Because Spring is not so far away, I've been designing products made from lightweight knits. Originally, I had a true love of using very thick and non traditional fabrics for my designs, but I realized that I myself, wear more garments made out of a knit fabric rather than a woven. And knits such as jersey, french terry, and even interlock, are extremely comfortable for the hotter weather.
So, over the past few weeks I've been patternmaking some designs made for knits. Some of these designs, I soon come to realize, would be great for band t-shirt reconstruction! Some people just like to use tailor's chalk and cut their patterns right from a t-shirt for reconstruction, I'm a little different. Even though, I do use that technique every once and a while, I more or less enjoy actually drafting a pattern first, than using said pattern to cut out pieces from the t-shirt. For example, I recently did a tutorial on how to make a heavy metal halter from a men's t-shirt that can be found HERE.
Anyways, because of my new love, I do plan on listing some band t-shirts reconstructed designs in the future, of my favorite band such as these (and many more):
If there are any bands you would like to see some dresses or halter tops made with, please let me know in the comment box below!!
I hope you aren't tired of me ranting about Evil Dead guys and dolls, because I'm never going to stop! With the remake finally playing in theaters, here is some of the songs from the digital soundtrack (itunes) to the motion picture to get you geared up for blood, guts, and gore! The Audio CD version will be released May 7th, 2013, you can pre-order it here
Evil Dead Soundtrack details:
Audio CD (May 7, 2013)
Released digitally on April 9, 2013 (The one I have)
Well my vacation was extraordinary, it really brought out my inner child. Disney tends to have that effect on you..... But when it comes to Disney movies, I usually am more interested in the Villain rather than the Hero. They just seem more intriguing. So, because of my Disney adventure, I have decided for this Monster Music Monday I would list my Top 10 Favorite Disney Villain Songs! Enjoy!
#1 Cruella De Vil - 101 Dalmatians
(Cruella is my one true love of Disney, so of course she comes first!)
#2 Poor Unfortunate Souls - The Little Mermaid
#3 The Mob Song (Gaston's Plan's Success) - Beauty and the Beast
#4 The Elegant Captain Hook - Peter Pan
#5 Friends On The Other Side - Princess and the Frog
#6 You're Only Second Rate - The Return of Jafar
#7 Be Prepared The Lion King
#8 Who's Been Painting My Roses Red - Alice in Wonderland
As you may know, Dexter has become one of my all time favorite shows. But not only do I enjoy watching the show, I also love the background music used throughout the episodes. So, I wanted to to change my ringtone to one of these amazing songs. Here are some free Dexter tunes for your phone I found!:
I get inspired by many things when creating my designs for Poofhawk, and music is one of them. Here are some songs that has influenced my upcoming Spring 2013 designs:
"Looking for a Kiss" by New York Dolls
"Hard Headed Woman" by Elvis Presley
"Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" by The Cramps
"Labels" by Subhumans
"Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" by Eddie Cochran
I'm not usually into Rap or Hip-Hop but I immediately feel in love with this song when my husband sent it to me while on deployment. He said it was on the radio everyday and it reminded him of me. Only because I grew up in a trailer park and I only shopped at thrift shops. Not to mention, even though I could afford name brand clothes now, I still will only go to a thrift shops cause that other stuff is just not worth the expense in my book. Anyways, this is me being a "Bored Cold Ass Honky" and lip singing in my own foolhardy way. Go ahead and leave insulting comments cause frankly, I wouldn't give a flying frick.
This is basically a "Part 2" of the my original blog post: 10+ Serial Killers that Songs are Inspired By. I might be fascinated by serial killers a little too much and have decided to find 10+ more of these sick bastards that songs are inspired by. Enjoy!
