Seems the artist went on to do hand-drawn illustrations (i.e. without computers) of crows and skulls, framing them with vintage frames. Check out this badass cat skull he did:
I love how these guys look like 2000 years ago they'd be charging you with two-handed swords wearing nothing but war-paint and a loincloth, and then the music starts and they're dancing like total trad-goths.
Killer song! Funny thing, I listened to it a couple times and I was like: this sounds a lot like a Charlie Patton -era delta blues song, I mean not in instrumentation but in .... I dunno, structure and word choice I guess. Anyway according to the youtube comments it's apparently an adaptation of a Robert Johnson song pre-1937. Here it is. More info. There's nothing quite like the early delta blues, but I really like this modern version of it too.
The youtube video says this is an official video but gotta be a fan-made video based on all the movie clips and the tags in it. Funny how it takes a literal definition of "devil". I'm pretty sure when Robert Johnson talked about walking with the devil, he meant it figuratively, i.e. living a wicked life, physically abusing his partner and leaving her and knowing he wouldn't live a long life. When Soap&Skin sings these lyrics it's a little harder to tell what that "evil spirit" is. It's probably not one that moves her to literally catch the next Greyhound out of town, and she probably won't be buried by the side of the road, but the song still works, hinting at a troubled spirit of a different kind.
I think crossposting's a little weird on Lemmy... I'm still trying to figure it out myself. Like I crossposted an image to !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip recently and it ended up being proxied by a proxy, which apparently was a problem in some cases. I'ma keep experimenting with it anyway.
Did you know there was an earlier movie with the same name that's a prequel to that? It's kind of hard to find, but there's a video on youtube of a couple drunk Texas sumotori watching that movie. (it takes them 5 minutes to figure out how to run the movie lel). The video was copyright-stricken in the US and Canada, but you can still see it if you're in another country or have a VPN: https://youtu.be/Aij5PTNHdvY?t=290
Something to try: keep a bucket of water nearby for those "difficult" flushing situations. If you really want conservation points, fill the bucket with your shower run-off.
Here in the US the main obstacle is the lock on the phone which usually police can’t get past,
In recent years police were able to get into phones quite easily. See this nytimes article: https://archive.is/fOTDz Not sure what the current state of the art is.
Finally got a chance to listen to this all the way through, and... it's interesting. I gotta say I respect Al for revisiting his earlier stuff and giving us another version to listen to. A lot of times I prefer the originals, but I recognize that other people might like the newer stuff better.
I like New Wave OK but I didn't "love" Ministry's early stuff... "Every Day is Halloween" is the only song on this album whose original really means a lot to me, and I don't know what it gains by having Al sounding tougher on it. Like the whole point of the song is the narrator's being picked on unjustly so it's natural that he should sound a little whiny. The new version also added a little synth trill that I don't really like. But everybody looks cool in the new video so that's good I guess.
I think the new take works best on the last couple songs, when Ministry was starting to adopt their "tough guy" sound but hadn't had a lot of practice yet: Just Like You, We Believe, and Over the Shoulder. Of the older stuff, I'm Not an Effigy works pretty well (though I don't really remember the original...) But again, props to Al for revisiting this stuff and giving a fresh take on it.
Seems the artist went on to do hand-drawn illustrations (i.e. without computers) of crows and skulls, framing them with vintage frames. Check out this badass cat skull he did: