I actually flinched when I saw her face, the face of smug chastisement for caring about people's lives, the face of terror.  I flinched, and then had to make art to cope with the fear she struck in my three hearts

Fuck the so-called "Weϟϟt", and marg bar amriKKKa

Album description:

On September 22, 1980, the Iraqi military under the command of Saddam Hussein, unprovoked, supported and heavily armed by the Western and Arab worlds, invaded an economically devastated and militarily weakened Iran following the events of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Through a brutal campaign of violence, terror, and the illicit use of chemical weapons against civilian populations, the Ba'athist dictator sought to quickly conquer his oil-rich neighbor in order to fulfill his nationalist fantasy of becoming the region’s dominant power. Despite facing crippling economic sanctions, a substantial lack of proper military equipment and training, and the world's major powers collaborating against them, the Iranian people retaliated and held their ground throughout one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history and prevented Hussein from taking even one inch of their land.

This album is dedicated to the myriad Iranian soldiers (many of whom were young volunteers) and civilians who lost their lives as a result of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, as well as the countless Kurdish victims of the Al-Anfal genocide. May they rest in peace and remain forever free from the failures of mankind.

Notes:

The title of this release is derived from the moniker used by Iranian forces in reference to the first battle that took place in the city of Khorramshahr / خرمشهر‎. Due to the heavy loss of life sustained by the extreme and brutal violence carried out by the Iraqi army against both Iranian soldiers and civilians alike, the city which was once home to many of Iran's upper class families became known as خونین شهر (transliteration: Khooninshahr), the City of Blood.

In Narrow Graves - The title of this track references a line from the poem " A Poem for War / شعری برای جنگ" by the acclaimed contemporary Iranian poet Qeysar Aminpour / قیصر امین‌پور, whose work is renowned worldwide for its innovative prose and compelling anti-war themes.

Halabja - As implied by its title, this track was inspired by the horrific events that took place on March 16, 1988 in the Kurdish city of Halabja, Iraq during the final days of the Iran-Iraq war. The opening lyrics, "come and see", allude to director Elem Klimov's eponymous masterpiece, which captures the horrors of war with an unsettling and harrowing realism very few filmmakers have been able to achieve.The lyrics "a silent city" are a nod to the stunningly beautiful collaboration album by the legendary Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider, whose title track also serves as a requiem for the events that took place on that dark day in Halabja.  

Song Lyrics: Beyond the filter Of this stifling mask Through the noxious fog Of mustard gas Past the barbed terrain Mined and vast Lies the playground Of blood and ash Where Saddam's dogs Shall breathe their last As we advance And push The bastards back Like choking rats In an iron grasp Their weakened battalions Succumb to Our violent wrath

Bullets burrow through Flesh, skulls, and jaws On gushing wounds Death tears and gnaws Men's intestines suspend From barbed wire Caustic sprays of Machine gun fire We wade through A mire Of guts and limbs In a void absent Virtue or sin Where Western arms And an upper hand Prove futile against A child who would Die for his land

For the innocent Lives consumed By the jaws Of Sarin's fumes With malice We incinerate The cowards and Their puppet state

For our children Burned alive While aboard IR655 Slaughtered by The U.S of lies We send their pawns To their grim demise

Every corpse Adorned with lead Every sundered bone And severed head Every drop of blood That is shed Paves the path to Avenge our dead

Blood demands blood

Alone, against the world We stand And vanquish all Who invade our land

Through a hail Of grenades and scuds We reclaim The City of Blood

The West And their puppet Saddam Are no match For Mother Iran

By the blood of پارس خلیج فارس Forever ours  

Two movies tonight!  Returning to John Carpenter land with The Fog (1980), followed by dark comedy / milfs ¿rock? film Death Becomes Her (1992)!  We will will start P R O M P T L Y at 4:30PM Eastern US time.

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The Fog (1980)

A small town in California experiences strange happenings as a terrifying fog rolls in from the sea. 90 minutes long.

Content Warnings for The Fog (1980)*

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/31058

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/7366

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080749/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/bPPNtfHMzgesRP53WA3AhD

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Bruce Willis is not an action hero and is inexplicably irresistibly sexy to Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn.  Also featuring Isabella Rossellini being confusingly enchanting. The former 2 fight over him and in their fight seek immortal youth and beauty.  The perils of immortality and the pursuit of eternal beauty/youth will be on full display, as well as universally important philosophical questions such as "If I have to be the personal attendant and sex toy of 2 banging undead milfs forever, is eternal life even worth living?" 104 minutes

Content Warnings for Death Becomes Her (1992)*

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/16708

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/3839

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/oHq4CxBHzbznx8Ut5t5Xms

Just one movie tonight as I have become a busy busy bee!  Returning to John Carpenter land with Village of the Damned (1995)!  We will will start P R O M P T L Y at 6:00PM Eastern US time.

