About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Movie scenes that changed my life
Here’s a little bit about three movies that scarred me for life: As always, I’m not happy with the sound. I may work on it some more, or maybe I’ll just call it done and move on to the next … Continue reading
The Car – trailer
I decided to attempt a silent film version trailer for The Car, a 1977 killer car movie. The film is about a possessed car that drives around on its own through a small southwestern town running people down, and occasionally … Continue reading
The Car: Silent Movie Edition
The Car. I’m not really into cars, but I want one of these. Killer robots were too hard to do in the seventies, so they had killer cars instead. Duel. Killdozer. And the all-time classic Death Race 2000. So how … Continue reading
A Treasure Trove of Terror Tropes
When I was a kid I always liked to watch the Friday Night Frightening Flickers with Gregory the Gravewalker and the Saturday Afternoon Monster Matinee. They would show all these cool old movies, like The Dead of Night, Corman’s Little … Continue reading
Getting to the counterpoint
I didn’t have any good ideas on what to do for the ds106 radio show project. As an open online participant, I also have almost no connections to the others. I saw a posting on Twitter from a team looking … Continue reading