Song Saturday: Rasputina Block

How's it going lurkers? As you already know, tomorrow is Valentine's Day. This is that time of winter, when most American men in today's society DREAD the holiday.

If you do NOT  have any Valentine's Day plans, treat yourself to something special and AVOID FACEBOOK like it's the Zika Virus tomorrow.

With tomorrow being Valentine's Day and if you happen to be in a Cello Rock mood today, you're in luck.

Rasputina is a Gothic American Cello Rock trio from New York and have existed, since 1989. Their debut album, Thanks For The Ether released in 1996. 

Over the last 3 decades, Rasputina released 2 compilations albums, 3 live albums, 7 studio albums, 13 EP's, and have been featured on soundtracks.

Even though the trio has an extensive history, which includes collaborating and touring with artists/bands such as Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, Twiggy Ramirez, Siouxsie Sioux from Siouxsie And The Banshees/The Creatures, etc, most are STILL unfamiliar with Rasputina.

In fact, the original version of Rasputina's "Transylvanian Concubine" was featured not only on the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer  TV series, but also the TV soundtrack. 

For the last several days, I hunted around YouTube for that scene of Drusilla dancing to "Transylvanian Concubine" and had no such luck.

Rasputina's song played, during a scene in Buffy: The Vampire Slayer's "Surprise" (Season 2: Episode 13). 

If you were a Buffy fan during the late 1990's, you may remember everyone celebrating Buffy's 17th birthday. Meanwhile, Drusilla danced to "Transylvanian Concubine."

Decades ago, I never heard of Rasputina. They weren't a group that was heavily played on MTV or radio stations. However, Rasputina was featured on Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Album.

I simply cannot help saying how much I enjoyed frequently buying soundtracks, during my adolescence. Even though I never bought that soundtrack (I had no idea it existed, until I became a DJ), soundtracks were and still ARE the best ways to learn about undiscovered musical talent, especially in today's music industry.

Most traditional radio stations and music television stopped exposing us to various music genres and sub-genres for contrived, low-brow, and highly overrated American Top 40 Pop Music HIts. 

Before the end of the 20th Century, we had MORE variety in music genres and sub-genres. This was especially during the '90s.

By the early 21st Century most specifically by 2004, most entertainers became sell outs by acting like militant, self-righteous, political activists with Bush Derangement Syndrome.  

Their antics caused them to LOSE more money and alienate fans. 

And they wonder WHY they can't generate the money and fans they used to have? Hmmm...

Because there is very little knowledge about Rasputina, their music is scarce around cyber space. Here's a triple dose of Rasputina to help you relax before Valentine's Day for today's Song Saturday.

1) Rasputina "Transylvanian Concubine" Thanks For The Ether (1996), Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Album (1999) 

2) Rasputina "Hunter's Kiss" Cabin Fever (2002), A Radical Recital (2005)

3) Rasputina "If Your Kisses Can't Hold The Man You Love" Frustration Plantation (2004)

[RANT]: Love Stinks When You're Single On Valentine's Day

How's it going lurkers? These last several days, especially yesterday I have not been as talkative online. Blog community hunting, enduring advertisers and mainstream media cramming Valentine's Day down my throat, and getting into a fight with a friend don't exactly mesh too well.

Yesterday was already an emotional roller coaster and Valentine's Day really sent me over the edge. Not that I didn't get any presents for Valentine's Day because I got several.

A new lounge pants set, chocolate candy, an extra pair of lounge pants with snowflakes, hearts, and skulls on them (which I am currently wearing), and food from Taco Bell.

After being told that my favorite Taco Bell Burrito (The Volcano Burrito) was discontinued, I was a little upset.

Taco Bell's Volcano Burrito had rice, cheese, nacho strips, sour cream, spicy hot cheese sauce, and obviously ground beef in it.

Since my family spent a lot of time and money trying to make Valentine's Day special for moi, I didn't want to complain. 

There really wasn't enough money for me to buy them anything for Valentine's Day.

Last year, I won free Galaxy Desserts Chocolate Mousse Cupcakes via Facebook from the Dating With Dignity page. I wasn't expecting to win anything, last Valentine's Day.

Nonetheless, I did and shared my cupcakes with my immediate family. Because they spent so much time and money on me yesterday, I just washed the dishes.

After signing back into Facebook last night, I was in a bad mood again. I had to sit and look at some of my friends' wedding pictures, their "I love my husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend" statuses, obnoxious Valentine's Day articles, advertisements, etc. Ugh! ENOUGH, ALREADY!

You are probably thinking, "So what? If you don't like it, don't look" or something along those lines. 

