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TERRORGRAM - Filmmaker Jason Yu discusses his feature film debut, SLEEP, with FEARS Magazine's executive editor, Joseph B Mauceri.

In Jason Yu’s feature film debut, SLEEP, he introduces us to Newlyweds Hyun-su, an aspiring actor, and Soo-jin, a successful executive, who have their domestic bliss up-ended when Hyun-su begins speaking in his sleep. He sits up in bed and ominously states, “Someone’s inside.” From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, Hyun-su sleepwalks doing bizarre things, with no recollection of what happened the night before. Overwhelmed with anxiety that he may hurt himself or their young family, Soo-jin can barely sleep because of this irrational fear.

Is Hyun-su’s behavior a result of a medical condition or a more sinister underlying cause? Despite treatment and taking precautions, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking intensifies, and Soo-jin begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger. With her options running out, she turns to her mother and her shaman to look into alternative causes and solutions.

Director Jason YU was not a film major. He storytelling as part of a literary writing course in college. After his military service, he immersed himself in films, watching building a true passion for the cinema. Jason joined a film club and began creating short films, among his 8 short films his film VIDEO MESSAGE that was screened in the competition sections of the Seoul Independent Film Festival and IndieForum Film Festival. His short film THE FAVOR won the Fantastic Short Film Award at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. His short film work lead to him working as one of the assistant directors on films like SECRETLY, GREATLY and OKJA, as well as translating English subtitles for BURNING. His desire to create genre films that audiences could enjoy, as well as his fascination sleepwalking, inspired by real cases of patients with the disorder, YU wondered about the daily lives of those around the affected individuals, including their families.

FEARS Magazine's joseph B. Mauceri spoke with Jason YU shortly before the films US release on September 27th, 2024, from Magnet Releasing.

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Species, MGM, Sil, the Ghost train, and frustrations of H.R. Giger by J.B. Mauceri - World of Fandom - Winter 1995

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Hope y'all enjoyed this weekend. Shout out to the true hero of Friday's show

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Get an expanded look of In Search of Gil Scott-Heron: The Godfather of Rap

Get an expanded look of In Search of Gil Scott-Heron: The Godfather of Rap #comics #comicbooks

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Out this week: In Search of Gil Scott-Heron (Titan, $29.99):

Thomas Mauceri and Seb Piquet tell the story of Gil Scott-Heron, the jazz musician, poet and spoken word artist who wrote The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and is considered to be the godfather of modern rap and hip hop.

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

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Movimento 5 Stelle Alessandria Sostiene la Prosecuzione dei Lavori per il Parco Smistamento

Un passo fondamentale verso una logistica sostenibile e una migliore qualità della vita nel territorio alessandrino.

Un passo fondamentale verso una logistica sostenibile e una migliore qualità della vita nel territorio alessandrino. Il Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) di Alessandria esprime grande soddisfazione per l’annuncio della prosecuzione dei lavori relativi al Parco Smistamento Alessandria, un progetto che da sempre rappresenta una priorità per il miglioramento del territorio locale. Questa infrastruttura,…

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Una enmienda a la vanguardia

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El director de orquesta neoyorquino John Mauceri reivindica la música de los exiliados europeos en USA como la gran tradición clásica del siglo XX

A John Mauceri (Nueva York, 1945) muchos lo conocimos cuando en la década de 1990 participó como director en una serie que el sello Decca empezó a publicar con el título genérico de Entartete Musik (Música degenerada), en la que se pretendía recuperar la música de los compositores ridiculizados (y prohibidos) por los nazis en una famosa exposición con ese nombre (Düsseldorf, 1938) que era réplica de una anterior más importante sobre el arte pictórico (Entartete Kunst). Aquellos discos restauraron música olvidada de algunos compositores de notable reputación (incluidos Weill, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky o Hindemith) y la de otros reconocidos especialmente por su actividad en la música de cine (de Korngold a Waxman), pero sobre todo puso en valor nombres que eran por completo ignorados, incluso por los más eruditos: Hass, Ullmann, Krása, Schreker, Schulhoff, Krenek, Wolpe, Braunfels, Rathaus, Goldschmidt, Strassfogel...