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Village of the Damned (1995)

A story about a bunch of strange children being born in a village and then doing terrible things to everyone with their supernatural powers.  “It is based on the 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. The 1995 version is set in Northern California, whereas the book and original film are both set in England. The 1995 film was marketed with the tagline, "Beware the Children".

The film received negative reviews from critics and failed at the box office upon release. This was Reeve's last theatrically released film before he was paralyzed in an equestrian accident in May 1995.”

Content Warnings for Village of the Damned (1995)*

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12513

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/9621

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114852/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/mzdteCUtE5UhqpqoQc6UsW

Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movie: Surreal nightmarish silent film Begotten (1989) at 6:30PM Eastern US Time

Just one movie tonight as I have become a busy busy bee!  It’s only 72 minutes long.  We will will start P R O M P T L Y at 6:30PM Eastern US time.

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 Begotten (1989)

“Begotten is an experimental 1989 American film written and directed by E. Elias Merhige. It stars the largely unknown actors Brian Salzburg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry and members of Merhige's theatre company Theatreofmaterial. Its unconventional narrative depicts the suicide of a godlike figure and the births of Mother Earth and the Son of Earth, who undertake a journey across a dying world. Merhige directed two short film sequels: 2006's Din of Celestial Birds and 2022's Polia & Blastema: A Cosmic Opera.

Merhige conceived the film as a dance piece for experimental theatre. Inspired by documentary footage of the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, he decided on a full-length film. Begotten has a gritty visual style, intended to give the impression of damaged film stock which has been degraded through time and wear. As with the Hiroshima footage, Begotten is silent. After completion, Merhige spent two years trying to find a distributor. It debuted at the Montreal World Film Festival and later screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, with the film critics Tom Luddy and Peter Scarlet in attendance. The two brought it to the attention of the critic Susan Sontag, whose enthusiastic praise was instrumental to its eventual release. It was ignored by most mainstream critics and the few reviews were polarized.

Begotten is infused with multiple mystic and religious themes. Critics have debated if it reflects popular attitudes towards the origins of life and religion at the time of its production and portrays creation through the mythic and religious traditions. Some writers have interpreted the film as an examination of the cycle of life and mankind's relationship with nature. Other themes include the Nietzschean view of order and chaos, societal norms and the perception of reality.

I couldn’t find the sequels so while they are short, we won’t be watching them.

More from Wikipedia: “Begotten is shot in a dark, grungy and visceral style. Distorted perspectives and degraded image quality were used to evoke an ancient and otherworldly atmosphere.[38][39] The film has been described as "a cinematic Rorschach test of grotesque, imagery" and "a feature-length fever dream".[40][41] Merhige was interested in crafting imagery through analog format[14] and sought a decayed look that the footage had been damaged through time and wear.[42] He said:

   I wanted Begotten to look, not as if it were from the twenties, not even as if it were from the nineteenth century, but as if it were from the time of Christ, as if it were a cinematic Dead Sea Scroll that had been buried in the sands, a remnant of a culture with customs and rites that no longer apply to this culture, yet are somewhere underneath it, under the surface of what we call "reality."[43][44]”

Tith mentioned this one looks like the synthesis of both our Death and Dismemberment styles — Gory (me) and spiritually unsettling (her).  I think (hope) we’re in for a treat, and my apologies in advance if the film fails to deliver and double apologies if it does!

The imagery looked spooky and haunting which is what got my attention.  The images looked very unsettling, frightening, and disturbing to behold.  I’m expecting this one to be gnarly.

Content Warnings for Begotten (1989)

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15807

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/2058

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101420/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie:  https://tankie.tube/w/28Bvg91dmbPh4BXK1httxB

This is from Smiling Friends S01E01. I think the character's name is Allan. I think this would go well with beanis-on-the-cross.

Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movie: Halloween Counteroffensive against Christmas Edition, at 4PM Eastern US Time  (Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness)

The timeline is going to be very tight so in order to not cut into the evening time I will try to be actually very punctual and regimented.  We’ll only have time for Erika’s brilliant pee break song (https://tankie.tube/w/1GEpTVKWpxrzsmpui2pXEg) in between the movies

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That’s right, we’re doing horror comedy instead of Christmas, because I can’t show my favorite Christmas movie (In Bruges) again so soon.

First up is Evil Dead II (1987) at 4:00PM Eastern Standard US Time.  It is a remake of Evil Dead and is considered much better.  It is 1h24m minutes long.  I have been assured this is a comedy, which is cool because I find the poster for it very unsettling and creepy.

Second will be the sequel, Army of Darkness (1992) at about 5:48PM Eastern US Time.  This is the director’s cut, and is 1h36m long. This gives us a total of 3 hours and 5 minutes (the 5 minutes for piss break), ending at 8:05PM Eastern US Time.

