I'm very excited to announce that my stage show is once again taking bookings!
Turns out I missed it so damn much I decided that it need a place once more in my life ... the act consists of traditional burlesque mixed with LOTS of gore and special FX. There are plans to expand the show with an additional person who I don't want to name yet BUT the thought of merging our two acts makes me get up in the morning with a new lust for life! This is going to be seven kinds of epic and should start taking shape at the end of this month. (!!!)
I shall keep you posted.
In other news ... The film RATLINE (that I've been going about for awhile) is drawing to close with its edit. The director, Eric Stanze, just let me watch the ending and I'm SO happy with it!!! This might be the greatest film project I've ever had my name attached to and I can't wait to share it with everyone :)
After last cut is made we'll start looking into distributor options ....
One piece is definately fun :) also naruto and naruto shipuuden, bleach, Katekyo hitman reborn, setokai yakuin domo, serial experiments lain, elfen leid, hellsing, black blood brothers, densetsu no yuusha no densetsu, nurarihyon no mago, highschool of the dead, black lagoon.
There's loads more, but those are some of my favourites :)
Just a line-up change to tell you about. The Bin Raiders accidentally locked themselves in a skip out the back of Nettos while scavenging for old meat and can't make it. However help has arrived in the place of the incredible Graveonettes who are going to be playing one of their only London shows before returning to Brazil. It takes some bravery for Brazilians to come down to Stockwell so turn up early to give them your support! Barring any unforeseen nonsense, Dead Existence, Flowers of Flesh and Blood
definitely all the times ive gone to gwar here in the states. i still think their best tour was the beyond hell tour. also, definitely jealous of anyone whos seen them way back in the day when they would eat people and shit like that. you know its a good show when you and your girlfriend get into a fight, shower together afterwords, and die laughing cause each others naughty bits are covered in blood, jizz, and bile. <3 gwar
Without sounding like a nazi, you seem to actually be talking about anime as opposed to manga, but ho hum.
I'm a massive fan of Bleach, Naruto, samurai shamploo, cowboy bebop, elfen lied, full meat alchemist (both series), Tenjo Tenge, Ghost in the Shell (films and series), blood the last vampire, tokyo majin gakuen kampunchou, death note, fooly cooly, all thing studio gibli.
Kinda stopped watching anime though, just read manga...
We're putting an awesome show together for Saturday 11th September at the Grosvenor in Stockwell SW9 0TP. Dead Existence, Eddy Slovik (fr), Flowers Of Flesh And Blood, Bin Raiders and more tbc will be playing, plus we have a load of extra random nonsense planned, including a Best Dressed Terrorist fancy dress competition (with prize) so get your costumes sorted out! 7:30 - midnight,
Recent scary-lovely Swedish flick Let the Right One In is proof that Twilight can't drain all the magnetism out of vampires. And it adheres to a basic vampire principle by breaking sexual taboos beautifully.
Vampires are the sexpots of the undead. Zombies are usually too blood-dribbly and rotted to be players. And ghosts are, well, insubstantial. Which leaves us with vampires, who are permanently young, beautiful, and possess a fierce need to suck things. How could they not be the poster-children for weird sex after death?
Of course, vampires rarely have sex as we know it. Often their only outlet is blood sucking, which leaves them free to form erotic relationships that don't exactly fit the nuclear family mold.
Let the Right One In is the story of a 12-year-old boy named Oskar who falls in love with his mysterious neighbor, the wide-eyed, tragic, manipulative girl-boy Eli (she looks girlish but says she's not a girl). As the film unfolds, we discover that Eli was first drawn to Oskar when she saw him stabbing a tree with a knife, playacting a Columbine solution to his problems with the school bullies. She senses that his imagination is as blood-drenched as her reality, in which she has to kill people and drink their blood to survive.
As they grow closer and share secrets, the taboo aspects of their relationship begin to outweigh the innocent ones. Eli admits she's been 12 years old for "a really long time," and crawls in bed naked with Oskar one night after a particularly harrowing death scene. Given that she's perhaps hundreds of years old, her relationship with Oskar seems a little, well, pedophilic.
And Eli isn't exactly the first eroticized little girl whose vampire antics broadcast a sexual uneasiness. In the novel and movie Interview with the Vampire, our two main characters Louis and Lestat decide to have a preternatural child and turn a gorgeous little girl named Claudia into a vampire like themselves. Everything is great until she's the mental age of an adult and realizes that she'll be trapped in a little girl body forever.
In the Anne Rice novel, which takes place partly during the nineteenth century, Claudia uses her girlish looks to attract men who are looking to buy a little pederasty for the night. She plays into the Victorian appetite for young girls, and thus assures herself a steady supply of blood. But she never actually has sex with these men, or anyone for that matter. Rice's vampires are chaste, though we are given to understand that the act of drinking blood provides a kind of sexual thrill for them. (Which makes it even weirder when Lestat converts his mother into a vampire in a moment of chompy excitement in sequel The Vampire Lestat.)
