This month’s Full Moon Feature finds @Hooded_Werewolf in some tepid company in 2005’s Wild Country
If the ever-dwindling number of halfway decent werewolf movies I have to choose from is anything to go by, it won’t be long before I run out of Full Moon Features to write about. (Considering I’ve watched 172 of the cursed things over the past 14 years, it’s a miracle I’m still finding ones that are even watchable.) This month’s selection is Wild Country, a wee wisp of a film (it runs 67 minutes,…
A celebrated and decorated Soviet sniper, it was said that more than 300 Nazis were felled by the gun of Lyudmila Pavlicheko. Born to Russian parents in what is now Ukraine, Pavlichenko grew up as part of the first generation to live in socialism. A tomboy, Pavlichenko was interested in sport and shooting, and learned to shoot a sniper rifle with the Red Army. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Pavlichenko was one of the first volunteers to enlist, and served on the front lines, distinguishing herself in the Siege of Odessa and Siege of Sevastopol and earning the nickname “Lady Death.” She was only stopped in her annihilation of the Wehrmacht by a mortar shell to the face, which she survived. After recovering, she was not recalled to the front but instead served as a propagandist, touring other Allied countries as an ambassador for the Soviet Union. After the war, Pavlichenko returned to civilian life, working as a historian and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from her experiences. She died in 1974 of a stroke.
A Nobel-Prize winning poet and diplomat, Pablo Neruda is one of the most beloved icons of Chilean culture. Born in central Chile to a working class family, Neruda began to write poetry at the age of 10 and was published by age 13. At age 20 he published Twenty Love Poems and A Desperate Song, a groundbreaking collection of romantic and erotic poems which remains the best-selling Spanish-language poetry book. Neruda became politically radicalized by his experiences in diplomatic missions to Spain and Mexico, the former during the Spanish Civil War. Neruda became an admirer of the Soviet Union, and identified himself with communism, serving as a member of the Chilean Senate for the Communist Party of Chile. Though he was a prospective candidate for President of Chile in 1970, he ultimately threw his support to Salvador Allende, who won the election. Neruda was diagnosed with prostate cancer as the coup of 1973 began, and 12 days after the coup, he was dead, most likely assassinated by reactionary forces.
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot stop Spring from coming.”
Powerman 5000’s Tonight the Stars Revolt! is available on vinyl for the first time via Real Gone Music. The 1999 effort achieved platinum status thanks to the success of the songs “When Worlds Collide” and “Nobody’s Real.”
Priced at $19.99, the industrial/nu metal album is pressed on clear with yellow swirl colored vinyl. It’s housed in a jacket with a matte finish.
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