Von Sudenfeld
Tromatic Reflexxions
The Man:
Boris Karloff did a whole shit ton of movies, and on everyone of them, he outshined everyone else involved. (Outshined: being a totally unrelenting "Step Up To THE PLATE.") This is true. Except--and yes, there's always exceptions, unless you're Casey Affleck, EXCEPT in Corridors of Blood. There's this guy in Corridors of Blood named Resurrection Joe--played by a "hey i'm a dork that's" Christopher Lee, who looks like Mike Haneke, but acts like a Harry Potter character. Boris tries his best to overpower the film with his wasted-on-drugs Boy Scout, but it's Lee's Resurrection Joe that holds up fifty years later. Because it's subtle. He's a bastard who kills folks, he's got a nasty scar, and holy god is he one laid back scary dude--with a trenchcoat and a top hat. Natch. Probably went unnoticed in a Boris Karloff pic--but hey, now we all set back and watch Lee and it's a master class in creepazoid.
The Machine:
Everybody wants to use that time machine to kill Hitler, right? Everybody but Jack Kirby, that's for sure. Why not make another stop in Germany after that, a few years later, and beat up Kraftwerk in an alley before they make it to the studio? Don't kill them or nothing, but just see if you can put some muscle in their back, some buzz in their voicebox, some rough and tumble in their groin. Soundtracking a bike race? Puh-leeze.
The Descent:
Garth Ennis wrote an angel falling the way it should be done. Shit was blind and on fire. That's the way an angel should hit the Earth--like a ballistic missile burning up on re-entry, but not losing it's payload until it passes some fallopian. Nice.
Will It Blend:
He'll probably fail at something-shit, at this point, you know he has. But what was it? Was it something made out of stainless steel? Was it diamonds? Was it rhinestones? A Stallone?
In The Ground:
You do realize that this is a music climate where a band like Low has an career spanning box set of B-sides and Rufus Wainwright designs 15 dollar t-shirts for H & M?
Only Salvation:
Mark E Smith plus Mouse On Mars. Better than lupus. And it's never lupus.
-Tucker Stone, 2008
Nah, all the Krawftwerk members with balls ended up in Neu!
Posted by: Sean Witzke | 2008.02.21 at 00:29
I don't listen to Nazi propaganda music. SO I WOULDNT KNOW THAT
Posted by: Tucker Stone | 2008.02.21 at 00:42
So your telling me that the nazis had a hand in soundtracking The Master of the Flying Guillotine? Hell to the no!
Posted by: Sean Witzke | 2008.02.21 at 01:17