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Why Do You Love Me Satan? - Review #6

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this is by a band called Fucking Werewolf Asso. they are a band from Sweden. this record is putrid and absolutely amazing at the same time and i honestly don't even know what genre to define it as. punk rock is probably the closest match. at only 31 minutes in length, this release flies by in what feels like seconds. but man, those are some memorable seconds.

Cri Du Chat is a (mostly) instrumental introduction, allowing you to get a good feel for how the rest of this album is gonna sound. pretty standard stuff. My New Sneakers Could Never Replace My Multi-Colored Bangalores then continues with a massive breakdown beat and some of the most in-your-face, abhorrent screaming and singing i have ever heard. but there's a level of cohesion and understanding to the madness. this band really knows what they're doing and have already shown that with just the second track. The Tito Beltrán Massacre has a much more punk-friendly sound with some 8-bit-inspired synths added into the mix, reminiscent of some sorta old Nintendo game (hence why this band is usually referred to as "Nintendocore," but i hate that phrase). Alphonse Laurencic starts out with the now typical whiny scream-singing until exploding into a massive wall of sound. if the band hadn't shown you that they're worth your ears just yet, they have now.

the biggest highlight to me, though, is the 5-minute Your Ex Doesn't Mark Treasures. it's the longest piece on this record by far, with every other song having an average runtime of around 2 to 3 minutes. it closes out everything perfectly, feeling like the band's true magnum opus. if nothing connected beforehand, this one will. it's probably the easiest song to listen to by them and it really shows. it also features a different vocalist sometimes, which can help keep it grounded for the more serious tone it sets.

as mentioned before, the main vocalist sounds like shit. it may be on purpose, but i can definitely understand why that would turn some people off. having an open mind is a pretty necessary part to enjoying this album because it sounds like this band wants to rip your face off as soon as possible and then eat it. but hey, that's the main appeal in my opinion so there's a really good chance this one's not for everybody and that's alright too.

i hope you liked my little show and tell. this album has become a favorite of mine, reminding me a lot of MCR's debut if it was more unhinged with the vocals and tighter with the instrumental. there's a clear influence of all things punk and old VGM on this record, which is a hard combination to nail as well as it does here.

favorite tracks:

Your Ex Doesn't Mark Treasures

Alphonse Laurencic

everything else (it's all very consistently great)

overall score: fucking werewolf ass out of 10

also i think one of the guys from this band made Hotline Miami? that's some pretty fun trivia. it does make a lot of sense though. i swear scandinavian people are some of the most insane individuals alive.

#FUCKING WEREWOLF ASSO #why do you love me satan?#rock #album review

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Some Like It Hot (1959); AFI #22

The current movie under review is the romantic comedy that is occasionally interrupted by a violent gangster film, Some Like It Hot (1959). Directed by Billy Wilder, this films stars Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Marylin Monroe. The movie was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Actor, but ended up with only one trophy for Costume Design. It faired much better at the Golden Globes where it took home wins for Best Actor for Jack Lemmon, Best Actress for Marylin Monroe, and Best Picture - Musical or Comedy. This film is an interesting one as far as plot and tone since it incorporates a Chicago mafia massacre with men cross dressing. It points out how women have to deal with constant excepted sexism followed by a cross dressing Jack Lemmon forgetting to allow his sugar daddy to lead when they salsa. I really enjoy Billy Wilder films, especially with a great cast, because he takes scenes that should not go together and weaves them around a plot and it generally comes out amazing. Lets me do the plot summary and you will see what I mean:

SPOILER ALERT!!! NOT AS BAD AS NORMAL BUT THIS STILL GIVES A LOT AWAY SO CHECK OUT THE MOVIE FIRST!

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The movie starts in Prohibition Era Chicago, specifically in February 1929. Some members of the mafia have a secret speaking easy that is fronted by a funeral parlor. Somebody rats them out to the police and the place gets raided. During the raid, we are introduced to Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) who play in the band. They see the police coming and run away which means they don’t get paid and need to find another gig.

Joe tricks a secretary that is sweet on him into using her car and they have to go to a garage to pick up. Wrong place and wrong time. They walk in on the mobsters killing the guy that ratted them out and are witnesses. They need to get out of Chicago and hide or they will be assassinated. The killing is based on the Valentine’s Day Massacre and it is in all the papers. Joe and Jerry take a job with an all women’s band since the group is going on the train to perform in Florida. This means that they will have to dress as women to blend in.

Once on board the train, Joe and Jerry (now going by Josephine and Daphne) mingle with all the pretty girls and both take a liking to a particular ukulele player named Sugar Kane (Marylin Monroe). It turns out that she drinks and has issues with her family as well as having problems with men always using her for her body. The guys need to stay in character and not get fired so they behave until they get to their hotel in Miami.

Once there, Joe and Jerry try to make moves on Sugar, however, Joe is the winner when he shows up at the beach dressed like a millionaire and claims he is the heir to Shell Oil. Jerry, on the hand, runs into an actual millionaire named Osgood Fielding III who has a yacht called the New Caledonia. Jerry keeps the millionaire busy dancing all night while Joe takes Sugar over to the empty yacht and sleeps with her.

The next day, it turns out that the mobsters that are looking for Joe and Jerry are at the hotel for a “Friends of Italian Opera” convention. It turns out to be a meeting place for a national crime syndicate and the protagonists need to flee. The bigger syndicate murder the mobsters that want to kill Joe and Jerry...but once again the two witness the assassination and are desperate to escape. Jerry calls his millionaire “boyfriend” and Osgood picks up Joe, Jerry, and Sugar to help them escape on his yacht. As they leave, Jerry reveals that he is actually a man and instead of rejecting him, Osgood simply says “Nobody’s perfect.”

