V. Longshot (Vy Lenza)

How did you meet your spouse?

Why, at the Enzian Theater in Orlando for the Repo! Road Show in 2008.

@vylenza.bsky.social

Post-algorithm television and film is not to be trusted. It is to be reviled. It's there to generate clicks and reposts and likes.

Black & white photo of a concrete side of a somewhat dilapidated building that has graffiti written with spray paint. The graffiti reads “Time doesn’t exist Clicks exist.”

It’s bullshit what’s happened to the industry now that it’s run by a bunch of tech bros and accountants.

Back in the day I would have you on all my sets because you are political.

I also once did a scene with Niki Hunter where I was wearing a Nixon mask and she was G.W. Bush.

Ended up at an all female fronted metal band show tonight.

Love local shows in small intimate spaces.

AI is alive? Cool.

That means we can kill it.

Here’s a fun one from a few years later at our alternative karaoke night we used to have here in LA.

God do I miss Ground Control.

Dug up another one of me doing some Metallica about 2 years earlier. I was way out of shape cause I was in my “post divorce bottle of scotch a night” era that my now wife would help bring me out of.

You can tell my thrash vocal influences were more Testament and Kreator than Hetfield for sure.

Typebar has an essay adjacent to this, as it relates specifically to depictions of sex (or lack thereof) in commercial fiction

www.typebarmagazine.com/the-death-of...

Here’s a fun one from a few years later at our alternative karaoke night we used to have here in LA.

God do I miss Ground Control.

I’m gonna end up on another: “bigoted against AI” list.

Wearing those like badges.

AI is alive? Cool.

That means we can kill it.

A LARRY FLYNT PUBLICATION EXCLUSIVE! PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S KILLERS REVEALED! ANGIE DICKINSON NUDE!

We used to have proper magazine journalism in the USA

The rise of the “Disney adult” and the Mormon influence on that portion of culture would definitely be reflected in a new version.

I’ve tried over the years but so much from that era is just gone. Archive and everything doesn’t have a findable copy. It’s like all my print era stuff in some ways… just lost to the ether.

I’ve thought about revisiting it in some form. Maybe I will.

It’s also amazing how far my voice has come since then.

Dug up another one of me doing some Metallica about 2 years earlier. I was way out of shape cause I was in my “post divorce bottle of scotch a night” era that my now wife would help bring me out of.

You can tell my thrash vocal influences were more Testament and Kreator than Hetfield for sure.

😆

My in-laws did the same thing.

We don’t go anymore do to every bit of fun being sapped out of it. Plus, my wife worked for the company for almost 15 years and holds some resentment to them.

No, that’s at Floridas Magic Kingdom, but I haven’t been there since 2011

And yeah… there was a lot in there about spectacle, and the aesthetics of an idealized past.

And that’s how that side gig ended.

(Wish I still had access to that article, it’s proved to be quite prescient for something written over 15 years ago and cross posted on MySpace)

… depictions of the future becoming more bleak.

Well, years later I followed it up with a piece on the true horrors of what Walt originally had in mind for his “City of Tomorrow”, the ideological underpinnings for it, and the desire of the rich to make us all into their vassals who own nothing.

So… back in the 2000’s I had started a side gig writing about theme parks. I liked delving into the more esoteric aspects of them like analyzing Pirates of the Caribbean as a primer on mystery religions. But, I also wrote a long piece about EPCOT Center and how it became outdated due to our…

Happy #FrancoFriday
Lina Romay in Female Vampire (1973, Jess Franco)

"the world needs sanctuaries from chaos and meanness," - Joe Bob Briggs

#TheLastDriveIn

What a powerful finale.
The Drive-In Will Never Ever Die.
Thanks for everything, JB.

@therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social @themutantfam.bsky.social @shudder.com #TheLastDriveIn

Blackbraid - The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Black Metal Promotion

As true now as it was 35 years ago.

The Skies Turn Black - YouTube

My favorite new album of the week…

Vreid - The Skies Turn Black

Musically gorgeous with a mix of vocal styles (and musical styles) that really creates atmosphere… the track with Djerv is an obvious standout, but the whole album is a delight.

TEMPLE OF VOID - The Crawl [FULL ALBUM STREAM] YouTube video by RelapseRecords

Temple of Void - The Crawl

Doomy melodic death with depth in the lyrics. I would heap more praise on this if that Vreid album wasn’t released this week.

Song Of Darkness - YouTube

Runners up?

Leaves Eyes - Song of Darkness EP

Symphonic pagan metal beauty.