December 17, 2010 11:00 pm

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December 18, 2010 6:00 am

As the listing shows up on the Cabaret Nocturne page, it’s safe to assume that this is another one of their events, but you can never tell.

Anyway, for those of you that like your goth music all hard edged and synthesized, we present Perpetual Electronic Warfare, or Pew-Pew for short.

Focusing predominantly on EBM, electornica and electroswing, it should be a fantastic night for those that like to hit the dance floor, and then move around like angsty seaweed or they’re being attacked by several imaginary Agent Smiths for the next 4 hours. One hopes at any rate, as the music format is being done in DJ-offs (which are always a bad idea IMO, as you get less consistent sets)

• TOUPEE vs JAY
• TOMBEAR vs SIRUS
• LOBOTOMY vs ROTTEN
• INF3KT vs VOID

Located at the Mercat Cross hotel, inMelbourne, just by the Queen Vic markets, it’s easy enough to get to and there’s plenty of parking as well as nearby taxis and trams, and entry fee is $10

Drink Specials:

• $4 basics before midnight
• $15 Ion Cannon Cocktail Jugs all night! I have no idea what an Ion Cannon is, but let’s assume it tastes like a MegaMan action figure for now.

After listening to some Marcy Playground in store, a customer directed me to a site with lessons on Surviving The World on one particular lyric.

From there, apparently there is a cocktail based on the line about “sweet, sweet violation”… yet still no candy for just sex & candy.

Let’s change that, starting this weekend. (more…)

You’ve probably heard about this movie coming out shortly. This movie about Facebook and it’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, titled The Social Network.
Only it’s not, because he’d threatened to sue if the movie was actually about particular things he did but haven’t been proved in court, so there’s a character with the same name as him… but different!

Never mind the fact that the movie is going to suck in a similar way that Antitrust* . This film is still going to be a commercial succes, and so will its soundtrack, for the very reason that Facebook itself is a commercial success, never minding the involvement of David Fincher.
*supposedly about Microsoft at the time, but becoming strikingly more like Google with every passing month) did by basically making a fairly non-exciting event and adding drugs and murder (because that happens to computer programmers all the time!

Everyone’s gonna be talking about it, like I am, and then circle jerk off to how amazingly awesome it is. Or how fucking lame. I know I’m now involved in that cicrle jerk right now by writing this article. The irony’s not lost on me. Maybe Alaniss Morisette, but not me. But speaking of msuic that’s out of place!

It turns out Trent Reznor has signed up to do the music.

Fincher’s movies are right up Reznor’s alley. For sure! Fight Club probably would have been way more awesome with an industrial sountrack. But really? REALLY?! Trent, WTF!? It’s a movie about a nerd that fucked over a few of his friends to become a billionaire by fucking over millions more people! Adding bullshit won’t make it better or more interesting. And you’re stamping your name to it!

It’s like Danny Elfman deciding to do the music on a Disney remake of Jack Black’s life about the time he never saved an orphan and fought his case of Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s a lie and you’re adding more to the lie that the movie is going to be!!!

[Or if Rob Zombie wrote the jingle for a Doritoes ad! - Egofreaky]

Fuck! This is a perfect example of why good musicians need to die young.

I will admit I’ve been listening to a lot of Electric Six lately. It’s funky, upbeat music that still manages to have almost every sleazy part of the goth scene I happen to enjoy… plus semi-

naked, oiled up Abraham Lincoln! There’s also an 80s synth sound mixed in with all the funk that just reminds me of all those awesome 80s bands that somehow find their way onto gawth playlists. Duran Duran… delicious winter fruits…. and semi-naked ABRAHAM LINCOLN!

So to that extent, I made a drink to go along with this musical proclivity. (more…)