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Lacuna Coil logo

Music >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.lacunacoil.com/

A gothic/”alternative” metal band, who I know from their days of opening for The Gathering.

They were really great, but like their peers they slid downhill. Andrea Ferro ruins pretty much every song he’s in, and I’ve always wished him completely removed from the band.

TODO – Select songs
TODO – import notes

(They don’t appear to have a logo!)

Music >

(on Wikipedia)
https://gathering.nl/

They could alternately be called metal or “alternative rock”, whatever the fuck that means.

My favourite songs are more ambient/atmospheric or focus strongly on Anneke van Giersbergen‘s strong vocals.

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Codehunters (2006) 1
Definitely not Tiny Tina
Definitely not Tiny Tina

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://vimeo.com/7432584
https://web.archive.org/web/20180806095234/www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/mtv_codehunters

I heard of Codehunters from one of those idiotic “10 things you didn’t know”-type YouTube videos. It had a reference to Borderlands – (2009 game) having artwork similarity.

However, it turns out to be Kotaku’s usual bullshit “journalism” based on a reddit comment thread. No, really. For all anyone knows, Kotak-eww made it all up.

Overall, this short is decent. Good enough to deserve the recognition it did. There are plenty of other similar styles and stories which are like this though.



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Criminal Activities (2015) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3687310/

A group of friends gets in deep and bumbles into crime to settle things.

Reminds me a lot of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – (1998 movie) crossed with The Usual Suspects – (1995 movie). Overall it’s fair, but not that great and absolutely not worth a second watch.



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What We Do in the Shadows (2014) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/
was robert-appierdo-pdej.squarespace.com/deliciousnecks

A mockumentary about four vampire flatmates in New Zealand.

Bad. This is supposed to be comedy. I’m not laughing. From what little I saw, I doubt it will get any better.



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The Hateful Eight (2015) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460252/
was thehatefuleight.com

Some people with accents drive a carriage through the snow and talk a lot.

Oh god, this was supposed to be good? If it can’t get interesting in the first half an hour then why in the fuck should I continue watching?



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https://web.archive.org/web/20190807131131/http://www.zaplet.org:80/adzapper/

A software application that can block ads from being displayed on your web browser.