Contents 4 Zombieland 6 Birthday Massacre 8 Darkfaery Girl Eve 12 Beautifully Bound 2009 18 The SpookyBootique
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Zombieland Review by Jackson Compton Since the inception of George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead,” zombie movies have been the craze. And in that stretch of time post hence, some inspired filmmakers have managed to garnish us wit a few gems, while others have left us with only fools’ gold (including Romero’s last stinker.) But hit or miss, we still manage to flock together to the movie theater devouring every second of screen time as if we were our Hollywoodzombie counterparts eating the brains of the living. We love the whole concept of the zombie film; it is social commentary, a fun house mirror of our screwed-up society. Hell, I know people who seriously believe that the Zombie Apocalypse will in fact come to pass. (Hasn’t it already? Have seen the people who watch QVC?) Not since “Shaun of the Dead” have we had the pleasure of a good Zomedy...that is until now. Zombieland is a cleverly written piece. I was hooked from the get-go by the explicit gore of the slow-mo shots from the opening credits along with
Columbus’s (Jesse Eisenberg) narration laying down his “Rules of Survival.” I always see characters in horror films do the stupidest things and I think, “Hey! If you would’ve just chopped that guys head off in the first place when you had the chance, he wouldn’t still be after you, now!” It’s nice to see that someone else laid down the rules that I myself thought were necessary. Then again, natural selection has a way with dealing with stupid people. And in all honesty, I suggest that you follow Rule #1 because it WILL be the fat ones that get eaten first. This is a great breakout film for Eisenberg. He gets to play the reluctant nerdy hero--a sort of Michael Cera-eske character. The great accomplishment is that Eisenberg is not completely overshadowed by an overbearing Woody Harrelson. The combination of narration and flashbacks allows the audience to muster some feelings for Columbus before Tallahassee (Harrelson) even begins his screen time. Harrelson plays a psychotic zombie killer, running from his past, and completely obsessed with finding Twinkies. The product placement alone should send Hostess sales soaring! Tough gals, Wichita (Emma Stone)
and Little Rock (Abigail Breslan), are con-artist sisters that round out the quartet, and are making their way to California to the supposed safety of an amusement park. The dynamics of the haphazard group makes up the basis for a dysfunctional family, which these characters slowly discover about each other while killing zombies along the journey. SPOILER ALERT: My favorite scenes are when the group arrives in L.A., scores a “Map of the Stars,” and breaks into BM’s house. It was a great cameo and really galvanized the comedy of the film. Be sure to sit through the credits till the very end. BM has another scene. Even the hardcore zombie-purest should like this film. There’s humor, blood, guts, gore, violence, and zombies. What more could you ask for? So nut up or shut up!
Darkfaery Exclusive: Chibi, Lead Singer of the Birthday Massacre By TristaLou TL: “How did all of you meet and come together as a band?” Chibi: Rainbow and Mike actually grew up together. They had attended the same public school, so they have known each other forever. They had been in bands together in High school and they met me in College. O-en and Rhim also attended the same college and we kind of knew each other. So basically it all comes down to we met in college. TL: “Your former name used to be Imagica in which you changed to The Birthday Massacre due to a conflict with a band with a similar name. How did you come up with this name?” Chibi: Our song „Happy Birthday‟ was actually called The Birthday Massacre so it just kind of logically made sense. People would recognize it as an Imagica song and also I think that it‟s just cooler. You know with the whole thing we‟re trying to do with the contrast and everything with the dark and light, scary and cute. So Birthday Massacre sort of encompasses all those things. TL: “Your sound is so unique; it‟s getting harder and harder to pull that off for bands. Where did you get this inspiration for this sound?” Chibi: I think it‟s because all of us listen to a lot of different stuff, and we like to harken back to what we grew up listening to. I‟d listen to bands like Metallica, Def Leopard, and Guns and Roses. My favorite band ever is Faith No More. Rainbow and Mike really like David Bowie. All of us like Madonna so it‟s like different tastes and trying to bring that all together and make it sound passable. We just tried to encompass everything we liked when we were just discovering music. We just try to make it sound……good basically. TL: “Is there any bands that you take your inspiration from?” Chibi: Oh absolutely. The Cure and Depeche Mode. Mike and Rainbow really like Curve. they are REALLY into Curve actually. I really like Faith No More like I said earlier, they are my favorite band, and I also really like Concrete Blonde. TL: “Of all the amazing songs you have recorded, which one is your favorite and why?” Chibi: See that‟s impossible to have a favorite song, you know what I mean? There are songs that I really like on the album but then touring with them can be really difficult. When you‟re in tour mode it‟s like „Okay what songs are the most difficult‟. For example the song Walking With Strangers, I really love that song, but I totally dread playing it live since it‟s so high, and as you can see my voice is really destroyed. So when it comes time to play it I don‟t really want to. But I don‟t know, I really don‟t have a favorite song at all. Some weeks I‟ll be like I really like Falling Down this week and the next I like Good Night and then Happy Birthday. You know what I mean? It‟s kind of like that.
