We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 495

 stand-out viewing for the reanimated jizz-rag that was September.

(August)

CELLAR DWELLER (1987, dir. John Carl Buechler)

Art School Confidential meets Pumpkinhead. 

CENSOR (2021, dir. Prano Bailey-Bond)

didn't quite love this as much as others, but there's promise in the creators. 

CLIMATE OF HUNTER (2019, dir. Mickey Reece)

what i wish Peter Strickland's movies were like. 

DEVIL STORY (1986, dir. Bernard Launois) 

if Louis Bunuel made Violent Shit. 

IN THE EARTH (2021, dir. Ben Wheatley)

you can go home again. 

LYDIA LUNCH: THE WAR IS NEVER OVER (2019, dir. Beth B) 

both a catch-up and an indroduction. 

MIDNIGHT (1982, dir. John A Russo) 

a kitchen sink cult bash. 

PSYCHO SISTERS (1994, dir. Pete Jacelone) 

W.A.V.E. of Mutilation 

SOUND AND FURY (1988, dir. Jean Claude Brisseau)

delinquart. 

VIOLATION (2020, dir. Dusty Mancinelli, Madeline Sims-Fewer) 

getting those Simon Rumley vibes on this one. 

Awwwww Yeah vol. 233

 I think you're a lonely person. I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you. And I see all these phones and all this stuff on your desk. It means nothing. Then when I came inside and I met you, I saw in your eyes and I saw the way you carried yourself that you're not a happy person. And I think you need something. And if you want to call it a friend, you can call it a friend.

What's for Lydia Lunch?

AHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Richard Spencer Loves White People Who Make Stuff. His Family Takes Handouts.

Books... are FUN vol. 23

 

Interview:
Lars Nilsen,
author,
​Kier-La Janisse,
editor,
"Warped and Faded:
​Weird Wednesday and the Birth of The American Genre Film Archive"

Negation Aspiration vol. 306

 

Hollywood’s Curious 4Chan Connection

A legal battle over a 'Stranger Things' drive-in event has revealed Hollywood's business dealings with a Japanese merchandise company that has anime roots, sells sexually suggestive dolls and partially owns an alt-right social media hub.

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 21

 A woman being sexually assaulted on a Key West street thought another man who suddenly appeared was about to rescue her — but instead he took her to a city landmark and attacked her again, police said.

She thought a man was rescuing her in Key West. But she was attacked again, police say

#gorenoise vol. 118 / Awwww Yeah vol. 233

 

Mom and Daughter Killed Adult Film Actress With Backyard Butt Implants, Cops Say

#gorenoise vol. 117

 

Florida man, 76, is jailed for performing botched CASTRATION on a man he met on eunuch fetish website - after officers found victim's testicles in a jar on a bedside table

Negation Aspiration vol. 305

 

A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say

Toxic microbial blooms thrived during the Great Dying, the most severe extinction in Earth's history, and they are proliferating again due to human activity.

Books.... are FUN vol. 22

 

Mine for Yours: DC’s Blog is a Lit Community

#gorenoise vol. 116

 Police say leaked videos show the abuse had been going on for at least three months in the largest and oldest public hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. It is unclear why the alleged torture was filmed. Police suspect it may have been filmed for entertainment purposes or for record-keeping. 

Police Uncover Secret Torture Room in Hospital

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 20 / U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 354

 I think of what I like to call The Barabbas Effect, so named after Jesus Barabbas. The crowd at the crucifixion was given the choice as to whether Pontius Pilate should release Jesus Christ or Jesus Barabbas. They resoundingly chose Barabbas.

The thing is, Barabbas was a motherfucker. Killing, raping, robbing people. I always envision him buoyed by the excitement of the crowd and shocked at narrowly avoiding death kind of snapping back to reality and planning his next moves. Moves that almost immediately I would hope, would involve killing, raping and robbing the people who had set him free.

A Whiter Shade of Murder

A love affair with anti-humanists leads to one conclusion: fairness is for fairytales.

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 353

 

‘Worst I’ve seen in 20 years’: How the Epik hack reveals every secret the far-right tried to hide

'They are fully compromised end-to-end.'

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 19

 

Robert Durst convicted: US millionaire found guilty of first-degree murder

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 5

 

The ivermectin saga exposes the dishonesty of the internet's professional contrarians

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 18

 Mills asked the man to get out of the vehicle and opened his door. The man said as Mills searched him, the officer pulled on his genitals before moving toward his buttocks, according to the report.

“He tries to — he tries to open it, but at that point I’m — I’m tense,” the man said in a deposition. “I’m frozen. ... He puts his whole body against mine, on top of the car, and says in my ear, really close, what are you hiding in your [anus]?”

Florida Cop From Hell Charged Over Nightmare Anal Probe

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 17

 

Sicko known as world’s ‘largest facilitator’ of child porn gets 27 years in prison

#spacedeathmetal vol. 1

 In what may be the gnarliest scientific proposal of the week, researchers have suggested that future Martian bases could be built from bricks made of astronaut blood, sweat, tears, and urine, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Materials Today Bio. 