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Watching this film and knowing the history of Marylin Monroe makes me a little sad because she comes across as the this vivacious (but a little dumb) powerhouse but was actually drunk, out of her mind on barbiturates, pregnant with a stillborn, and deeply depressed. She is some kind of actress to have her screen presence mismatch her actual feelings so greatly. This is one of the few movies that I wish I knew a little less because I spent a lot of time while she was on screen trying to tell if she was lucid or not (hint: if you look close, you can tell that she wasn’t).

This film is actually a remake of a 1935 French comedy, which explains some of random situations, and I have to director Billy Wilder because American audiences have generally had difficulty with French comedy. People in the US don’t tend to mix their serious violence into their comic set pieces, but Wilder made it work. If you think about it, there were a lot of comic chase scenes in which men who have just demonstrated their ability to commit cold blooded murder are running after a couple of men in drag. We shouldn’t laugh at a woman with such an alcohol problem that she can’t hold a job and is too stupid to even be able to hide it better. And yet I found myself smiling through the whole movie.

My favorite thing about this film is actually Jack Lemmon. This is the earliest film of his that I have seen and I think he is fantastic. One of my very favorite actors, his work in this film and The Apartment (1960) made me a fan for life. He is actually third billed in Some Like It Hot, but I feel like he steals the show.

This film flew right in the face of the Hays Code, since it showed two on-screen group assassinations, a busty Marilyn Monroe barely staying in her clothes, a one night stand in which a man tricks a helpless woman, homosexual undertones, and featured cross dressing. A film with all these aspects should not have existed in America under the code, but this one was nominated for five Academy Awards. None of these things seem like that big of a deal anymore, and the film laughably made the BFI list for Films for Children Up to the Age of 14. It’s now though of as a good kids movie.

Marilyn Monroe exudes confidence and sexuality in her role despite all of her problems. She also is kind of a hero for many in that she embodies that curvy women can be knockouts when they express that confidence. She never had a flat stomach and was quite overweight due to her pregnancy. She had measurements of 36-22-36 but was only 5′5″ meaning she was very chesty with very wide hips. She was quite the opposite of other beauties like Twiggy, Kate Moss, or Olivia Newton-John, and for this Marilyn basically stands alone. She was one-of-a-kind and I wish she would have had a happier life.

So does this film belong on the AFI top 100? Absolutely. It is nothing but star power in a crazy movie that helped take down the Hays Code and won a bunch of awards in the attempt. It is a great piece of Americana that deserves to be scene. Would I recommend it? Yes and I would say it is best enjoyed without doing any research beforehand. It is quite the ride in that so many things happen to the point that you wonder if it will end well for all the characters. That is the work of Billy Wilder and it is well worth watching.

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— what happened to dexter morgan that made him a serial killer?

A happy childhood ended in tragedy, to create two boys who would grow up to be serial killers. ... His now adoptive sister Debra asks their father why he never told them what happened to Dexter's real parents, something Dexter looks to his father about for answers as he knew they died but didn't know the true facts behind it … [Dexter Wiki]

PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST famous fictional serial killers in modern history is Dexter Morgan, from the American tv-series Dexter. With over one-hundred victims spanning over the course of twenty years, he is one of the most successful killers. An important question is why he became a serial killer in the first place.

childhood: from a happy childhood to a traumatic memory When Dexter Morgan was still a toddler he witnessed the murder of his mother. This was the starting point of what was going to happened to him in the future. Before his mother's murder, however, he enjoyed a relatively normal childhood. He was born as Dexter Moser on 1 February 1971 to Laura Moser and Joseph Driscoll. He had an older brother, Brian, who he lived with together with their mother on 1235 Mangrove Drive, Miami, Florida.

Dexter would later state his earliest memory was his time spent at his mother's house, playing hide-and-seek around the house together with his mother and brother. As a child, he was energetic, happy, who always seemed to be laughing. In contrast, Brian was more quiet, more reserved, but he showed strong affection for his "baby brother" often holding him in his arms, as of protecting him from an unknown force. This type of childhood would continue, for instance, after Dexter hurt himself while riding a skateboard, Brian comforted him with putting a band-aid on his scraped knee.

It was not always great, however. Laura Moser was a drug addict, likely stemming from her boyfriend, Joe Driscoll, returning from the Vietnam War, starting his drug problem just after. It would never affect her relationship and love for her sons, but it would put her to risk with law enforcement. Eventually, she would meet Detective Harrison "Harry" Morgan, leading to her being his informant in the Estrada cartel. Laura would provide information that would help bring down the kingpin. She was, in the beginning, worried that it could be a risk to both her sons and herself if she excepted, but Harry assured her that nothing dangerous would happen.

Seemingly, Harry Morgan could not be more wrong. On 3 October 1973, Laura, her sons and other drug users were hurdled into a shipper container, by Estrada's henchmen. While the unnamed drug users become victims to a chainsaw, used by Santos Jimenez, Laura did not want her sons to see her be slain right in front of their eyes. The henchmen did not comply with her begging. As a last resort, she turned to Dexter and told him: "Close your eyes […] Mommy loves you" before she was murdered.

