One Of The Worst Parts Of Current Internet Culture Is That It Makes Good Old Fashioned Complaining So

hello phantom heads

There's something about seventies horror that reminds me of live theatre, actually. The sets and costumes are often cheap, and when it comes to period pieces, more 'inspired by' than accurate; the makeup is big and visible; even when the effects are really good, the blood is usually unnaturally red. The acting tends toward the broad and stagey.

And yet, it's also clear that realism is not the goal. Rather, the movie works to draw you in to a unified fiction, to get you to share in its nightmare. The best seventies horror I've seen has a dreamlike, Vaseline-lensed quality, a sense that it doesn't matter whether or not everything that happens in the movie is likely or even possible in real life. We've stepped outside of real life into a self-contained bubble with its own logic and its own sense, a dark fairy tale where the corpses of young girls might transmute into hares or eternally hungry floating heads, or the night of All Hallows might summon a stalking, unkillable masked evil from the past, or a ballet studio might be entirely controlled by witches. Even the lowest-budget, most exploitative Hammer flicks don't escape the touch of that dreaminess, that velvety, enfolding unreality. The movie suggests a world, and we, if we are wise, gladly succumb to the power of that suggestion.

Stayed up making some Amtgard kris/flame-blade boffer concepts last night for my Faustian bard... also trying to find a way to make a strike-legal lute or a similar instrument but i'm floundering :V

also a rough schematic with measurements

(i can't place why but for some reason i have a gut feeling that this is somehow not going to work the way i intend it to)

UPDATE update: coughing fits worsened. went to the hospital. got a chest x-ray, no sign of pneumonia. been put on antibiotics, so that's good at least. but now everything's pitched UP a few cents and tone quality is affected whereas it wasn't before, everything on my right has gone from being muffled to sounding like a shitty bitcrushed mp3 >:'D

been in zombie mode for what feels like eons but this is just the rotten egg icing on the sardine cake. at least it's not covid but it is swine flu which is Not Fun Either. everyone else in my family is on the mend

i hate being sick this is driving me nuts CHIRP CHIRP SQUAWK *peck* *peck* CHIRP SQUAWK CHIRP CHIRP *peck* *peck* peck* CHIRP SQUAWK

my family and i have been fighting a nasty bronchial infection for the past week and a half and today i woke up with an earache from sleeping on my side

AND NOW EVERYTHING IN MY RIGHT EAR SOUNDS A HALF-STEP LOWER THAN IT SHOULD BE

i can't listen to music because it sounds exactly like this

like i'm bummed but it's also extremely funny

happy phantom week yall, crazy that the dates won’t line up again till 2030 </3

Just went to see the "remastered" Interstella 5555 at the theater.......... good god the blatant AI upscaling was egregious 😬 i don't think i've ever struggled so hard to enjoy something.

I'm very out of the loop so im curious to know who the hell's decision this was, and whatever happened to the original print? there has to be a better way. i refuse to believe there isn't. to call the product screened tonight a "remaster" or "restoration" is downright silly.

And how ironic is it, that an animated film about a band of artists being exploited at the hands of the evil entertainment industry, uses AI for its re-release?? HELLO????????

Before phantom of the paradise belgium had her own masked 70's hero.

'de kat'

This was a kids show about a guy dressed as a cat who wanted to save the nature in 1973.

You can't find much about these series. Episodes and intro were taken down from youtube because the show itself afther many years can be seen again on tv. Yes i watched some episodes. Their cheesy 70's stuff. We belgian people talked funny back then lol.

:V