La mayoría de estos músicos eran judíos: algunos murieron en los campos nazis; otros emigraron a los Estados Unidos. Mauceri considera que con ellos no se ha hecho justicia, pues las circunstancias políticas determinaron que, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, desde las más altas instancias públicas occidentales se privilegiara la más radical creación experimental, que rompía radicalmente con la tradición de la música clásica que estos compositores representaban, y este libro es una encendida defensa de la necesidad de volver a poner su legado en el centro del repertorio orquestal de nuestros días.

Esta consideración de la vanguardia de la posguerra como auténtica herramienta política había sido ya analizada por Alex Ross en su famoso bestseller El ruido eterno, en el que profundizaba en la ingente cantidad de recursos empleados desde el gobierno americano para fomentar una música que rompiera con la alta consideración que los alemanes tenían de su propia tradición, y ello como recurso de guerra psicológica para socavar su prestigio no sólo estético o intelectual, sino moral. Mauceri considera que lo que podría haber sido una experiencia meramente temporal se consolidó durante la Guerra Fría, ya que el nuevo enemigo era una URSS que también, como el Reich, condenaba las prácticas modernistas. La música se convirtió en un arma de combate. El apoyo oficial –y no sólo de los gobiernos, sino de entidades privadas y un ejército rocoso de intelectuales y críticos– se dirigió a las vanguardias emergidas de la posguerra en torno al serialismo (sobre todo, en Europa) y la indeterminación (en USA) rompiendo radicalmente la línea central de la evolución clásica. Eso se llevó por delante no sólo a la exitosa tradición posromántica, creada en torno a la escuela de Strauss y Mahler, sino también a la ópera italiana que culminó en Puccini, cuyos sucesores se vieron contaminados por el fascismo. El resultado es bien conocido: la fractura entre la nueva música y el público, atraído mayoritariamente por las corrientes de la música popular y muy alejado de lo que algunos pomposamente llaman música de creación (como si las canciones pop nacieran de las setas).

La ficha La Guerra y la Música. Los caminos de la música clásica en el siglo XX John Mauceri. Traducción de Lorenzo Luengo Madrid: Siruela, 2024 (edición original, 2022). 299 páginas. 26 € (ebook: 12.99 €)

En un breve ensayo que publicó también Siruela en 2003 (El alma de Hegel y las vacas de Wisconsin), Alessandro Baricco se lamentaba ya de que se hubiera quebrado la línea de Puccini y Mahler. Aquel texto de Baricco fue tildado en su día de polémico e incluso provocador. Y es que el discurso del dogmatismo vanguardista de los años 60 y 70 había llegado aún muy fuerte a finales de siglo. Hoy la arremetida de Mauceri contra la vanguardia de la posguerra –muy significativamente contra Pierre Boulez, al que, con razón, categoriza como el hombre más poderoso de toda la música clásica en el siglo XX–, es vista con absoluta naturalidad e incluso con una creciente simpatía en un medio musical cansado de lo que el director americano llama “eterna adolescencia” de la vanguardia.

