Monthly Archives: February 2009

Friday the 13th (2009)

Movies

Saw it tonight and I really liked it. The only real complaints I have are the standard horror cliche kind; why are you going over there? Why the fuck would anyone do that? type stuff. Annoying, but nothing too obnoxious.

I really, really liked how this movie looked. The whole movie was just really well made. I’ve become a big fan of Marcus Nispels’ directing style (this and TCM). There are some really beautiful shots and set ups, sneak up Jason was in full effect. I’d like to see him do the new Nightmare movie. It felt true to the series while altering bits and pieces here and there, I like this take on Jason a lot more than the zombie Jason. Felt more believable, while keeping that menacing quality as a huge force that could stalk or pounce at a moments notice. The tunnels were cool to explain how he could pop around
really fast and running Jason was just cool to see.

I thought the kills were…tasteful. After a lot of ultra gore the past few years I thought it was a good idea to reel it back a bit with some pretty brutal shit here and there to punch it up. Sure, it falls short on the real creative elements but it all looked really believable and the body count is pretty high.

I don’t see why it’s getting brutalized by critics, the whole audience I was with seemed to all have fun and it was actually genuinely funny at parts. The dude that screams in the cop car was fucking hilarious and the 3rd set of bare titties are just fantastic.

Go see it.

Slipknot at MSG

Music

I could write some long bullshit, but I’ll just post this video and say it was a hell of a show. I tip my hat to the lighting designer(s), it was brilliant. The set list was mostly older stuff, one or two tracks from the last album All Hope Is Gone. Solid from start to finish, the beginning was brilliant with (sic) and the end with Spit It Out was just balls out.

ross robinson interview

Music

Ross Robinson produced the first 2 Korn albums and he is lined up to go for another round on their next album. This is very exciting for me as seen in this recent interview. He’s got a strong connection to Davis so my expectations for their time in the studio together is up there to say the least. They should be in the studio by the end of this year.

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And what’s coming next for you? You’ll be working with Korn again soon, right?

Yeah, I want to get started with the Korn sessions as soon as possible. I want this next record of theirs to be like their first two records, when it was all of us in a room together, just hashing everything out. I’ve never jumped into the world of overabundance; it gets really overwhelming to be on that side of success. Success feels so deep and current because it happens in a moment, but that moment is always taken away just as quick as it was given. I have a lot of tools now that will decompose them back to what they were when they were just young, hungry musicians. It’s not even about me saying, “I knew you guys when you were nothing.” It’s more like, “I knew you guys when you were everything—no money or attachment to possessions.” They had a knowing back then that they were the maddest motherfuckers on the planet and because of that, they were. This coming album isn’t even an ego-breaking thing—it’s more of a welcoming them back home.

Do you think it will be difficult without original drummer David Silveria?

David is such a crucial part of their sound. The perfect, technical drummer means nothing to me—I want the creative, passionate drummer. People think he had bad rhythm and tempo, but what they didn’t realize was that he was following Jon’s vocals instead of the guitars. Duh! Fuck these people who try to make every aspect of the music perfect and every drumbeat in its perfect place. Clean, polished drum tracks have no place in my studio, and if you don’t get that concept, then you don’t belong in my studio either. People like David get that, and they play from the place where creation is just waiting to jump out. The other lifeless players play from a place of image and desire and they are the reason why I throw things at people’s heads in my studio.