suicide: ghostrider

suicide ghostrider



…suicide’s lead singer vega, owed an obvious debt to elvis presley and rockabilly singers, but his muttering, shrieking, nervy delivery was unique, sounding… at once both fragile and threatening. on the rhythm dept, rev’s simple, keyboard riffs, initially played on a battered “farfisa organ” (that is before he acquired an actual synthesizer) were accompanied by primitive drum machines of the time. this proved to be an ideal backdrop for vega’s vocals, and guaranteed them to get “booed as soon as (they) came onstage”. their albums and performances in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s are regarded as some of the most influential post-punk recordings that helped form the shit we listen to yesterday and today. including but not limited to that boy band joy division, too bad poor ian took the groups name too seriously!

Kinsky bored filming

as the story goes, he was scared shitless of the bugs in the amazon… standing all tough in his YSL safari get up. what a guy that klaus.

zeitgeist : the movie… does god exist

zeitgeist: the movie is a 2007 a home made film on a string budget by director peter joseph

the film received almost universal hate and condemnation from the media, although it also attracted “massive interest from the public” making it an instant cult hit when it first came out. the filmmaker, peter joseph, attended university of north carolina school of the arts and the new school for social research. he is an american independent filmmaker and activist.

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if you look past the childish sensationalism of its war footage, and forgive the few inconsistancies brought about by lack of resources and funding, i think you will find the first chapter of this film (mainly based on the work of acharya s.) rather interesting. it traces back the origins of religion from pagans to egyptians to greeks to judaism and christianity… making a point how all this was created by man and not a god. makes a lot of sense to me even if pisces was not in retrograde. by kl