EXIT VECTOR Sources and Streams: “CANTARA”

Trista dons her battle helm… in the human year 36,827 BC The name Cantara came from a song by one of my favorite bands, the all-powerful DEAD CAN DANCE. The song itself is really awesome, mysterious, evocative. Turn it up loud… cantara-live4.m4a It doesn’t hurt that Lisa Gerrard’s vocals are at once ancient, alien, eerie. [...]

EXIT VECTOR: The Weekly Rap w/ MORI KIM MARR #4

• MORI: Ugh! Yeah, there she is! It’s Miss America! Let’s hear it for the girl! ME: Jesus, what? You look fine… MORI: I hate that picture. I look like roadkill. I look hungover. ME: But… but you’re always hungover… MORI: Yeah, and you’re not exactly Johnny Depp, dickwad. ME: Ah, but I am younger [...]

SUNDAY FUNNIES (Sort Of)

© MGM YEAH, YES, INDEED, YOU’RE RIGHT, I have been a less than perfect blogmonster. I have excuses—don’t I always?—but they’re actually pretty good ones: I’m on deadline for Monday’s Exit Vector installment (and it’s giving me grief, oh boo hoo), been reading a ton of shit at once, I owe feedback to several excellent [...]

ANOTHER ECLIPSE: SOLAR

• ON TUESDAY WE WITNESSED the longest full solar eclipse of the 21st Century. That’s not, “thus far;” Tuesday’s oracular occurrence will hold the record for a hundred years. Here’s a few more… • • • In other news, there are two new poems up at FIRES OF VENUS. “Banshee’s Love Song” and “Pyromantic” • [...]

EXIT VECTOR: The Weekly Rap w/ MORI KIM MARR #3

• ME: BACK from the DEAD! MORI: Oh yeah, that’s real cute. Sit down, motherfucker, I want to talk to you about that… ME: She is BACK from the GODDAMNED DEAD! MORI: Will you sit down and shut up for a second?! Jesus! SHUT UP! SIT DOWN! ME: I’m sitting. See? Sitting! MORI: So what [...]

VIDEOSCOPE: THE PHANTOM SPEAKS!

• I REMAIN IMMENSELY PROUD of the time I spent and the words I wrote in the pages of VideoScope Magazine. The publisher and editor, Joe Kane, AKA The Phantom of the Movies, the mysterious dude illuminated above, allowed me the opportunity to write about many films and topics dear to my dark heart: YAMATO, [...]

EXIT VECTOR: Saint Frost’s Evil Sister!

© Gustavo Lopez Mañas Now THAT is one bitchin’ Female Death Mecha Bot Droid Babe! From the stunning Mañas, whose work will be gracing the upcoming issue of COILHOUSE. (Oh, man, I want to submit this magazine… please, no snickers about the word  ’submit.’ Sigh. If you only knew, Dear Reader.) Real post coming later today! [...]

EXIT VECTOR: A WORD TO THE WISE…

• WHEN ON DEADLINE and not feeling the all-embracing cosmic love of The Muse, DO NOT look to The Mighty Ones for “help” or “inspiration.” Not theft, no way, never. Help. Inspiration. But they will NOT help you. They will laugh. LAUGH at your puny efforts! You will crumble. “Your powers are weak, old man!” [...]

SPOOKY MOODSWING: SPECTRES, SEANCE & SPELLS

Woof. Too much coffee. Feeling jazzed, unfocused, spooky. Moon’s still full and the wind’s still weird and though the votes aren’t in, I’m going to get a head start on Episode 3 of Exit Vector. But before I dive into the deadpool, I think it’s time for a random sampling of… SPOOKY LINKS! (Remember that [...]

EXIT VECTOR: The Weekly Rap w/ MORI KIM MARR, #2

• ME: Um… you know… a pint or two of Jack would go down really good right now… MORI: … ME: I used to do this all the time. Talk to the dead. Practically made a career out of it when I was a teenager. [pause] Younger than you… MORI: … ME: …and I would [...]

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