eating biscuits and digging holes in the backyard
decades before our modern tradition of splatter films, the grand guignol served up torture, incest, blood lust, insanity, mutilation and death to generations of fervid spectators. but the grand guignol is not simply the theater of horror that shocked paries for 65 years from 1897 to 1962. it is the celebration of the darker side our existence. it has always been with us. it always will be.
throughout history artists have been obsessed with humanity's taboos and phobias, aristotle, aeschylus, shakespeare, sade, goya, poe, dali, hitchcock, irving klaw, bacon, dan oniroku, h.g. lewis, hermann nitsch, carcass. our fascination with fear, terror and evil, like death itself, knows no racial cultural or religious barriers. it resides in our collective unconsciousness, binding us together with ropes we try, but are ultimately unable to sever. only through violent trauma, or the convulsive viscera of artistic vision does it rise to the surface, reminding us that, in truth, it has been there all along.
-john zorn
-suehiro
maruo
a silver mt. zion
-born into trouble as the sparks fly upward
aphex twin
-come to daddy [ep]
-drukqs
-richard d. james
-windowlicker [ep]
behold... the arctopus!
-nano-nucleonic cyborg summoning [ep]
the doors
-strange days
ennio morricone
-a pistol for ringo
-once upon a time in the west
-danger: diabolik
-for a few dollars more
-giu' la testa
-the sicilian clan
-il ritorno di ringo
-la resa dei conti
-maddalena
-navajo joe
-sacco e vanzetti
-the bird with the crystal plumage
-two mules for sister sara
-uccellacci e uccellini
frank zappa
-apostrophe
helloween
-better than raw
-keeper of the seven keys part 1
-keeper of the seven keys part 2
-the time of the oath
intronaut
-null
-void
iron maiden
-brave new world
-piece of mind
-the number of the beast
john zorn
-chimeras
-elegy
-love, madness, & mysticism
-magick
-music for children
-mysterium
-rituals
-spillane
kayo dot
-choirs of the eye
-dowsing anemone with copper tongue
maudlin of the well
-bath
-leaving your body map
naked city
-grand guignol
-naked city
old man gloom
-christmas
painkiller
-execution ground
pink floyd
-animals
-the wall
-wish you were here
prince & the revolution
-purple rain
set fire to flames
-sings reign rebuilder
squarepusher
-go plastic
-selection sixteen
-ultravisitor
toby driver
-in the l..l..library loft
wintersun
-wintersun
zao
-liberate te ex infernis
the seventh seal, se7en, 8 1/2, american beauty
assy mcgee, upright citizens brigade, excel saga
slaughterhouse 5, six nonlectures, lord of the flies