The three henchmen managed to exit the area, while Dexter and Brian sat there for two days before the first human opened the container door, Detective Harry Morgan. He eventually spotted the two boys, holding each other by hand. Harry only picked up Dexter, and as the boys were separated from each other they tried to hold on to one another, eventually slipping away. Harry looked into Brian's eyes and saw, what Brian himself would say, "a fucked up kid" and left the container.

Brian was recovered immediately after Harry told the other officers, however, he held onto Dexter, reassuring to the little boy that everything would be alright. As he walked to his car, Dexter looked upon the crime scene without any emotion, a look of a boy who had changed.

adolescence: new family, new memories, new personality Dexter was taken in by the Morgan family at the age of three, but he was not formally adopted until the age of seven. When he was shown the birth certificate, Dexter looked confused, saying that he always thought he was a Morgan. Harry responded that to them he was always one, the difference was that it was now official.

Because of what he has gone through; the loss of his biological mother in a massacre and sitting in her blood for about to days, it is bound to have side effects. Which it did, but the effects did not become evident until his adolescence. The first sign, that at least Harry saw that something was wrong, was the time Dexter had killed a neighbour's dog. Dexter's reason for killing the dog and later burying the body was because it was a "noisy little creep" and that it disturbed his ill mother's sleep. Harry then asks if he ever wanted to kill something bigger, like a human. Dexter answers that yes, he wanted to, just no specific person, but he never did it because he was scared they – his parents – would not like it. Harry from this point in time wanted to shield and help Dexter from killing someone.

After this is where the special code comes in; the Code of Harry. Fearing that someone was psychologically wrong with Dexter, Harry sought help from Dr Evelyn Vogel, a neuropsychiatrist who specialises in profiling psychopaths. After evaluating the stories Harry had told, she not only diagnosed Dexter with the classic traits of a psychopath – the killing of small animals and shallow emotions – but that he had the traits of a will-become killer.

Dr Vogel, recognising that it would be impossible to control all his urges, instead suggested that they could try to control specific ones. Originally, the idea was to control his urges to kill animals, only for them to realise that the killing of animals would not be enough to satisfy Dexter. Thus the Code was created. Harry handled the majority of the details, Dr Vogel created the guidance.

Harry, from the guidance of the Code, trained his son to be normal during his adolescent years, helping him blend into society as well as he could. One of these aspects was the capability of feeling and showing emotion, which Dexter was incapable of doing. An incident that was really important was at the beach. A photo was being taken, a family photo of the Morgans. it is a warm, sunny day, everyone is smiling, except Dexter. Harry catches onto this, and he asked Dexter what is bothering him. His answer is that he does not like the beach, refusing to smile because of the slimy, nasty, sandy feeling. Harry explains that he has to deal with it, not just to make his mother happy, but to also blend in. Dexter nods in understanding, going back to his family, taking the photograph of his first successful "fake" smile.

early adulthood: his first human victim During his first years as an adult, his father had fallen ill of coronary artery disease. Harry was for a time confined to a hospital bed. During Harry's time there, Dexter spotted a nurse named Mary. He noticed that something was off about her. She murdered her patients by slowly overdosing them on morphine, delusional with thinking she was helping them by "taking their pain away."

As Harry was one of her patients, he gave Dexter his permission to kill her, in order to stop her from killing anybody else. He waited inside Mary's house to strike. His method would be mostly the same one he used in his later murders, such as covering everything in sheets of plastic and strapping the victim to a long and flat surface. While Mary did put up a fight, he managed to strap her down and stab her to death, to later dispose of her remains in the Everglades swamp. This was Dexter's first murder.

REFERENCES.

"What happened to Dexter Morgan that made him a serial killer? - Google Search", Google Search.

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"Dexter Morgan/Early Life | Dexter Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", Dexter Wiki. (retrieved: 14.04.2018)

"Mary | Dexter Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", Dexter Wiki. (retrieved: 14.04.2018)

"The Code of Harry | Dexter Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", Dexter Wiki. (retrieved: 14.04.2018)

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THE ORDER - official video for new single

Swiss hard rock/heavy metal outfit THE ORDER will release its new album "Supreme Hypocrisy" on May 22, 2020 via Massacre Records! You can now enjoy the official video for the brand new single "Back To Reality" The 6th album of the band was mixed and mastered by V.O. Pulver at Little Creek Studio. Jan Yrlund (Darkgrove Design) is responsible for the album's artwork. "Supreme Hypocrisy" is avaialble for pre-order here » https://lnk.to/supremehypocrisy You can look forward to a hard-hitting, groovy and melodic album full of catchy riffs, blazing guitar solos and powerful vocals!

THE ORDER - Supreme Hypocrisy Get it here » https://lnk.to/supremehypocrisy 1. The Show 2. Supreme Hypocrisy 3. Back To Reality 4. Dreams Are Not The Same 5. Save Yourself 6. No Messiah 7. August In Miami 8. Where I Come From 9. Sometimes 10. Only The Good Die Young CD Digipak • Digital Hard Rock/Heavy Metal • Release: 22/05/2020

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All Rob Zombie Movies Ranked, Worst To Best | Screen Rant

Rob Zombie’s career as filmmaker is short but has been very divisive, and here's how his movies rank from worst to best. While some praise his style and vision to tell stories full of gore and with disturbed characters, others think he relies too much on shock value and doesn’t offer much beyond violent scenes. Truth is, both sides are partially correct: Zombie adds a lot of shocking scenes because that’s his style, and his characters are psychopaths that enjoy torturing others. Combined with music by him, his movies are a unique audiovisual experience.

