To complete the series of our favorite songs, here are our top 5 Grunge songs :

1. Kindergarten – Faith No More – Angel Dust 1992
2. Violet – Hole – Live Through This 1994
3. Love Buzz – Nirvana – Bleach 1987
4. Mayonaise – The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream 1993
5. Hey – Pixies – Doolittle 1989

There are so many more, and I mean many, since we both were around 17 years-old during the grunge times and we really hooked on it. However, these 5 songs have been consistently at the top of our grunge playlist. I know that all these songs are not purely “grunge” but they were playing everywhere during the early 90s, so we assimilated it to our grunge times.

Following our top 5 Rock songs, here are our darker, more alternative, favorite songs.

1. Amphetamine Logic – The Sisters of Mercy – First and Last and Always 1985
2. Ruiner – Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral 1994
3. Tourniquet – Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar 1996
4. The Satanist – Behemoth – The Satanist 2014
5. Nacht Verweil – Firtan – Okeanos 2018

Once again, this is always open to changes. However, throughout the years, these songs always remained at the top of our “Dark” playlist.

We often ask ourselves “what are our absolute favorite rock songs ever?”. We don’t mean a well curated list that would fit best our personalities, only the rock songs that we enjoy most to hear. As of today:

1. Life’s what you make it – Talk Talk – The colour of Spring 1986
2. Heroes – David Bowie – Heroes 1977 (not the 2002 remaster!)
3. Mary Jane’s last dance – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Greatest Hits 1993
4. Flesh for Fantasy – Billy Idol – Rebel Yell 1983
5. Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns’n Roses – Apetite for Destruction 1987

This list could always and probably will change over time. However, we’re not sure that any song can ever dethrone “Life’s what you make it”, it’s almost music perfection to us.

We’ve been living in city apartments for 20 years but we always had the idea to move to a house in the country. After 3 years of research, we finally found a house we could call home. Since January, we’ve been very busy purchasing the house and selling our apartment, hence the lack of posts on the blog. It’s been the busiest February of both our lives, and it’s only starting… There’s still an entire moving to organize.

Beside working on our relocation project, we’ve been playing Enshrouded and Grim Dawn. Two fantastic games without any subscription, cash shop or microtransactions, it feels good to be free! I will probably write a post (some day) about our growing hate for monetization.

I just found out about the Wayback Machine, an internet crawler that saved more than 916 billions web pages over time. They saved the pages of our old blog “Dark Heaven” from when we were fans of Goth stuff. Such a flashback!

I also found a thread on the Quake subreddit about mapping. I remember when I used to make maps a map for Quake 2, it was based on a train station converted to a concert/party place called The Soundstation. It took me 6 months and it was really fun. Internet was in full bloom, everybody thought that they were “cyber”, we used to live in movies in our heads and it was so cool.

I have the feeling that the world became much more serious than it used to be. Orrrr, I’m just surrounded by older folks who have lost their illusions and who live in a world that is much too real. Resist, folks! Play games and believe that there is more than jobs, bills and mortages.

A seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must run, fight and hide before her body shuts down. (IMDB)

Pretty much everything that there’s to say about the movie is in the synopsis, it’s a pretty straight forward plot. Kesley Asbille and Finn Wittrock managed to keep the tension up until the end. We already knew Wittrock from AHS and we were sure that he would make a great psycho killer.

We also enjoyed the great american landscapes, eventhough the filming mostly took place around Sofia, Bulgaria. (lol)

There isn’t much more to say about Don’t Move, it’s the kind of movie that relies entirely on the vibe and the chemistry between the characters. We had a good time and I would recommend it for a Saturday evening.

This is our 500th post! Happy milestone and long live Spacewocket!

Elisabeth Sparkle, renowned for an aerobics show, faces a devastating blow on her 50th birthday as her boss fires her. Amid her distress, a laboratory offers her a substance which promises to transform her into an enhanced version of herself. (Google)

We’ve watched The Substance despite our fear to end up with another movie like Smile (which we dislike). And I’m very glad we did! In my many years watching horror and crazy movies of all genres, I’ve never seen something like this.