TL: “You have made some videos that are really great. The contrasts and darkness portrayed in them was done very well. Where there any messages you were trying to get across in these videos?” Chibi: Umm…I don‟t know if it was so much about messages like anything with deep meaning. We were working with Danny Ouellette, who‟s from New York on both those videos we‟ve done. He‟s a visual artist as well so he had a lot of good ideas and I think we just sort of wanted to express, especially in Blue different visuals with the kind of creepy puppet faces that were designed by this puppeteer guy named Scott Radke. We also wanted it to have an Edward Gorey feel to it. I really like Edward Gorey as an illustrator. You might know him from the Gashlycrumb Tinies, like „A is for Amy who fell down the stairs‟. You should totally look up the rest of his work. (She motions to her tattoo on her left arm). This is actually one of his drawings. But ya, we just try to make some interesting details and set different kind of moods in our ideas. It‟s just kind of cool to have the cool masks, costumes, and different visuals. We like to make it fun. TL: “How has the tour been going with I Am Ghost and Dommin?” Chibi: Super Good! We like always joke around because when any band signs up on a tour it‟s like „We are going to be touring with these other bands, let‟s go check them out. We look at their pics and stuff.‟ And the joke is, is if you look at any of the bands pictures they look like the biggest jerks. It‟s just so funny that they can look like that but they‟re not. We just joke around all the time and we get along. It‟s actually just a really fun tour. We usually make pretty good friends with the bands we tour with. Everybody gets along so well on this tour and it‟s kind of sad because the tour is only about a month long tour and we only have eight shows left, and we‟re really bummed. TL: “How do you pass the time on the tour bus?” Chibi: Video Games. The guys are all playing DC vs. Capcom right now. I read a lot of books, we watch a lot of movies. It‟s actually just a lot of nerdy stuff. Not anything like „drinking pee and killing babies‟. TL: “Do you have any jokesters in the band(s) that plays practical jokes on you? If so who and what was their best joke so far?” Chibi: Ya, like everyone pretty much. We all have a pretty good sense of humor and we razz on each other. I think a good sense of humor is essential or else you would kill each other. TL: “Is there anyone who tries to keep the sanity in the band while on tour?” Chibi: (she smiles and says this in a joking manner) Me probably. They‟re all going to disagree with me on this, but it‟s so me. I‟m the one with the most common sense. No but seriously I think it‟s all of us, because we have been touring for a few years now and we‟re not young anymore. We all just kind of understand the balance that has to be there. Like you can be an idiot, but you also have to be aware of what going on. So we‟re all pretty good. We all keep the order.
