What I’m listening to
Hey everyone, it’s ThatBoiCarter here. Today I will be showing y’all some songs that I have been heavily listening to recently, here. There are a variety of different Hip-Hop artists included, from Aesop Rock to JPEGMAFIA. These artists have influenced my music for the past few years, but I have recently been trying to expand my music taste into other genres. I have been trying to get into albums by bands such as The Flaming Lips and Pink Floyd, and have found myself enjoying songs such as Free Radicals and The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song, although I will say Hip-Hop still resonates with me the most. Maybe I’m just bias because i’ve mostly listened to Hip-Hop for the past three years and due to the fact that I’m actively involved in making Hip-Hop music. However, the lyrics to songs such as The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song resonate with me because of the subject matter of greed and capitalism, which is a theme explored by a lot of Hip Hop artists I enjoy such as JPEGMAFIA and EL-P.
The Wolf Man, 1941, starring Lon Chaney Jr. This movie has been one of my favorites for a while. Ever since my first time watching it in full, I was captivated by the eerie scenery and the tragic storyline, concerning a man named Larry Talbot who was bitten by a werewolf and starts to become one every full moon. Although this wasn’t Universal’s first werewolf movie, (Werewolf Of London, 1936) it became their most successful and solidified the Wolf Man among the other popular Universal Monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man, just to name a few. The story begins with Larry Talbot returning to his village in Wales to reunite with his estranged father Sir John Talbot after his brother was killed in a hunting accident. Larry ends up meeting a girl who he falls in love with, despite the fact she’s engaged, named Gwen Conliffe, and while trying to protect one of Gwen’s friends for an attacking wolf, he is bitten and thus cursed to transform into a wolf at night and attack people. This movie is definitely worth the watch if you are interested in old fashioned gothic horror. While some people might find this movie to be outdated and not very frightening, I personally love movies made in black and white, and I think that It gives the film an interesting creepy vibe that matches the gloomy setting and tragic story. The wolf man make up may not be all that impressive by todays standards, but that doesn’t really matter to me. It’s a film made in the 40’s, of course the costume isn’t gonna be all that. It’s good enough for me though, and that’s all that really matters.
The music is eerie and ominous, perfectly matching the foggy moon-lit scenery as the elusive wolf man stalks his prey. Most of the violence isn’t shown but is just inferred, and by most peoples standards, this flick isn’t very scary. Its eerie and spooky, but if you want more intense scares, this movie probably won’t do it for you.