The Music of Fear

Music is a funny thing and, usually, not something you think of in terms of horror. Even at it’s darkest, I don’t know that it’s ever scary. There are some kinds of music — particularly the harder, harsher speed metal or even some of the more artsy experimental composers — which set my teeth on [...]

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Ten Thousand Songs in My Lap

Lately, I’ve been going through my iTunes library, cleaning up files and adding artwork and adjusting settings and labels and things like that. I’ve got all sorts of stuff on there — books and poetry and sound effects and television shows and even whole movies. Also, there’s quite a lot of music. All in all, [...]

Sinister Ducks

Alan Moore has written a lot of things I like over the years. But this was a bit of a surprise. I’d heard of it and I’d made some assumptions . . . but, well, this was a side of Alan I hadn’t really counted on.