THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2013
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SPOOKY SPECIALS
Top scary picks evoke festive Halloween spirit
Since it's Halloween week, it' s time to marathon those scary TV shows or movies to get in the mood for the holiday. Some are suspenseful, some remind you of childhood and some are just plain frightening. Here are my go-to Halloween picks:
13. "THE TWILIGHT ZONE"
12. "THE WOMAN IN BLACK"
11. "MAMA"
10. "CASE 39"
9. "THE WALKING DEAD"
7. "PARANORMAL ACTIVITY"
(Yes, the entire series)
8. "6 SOULS"
6. "SAW"
(Again, the entire series)
5. "AMERICAN HORROR STORY"
4. "CHILDREN OF THE CORN"
3. "IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN"
Growing up in a "Peanuts" household, it was a tradition to sort my candy and watch this
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Charlie Brown classic. Therefore, whenever Halloween comes around, I always get the urge to dust off the VHS player and pop in this special. If you are looking for something cute, fun and not at all scary, the Peanuts gang can help you out.
2. "ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS"
This television series makes it into my top three mostly because of the wide variety that comes with watching the series. It has everything from thrillers, drama, suspense, and mysteries, but no matter what genre, the episodes always keep you on the edge of your seat. For the cherry on top, Alfred Hitchcock introduces each short in his chilling voice, usually with a little joke to add a break from the suspense. It really is perfection in every sense of the word.
To me, the scariest movies are the ones that are closest to reality. Therefore, "Silent House" tops
1. "SILENT HOUSE"
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my list, mostly because of the fact that it appears to be shot in one continuous take. Not only that, but this film doesn't rely on ghosts or
vampires for its scares, but instead focuses on sexual abuse, paranoia and psychosis. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.
Edited by Sylas May
Rock legend Lou Reed dies at 71
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NEW YORK — The stare from across a desk was enough for me to question whether my first and only interview with Lou Reed had been a good idea.
He'd already curtly dismissed a publicist who had dreamed for years of meeting his musical hero. Now Reed seemed to be debating whether my admitted sin — I wasn't a native New Yorker — was worth overlooking to get some business done.
Yes, Reed, who died Sunday at age 71 of liver disease related to a recent transplant, wasn't an easy man. New York isn't an easy town. Few artists reflected a city better than he did, and he found it an endless source of inspiration. The 2003 retrospective package we talked about claimed that status as a title "NYC Man."
As a member of the Velvet Underground and later as a solo artist, Reed chronicled the rough side of a city at a time when it wasn't so hidden from view. Transvestites, drug addicts and prostitutes found a place in his music. Behind a loping bass line, the cinematic
yrics of "Walk on the Wild Side' brought that world to others. For many musicians, their best-known songs aren't necessarily representative of their work. That wasn't the case with Reed.
Many of his most popular songs, like "Sweet Jane," "Rock and Roll" and "Heroin," dated from the period of the late 1960s into the 1970s with the Velvets and soon after they broke up.
The frequently challenging subject matter didn't lend itself to mass success and, "Walk on the Wild Side" excepted, Reed didn't achieve it. His singing voice didn't help, either; Reed had limited range and sang in a conversational style.
The Velvet Underground didn't sniff the top of the charts when alive, giving rise to a famous quote from producer and Roxy Music founder Brian Eno, who suggested that every one of the few people who bought their records, himself included, later started bands.
Many paid off their debts in tribute. U2 covered Reed's "Satellite of Love," the Cowboy junkies did "Sweet Jane" and R.E.M. frequently performed "Pale Blue Eyes." His song "Perfect Day" had an extensive
life, too.
Reed was an avant-garde artist who wore the black leather of a rocker and played a cutting guitar. Reed and his wife, performance artist Laurie Anderson, were a First Couple of an artistic scene that thrived on taking risks. Sometimes the risks didn't work — his last big project, the 2011 collaboration with Metallica called "Lulu," was widely seen as a clamorous mess — but very few people succeed at everything.
He was dismissive in our interview when asked what he hoped people would say about his work when he was gone.
"I don't give a (expletive)," he said. "Who knows or cares?
"I don't expect anything at all from anything and I never have," he said. "I'm not trying to change anybody's mind about anything. I'm not trying to win anybody over. I'm happy to get up in the morning. I can tie my shoelaces. I haven't got hit by a car. I just love the music and sound and wanted to make it better, so if someone else wanted to hear it, they'd get some bang for the buck."
The people who cared about his
music always knew there was a heart beating strong beneath that gruff exterior. The wild side was hard to miss, but the tenderness of a "Pale Blue Eyes" is hard to forget, the regretful young man singing that he "thought of you as everything I've had but couldn't keep."
Reed's 1989 album, "New York," was a rocking, superbly written chronicle of a city in the midst of a crack epidemic, before it was later cleaned up.
On his song, "Dirty Blvd.", Reed details a scene of hustlers and hopelessness and those hookers again, zeroing in on Pedro, who escapes into his own dreams of transcending his environment with the help of a book of magic plucked from a garbage can.
Throughout the depressing scene he paints, Reed's voice is a monotone dripping in cynicism
— until he gets to Pedro, where it lifts up a few notes, as if he can lift Pedro above the world he's living in to a better place. It's a moment of exquisite beauty.
Fly, fly away, Pedro.
You, too, Lou.
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Lou Reed performs during a musical number at a benefit in Chicago, for Amnesty International. Reed died Sunday morning in Southampton, N.Y.
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