Scientists Want to Build Mars Bases Out of Human Blood

Books... are FUN vol. 21

 

Please welcome to the world … Dennis Cooper I Wished (Soho Press)

NERRRRRRRRRD! vol. 154

 

Netflix Orders ‘Grendel’ Series Based On Dark Horse Comic

Awwwww Yeah vol. 232

 Chemistry is a private, members-only party, but joining felt as easy as applying to a coworking space: Daisy visited their website, sent an email, filled out a questionnaire, and, when accepted, was added to a newsletter list. Then she waited for the next party date to arrive.

It was on Valentine’s Day. The theme, which Chemistry sets months in advance, was “My Apocalyptic Valentine.” In retrospect, as a respiratory virus loomed, it was foreboding, but in those early months, it was simply funny. Although the Hong Kong office of the international ad agency Daisy works for had closed and its employees were working from home, she felt safe. If people were worried about catching anything, it certainly wasn’t the novel coronavirus. 

Daisy arrived at the party in a warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn, around 11:30 p.m. Projectors displayed wastelands on walls, and biohazard signs abounded. People walked around in plague doctor masks—the European kind with beaks—which they later shed along with their clothes. 

The Sweaty, Sticky, Triumphant Return of Sex Parties

After many long months of everyone being their own safest sex partner, what do sex parties look like now?

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 352 / GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 4

 This effort to turn teachers into informants in a delusional crusade against the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” comes after the Texas legislature passed the new HB3979 law banning the tenets of CRT in schools. Although conservatives have fueled panic over the topic, it is not taught in elementary or middle schools, and many public schools have already been forced to put out statements clarifying that “critical race theory” is a subject taught at the college level.

“It feels like it’s coming from a conservative echo chamber that is not familiar with how public schools operate,” said the middle school teacher. “Our curriculum is packed with literacy, mathematics and test prep. We don’t have time to teach law school level theoretical concepts.”

CRT is an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to critically examine the intersection of race and U.S. law and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice. But in 2020, conservative activists like Christopher Rufo began using the term “critical race theory” publicly to denounce all sorts of anti-racist education efforts. Since then, CRT has become a watchword for fears that children are being “brainwashed” into thinking that all white people are fundamentally racist.

These statements echo claims made by conservative lawmakers about transgender student athletes that have made for splashy headlines. But few proponents have been able to cite specific examples.

Such efforts have caused school board members to resign in frustration across the country, creating a political power vacuum for the most rabid activists to fill. Now with the rise of state-sanctioned anti-abortion bounty-hunting and snitch-sites in Texas, it isn’t just school board officials that are becoming political targets.

Texas Teachers Asked to Snitch on Colleagues Promoting ‘Radical Politics and Weird Theories’

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 16

 “The investigator heard a loud, distinguishable, ‘crunch,’ sound from the area of Newell’s mouth,” an FBI agent wrote in a criminal complaint. “After another minute or two, the investigator heard the same ‘crunch’ again from Newell’s mouth, followed by Newell immediately reaching for and drinking from a cup located on his dresser.”

The next day, armed with a warrant for CT scans of Newell’s abdomen and pelvis, investigators escorted the judge to a nearby hospital. The images taken were described in a medical report cited in the FBI complaint: “18 mm linear possibly metallic foreign body within the small bowel. Diagnosis: Foreign Body Ingestion.”

Maryland 

judge 

accused of 

eating 

evidence 

in child 

porn 

investigation 

reportedly 

kills 

himself

#gorenoise vol. 115 / #truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 15

 “Physical evidence recovered from the residence and inside Gannon’s bedroom supports that a violent event occurred in his bedroom, which caused bloodshed, including blood spatter on the walls, and enough blood loss to stain his mattress, soak through the carpet, the carpet pad, and stain the concrete below his bed,” states the affidavit.

Gannon Stauch Was Shot in Jaw and Stabbed 18 Times, Detective Reveals

Stepmom Letecia Stauch’s DNA was on the handgun that fired the bullet lodged in Gannnon Stauch’s head, a detective testified Thursday.

#gorenoise vol. 114

 

Man Kept Mother’s Mummified Corpse in Cellar so He Could Receive Her Benefits

NYgation Aspiration vol. 911

 At the time, looking, sounding, and acting New York were not necessarily considered key attributes for future mainstream rock stars. If anything, it ought to have been marginalizing: Though New York was home to vibrant hip-hop, house, and experimental music scenes in the 90s, its rock scene was largely incoherent and nationally insignificant. The Strokes, with their commitment to idealizing a gritty past the city was working overtime to shed, seemed poised to become, at best, another local cult act, like Cibo Matto, Blonde Redhead, and King Missile before them. 