#1 Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono
Kenneth Bianchi and his cousin Angelo Buono are known as the "Hillside Stranglers". Both American serial killers that were convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and killing girls and women ranging from the ages 12-28 years old. These crimes were committed in the hills of Los Angeles, California during a four month period from late 1977 to early 1978. There was 10 known victims altogether. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono were charged with these crimes and were sentenced to life in prison On September 21st, 2002, Angelo Buono died of a heart attack in Calipatria State Prison of the California Department of Corrections, where he was serving a life sentence. Bianchi, however, is still much alive and is currently serving his sentence in the Washington State Penitentiary of the Washington State Department of Corrections in Walla Walla, Washington.
"I Wanna Make You Scream" by Battalion of Saints
"Notown Blues" – The Black Lips
#2 Jerry Brudos
Jerry Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophiliac, also known as "The Lust Killer" and "The Shoe Fetish Slayer". Since a young age, Brudos had a fetish for woman's shoes and underwear. The rumor is that this might of been brought on by his own mother, who originally wanted a daughter and would dress Brudos in girls clothing, as well as, treating him with disdain along with constant abuse. Between 1968 and 1969, Brudos bludgeoned and strangled 4 young women in Salem, Oregon. He kept trophies of his victims, including two pairs of amputated breasts that he used as paperweights and the left foot of his first murdered victim, Linda Slawson, in which he used to model the footwear he collected. After murdering these poor women, he would dress up in high heels and masturbate. Later on, Brudos confessed to murdering four women and was sentenced to life in prison. On March 28, 2006 Jerry died in prison of liver cancer.
"Fatal Foot Fetish" – Macabre
#3 Richard Chase
Richard Chase was a American serial killer who was nicknamed "Vampire of Sacromento". Chase was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and received his nickname because he would consumed the blood of his victims and cannibalized their remains. In 1975, Chase was involuntarily committed to a mental institution after being taken to a hospital after injecting rabbit's blood into his veins. This is where diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and went through a variety of treatments and was prescribed a bunch of medications. However, his mother helped him escape,weaned him off the medication, and got Chase his own apartment. Because of this, in a span of a month from December 1977 to January 1978 is when Richard committed his murders with a .22 handgun. In 1979, Chase stood trial on 6 counts of murder. In order to avoid the death penalty, the defense tried to have him found guilty of second degree murder, which would result in a life sentence. Their case hinged on Chase's history of mental illness and the suggestion that his crimes were not premeditated.On December 26, 1980, a guard checking cells found Chase lying awkwardly on his bed, not breathing. An autopsy determined that he committed suicide with an overdose of prison doctor-prescribed antidepressants that he had saved over several weeks.
"Blood Sucking Freaks" by Church of Misery
"House Sparrow" by Xiu Xiu
#4 John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. was an American serial killer who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy is known as the "Killer Clown" due to a character he devised himself as "Pogo the Clown" in which he dressed up as for children's parties and fundraising events. As for his victims, he buried 26 of them in the crawl space of his home, buried 3 others elsewhere in his property, and discarded 4 of his victims remains in a nearby river. He was convicted of 33 murders and sentenced to death for 12 of these killings. On May 10th, 1994 Gacy was executed by lethal injection.
"Clownin' Around" by Deer Tick
"John Wayne Gacy, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens
"Pogo The Clown" by Dog Fashion Disco
#5 Jack the Ripper
"Jack the Ripper" was the name given to a serial killer that was never identified or captured and committed their murders around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. This killer was also nicknamed "The Whitechapel Murderer" and "Leather Apron". Their attacks usually involved prostitutes whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least 3 of the victims led to proposals that their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge. There were 5 known killings by the ripper, and were never brought to justice.
