positivelyBLEAK Grinning back into the abyss.

7Sep/101

All Things Horror Made My Day

Fun is telling your coworkers that you have to head out to catch a screening of “Dead Hooker in a Trunk.” ♠ Continue reading…

16Aug/104

Chop It Off!

If anything’s going to kill this blog, it’ll be my rabid need to climb the cor­po­rate ladder. (My new job’s going really well, though…I’m elbow-​deep in CAT-​6 all day, every day!) ♠ Continue reading…

Filed under: Hair, The Arts, Vanity 4 Comments
19Jul/103

And the Last Known Survivor Stalks His Prey in the Night

I ran for twenty min­utes straight on Thursday, which prob­ably doesn’t sound like much to most of you, but I’m a smoker with a desk job, so it’s an accom­plish­ment to me. My awe­some dad and I are going to run the Falmouth Road Race together come 2011, so I have a real incen­tive to keep picking my feet up off the ground. ♠ Continue reading…

Filed under: C25K, Geekery, Hair, Horror 3 Comments
16Jun/101

Buzz Cuts

It’s been a little crazy over at the Bleak Haus, so this week you’re get­ting a pile of tid­bits instead of a full article! ♠ Continue reading…

26Apr/100

A Most Abbreviated NEMHF & Hair Care by Corpsegrinder

Massachusetts was just graced with the New England Metal & Hardcore Fest, which man­ages to become more and more hardcore-​centric every year. This year it made up for a lineup stocked to the gills with fash­ion­core acts by booking locals Black Pyramid and Doomriders on Friday (I’m pissed that I missed them; they were added to the bill so late in the game!) and an Amon Amarth/​Cannibal Corpse header on Saturday, so of course I bought tickets. ♠ Continue reading…

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11Mar/100

CAREERS IN ROCK: Anderson Mar

Anderson is a self-​described child prodigy gone hor­ribly wrong, as well as a local musi­cian, band man­ager, pro­moter, booker, musician’s rights defender, talent and cat lady. (Seriously, she has the cutest cats.) In addi­tion to pet­ting cats and rocking out, she also runs Dark Sky Productions and estab­lished the New England Punk, Goth & Metal Fest. She was kind enough to give me a writeup of how she got started and her best tips and tricks for get­ting started in the industry from both sides of the story. ♠ Continue reading…

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9Mar/102

HATERS GONNA HATE: Groupies

Go ahead and roll your eyes; if you’re not in a band, then you prob­ably don’t like groupies. They’re up there on the stage in their tiny skirts while you’re down with the groundlings in the mosh pit. They get back­stage, sup­pos­edly purely on the merits of their appear­ances, and get to sip away at free booze until the head­lining act decides that they want to break off a piece of that. You might grumble about it under your breath when some huge guy knocks into you and dumps your $8 cup of Budweiser down the front of your shirt. ♠ Continue reading…

4Mar/103

The Very Best of YouTube Headbanging

It’s been a hell of a week for me, between my soul-​crushing day job and busily plan­ning for my birthday (I’m turning 25 on the 18th!!!), so I wanted to do a quick, JWZ-​style video run­down of one of my most favorite ways of burning off frus­tra­tion: head­banging. ♠ Continue reading…

Filed under: Geekery, Music 3 Comments
2Mar/100

Fashion For Metalheads: The Stoner & Doom Set

The eter­nally head­banging Steff Metal has a run­ning fea­ture called Fashion For Metalheads, where she gives a break­down of the styl­istic dif­fer­ences between genres – but I haven’t seen one of my per­sonal favorites, the droney, swampy, reverb-​y world of stoner and doom metal, fea­tured yet, so I inquired about writing a con­tin­u­a­tion on her theme and got the OK…here goes, you red-​eyed, swaying masses! ♠ Continue reading…

25Feb/103

NYFW: Bleakest Picks (Part II)

Earlier this week, I pointed out some of my favorite choices from NYFW 2010 – this year was a real hit in my book, with lots of tough, util­i­tarian styles and plenty of prop­erly femmed-​up rock and roll to be had. Here are some more col­lec­tions that I fell in love with this year! ♠ Continue reading…

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