Zombie made his directorial debut in 2003 with House of 1000 Corpses, and since then has directed a total of seven movies, including the upcoming 3 From Hell. In between projects, Zombie has directed a faux-trailer (Werewolf Women of the SS for Grindhouse), a direct-to-DVD animated film (The Haunted World of El Superbeasto), one episode of CSI: Miami, a stand-up special (Tom Papa: Live in New York City), and a concert film (The Zombie Horror Picture Show).

Related: Ranking Every Halloween Movie, From 1978 To 2018

Zombie’s filmography goes from remakes and retellings to original content, with some of them building their own mythology. Here are how his movies compare to one another (without counting the aforementioned in-between projects).

Zombie’s remake of Halloween 2 was more of a retelling, exploring both Laurie and Michael Myers’ stories as well as Dr. Loomis’. The story is set right after the events in Halloween before a time jump of one year. Laurie is still dealing with the aftermath of that Halloween night while Dr. Loomis takes advantage of the tragedy and releases a new book. Elsewhere, Michael Myers is having visions of his mother, with Laurie also experiencing hallucinations connected to Michael’s past and hers as well.

Zombie kept some details from the original movie, like Laurie and Michael being siblings, and took a lot of liberties with the rest of the story. What makes Halloween 2 sit on the last spot is that it has too many things happening in just one movie, and the addition of Deborah Myers (Sheri Moon Zombie) through visions along with a white horse was a failed attempt to expand on Michael’s backstory and his connection with Laurie, and ended up being completely unnecessary. Zombie’s intentions were good, but Halloween 2 ended up destroying what Halloween built.

The Lords of Salem is very different from the rest of Zombie’s movies, but that doesn’t necessarily make it better. The story is all about witchcraft and satanism, and follows a DJ named Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie) who receives a wooden box containing an album by a band called “The Lords”. As soon as she plays the record, she starts having strange visions and becomes entangled with a coven of ancient witches and Satan worshippers.

Related: Every Upcoming Horror Movie Franchise Reboot

Out of all of Zombie’s movies, The Lords of Salem has the least amount of gory/violent scenes, and while it's visually his best work (and the score is really good as well), it’s yet another case of Zombie wanting to tell a bunch of stories and add a lot of backstory in just one movie. The Lords of Salem has gathered its own cult following who defend the movie for being different from Zombie’s usual slasher, violent, full of blood style – which is understandable, and the movie has its strengths, but the flaws are more and bigger, and an example of his storytelling issues.

31 was possible thanks to the support of fans, as Zombie used crowdfunding to cover part of the production cost. Initially believed to be a continuation of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, 31 was actually an original story completely independent from the others, but with some of Zombie’s frequent collaborators. Set during Halloween 1976, the story follows five carnival workers who are kidnapped by a gang of clowns and forced to play a survival game called “31”. The game lasts 12 hours, and the group is placed in a maze with different rooms where they must defend themselves from the “Heads”, which are murderous clowns whose goal is to torture and kill.

Surely, the idea is not anything that hasn’t been seen before, but it has Zombie’s typical bloodfest and the scenes in the maze feel claustrophobic at times, which can truly trigger fear in some people. It has the style of exploitation films but with murderous clowns (who are always scary, no matter the setting), and the character of Doom-Head is particularly scary and memorable. 31 doesn’t bring anything new to the genre nor to Zombie’s filmography, but it’s entertaining and has that fear factor that goes beyond graphic death scenes, so it’s worth the time.

In 2007, Rob Zombie did what many have wanted but didn’t dare to: take John Carpenter’s classic horror film Halloween and make it his own, while paying homage to the original. Halloween is both a remake and a reimagining, and gave Michael Myers a backstory by following him during his time at Smith’s Grove Sanitarium after killing a school bully, his sister, her boyfriend, and his mother’s abusive boyfriend. It also expands on his family life and the relationship with his mother, Deborah. And because it’s also a remake, it travels 15 years after the murders with Michael now stalking Laurie and her friends on Halloween night.

Related: Rob Zombie's Halloween Movies Aren't Bad - They're Misunderstood

Halloween’s strength is in the retelling part, which covers the first half of the movie. This provides a better understanding of Michael's personality, family background, and relationship with Dr. Loomis. Most viewers were expecting a full remake of the original movie, and that’s what hurt Zombie’s take, but in the end, he built his own Halloween universe and paid tribute to Carpenter’s work at the same time.

Zombie’s directorial debut was a strong one, and set the basis for the rest of his work. House of 1000 Corpses is an exploitation film with strong influences from classic horror movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. Set around Halloween 1977, House of 1000 Corpses introduced the Firefly family and their love for torture and blood. The story follows a group of teenagers traveling across the country who find themselves living a real nightmare when they come across with the Fireflies.

House of 1000 Corpses was the beginning of a trilogy that follows the crimes of the Firefly family, and while it initially received a lot of bad reviews and critics, it has gathered a cult following, with many critics and viewers changing their minds about it after revisiting it. The movie has big amounts of gore and torture, and succeeds in shocking the audience through that – exactly what exploitation movies do. It also introduced the most memorable characters from Zombie’s filmography: Baby, Otis, and Captain Spaulding, some of the most dangerous people you could ever encounter.

Two years after House of 1000 Corpses, a sequel titled The Devil’s Rejects arrived. The story is set in 1978 and reunites viewers with the Firefly family, who continue with their reign of horror, but with a few obstacles. After a raid on their home, only two members manage to escape while one is taken into custody and the rest are killed. Meanwhile, Captain Spaulding is somewhere else, but reunites with the surviving members of the family to continue their murder spree.

