you should know NIGHT WALKER CINEMA

If you don't know we love indie movies and filmmakers here at Stranger With Friction, then you must be new around here.

Night Walker Cinema, with two shorts under their belt, is doing a crowd funding project for their first full length, The Dinner Guest.

James Neff and Joseph Dean Martinez seem like cool and smart people and the film looks pretty damn interesting. Check out the link here to see the teaser trailer and find out how you can help them reach their goal.

You can follow Jeff on Twitter @NightWalkerCnma

And don't forget to like them on facebook

King Vulture's Sound Attack

10,000 Page Views???

THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN READING THIS BLOG! Kind of a staggering number for some nobody from the South. I hope everyone keeps coming back!
-Tim/King Vulture

Vampire Lovers Reviewed

 From Hammer Films; In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.

While The Vampire Lovers features the great Peter Cushing, you'd hardly notice with Ingrid Pitt, Madeline Smith, and Pippa Steele spilling their ample breasts all over the screen. The film may not hold a candle to Hammer's Dracula or Curse of Frankenstein, but this is a fun and fantastic film regardless.
Pitt plays the notorious and lustful Mircalla who starts working her way through the young ladies across the countryside. The dirty twist is that Mircalla drinks her victim's blood from their left breast rather than the neck, saucy!
Some of the dialogue is hilariously loaded, like "It was a giant cat" "My mouth was full of fur".
The whole film exudes that classic Hammer atmosphere and though it's light on plot it still delivers on entertainment.

The Vampire Lovers would have benefitted from more blood, beheadings and boobs and less old dudes talking. Other than that I give it 3 Severed Thumbs Up.

Coming Soon...Transgressive Cinema

Film maker Nick Zedd coined the phrase Cinema of Transgression in his manifesto about the then burgeoning film underground in New York City, which included himself, Richard Kern, Kembra Pfahler, Tommy Turner, Beth B, and Lydia Lunch among many others. He linked the work they were doing back to mavericks like John Waters and Paul Morrissey who made uncomfortable and unconventional films.

 Transgressive art and literature have been with us for a long time, going back to the Dadaists and surrealists. Plenty of examples in literature and music and in films the Cinema of Transgression has grown well beyond the city limits of New York.

 Transgressive art pushes boundaries, bends social norms, offends, terrifies, but often with humor as much as violence. To try and list films that are or are not transgressive would be a fruitless task, especially when how much one film can vary from another; Geek Maggot Bingo is a far cry from Fight Club which is nothing like Julien Donkey Boy. So what do I hope to accomplish?

 I've put the call out for contributors, asking writers I know, to contribute pieces about individual films or directors that are considered transgressive. The purpose for this is much the same as My Heroes Have Always Been Monsters; to highlight certain films that are outside the mainstream and in some small way help save them from the dustbin of history.
Underground films are like old folk songs, you've got to keep passing them on to keep them alive. In this era of big budget, 3D, world in danger, mega-blockbusters, it's a breath of fresh air to watch Pink Flamingos or Right Side of My Brain or Doom Generation. Not because they are such rays of sunshine, but because they are obviously labors of love, made by people who were getting by by the skin of their teeth.

"My duty is to show what everyone else wants to ignore, hide, or consider taboo. My job is to get to the root of obsession." -Lydia Lunch
Read more at http://www.enjoy-your-style.com/lydia-lunch-quotes.html#W13XJ6ACqUTMfTlc.99 

I'm excited to see who winds up contributing, I'll start posting things as soon as I get them. I've got some reviews and resources I'm doing, there will be new Sound Attacks to tie in thematically and I'm going to start bugging people for interviews soon.
Meanwhile, new comics are coming, new reviews, and new chapters of My Heroes Have Always Been Monsters.
Stranger With Friction is 1 year old as of April 30th and we've had nearly 10,000 page views! Thank you SO MUCH to all our readers I hope you keep coming back as we start to roll into our second year!
Viva le Strange! And keep watching the sky, nerds!

King Vulture's Sound Attack

Years ago when I lived in Boston I worked with Chaz Mathews from The Dimestore Haloes. Great guy, great band. He made me a mix tape once, full of fantastic bands plus some demoes from the Haloes third album (if you don't have anything from the Dimestore Haloes, get your ass on itunes pronto!) The one band that stood out more than the others was a band called The Malakas. I'd never heard of them and there was only two songs, Girl From NA and Can't Find The Lord, but those two songs got soooo much repeated plays.
Here's a couple of singer/songwriter Cranford Nix solo performances and one full band...

Met A Girl At N.A.

Fuck You, Lorraine

Klonopins

Cranford Nix wrote great songs, The Malakas were an awesome band. But Cranford is sadly gone. Follow the link on his name to the website to listen to all his music. The website is important, seriously. When I first heard those two songs I looked everywhere for a full length album and checked the web and kept having no luck. I went digging on Youtube today and found these above plus a few others, but the real find was the website. I literally knew nothing about the person who wrote two of my favorite songs an hour ago. Welcome to your new favorite band.

King Vulture's Sound Attack

Johnny Cash...Thirteen

Waylon Jennings...Ain't No God In Mexico

Townes Van Zandt...Snake Mountain Blues

Joe Ely...Highways and Heartaches

Hank Williams...Alone and Forsaken

Rodney Crowell...Obscenity Prayer