 Evil Dead II (1987)

“A man vacations with his girlfriend to a remote cabin in the woods. He discovers an audio tape of recitations from a book of ancient texts, and when the recording is played, it unleashes a number of demons which possess and torment him. “

Content Warnings for Evil Dead II (1987)

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/9524

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/4168

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/6ametnVrS2SXbqLpa3y1Sk

Army of Darkness (1922)

The sequel to Evil Dead II: “it follows Ash Williams (Campbell) as he is trapped in the Middle Ages and battles the undead in his quest to return to the present.”

Content Warnings for Army of Darkness (1922)

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/14542

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/1335

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie:  https://tankie.tube/w/wS5KE9zPhR81sfksmPm3qA

New feature to these posts: sneak preview of 2 weeks hence:

Either Kwaidan (Japanese art horror film that looks amazing) or some wintery Toei Studio movies (Swan Lake and The Wild Swans) depending on how I feel.

These fuckers brutally abducted some dude who was just going out to get food, wouldn't even let him show his ID proving he was a citizen til after they'd taken him in for processing, and then when he asked for a ride home because they were the ones who'd fucked up, they told him to walk home in the snow.

Guy's been in the US since he was 1 year old.

ICE needs to burn -- not melt, burn -- in Hell or something.

https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-arrest-cedar-riverside-minneapolis-somali-man/

Soy hates my intestines, gluten as well, but I saw some new meat alternatives at a fancy grocery store so I am once again attempting to wean down from animals.

I found some pumpkin seed tofu and some fava bean tofu at the fancy grocery store. Cooking experiment, procedure done with both kinds of tofu:

Tofus were frozen, but I thawed them in the fridge for a day before cooking. Cut them into bite sized cubes

Put pan on stove with spices and oil. Turn burner on to mid heat. When hot, put tofu in. Wait a while. Take tongs and use them to flip the tofu cubes..

The pumpkin tofu cooked fine. Stayed intact, got to a food safe internal temp. In contrast, the fava bean tofu kept sticking to the pan and leaving a layer behind when I flipped it, and that layer burned. Meanwhile, it never reached 165 degrees F. I think it was wetter as the pumpkin tofu was prepressed

Eventually in frustration I just macerated the fava bean tofu into crumbles, left it on high and covered for a bit to make sure it hit the food safe temp, called it done and scraped what wasn't ash out of the pan. I've been adding the crumbs to daal to make them palatable/tolerable. Based on this experience I think I should stick with pumpkin, but I need as much variety as I can get in my already limited diet so I'd like to make the fava bean tofu work too. It also did not seem to really take the spices I put in as well and was overall more bland.

This has to just be a skill issue. What did I do wrong? I was basically trying to cook these as if they were meat; was that conceptually the wrong approach? Seems to have been because they're more delicate.

Neither of these tofus have tried to claw their way out from inside my body, so at least if I can figure out how to cook them they could be viable.

lorem ipsem dolor (I posted in the wrong comm)

Is there any reason NOT to switch to ProtonVPN from Mullvad?

Use cases: privacy, torrenting without getting a DMCA letter.

OSs: Linux, Mac.

I know there was a reason I didn't pick up Proton years ago when PIA got bought by Kape but I don't remember what it was. I'd read something on /r/VPNTorrents but that place has since been banned so I can't refer to it again.

Subtitle: Let the Right Oldsferatu In

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The theme for tonight is dark bleakness because the weather finally matches my mood, and these vampire films make heavy use of darkness.

First up is Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) at 4:30 Eastern Standard US Time.  It is 1h29m minutes long.

Second will be Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One in) (2008) (1h55m) at about 6:00 PM Eastern US Time.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

A classic silent film inspired by Dracula.  The vibes are immaculate and I actually like it more than the original Dracula book it’s inspired by.  This film was ordered to be destroyed on copyright-infringement grounds!  “Even with several details altered, Stoker's widow Florence sued over the adaptation's copyright violation, and a court ruling ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed.”  Luckily, some copies survived.  This movie was also allegedly banned in Sweden until 1972 for “excessive horror”

Content Warnings for Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror (1922)

Mild across the board.  Some less than great depictions of a mental institution, and Count Orlock has been noted as based on antisemitic caricatures.

Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/236790

UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/2125

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/1Xa9E8no42PTKvhMBiY9Ss

Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One in) (2008)

This is billed as a “romantic horror film”.  I have my opinions on the matter and welcome discussion in the comments of this post about what you think of that label!  The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a strange child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm.  Oops!  Turns out she’s a vampire!  A mix of horror and sweetness ensues.  Set against the bleak backdrop of the frigid North as Sweden is plunged into invernal darkness

Content Warnings for Låt Den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One in) (2008):

Doesthedogdie: not linking because it’s wrong.

UnconsentingMedia: Not linking because it’s wrong.

IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/parentalguide/

TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/4bgWzWSrGLbDF2epXLhRaZ

New feature to these posts: sneak preview of 2 weeks hence:

Next time I have this slot I am hoping to do the 2024 Nosferatu, aka Newsferatu, because I missed it when it came out, and the Nic Cage film Vampire’s Kiss (1988).  We’ll have to start half an hour earlier as they’re both longer.