Rice may shy away from overtly dealing with the sexual implications of her child vampires, but Octavia Butler tackles them head-on in her last novel Fledgling. It's the tale of a 50-something vampire named Shori who has adult desires, but is still in the body of a child (she will eventually grow up, but vampires age much more slowly than humans). To survive, she creates a human "family" of lovers - male and female, all adult - who dote on her because when she drinks their blood she releases some kind of chemical that causes intense pleasure. She feeds a little on each lover from night to night, never drinking enough to harm them, but needing all of them to maintain a steady blood supply.
And she also has sex with them. Shori's first lover is a man who understands what she is, but still finds it difficult to reconcile their adult lovemaking and her child's body. Later, she teaches a middle-aged, bookish woman to accept her latent lesbian desires. Though Fledgling was intended as the first in a series of novels, tragically Butler died after finishing it. So we never get to see Shori grow into an adult body.
Where did all this sexual rule-breaking come from? Certainly Bram Stoker's late-19th century bestseller Dracula helped. He took legends of blood-sucking beasts, mixed them with a little Transylvanian history, and created a mesmerizing creature who drained British ladies of their blood and turned them into wantons. Cinematic versions of Dracula have played up the erotic side of this story, casting gorgeous men and lovely ladies with blood-red lips and strange desires.
And as cult moves like the 1971 Vampiros Lesbos make clear, there's always been room for a little same-sex dalliance in vampire tales - back in the days before gay marriage made homosex wholesome. There are plenty of gay vamps in Anne Rice, and Poppy Z. Brite's early-1990s Lost Souls is packed with gothy clubster vamps who love their gender-bendy homoeroticism. Dozens of other writers and filmmakers have played with the idea that vampires' otherworldly needs make them hunger for men and women indiscriminately.
You can see the apotheosis of this idea in the HBO series True Blood, based on a series of novels about the adventures of a psychic detective and her vampire lover who died during the Civil War. Though the show may be corny at times, and the whole vampire rights/gay rights subplot is clumsy at best, it's still red-hot sexy. There's gay vampire action, plus straight vampires having sex and sucking blood at the same time in a graveyard. I dare you to watch main character Sookie in her see-through nightgown being sucked on by loverboy Bill, without getting a little fanged out yourself.
Whether vampires actually have sex or merely exchange bodily fluids, they always seem to star in tales about sexual desire that oversteps the boundaries of the conventional. Sure there are exceptions - who wants to pork the dudes in 30 Days of Night? But most vampires leave us with lingering questions about our own perverse erotic wishes. Do those wishes make us monsters? Or do we only become monsters when our desires are repressed and twisted into something horrifying?
As some of you know I love to gore-ify unsuspecting dollies. My Spousemonkey, Gordon, and I have come to enjoy animating some of the dolls and mannequins I make. We do this for music videos and our own short films and such. One day we decided to make a show with my mannequins Nigel and Katie. After a bit we decided to call it The Corpse O' Clock News.
The story is as follows: Katie and Nigel were News Casters on the planet known as Earth. They were Evil Bastard People who were more than happy to hurt and maim others on their way up the ladder of success. They both wanted to be News Anchor at their respective stations. (erm...insert story of some fatal disaster that resiults in the demise of Katie and Nigel here...) So since they were both Evil Bastard People in life, they were sent straight to Hell doomed to forever report the news from Satan's Closet- a rarely mentioned layer of Hell. This is the 8th episode and the show is still rough...hahaa! We are trying to get better and better with each episode. This one features an interview with Robert "Corpsy" Rhine- Deaditor-In-Chief of "Girls and Corpses Magazine".
I know- I haven't been here in almost a year....life has kept me busy. But hello to anyone who happens to stumble upon this in a late night drunken stupor...
I have a little time to post some stuff I've done recently- something I am happy to have had the opportunity to do. Work has been slow lately so I've been babysitting 2 neighborhood children. Both of them love zombies and comics- really cool kids. I try and come up with ways to entertain the two of them. One day I was telling them about how movies are made and they were really into it...hahaa! Eventually they wanted me to make them into zombies -which is cool! It allows me to practice making wounds of rot on humans instead of dolls for a change. Luckily, when I asked their parents for permission to make their kids into rotting zombies they were perfectly fine with the idea! hahaa! And yes- I have their permission to post the pictures.
The little boy is 3 years old and is very energetic...which is normal. So he wouldn't stay still but all of his squirming resulted in some pretty interesting pictures. I told his mom I want to try again when I could dedicate more time to the makeup.
The little girl just turned 7 and she is BRILLIANT! Such a cool kid...and very intelligent. If my Spousemonkey and I ever make a zombie movie I would cast her in a heartbeat! I barely had to coach her- I said- "Make the angry zombie face." and she would make the coolest expressions! She had a lot of fun. I had to limit her makeup because her mom didn't want it in her hair- she had a low hair line so I kept it simple. But I think that even if Greg Nicotero did her makeup, he'd be upstaged by her facial expressions! hahaa!
