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Musical Guest Panel at PAX

Just thought you kids might be interested in knowing a bit about what’s
going on with the Thickets and PAX (apart from the fact that we’ll be
playing on Saturday night around 11pm, right before MC Frontalot).:

Our Musical Guests Panel will be taking place in Serpent Theatre from
5:00pm until 6:00pm on Friday,August 29th.

The program description:
Join a mix of our musical guests as they tell stories about their
experiences as geek rock icons, what it’s like to have an internet
fanbase, the games and other influences they’ve had along the way, and
what you should and shouldn’t do if you’re interested in starting up a
band in this niche genre.

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PAX NEWS

All times approximate:

Saturday August 30th:

10pm: Anamanaguchi
11pm: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
midnight: MC Fontalot
1am: Mini Bosses

Show Hours
During regular show hours you can hang out in the freeplay areas, compete in tournaments, absorb the wisdom of panels, and rock out to concerts.

Friday, August 29th – 2:00 PM to 3:00 AM
Saturday, August 30th – 10:00 AM to 3:00 AM
Sunday, August 31st – 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Exhibit Hall Hours

The exhibitor hall is open for limited hours. Why the different hours for exhibits? We could say that we need to give them time to rest and recover, but really we just want to give them time to host soon-to-be-legendary parties.

Friday, August 29th – 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Saturday, August 30th – 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday, August 31st – 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

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The Million Favoured Ones

Hi. I’m a big fan of your band’s songs (I have four of your CDs), and also an enthusiast of creepy, ancient-Egyptian inspired stuff, and I was wondering if it would be possible for you to e-mail me a copy of the English translation of the lyrics to “Nyarlathotep”. I tried to translate it myself, but I was only able to figure out about seventeen of the words (see the attached jpeg file), and half of them I’m not sure about because the book that I used to try to translate them back into English uses E.A.Wallace Budge’s system of transliterations, which is different from the transliterations in the lyrics sheet….

….Anyway, I figured that one of you probably has the English version of the lyrics either on your computer somewhere, or at the very least written down somewhere physically, and you might be able to enlighten me with some as to what the song is actually about, (beyond the general sense of it being in some way about the messenger of the Outer Gods). Thanks in advance; When (if??) you get around to responding. Thanks again.

Signed,
Diogenes Shandor

Hello Diogenes – are you a relative of Ivo Shandor who designed the alter where the Ghostbusters fought Gozer the Gozerian? Thanks for supporting the band. We prefer you summon up Nyarlathotep by playing the album 777 times so you can ask him yourself, but in case your CD laser gets burned out:

Nyarlathotep­
English lyrics
by Cristina Rizen and Inanna Gruner

Crying out from the Red Land
Came a man of darkness
With evil bloody secrets

He knew the Black Pharaoh
Servant to the Faceless Sphinx God
He gave me the book of the dead

Nyarlathotep
Slaughterer bringing nigh those who are detested
Nyarlathotep

Tumult and time bent
Mutilation and death in every land
Unleashing fear, creeping downward

Messenger to those who are detested
Prepare a way for the Void and the Evil Ones
Terror in the harem of pestilences

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The Veil on DVD

You may recall I worked on “The Veil” with Mr. Mike Jackson. And now there’s news!

AAAAAH!! Indie Horror Hits announces DVD film selections

Toronto, October 13, 2008 – Crypt Club Productions Inc proudly announces the films selected for AAAAAH!! Indie Horror Hits – Volume 1.

AAAAAH!! Indie Horror Hits is a new feature length collection of award winning independent short horror films coming to DVD in September 2008 – just in time for a Happy Halloween.

“ALL KILLER – NO FILLER” This is the good stuff. The short horror films that caused a buzz on the festival circuit – then vanished. If you saw them the first time you know what we mean. If you didn’t, you can enjoy them now – for the first time.

From a dark, cautionary tale (The Crypt Club – with Alison Pill from Pieces of April) to gallows humour on the job (Ghost Busted); from the grotesque otherworld of H.P. Lovecraft (The Veil) to today’s outbreak fears (The Ninth Entry); from the stylishly bizarre (My Skin! – with Tony Simmons from Human No More & Carnie) and the chillingly macabre (Oculus) to the dire family survival drama (Old Friends – from Kevin Greutert, editor of the SAW films).

We’ve resurrected these great short indie horror films. Turn down the lights and dig in for your own private horror film festival.

FEATURED SHORT FILMS (alphabetical order):
The Crypt Club (23:00 Canada) Dir: Miguel Gallego
Ghost Busted (3:00 USA) Dir: Vance Null
My Skin! (13:00 USA) Dir: Christopher Alan Broadstone
The Ninth Entry (5:00 USA) Dir: Anthony Falcon
Oculus (32:00 USA) Dir: Mike Flanagan
Old Friends (14:30 USA) Dir: Kevin Greutert
The Veil (12:00 Canada) Dir: Mike Jackson

DVD INFO: 2008 – Horror/Drama – 110 Minutes Total – NTSC – All Region Disc – Color – English – 4:3 Letterbox – Dolby Digital Stereo – Not Rated
SPECIAL FEATURES: Play Options: Play All (Festival Order); Individual Film Selection – Chapter Jumps – Trailers – Greetings from creator Miguel Gallego – Subtitles: English/Spanish – DVD@CCESS link to Secret Web Content.

AAAAAH!! Indie Horror Hits is produced and distributed by Crypt Club Productions Inc.

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MORE INFO: Miguel Gallego, e-mail: miguel@thecryptclub.com

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A Marine Architeuthologist

“Steven, Kat the rest, trapped inside the mess, won’t go down without a fight.”

These lyrics in The Thickets’ song “Cultists on Board” are a reference to Dr Steve O’Shea (the album The Shadow Out of Tim is dedicated by me to Steve) and Kat Bolstad, his assistant. Well I found out a few days ago that Kat is coming to Vancouver this week! She gave me a heads up and I’ve arranged with Mike to get some footage of her for the “A Marine Biologist” and to show her around town, or at least the Vancouver Aquarium. If you’re like me, you’re super excited!

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Tour de HPL


This is something I did art for. I should have copies at our merch table for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in October, but in the meantime, see [here].

Atomic Overmind Press proudly announces the publication of Kenneth Hite’s Tour de Lovecraft: the Tales. A wide-ranging and friendly journey through H.P. Lovecraft’s tales of cosmic terror and wonder, the Tour de Lovecraft is the ideal companion to the work of the twentieth century’s greatest American horrorist. The book alternately ambles and careens through all fifty-one of the Master’s horror tales in chronological order from “The Tomb” to “The Haunter of the Dark,” offering cheerful opinion, incisive literary criticism, playful speculation, and the occasional unhinged rant.