http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Creepy-Feeling-Paranormal-Exorcism/dp/B005QBSRUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327103321&sr=8-1

THX

*slow clap*

For me I Saw The Devil was this year’s cream of the crop. Just a relentless film that grabs you from the start and never lets go. I love Korean cinema, and could rattle off a dozen of great films to see (The Nowhere Man, The Chaser, and Truck, to name but a few), but ISTD just totally blew me away. Everyone is familiar with Min-sik Choi from Oldboy, but Lee Byung Hun is a little less known over here, and he was amazing, once again (everyone should see him in The Good, The Bad, The Weird, which is flat out one of the best action movies of all time). I can’t recommend this movie enough to people. This is Scorcese, Coen Brothers type of quality film making, if not better.

At some point I’ll read “Blind Panic”, but I’m expecting it’s going to be more of the same with just another infliction imposed on the U.S. population.

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I did not think it was necessary to make this yet another book where Misquamacus is the villain, and I’m not too happy about Masterton’s use of 9/11. That tragedy is still too fresh for a lot of us to be used for entertainment, especially in a vampire story. Typical of Masterton, there are inconsistencies in how this book fits into the world of the “Manitou” novels. Amelia is still alive, after dying in the first novel and being alive in the third one, and New York seems to be okay even though much of it had sunk into the ground in “Burial” (including at least one of the WTC towers, which would have made 9/11 impossible unless the tower was rebuilt before 9/11 . . . leading me to my earlier point: Masterton should have left 9/11 out of this!).

I’ll finish the book before making a final decision, but these are my comments as I approach the end of it.

The reappearance of a character who died in the first “Manitou” book is just plain sloppy.

I will definitely check out Arizmenda, and thanks for the link to all the other stuff! Cool beans! Something to listen to between horror flicks!

I totally agree that BM is in a great period right now. I love the old school stuff, but I could live without some of it’s trappings, such as the corpse paint and nail armbands (though that won’t stop me from liking a band…the new Endstille kicks ass, for example). It’s good to see some bands really stretching BM’s boundaries (and Deathspell Omega has already transcended them, imo). There’s just so much good stuff out there right now.

Thanks again for the links and the article!

If you’re digging that WITTR, Go here http://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/ and check out the new Barghest record, the new False record, and that Ash Borer/Fell Voices split. More runners up for top ten list shit. I can’t stop listening to Fell Voices material.

People want to romanticize the early 90′s Norwegian scene, and that stuff is classic, but I really think in the future, when people look towards a high water mark in black metal, they will be looking at this time right now. SOOO much rad stuff in the underground.

Leviathan has a new song up on YouTube if you haven’t heard it yet. Sounds awesome to me, but that’s no surprise. Massive Conspiracy was my fave CD the year it came out, and all his stuff is pretty damn cool.

I’ll have to check out the others you mention. Thanks!

I thought the first “Manitou” book became just plain silly. When Harry called upon the spirit of the police computer, I must admit that I was not only not scared, but I was rolling my eyes.

I liked “Revenge” much better. It was more convincing to me that medicine men would fight each other with ancient spirits that they conjured against each other — not the spirits of typewriters and computers. My only complain was that Harry was some sort of comedian, and not a funny one.

Masteron’s novels seem to be very hit-or-miss; I either love them or hate them. I’m going to continue to read the “Manitou” series.

I hope its me!!