This Valentine's Day week has been on my last nerve. Local TV stations, commercials, biased news anchors, the media, and social media are generally to blame for this.

Our EXTREMELY  biased local news reporters kept reporting about Valentine's Day and couples, which only poured salt into invisible wounds.

Those of us eternal bachelors, bachelorettes, widows, widowers, those who are only conveniently dating, or in a contrived "committed relationship," and being unable to celebrate with their significant others, or have no one are BARELY acknowledged. 

It's infuriating!

If I have to listen to or read that same bullshit about "Valentine's Day is just a Hallmark Holiday. Why celebrate love once a year, when couples should celebrate their relationships everyday?", I'm gonna bitchslap somebody!

Here's what these people don't understand: Valentine's Day is mostly Christmas for COUPLES. Albeit, Valentine's Day is mostly Show & Tell Day for women.

Whether we are in relationships or NOT, we are forced to be shown and told about how great someone's man is to her because he bought her fill in the blank, showed he DOES listen to a single word she says by doing something romantic, creative, etc.

It's not that Valentine's Day is necessarily a woman's Show & Tell Holiday because men are given presents as well.

Valentine's Day in Japan is nicknamed "Chocolate Day." Basically, it is a man's Show & Tell Holiday in Japan. What a twist!

Japanese females either buy chocolate candy, or custom make it for whoever they have a crush on and give them chocolate candy as Valentine's Day presents.

Females also give their female friends "obligatory chocolate." If you have ever watched Anime, you'll understand what I mean.

Then, March 14th is White Day. White Day is the female version of Valentine's Day.

Those, who were given chocolate, must do something special for females, who gave it to them. 

This could be a treat to an onsen (hot spring), or buy or do something special for them.

Regardless, singles and couples celebrate Valentine's Day. Japan is only celebrating it differently than in Western countries.

As an American woman, I take Valentine's Day personally. It's mostly because I'm constantly having to endure people intentionally pouring salt into my wounds.

The last guy I dated was 8 years ago. My last ex-boyfriend was a womanizing crooked cop. He committed hate crimes, loved playing highly offensive and deplorable pranks on people, and was a cheapskate.

I was matchmade to be with that loser mostly because my oversexed friend's boyfriend at the time, planned our blind date. I dated that scumbag for 3 months. 

He had ZERO respect for me because that womanizing crooked cop cared more about how he could strategize ways to get an ethnically ambiguous college girl drunk enough to have sex with him on his mind.

That piece of shit automatically assumed that I was a dumb and naive, slutty college freshman, when I was a senior and 2 years OLDER than HIM. 

During the 3 months of dating each other, he didn't even care about the fact that I was in the middle of enduring a severe menstrual bleeding disorder the night after I met him.

Luckily, I NEVER had sex with the creep, especially since he was NEVER the type of guy I would've EVER dated in a million years, had an unattractive personality and physique.

My highly oversexed friend's boyfriend wanted to play matchmaker and force chemistry between us. 

You can't force chemistry between 2 people. They either have chemistry, or they don't.

I'm convinced that womanizing crooked cop was a curse to my health before I graduated from Carthage.

Instead of him buying me anything for Valentine's Day, he was supposedly "working late." Then, 2 months after I dumped him, he told me about how he knocked up his fuck buddy, shacked up with her, and got married. I bitched him out.

Valentine's Day 2007, he felt the need to e-mail me and 3 other women about his new born daughter's baby pictures. 

I ended up sending him another angry message and blocked his ass.

I would've dumped that asshole sooner in 2006, but my highly oversexed friend kept begging me to give him another chance.

My crooked cop ex and several other exes are the driving forces behind me writing "All Of Chastity's Men." How's that for an Anti-Valentine's Day Story? There really should be more of them.

Whatever Happened To That 2001 Valentine's Day Slasher Horror Film, Valentine? {Horror Movie Review}

This blog was previously published on Xanga February 13, 2013.

 

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'Tis that time of season for eternal bachelors and bachelorettes like myself to dread the most. You guessed it, Valentine's Day. I hate Valentine's Day.

In fact, why haven't there been MORE  Slasher Horror films made about this particular holiday over the last 1/2 century?

Since I am currently in the middle of writing a Valentine's Day Revenge Horror Story, I handwrote a few side notes for it yesterday.

Speaking of that holiday about LOVE, I managed to YouTube a review about the Slasher Horror film, Valentine. Valentine was a Valentine's Day Slasher, which released 4 months  before my high school graduation in 2001. 

I remember hearing a few radio advertisements for Valentine compared to commercials for it on TV; Most channels barely advertised this Slasher. 