La reivindicación de Mauceri va en cualquier caso un poco más allá. El exilio europeo en Estados Unidos, que incluía a Schoenberg, Korngold, Hindemith, Weill, Waxman, Rózsa, Steiner, Reiner, Walter... –¡y a Gershwin, Copland o Bernstein como emigrantes de segunda generación!– no sólo trasladó la tradición de la música de concierto europea a América, sino que creó una tradición original, la de la música para el cine, que no era otra cosa que la traslación de Wagner –al que considera el gran inventor de la música fílmica– a un entorno nuevo. Mientras la vanguardia oficial y sus altavoces mediáticos utilizaban el término “hollywoodiense” de forma despectiva y hacían música consumida en pequeños cenáculos de expertos, el gusto mayoritario se moldeaba con las creaciones épicas y conmovedoras que se difundían desde las pantallas, una música que Mauceri considera tiene –aunque no siempre, reconoce– poder autónomo y que debería figurar junto a las obras de concierto escritas durante décadas por los compositores tonales en los programas de las grandes orquestas internacionales. Y de hecho, aunque lentamente, eso es lo que está pasando ya: uno ve a la Filarmónica de Viena��tocando en la Sala Dorada del Musikverein la Marcha Imperial de Star Wars bajo la batuta de John Williams en un concierto grabado por Deutsche Grammophon y entiende que los tiempos están cambiando. Mauceri apostilla: el gran reto de futuro (casi de presente) para los compositores está en los videojuegos y el carácter interactivo que se exige para su música.

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Listen...

I'm a soda junkie (my terrible teeth can attest to that). I used to drink a 2 Liter of Mountain Dew every day for a couple of years when I was up all night writing my other screenplays, and I am always up to try new flavors (I'm still missing Mango Pepsi 😞) of most brands. But I won't drink Fanta and haven't in ten years; I drank it once in Slovakia when there was nothing else at the little vending machine where I was waiting for the train...they had Peach Fanta, so I tried it... wasn't bad, wasn't great.

Fun fact for those who don't know, or a friendly reminder for those who do: Fanta was invented for Nazi Germany.

With that one exception, I don't buy Fanta, hadn't/haven't for several years upon learning that little tidbit. Sure, I should also eschew all Coke products for being Nazi collaborators, but I don't buy much Coke or Coke products either (though sometimes I just crave a Mexican Coke since there's real sugar in it). I stick to mostly Pepsi products — Gatorade 😶, mostly — and for about a couple of years back, I'd have a 20 ounce of Sunkist Orange every day, because I developed a taste for orange soda somehow after years of hating it (though that was the same with Gatorade...I hated it growing up, but living in a place where I sweat a lot and don't tolerate plain water very well, my taste buds started accepting it). It became my favorite flavor, and if Junkie Cat Lady (a.k.a. Neighbor Wife) was still around, she could attest to that since she would bring me a Sunkist any time she wanted something from me. It isn't the best orange soda by any means...I like Frostie Orange (I also loooove Frostie Blue, and always have one of those after finishing a chapter), but I love, looooove San Pellegrino Aranciata Rossa, which is probably my favorite. Their regular orange/Aranciata is pretty great too. Alta Palla (organic, with fair trade sugar and minimal ingredients) also has a good blood orange flavor, but it's hard to find for me here. My second fruit flavor fave is strawberry, unless you count Coco Rico, which is a Puerto Rican brand of coconut extract soda. I could mainline Coco Rico for the rest of my life. For me, that stuff is liquid gold.

All of that said...I know you bitches are gonna be buying the shit out of this crap because of the cans, but can we not.

God damn it. Why'd it have to be orange? And FANTA, for fuck's sake.

As an old and cranky adult I really can't stand movie tie-ins (like those ridic Fudge Stripes I posted the other day). Hell, I can't stand celebrity promoted products, since they're just doing it for the bag and pushing unhealthy shit on people (like that Doritos Dinamita garbage Ortega so cutely promoted in that Superbowl commercial...their taste was mid and 'off' to me, and I got sick...it was only after I read the ingredients to see that they put fucking sucralose, a.k.a. Splenda, in those damn things, and my body doesn't tolerate that crap well at all...why do honey mustard chips that already have sugar, molasses, brown sugar AND honey in them need sucralose?! Sucralose is garbage and, like all NNSes, alters your gut biome and not for the better.)

