Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Straw Dogs

Overlord

LOVE INC.

song by Love Inc., one of a shit ton of project names by Wolfgang Voigt, co-founder and co-owner of Kompakt Records, and one of my favorite songs ever.

i want to be a basketball player

whats up ryan?

i fell asleep in class today

Patriotism

Val Lewton

Screenwriter and film producer Val Lewton is one of the true unsung hero's of the motion picture industry. He started of as a journalist and later made it Hollywood to be a screenwriter. Under David O. Selznick Lewton learned the craft of film making and was Selznick's right hand man. While working for Selznick Lewton wrote the famous scene in Gone With The Wind, in which the camera pulls back to reveal hundreds of wounded soldiers. After this Lewton was named the head of RKO studios Horror Unit. It was here that Lewton helped to make some of the best horror films to date such as The Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, The Leopard Man and Curse Of The Cat People. In these films Lewton melded art house cinema and true horror film terror. He allowed for actors and directors to have a huge amount of artistic freedom and pushed the limits of censorship at the time. Recently Turner Classic Movies produced an excellent documentary, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, with Lewton admirer Martin Scorsese narrarating. While he may never achieve the true fame he deserves Lewton has forever made an indelible mark of cinema.

DEATH

Death, Three brothers from Detroit making rock music that's pretty much "punk" way before The Ramones coined it. They released an ep "...for the whole world to see" in 1974 and following a very similar pattern in American music, saw no recognition for their forward thinking music because they were black.

New York Times article

Joey Beltram

FORKLIFT

Joey Beltram was born and raised in Queens, New York. He started channeling his creative energy through the graffiti scene in the 80's under the pseudonym 'POES'. He then went on to make some of the most influential house/techno tracks, like "the start it up" which was released on trax records.
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