Related: The Halloween Movies Have An Ending Problem (& The Reboot Probably Won't Fix It)

The Devil’s Rejects is, by far, Zombie’s best on many levels: it’s better written than the rest, the characters do have personalities and these are explored beyond all the killing and torture, and the acting is much better. The story is cohesive and takes its time without being sluggish, and it doesn’t try to cover too much, unlike others. It’s interesting that The Devil’s Rejects, Zombie’s second movie, is his best in terms of storytelling and most of the ones that followed had some major issues in that area. In the end, The Devil’s Rejects is there to prove that Zombie can truly tell exciting and terrifying stories both visually and narratively, contrary to what many critics and viewers believe.

More than ten years after The Devil’s Rejects comes the third entry in the Firefly trilogy, 3 From Hell. Plot details are unknown, but the trailer showed that Baby, Otis, and Spaulding are still alive and ready to continue terrorizing the world. Fans of Zombie’s work have been eagerly waiting for this new movie, which will hopefully live up to the expectations and be at the level of its predecessors, making the trilogy one to remember for years to come.

Next: Rob Zombie's Firefly Family Members Explained

source https://screenrant.com/rob-zombie-movies-ranked-best-worst/

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Documentary list.

Okay so I watch a lot of documentaries, I watch that many that two of my friends asked me for a list during quarantine. So I thought I’d share it here on my film blog.

WARNING most of these documentaries contain very upsetting and distressing topics, please read the description first.

Title: Situation critical - S01E08 - Moscow Siege. Where to watch: YouTube. About: Over 900 people in a theatre in Moscow where just enjoying a good night out, going to see a a popular play when terrorists storm the theatre and hold the whole theatre hostage. But when the government tries to help it does more harm then good.

Title: The Port Arthur Massacre - Australia’s worst shooting spree in history (crime documentary) Where to watch: YouTube. About: A guy goes on a shooting spree at one of Australia’s most historic places. This event made Australia more stricter on gun laws.

Title: “Diving Bell ; The Truth shall not sink with Sewol” (directors cut/ free release) Where to watch: YouTube. About: A ferry carrying Korean students to Jeju island sinks. They are told by the crew to stay put in their rooms, which resulted in all their deaths. There’s a massive investigation into what went wrong and why so many students died while the crew were all escaping. This is still a massive case in South Korean and every year idols and everyone in Korea ask for answers into what happened.

Title: Inside hostage massacre HD. Where to watch: dailymotion. About: A dismissed cop takes a bus full of Philippine tourists hostage on a coach and parks in a car park where police and media swarm the bus. When his demands aren’t met things turn ugly.

Title: The batman shootings. Where to watch: YouTube. About: A man opens fire in a cinema that’s playing batman in Colorado.

Title: Three days in September - CBS news. Where to watch: cbsnews. Com About: In a small Russian town, Chechen terrorists seize a school and hold everyone hostage. Killing over 330 innocent people.

Title: Terror island - Worlds deadliest terror attack by lone gun man. Where to watch: YouTube. About: A lone terrorist leaves a car bomb outside it a government building in Oslo it explodes killing innocent people. Meanwhile he makes his way to a island, where young people are staying at a political camp he pretends to be a cop coming to protect the teens after the bomb. But instead opens fire on them.

Title: The Miami Showband massacre. Where to watch: Netflix. About: A 70’s Irish band are involved in a car bomb attack at the border of Northern Ireland. But was the IRA to blame or was it the British framing the IRA.

Title: 60 minutes Australia: The Siege Survivors: part one (2015) Where to watch: YouTube. About: A man takes people hostage in a cafe in Sydney.

Title: Paris attacks: three days of terror. Where to watch: YouTube. About: A timeline of the the Charlie habdo attacks and the supermarket terror attack in France.

Title: Terror at sea the sinking of the Concordia. Where to watch: YouTube. About: A cruise ship starts sinking, video footage and survivors stories of the events of what lead up to that night and surviving the sinking.

Title: The Hungerford massacre. Where to watch: YouTube. About: A guy opens fire in the village he lives in, walking around and going into people’s houses.

Title: Blackfish. Where to watch: Netflix. About: Exposing all about Sea world and following the journey of an Orca from being captured to his death in captivity and what lead up to him killing 3 people. It also explores other attacks of killer whale’s on their trainers during shows.

Title: November 13 attack on Paris. Where to watch: Netflix. About: Witness accounts from the big terror attack that happened in Paris in 2015.

Title: Tiger king. Where to watch: Netflix. About: The twists and turns in a zoo owners life that ultimately leads to him getting jail time for ‘attempting’ to hire a hit man to kill his rival.

Title: Extraordinary: the Stan Romanek story. Where to watch: Netflix. About: Aliens visit this guy and he has video proof.

Title: The Cumbria massacre. Where to watch: YouTube. About: On the 2nd of June 2010, a local taxi driver killed 12 people and injured eleven more when he went on a shooting spree in Cumbria England.

