The Red Sound

Hello there.

First off, I haven't forgotten about this site. I'm still very interested in writing reviews, but my attention has been elsewhere recently. I'm working on a new story, and most of my focus has been on that. Additionally, I've been looking for a job, I got a job, and now I'm about to start said job, so things are all a little hectic.

I'll be back with new reviews soon, but for now, I'm going to write on the story.

Thanks for your attention!

Winslow

Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

Sometimes I listen to a new release and feel like I could fit the entire album in a shot glass. Some bands like to think that they’ve got a unique sound, so they pigeonhole themselves with their style and refuse to change it, lest they be seen as betraying their image. Devin Townsend doesn’t do this. Devin Townsend is on a mission: he has to make everything he records huge—not state-fair-pumpkin huge, circus-freak huge. Landkreuzer P-1500 Monster huge. He mixes his music so that every instrument is playing at one hundred percent power nearly the entire time, while including moments of serenity and softness to tease the listener into turning up the volume, only to be blasted away by the unfathomably low, hydrogen-bomb power chords. This process produces a record that sounds like Devin bought a retired missile silo, filled it with VX gas, set an orchestra on fire and gave his band a Chinook of black tar heroin, and told them to not stop playing until everyone in the orchestra died. ‘Deconstruction’ isn’t just the best death metal album I’ve heard all year; it’s one of the best metal albums I’ve heard in my life.

But what makes it worth your time?

Another Huge Announcement

I was a frantic Obama supporter from 2008-2010, and as his polls show; he hasn’t delivered as we hoped he would. I don’t think he’s evil, a Muslim, a terrorist, or a new Hitler, and I’m certainly not in with the crowd that believes he is a socialist, communist, Marxist, or what-have-you. That’s non-sense. He’s a democrat, through and through. That comes with all the strengths and faults that democrats have. They’re generally good thinkers, they put people before businesses and they care about human rights, the constitution and preservation of the environment. This ability to think before making obscene gestures or rash decisions comes at the risk of being a spineless, pacifistic weakling. Obama has been molded to fit the corporate willpower. When he ran, I felt that, concerning removing the corporate influence from Washington politics, ‘if he can’t do it, no one can.’ And now that he has proven that he can’t, I realize that I was right. No one can. 

Reggie Watts

Reggie Watts: Why Shit So Crazy?

The line between madness and genius is a thin one, and only a few artists can walk it without their work becoming too convoluted to enjoy. That being said, Reggie Watts doesn’t just walk this line, he waltzes it. In his hour long special ‘Why Shit So Crazy?’, Watts, without any explanation or introduction to his style of humor, dissects both modern comedy and music with an analytical scalpel. Watts examines the most tired pop music clichés and uses them as a kind of lyrical white-noise. We’ve heard these lines so many times that, while Watts is sometimes incomprehensible, the cliché phrases are always easily understood, as they are exactly what we expect to hear.  He improvises with off-the-cuff, apropos-of-nothing storytelling, nonsensical songs and a kind of scat singing that is made up of disconnected fragments of jazz/soul/funk melodies, bizarre advice, and more random stories, all glued together with a spackle of rambling, meaningless noises. Listening to him sing over his live-recorded, looped beatboxing is akin to searching the airwaves for a clear radio signal, only to pass over multiple different stations and receive a garbled mix of static and snippets of programming. His comedy is almost subliminally entertaining; sometimes, you won’t even know why you’re laughing. Quite a few times, without ever telling a joke, Reggie Watts had me laughing hysterically.

My Big Announcement: Everyone Gets Free Prints

Hey there.

So here is my big announcement: Everyone gets one free 8”x10” print of any photograph of mine, dated and signed. All my photography is open game; anything you see on my website is up for grabs. However, this offer comes with one stipulation: The print must be visibly displayed in your house. You don’t have to frame it; it doesn’t have to be anywhere in particular, just as long as it isn’t hidden away behind a bookshelf or under your fridge.

If you want more than one print, that’s perfectly fine, but after the first free piece, all the prints are $5.00. Shipping is free. I’m open to negotiate prices for larger orders, just let me know. And please, if you’re feeling generous, buy a few shots. I’m a poor college student. You know how it is. Thank you.

The entirety of my published work can be found on my website, http://weeperblast.deviantart.com/.

If you want a print, email me (programmed.and.damned@gmail.com) with the link to the picture and your address (unless you want to meet to pick it up.)

If you’re doing multiple orders, I take check, cash or paypal(it’s the same email).

So check it out! I’ve got an enormous portfolio, I’m certain everyone here could find something that fits their liking. Email me if you have any questions, I check it constantly, I’ll generally get back to you within an hour or two.


This is my fanpage http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lock-The-Doors-Photography-by-Winslow-Dumaine/222476914445522

Like it! I know I'm spamming you with all this, but honestly, without word-of-mouth and fresh work, I'd be beyond bankrupt.




Thank you kindly! And tell your friends!

Winslow Dumaine

Big News on the Horizon + a Facebook Fanpage!

Hey there.

First off, I've got some big news coming soon. If you're interested in my photography, you should be excited.

Secondly, I made a facebook page for my photography and other art! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lock-The-Doors-Photography-by-Winslow-Dumaine/222476914445522

Check it out, like it, and tell your friends!

Thanks!

Winslow

Psychological Horror/Thriller(Not Goreporn) +Sci-Fi-Thriller Films!

Hey there. A while back, I found a somethingawful.com thread with a load of great psychological horror films, and I rediscovered my love of weird movies. The thread is closed now, so I figured I would give back a bit, by posting summaries and reviews of some of my favorite movies.

The emphasis of this post is on mind-bending psychological horror/thriller, with a particular point to avoid senseless gore and torture that is all too common in horror movies. A post for films that use slow, creeping tension to produce spine-tingling discomfort and horror. Also, Psychological Sci Fi is welcome as well.

Please open up this thread, take a look at some movies and tell me what you think!

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

“Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.”

Nothing is more touching than the romance of two children too young to understand what romance is. Oscar and Eli make an adorable, awkward pair in this surprisingly dark and touching film about abuse, compassion and sacrifice. Make sure you watch “Let the Right One In” and not “Let Me In”, the bastardized American version.