What's with America and Violence?

Why do we as American's glorify violence? We slow down on freeways to look at accidents and watch the  evening news just to count the fatalities and if we even read news papers anymore we'd collect the clippings and set up scrap books and portfolios all depicting death. I recently had the opportunity to watch the lastest in the Saw film series (Saw VII or Saw 3D, whichever you choose to call it) and I realized that that movie was almost 2 hours of horrific death and death. Did I enjoy it? No I didn't enjoy one minute of it, it was just one grotesque brutality after another. Where have our American sensibilities gone? Once upon a time we we shocked and outraged by deaths and murders and now we collect them like stamps and trading cards.

The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box

PROMISES, PROMISES: "A House Is Not A Home"

If I ever see a musical on Broadway again, Kristin Chenoweth will star.

Octahedron - Why It's The Most Original of 2009

After weeks of bombarding myself with music I consider subpar I found something from this year that's really good. 2009 has been shaping up to be a terrible year for music. 'Boom Boom Pow' is the pinnacle of what people find cool and interesting but that song is the equivalent of being repeatedly skull fucked. Don't get me wrong the song is catchy, infectious, and everything Pop music should be, but the only question that I ask, is it a good song? A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to buy this album (and when I say buy, I went to the store and paid for it. No iTunes this time) and it's been mesmerizing. It's the equivalent of acoustic Prog. Rock. The opening track 'Since We've Been Wrong' with it's beautiful intro of near silence and synthesizers one wonders why this track hasn't been heard everywhere. 'With Twilight As My Guide' is another masterpiece Cedric Bixler-Zavala & Omar Rodriguez-Lopez are gods among men. This reminds me of why I miss At the Drive In.

Niggy Tardust

Sweeney Todd (Again)

December 18th, 2007 is the day that the Soundtrack album to the new Sweeney Todd Film...So those of you out there who like Tim Burton movies and are avid collectors here's an advanced warning...*also I believe this to be correct artwork if not it'll be corrected soon...(*Update site not allowing pictures to be uploaded at the moment, but please be patient).(*Update again, picture now posted.)

This is why we love Trent

'Not the parts that Atticus did. I know where a lot of his lyrics came from, because he didn't write them. When the day comes that I have to hire the flavor of the day to write my records for me so I can sound like what my records used to sound like so I can make money... stick a fork in me... honestly... and that's... I don't mean to sound like I'm on a high horse here but when it gets to that state, that's absolutely not what I'm about. From principle. I'll walk the highway before I start doing that shit, because music means a lot to me, and the reason for doing it means a lot to me, and whether you like NIN or not, or you hate this record or loved that record, I can assure you that I did it for the right reasons: I did it because it means more to me than anything else in my life. And I'll never put making money ahead of that. More than any other thing ever, I can sleep well at night – when I can sleep – knowing that I always kept that pure. My life I fucked up, my friendships and relationships I fucked up, my health I’ve fucked up, but I never wanted to abuse music like that. Does that answer your question?'