Archive for May, 2010
Growing Jewellery by Hafsteinn Juliusson, an Icelandic designer working in Milano. Cute little patches of Icelandic moss growing in rings and pendants. From the Telegraph, a 15 year old picture showing the ghost of a girl standing in the inferno of a burning town hall (the famous Wren Ghost picture) has been revealed as a [...]
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So I’m doing something a little different this week. Every band in this metal mixtape was not, in fact, chosen by me, but by YOU, the readers, either through the comments of the Why I Hate Indie and Why I Love Indie posts, or through email. The Mountain Goats – No Children THANK YOU for [...]
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Winter has finally come to New Zealand, so I am digging out the tights and jeans and warm scarves. It’s been storming all week – sheets of rain, thunder and lightning, howling winds – the whole epic deal. I stole a quick, slightly sunny respite to take these pictures. I realised I haven’t been taking [...]
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Last week, I explained to the uninitiated why I, as a metalhead, am required to hate Indie music. Now, to even the field, I will attempt to find reasons why I, as a metalhead, love Indie music. Metal can learn a lot from Indie – not in musicianship (I think we own them in this [...]
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I’ve been waiting for this movie to arrive at the library, and it finally came in. We watched it the other night and laughed, and cried, and cheered and made sad faces along with Anvil’s journey. Here’s a review. Port O’ Call: Anvil: The Story of Anvil, a 2008 documentary about Canadian metal band Anvil [...]
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Enter the Goatlady laments fluctuations in currency exchange rates when planning Grymm and Epic metal adventures! (I hear ya, missy!) I continue my love of photography from abandoned places with this series of Antarctic Abandonments. Metal style blog In Her Stilettos features some wicked metal / rock inspiration pics. A disgusting piece of news reached [...]
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We Interrupt Your Regularly-Scheduled programming to bring you … cat cartoons: Yes, yes, I DO have a Lovecraft post almost written, but my German teacher put us on to Simon's Cat, this adorable colle...
Linking Horn: HP Lovecraft redux: “The text is a fetish object, and this fetish desires me. The text chooses me, by a whole disposition of invisible scree...Metal Mixtape: HP Lovecraft vol. 2: More HP Lovecraft-themed music for your enjoyment.
Dayglo Abortions - The Spawn of Yog Shothoth
Crazy awesome punk...
Your Summer Reading List: 10 Lovecraft / Cthulhu Mythos books: Since getting a Kobo ereader, I've been doing a lot more reading on my train ride to work (as opposed to staring creepil...
5 HP Lovecraft Metal Albums: After my last set of reviews, many readers wrote and commented and said I should write more music reviews. The tribe has...
Cthulhu Gift Guide: This week - a linking horn with a difference. If you an organization freak, like me, you're probably already panicking a...Metal Mixtape: HP Lovecraft, vol 1: You practically can't write a metal album these days without a passing reference to the Cthulhu mythos, so it's no surpr...
Cthulhu’s Closet: Cthulhu on my head!: Hiyo! Hope you're enjoying the first week of Mythos 101: HP Lovecraft Appreciation Month. Now, I know the last two weeks...
Life lessons according to … HP Lovecraft: "Life Lessons" is a new feature on Steff Metal - quotes from interesting people, both within metal and without, which mi...
HP Lovecraft’s influence on heavy metal music: So, why would a metal blog like Steff Metal dedicate an entire two weeks of posts to the work of HP Lovecraft? One could...
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