Happy Birthday, Ennio Morricone!
It’s Ennio Morricone’s 82nd birthday. To celebrate, let’s listen to a little music. “Pazuzu,” “Valmont’s Go Go Club,” two songs from Death Rides A Horse and “The Ecstasy of Gold” (conducted by Morricone himself).
Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
It’s Ennio Morricone’s 82nd birthday. To celebrate, let’s listen to a little music. “Pazuzu,” “Valmont’s Go Go Club,” two songs from Death Rides A Horse and “The Ecstasy of Gold” (conducted by Morricone himself).
There’s a new Tron: Legacy trailer with even more footage of the grid and the cybertronically de-aged Jeff Bridges.
The top 25 video game mustaches.
Yoshinobu Nishizaki has died at 75. He was the producer of Space Battleship Yamato, Urotsukidoji as well as co-creator of Odin: Starlight Mutiny. It’s especially sad timing with the release of the new Space Battleship Yamato live action film. Patrick Macias has some thoughts on Nishizaki from Mobile […]
Slouching Towards Bethlehem has found tantalizing evidence of a detective agency operating in Meiji Era Japan, The Iwai Detective Agency.
Learn to make a peanut butter and jelly sammich the Kratos way.