"Down on Whores" by Benediction
"Jack" by Iced Earth
"Jack the Ripper" - Screaming Lord Sutch
"Jack the Ripper" by Morrissey
"Maxwell Murder" by Rancid
"The Ripper" by Judas Priest
#6 Edmund Kemper
Edward Kemper is an American serial killer, also a necrophiliac, who did most of his killings in California in the 1970's. Kemper was also nicknamed as "The Co-ed Killer". In 1964, he started his criminal life by killing his own grandparents. When questioned, he said that he "just wanted to see what it felt like to kill Grandma," and that he killed his grandfather because he knew he would be angry at him for what he had done to his grandmother. Only being 15 years of age at the time, he was committed to the Atascadero State Hospital. Kemper was released from prison in 1969, after serving fewer than five years. In 1972, only 3 years after his release, is when Kemper started a spree of murders. Altogether, there were 8 victims. He would pick up female students hitchhiking, taking them to rural areas and murdering them. He stabbed, smothered, or would shoot them, and would take them back to his apartment where he would have sex with their decapitated heads and bodies and then dissect them. On November 1973, he was found guilty of 8 counts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Edward Kemper is still alive to this day and is serving his sentence at California Medical Facility in Vacaville, California.
"Fortress/Outer Space/Forever" by System of a Down
#7 Peter Kürten
Peter Kürten was a German serial killer that was "The Vampire of Düsseldorf". Kürten committed his most notorious crimes of sexual assaults and murders from February to November 1929 in Düsseldorf. Before this, around 1894 and received a number of short prison sentences for various crimes, including theft and arson. As a youth, he was employed by the local dogcatcher, a job which allowed him to indulge in cruelty to animals. Kürten progressed from torturing animals to attacks on people. He committed his first provable murder in 1913, strangling a 10-year-old girl during the course of a burglary. His crimes were then halted by World War I and an eight-year prison sentence. In 1921, he left prison and moved to Altenburg, where he got married. In 1925, he returned to Düsseldorf, where he began the series of crimes that would culminate in his capture, sentence to death and execution. Most of his murders during 1929 included stabbing, beating his victims with hammers, and rape. Peter Kürten confessed to 79 offenses, and was charged with nine murders and seven attempted murders. He went on trial in April 1931. He was found guilty and sentenced to death.
"In Germany Before the War" by Randy Newman
#8 Leonard Lake & Charles Ng
Leonard Lake was an American serial killer who committed his crimes with the Chinese-American serial killer, Charles Ng. They both are believed to have raped, tortured, and murdered between 11 and 25 victims at Lake's ranch in Calaveras County, California. Lenonard was reportedly a bright child, but had an obsession with pornography that stemmed from taking nude photos of his sisters, apparently with the encouragement of his grandmother. It was also alleged that Lake extorted sexual favors from his sisters. Later on in life, Lakeappeared in amateur pornographic movies, usually involving bondage or sadomasochism. In 1983, he met Charles Ng in Hong Kong and the two stroke a friendship . Ng was actually born in Hong Kong and was the son of a wealthy executive. As a child, he was harshly disciplined and abused by his father. As a teenager, Ng was described as a troubled loner and was expelled from several schools. Developing this friendship with Lake later involved Ng being his accomplice in filming themselves torturing and raping their victims. The crimes became known in 1985, when Lake committed suicide after being arrested and Ng was caught shoplifting at a hardware store. Police searched Lake's ranch and found human remains. Ng was identified as Lake's partner in crime. He stood trial in 1998 on twelve counts of murder and was convicted on February 24, 1999, of eleven: six men, three women and two male infants. He was sentenced to death. Ng is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
"The Ballad of Leonard and Charles" by Exodus
#9 Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez is an American serial killer that was known as "The Night Stalker". Ramirez was found guilty of 13 counts of murder, 5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. However, authorities believe he may of committed more murders than he was charged for. It is rumored that Ramirez may have been influenced into killing by his cousin, Mike, who shot and killed his wife, and her blood spattered on Ramirez's face. Ramirez was 13 years old at the time. After the murder, his behavior changed dramatically; he dropped out of school, began using drugs,adopted odd sleeping habits, and started being involved in burglaries. On June 28, 1984, his burglaries turned into something far more evil. This is where he started to rape and kill his victims. The act of killing actually sexually aroused Ramirez, and sometimes he would have sex with the corpse of his victims before leaving. He was later captured on August 31, 1985 because his fingerprint was found on the mirror of a vehicle in which he had stolen and the description of the car came from one of his rape victims. Ramirez was identified, chased, surrounded, and severely beaten by an angry mob in East Los Angeles as he was trying to steal a car. Police broke up the mob, preventing them from lynching Ramirez. During the penalty phase of the trial on November 7, 1989, he was sentenced to die in California's gas chamber, in which still to this day, he is on death row awaiting execution.