But 9/11 changed everything about New York City, including the fortunes of The Strokes. Suddenly, being “so New York it hurts” no longer only had niche appeal. Supporting the city became a national patriotic pastime at the precise moment when the collective trauma of 9/11 sent many in search of the soothing power of nostalgia. In an era otherwise dominated by California nu-metal and pop-punk, suddenly four greasy-haired New Yorkers in tight jeans and leather jackets were one of the biggest rock bands in the world, ushering a new renaissance for the city’s scene by LARPing its iconic past. 

After 9/11, We Wanted the Old NYC. Instead We Got The Strokes.

How a group of greasy-haired rich kids ushered in a renaissance for the New York music scene by LARPing its iconic past.

Awwwwww Yeah vol. 231

 In 2010 at the age of 41, he became Spain's youngest bishop, in Solsona in the north-eastern region of Catalonia.

He has backed so-called conversion therapy for gay people and carried out exorcisms.

It has now emerged in Spanish media that he fell in love with a woman who writes Satanic-tinged erotic fiction.

Spanish bishop quit for love for erotic writer

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 14

A former Kansas elementary-school teacher who took hundreds of “sexually motivated” cellphone pictures of one of his fourth-grade students has been found guilty of reckless stalking.

In an interview with local news outlet KSHB late last year, Antonucci said her daughter let her know as soon as she got in the car that something had “happened” at school that day.

Once home, the 10-year-old dropped a bombshell.

“[Her friends] had been seeing their fourth-grade teacher taking inappropriate pictures of her backside anytime she wasn’t looking, anytime she tied her shoe, anytime she grabbed something at her desk,” Antonucci told KSHB.

“And they had been noticing that behavior for months.”

‘It Makes Me Kind of Scared of Men’: Ex-Teacher Guilty of Stalking 10-Year-Old Student

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 494

 John Gholson’s apt description of Verotika and Death Rider In the House of Vampires’ shared aesthetic: “What if the Spirit Halloween Store was also a strip club?”

DEATH RIDER IN THE HOUSE OF VAMPIRES (And Midnight Movies In 2021)

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 351

 The roots of this testosterone-fueled regression go back to the 1960s as white men grappled to deal with changing gender and racial dynamics in modern society, but cultural and economic changes in recent decades have led many (particularly white) men to feel increasingly displaced and disconnected from their familial and community roles. These aggrieved men and their ire helped fuel the Trump candidacy.

Some of this aggrievement is overblown victimhood, but some of it is legitimate—and justified. In just the last 24 hours, for example, I have seen a Wall Street Journal report on how “The number of men enrolled at two- and four-year colleges has fallen behind women by record levels in a widening education gap across the U.S.”, as well as a tweet from actress Ellen Barkin, asking, “What is the expiration date for cis white males?” (This might elevate Barkin too much, but it’s a timely example of how Hollywood elites are increasingly telling cis white males to GTFO—a development that is stoking resentment.)

Successful and secure adults do not tend to let tweets get under their skin. But men who are increasingly insecure about their place in the world are more prone to give in to their most basic social instincts, which is increasingly reflected in the right-wing political culture.

Toxic Masculinity’s New Target: Your Local School Board

AHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Ex-Trump Aide Jason Miller Detained in Brazil for ‘Anti-Democratic Acts’

NERRRRRRRRRD! vol. 153

 The art in question features Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, riding atop a horse with sword in hand as he threatens caricatures of his political adversaries including ex-President Dilma Rousseff, ex-President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva, ex-Governor and Senator Aécio Neves (who appears to be sniffing cocaine), and ex-president Michel Temer. Two other figures are also represented, one of which may be Minister Dias Toffoli. Bolsonaro's chestplate displays the Brazilian Republic symbol, and the red flags of the opposition are PT's, one of the biggest left-wing parties in Brazil.

Immortal Hulk's Al Ewing Severs Relationship with Joe Bennett Over 'Reprehensible' Illustration

NERRRRRRRRD! vol. 152

 

War, What is It Good For: On Garth Ennis’ The Punisher

Negation Aspiration vol. 304

 There were concerns last night about the well-being of Shannon ‘Daffney’ Spruill. Mick Foley called attention to the matter on Twitter, saying that, “She’s in a bad personal place and is threatening to harm herself” during a disturbing broadcast on Instagram live. Emergency services were said to be contacted and attempting to locate her.

SHIMMER issues statement on the death of Shannon ‘Daffney’ Spruill

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 493

 

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Is the Only Folk Horror Documentary You Ever Need to See

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 492

 

“Cabinet of Curiosities”: Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix Horror Series Will Feature Episodes by Panos Cosmatos, Jennifer Kent and More!

AHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Joe Rogan Says He Has COVID, Treated It With Deworming Medication

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 13

 

20 years after Aaliyah’s death, her story only feels more tragic

R. Kelly groomed Aaliyah in plain sight, and the world let him.

#gorenoise vol. 113

 

Man Tosses His Penis Out of Car Window During Car Chase With Police