Yeah I’m like 95% sure this is a joke, and “Chelm institute” is a satirical reference.

Unfortunately I can’t pay the $100+ for the journal articles to figure out if that’s true or not.

I guess we’re just a little defensive about our new home – please don’t take it personally.

Every week we have a “monsterdon” watch party where we all watch the same movie at the same time and comment on it under #monsterdon.

Here’s more info on the movie we’re watching today: https://lemmy.ca/post/61058449

There are various other watch parties too, see a calendar here: https://livetweety.wordpress.com/

To put it in stark terms, Flashback is the novel in which I share the psychological and real-world reality (if not any details of the actual experience) of the day I came home from college early in my freshman year to discover that both of my parents had been diagnosed with cancer and would soon die. And it will also share the dawning perception of a nineteen-year-old – after my parents’ slow and hard deaths that year only six months apart, and after hospital and funeral expenses were paid – that my younger brother (still in high school) and I, the remnants of what had been a fairly happy family, were flat broke, jobless, and seemingly without a viable future. None of my story of this is in Flashback, per se, yet it’s all there behind the book. The emotions are there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110806051551/http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm

“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is considered the harbinger of gothic rock music and has been immensely influential on contemporary goth culture.[23] In an article by The Guardian titled “Bauhaus invent goth”, the newspaper ranked the song number 19 on their list of the 50 key events in indie music history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi's_Dead

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

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world

Very interesting article. I sometimes have to buy clothes for my elderly mobility-impaired aunt. At first I thought I could just go buy a bunch of “Size (whatever)” but as this article says that doesn’t work. So I took the pants that fit her best, measured it all over with a tape-measure, and went into the store. That STILL didn’t work because some pants “sit higher/lower” or had elastic that changed the way it fit.

When I was a kid we didn’t have a lot of money and clothes were more expensive. So various members of our extended family would make clothes for us (sewing or knitting). I now appreciate how awesome that was.

Underrated movie. Kinda looks like a TV movie, but the story is imaginative and the script is fairly well-done.

I’ve basically given up on having “heroes”. I don’t admire people, I may admire various things that they accomplish, tho.

One of my fave films ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodrome

yo I learn so much bc of memes. I think ur talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman–Mamluk_War_(1516–1517)

I ended up working thru this one last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJHJdVb4LZg

it’s pretty basic. but later on he does a lot of crazy stuff using a variety of tools including DAWs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8Tbg5LwfE

Everybody in this video knows that fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJUhq1pZktI

I call dibs on “Jesus Mockers”.

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

“Meh.” (I used quotation marks to be ironic. And now I’m commenting on it to be self-referential.)

Without Dan Simmons and Hyperion, sci-fi literature would’ve been still been regarded as disposable paperbacks. Simmons did away with the trappings of early pulp sci-fi that held a shadow over the genre for many decades. Instead, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion took the shape of the Western Canon and could be discussed as serious literature.

Hyperion was pretty good, but the 70s New Wave of science fiction had already done that: Ursula K. Le Guin, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Delany, etc. They deserve their credit.

I never understood and I never ever will I.

Oh, I understand it. Simmons was too eager to tell us why he didn’t like “certain people.”

That’s a great point, there’s a benefit to improving a technique and refining a style, rather than just moving on to the next technique because a more advanced technology’s been developed.

Looks like one of those things that could be really cool, but I suspect they’re not going to do that great a job on it.

Yeah, to be fair NIN did a great job of combining their sound with Daft Punk’s soundtrack style and Wendy Carlos’ soundtrack style. But it wasn’t really innovative for NIN in general. (In my opinion, at least. If Trent and Atticus really wanted to do that, then good for them, it’s their band lel.)

nothing is like that movie and Disney should not have abandoned its style

There was something relevant posted on !classicfilms@lemmy.world recently:

You’re right, the original Tron style was great, but It was a real time and place thing and even before it was done the movie tech had moved on.