20.02.2011.

FILM:

Martyrs (2008)

Director: Pascal Laugier
Years after she escaped from an icy torture chamber in an abandoned slaughterhouse, Lucie enlists the help of her closest friend, Anna, to track down the family who tormented her and exact her revenge. But when Lucie and Anna investigate further, they discover that they've only scratched the surface of an unspeakably vile secret organization

19.02.2011.

MUZIKA:

Mike Patton
Adult Themes For Voice

Michael Allan Patton (born January 27, 1968, in Eureka, California) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and video game voice actor.He has also handled lead vocals and composed music for Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, Lovage, Fantômas, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Moonchild Trio and Peeping Tom.
Patton has earned critical praise for his diverse vocals, which touch on crooning, falsetto, death growls, rapping, chanting, mouth music, beatboxing and scatting

18.02.2011.

FILM:

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

Director: Robert Bresson
Ambricourt, a young Priest (Claude Laydu) arrives to be the local parish priest. The community of the small town does not accept him, and although having a serious disease in the stomach, the inexperienced and frail priest tries to help the dwellers, and has a situation with the wealthy family of the location.

17.02.2011.

MUZIKA:

Anaal Nathrakh
In the Constellation of the Black Widow

Anaal Nathrakh are an English metal band formed in 1999 who fuse industrial and grindcore elements onto an underlying black metal style. They are signed to Feto Records, which is run by Anaal Nathrakh’s Mick Kenney and Shane Embury (Napalm Death/Brujeria/Lock up/Venomous Concept)
The name comes from Merlin’s Charm of Making in John Boorman’s Excalibur.

16.02.2011.

FILM:

Breaking the Waves (1996)

Director: Lars von Trier
Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover

15.02.2011.

FILM:

High Tension (2003)

Director: Alexandre Aja

Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, slaughters Alexia's family--including their dog--and kidnaps Alexia. Marie hides from the criminal and tries to help the hysterical and frightened Alexia, chase the maniac, and disclose his identity in the end.

14.02.2011.

STRIP:
Suehiro Maruo - Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show


Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show falls within the grotesque manga genere of modern Japanese comics, and should not be read by those of weak heart, stomach, or wit. The story follows the main character, Midori, on her unfortunate side-show life, filled with laborous days, dangerous nights, and dark twists of reality. Maruo's compelling, complex imagery is unparalelled by satyrical and ironic storytelling mixed with poetic nuances.

13.02.2011.

FILM:

Taxidermia (2006)

Director György Pálfi
Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis.

12.02.2011.

MUZIKA:

Idiot Flesh
Fancy

Idiot Flesh was a talented and musically discordant band blending by a wide array of influences ranging from funk to prog rock and heavy metal as well as aspects of Eastern European Folk, Opera & Butoh dance performances. Formed in Oakland, California, USA in 1985 under the name Acid Rain with the demo album “We Were All Very Worried.” They eventually changed their name to Idiot Flesh prior to the release of their first album in 1990. After Idiot Flesh disbanded in the late 90’s, lead singer Nils Frykdahl and bassist/producer Dan Rathbun later formed Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

11.02.2011.

STRIP:
Suehiro Maruo - Rose Colored Monster





Collection of guro histories by Suehiro Maruo: Cabinet of doctor Caligari , Lower class man´s habit, Sad history of the camelia girl, Our eye contact, Im you toilet, Natural Beauty, Putrid night.
Rose Colored Monster was Maruos debut work. He was 26 when he released it. Stories vary from sad romances to outright scat drawings and then switches to a class abuse story. The opening story is called "Das Kabinett Des Dr. Caligari" or in English "The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari". It's worthwhile to mention that this is actually an tribute to a German silent expressionist film from the late 20s that went by the same way.

10.02.2011.

MUZIKA:

Victims Family
4 Great Thrash Songs

Victim’s Family was a punk band formed in 1984 in Santa Rosa, California by bassist Larry Boothroyd and guitarist and vocalist Ralph Spight. Drummer Devon VrMeer completed the trio. Their sound blended hardcore punk, heavy metal and jazz, making them difficult to categorize into a single genre. All Music Guide says, “since its inception, the trio has refused to be pigeonholed to any single musical style — incorporating elements of hardcore punk, jazz, funk, hard rock, and noise into its challenging sound.

