Favorite CDs from my last batch of reviews in THE BIG TAKEOVER: Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO "Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness" - Adrenalin OD "The Wacky Hi-Jinks of Adrenalin OD" (Double CD) - Amebix "No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings" - Antiseen "The Best of Antiseen" - Attrition "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" - The Barbarellatones "Temple of Shiva" - Brainbombs "Brainbombs (Singles Collection II)" - Controlled Bleeding "Before the Quiet" - Digital Leather "Sorcerer" - +DOG+ "Hx. of Violencia" and "The Winds, The Rain" - Alec Empire "The Golden Foretaste of Heaven" - Fetid Zombie "Pleasures of the Scalpel" - The Joneses "Criminals/Tits and Champagne" - Lustmord "Other" - Negativland "Thigmotatic" - Lee Scratch Perry "Repentance" - Religious Knives "Resin" - Turpentine Brothers "Turpentine Brothers LP" - Unkle "End Titles...Stories for Film" - The Rough Guides to: African Street Party, Arabic Cafe, Brazilian Street Party, Romanian Gypsies, Ultimate Musical Adventures.
Stooges/Iggy, Black Flag, Jesus Lizard, Dwarves, Dictators, Throbbing Gristle, Merzbow, Animals, Kinks, Zombies, 13th Floor Elevators, Grand Funk Railroad, Melvins, Birthday Party, Brainbombs, GG Allin, ANTiSEEN, Walkmen, Secret Machines, Bad Acid Trip, CRASS, Poison Idea, Negative Approach, Laughing Hyenas, Weirdos, Count Five, Deviants/Pink Fairies, Motorhead, Venom, Chrome/Helios Creed, Heldon/Richard Pinhas, Squeakquencer, NWA/Ice Cube, Kool Keith/UltraMagnetic, Roxy Music, Roy Harper, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Peter Brotzmann, FUs, Iron Maiden, Beethoven, NY Dolls, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Circle Jerks, Angry Samoans, Eckankore, Pope Goat VII, Optimus Prime, ULTRABASTARD!, Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Candy Snatchers, MC5, Radio Birdman, Germs, yadda-yadda-yadda...yeah, lots of stuff, I'm a music writer...3000 CDs and growing...
Movies
George Romero, Melvin van Peebles, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Norman Foster, Peter Fonda, Ray Dennis Steckler, Zombie/Cannibal Flicks, Guinea Pig, Exploitation Films, Something Weird, Mickey Hargitay, Sergio Leone, Krimi/Edgar Wallace, Ralph Bakshi, Damon Packard, Paul Naschy, Jack Taylor, Jean Rollin, THX-1138, Zardoz/John Boorman, Akira, Karloff, Lugosi, Kurosawa, HG Lewis, Messiah of Evil, Mario Bava, EuroShock, Blue Underground, Anchor Bay...basically old horror films that didn't require computers...
Television
The Prisoner, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021, old Space Ghost cartoons, Tom & Jerry, Danger Mouse, Law & Order and all its derivatives, Masters of Horror, Cowboy Bebop, Mr Ed, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Family Guy, House MD...You'd watch a lot of TV too if you lived on the ass end of nowhere...
Books
Music history/criticism, Anthony Burgess, William S Burroughs, Arthur Rimbaud, William Gibson, Aleister Crowley, Billy Childish, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Richard Meltzer, Lester Bangs, Ritchie Unterberger, Jim DeRogatis, Occult books, Masonic history, Mick Farren, Musical oral histories, Punk Books, Iggy Books, old Stephen King, Richard Matheson, the Big Takeover, the New York Waste, Under the Volcano, LP/CD liner notes...I'm a real music geek...
Heroes
RICHARD MELTZER, Iggy Pop, Greg Ginn, David Yow, Blag Dahlia, Adny Shernoff, Lester Bangs, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess.
About me: I write about music. I hate the term "critic" because it implies that I know what I'm talking about. I don't. I can tell you what I like and don't like and that's about as far as it goes. Quite honestly, the writing aspect is a hell of a lot more important to me than my idiotic opinion.
Feel free to send me CDs to review. I can't guarantee I'll like everything, but I'll be honest. And if I like what you do I may just consider an interview for the New York Waste.
So send vinyl and/or CDs to:
chuck.foster
POB 643
New Suffolk, NY 11956
Music Background ULTRABASTARD! (formerly JAKKHAMR HYPOCRYT), lead vocals/lyricist/guitarist, Long Island, NY, 2003-present
Ghoatefische, noisician, Los Angeles, CA, 1997-present
Pope Goat VII, lead vocals/lyricist/improvisational composer/multi-instrumentalist, LA/NY, 1999-present
Eckankore, noisician, Los Angles, CA, 2000-present
the Quiet Sickness, electronics, Long Island, NY, 2006
+DOG+, noise (album only: "Fantasmas Mirandome"), 2006
Optimus Prime, guitarist, Long Island, NY, 2004-2005
Maggot, guitarist, NYC, 2002
Leopold, lead vocals/lyricist, Los Angeles, CA 1998-1999
Twitch Party, lead vocals/lyricist/composer, Los Angeles, CA, 1996-1998
deng, noisician, Los Angeles, CA, 1997
Who I'd like to meet: Art-minded folks who aren't completely full of themselves. Bands are always welcome, as are fans of my writing. However, if you just want to tell me about paid surveys online, how I can get really cool ringtones or where I can watch you strip on a webcam for $5.95 a month, I'm simply not interested.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my new erotic horror novel THE 13TH is now in stores everywhere! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride!
There's even a website devoted just to the book, with an interactive map of the places and characters at www.the13th-horror.com.
Edward Lee called THE 13TH "A double-barreled shotgun blast of macabre entertainment -- an expert amalgamation of grotesquerie, eroticism, mystery, and pitch-black occult horror that no fan of the genre can miss."
And Gary A. Braunbeck said, "John Everson's The 13th is the first out-and-out horror novel in a long while to actually scare the **** out of me while reading it. It's stylish, extremely well-written, filled with richly-drawn characterizations, and boasts a labyrinthine plot worthy of Umberto Eco. Trust me -- this one will fry your nerves and break your heart."
- A 'Muzikvideo' by Radiomuzik - Warning: This video contains images that may disturb, offend, or anger some. Conversely it may humor and amuse others. Also, this video may or may not condone/codemn the following- WAR, NAZIISM, HELTER SKELTER, RELIGION, NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION/DISARMAMENT, POLICE BRUTALITY, NEUROSES, PARANOIA, FEAR, ANGER, HATRED, GEORGE W., DEATH, DESTRUCTION, DECAY, BAD ART, & THE FREE CULTURE MOVEMENT. We sincerly hope you enjoy it. -Radiomuzik
Yeah man Doctor Butcher fucking rules. they would be cool if you could sent media blasters our links. in what way did you mean they might be able to hook us up? eventually we wanna try to get our own wesite going. its kinda lame to have to put your shit up on youtube
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel SACRIFICE is now in stores everywhere, including Amazon.com! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride! Here are a couple reviews it's gotten so far:
“SACRIFICE is a full frontal assault on your senses. It is a dark, brutal, bloody and terribly frightening book. Everson went deep into some dark abyss to bring this book to the light of day.... I highly recommend SACRIFICE.” —Famous Monsters of Filmland
“John Everson manages in SACRIFICE to dispense buckets of blood, provide edgy perversity, and walk the tenuous tightrope of horror and sex without falling: It’s rather an amazing feat.” –Hell Notes