Speaking of unhealthy and/or Only Assholes Do This Shit shit, another fun fact about that Superbowl commerical that I noticed immediately since I was a lifelong hardcore* One Life to Live fan: One of the abuelitas was portrayed by Patricia Mauceri, who played Carlotta Vega, Dorian Lord's maid until they gave pushed her into the forefront to tell the story of a poorer Latino fam amongst rich white people...and Mauceri was fired for not wanting to play Carlotta as accepting a gay kid because it conflicted with her religious beliefs, and before any y'all buffer her response with her soft lie that "it wasn't the story per se, it was how it was presented" (as she tried to say), she said quite plainly that "I was not only uncomfortable but I knew that it was going to be a betrayal of my character and my life." That's how Jesus Beaters and practicing Catholic religious Latinos can be. At least the other abuelita was portrayed by Olivia Negron (who portrayed a lesbian on 21 Jump Street in 1990)...but I digress.

The Gemini Collector in me is torn between my values and my desire to put the cans on my shelf along with the Superman/Wonder Woman can and the New York Seltzer cans that I've collected. I'll likely just cave, because my protests will go unheard and uncared for, just like every other goddamn thing I've 'stood for'. I mean, I stopped consuming Pepsi products for about ten years back in the 90s/beginning of the Naughties because they dropped Madonna's commercial due to the religious right's protests (her "Make a Wish" commercial that featured the song "Like a Prayer" (hat tip to Ryan Reynolds here) aired only once during The Cosby Show on March 2, 1989 and was pulled after religious groups got all pissy about the actual video, which aired the day after). Religion that gets in the way of art instead of encouraging it (and this includes book bans and all of the anti-gay shit) is brain rot, and that's what we're dealing with when we talk about Catholics (especially Latino Catholics...I should know, my father and his fam are all stereotypical Mexican Catholics) and the 🏳️‍🌈.

Once again, I digress. I can't blame the weed, so I'll blame the oxy.

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World Youth Day

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World Youth Day

UNICEF has launched an invitation on the occasion of the World Youth Day that occurs every year on 20 November. A request addressed to all to make it clear to governments all over the world what are the real needs of children. “Putting Children in Their Agenda” is the title of the invitation.

For years, Kiwanis International has made enormous efforts (just think that for the ONE K day that this year was October 27th, initiatives have been carried out for a total of one million hours and for an estimated value of 17 million US dollars! ). Unfortunately, this is not enough: children’s problems are often discussed, but almost always the reported data are followed with worrying indifference. Perhaps because it is thought that these are distant phenomena or do not concern Italy or Europe. But it is not like that.

Despite almost all the countries that signed the New York Convention on the Rights of the Child (more than 190) and ratified it (the only exception are the United States of America), the real situation of childhood continues to arouse major concerns, Not only in Africa or Asia or in the less developed regions of South America. Child problems such as those included in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, signed by all the countries of the world are far from having achieved the expected results.

Such as eliminate poverty. Despite the attempt to hide the problem (raising the absolute poverty line from 1.5 dollars a day to 1.9), the measures taken to reduce poverty did not produce the desired results. Poverty is still widespread. Also in Europe and in Italy. In many countries of the EU, including Italy (and Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Cyprus and Estonia), the situation worsens. To confirm it is the Eurostat report: in Italy poors are increasing (in 2008 they were 15.082 million, in 2017 they became 17.407 million or 28.9% of the national population). A problem that affects children in the first place: in Italy 1.2 million children and adolescents are in absolute poverty. Quite often they live in poorly lit streets full of dirt, do not breathe clean air and are subject to a high risk of crime, a figure that rises to 17.5% in the large urban areas of the south and the islands.

