The Direopolis business improvement association has some funny ideas about how to improve tourism. Apparently a deconstruction project fantasy character tropes with a sole view to making them the medium of a mouldering personal abrasion is their big idea! Maybe a DJ and a food festival might have been a less alienating first step? I can recommend visitors sample the rare opportunity for unimaginable torment even if it is a highly unorthodox way of experiencing “local colour”.
Romonde C. does Folk Horror for the solstice! I think he seemed quite in his element this time. As a kind of idea-warping cartoon character, a luchador with main character energy a la Santo or Blue Demon, we appreciate RC’s mutability and are not at all surprised he has a genre passport of sorts. What’s especially puzzling is the brief hint of 4th wall breaking or autofiction: “I HAND THEM A NEW ISSUE TO THINK OVER…” Don’t tell me he is developing artistic pretensions!? But then again, the word “issue” could be defined at length and with much bodyhorror.
I have often enjoyed the peanut-vendor gag in old cinema. I think Chico in Duck Soup may be the apotheosis. The peanut vendor is a kind of timebound immortal with a chip on their shoulder. BUT WHAT SHEM DOES WITH THIS SACRED IS AS USUAL QUITE BLASPHEMOUS. Imagine deep frying the already horrific original by the great Len Lye? Shem is Shemless! But now we have a harsh noise xeroxed nightmare remix that is so incredibly blackened it can cook Spanish Peanuts right in front of you.