From the author of Zodiac comes The Girl in Hitchcock's Shower, a shockingly true chronicle of the life and times of Marli Renfro, (best known for her role in Psycho as Janet Leigh's nude body double) and a dweeby serial killer named Sonny, whose resemblance to Norman Bates was eerie, to say the least. Set in the seedy Hollywood of the 60s, Marli and Sonny's odd lives would end up crossing in the strangest and most unexpected of ways. 
Friday, March 19, 2010
The Girl In Hitchcock's Shower
From the author of Zodiac comes The Girl in Hitchcock's Shower, a shockingly true chronicle of the life and times of Marli Renfro, (best known for her role in Psycho as Janet Leigh's nude body double) and a dweeby serial killer named Sonny, whose resemblance to Norman Bates was eerie, to say the least. Set in the seedy Hollywood of the 60s, Marli and Sonny's odd lives would end up crossing in the strangest and most unexpected of ways. 
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Lucifer's Masquerade
The Lucifer's Masquerade is coming on Saturday, October 30th, 2010 to New Orleans!
This special weekend will be held in conjunction with the Memnoch Ressurection Ball on Friday,
October 29thby the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club.
Discount VIP tickets are only $75 (limited number) and special hotel rates
available until April 1st, 2010. These prices will go up to $99 after and hotel rates
will drastically increase. For more info click HERE
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Top Halloween Tunes to Freak out Your Eardrums
As you all know, my mom's favorite holiday is halloween. Growing up we had halloween decorations around the house year round. We had a Skeleton that sat on a bench in the front yard and stayed up until after christmas. For christmas, he wore a santa hat. Even today my mom has a skull on top of one of her curio cabinets that is currently wearing pink bunny ears for easter. So all that being said - its never too early to plan for halloween. Here are 9 songs that are good year round, but will serve you well at your next halloween party. I say 9 because the last one is some sort of rap song...
My favorite is I Was a Teenage Warewolf by the Cramps...what's yours?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Emo and goth music to be made illegal in russia
The Russian government is in the process of drafting a law to make emo and goth music illegal.
Last month a parliamentary committee was convened to discuss a draft proposal of the Russian government's Government Strategy In The Sphere Of Spiritual And Ethical Education bill, the details of which were leaked to The Moscow Times. The newspaper subsequently reported that, among other things, the draft bill dubbed the musical movements a "dangerous teen trend" and called for emo and goth websites to be regulated and young people dressing like emos or goths to be banned from entering schools and government buildings.
The newspaper interviewed one of the bill's authors, Igor Ponkin from the Russian Interior Ministry's Public Oversight Council. Ponkin called emo a "social danger" and "a threat to national stability" and said the bill is a reaction to teen suicides such as the tragic death of British teenager Hannah Bond.
"This type of behaviour is a crucial part of emo ideology," said Ponkin. "Of course there are emo teens who just listen to their music. But our actions are not directed at them but rather at those who also hurt themselves, commit suicide and promote those acts."
The Moscow Times also interviewed psychologist Inna Cherkova who said:
"Suicide is not a symptom of emo culture. I work with other teens too, and every group has emotionally troubled kids."
However, the bill is expected to become law in Russia before the end of the year.
Vau De Vire Event!- San Francisco
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 9:00pm
Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 2:00am
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Woman comes to life during autopsy
Funeral workers in Colombia got a bit of a surprise when a supposedly dead woman they were preparing for burial started breathing and moving.
Surgeons surgery doctors Doctors repeatedly failed to resuscitate the woman before she started breathing again in the funeral home
The woman had been pronounced dead hours earlier at a hospital in Cali, in western Colombia, after she suffered multiple organ failure due to complications related to multiple sclerosis.
After multiple resuscitation attempts had apparently failed, the doctors pronounced the woman dead and sent her to the funeral home.
But as the workers began to apply formaldehyde to her body, she started breathing again and began making movements.
Doctors identified it as a case of 'Lazarus syndrome', an extremely rare phenomenon in which the circulation spontaneously restarts after failed resuscitations.
The woman was returned to the hospital, where she remains in a coma.
* This is a re- post due to html issues
New Book! The Addams Family- America's Favorite Gothic Family
Addams Family fans! There is a wonderful new book out about America's Favorite Gothic family from Pomegranate Communications entitled The Addams Family: An Evilution.
If you are anything like me, you watched the T.V. Show The Addams Family faithfully. But did you ever wonder where the Addams Family started? I did, and I really enjoyed learning more about this creepy, kooky family, how each character came to be, and the man behind the pencil! There are 10 chapters, one for each main character- including the house, which is a character unto itself!
“Why can’t you just spank us like the other mommies?”
If you are expecting to already know all about Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Thing, Lurch and the extended family because you watched the T.V. show, you will be in for a few surprises. They are even more delightfully morbid than you imagined! And if you were fortunate enough to be familiar with the cartoon series then this book will be an extra treat for you since there are 50 images in this book that are in print for the first time!
A few of the Addams Family cartoon characters had their debut in a 1938 issue of the New Yorker magazine, but they were not know as the Addams Family at the time. Their creepy, spooky humor caught on, later moving to television and even the silver screen.
This is a nice book, beautifully printed, interesting and full of pictures (over 200 of Charles Addams illustrations) I have included a few of my favorites here- used with permission. This book would make a great gift as well, so pick one up for yourself and for the darkling in your life. I highly enjoyed it and will covet it for years to come.
“Just the kind of day that makes you feel good to be alive!”
Here is a little wikihistory on Charles Addams:
Charles Samuel Addams ( January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two cartoon series, three motion pictures, and a play.
His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956. There are many collections of his work, including Drawn and Quartered(1942) and Monster Rally (1950), the latter with a foreword by John O'Hara. Typical of Addams's work, one cartoon shows two men standing in a room labeled "Patent Attorney." One is pointing a bizarre gun out the window toward the street and saying, "Death ray, fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up!"
“The little dears! They still believe in Santa Claus.”
Dear Dead Days (1959), one of the rarest Addams books, is not a collection of his cartoons (although it reprints a few from previous collections); it is a bizarre scrapbook-like compendium of vintage images (and occasional pieces of text) that appealed to Addams's sense of the grotesque, including Victorian woodcuts, vintage medicine-show advertisements, and a boyhood photograph of Francesco Lentini, who had three legs.
Addams kept a collection of crossbows on the wall of his study and used a little girl's tombstone for a coffee table, but Janet Maslin, in a review of an Addams biography for The New York Times, wrote, "Addams's persona sounds cooked up for the benefit of feature writers ... was at least partly a character contrived for the public eye," noting that one outré publicity photo showed the humorist wearing a suit of armor at home, "but the shelves behind him hold books about painting and antiques, as well as a novel by John Updike."
Addams's popularity is reflected in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest; Cary Grant references Charles Addams in the auction scene. Discovering Eve with Mr. Vandamm and Leonard, he says, "The three of you together. Now that's a picture only Charles Addams could draw." He is also mentioned as "Chas Addams" (how he usually signed his cartoons) in Edward Eager's fantasy novel Knight's Castle.
After his death a cartoon ran depicting his Addams Family standing vigil before his grave while Addams crawled out the other side. A Charles Addams Art Scholarship was founded in 1991.
Addams died September 29, 1988, at St. Clare's Hospital and Health Center in New York City, having suffered a heart attack while parked in his car. An ambulance brought him from his apartment to the hospital, where he died in the emergency room. As he had requested, a wake was held; he had wished to be remembered as a "good cartoonist."
All images © Tee and Charles Addams Foundation / Courtesy Pomegranate Communications.
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