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The Order - Supreme Hypocrisy

The Order - Supreme Hypocrisy Band: The Order Titel: Supreme Hypocrisy Label: Massacre Records VÖ: 22/05/2020 Genre: Hardrock Bewertung: 3.5/5Nicht dass ich es bisher bemerkt hätte, aber seit 2006 legt diese Schweizer-Band alle 2-4 Jahre ein neues Album vor. Dabei ist das nunmehr sechste Album der Gruppe durchaus stark geraten. THE ORDER spielen Hardrock, der sich weder zeitlich noch stilistisch sofort in irgendwelche Schubladen sortieren lässt, und zucken durchaus gerne mal mit den Metalmuskeln. Von PANTERA bis JORN LANDE (an den mich Sänger Gianni Pontillo gelegentlich erinnert) kommen alle möglichen Assoziationen hoch, während die gutklassig arrangierten Songs aus den Boxen rauschen. Eigentlich verwundert es, dass die Gruppe zumindest außerhalb der Schweiz noch wenig Staub aufgewirbelt hat, denn die Qualität ist auf jeden Fall höher als bei mancher besser gehypten Truppe.. Meine Anspieltipps: Die Abrissbirne „Only The Good Die Young“ und das härtere „No Messiah“. Tracklist 01. The Show 02. Supreme Hypocrisy 03. Back To Reality 04. Dreams Are Not The Same 05. Save Yourself06. No Messiah 07. August In Miami 08. Where I Come From 09. Sometimes 10. Only The Good Die Young Besetzung Gianni Pontillo (Vocals) Bruno Spring (Guitars) Andrej Abplanalp (Bass) Mauro „Tschibu“ Casciero (Drums) Internet The Order - Supreme Hypocrisy CD Review Read the full article

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Between Gun Massacres, a Routine, Deadly Seven Days of U.S. Shootings

A boy accidentally killed by his father during a fishing trip in Montana. A woman dead and her husband behind bars after a single gunshot in a Dallas hotel room. A teenager cut down on his porch on a warm day in Washington state.

During the week bookended by mass shootings in Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; and Dayton, Ohio, in which gunmen killed 34 people, hundreds of others were shot to death across 47 U.S. states, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit group that uses local news and police reports to track gun incidents.

The deaths were the sort of everyday murders, suicides and accidents that may not grab the headlines of mass shootings, but in many ways show the true toll of the gun violence endemic to the United States.

More than 36,000 people are shot to death every year on average in America, according to U.S. government data compiled by the gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. That works out to about 100 a day, or one every 14-1/2 minutes. Suicides account for more than 60 percent of those deaths. Slightly more than a third are homicides.

Here are some of the victims of deadly shootings during the week between the attack in Gilroy and the attack in Dayton:

SUNDAY, JULY 28

Soon after a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, Steven Parsons was sitting in a parked car with two other people 1,500 miles away in an alley in Kansas City, Missouri.

The 27-year-old died there along with another man, Montae Robinson, shot by a gunman who is still at large, police said. The third person in the car is being sought by police for questioning but is not a suspect.

“I have a wedding dress in my closet that I will never wear,” Marissa Tantillo said during Parsons’ funeral service on Wednesday evening at a chapel in Blue Springs, near Kansas City.

They had two daughters together and planned to marry in a few months. She urged mourners never to take their loved ones for granted. “All I want you to do is hold your husband a little closer, hold your wife a little tighter,” she said.

Tantillo recalled a romance that began when she and Parsons were barely teenagers.

“So many of us don’t believe in love anymore,” Tantillo told the gathering. “In Steven I knew I found my soul mate.”

Parsons had a sense of adventure as a boy, his father, Steve Parsons, said at the service. “We’d be cruising along in the old white van and he’d say, ‘What’s that way?’ and so we’d turn and go that way,” Parsons said.

People should remember the years his son lived, not the day he died, he said. “Do not let the last day destroy all the good days you had with him.”

MONDAY, JULY 29

Guests at the Hotel ZaZa in Dallas heard a commotion and screams from the room where Jacqueline Rose Parguian and her husband, Peter Nicholas, were staying on Monday night.

When hotel security staff knocked on the door, no one answered. Paramedics, responding to a 911 call about a woman loudly in distress and a report of a possible drug overdose, listened to the commotion outside as they waited for police to arrive, per department rules. A noisy hour passed. A gunshot rang out. The arguing stopped. Parguian was dead.

“Jackie had a passion for beauty,” an obituary published by Parguian’s family said. She pursued a degree in cosmetology and graduated from a Dallas beauty school in 2016.

She loved ’90s pop music, especially the boy band NSYNC, and collected concert tickets in a box of memories. One of six children, she was known for checking in frequently with her younger siblings.

She was 32. Her sons are 2 and 8.

“How do we explain to those little angels that their parents are both not going to be there anymore, ya know?” Parguian’s mother said in an interview. Friends and relatives had soon pledged more than $25,000 in donations to a GoFundMe fundraiser in support of the boys’ uncertain future.

When their father, known to some Dallas music fans as DJ Pete Mash, opened the hotel room door on Monday night to police, he had blood on him and an extension cord wrapped around his neck, according to the Dallas Police Department.

Police said he seemed high on drugs and that they had to subdue him with a stun gun after he began screaming and fighting. They found a handgun in a backpack in the room near Parguian’s body.

Explaining the delayed response, police later said officers were responding to higher-priority calls that night before reports of a gunshot came through.

Nicholas, 30, was arrested and charged with his wife’s murder. He was later released on a $250,000 bond. An attorney for Nicholas did not respond to a request for comment.

“Peter is a nice young man,” Parguian’s mother, Tess Parguian, told a local ABC television affiliate. “He’s very polite, and that’s why I cannot believe he could do such a thing.”

TUESDAY, JULY 30

It was a warm day in Tacoma, Washington, and Jamone Pratt was out on a friend’s front porch when he was shot in the head. Witnesses told police they saw at least two cars speeding away. Pratt was 16 years old.