"Going Going Gone" by Exodus
"Night Stalker" by Super Heroines
"Where Evil Dwells" by Church of Misery
#10 Gary Ridgway
Gary Ridgway is an American serial killer known as the "Green River Killer". Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ridgway is believed to have murdered at least 71 women near Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. His court statements later reported that he had killed so many, he lost count. Ridgway began each murder by picking up a woman, usually a prostitute. He sometimes showed the woman a picture of his son, to help her trust him. After having sex with her, Ridgway strangled her from behind. He initially strangled them manually. However, many victims inflicted wounds and bruises on his arm while trying to defend themselves. Concerned these wounds and bruises would draw attention, Ridgway began using ligatures to strangle his victims. Most victims were killed in his home, his truck, or a secluded area. Most of the bodies of these victims were dumped in the wooded areas near the Green River. On November 30, 2001, as he was leaving a truck factory where he worked, he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence. Ridgway was initially convicted of 48 separate murders, but as a part of a plea bargain wherein he agreed to disclose the whereabouts of still-missing women, he was spared the death penalty and received a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Gary Ridgway is currently incarcerated at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington.
Wanda Jackson is known to many as the "Queen" of rockabilly. This American singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist that had much success in the musical world in the mid-1950's and 1960's. Anyways, below are a a few of my favorite songs by this delightful gal.
I tend to watch horror movies so often that most fail to actually scare me anymore. So for a little horrifying thrill I started to watch documentaries and reading online articles, educating myself on actual frightening stories about serial killers. Which because of this, now I tend to double lock my doors and I keep a gun underneath my bed, because frankly, truth is scarier then fiction. So, for Monster Music Monday I decided to provide you with songs that were inspired by real life serial killers. However, I only listed the songs I enjoy myself, there are many more out there.
#1 The Axeman
"The Axeman" of New Orleans was a serial killer active in New Orleans, Louisiana (and surrounding communities, including Gretna, Louisiana), from May 1918 to October 1919. This killer would attack their victims with an axe, which usually belonged to the victim themselves and has 11 murders recorded in history. "The Axeman" was never caught and even with a few suspects, their identity is still unknown to this day.
"Axeman" by Amebix
#2 Elizabeth Báthory
Countess Elizabeth Báthory was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labeled the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess." Elizabeth was known for torturing and killing hundreds of woman and bathing in their blood in the belief it would retain her youth. On August 21st, 1614, Elizabeth Báthory was found dead in her castle. The cause of her death being unknown.
"Bathory's Sainthood" by Boysetsfire
"Beauty Through Order" by Slayer
"Bathe In Blood" by Evile
"Elizabeth" by Aiden
"Elizabeth" by Kamelot
#3 David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz, better known as Son of Sam, is an American serial killer convicted of a series of shooting attacks that began in the summer of 1976. Perpetrated with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver, the shootings continued for over a year, leaving six victims dead and seven others wounded. His crimes became legendary because of the bizarre content in the letters that he wrote to the police and the media and his reasons for committing the attacks. Berkowitz has been imprisoned since his arrest and is serving six life sentences consecutively.
" Son of Sam" by Dead Boys
"Ballad to the Son of Sam" by The Consumers
"Cereal Killer" by Green Jelly
"I Hear Black" by Overkill
#4 Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution, where he had been incarcerated.
