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“Moogfest 2011″ by John Solimine

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Review by THE WANDERING EYE

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Astronaut.

I’ve always wanted to be an astronaut, and even now at 42 years old, I haven’t quite given up hope, so when Jeremy Marshall commissioned an illustration and said “… is there any chance of an astronaut featuring?” I jumped at the chance.

Make sure you check out Jeremy’s beautiful screen prints too.

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Drawn on heavy cartridge paper, with Copic Multiliners. Solid black added with a Pentel Pocket Brush.

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Arkham Asylum || Dave McKean & Grant Morrison

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DyE - Fantasy

The most disturbing, yet hauntingly beautiful music video you will ever see. 

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These videos.

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Here is a short horror movie called Lights out.

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funny games, 2007 (dir. michael haneke)

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The Cat With Hands 2001 / 3 min / Stereo

Directed by Robert Morgan

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Their work is amazing and everyone should know it.

Mothmeister “Wounderland”

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“This is one of my favorites" -Chris

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From our first show :)

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Waking Things: Scream When You’re Crazy

I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for concept albums. I have a deep respect for bands that are capable not only of writing an actual plot and setting it to music, but also finding as many ways as possible to expand into various media, really bringing the themes alive and adding new dimensions to the story. Waking Things, a relatively new Seattle band, is well on their first album Idee Fixe. Waking Things is the brainchild of prolific songwriter Chris Sicard, whose work might best be characterized as a kind of pop rock thing with overtones of broadway and littered with metal guitar riffs and high (for a dude) vocals. Cripes I’m terrible at describing music. Lets just say (and I don’t think he would be shy to admit this either), if you like Coheed and Cambria or the late Seattle-based Forgive Durden, you will probably dig his music. Idee Fixe in particular has danceable, headbangable, and scream-a-long-able covered, as well as a bit of cabaret and piano pastiche. But what really excites me about this project, as a long-time fan of Chris’ work, is Erika. As charming as she is fierce, she brings a real dynamic energy to the music and the show, exploding all over the stage and occasionally pulling back to whip out a keyboard part that shows she’s clearly holding back her full talent on the ivory. What happens when she and Chris combine efforts in layered vocal parts and harmonies is a magical, agitated trade-off between sweet and sinister, meek and powerful. For a story about a family and their struggles in and out of an Arkham Asylum-style mental institution, it feels pretty appropriate. Many of the innocent-sounding songs belie the dark content, and epic rock-out crescendos are just as often backing pleas for help as detached monologues recounting gruesome murders. Now, I don’t know much about music, but I know I scream when I’m crazy.

By the by, Brian on bass and Matt on drums are also fantastic (people and musicians), and keep things solid and driving. I just don’t know how to talk about drums and bass with any eloquence so they get to be a byline in this particular write-up. Apologies! Find Idee Fixe at: http://wakingthings.bandcamp.com/. Follow Waking Things at facebook.com/wakingthings.  A NEW ALBUM is set to release “probably in August” says Chris.

Top photo by Dani Winder facebook.com/DaniWinderMedia.