First, the cinematography is beyond excellent. Each scene is perfectly crafted to fit the vibe of the movie. From the font used for the substance (yes, I love fonts) to the music or the design of each room, everything is impeccable.

Demi Moore redefines what it means to “give it all”. I don’t think that I’ve ever seen anyone committing this much to a role, her performance is fantastic. Dennis Quaid and Margaret Qualley are perfect fits too.

While the movie starts as a satire of how a male dominated showbiz easily discards aging women, it ends up completely out-of-this-world batshit crazy. I must warn people who are easily squeamish, this may not be the right movie for you!

We had a fantastic time watching The Substance. It left us half baffled and half philosophizing about aging gracefully in a world that pushes youth everywhere you look.

Goodbye, 2024, you’ve been quite a ride,
But let’s be honest, we’re not teary-eyed.
The shows were bland, the movies fell flat,
And gaming? Well, let’s not dwell on that.

Too quiet, a bit of a bore,
We hoped for so much, but you gave us chores.
We’ll leave you behind without much regret,
And look to the future with hopes freshly set.

Here’s to a new year, fresh and bright,
2025, come make things right!

A young woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing. (IMDB)

The movie is divided in two parts.

The first half is about the invasion. As usual, an unexptecting humanity gets crushed by the sudden attack of angry (and hungry) creatures from space. This part is pretty brutal. The cinematography is really well done and communicate a real sense of danger. We almost were afraid to make a sound in our coach.

The second half is less about survival than it is about drama. Samira isn’t really trying to escape New York, since she’s dying of an incurable disease. All she wants is to relive a slice of her old life, which includes eating a pizza. On her way, she meets Eric, a really nice guy who will do anything to fulfil her wish. All along their journey, they’re followed by Samira’s cat.

Even if it was really well acted, I can’t lie about my disappointment toward the second part of the movie. I’m not a drama fan. In fact, I hate it, it’s depressing and I’m really not watching TV to feel sad. If it wouldn’t have been so well acted, I’m not sure that I would have watched it until the end. Just stop using horror to masquerade a drama, it’s misleading!

Also, the cat deserves an award.

Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man. (IMDB)

Visually, Heretic is stunning. The cinematography captures the isolation of Reed’s home, creating an atmosphere that triggers both a feeling of beauty and unease.

At first, Reed’s house appears quaint and unremarkable, much like himself. However, as the plot progresses and we venture further into his home, it undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming more imposing, before sinking into the basement gruesomeness. This transformation symbolises the unveiling of Reed’s true nature.

Sisters Paxton and Barnes are perfectly portrayed by Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher. Sister Paxton starts as sheepish and shy and develops throughout the movie while Sister Barnes is more self-assured. While facing the man who seems to be the trigger of this transformation, the difference between the Sisters results in an awesome chemistry.

I kept the best for the end… After playing in the latest Dungeons & Dragons movie, Hugh Grant delivers a fantastic performance in Heretic and may very well jump in my top 5 favourite actors.

Heretic is among the best movies we’ve seen this year and I just found out that there’s gonna be a sequel… What a great end-of-year present!

When a sinister threat from his childhood returns to haunt him, a father desperately struggles against his deepest inner fear. Only this time, the fight isn’t for himself; it’s for his family. (IMDB)

Hollywood doesn’t seem to tarry of old folklore tales that can be adapted on TV… Not that I complain, the more horror movies, the better. However, I just wish that they would stop digging old creepy stories from I-don’t-know-where and present it as if it was coming from our collective childhoods. I actually never heard about this one before.

While the movie was entertaining enough for a pop-corn evening, I couldn’t help but feeling bad for the main protagonist who seem to have the worst luck in his private life, then moves back to his childhood town, only to see his life being gaslighted even further.

Beware SPOILERS below.

One of the biggest gimmick of the movie is the nanny cam. Which leads me to the greatest plot hole in the entire movie… If you would know for fact that your kid is in danger, would you still decide to keep him in a separate room while the adults are sleeping together? That made zero sense.

However, wouldn’t it be for the abrupt sucky end, we didn’t have a bad time watching Bagman. There’s apparently going to be a sequel and I’m actually curious. I just hope that it addresses the characters’ decisions better and tightens up the storytelling because I felt left on a cliffhanger.