more moderate stance, was a huge ideological influence on the Tea Party and later Trumpism. Rest in piss. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! My dad's in town, so we got lunch at one of my favorite places in the Brambleton Deli out in Roanoke County and then did some quick shopping out our old haunts when he lived in town and visited with my grandparents for a couple hours whose new house I was seeing for the very first time. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Lately it has become a habit, due to only being willing to pay half attention to the TV, this month to start my day with a report or two from the Law & #Crime YouTube channel. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Not one of the better King adaptations which is disappointing since Romero did my absolute favorite King film (Creepshow), but I still remember it being fun to watch and will likely revisit it one of these days. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Described "Luka" by Suzanne Vega as "an all-time banger of songs about child abuse" npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Telling the group chat that my dream if I ever came into a lot of money would be running a video rental store that probably breaks even at best that heavily caters to the nostalgia factor of the video store experience for which so many people from the #80s through #00s pine including small sections dedicated to vintage formats like #DVD and #VHS and some #retrogaming carts and discs and dedicated "Staff Picks" every couple of weeks. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! It is always Sundays when I want to go run to the tobacco store or an errand downtown, and I always have to remind myself that the bus doesn't run today. I would vote for any local candidate who promises 7 day bus service. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! The other day I teased that my oldest review ever on my blog was coming but it took me a couple days longer than I expected to sit down and write it. Fritz Lang delivered a masterpiece with his first ever film with sound, few else can say that. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! I live in the noise pop-shoegaze-dreampop triad in life npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! My neighbor showed me a Jack Skellington keychain he purchased and of course my former mall #goth ass immediately identified who it was which was a surprise to Tommy, he just liked the skeledude look to it. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Really enjoy Swimming to Cambodia and a few other Spalding Gray things I've seen, he had a way of communicating stories that was entirely his own. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Learning about James Chance's death got me thinking about the No Wave scene which got me thinking about Sonic Youth's collaboration with Lydia Lunch on the great Death Valley '69 which led me to watch the fantastically lo-fi shot-on-VHS video and now listening to the entirety of Bad Moon Rising which is freaking good. It is always #spooky season for me which this album with its love of Manson and Satanists and the dark underbelly scratches npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Gotta love when #90s genre #TV shows get in the weeds with cell phone technology and calling tracing of the time, very charming. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! When did the Western world decide that any depictions of Romans on screen should have them speak with an English accent? I'm guessing an artifact of colonialism and the British stage. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! It's been like a year, so though I'd do a new #introduction post! npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! It is funny to me that NASCAR has finally put a permanent inside wall in turn 11 of Sonoma Raceway after decades of tire barriers cause it drove me crazy as a kid that out of programming laziness the #EASports NASCAR games of the #90s and early 00s all featured an inaccurate inside wall there. It finally matches after all these years npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! The funniest of Ripper's 1996 image of the internet is the future is that somebody could still make a full time living working for a digital newspaper in the future. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! I've never understood the appeal of online #gaming , the very idea of playing games against strangers just makes me inherently anxious, I don't even like playing against friends because I'm both never very good at any games besides racing and not really a competitive person. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! It is really distracting to me that the effective lead actor in the #FMVgame Ripper is Lorelei's boyfriend Max from #GilmoreGirls with really badly dyed/bleached hair. As far as FMV acting goes, he's actually not half-bad (it is a low standard though), especially held up against a cast of some fairly well known actors phoning it in, but all I can think about is Gilmore Girls. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! The people who are going to most regret my buying the rest of the Hellraiser series I didn't own (I have 1 and 2), 4 Steven Seagal movies for reasons I cannot explain, and the entire Leprechaun series on DVD are the handful of readers I have on my film review blog. I'm sure they'll be at the edge of their seats wanting to know what I think of Leprechaun in Space when I inevitably rewatch the whole series or Under Seige. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! I am so happy whenever I throw on a janky, poorly aged horror #FMVGame playthrough as background noise, I quickly get enveloped in the goofy stories. Currently watching the fairly notorious Harvester, which is a 5 hour long video so this one will have to be done over multiple watch sessions. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Off and on yesterday and today I've been working on watching a complete playthrough (a bit over 2 hours) of the poorly reviewed #FmvGame from the mid 90s Paparazzi! Tales of Tinseltown npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! My friends' dog Louie has been so disturbed today by my watching a complete playthrough of The mansion of Hidden Souls on #SEGA Saturn, he hates all the various sound effects. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Yeah, you can say I party on a Saturday night* npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! In my recent experience exploring #90s and #00s television out of #Canada I've found that I recognize a lot of actors I come across just because of how many #horror films and 90s genre television shows like #XFiles shot primarily in Canada to utilize their tax credits for film and TV production and frequently utilizing local actors as well. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Linnea Quigley should just be handed the keys to existence, she has earned it. Over at my Blue Ridge Ben blog I reviewed Night of the Demons which is a cult classic every bit deserving of its status. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! I've got a busy day with a couple of reviews to write for my blog tomorrow, but I will spoil one a little and say that I did not really like Cat's Eye when I first saw it but my opinion has changed the second time, I like it a lot more. Maybe I just have more whimsy in my heart several years later. Still isn't like, near as good as Creepshow. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! I'll spoil the review I write for my blog tomorrow, but it is a remarkably well directed 80s horror film. Like it looks better consistently than tons of horror shlock of the era, sometimes reminded me straight up of Raimi (but with terrible actors) npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! I decided that Downfall was too heavy a film for a Wednesday afternoon, so I quit after 30 minutes to instead...watch one of the sleazier and most campy #horror films of the #80s in Night of the Demons. I don't regret it. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! This is excellent! Love it a lot. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! I really wanted to watch Maximum Overdrive tonight but I simply don't have the willpower to watch two different bad films (well Phantoms was alright, but review will come later) on my least favorite free-with-ads streamer: the buggy, laggy mess that is Pluto. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! This morning for some reason the first thing I did was decide to listen to a random #Sega Game Gear soundtrack. I picked Alien Syndrome because it was the first I saw listed and I enjoyed it immensely. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Slipping some gin into my tea party cups just so that if any of the dolls turn out to be haunted or the spirit of a serial killer they know that we're pals and I'll look out for them. npub1elm893s6qe9nw8r3f7m54w3hetv946xtyy6pls6dfuqcp5lwz97szyh0dd Ben! Some nights you are so convinced the CD should still play that you try the Laserdisc, the computer that doesn't know what program to launch and finally justify yourself with the #SEGA Dreamcast which plays the disk fine off the CRT TV you have it hooked up to.
