...and the last Strange, Dark &Wicked film, a trailer...

...with NASA recorded sounds of deep space winds... 

...todays wicked video just finished...Hunters Heart...Rafael Gonzalez music...2023...

 

...your last wicked videos....Rogue Con 2008 with Jeff Crouch music...

 

...your wicked film for the day...PsychoPomp...with Jeff Crouch...

 

...your strange, definitely wicked vintage environmental video today...Meet the Bluffs 2010....

California has a very big problem with cliffs falling into the sea - more storms from global warming,  bigger waves and rough seas, changing weather patterns, more rain, more earthquakes. The cliffs fall taking houses and apartments with them - and yet, the California realtors continue to rent the buildings as Army corps of engineers continue to drop big rocks in the sea to block the sea. 

Meet Mr. and Mrs. Bluff. Yes, he does look like that xmas party coke dealer and she looks like the art director that fired you, But we'll just address them as the Bluffs, the name of the building where they want to rent a piece of the good life on the cliffs with ocean view. Just up the beach we see an evacuated building... How can this be? Don't the Bluff's realize?

The realtor did not mention their new apartment might be on the beach come winter. Yes. Advertising and truth have a way of - parting ways in California.

Filmed, Pacifica, California 2010. Music Blaine Reininger, Jeff Crouch.

day turns black

big winds blow

bad tides running

in an evil night

when the earth

falls in the sea.

darkness sets me free 

in dreams gone mad

when the earth covers me

free of hatred, free of fear

free of love, free of you my dear

when the earth covers me

when the earth falls in the sea.

...and by the way, wicked post...Dogs of War with Jeff Crouch &other things....

 

...today's wicked film...Eat the Night...

 A pilot and guard on contract job extinguishing humans.

PILOT man   ...after titan6 this dirtball's dead, but hey, I'm glad we teamed up... Where'd you get that arm?

GUARD woman     ...Dorado...

P.   Whoa!

G.  Dorado's the best... next time I want the head. ...nice ride you got here...

P.   What's the id on this job?

G.   ... block 6 target human, full breed, unaltered, name's Wolf...

P.   ...real bank for unaltereds... 

G.  ...everyone wants one...  but who'd want to stay un...

P.   ... hey, I got a idea... forget extinguishing the human, let's go indie on the mark, eat the night, take it in. We're just

        contract, no one checks default ops...

G.   I like the way you think... maybe we hit Dorado for matching wiring later... ...ever take a human?

P.    no, everything else...  block 6! tracking target... 

G.   I want to exit and take it with you...

P.   ...someone's gotta stay shipside... ..alright, alright, grab the MO before we lock base... no backup, let's make this 

         fast, after 3 time quads we're bait, who knows how many more are out here...

G.  ...I heard stories...

P.   ...mostly going to be stories - very few humans caught alive...

       

CLOSING SOUNDS, PAIR OF WALKING SOUNDS 

P.    look! ...got it in my reds! see it? 

G.    what's it doing? 

P.     who cares?

G.   ...is that hair on it?

P.    ...dirtball human's growing... ears? A tail?

G.    ...it's as if, like -  I can feel like it's eyes all over me!  It's body is so...  that's why everyone wants one you want  to

        just touch it... why is it getting down on the ground? 

P.     wow!  it just ran away fast...

G.    now what?  

P.     I don't know, let me see the MO.... hey, it says 'do not exit ship to track human,'  let's go back... 

WALKING SOUNDS

P.    is that the human in the ship?

G.    ...and you're out here...

P.     what's that mean?

G.    ...eat the night...

LOUD SHOT, ONE PAIR OF FOOTSTEPS

today's strange, maybe wicked, film...La Reina Loba...

La Reina Loba in Spanish...but it is in English here... https://youtu.be/kZBeHsFK37Y ...meet a post-Roman dark ages Iberian 'witch' queen taking on empires... 

 

Making this film, I wanted to ‘rewild’ Reina Loba, to set her free from centuries of propaganda. Reina Loba, Wolf Queen of Galicia, Queen Lupa, c.45 AD, ruled an important territory in the Iberian Peninsula. The Romans, Visigoths, her neighbours, and Church all wanted to possess her lands. In researching her story, I came to believe Reina Loba resisted the Christian Empire. She understood it was a predatory system of empire capitalism that benefited the elite with capital. Queen Lupa represented the end of the barter and trade system. A French monk recorded Reina Loba’s story in Codex Calixtinus for Pope Calixtus in 1138. The book was a travel guide, advice for pilgrims following the Way of Saint James, a patron saint in the fight against Islam in Iberia. In the codex the Catholic Church slandered Lupa and women of Galicia, calling them ‘witches,’ ‘pagan,’ and forbid their ‘old ways of healing, knowledge, customs.’ It is difficult to tell which is more fantastic, the church miracle tales of James, or the stories of Queen Lupa. Reina Loba examines the relationship between historical record, myth, and institutional narrative. Tamara Pereira and Sayuri. Jeff Crouch music.

Al hacer esta película, quería “resalvajar” a Reina Loba, liberarla de siglos de propaganda. Reina Loba, Reina Loba de Galicia, Reina Lupa, c.45 d.C., gobernó un territorio importante en la Península Ibérica. Los romanos, los visigodos, sus vecinos y la Iglesia querían poseer sus tierras. Al investigar su historia, llegué a creer que Reina Loba resistió al Imperio cristiano. Ella entendió que era un sistema depredador de capitalismo imperial que beneficiaba a la élite con capital. La reina Lupa representó el fin del sistema de trueque y comercio. Un monje francés registró la historia de Reina Loba en el Códice Calixtino para el Papa Calixto en 1138. El libro era una guía de viaje, consejos para los peregrinos que seguían el Camino de Santiago, santo patrón en la lucha contra el Islam en Iberia. En el códice, la Iglesia católica calumnia a Lupa y a las mujeres de Galicia, llamándolas "brujas", "paganas" y prohibiendo sus "viejos métodos de curación, conocimiento y costumbres". Es difícil decir qué es más fantástico, el milagro de la iglesia. cuentos de James, o las historias de la reina Lupa. Reina Loba examina la relación entre registro histórico, mito y narrativa institucional. Tamara Pereira y Sayuri. Música de Jeff Crouch.

...today's wicked film... 7Powers of Wrath....

 

...your wicked film today...El Dorado 2012...

El Dorado was the new world king who dusted himself with gold. Adventurers, conquistadors, con men, kings, and pirates hunted him, killed him, and took his lands and gold. Some things never change?

Adapted news story of a woman who murdered her partner, took his car and stolen money and escaped. From Badlands series 2012.

Blaine Reininger track Attribue a Bernie H. from Music For Dance. Thieves, Kristina Barvels, Brad Gigliotti.

...your wicked film today...Whispers of a Dying Sun...

 

...how to start a wicked week...

Strange, Dark &Wicked film series...with a short introduction with Blaine Reininger music and actor Dan Mitchell...very vintage video 2010...but this time of year when the days grow shorter and nights longer we turn inside ourselves, into the darkness, the dark side of our selves....

 

...a wicked week... Strange, Dark &Wicked video series...