golden dawn/what to watch
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So a while back my friend Peter, a very talented dude, asked if i had some material he could use for a video. After some intense trial and error I finally got around to recording a couple things and this is the result. I was amazed at the video and how well it matched the track. There are more amazing videos by Peter set to tracks from local artists available here. As for the track, it was my first time actually writing a song and also recording myself via tape, zapping it into the computer, and editing it digitally. I wish I had used a better editing program than Audacity, but over all I am kind of proud following through on something and getting to enjoy the results of some creative collaborations. I need to do that more often, cause its totally worth it!
Aside from enjoying the sunshine and spring breeziness, I've been digesting more films, mostly searching out the weirdest stuff I can find. I think I am falling back in love with Italian films, which can simulaneously be beautiful, highly dramatic, artistically indulgent, and extremely fucked up/weird/sexual.
ELIO PETRI - A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY/UN TRANQUILLO POSTO DI CAMPAG (1969)
Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero star in this psychological thriller/horror about a paranoid and temperamental artist who rents out a big old house in the country and goes insane. I wish I had better screen caps of my favourite scenes, but the film goes back and fourth between what Leonardo, the artist, imagines and hallucinates and what is really happening. Things becomes very blurred the further into his obsession with the ghost of a beautiful girl he discovered died in the house excels. Love the dreams/neurotic fantasy's and Leonardo's obsession with dirty magazines and his exploitative yet nonchalant molestation of his young housemaid. Also Ennio Morriconne does the soundtrack. There is also a good level of creepiness.
JOE D'AMATO - BEYOND THE DARKNESS/BUIO OMEGA (1970)
Beyond the gore-rific masterpieces of Dario Argento, I had yet to venture much further into Italian horror films, however this one came highly recommended. Another exploitation/horror film, this one centres on a handsome male orphan whose hobby is taxidermy. After he looses his sick girlfriend due to the jealousy of his creepy maid by way of voodoo doll, the distraught man decides to dig her up and stuff her as a romantic keepsake (awwwwww!). The embalming scenes are extremely graphic and disgusting. There is more insane murders at the hand of this psychotic weirdo, whose aided by his maid. Like many Argento films, this one is completely scored by Italian prog rockers Goblin.
And just for fun.....
ROBERT CARAMICO - SEX RITUALS OF THE OCCULT (1970)
I initially decided to watch this because it was supposed to be a documentary, but turned out to mostly a soft-core pornographic reenactment of so-called occult sex rituals, which starts off with an orgiastic black mass coffin sex scene. What makes this film though is definitely the narrator, a swarthy dude named Steve Vincent, who is supposed to be some kind of occult researcher/expert.
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Also CONGRATULATIONS TO ME, CAUSE I AM FINALLY GONNA GET MY DEGREE AND BE DONE SCHOOL FOREVER!! (but probably not).