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Manchester Orchestra & Jimmy Eat World Live Preview: 8/16, The Salt Shed, Chicago

Photo by Shervin Lainez

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Manchester Orchestra and Jimmy Eat World co-headline The Salt Shed tonight, so what have they been up to since we last caught up with them? The Atlanta rockers went right back to work after their 2021 career best The Million Masks of God with a song for a video game soundtrack, a non-album single, and most notably, an EP of songs from The Million Masks of God's recording sessions. The Valley of Vision (Loma Vista) is heavy on balladry, though in true Manchester Orchestra fashion, the songs build admirably, something which should shine live. Though lead single "The Way" is filled with five dollar metaphors, the song shines more due to its initially quiet piano and drum machine beats, exploding with synthesizer flashes and Andy Hull's expansive vocal performance. The pulsating "Quietly" is perhaps the album's best track, whispered vocal harmonies and rubbery bass lines snowballing into a barrage of panning keyboards and percussion and sharp electric guitars. Elsewhere, songs like "Lose You Again" and "Rear View" are comparatively raw, focusing on wiry fingerpicking and Hull's vulnerably creaky falsetto, respectively.

Photo by Jimi Giannatti

As for Jimmy Eat World? We're still waiting on a successor to 2019's Surviving (RCA), though they did follow the life-affirming standalone single "Something Loud" with the creeping "Place Your Debts". And though they probably won't play either tonight, the Arizona band and Manchester Orchestra celebrated this tour (appropriately dubbed The Amplified Echoes tour) by covering each other. Jimmy Eat World turned Manchester Orchestra's gentle "Telepath" from The Million Masks of God into a certified barnburner, while Manchester Orchestra stayed relatively faithful to the spaciousness of Clarity's "Table For Glasses". What they most certainly will play are highlights from each band's solid back catalog.

Tickets are still available at time of publication. Doors at 6:00 P.M.

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Slytherins 🐍

all named and confirmed Slytherins in Hogwarts Legacy 📜

Ominis Gaunt & Sebastian Sallow

Salazar Slytherin - Anne Sallow

Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black

Nerida Roberts - Imelda Reyes - The Bloody Baron

Professor Abraham Ronen

Grace Pinch-Smedley - Violet McDowell

Professor Aesop Sharp

Former Professor Charles Rookwood - Former Professor San Bakar

All Slytherins in Hogwarts Legacy, to the best of my knowledge and ability (but let me know if I missed anyone). I tried to make everyone up there look as good as possible, although poor Anne and her sunken cheeks broke my heart and yes, Sebastian and Ominis get to share a pic 💚

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Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) from Beetlejuice

[violentdelightsproductions]

Vol. 4 - The Witching Hour

Welcome gals and ghouls to our annual Halloween event, the fourth one. Time sure flies! We are well into October and it's time to get the spooky party started and you are all invited. We've been looking forward to it since last Halloween~

In the upcoming weeks leading up to Halloween, we are gonna be posting our gifsets, edits, all of which are horror-themed and inspired by various horror films and scary stories. Also, from this upcoming Thursday until Halloween, we will be posting a video every Thursday on our channel TheViolentDelightsProductions . As some of you know our original channel got taken down by youtube recently and we are working on rebuilding it. So we are very excited to be posting more stuff and we hope that you will check them out and like what you see. And in the meantime, we will be posting edits and gifsets for various fandoms and pairings over here on our blog @violentdelightsproductions

Finally, consider this update a blanket content warning. Most of the upcoming works include graphic themes such as horror, blood, violence, murder or attempted murder, flashing lights, death, bodily harm, self harm, guns, knives, strong language, suggestive or mild sexual content ( but not sexual violence) etc.

Hope all of you gals and ghouls have an amazing spooky season and hope to see all of you around as we celebrate the best time of the year. 

Stay tuned. More spooks to come soon~~

 -A

[jeongyunhoed]

officially looking for people to go bonkers with over Hogwarts Legacy because I can't brainstorm alone? no minors though, sorry. just hit me up if you'd like to be moots?

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Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Thinner Blu-ray, which releases on January 23. Based on Stephen King’s 1984 novel, the 1996 horror film is directed by Tom Holland (Child’s Play, Fright Night).

Holland co-wrote with Michael McDowell (Beeteljuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas). Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna star with Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wuhrer, and Bethany Joy Lenz.

Special features are listed below.

Audio commentary by producer Mitchell Galin and actor Joe Mantegna (new)

Audio commentary by film historians Lee Gambin and Aaron Dries (new)

Audio commentary by director Tom Holland and actor Joe Mantegna

Interview with director/co-writer Tom Holland (new)

Interview with actor Lucinda Jenney (new)

Interview with special make-up effects artist Vincent Guastini (new)

The Magic of Special Effects Make-Up featurette

Theatrical trailer

TV spot

Still gallery

Based on the riveting best seller, Stephen King’s Thinner stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna in a story of supernatural terror as one man faces a countdown to the ultimate excruciating payback. A 109-year-old Romani man (Michael Constantine), hell-bent on revenge for the death of his daughter, exacts a shocking curse that compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out from this bizarre and relentless torture, the accursed man must find a way to reverse his predicament, though death is quickly becoming his only option.

Pre-order Thinner.

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Scream Kings 6

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Shirtless Celebrities

James Cagney (1932)

Jeffrey Hunter And Robert Wagner (1951)

Rock Hudson (1956)

Christopher Walken (1969)

Tab Hunter And Roddy McDowall

Harpo Marx

James Dean

Robert Redford

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SLYTHERINS

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[girl-named-matty]

Choose your favorite Slytherin!

Other House Polls to come later💖

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The Summer Book (PG): Very Little Happens, But Beautifully.

One Mann's Movies Film Review of "The Summer Book". Beautiful but slow moving melancholic drama. 3/5.

(This is related to the book – there is only one published picture from the movie at the time of writing) A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Summer Book” (2024) (From the 2024 London Film Festival). I don’t know. You wait years for a gentle drama set in a Finnish Summer House and then two turn up at once! Hot on the heels of the excellent “My Eternal Summer” comes Glenn Close starring in “The…

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby Kiss Scenes: An Ideal Husband (1999) Part One.

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Favorite Blues Songs · Playlist

Robert Johnson · Elmore James · Howlin' Wolf · Muddy Waters · B. B. King · John Lee Hooker · Sonny Boy Williamson · Mississippi Fred McDowell · Lightnin' Hopkins · Willie Dixon · Memphis Slim · J. B. Lenoir · Blind Willie McTell · Skip James · Frank Stokes · Charley Patton, etc.

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Something to watch on New Year’s Eve: Get Crazy (1983), which is sort of like an R-rated episode of The Muppet Show crossed with Gold Diggers of 1933. It’s about trying to put on the greatest New Year’s Eve rock concert ever, while meanwhile an evil real-estate magnate is trying to destroy the theatre; the special guest who’s come out of his legendary seclusion to be in the show (Lou Reed playing a spoof of Bob Dylan) is taking the scenic route; a band booked for the 1968 NYE show have finally turned up (“Time’s a trip, man”) and a hundred other wacky things are going on.

Then there’s Electric Larry, the extraterrestrial drug-dealer:

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