Game of Thrones Season 1 on DVD

I know, I'm a day late. I was too busy last night going through my new Game of Thrones DVDs to remember to post about it. If you haven't heard about it, the first season of Game of Thrones is now out for you to enjoy any time you like! The box set you see over there is the one I chose, showing the Direwolf sigil of House Stark, or you can choose one that's all black and shows a red three-headed dragon of House Targaryen. And here's the best part... If you get it from Best Buy, it's only $35.00! Yeah! You get an entire season of and HBO premiere series for less that forty bucks! There's no way you can get any better than that! Not to mention these DVDs only have to keep you occupied for another month before the second season releases on HBO. Perfect timing on their part for sure! Happy viewing everyone!

Special Mayhem Guest Revealed!

Hey everyone! Guess what guess what guess what?! The Rockstar Metal Mayhem site has finally revealed their special surprise headliner for the 2012 lineup! And the special guest is...

It's Motorhead! I'm not kidding! Motorhead will be headlining with Slipknot, Slayer, and Anthrax! There is no possible way that this Mayhem could get any more epic, so I'd better see all of you heading out there!

I Have One Thing, and One Thing Only to Say...

"Corporate cream cheese of evil!!!!!!!" That is all, now watch Foamy!

Anime Spotlight: Trinity Blood

Yes, my little gothlings, it's once again time that I brought an anime into the spotlight. I haven't done one of these in a while, and my roommate just put one in so I figured it was about time. This time it's Trinity Blood that gets the glory. This anime is a bit older but I can never, ever get tired of it. It combines vampires with a more modern, kick-ass version of the Vatican, how can you beat that? In essence, you can't. The plot is set 900 years after an apocalyptic war that Humans were responsible for. During this war, Vampires (or Methuselahs) started to appear and became the biggest threat to humanity. The story follows one of the priests from the Vatican named Abel Nightroad (you'll notice a lot of Biblical references in this) who is also a Crusnik, or a Vampire who feeds on the blood of other Vampires. Interested yet? You have a Vampire who kills and feeds on Vampires working directly for the Vatican. And when he's not in Crusnik form, he's very charmingly hopeless. Abel's almost constantly broke and getting himself into some kind of troubling situation. As the series progresses, you learn a lot about his past, which winds up being a main plot point throughout the later part of the anime. Trinity Blood is also available as a manga but I haven't managed to read it yet to compare and contrast the plot or characters much. A while ago I wanted to cosplay as Esther Blanchett, a nun with a major hatred of Vampires who joins the Vatican's AX Team, which Abel is also part of. The AX is essentially priests and nuns who are trained in battle or have certain abilities that make them useful during a fight. All in all, the anime is pretty action packed for the limited number of episodes it has. But it manages to pack in a nice story in only 24 episodes so how can you complain about that? Definitely give this show a try, it's one of my favorites!

Dungeon Duds N Jewels

I have just recently discovered this shop courtesy of that friend to all artists, etsy.com. Dungeon Duds N Jewels is one of many artists on there that creates amazing work and you want to guess what they specialize in? Go ahead, guess...

Ok fine I'll tell you. They specialize in renaissance clothing! And all of it is gorgeous, I can say this with absolute certainty since I just received my custom-made bodice in the mail today. And I love it beyond all reason! It fits with my new costume so perfectly I could die! I just got done putting (almost) all of it together and minus the one piece that I'm missing, it is better than I could have ever hoped for. I cannot wait until the Renaissance Festival comes back around to the Burgh to show it all off! For those of you Ren Fest nerds like me, go and take a look at DDND's shop, you will not be disappointed!

Just to Prove an Earlier Point

A long while ago I did a post about alternative fashion sense and how Hot Topic is definitely not the center of the alternative fashion any more and hasn't been for a while. I'm definitely still standing by all my points against this retail chain after experiencing it for the first time in a stretch of time yesterday. I was down in my old hometown to spend some time with my friend and fellow undergrounder Pat. We decided to take a quick stroll around the mall since there really isn't one very close to where I'm living now. Well... on a quest to find him a new hat, we wound up in Hot Topic... This was a bad idea. Within minutes I was bored of looking at the same t-shirts with five different arrangements of studs on them and seeing Nicki Minaj, Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga, Lil' Wayne, and Twilight on every other hoodie. We walked back out of there with only one thing in hand... Sour Punch Straws. Yeah, I walked out of what used to be the forerunner of goth/punk fashion with nothing but a couple packages of candy. Do you really need any more persuasion that this ship is sinking really damn fast?

Band Spotlight: Indica

In my eternal attempt to bring good music to the masses, I once again ventured out in the musical realm to try and find something new and original. This is harder to find when you've picked through every single symphonic metal group imaginable and only found a handful to meet your criteria... Yeah, I'm going with symphonic metal lately, can you blame me? Well, that good old standby Finland has come through with flying colors. Why is it that Finland and all those Nordic places tend to have the best musicians and bands? Yes, I'm tired and given to rambling so let's get back to the subject shall we?

Anyway, while browsing through an already browsed list of related music on Amazon, I happened upon a sweet little band called Indica. Five lovely ladies first started this band back in 2001 singing in their native language, but have recently turned to English in their newest album "A Way Away" and they do not disappoint. I first listened to the song "Children of Frost" on youtube and I was instantly taken back to the days of watching The Nightmare Before Christmas. It has that sweet but creepy feel to the songs and the lead singer's voice is off-tune but very melodic. Not to mention all the ladies in the band are completely hot, score one there for all of you. For more fun info you can go and visit their site. If you haven't given them a shot already, you definitely should. In the meantime, here's a little tidbit of "Children of Frost" for you all to enjoy...