09.02.2011.

STRIP:
Jensen/Higgins - Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer





Pinocchio's back... but who are his friends!?! In the sequel to the 2009 graphic novel Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer by Dusty Higgins and Van Jensen, the titular puppet has to share the undead-killing stage. The stakes are raised in Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer and the Great Puppet Theater as Pinocchio unravels the mystery of the vampire menace and his own shadowy background.

08.02.2011.

MUZIKA:

Autechre
Tri Repetae

Autechre is an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale (near Manchester, England). They are one of the most prominent acts signed with Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic artists. Autechre utilize a wide array of analog synths in their production as well as analog and digital drum machines and samplers. They have also made extensive use of a variety of computer based sequencers, softsynths, and other applications, such as Max/MSP.

07.02.2011.

STRIP:

Inio Asano - Solanin

Solanin is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialised in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2005 to 2006. Meiko and Taneda graduated from university two years ago. Having no real goals or direction, they step into society, clueless. Meiko works as an Office Lady to pay the rent for her apartment, while Taneda works as an illustrator in a press company, earning just enough to take some of Meiko's burden. Unhappy with the rhythm of their "normal" graduate lives, things change when two important decisions are made: Meiko decides to quit her job, and Taneda decides to devote time to write his first proper song for the band.

06.02.2011.

MUZIKA:

The Color Of Violence
YOUTHANIZE

The Color of Violence is the side-project of Travis Richter [vocals/guitar] and Derek Bloom , both of From First to Last fame. The music is an onslaught of screams and terrifying guitar riffs from beginning to end, it blasts into your brain like a shotgun made of awesome. Lyrics that would make your mother cower finish off the crazy creation that is TCoV. Not for the faint hearted.

05.02.2011.

FILM:

Solaris (1972)

Director: Andrei TarkovskyThe Solaris mission (novel, Stanislaw Lem) has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence, but the details are hazy and very secret. After the mysterious demise of one of the three scientists on the base, the main character is sent out to replace him. He finds the station run-down and the two remaining scientists cold and secretive. When he also encounters his wife who has been dead for seven years, he begins to appreciate the baffling nature of the alien intelligence.

04.02.2011.

STRIP:
Aleksandar Zograf - About a Perfect Woman




Saša Rakezić (rođen 1963. u Pančevu) poznatiji pod pseudonimom Aleksandar Zograf je srpski i jugoslovenski strip autor. Stripove počinje da objavljuje od 1986. na tržištu SFRJ. Početkom '90-ih godina XX veka počinje da objavljuje radove i u inostranstvu, najviše u Americi. Učestvovao je na više međunarodnih strip festivala, konferencija i izložbi, kao što su Expocomics, Caption, Lucca Comics, Atinski festival stripa i dr.
Zograf: 'I have many favorites, but I’ll describe just the last one I did, published few days ago It’s a story based on an article published in 1925’s issue of Zena i svet, a women’s magazine from Belgrade. There was a poll among intellectuals (of both sexes) based around the topic of the Perfect Woman. Nobody expected that it would cause so much stir — some people expressed chauvinist clich
s (which sound funny, too!), then a poet wrote a provocative and intellectually challenging piece, while some were so offended (such as one female writer) that she wrote an angry reply stating that they could have her picture (for the illustration of the article) only when she drops dead!'

03.02.2011.

FILM:

Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
An amateur entomologist searching for insects by the sea is trapped by local villagers into living with a mysterious woman who spends almost all her time preventing her home from being swallowed up by advancing sand dunes. The woman and the trapped man begin a strange and erotic relationship that stretches over years, as the man's hope for escape dims.

02.02.2011.

STRIP:

Ben Templesmith - Hatter M

The Looking Glass Wars

Hatter M is a spin-off comic book limited series (four-issue mini-series), written by Frank Beddor and Liz Cavalier with art by Ben Templesmith. The series follows Hatter Madigan's search for the missing princess thus working into the continuity of 'The Looking Glass Wars' by following the virtually unseen thirteen year (1859–1872) search.

01.02.2011.

MUZIKA:

John Zorn
The Big Gundown

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn’s recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music.