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This, the first "Misfits" album without founding member and singer Glenn Danzig, was always going to be divisive. People who loved Glenn Danzig would not love this. But taken in its own right it had a lot of promise.
I personally really like Michale Graves' voice but I do have to remind myself they are in theory the same band as he makes the songs sound very different to the Danzig-era ones. The songs here are a lot more fun, more sing-a-long than the old incarnation of the band but at the same time there feels like a lot less substance.
If in a certain mood, I would pick this album over Static Age or one of the Collections, but would probably skip a few songs in the middle.
But in hindsight, knowing what was to come later with Jerry singing I think we can all agree it could have been worse!

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Paige (428 KP) rated The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain in Books

Jul 28, 2017

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Betty Edwards | 1979 | Art, Photography & Fashion, Reference, Technical

7.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

really great for building confidence and teaching basic exercises (2 more)

Perfect for people who think they "can't draw" (drawing is a skill, and perfectly learn-able)

Will help a whole lot if you are just starting

Will hold you back if you let it (1 more)

The neuroscience this is based on is sadly outdated

Great book, but FOR BEGINNERS ONLY

So this book is really, really good for beginners. I have bought multiple copies of it to give to people who are afraid to start drawing, and they loved how fast they improved. It also kind of helps you learn to learn more (if that makes sense)

If you cling to it afterwards, it will stunt you, though. It doesn't teach much in the way of perspective, color, composition, art historical precedents, or mastery of techniques and materials (but really, there are whole books and disagreeing theory families on each of those topics...)

To start drawing, I have yet to find something better. Just give it to someone else when you are done.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) in Movies

Feb 24, 2018

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

1965 | Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi

7.8

(4 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Genre-defining British anthology horror film. Five men have their fortunes told on a train; guess what, it doesn't look good for any of them. For instance: Christopher Lee is pursued by a severed hand, Roy Castle unwisely plagiarises voodoo music, Fluff Freeman has to contend with a malevolent vine. Frame story has (in theory) a twist ending; but it's the same one they use in nearly all of these films.

The quality of these anthology horror films is always a bit variable, because the different stories themselves inevitably are; this is a pretty good one because even when the stories are ridiculous and arguably incoherent, they are still told with a sense of humour and don't hang around too long. Extraordinary cast, obviously; the rubber hand chasing Christopher Lee would go on to appear in more films than Fluff Freeman, probably because it was a better actor. When this film is good, it's very good; even when it's not so good, it's still a lot of fun. Much imitated, not least by Amicus themselves, but seldom equalled.