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Six buds in a freaky coat: Split Enz share stories behind their colourful costumes – in pictures
By Noel Crombie and Michael DwyerEmerging in early-1970s New Zealand, the band turned pop into surreal theatre. Percussionist Noel Crombie was the band’s visual architect, shaping their looks via outlandish costumes, makeup, hair design, album covers and music videos.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2026/oct/09/split-enz-costumes-makeup-book-in-pictures
#SplitEnz #Music #Culture #NewZealand #Fashion #Design #Artanddesign #AsiaPacific #TheGuardian #NoelCrombie #MichaelDwyer
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🎃 Three Halloween Destinations Reviewed: Spooky, Freaky & Surprisingly Adorable
We explored three very different Halloween destinations!https://caitlintobias.com/2026/10/06/three-second-life-halloween-destinations-review/
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Mojo Brookzz: I Know You Lying (2026) 47m [18]
Scene-stealer Mojo Brookzz unloads on freaky partners, wild BBL culture and his niece's big coming-out present in his debut Netflix special.
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https://www.gulfchannels.com/622448/ [M4F] looking for someone to play any of these girls in a nasty grossdom roleplay or even just dirtytalking as one of them. Bonus points if you are freaky and like gross stuff. Emmy Rossum- Emma Stone-Ashley Padilla- and Jessica Chastain(dms are open) #bonus #celebrities #CelebrityHaven #Celebs #Chastaindms #dirtytalking #Emma #Emmy #freaky #girls #gross #grossdom #Jessica #M4F #nasty #open #Padilla #play #points #roleplay #Rossum #StoneAshley #stuff
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Subject: Film Review: Orion and the Dark (2024)
For: #movie #reviews
Type: “Inception” for Children. Time Travel. Existential Dread.
Oddity level: Pretty Odd
Image: Orion and Hypatia flying with a children’s version of The Endless
Short link: https://dansu.org/review-orion-and-the-darkI stopped watching films and TV shows in 2007. I didn’t see either again on a regular basis until 2021.
In 2021, I started to watch #videos from different sources. I purchased a pile of BluRay discs, for example, at an estate sale. In the past few years, I’ve used yt-dlp to D/L foreign and/or classic films from YouTube as well.
I think that I’ll post reviews of #films that I’ve watched here periodically because, why not. The reviews might be helpful to people who are looking for lesser known oddities.
I’ll discuss both regular films and “family” films including foreign language examples of both. Subtitles are available online for the foreign films.
The first film to be formally discussed in this series is “Orion and the Dark”.
“Orion and the Dark” is a 3D-anim family film that is notable for being an “Inception” for children. The frame, the nature of what it is that we’re watching, is a nested doll thing that shifts repeatedly.
“Orion” is similar to the original 1984 “Neverending Story” film in this respect. [Run away from the “Neverending” sequels.] “Neverending” had three levels of framing. “Orion” is far less of a classic, but it has four levels, one more than “Neverending” did, and handles them well enough.
The Rotten Tomatoes critics score for “Orion” is 91% but the general audience score is only 57%. The difference of 34% is unusually large. It reflects the fact that some children who saw the movie said, “WTH was that?“ though others found it entertaining.
In general, it’s difficult to make nested doll plots, existential dread, and breaking the 5th or 6th wall work in films that are for both adults and children.
Oddly enough, two different films both titled “The Navigator” (1986 and 1988) made the existential dread part work and the 1988 film had “Inception” elements as well. I suppose that the 1988 film was closer to adult #horror than to a children’s film, but both “Navigators” did feature time-traveling children as protagonists [as does “Orion and the Dark”].
The protagonists of “Orion and the Dark” are: A boy dragged into the backstage of reality much as it happened in “Time Bandits” (1981). Or a boy and a girl who are trying to fix reality. Or a man and the same girl in a different decade. Or another boy who is an homage to the 1970s YA time-travel novel “Green Futures of Tycho”.
[For those who know the 1970s novel that I’m referring to, Tycho in the film is a reference to Tycho in the novel. FWIW The book is 50 years old as of 2027.]
Another interesting point is that the supernatural group which Orion and Hypatia meet in “Orion and the Dark” could be considered a friendlier version of Neil #Gaiman’s “The Endless”. [The attached poster for the movie shows some of the group from a distance.]
