Meryl Streep, the winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, attends the "Princesa De Asturias" Awards 2023 ceremony at Teatro Campoamor on October 20, 2023, in Asturias, Spain.
Live Review: Hey Colossus / Teeth Of The Sea at The White Hotel in Salford 20 October 2023
Words: Ben Forrester
It’s been 20 years since the formation of London based alt-rock outfit Hey Colossus and to commemorate the occasion, the sextet have just released their fourteenth (!) album and are playing a bunch of celebratory shows. Tonight we are at The White Hotel in foggy Salford to see the band play a co-headline show with fellow Rocket Recordings alumni Teeth Of the Sea.
As I race…
i didn't expect renfield to be a good movie, but i thought it would at least be fun. instead i noped out before the half hour mark because it was just. it was so bad. the whole beginning of the movie was one step sideways of *record scratch* "yup... that's me. guess you're probably wondering how i got into this situation." not even a step up. sideways.
then the whole thing leans so hard and heavy on the idea of renfield being in an abusive relationship with dracula, except it's a punchline. if they'd made it even a little subtle maybe there's a way to make that work but they're not. they're going so hard on it. they're taking a handbook on recognizing abusive relationships and putting the words in dracula and renfield's mouths in a way that ends up feeling pretty offensive.
by the time we get to the part that introduces the one good cop being stymied by the evil bureaucracy always siding with criminals pretending to be traumatized, it was like. nicholas cage cannot salvage this. i would rather watch a three hour youtube video about meme stock cults actually, bye.
Kloktober 2023, Day 20: Self-Insert / Original Character - I wrote an OC called Wanda into a Metalocalypse story I wrote for Hearts & Guts 2010 (anyone else part of the Brutal Business community [for Charles/Nathan shippers] back in the day via LiveJournal? Just me, then?). All of my OCs/self inserts these days are thinly veiled attempts to hook up/work with various band members/managers, which is probably more fun for me than anyone else, so I will probably keep them private (ssshh).
“You’ll have to fail, sometime you’ll even have to lose everything to be able to learn. And to know if you’ve learned anything at all, you’ll have to always start anew.
To see if you’d still lead yourself to the same outcome as before.”