Night Gallery was the follow-up show to the Twilight Zone and featured Rod Serling in an art gallery unveiling paintings that depicted the story ahead. I only know about it because it is parodied in a Halloween episode of The Simpsons. I don’t think it was as popular in the UK; over here we are all about Michael Aspel. Read more »
Posts Tagged ‘gatekeeper’
White Car world
I don’t want to ruin your perception of me, but when it comes to research I’m not exactly Umberto Eco. What does that old Italian trollop know about art rock though? Nothing, that’s what. So when I was googling “White Car” I found a site called White Car World, which is exactly that, a blog devoted to pictures of white cars with accompanying press releases (if it’s a new model) or alternatively just a brief love note to that model in white. It’s basically a site for white car fetishists and is possibly the most boring blog I have read in my life. Read more »
20 Jazz Funk Greats - come and dance
If you haven’t experienced the maximalist, John Carpenter freestyle magik of Chicago’s Gatekeeper yet then you really need to acquaint yourselves now. Designed to make you want to trance-dance naked inside opulent giallo cathedrals as the sky darkens outside and demonic shadows conjure in the clouds, Gatekeeper’s music plays like a fever-dream of half-remembered horror movies from the 1980s. It’s all smudged lipstick, faceless men in trench coats that conceal horrific secrets, and sacrificial voodoo halls painted in blood hidden away in a vast and ominous metropolis overseen by men with black eyes and sharp suits.
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