This poverty is often associated with another, equally serious: educational poverty. Basic education and education are also part of the SDGs. It is true that the scourge of primary education is slowly being reduced in many countries of Africa and Asia, but the quality of this education often is not enough and many children remain cut off from any kind of schooling since birth (several Kiwanis clubs are trying to fill this gap by helping centers in Africa – in Uganda for example – to educate less fortunate children). Once again, these are problems that closely affect Italy and Europe: in the old continent, many children are denied the opportunity to build a future. According to Tullio De Mauro, linguist and former minister of public education, less than a third of the Italian population would have the levels of understanding of writing and calculation needed to orientate themselves in the life of a modern society . Referring to the survey is called PIAAC, Program for International Assessment of Adult Compete which reports literacy levels in five groups for dozens of countries in the world, in Italy 70% of the population is below the two lowest levels. Sometimes, even within the same city, there are significant differences in the acquisition of school skills by minors. In Naples, for example, 15-52 year-olds without secondary school diploma are 2% to Vomero but if you move to Scampia this percentage becomes 20%. Even in the capital, in the neighborhoods where the most affluent families reside, north of Rome, graduates (more than 42%) are 4 times more than those living in the suburbs or in the eastern areas of the city (where they are less than 10% ). The same happens in Milan, where in Pagano and Magenta-San Vittore (51.2%) the graduates are 7 times those of Quarto Oggiaro (7.6%). And in Palermo (2.3% in Malaspina-Palagonia and 23% in Palazzo Reale-Monte di Pietà).

Poverty and low levels of education are often strongly linked: in Italy (as in the rest of the world), it is difficult to demand a high cultural level when there is “hunger”. Yet even “eliminating hunger in the world”, another of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals reveals impressive numbers: according to Save the Children, every day in the world, there are 7,000 children under the age of five who die from malnutrition. FIVE EVERY MINUTE! Girls and children living in countries affected by famines and droughts, afflicted by extreme poverty or torn by war and conflict, and who do not receive adequate food, clean water and medical care.

On the other hand, the opposite phenomenon are getting worse: obesity. Even in the richest countries on the planet (as in the USA and in Europe). Kiwanis International has been repeating it for years: the situation is getting worse. Even in Italy, where in some regions the percentages are reaching alarming levels. According to a survey promoted by the Ministry of Health, in some sample cities in Lombardy, Campania, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Puglia and Calabria, over 23% of children are overweight and over 13% are obese. Impressive data highlighting wrong and too sedentary lifestyles, the spread among children of incorrect eating habits. Childhood obesity has now become a global problem and a non-negligible risk factor for several chronic diseases, with serious consequences in adulthood. Suffice it to say that over the past 40 years the number of obese school children has more than increased tenfold from 11 million to 124 million. If they are added to the over 216 million overweight but not (yet) obese children, it is understood that this is a problem that all countries should take seriously.

According to UNICEF, more than 150 million children worldwide are forced to perform jobs that endanger their mental and physical health and condemn them to a life without leisure or education. Of these 76 million are very young: they are between 5 and 11 years old. And 73 million of them are forced to perform dangerous jobs, such as in mines or carrying excessive weights (19 million of them aged 12 or under). If it is true that the phenomenon of child labor is concentrated above all in the poorest areas of the planet, also in this case there are also cases of child laborers even in many countries that are not so underdeveloped.

In many African countries or in some “peace” wars in the Middle East, children are used as human shields, other are forced to take up arms and fight in tribal clashes that they do not understand and do not know. Clashes that cause millions of deaths and an even greater number of migrants fleeing their territory to move elsewhere. Sometimes without crossing national borders; other times over the border.

These are just some of the many facets concerning the lives of children. Aspects of which for years, individually (individual clubs or divisions) or synergistically (at national or international level) Kiwanis International deals with and for which it has often managed to find concrete answers. Problems, however, that to be completely resolved would require the help of everyone and the sharing of certain priorities.

Unfortunately, many aspects related to childhood talk too little and often the governments, after the celebrations for the World Youth Day, continue to pretend not to see what is the situation of millions of children before their eyes. Problems that do not occur only one day on November 20th. And who need the attention of everyone every day of the year. This is why it is important to “put children’s problems on their own agenda”.