Police have made no arrests. Jamone’s mother, Kyndal Pierce, has filled her Facebook page with anguished posts, saying she’s finding it hard to go on without her eldest son, a “tall and skinny” kid the family called Junior and who was inseparable from his sister.

“He made some bad choices, you know, got involved with the wrong people,” Pierce said in an interview with a local news channel. “I don’t know what happened, but I know my baby didn’t deserve this.”

A schoolmate of Jamone’s who makes music under the name KiingCalebb recorded a rap tribute to his friend called “MonesWrld.” The lyrics include oblique references to gang rivalries.

“Thought you were going to make it to 18,” the lyrics went. “All you wanted were your dreams / but now you fly high.”

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31

Growing up in the Miami area as a black transgender woman, Kiki Fantroy faced a lot of bullying – but that never altered her natural inclination to trust and forgive other people, her mother said.

Fantroy, 21, was shot several times early in the morning after leaving a house party, becoming the 13th black transgender woman killed in the United States this year, activists say.

The killing prompted several events in her memory, including a “Take Back the Night” event held by a local transgender women’s group and a candlelight vigil.

In an interview, Fantroy’s mother, Rhonda Comer, switched back and forth between using her daughter’s preferred name, Kiki, and her birth name, Marquis, and between masculine and feminine pronouns.

Comer said she supported Fantroy’s decision to begin transitioning as a teenager.

Fantroy always had a flair for fashion, Comer said.

“He would make clothes, he would tell me what to wear, what he wanted to wear, and he would always put his twist on things,” said Comer, 44. “Kiki could take a shirt and a skirt and make it a whole different outfit; you can’t ask me her favorite color because, honey, she wore it all.”

Fantroy loved and trusted people implicitly, Comer said, a trait that sometimes worried her – especially after Fantroy was sexually assaulted and “dumped in a tomato field” at age 16 by someone she had met online.

Fantroy had just left a house party with a friend, another transgender woman, and Comer said she was convinced they were deliberately targeted. Police in Miami-Dade County have declined to call the shooting a hate crime.

Police later arrested a 17-year-old boy and charged him with murder after a witness picked him out of a lineup.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1

Caden Lacunza, 11, had finished cleaning one fish and was just starting on the second one he had caught near Crow Creek Falls in rural Montana when he was shot in the head.

His father, Cadet, dropped the .357 revolver he had just fired, sprinted toward his fallen son and began yelling for his wife.

Hours later, he was under arrest for negligent homicide.

The details of the incident, laid out in a Broadwater County Sheriff’s Office report, indicate Cadet Lacunza didn’t intend any harm when he shot off a round in the direction of the river.

He had seen his family, including his wife, his son and his daughter, near the campfire, and decided to shoot his pistol, according to the report. While he was retrieving the gun from his pickup truck, however, Caden made his way to the river to clean the fish he had snared.

Lacunza’s lawyer, Greg Beebe, said his client was innocent of any criminal wrongdoing.

“This was just a tragic accident, and not a negligent homicide,” Beebe said. “At the center of this, we have a family who’s been devastated.”

Lacunza’s wife, Victoria, told Reuters in a Facebook message that the shooting was an accident but declined to comment further.

At the scene, officers retrieved Lacunza’s revolver, the cylinder still loaded except for a single spent round. In the river, about 10 feet from where Caden collapsed, they found a cleaned fish; the other fish was on the ground where the boy had dropped it, a small cut in its belly and a knife lying nearby.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2

Deante Strickland came running out of his grandparents’ house in Portland, Oregon, in mid-afternoon, bleeding from the chest.

“I don’t want to die,” he said, according to a construction worker who was at a site nearby. “My sister shot me.”

Strickland, 22, died near his home despite efforts to save his life. His sister, Tamena Strickland, has been charged with his murder, as well as with wounding her grandmother and aunt.

Authorities have not offered a motive for the shooting. Tamena Strickland’s defense lawyer, Robert Crow, said it was still too early to know exactly what had happened.

“Everybody is of the belief that this isn’t who Tamena is,” he said, adding that many family members attended her initial court appearance on Monday in support of both her and her brother. Tamena Strickland has not entered a plea and remains in custody in the Multnomah County Detention Center.

Crow said neither sibling had a criminal record, and there was no outward sign of any dispute between them.

“That’s part of what makes it such a mystery to people,” he said.

Strickland was a standout basketball and football player in high school. He spent two years at a junior college in Wyoming before transferring to his hometown school Portland State University, where he played on the basketball team.

He was entering graduate school at PSU in the fall and planned to play for the football team.

Friends and teammates flooded social media with remembrances of “Strick,” praising his devotion to Portland, his near-permanent smile and his love for basketball.

In a video he filmed shortly before graduation this year, Strickland said, “My advice to you: Don’t take the time for granted. It goes by fast, so try to enjoy every moment.”

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3

It was a cheerful summer Saturday afternoon in Denise Wimberly’s house in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.

As music filled her home, the 61-year-old mother of four relaxed on her couch with her niece as her son Calvin Seay got ready for an afternoon basketball game.

“He came back in the house to lay his clothes out because he was a neat freak,” she said. “Then he left to go down the street to show the neighbors the phone he just got.”

Moments after the 23-year-old left, police officers responded to an alert from the department’s gunshot-detection system.

They found Seay, a father of one, lying on the sidewalk steps from his home. He had been shot once in the head and once in the chest.

“My other son ran down the street, saying Calvin got shot,” Wimberly said. She jumped up and threw down her cigarette. “I almost set my couch on fire.”

