By Heather Drain “Rules are made to be broken.  Can’t kill what you don’t understand.”  – Wendy O. Williams  “Love is the Law, Love Under Will.”  – Aleister Crowley Art can motivate us to change the world (and clean the ...

Need and desire are twin forces that often intertwine around each other, sometimes coiling so tight that it’s hard to see where one begins and the other ends. This is often how addictions can be nurtured, but it is also ...

The art of a primed and ready music compilation is a fine one. It’s akin to building the perfect party guest list. A tricky recipe that could collapse the whole shebang if you invite two or three bores who think ...

Beware of the tall dark stranger if he comes ridin’ into your town A tall dark stranger is danger so don’t let no stranger hang around For he can capture the heart of a woman Buck Owens “Tall Dark Stranger” ...

Angels in the musical arts have gotten a bad reputation. Not even bad in a colorful, smoking-in-the-boys-room kind of way, but bad in a cliched and whitewashed way. Simpy, bloodless, with nary an ounce of passion and power. Once portrayed ...

Late 1960’s New York City. A place containing all the urban promise of opportunity, fresh connections, hidden secrets, Midwestern-rooted demons and uprooted repression just itching to burst out right under your black kitten heels as you walk nervously across its ...

“An artist is forced by others to paint out his own free will.”  —Willem de Kooning “Censorship=Artistic Death” —Skinny Puppy The art of fear is both a potent weapon and a mighty revealer when placed in the right hands and minds. ...

If there is a redheaded stepchild of the creative arts, the music video format is it. Literature, music, theater, even the L’Enfant terrible that is cinema, all have their “respectable” champions and preservationists. Music video, on the other hand, has ...

“I like violence! I love violence! I hate the weak person that goes, “oh that image, it hurts me!” Why make pictures for them? They are blind.” -Alejandro Jodorowsky on Incredibly Strange Film Show In a world that has been ...

Cinematic surprises are the best kind of surprises. When I found out that the late Joseph W. Sarno, the erotic film pioneer behind 1964’s Sin in the Suburbs among many, many other titles, had also helmed a vampire film, I ...