J.C. Traverse
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Leave the Projector On-- All Kinds of Horrors
Leave The Projector On – All Kinds of Horrors Hallow’s Eve has come and passed, but personally I love screening horror films all across the year. But with 2022’s October now beyond the horizon, I figured it was an opportune moment to write another “Leave the Projector On” installment, this time fixating on horror films.
By J.C. Traverse2 years ago in Horror
Leave The Projector On
This year has been a tough one; and while this writer is no stranger to psychological duress, he is also a firm believer in escapism. I have always enjoyed media and entertainment that can take one to another place for even the briefest stretch of time, whether it be through two-hour play, a twenty-four-page comic book or a handful of brief ambient tracks. None of it’s the same but they can all mute the noise between the ears, if only for a while.
By J.C. Traverse2 years ago in Geeks
Curtain of the Owl's Call
March 14, 2012 Interesting that it’s you, dear wife… But I think somewhere in me I always knew it’d be you. You—that subtly, inadvertently albeit, held my hand and guided me, like a child to the edge of this lake, behind the leather wheel of this swanky convertible. You—whose smile could level buildings and make one rethink their choices in a mere instance. And you—who didn’t bat an eye at my choices, inconvenient as they may have been to you, yours, and us.
By J.C. Traverse2 years ago in Fiction
Lo & Behold
I was there at the end; at the new age of paranoia, the disintegration of hope in the South. Almost two hundred years of Reconstruction and we fell once again, this time alongside our whole country. Division ran rampant, riots ensued, and our leaders sniped and spat on each other.
By J.C. Traverse2 years ago in Fiction
The Shameless Exploits of The Suicide Squad
Not falling for that shit again, so I had thought when I heard Warner Bros. were making another Suicide Squad movie. It was 2016 and my love of directorial autonomy and indie films did not in the bit diminish my love of the big-budget hero-franchises that dominated both then and now. I didn’t think Batman v. Superman was amazing but not terrible, and I enjoyed most of those MCU films, with few exceptions. At the very least, even if I didn’t think a film had much objective quality, I thought they could entertain me for the better part of a couple hours. And as for Suicide Squad, I’d had much faith in David Ayer, its director who had shown a love of genre filmmaking with both Fury and End of Watch, and he had promised it to be a comic-book rendition of The Dirty Dozen, a film I had seen and loved the preceding summer.
By J.C. Traverse2 years ago in Geeks
The Noisy Ensemble of HEALTH's "DISCO4."
Synth/noise-rock band HEALTH have a new album, and it's an echo chamber with a myriad of voices in the realms of the obscure and the accessible, for both those who prefer the rough and the clean. You may know Health’s sound, which weaves seamlessly between the industrial and the electronic (yet rarely strays from the chaotic) via their tracks in video games such as Max Payne 3, Grand Theft Auto, or Cyberpunk 2077 or perhaps their partaking in film/television such as Atomic Blonde or, strangely enough, 13 Reasons Why. But they should not be overlooked in terms of their listenability outside of those other mediums. They’ve released four albums prior to the two-part album that this article is about, ranging from the noise rock to EBM to pure synthpop with no distortion in sight.
By J.C. Traverse2 years ago in Beat
The Animal Within: Michael Pearce's Beast
The idea of being purely and wholly civilized is sheer myth. We’re all just varying degrees of monstrosity, and finding our people and partners is about finding those with just the right concoction of damage and malintent to match your own. In a time of distress and utter confusion in my personal life, I return to the movies. Something about the title and description of Beast led me to believe it to be something of a humanist film. That assumption was correct, but certainly not in the manner I wanted it to be.
By J.C. Traverse2 years ago in Geeks