“He was my baby,” she said. “They need to stop the shooting, because they are shooting people that they don’t need to be.” No suspects have been arrested.

Seay’s slaying was part of a bloody weekend in Chicago in which seven people were killed and at least 45 others were wounded, including a 5-year-old boy.

“What will it take for people to become sick and tired at the level of gun violence in this country?” Chicago Superintendent of Police Eddie Johnson asked at a news conference.

Seay, whose daughter turned 6 last week, loved to draw and play basketball and had just gotten a job with the Chicago Park District, where he was working with children at a summer camp.

“He was no person to go hang out on the street. He wasn’t like that at all,” Wimberly said. “He said that since he got the job, he was going to send me on vacation. That’s how he was.”

Less than 12 hours after Seay’s death, a gunman opened fire on the street in downtown Dayton, killing nine people.

Another week of gun violence in America was drawing to an end.

(Additional reporting and writing by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Zachary Fagenson in Miami and Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Kari Howard)

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Venezuela Fires on Peaceful Protesters

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Feb. 22, 2019.--Since 35-year-old Venezuelan National Assembly leader Juan Guaido declared himself under the constitution interim president Jan. 23, Venezuela’s socialist dictator President Nicloas Maduro has cracked down. With the population suffering with hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine, Maduro used the military block humanitarian relief from entering Venezuela. Opening fire killing at least two, perhaps more, protesters, Maduro sent a stern message to Guaido that he will stop any humanitarian relief sponsored by the United States and European Union. Stretching shipping containers across the Tienditas bridge to Columbia, Venezuela’s military served notice that Maduro’s government intends to block any U.S. or EU-backed aid. Some 50 nations in the EU and around the globe recognize Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president, urging Maduro to step down.

Guaido promised that he and thousands of pro-Democracy activists would march on the Columbia border tomorrow to open up a humanitarian aid corridor. Yesterday’s violence initiated by the Venezuelan military occurred in Kumarakapay in Southern Venezuela near the Brazilian border. Maduro’s military opened fire on unarmed civilians seeking to get humanitarian relief over the Brazilian border to needy citizens. Maduro declared, after the violence, Venezuela’s border with Brazil officially closed, essentially cutting the country off from the outside world. Maduro’s crackdown comes after President Donald Trump delivered a speech Feb. 18 at Florida International University in Miami telling a pro-Democracy crowd the U.S. will not abandon freedom fighters in Venezuela. Trump faces some tough choices but not until he return from his summit next week with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

Trump’s gearing up for his second summit with Kim to resolve more issues related to his June 12, 2018 summit in Singapore, Malaysia, where Kim committed to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. While Kim has refrained from testing nukes or firing ballistic missiles in the last year, he hasn’t yet declared his nuclear arsenal or invited U.N. inspectors into North Korea. When Guaido goes with his band of pro-Democracy protesters to the Columbia border to get humanitarian aid flowing, the Venezuelan military could turn violent. Maduro thinks accepting U.S. aid invites a U.S. invasion, openly admitting that the Venezuelan economy has failed. Desperate to hold onto power, Maduro’s capable of anything, including inflicting mass casualties on protesters. If that happens tomorrow, it could throw Trump’s Feb. 27-28 summit with Kim in Hanoi into chaos.

Friday’s violence near the Brazilian border shows that Maduro has grown more desperate by the day. Harsh warnings from Moscow has put the U.S. military on high alert in the region. Trump won’t stand idly by while pro-Democracy protesters are mowed down in the streets. Trump told a crowd in Miami Feb. 18 that he wouldn’t abandon the Venezuelan people, warning Maduro to not crack down on Guaido or any pro-Democracy protesters. Russia’s presence in Venezuela, propping up the Maduro regime, runs counter to 70-years of U.S. foreign policy, keeping Russia out of the Western Hemisphere. “I stood up to them to back the humanitarian aid,” said community activist Richard Fernandez. “And they came charging at us. They shot innocent people who were in the their homes, working,” describing Friday’s attack that killed two people, injuring several others.

Guaido has promised to bring in the humanitarian aid currently sitting in Columbia, across a border bridge from Venezuela. “We stand with the victims’ families in demanding justice,” said a U.S. State Department official. Both Russia and China back Maduro’s socialist government, having spent billions on Venezuela’s oil infrastructure. Despite the suffering of the Venezuelan people, China doesn’t want humanitarian aid if it means possible violence. China’s Foreign Ministry should be telling Maduro to let the aid in to provide urgent food-and-medicine to Venezuela’s people. “You must decide which side you are on in this definitive hour,” said Guaido, asking the military to reconsider its loyalty to Maduro. “To all the military between today and tomorrow, you will define how you want to be remembered,” Guaido warned the Venezuelan military.

Heading to collision course on the Columbia border, Guaido hopes to open up the border bridge and bring needed food and medical supplies into Venezuela. Guaido hopes Trump meets his promise to protect Venezuelan rights from Maduro, whose socialist regime controls the military. “The truth is that not even 10 concerts will make damned Maduro leave office,” said Darwin Rendon, one of the 3.5 million refugees over the last three years. “This regime is difficult to remove,” whose family lives in Curacao. Removing the containers on the Tienditas Bridge is necessary for humanitarian relief to flow into Venezuela. Faced with a possibility of a massacre, Guaido intends to buck the Venezuelan military and clear all obstacles to let humanitarian relief flow into the country. Watching from Washington, Trump has only three days left before he flies to Hanoi to meet Kim.

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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma

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