Andrew Bettridge

A still from 1981's FANGS (aka ANYAB) featuring a woman in dramatic vampire drag standing next to a dude in a disco leisure suit.

In the latest @midnightmasspod.bsky.social, I mentioned an Egyptian knock-off of ROCKY HORROR titled FANGS (aka ANYAB) from 1981. It's truly wild: Couple ends up at castle, owned by Dracula instead of Frank, disco numbers ensue. The queerness is navigated around, which makes it feel...more queer?

The El-Amam Brothers - Anyab/Fangs Song [Egypt, Musical] (1981) From the musical horror film, "Anyab", better known as the Egyption Rocky Horror. You may notice some *slight* visual similarities between this scene and "There's a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)".

The El-Amam Brothers - Anyab/Fangs Song [Egypt, Musical] (1981) From the musical horror film, "Anyab", better known as the Egyption Rocky Horror. You may notice some *slight* visual similarities between this scene and "There'
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10 Best Bad Horror Movies

Blood Freak
Blood Feast
Black Devil Doll From Hell
Maniac (‘30s)
Plan Nine from Outer Space
The Horror of Party Beach
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Troll 2
Evil Come Evil Go
Cats

#badhorror

We apologise to people with screen readers: this is a flowchart aimed at answering the question "Which Greek Philosopher Are You?" First question is: "Do you prefer the indoors or outdoors?" If you choose "indoors", the next question is "Do you feel disdain for the common man?" If Yes, you're Plato. If No, you're Aristotle. If you reply "Outdoors", the follow-up is "Do you enjoy masturbating in public?" If yes, you're Diogenes. If no, the next question is, "Do you like crowds?" If yes, you're Socrates. If no, you are asked "Porch or garden?" If your reply is "Porch", you're Zeno; if it's "Garden", you're Epicurus.

Couldn't trace this back to a definitive creator, but: Epicurus all the way, bro

I could do with a holiday from being me.

Good morning! Yes, this is he

I really don't want to litigate this any more because it is simply a fact that we are in the midst of a massive moral panic that's being used to strip us of our rights. I've been reporting on this political and legal effort for a decade and I'm not going to go back and forth on Bluesky over facts.

Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."

*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

Read my full piece here which gets into all of this.

that sound you hear is the deafening laughter of trans people

“You should all just work hard so your bosses can buy more homes and build their futures while you rent from them, but also all of your problems are because of immigrants” - genuinely the message being sold to everyone by political parties and the media.

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

Queensland newspapers leaning all-in for war.

I’m watching “Operacion ‘69” and it’s impossible to convey to today’s audience the importance to action movie of skuba.

Grace Jones, with a red… thing… on her head, wearing a pair of grey tights, left arm raised, and a microphone in her right hand, singing while a hula hoop twirls around her waist.

Was there. Bang on.

Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all Sydney Opera House Forecourt The 77-year-old is one of our greatest living performers, doing sit-ups, hula-hooping and even flashing the audience – but her rich voice is the true revelation From her island life as a young girl in Spanish Town, Jamaica, to her art groupie days in New York City, to the towering androgyne Bond villain who could turn La Vie en Rose into a disco hit: Grace Jones is one of our greatest living performers – a disco legend and true party girl, with a penchant for fabulous hats. With the Sydney Opera House forecourt her dancefloor and the Monumental Steps her nightclub balcony, the mad hatter claimed dominion of the night on Saturday – even though her concert happened to coincide with the 48th annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and the first of two Bad Bunny stadium shows in Sydney Olympic Park. Continue reading...

Grace Jones review – chaos, nudity and endless costume changes: the disco legend’s show has it all

I don’t know what my point is but the government killed 100 children on the first day of bombings and there are members of Congress still supporting more bombings and that is a grotesque level of inhumanity I cannot reckon with.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Ladies and gentlemen, heeeeere’s GRACE! #gracejones

Grace Jones has always owned, and will always own.

Turns out the “fuck you money” was a “fuck you” to the rest of us.

(I was going to go to Sydney alone for the parade and to dance, but my husband got tickets to see Grace and… yeah…)

Can anybody tell me why Grace Jones (who I love) is in town performing at Sydney Opera House at the EXACT SAME TIME as the Mardi Gras Parade?

In Sydney and seeing The Bookstore, Sydney’s only dedicated gay bookshop, gone… man, there’s an empty space in my heart.

A Peanuts comic strip, drawn by Charles M. Schulz, originally released Sunday, February 13, 1966

Sunday Peanuts by Schulz: Sunday, February 13, 1966

Oh now this is a good movie. It’s basically an Italian Fantasia and it is tremendous

DESIRE LEAVES A MARK - select theatres 3.27 - VOD April. See our trans supernatural romance. I put my whole heart into this movie🥹🐍❤️‍🔥

Imagine being a member of the "I Rape Kids and Assault Minorites" party and wondering why America doesn't embrace you.

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.