Interview: Scissorfight
(this interview originally appeared as the cover feature for issue #33 of Modern Fix Magazine in 2002).
– interview by bushman
Purity is hard to come by in rock and roll.
Oh sure, many have mastered the cloning of the retro-rock formula to varying degrees of “rockin”, but it’s the elusive quality of purity in the motivations and executions that is so rare in today’s rock scene. One has to bring a flashlight and start looking in the corners where the spotlight of music “scene” rarely if ever shines. I’m talking the rural America that breeds the hunters, the drinkers, the brawlers… the rockers. People so untainted by what’s “cool” in rock and roll that it becomes an almost inbred sound, bastardizing upon itself rather than soaking up all the influences that assault and water down the popular market. Now take that environment and mix in a healthy dose (literally) of drugs and alcohol and filter it through a grad school education in Ame
“Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots, friend and manager Lou Pitt said in a statement to Deadline. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.”
Through each of the ensuing decades, he went on to appear in high-grossing and critically acclaimed films, branching out in the 2000s and 2010s to lend his distinct, dignified rasp to memorably-voiced characters in numerous video games and animated films.
Late Night in the Reagan Era: Swimming Upstream on A Personal Horror Journey (PART 4)
B Harrison Smith discussed late-night horror in the Reagan Era! By B Harrison Smith Editor’s Note: B Harrison Smith is well known to horror fans as the writer/director of The Fields, Death House, and Camp Dread. He also directed The Special, released in 2020.
HBO where I got my fix of blood, boobs, babes and horror.
Summer late nights, Christmas breaks from school all allowed you to watch after hours. The parents went to bed and you got to tune into the movies you missed in theaters, due to the “R” rating, limited release or maybe you just didn’t have the guts to watch on the big screen.
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Horror Punk: the conversation always starts with the Misfits. No exceptions. They are the originators, the ones who took 50s garage pop and laced it with the most gruesome things Glenn Danzig s mind could imagine. But that doesn t mean the conversation ends at the Misfits there s a lot more out there. That s why we tapped Anders Manga of occult rock duo Bloody Hammers to get you more acquainted with things.
My intro to horror punk was actually via Metallica. When I was a kid, a friend of mine from the neighborhood had a copy of their
Garage Days Re-Revisted EP, which had a cover of The Misfits’ Last Caress on it. I’d never heard of Misfits but knew I had to find some of their records. This was pre-internet so that meant going from record store to record store digging through crates until you found something.