Okay, the guy in the back is having way too much fun.
It All Began As A Summer Vacation …
Burnt Offerings, the 1973 inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining, was made into a movie in 1976 starring Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis, Oliver Reed, and Karen Black. I’m almost certain it’s one of those horror flicks that scared the everliving shit out of me when it aired on network television back in the day.
The story concerns a family who moves into an old house that regenerates itself by twisting the life force of the occupants who become violent and either kill each other or are killed off while the member of the household who becomes possessed by the spirit of the house survives and becomes a sentinel (in this case “elderly Mrs. Allardyce”), awaiting the next family to be lured once the powers of the existing sentinel wear down and a successor must be found.
We watched it on Amazon Prime the other night – for nostalgia more than anything. It’s pretty slow by today’s standards, but suitably creepy. I kinda want to read the book now, which is recently back in print.
I Wanna See This
Correction: My inner 12-year-old wants to see this.
Shit
Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, dead at 72.
How They Made The Exploding Head In Scanners
https://youtu.be/0O_KrHjcF_c
BOOM!
How Bruce Thomas Came Up With That Glorious Bass Riff
As Thomas tells The Peverett Phile blargh …
The riff wasn’t totally spontaneous, it was sort of contrived [from riffs] I’d been listening to at the time. It’s kind of weird. If you listen to “The Price of Love” by the Everly Brothers, you’ll get the rhythmic pattern.
And if you listen to “You Gotta Lose” by Richard Hell & The Voidoids, you put those notes to the riff you get “Pump It Up.” It’s a hybrid riff.
Then I was left with a half a bar so I added “You Really Got Me,” which was one of the best songs ever written. So, that was it.
I love this shit. Everybody rips off somebody – some are just more creative about it than others.
The Screaming Nudes And The Pit Of The Damned
How many swastikas can you find?
MAD’s “Punk Rock Group” Of The Year
I’ve posted this here and there before. Deal with it.
Classic Album Sunday On Thursday
Check it out, you bastards.
BMG’s Art of The Album series presents a unique insight into the making of a seminal album. Recorded on the 8th June 2016, Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible of The Damned sat down with Colleen Murphy from Classic Album Sundays to discuss the stories, recording and impact of one punk’s very first album release.
Holy Shit, This Game Looks Good
I returned to console gaming last year after acquiring my son’s never-used PS4. I’m pretty picky about what I play, but I quickly realized that anything Naughty Dog releases will be top notch. I bought The Last of Us Remastered at Target on a whim and I couldn’t put it down. After that, it was The Last of Us: Left Behind, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and then Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Rumor has is that The Last of Us Part II is coming sometime next year.
Can’t. Wait.