"Dahmer is Dead" by Violent Femmes
"213" by Slayer
"Room 213" by Dead Moon
"Said the Spider to the Fly" by pAper chAse
"What's That Smell" by Macabre
#5 Albert Fish
Albert Fish was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac and The Boogey Man. A child rapist and cannibal, he boasted that he "had children in every state," and at one time stated the number was about 100. However, it is not known whether he was talking about rapes or cannibalization, less still whether he was telling the truth. He was a suspect of at least five murders during his lifetime. Fish confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide, and he confessed to stabbing at least two other people. He was tried for the kidnapping and murder of Grace Budd, and was convicted and executed by electric chair on January 16, 1936.
"Albert Fish Liverwurst" by Green Jelly
"Mr.Fish" by Sparzanza
#6 Edward Gein
Edward Gein was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. After police found body parts in his house in 1957, Gein confessed to killing two women. Searching the house, authorities found: four noses, whole human bones and fragments, nine masks of human skin, bowls made from human skulls, ten female heads with the tops sawn off, human skin covering several chair seats, Mary Hogan's head in a paper bag, Bernice Worden's head in a burlap sack, nine vulvae in a shoe box, a belt made from female human nipples, skulls on his bedposts, a pair of lips on a draw string for a window-shade, and a lampshade made from the skin from a human face. He was found guilty of first-degree murder, but because he was found to be legally insane, he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital. On July 26, 1984, Gein died of respiratory failure at the age of 77 in Stovall Hall at the Mendota Mental Health Institute.
"Ed Gein" by Killdozer
"Old Mean Ed Gein"
"Skinned" by Blind Melon
"Dead Skin Mask" by Slayer
#7 Charles Manson & Family
Charles Manson is an American criminal and musician who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the murders of Sharon Tateand Leno and Rosemary LaBianca carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was convicted of the murders through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's objective.
Manson believed in what he called "Helter Skelter," a term he took from the song of the same name by The Beatles. Manson believed Helter Skelter to be an impending apocalyptic race war, which he described in his own version of the lyrics to the Beatles' song. He believed his murders would help precipitate that war. Manson's death sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment when a 1972 decision by the Supreme Court of California temporarily eliminated the state's death penalty.California's eventual reinstatement of capital punishment did not affect Manson, who is currently incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison.
"ATWA" by System of a Down
"California Hippie Murders" by Red River Dave McEnery
"Revolution Blues" by Neil Young
"Mister Manson" by Klaatu
#8 Ted Bundy
Theodore Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed shortly before his execution to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978; the true total remains unknown, and could be much higher. After several prison escapes, Bundy was finally recaptured and he received three death sentences in two separate trials for homicides he committed in Florida. Ted Bundy died in the electric chair at Raiford Prison in Starke, Florida, on January 24, 1989. Biographer Ann Rule described him as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after."
"Blackest Eyes" by Porcupine
"Bundy" by Animal Alphia
#9 Ian Brady & Myra Hindley
Brady and Hindley were serial killers in England and their murder streak was known as the "Moor Murders". They abducted their victims, who were boys and girls aged 10-17, with simple ruses. After forcing them into their car, Brady would rape them and kill them either by strangling them with a piece of string (possibly a shoelace) or by slitting their throats. The bodies were then buried on the Saddleworth Moor. Before killing Lesley Ann Downey, they forced her to pose for photos and even tape recorded her torture. When they killed Edward Evans, Brady beat him to death with an axe and then strangled his lifeless body with an electrical cord. As the death penalty for murder had been abolished while Brady and Hindley were held on remand, the judge passed the only sentence that the law allowed: life imprisonment. Brady was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences and Hindley was given two, plus a concurrent seven-year term. Myra Hindley has died in hospital from a serious chest infection following a suspected heart attack in 2002 and Ian Brady is currently being held at the high security Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside. As of 2011, Brady was the longest serving prisoner in England and Wales.
"Mother Earth" by Crass
"Suffer Little Children" by The Smiths
#10 Robert Pickton
Robert Pickton is a former Canadian pig farmer and serial killer convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women. He is also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but these charges were stayed by prosecutors in 2010. In December 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years — the longest sentence available under Canadian law for murder.