TL: “Is there any place that you have not yet gone to on tour and really hope to go someday?” Chibi: We‟ve never played Scotland before, or Italy. I‟m actually half Italian and half Scottish and always wanted to go to both places. We actually get to go this summer. I am so excited. TL: “Tell me about your new CD.” Chibi: Well it‟s a live CD and it was recorded a year and a half ago and it was not planned. It was a thing where we kind of showed up and there was a crew and they were like “We‟re going to record the show”. They were nice guys and they did a great job. Then a year and a half later they say it‟s going to be a CD and a DVD. And we thought it was great, but had I have known I would have done my hair better. But no, it‟s really great; it was just kind of a surprise for us. We‟re really excited about it and we made a little adjustment here and there. It was a really unpredictable environment and you don‟t want to release something that is terrible. But we were really happy with it and honestly, Thank God it was a good show that night. TL: “Usually I really don‟t like Live CDs much but I listened to yours and I actually enjoyed the songs. They didn‟t sound distorted and the live music actually translated very well over into tracks. How did you guys pull that off?” Chibi: It was difficult. In a studio you get multiple times to not sound bad. We had to go back and add things back in that were missing from the live tracks, and we just tried to make it sound good. Live recordings are just too unpredictable. I think it‟s impossible to just release something without looking at it first. TL: “This will be my first time to see you in concert. I am looking forward to it even more since your live tracks sounded so good and I can‟t wait to see the real thing. What can I expect to see and hear at this concert?” Chibi: We have a lot of energy at our shows because we sit around all day and we get kind of sore, cramped, and really bored a lot. So when we play is when we get to have our fun for the day. Our main thing is the energy and people always say that we are more energetic than they thought we‟d be. It‟s important to us for people to have fun at our shows. I think its fun to dance and I think our music is pretty danceable, and the people who like our music are going to be fun, so they get to have fun too. TL: “I am sure all the girls out there would love to know what you are planning on wearing on stage and how you put the outfit together and where they could find that outfit for themselves.” Chibi: (She laughs) At the Goodwill. I usually wear like a kilt and a shirt with a tie. Something that will wash easily. The guys have these boy scouts shirts that have patches on them, but the patches are trying to fall off and they are like „Hey can you sew these on?‟ I just tell them no and that I glued them on so they can either do that or they can sew them if they want them sewn on.
TL: “Did the band ever expect to be such a fashion icon to the goth scene?” Chibi: I don‟t think so. I don‟t consider us that at all. I think all of us are pretty grateful that we‟re even on this tour. Especially with how the other bands just starting out are trying to had. We feel lucky to be on tour, let alone having people care about what we are wearing. TL: “What do you guys bring to your concerts that you would consider unique to your band?” Chibi: I don‟t know….We have six of us so we have a lot of people in the band. We bring scrims to try to set an atmosphere and again I think we just try to bring a lot of energy to our shows. TL: “What are your favorite horror movies?” Chibi: Oh God…..I like Session 9 a lot, The Blair Witch Project, Let the Right One In. that one‟s a vampire movie. It‟s not so much a horror movie as sort of tragic, romantic, very odd. It‟s just awesome. Ummm there‟s so many. I love the Hostel movies, all the old Nightmare on Elm Street movies, all the old slasher movies. Hellraiser would be one we just watched that the other night. TL: “What are your favorite movie monsters.” Chibi: I like the old school, like the Bride of Frankenstein. I like cthulhu, the dormant squid monster. I just watched Frankenhooker recently, she‟s cute. She‟s supposed to be a monster but I‟m always like „I want to look just like her‟. TL: “So the 80s style and icons seem to be coming back, what are you most excited to see come back? Is there anything else you‟d like to come back?” Chibi: It seems like every band I liked as a child is on tour now. I always manage to miss them though, I‟m always touring at the same time they are. Like last year there was a tour with Cheap