From this perspective, The Dark is a far more insecure version of The #Sandman. Insomnia is a lighter version of Destruction in Gaiman’s works. Sweet Dreams is a different aspect of The Sandman. Unexplained Noises is a little freaky, so perhaps she corresponds to Delirium.
There is even a character, Sleep, who could be considered a stand-in for Death in “Sandman”. Sleep is a natural and unavoidable end to the day just as Death is a natural and unavoidable end to life.
Without significant spoilers, “Orion and the Dark” ends on a nice note related to family and connections across decades.
To see a larger version of the movie poster, in most browsers, right-click on the thumbnail and select Open in New Window. Then resize the new window.
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Was told about a free 14 GB library for UVI today, so I thought I might as well grab it. Got some killer drums in it, and also this very beautiful piano that I just had to play. I should be in bed really, but you know...
Download: https://www.lootaudio.com/category/plugins/uvi/prisma
NKS presets for Komplete Kontrol: https://freelancesoundlabs.com/product/id:14196/downloads/category-uvi/nks-library-uvi-prisma/ -
1. Open iLok.
2. Click sign in because it's decided it's forgotten stuff. Joy.
3. Type name.
4. Press tab. App iLoks... I mean locks up.
5. Wait about 25 seconds, type password.
6. Password doesn't work, though I tested it on the site and it works there.
7... Fuck my life.I tried this about 20 times wasting countless time in-between.
App is up to date.Fucking Thursday. Just fuck it with a rusty coat hanger. I'm done with it.
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UVI Portal. A shitty web app to download something and it's not even fully accessible. A friggin web app that isn't fully accessible. Just, why?
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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx5yn46j41zpo -
I have the files for 13 AT&T voices now. 5 GB of Flac. Lots of clips about weather, transportation, clips from the WSJ, strange spellings, single syllable words and a lot of other weirdness.
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Remembering 2016 | Fascinating History
https://youtu.be/8-Tm0pvPGuI?is=98g3Vf9KLM-vkM3U -
I was able to get Codex to grab all the pCM data out of AT&T Mike, it presented me with some 2080 files, over 5 hours. This is what he sounds like raw.
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Hahahaha. Fern released a video called 'The entire history of 4chan, I guess.' Someone's a Bill Wurtz fan. I approve.
https://youtu.be/dU7gCt-7kKk?is=_g0Uv0PoVjCKE5tE -
#ElevenLabs Speech Generator: Accessible software for Windows and Mac
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I should also add that thanks to the fantastic idea from @ednun_p, both Music and speech have context-sensitive help. Press F1 on *any* control for a little info about it. There's an option in that dialog to open the full manual as well.
After seeing ed's REMSound do this, I thought I really have to do this for my apps going forward, so that's my plan. -
First, I released ElevenLabs Music and Sound effects.
Now, ElevenLabs speech. here's my companion app just in-time for you to enjoy the V4 model for free, for the next I think, 10 days. No cost for using V4 during this time period, even via the API. If I were you I'd take full advantage.
Go download and have fun.
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Thankfully not actually in-use, the library moved to a new building over a decade ago, but still sucks. Dare say it's not going to make clearing it of all its asbestos any easier.
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Sad ending to a library I did a stint of work experience at about 30 years ago :(
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I have two laptops that updated to 26H2 but my desktop didn't.
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Please, if you use something I made, be it music or sound, please just credit somewhere. It was free to begin with, attribution costs nothing but a few words. That's all I ask. Me, and many other creators.
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Clipman server can now be accessed via the web (opt-in of course) so if that's your jam, update your servers accordingly. New users, check out https://onj.me/clipman.
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Swapped out two of my fans for Noctua and yeah. That has made a vast difference in noise levels. £12 per-fan but I regret nothing.
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Once knew a guy that swore up and down that he'd only ever use gold-plated *optical* cable, because it, 'carried the sound better.'
He said he could hear normal cables, such as those that shipped with, at the time, minidisk players.Have you ever known someone believe something so hard like this, that nothing you said could ever sway them?
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What can you even say about this, other than what the actual?
Have people's brains dribbled out their bloody arses or what?
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Foobar2000 multi-port Midi component for Roland/Yamaha Midi files that support it
https://github.com/OnjLouis/foo_midi/releases/download/multi-port-v3.2.3.3/foo_midi.fb2k-component -
Why People Are Freaking Out About FGTeeV Duddy https://youtu.be/4a_GqLvdovY?si=l1MHOksI6PA1EUrH
