Slight Return
Excuse the title; I dig it but admit to overdosing on Hendrix this week, hence its inspiration. Everyone should see RAINBOW BRIDGE more often.It's a 'slight return' in that I don't currently have it in...
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PILLAGING KIMBA (REDUX) by Henry Covert
This is a very special blog, long in coming. I'll be dusting off an essay from my print publication days, spiffying it up with slight alterations, and foisting it on my fellow geeks and anyone who will...
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BLACK SABBATH: REINCARNATIONS
For the past week, I've been typing furiously in an attempt to complete and post a new, very lengthy blog by next week. I'm excruciatingly close to completion, but I'm slightly hung up on the last fine...
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BLACK SABBATH: REINCARNATIONS by Henry Covert
25 Black Sabbath Albums: Counting Down the Discography by Henry CovertBlack Sabbath is a British heavy metal band formed in 1968 as the Polka Tulk Blues Band, then Earth. After guitarist Tony Iommi...
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Henry Covert's Top 600 Favourite Films
1. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)2. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978) 3. X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000)4. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)5. Tristana (Luis Bunuel, 1970)6. Superfly (Gordon Parks...
View ArticleHenry Covert's Top 700 Favourite Films
1. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)2. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978) 3. X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000)4. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)5. Tristana (Luis Bunuel, 1970)6. Superfly (Gordon Parks...
View Article555 Films That Freak Me Out
Once more into the breach, I suppose. Below are 555 films, honed down from a list of my 750 all-time favourite films that I had intended to post. There are many changes from previous such lists, but...
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A FLICKER STREET Dispatch: An Exercise in Metafiction As Rock Journalism by...
ONUS Summer 2009 - Celebrating 20 Years of Transgressive Media WHERE DOGG DWELLSby Sam PaceIt's time to speak yet again of Mercyless Dogg. This band, exalted above all others by natives and transplants...
View ArticleHenry Covert's 555 Films That Freak Me Out - 2015
Yet again.... 555 films, honed down from a massive list of 750 all-time favourites. After many changes from previous such lists, and much brain-wracking, these films, as close to being in order as...
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Counterfeit Messiah: a Vintage Flicker Street Treatment
This is not the massive Flicker Street treatment I'm currently at work on but rather a treatment/ "scriptment" done for a comix story for anthology editor Mark Mazz in 2008 and set in the Flicker...
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FLICKER STREET Treatment # 1: Backstory
So here at last is an extended treatment for my magnum opus of sorts, Flicker Street. I began aiming for a 15,000 word 3 part master treatment but found the research (into my own work...) daunting for...
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FLICKER STREET Treatment # 2: Tangents
Here is my Flicker Street treatment, part 2. Though I envisioned it to be twice as long and to be dubbed "Arcs & Tangents", the pulp era proved too rich a vein to mine and so must be concluded in a...
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FLICKER STREET Treatment # 3 - Arcs
And so continues the back story of FLICKER STREET. Enjoy!FLICKER STREET Treatment # 3: ArcsI. Twilight of the PulpsTo constitute an actual seventh member roster of the Silent Seven, as Saturnine and...
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FLICKER STREET Treatment # 4 - Apogee & Perigee
Continuing the convoluted FLICKER STREET backstory. Prepare for a savage pulp holocaust, as our beleagured heroes (and villains) face certain death in a South American jungle where life as we know it...
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FLICKER STREET Treatment # 5 - Paroxysms
This may be the final dispatch for a short while as I work on another article and prepare to move. The armored gentleman below, The Tormenter, does appear in this installment, albeit as a child. More...
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FLICKER STREET Treatment # 6 - Tentacles
This piece was conceived as the 7th treatment in the series, but can fit just as easily here. What may not congeal for the reader should do so with the next installment, "Interstice", due in early...
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FLICKER STREET Treatment # 7 - Interstice
This treatment was quite an undertaking. Juggling dozens of characters and plot threads from prior installments led to a rather larger than intended interstice. Still, I think it's successfully wrapped...
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FLICKER STREET - Treatment # 8 - Entangled
So I have returned with more hopelessly convoluted synopses of my Flicker Street Saga. I'm inching towards the main story after these backstories. Prepare for something deeply personal beneath the...
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FLICKER STREET - Treatment # 9 - Aggregate
This was a tough one to finish. So much information to impart... but it's done at last. Enjoy! FLICKER STREET Treatment # 9 – AggregateI. The Bradcroft LegacyBear with us as we go back over facts...
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FLICKER STREET Treatment # 10 - Thaumaturgy
And so we come to a key chapter in our ongoing narrative....Flicker Street Treatment 10 – ThaumaturgyI. Dark RootsNow we take a sharp turn to the left – the Left Hand Path, as it were. This attempt to...
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