Trick, Journey, and Heart. I almost had a heart attack, I was so excited and I love Heart, and I missed it. TL: “What are your hobbies?” Chibi: Knitting and crocheting. It‟s therapeutic, and totally productive. I like to crochet little toys and bears. It‟s a really good hobby. I recommend it. I have a store with a friend called Goodbye forever on my MySpace. We don‟t have much on there right now, but after the tour we will have more stuff up. TL: “Is there anything that people would be shocked to know about you?” Chibi: A lot of people think we are going to be snobby, but we‟re not. We are very nerdy actually. We are approachable, nice people, and very down to earth. Always come say Hi to us. We always hang out after our shows. We are up for autographs and pictures. More Birthday Massacre: Also see The Birthday Massacre Official Web Site http://www.thebirthdaymassacre.com/ and http://www.myspace.com/thebirthdaymassacre About TristaLou: TristaLou is the regional manager of promotion for Darkfaery Subculture, she‟s the head of the Darkfaery Girls, a mother of three, and also a Paranormal Investigator/Researcher. http://www.darkfaery-subculture.com/ http://www.darkfaery-girls.com/ http://www.myspace.com/darkfaerygirls Full Audio: http://www.darkfaery-subculture.com/ birthdaymass-trista.MP3
“I like the old school, like the Bride of Frankenstein. I like cthulhu, the dormant squid monster. I just watched Frankenhooker recently, she‟s cute. She‟s supposed to be a monster but I‟m always like „I want to look just like her‟.”
"The Spookybootique was a happy accident. I have always been the sort to make my own clothes and such. I just have this vision of the world that I want to see made real. It's an effort of love, preformed in the name of art. I never cared much for massproduced things in general. It takes so much of the craftsmanship and originality out of the world. It's hard to buy an outfit and not run in to at least one other person with the exact same outfit! I never liked that. I am more of the "stand out" than "blend in" sort. I had entertained the idea of starting a business making... well, whatever struck my fancy. I am an idea person, though, so it never seemed to happen. This year my industrious fiancĂŠ went to the medieval fair in Norman with me. I had made one of my hats to wear, and got a lot of compliments and questions for it. The following week when I got up, Marty informed me he had bought "Spookybootique.com" and now I could start doing what I loved and spread my fashion plague! It was good for me in so many ways. It gave me a way to make money (which face it, we all need that stuff!) and a way to share my art and vision of beauty with the world. The name is a play on my pen name; Creeperella Spookyboo.
I jumped in and started making my hats, which led to so much more. I now carry a wide range of accessories and just this fall I have decided to add some clothing to the mix. I am concentrating on custom pieces, to avoid that "hey, we are wearing the same thing" problem I mentioned earlier. I make all of my custom pieces by hand, and to fit the customer's body, wishes, and needs. I put a lot of emphasis on a quality product with a unique look. Here and there I might throw in a vintage piece I find interesting. It is mostly all my original work, though. We are exclusively an online store for now. You can find T he Spookybootique on MySpace, Facebook, www.spookybootique.com, or just email me directly at Creeperella@spookybootique.com. Come by and see us sometimes, we just might have that odd bit of fancy or fluff you have been looking for." --Creeperella
INFORMATIK Da5id Din Tyler Newman
Informatik released their debut album, Direct Memory Access, in 1995 via their own label SINless Records. Having achieved considerable success on the strength of the club hit "At Your Command", they signed to Metropolis Records to re-issue the album as Direct Memory Access V2.0 with additional songs and a bonus video. Just two years later, Informatik released the sophomore album Syntax, which spawned a series of club hits that are still in rotation a decade later, such as “Entropy,” “Watching You Watching Me,” and “Things To Come.” After a few years of work on other projects, Informatik returned in 2002 with a retooled new trance influenced sound, delivering an album of powerful club anthems titled Nymphomatik. Considered an almost perfect “future-pop” album by critics, Nymphomatik brought even more hits to the band's discography, with anthems like “A Matter of Time” and “Flesh Menagerie” popping up in setlists around the world. In 2005 they released