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16 dicembre, macerata, "la stanza di ali": una mostra tributo per ricordare Aliberto Sagretti

Una mostra tributo per ricordare Aliberto Sagretti, Nella stanza-scatola sono esposti dei documenti che testimoniano solo una parte delle collaborazioni di Aliberto Sagretti come lighting designer. Tra queste però ce ne è una che ci dice qualcosa: quella con Robert Wilson, che sul finire degli anni Sessanta sconvolse tutti i parametri della rappresentazione con un teatro che trovava proprio nella…

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Playwright Clay McLeod Chapman & directed by Pete Boisvert talk with FEARS Magazine's executive editor Joseph B Mauceri about FEEJEE MERMAID.

On the eve of the 19th Annual International Taxidermy Championships, Lyman, Griffin, Lisette & P.T. - four experts of the trade have gather in Lyman’s hotel room. Fueled by an abundance of alcohol and the tension of competition, what initially begins as a friendly rivalry is transformed into a somber exploration of professional and personal repercussions stemming from the preceding year’s event. Central to their debate is the essence of creation, the pursuit of perfection, and the elusive capture of the enigmatic “spark.” As the night unfolds, one among them will demonstrate the unfathomable lengths they are prepared to go to push the boundaries of their craft, surpassing all preconceived notions of possibility.

FEEJEE MERMAID is a new play by writer Clay McLeod Chapman, directed by Pete Boisvert, and performances run through November 2 at The Flea, located downtown in New York City.

Clay McLeod Chapman, a weaver of macabre tales, he is a prolific author of books, comic books, children's books, and a 12-part horror podcast for Jordan Peele, as well as having written for film and television. His most recent novel is titled What Kind of Mother and Kill Your Darling.

Pete Boisvert is a director, actor, and graphic designer. He has produced and directed dozens of plays in NYC over the last 25 years, including Infectious Opportunity, The Adventures of Nervous-Boy, and The Brokenhearteds.

FEEJEE MERMAID is running through November 2, Tuesday — Saturday at 7:30pm, in The Siggy at The Flea located at 20 Thomas St, New York City. Tickets range from $30 — $45, and are available at www.dropsinthevase.com

Read Our Review of the Play - HERE

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Sucked Into Hell. Surrounded By EVIL! "Vampires and Other Stereotypes" reviewed! (Visual Vengeance / Blu-ray)

Hell Wants You To Stay for Dinner!  “Vampires and Other Stereotypes” on Blu-ray! Ivan and his hard-nose partner Harry work between the shadows as protectors of the Earth realm.  The pair of paranormal guardians battle demons attempting to sneak from the Netherworld for more domain and power in the human world.  After thwarting a demon’s reneging plans with a wealthy businessman, they find…

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge - October 28: This Month’s Favorite

In Search of Gil Scott-Heron by Thomas Mauceri, Art by Seb Piquet

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In Search of Gil Scott-Heron: The Godfather of Rap is a great introduction to the important musician

In Search of Gil Scott-Heron: The Godfather of Rap is a great introduction to the important musician #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Singer, poet, writer; considered to be the godfather of rap, Gil Scott-Heron is a myth and legend in the Afro-American music scene. Through his personal experiences, Thomas Maucéri allows us to discover the life of this genius along with other aspects of America’s recent history. Story: Thomas MaucériArt: Sébastien Piquet Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit…

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As a reminder, today is Juneteenth, and if you are able, please support Black businesses, teachers, game developers, and more today.

Buy books, reblog, and most of all, try not to ask Black creators to be educated today (or really ever). The internet is free!

Today, I want to highlight Joseph Mauceri, a friend of mine who has actually created Neon Nights content (a game that I made) and will be helping me with some projects in the future!

Joseph is an amazing writer and content creator, and it would mean the world to me to show your support today! His products are free, so just download them and pay him for his work if you can, or, if you can't, reblog and tell people about it!

His links are below! Please give them a look!