Apropos the discussion of scary music on last night’s Lollards (I will try and find time to give Coil the longer post it probably deserves), here’s a track by fairly obscure late 90s “imaginary soundtrack” dudes Cinema, called “They Nicknamed Me Evil”. What strikes me about this – which I think I reviewed favourably back in the NYLPM days – is how the band pile on almost every possible spooky or eerie soundtrack trick. But is the actual finished result at all scarifying? Judge for yourself – I think the vocals help a lot, even if they can’t push it from creepy to frightening.
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(And why are pianos so spooky anyway?)
Tom in FT • No Comments
Here’s a couple of food science-y items recently brought to my attention.
Firstly – the hygiene issues surrounding ‘communal dipping’. I’m sure everyone is pretty familiar with this practice, unless you live in a cave or something. This New York Times article deals with a study about bacteria levels in dip, with what to me seem quite obvious results – that dipping the same chip twice into a pot of shared dip = more bacteria, although the article seems surprised by this result. The scientist’s general conclusion – do not eat dip at parties unless you’d also be willing to kiss everyone else there, as it (bacterially speaking) adds up to the same thing, a conclusion that makes me feel vaguely paranoid – what if everyone finds out about this study? I foresee situations at parties where eating dip is seen as a come-on, ie if you’re happy to eat the dip, you’re also happy getting off with whoever else is ‘dipping’.
Secondly – a food science challenge! The problem posed is
Can you find three foods such that all three do not go together (by any reasonable definition of foods “going together”) but every pair of them does go together?
(There’s more instructions and explanation under the link)
Anyone got any solutions?
There’s also some interesting possibilities for food science experiments, personally I’d love to see what Lemon Mole tastes like.
UPDATE: This resource could also be handy here.
(all via kottke.org)
Alix in Pumpkin Publog • 4 Comments
Time to raise the stakes here on Freaky Trigger — before plunging them deep into your hearts — and get into some stuff that even Marilyn Manson might think twice about. Dir en Grey is a — what, thrashcore? — band from Japan who produce some of the most disturbing music videos in the world. There’s some real nightmare material here, so be warned. I managed to avoid some of the worst parts by being confused about which subtitles I should be reading.
Again, until I get the embedding thing going, you’ll have to follow this link to see the video for “Saku” by Dir en Grey.
Elisha Sessions in Do You See /FT • 1 Comment
In this run-up to the horror of post-Shrove Tuesday life, when we will all be down to fruit juice and morsels of pre-digested tofu — what do you mean, you don’t know what I’m talking about? — it is SCARY VIDEO time here at the Trigger of Freaks. First up is a filmic accompaniment to the best album the Rolling Stones ever recorded — Undercover of the Night. The song? “Too Much Blood”. I leave it as an excercise for the reader to determine precisely why this video is scary. Is it the violence of the modern news media? Keith Richards’ jack-o-lantern grin? What scares me most is how cavalierly our “actress” wastes a perfectly good bloody mary.
WordPress keeps removing the video when I embed it so until I get that sorted out you can see the “Too Much Blood” video here.
Elisha Sessions in Do You See /FT • No Comments