                                                   Valentine Trailer (2001) 

  

Before watching Valentine earlier this morning, I watched a YouTube vlogger's review for it. The review was a nearly 50-minute rant by some angry man-child. He wasted more time ranting about how the beginning spoiled the entire plot of the Slasher than reviewing it.

Even though Denise Richards and the rest of the actresses played as villains in Valentine, the YouTube vlogger kept calling them misogynistic slurs as if they personally hurt him, ranted about there not being enough sex and nudity in it, and just kept ranting. 

The Youtube vlogger seriously annoyed me yet he did make SOME valid points about Valentine being a bad Slasher Horror film. Because he threw a royal temper tantrum about Valentine, I chose to YouTube it for myself out of curiosity.

Yes, it was indeed a total failbag for what was supposed to have been a Slasher Horror but it did have the potential to be decent. Valentine was definitely more like a Valentine's Day Slasher Horror gone wrong. 

For what was supposed to have been a Valentine's Day Slasher Horror, it appeared more like a Slasher Horror Spoof. There was nothing terrifying about the movie. 

Gremlins was more horrifying than Valentine. The contrived acting from the actresses' was hilarious. Their acting for Valentine was just as contrived as a CBS Soap Opera. 

Every time there was a murder scene, I couldn't help laughing my ass off. If I had any stitches, I would've popped every stitch from laughing so hard at that movie.

Valentine was a joke. Well, at least the bad acting provided me with lots of laughter. I mean, Twilight couldn't even do that for me. Now, that movie put me to sleep. Hmm... Maybe I should buy Twilight and use it as a sleeping aid. Well, I digress.

As I was saying, it was very hard to sympathize and empathize with the most of the characters in Valentine, which was understandable. It's a Slasher about a former nerd seeking vengeance on evil girls. That's something the vlogger didn't seem to grasp. 

He kept ranting about how horrible the female characters were in Valentine. That was the entire purpose. The girls were childhood bullies.

The girls attended their 6th grade Valentine's Day Dance and treated the former nerd (mostly played by David Boreanaz) horribly. The girl, who was originally fat (Dorothy), gave Jeremy a pity kiss under the bleachers. Then, the bullies began spying on them. 

Once the bullies saw Dorothy and Jeremy kissing, they started taunting them. This led to Dorothy slandering Jeremy by accusing him of sexual assault. Because of her allegations, he was beaten by the bullies. Jeremy was later placed into a reform school.

There were foreshadowings of comeuppance; All the evil girls, who rejected Jeremy at the Valentine's Day Dance, would receive horrible Valentine's Day gifts and brutal deaths. 

13 years later in Valentine, Jeremy didn't resemble the same boy from 6th grade. He even changed his name. Therefore, neither of those girls recognized him as adults. Once Jeremy swore vengeance, most of their deaths were highly significant.

All of the bullies were sent Valentine's Day Cards with disturbing messages in them and their deaths reflected what they said to Jeremy in the past. 

1) Katherine Heigl's character was a coroner. She said to Jeremy years ago, "In your dreams." He slit her throat and she died, while hiding in a body bag. 

2) The girl, who said "Eeew!" to Jeremy received a box of Chocolates with maggots crawling out. Her corpse was later thrown into a dumpster. 

3) The slutty friend (played by Denise Richards) told him in the past, that she "would rather be boiled alive." This resulted in her being electrocuted in a hot tub.

4) Dorothy (she lost weight years after slandering Jeremy for supposedly "sexually assaulting" her) was later framed near the end of Valentine.

While serial killing his bullies, Jeremy slandered Dorothy. He made another friend of hers, who he was currently dating, believe that Dorothy was behind all their friends' murders. 

This was after Jeremy killed Dorothy. The last girl's life was spared because she was the ONLY girl out their entire clique, who was never cruel to him in 6th grade. 

Little did she and all her evil friends know, that Jeremy was her recovering alcoholic boyfriend, at the second. Jeremy posed under the name, "Adam."

David Boreanaz and the Valentine Soundtrack were the best parts about this Valentine's Day Slasher Horror. 

Like I already said, Valentine had the potential to be a decent Valentine's Day Slasher. Had Valentine been a novel, novella, or a short story, it could've been a lot better. 

Valentine probably would've been much better on paper and bound to a book rather than acted out on a TV show or a movie.

I reiterate, watching Valentine felt too much like a Slasher Horror Spoof, if not a contrived Soap Opera with horrible acting.

Anyway, if you want to watch Valentine, don't waste your money renting it. You can easily YouTube it for free. 

In the meantime, I might watch the original version of My Bloody Valentine for Valentine's Day.  Since I'm not in a relationship with a hunk, what do I have to lose on Valentine's Day? Besides, I already have Valentine's Day cupcakes to enjoy.