yet another amazing dance album Re:Vision, a collection of new material as well as redesigned versions of some of their older hits from Nymphomatik and Syntax. An all new live show was assembled to begin promoting their upcoming release and the band co-headlined numerous US festivals as well as doing a string of live appearances to support Re:Vision. In 2008 Informatik returned with a new album Beyond, their most unique and genre-defying work to date. Taking their signature sound in a new rock oriented direction, Da5id and Tyler released an album that set about changing the listener's expectation of the “Informatik sound.” Featuring guitar driven dark melodies and soulful lyrics, Beyond delivered powerful electronic arena rock anthems such as “It Always Ends The Same” and “Nothing Greater” alongside the infectious beats of “Temporary” and “Louder Than Words.” To help promote the release of Beyond, the band created a community driven remix contest, resulting in a maxi single of “Temporary” / “My True Love,” remixed by both veteran acts and newcomers alike. Issued by the band for free, the album has been downloaded several thousand times to date. Continuing to explore their new "electronic arena rock" style, Informatik returns in 2009 with their latest album Arena. Without question the bands finest work to date, Arena offers truly stadium sized songs such as “Night and Day [Arena Mix]” and “The World Belongs To Us [Live at Budokan Mix]” while offering their latest club hit on “Falling.” A single and video for the lead track “Come Together” will be released in advance of Arena, showcasing the bands incredible production style and offering even more club ready hits. A new live tour is under preparation to support Arena and Beyond...don't miss it!
Movie Review - Inglourious Basterds By Sheryl D
This weekend I was one of the many who went to see Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds." The movie begins in the idyllic French countryside at the home of a dairy farmer and his three daughters. Down the country road rumble the Nazi soldiers led by the much dreaded Col. Hans 'Jew Hunter' Landa (a terrific Christoph Waltz). Landa believes the farmer is illegally harboring the Jewish Dreyfus family. After a most menacing interview, the poor farmer tearfully points to the floor where the family is hiding. The Nazi soldiers riddle the floor with bullets, but the young daughter, Shosanna Dreyfus, crawls out from under the house and begins to run. The startled girl is shaken and covered in blood, but she runs for her life across the countryside. Landa runs out of the house and looks like he has a shot at her, but lets her go with a smirk and a smile. The antithesis to the Nazis, are the "Basterds," a group of Nazi-scalping soldiers led by the charismatic Lt. Aldo Raine (a very funny Brad Pitt). The "Basterds" were assembled to create an atmosphere of terror throughout the Third Reich. They scalp all of their kills and carve a swastika in the head of the few they let free. Basically, a violent group of warriors that take tremendous pride in, and receive tremendous pleasure from, their work.
Through a magical twist of fate the "Basterds," a now adult Shosanna Dreyfus, and every major Nazi officer-including Hitler and the dreaded 'Jew Hunter'-cross paths at an illustrious movie premiere. The events that unfold are truly explosive and surprising. This movie is typical Tarantino with a lot of humor, bloodshed and jaw-dropping shockers. To me, it isn't as brilliant as "Pulp Fiction," but it's pretty damn close. There are many parts that are astonishingly wonderful and they all contain either Brad Pitt or Christoph Waltz. These two actors carry this movie and the excellent part is they have very little screen time together. When they finally do, the payoff is a feast for the eyes. I'm not usually a fan of Brad Pitt, but I honestly believe this to be some of his best work. He really embodies the role, which makes it a joy to watch. Unfortunately, along with the positives of typical Tarantino, there are also the negatives. Many scenes drag on far too long, which wreaked havoc on my two-second attention span. If Mr. Tarantino could've cut down on the grandiose prose just a tiny bit, the movie would have been that much tighter and that much more pleasurable to watch. In addition, the majority of the movie is spoken in French or German, which means you have to read over 50% of the film. My eyes were exhausted by the ending credits. Bottom line: Not as great as "Pulp Fiction," but pretty damn close. Excellent performances by Christoph Waltz and Brad Pitt.