The Horror Issue
Hey, Horror Fans
David: I'm not from a movie. I'm dressed as Dragon Knight, a character I created. He's a human that was possessed by the spirit of a dragon. He is a good guy even though he looks bad. Getting rid of everything evil is his purpose in life...
Doomsday Metal
We've been to hell and back for you this month.And by hell, we obviously mean Bergen, the Hole in the Sky festival and the Tsjuder and Taake concerts
Tidbits
SPIDER COCK MANAgain the Japanese get it all wrong. This is a very tickly cock ring with a hundred pointy tentacles that shoot out from the dick at all angles, which implies that women
Electric Independence
One of the coolest things about Francisco's new Music Business album on Nature-well, the coolest thing by miles, actually-is that the CD and vinyl editions turn into a board game, called Music Business, which is loosely based on Monopoly. The object of...
Theatre Restaurant Hell
There are three theatre restaurants that we are aware of in Melbourne: Witches and Britches, Draculas and Hunchbax. We have always been secretly curious about exactly what happens there so decided that we would check out all three and compare them in...
New Zealand Warriors
Watching Die! Die! Die! live is a bit like drinking ten shots of tequila in a row. It vaguely hurts while you're doing it but ultimately leaves you feeling like superman. They play loud and fast and have a tendency to damage drum kits in the process...
The Grim Rapper
We haven't said a whole lot about Aussie hip hop before, mainly because much of it is truly frightening and we find its obsession with average colloquial humour hard to take. So, when one of the guys who has been in it from the get go, puts out a new...
Keeping Score On The Gore
Dr. Howard C. Adelman is a pathologist who does private consultations for police, private investigators, and local morticians. To a horror-movie fan and true-crime fan, the guy is also a living legend. He was the deputy chief medical inspector at the...
Scare-itable Donations
Last winter, the sausage-curling rerelease of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" raised millions of dollars for charity while also perpetuating the ignorance of the song's original lyrics. Sorry, Sir Bob, but Africa isn't a land where "nothing...
Silver Fox
Dave Berman, a.k.a. the Silver Jews, is the best lyricist in rock today. That might be because he is also at the top of the heap of the best published poets in America today. His new record, Tanglewood Numbers, features his wife, Cassie, and his...