gary oldmans diary posted:

knights beat skeletons?

Milo and POTUS posted:

The Faint weren't THAT bad

Captain Quack posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CHqhsMP80E

Loden Taylor posted:

Music trivia: the notes in the solo violin at 0:25 aren't only meant to be a jarring effect - they have a narrative function as well. The piece has its roots in an old French superstition that on Halloween, Death plays his fiddle to call forth the dead to dance for him. The top two strings on a violin are tuned to A and E. The notes being played here are A and E-flat, forming an interval called a tritone, also referred to in early Western music as "the Devil in music." Traditional orchestral performance practice is to actually drop your E string down to E-flat to play the piece, and any other notes you'd usually play on the E string are played on other strings. The effect created is that of Death warming up and tuning his unholy, corrupted fiddle before beginning the dance.

SardonicTyrant posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8FHSNIc3wI

SamBishop posted:

They were great, that whole album is super catchy.

Obeah posted:

So when I worked in the publishing industry, I got to hang out and drink with Joe Hill (son of Stephen King) for several hours at a work event. He was a very cool guy, a little weirdly classist in an unknowing, almost charming kind of way - we ended up in a real shithole in the wall place - and obviously not the kind of person to bring up who his dad is. But of course, I get to talking about daddy issue war stories, and he offers up a little something that forever changed the way I look at King's writing style (well, mostly his works in the '80s). Apparently, Stephen King's book "Danse Macabre" left out some pretty vital parts of King's "influences".

So it's no secret now that the man was hopped up on all sorts of poo poo through a good portion of his career. And he'd have terrible bouts of anger and paranoid behavior and just... things that outsiders would probably write off as eccentricities but were, in fact, both terrifying and mystifying.

Throughout the duration of his writing the novel It, he would get up every morning between 3:00am and 5:00am, go into the kitchen, take out the ice cube tray, take it out to his car, and return the tray to the freezer sometime after dawn. He'd then go back to bed, wake up around noon, and before starting writing or whatever the gently caress he was doing on that given day, would sit outside sipping ice cold root beer. He'd just sort of sit and stare down into his drink, slowly watching the cubes melt. He'd do this for a few hours, and it was probably the most sober Joe ever saw him during this time period.

I sort of gave him some variant of the "yeah, dads are weird" response, but frankly, I didn't get it. Two hours later on the drive home, my naivete/drunkeness wore off just enough for me to fully realize what King had been up to. Can't think of any King book/movie/whatever without stifling a guffaw anymore.

And bizarrely enough, not long after, a certain famous someone popped up in the news with the same. loving. habit:

Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

veiled ante meridian garage minibender

Les Os posted:

DeadFatDuckFat posted:

Yeah he fillin the ice tray with clear booze

oh but seriously I posted:

Denise Macabre is so close to being something but it is not quite there. I suppose you could be Dan Macabre.

CannonFodder posted:

But vodka stays liquid in the freezer.

SamBishop posted:

They were great, that whole album is super catchy.

SardonicTyrant posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8FHSNIc3wI