If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

This looks so good to me!

( Link to 1st trailer for Repo! The Genetic Opera )

Repo! The Genetic Opera was supposed to have been released April 25th, containing Bill Moseley and Skinny Puppy’s Ogre.

Now listing a release date of 08/08/08 on IMDB, it annoys me that this wasn’t released.

Is Lion’s Gate scared? It’s rumored that they’re dousing their drawers over the fact that it’s all singing, no dialogue.

C’mon, they unleased that Sweeney Todd turd (which had some redeeming qualities - visually, NOT the singing) and it managed to flourish.

Great synopsis of Repo here.

The Double-Nosed Andean tiger hound, Xingu is said to be intelligent and fond of salty biscuits.

“Other dogs snarl at Xingu, because they can sense he’s different. He’s the smallest dog there but he sees the other dogs off,” Colonel Blashford-Snell said.

“He’s very intelligent and with a wonderful sense of smell, as you might think.

They say he “[isn’t] a terribly handsome dog,” but I beg to differ, I think he’s a cutie! I bet he makes sniffy-sounds galore, at twice the power of your average dog! :D

I don’t know that I agree with ongoing breeding to perpetuate the double-nose, especially since the article mentions a majority of double-nosed puppies in one litter dying.

Breeding strikes me as an odd thing to inflict upon animals, especially having experienced it firsthand with my purebred cat. It’s unnatural, as in, this is not how it would transpire in nature, if they were left to their own devices.

While they have the desired traits specific to a breed, they also have increased odds for afflictions, sickness and mental disorders, also specific to that breed - all from the limited gene pool they’re drawing from.

It’s an odd form of genetic racism, inflicted upon animals by humans. I can see why it’s done, as characteristics and personalities vary wildly across breeds, but it’s still weird.

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Quotes from The Maxx (animated) by Sam Kieth that I couldn’t find elsewhere on the web:
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Julie: “Right now, you wait.”
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Sara: (reading poster) “And the day came, when the risk to remain closed in a bud, became more painful, than the risk it took to blossom.”

Whoever wrote this article hated his ass. However, they mention some things I’d not heard about him:

• He “suggested that the deepest way to demonstrate one’s love for another is to eat their excrement”
• Congratulated the dictator (Francisco Franco) on political tortures and assassinations
• Enjoyed hearing of transport disasters

It goes on to describe numerous other ways he was a pompous ass. Unsure of the validity behind the claims of the writer, but I love Salvador Dali’s work, especially his surreal, sultry portrait of Mae West.

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1st time to witness Skinny Puppy live last night. Fucking glorious! Goddamned intense! It takes something spectacular to extract me from my house and wedge me into a crowd of ppl, my aversion to this is strong.

Gut-rumbling bass, fucking loud… I wanted it even louder! ;) (Coincidentally, is why I always blow my car speakers & can’t hear shit.) I didn’t even realize my ears were ringing until I got home into silence. cEVIN Key = mad scientist let loose in sound laboratory, un-fucking-real. Cannot fathom how he does it & at that pace!

Ogre is so charismatic. Spoilers said he “hides” behind a curtain. It’s not really hiding, so much as silhouetted shadow-play, intricate designs. (I wanna figure out the logistics of that, as it would make for some neat photography.) The blood was plentiful. Uncooperative lighting pissed him off, but he went w/it, “giving it” to an offending light at one point. ;)

Wide sampling of their catalog was played, all of it excellent. Bad-ass merchandise, good quality & variety (stuff for chickies!).

Ok, here’s where I get into aesthetics, b/c as an artist I am allowed to fixate on visuals and be superficial. ;) These two are the most beautiful statuesque creatures, like the styling of Aeon Flux (cartoon), they’re fucking lovely.

Some of Ogre’s facial expressions were Hannibal Lecter-ish, cannot describe the beauty. (Disclaimer for raised eyebrows: it’s Hannibal’s intensity & demeanor I find appealing. Murder/cannibalism = not so hot.)

Went w/horror fetish extraordinaire Diana Graves, who commandeered a limo for this special occasion. Will post pictures of this on my MySpace later on.

Note for ppl seeing shows @ House of Blues: If you choke down some of their Southern-styled cooking, they let you in before those in line outside - at least, that’s what a poster there promised.