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A Brutal Christmas Album

December 15, 2006
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A Brutal Christmas Album

If you’ve read my article on Christmas music below, you probably noticed that the Omniculture has made itself thoroughly manifest in that area, providing an astonishing variety of music for the season, for every taste. And some for those with no taste at all, or at least an infinite sense of humor and boundless tolerance for chaotic assaults on the senses. Everything happens in the Omniculture, as I’ve noted, and the following post from CybersMusic illustrates that perfectly: it documents a death metal Christmas album. Thanks to Mike of CybersMusic for discovering this wonder of nature and troubling to listen to it. I hope that he is out of the psych ward by now, cor bless him. Here’s his review: A Brutal Christmas – The Season in Chaos Now that we’re into the 12 days of Christmas, it’s time to unleash the Christmas music. When I think of this holiday season, I don’t usually think of the word brutal, unless we’re talking about the crowds in the shopping malls. Thanks to my friend at work Mark, who shared this with me today. This is the funniest, yet absolutely worst idea ever! OMG, this redefines bad. Christmas songs, motorbated into death

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An Unconventional Christmas Movie

December 9, 2006
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An Unconventional Christmas Movie

  If you’re interested in seeing an unusual film set at Christmas, and a good one, you might want to take a look at The Ice Harvest, which was released to theaters about a year ago and is now available on DVD. For more info on the film, here is my review from Breakpoint: A Film of Second Chances By S. T. Karnick1/3/2006 The Ice Harvest Just as crime statistics are a good measure for gauging the health of a society, crime films can reveal common attitudes toward current social conditions—and the spiritual ideas behind them. The recent release of the movie The Ice Harvest is an interesting case in point. Although presented in advertisements as something of a zany caper film, The Ice Harvest is, in fact, a modern film noir. The action takes place mostly at night, on Christmas Eve, in snowy Wichita, Kansas, which is presented as a dreary town typical of America today. Like many modern crime films, The Ice Harvest presents an America rife with corruption but holding great possibilities for redemption. In these films, America is the Land of Second Chances. Hence both money and religion are central to the story. The film takes

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