Sergio

joined 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago

“Hey, we’re Adobe! We’re here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life,” read Adobe’s first post which has since been deleted. “What’s fueling your creativity right now?”

Protip: if you're as hated as Adobe, don't ask open-ended questions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

So Al ~~Jourgeson~~ Jourgensen started out Ministry as a New Wave band (and sometimes claims that he was forced to do less heavy sounds by his managers tho this is disputed) and this is one of their last songs with a New Wave sound. Then Al started developing a heavier more metal-influenced industrial sound inna late 80s early 90s. Last year he started redoing some of his older songs in the heavier style. A couple weeks ago he released a video for the remake of this song, I think someone posted it on [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

In 2014, Mellencamp revealed that the song was originally about an interracial couple, where Jack was African American and not a football star, but the record company persuaded him to change it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_%26_Diane

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

The cat version is great too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

It’s been painful for them to watch Google’s AI Overviews parrot travel tips they once offered — especially when the chatbot borrows their Canadian slang.

“I do feel betrayed by Google,” Bouskill said, as Corbeil interjected: “Betrayed, that’s the word.”

To rebuild their livelihood, the couple has pivoted their efforts to YouTube, another Google-owned property.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Nah, we just rebooted [email protected] and have several daily posters now, I'd rather build on that than move and start all over again. Besides, there's a lot of "alt" stuff that doesn't really speak to me, so if everyone moved I'd just stay behind and wait for it to come to life again. (In fact, being alone on a dead community is kinda goth, lel.)

Hey, if you're looking for communities to merge, [email protected] and [email protected] are both mildly alive, and their mods have been absent for a year or two.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You mean [email protected] ? Yeah that's there, I think when it was announced a lot of people disparaged it bc the community is on a pro-MAGA server, looks like the announcements were even removed (details).

One problem with an "alternative" general community is that, say, punk plays a big part of some people's identity and life philosophy but they may not identify as "alternative".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

oooh, looks interesting, I haven't heard of most of those artists, I'll have to make an account and check them out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it really helps a lot to have a "gym buddy" to work out with, or else it's just too easy to never get started.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Obviously they were laughing about the horrible crime they had just committed! /s

 

Yes, we just talked about this a couple weeks ago! And Laserblast (1978) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

Literary critic John Kenneth Muir thought that the script had many plot holes which left many unanswered questions, and that there was "little effort to forge a coherent story out of the mix".[12] New York Daily News writer David Bianculli described Laserblast as "numbingly bad".[45] In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies, Phil Hardy describes it as "a wholly unimaginative film", adding, "Even the non-stop series of exploding cars becomes monotonous in the hands of director Rae."[8] The Time Out Film Guide described Laserblast as a rip-off of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and said that Billy's reign of destruction seemed random and senseless, rather than driven by plot or characterization. The review called the film "the epitome of what Frank Zappa once hymned as 'cheapness.'"[46] The Globe and Mail writer Robert Martin called the script inept, said that Steve Neill's make-up effects were "frightful rather than frightening", and said that Cheryl Smith could "barely talk, let alone act". Martin also stated that the film was pulled from a Toronto theater after showing for one week.[11]

Not all of the reviews were negative. Blockbuster Entertainment gave the film three out of five stars, and film critic Leonard Maltin gave it two-and-a-half out of four stars.[47][48] In their book about science fiction films, writers James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts called Laserblast "an stimulating, unpretentious little film in the same vein as I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Parish and Pitts praised the stop motion animation and the performance of Cheryl Smith.[49] Laserblast was among several films universally considered terrible that film reviewer Michael Adams watched as part of a book about his quest to find the worst film of all time. However, Adams said he enjoyed watching it on a B movie level.[50] Monthly Film Bulletin said that Laserblast was "Band's first major box-office success on the exploitation circuit".[39] According to Space.com, Laserblast has achieved cult film status.[5] During a 2005 interview, Charles Band called the film "hilarious" and stated that "it had its charm" like many films from its time. He also said that the film would have been made differently and would have had less critical reactions if it had been produced with a larger budget.[6] Two reptile-like alien creatures, one blue and one orange, look in an upward direction, with machinery and computer screens in the background. The stop motion aliens, created by David W. Allen, were praised by some critics as the only positive aspect of the film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserblast

 

Gothic rock / deathrock

song link: https://altar-de-fey.bandcamp.com/track/veil-of-death

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A Split-Second - On Command (1986) (marcickxasplit-second.bandcamp.com)
 

proto-industrial / avante-garde

[Throbbing Gristle] is widely viewed as having helped create the industrial music genre along with contemporaries Cabaret Voltaire.[33] The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by [Throbbing Gristle member] P-Orridge and Monte Cazazza; on Throbbing Gristle's debut album The Second Annual Report, they coined the slogan "industrial music for industrial people".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle

song link: https://throbbinggristle.bandcamp.com/track/adrenalin

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Strap On Halo - Perish (2016) (straponhalo.bandcamp.com)
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Gothic rock.

I heard this on https://www.twitch.tv/djdeadparrot a couple days ago.

Song link: https://straponhalo.bandcamp.com/track/perish

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
 

Cat Girl (1957) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

Leonora Johnson is a young woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told by her uncle of her legacy – she will inherit the large ancestral home and money, but also a family curse: she will be possessed by the spirit of a leopard, as members of her family have been for centuries.

...

[Director Alfred] Shaugnessy later wrote "Barbara Shelley was lovely in the film and gave a most uninhibited and dramatic performance. Indeed, she was so good in it that I believe it condemned her to a long career in horror pictures."[9]

Variety called it "weak in all departments".[10]

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This film inevitably invites adverse comparison with the more successful Cat People [1942]. Nevertheless it is not a negligible minor essay in the horror genre, after a poor start. Barbara Shelley is a little heavy-handed but none the less effective as Leonora."[11]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Britains scream-queen-to-be's first taste of horror: faily silly, it has some chills."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Girl

 

Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid belt of Saturn are intruded upon by an anal-retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot tall robot.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285/

P. J. Snyder reviewed Saturn 3 in Ares, and commented that: "Saturn 3 is a sloppy, shoddy production, of the sort that someone out there thinks SF fans just eat up. One hopes the producers and directors working the genre will realize this audience demands more than a leggy blond being chased by a robot. They may have such limited visions, but the audience doesn't."[25]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 31% approval rating based on 16 reviews.[26] On Metacritic, the film holds a 9/100 based on reviews from eight critics, indicated as "overwhelming dislike".[27] Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film one star in his review, criticising its screenplay for having a "shockingly low" level of intelligence, citing moments disregarding the laws of physics, the love triangle between Douglas, Fawcett and Keitel, as well as other details.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_3

 

Power noise / industrial.

It's hilariously difficult to search the web for information about a band/musician called "converter"... but I heard this on https://www.twitch.tv/djalayt last night and she called it "power noise." It's pretty frickin awesome, really puts the "industry" in "industrial".

oh wait, the album page has some info:

Converter is the brainchild of scott sturgis, an ohio based one man electro-consortium and also the force behind the project pain station.

album: https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/shock-front

song link: https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/track/shock-front

 

EBM / post-punk

Finding inspiration in futurist writer Luigi Russolo's "The Art of Noises," the pair employs a sonic palette that mirrors the chaos of the modern industrial era. Sextile excels at regulating noise, whether the source is a percussive clang, guitar stab, synth trill, or Keehn's militant vocals ... [the album] '3' places the band's sound somewhere between DAF and Gang of Four...

album link: https://sextile.bandcamp.com/album/3

song link (with video): https://sextile.bandcamp.com/track/disco

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