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Album of the Day: Monday September 1, 2025
R.E.M.
Monster (1994)
Monster is the ninth studio album by American rock band R.E.M., released by Warner Bros. Records in the UK on September 26, 1994, and in the United States the following day.
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Crush with Eyeliner
King of Comedy
I Don't Sleep, I Dream
Star 69
Strange Currencies
Tongue
Bang and Blame
I Took Your Name
Let Me In
Circus Envy
You
Feature Presentation: Monday September 1, 2025
Rebecca
(1940)
Rebecca is a story about a young woman who marries a wealthy widower and moves into his creepy mansion, Manderley. Right away, she finds out the staff aren’t exactly thrilled to have her—especially the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who’s still obsessed with the first wife, Rebecca.
Now, Rebecca isn’t around anymore—she’s dead, but you wouldn’t know it by the way everyone talks about her. Her perfume, her clothes, her handwriting—frankly, she’s more active as a memory than most people are alive. The new Mrs. de Winter starts doubting herself, until it’s revealed Rebecca wasn’t the perfect angel everyone thought, and her death wasn’t exactly an accident. There’s romance, suspense, and enough candlelit corridors to make you wonder why no one in that house ever heard of electricity. In the end, everyone gets a happy ending, except for the insurance company.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Staring
Laurence Olivier as 'Maxim' de Winter
Joan Fontaine as Mrs. de Winter
George Sanders as Jack Favell
Midnight Movie: Saturday August 30, 2025
Motel Hell
1980
Motel Hell is a heartwarming film about family, small business, a touching story of Farmer Vincent, a man who runs a roadside inn with his sister, and the importance of eating locally sourced food. Farmer Vincent and his sister run a quaint little motel on the side of the highway. To the untrained eye, it looks like any other roadside stop—clean rooms, reasonable rates, and a meat smoker out back. They make their own brand of smoked meats. The slogan is simple: ‘It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters.’ What they don’t mention is that sometimes the critters are… people. The process is fairly straightforward. Vincent kidnaps travelers, buries them in his garden up to their necks, and treats them like crops until it’s time to harvest. Then he turns them into sausage. Not exactly farm-to-table—more like interstate-to-table. You’ve probably stayed at motels before where the breakfast was questionable, but never to this degree. Things get complicated when Vincent falls for a young woman he rescues after a motorcycle accident. Between the romance, the secret garden full of buried heads, and a showdown involving a chainsaw and a pig’s head mask, it’s safe to say Motel Hell isn’t listed on AAA’s most recommended lodging. In the end, Vincent admits on his deathbed that his real crime wasn’t cannibalism, kidnapping, or mass murder. No, it was using preservatives. A shocking revelation, and one that makes you think twice about reading the ingredients on a package of sausage.
Directed by Kevin Connor
Written by Robert Jaffe & Steven-Charles Jaffe
Staring
Rory Calhoun as Vincent Smith
Paul Linke as Bruce Smith
Nancy Parsons as Ida Smith
Drink me: Thursty Thursday August 28, 2025
They’re Coming To Get You Barbara
Muddled berries and blended whiskey
blended whiskey, sweet vermouth, muddled blackberries, cranberry juice, and bitters
Alchemy: Saturday August 30, 2025
Urban Legend Chocolate Covered Strawberry Pop Rocks
Give it to Mikey, he’ll eat anything. Is it fancy? Is it candy? It’s like dreaming about eating champaign and strawberries at Willy Wonka’s. But if Robert Englund shows up with a Pepsi go for a nice glass of milk instead before you turn into Violet Beauregarde.
Alchemy: Friday August 29, 2025
South Park Elementary Fish Sticks
Yo, yo, hold up, hold up. Everybody keeps talkin’ ‘bout this fish sticks thing like it’s funny, like it’s a joke. Nah, see, y’all don’t understand the vision. Fish sticks ain’t some late-night cafeteria food - fish sticks are art. Golden. Crispy. Dipped in the sauce of creation itself. When I bite into a fish stick, I’m biting into destiny, into genius.
But every time I walk into a room, somebody wanna say, ‘Hey Kanye, you like fish dicks?’ NO. No, I don’t like fish dicks. I don’t even know why y’all keep saying that! I’m a creative prophet, I’m the voice of a generation, and you think I don’t know the difference between sticks and-? Man, stop playin’ with me!
Book of the Month: September 2025
THE NEW FRONTIERSMAN, September 5, 1986 - Special Edition
Truth. Justice. The American Way.
By Seymour David, Staff Writer
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE SO-CALLED “END OF THE WORLD”
Fellow patriots, the mask has slipped. While the good, honest citizens of this nation are spoon-fed bedtime stories by the liberal press, we at the New Frontiersman have been sifting through the ashes-literally-of a plot so vile it makes Watergate look like a traffic violation.
On November 2nd, New York City was gutted in a catastrophe that the mainstream narrative calls an “alien incursion.” Squid tentacles, psychic shockwaves, and a death toll in the millions. Tragedy, yes. Accident? Absolutely not. My investigation, guided by truth and unclouded by government-approved lies, reveals the fingerprints of one man: Adrian Veidt, alias “Ozymandias.”
That’s right - the so-called “smartest man alive.” Billionaire playboy turned masked do-gooder, working behind the curtains to play God. He staged it all. His vast corporate empire, his ties to experimental genetics, his private retreats in the Antarctic - all pieces of a puzzle the mainstream hacks refuse to assemble.
Why? Simple. Power. Control. He wanted to scare the world into peace. And wouldn’t you know it-the so-called heroes, those “watchmen” …
The Watchmen
by Alan Moore (Author), Dave Gibbons (Illustrator)