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We're not a punk band...DGeneration
was a band that exploded out of New York City in1991, quickly gaining a
reputation for their blistering live shows.Singer Jesse Malin
has released three solo albums to date and has a covers disc coming out in
March 2008.Richard
Bacchus and the Luckiest Girls, released their first album in late
2007.Danny
Sage is working on a solo project, while drummer Michael Wildwood is most
recently drummed for Monster Magnet and The Voluptuous
Horror of Karen Black.Joe Rizzo is
busy with his project, Curtis Suburban,
as well as with The Waldos.Over the past few years, some of the servers
which hosted part of this site's content have become inactive, resulting in
some dead links and missing pages.Over the course of the next few months, we
here at Vampire Nation will be working to overhaul the site to restore those
pages.MySpace pages of the boys from the
band.This site was established on June 26, 1997.Sipos
Cover art by ImagiMation.Communism, in the tradition of George Orwell's Animal
Farm.Based
on Sipos's short story, "Vampire Nation," first published in Horrors!But surprisingly enough, all
these elements hold together.The binding force is a single central
idea: vampirism as the ultimate form of communism, in which blood is redistributed
from producers to parasites.It's a welcome relief from a world that thinks communism
is just as cool and froody as capitalism.That somehow enslaving
people in service to the state is actually a good idea.It's great to read a book that takes that collectivist
BS and drives a stake through its oozing Red heart.The
novel succeeds in portraying socialists as a ghastly race of vampires literally
sucking the lifeblood from the people.Altogether, this
is a strange, flawed, interesting, 'politically incorrect' novel undoubtedly
destined to be ignored by the mainstream media.Henry
Willoughby, a likeable if callow American, is the hero of Vampire
Nation, a satiric horror fable about life in Communist Romania.Willoughby is invited to shoot a horror film in Transylvania.Sipos spins the familiar story
of a naive American encountering European decadence but gives that familiar
story his own personal (and sometimes ornery) twist.Sipos has thoroughly
messed about with the genre, and has pulled it off superbly, with a razor
sharp class.Vampire
Nation to coin a new adjective to describe it.Stating at the outset, "This is a work of satire inspired by history,"
Sipos implies that his vampires are symbols, but he does not create mere
stereotypes of villains.His vampires are fleshed out by the fact
that such individuals and the horrific communist realm they created were
very real.The author's list of relevant nonfiction works on communist
Romania initially made me consider him a possible Kim Newman wannabe.Altogether the novel can be divided into one part John Rambo, one part
Blade, and one part Catherine Zeta Jones.The image of Willoughby and
Amasovich running through the Transylvanian moonlight slaying communist
vampires could probably be very profitable for some video game manufacturer.The idea of marketing these terms as a commodity is a protected idea under
the Lanham Act.Ringu
author Koji Suzuki and Sipos (right).The two were on a panel analyzing
Japanese horror films at the 2006 World Horror Convention.He is also Editor of California
Freedom, the CLP's monthly newspaper.Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne and Sipos (right)
at
the LP's 2004 national convention in Atlanta, GA.The idea of marketing these terms as a commodity is a protected idea under
the Lanham Act.Leave
the Bourgeois Vampire's Waltz and Join the Vampire Nation, Comrades!Even small publishing houses aren't immune
from the contagion of vampire fiction that has spread through horror, science
fiction and fantasy, and Xlibris and Crazy Wolf are no exceptions.Sipos and Thomas Staab both hearken back to the castle, drawing their
vampires as absolute villains, capable only of evil.While their basic themes are the same,
Sipos succeeds where Staab does not due to one main element: the more horrific
nature of Vampire Nation's reality.Christine) who will bear the child prophesied
as the world's savior from Glynis, a black man (Shawn), and an angry male
teenager (Jesse).Staab is just getting
started.Jesse must overcome his bigoted upbringing in order to work as a team with
Shawn, while Christine must come to love her unwanted, unborn child if
the world is to be saved.Armondo, fraught with loneliness, must
resist joining Glynis.John has a more personal vendetta as the last
of the noble Guardians that have been protecting the human race against
the vampires that enslaved and murdered his kind for centuries.Jesse, after vandalizing a good portion of the library furniture,
succumbs to the evil that has infected his father, namely Glynis' blood.Shawn fights valiantly and perishes all the same.The Seventh Sign) is not the only irksome element of
Staab 's writing.Staab 's writing and evidence of a lack of editorial effort
on the part of Crazy Wolf Publishing.The layout of the book is also a sign of laxness
on the part of Crazy Wolf.The margins are, oddly, only left justified.For the reader's eye, such visually striking line breaks
should denote important points in the text: changes in narrative voice,
changes in the person speaking out loud, breaks or breakthroughs in a character's
thoughts, or emphasis or poetic license with the language.Avoiding Staab 's mistakes, Sipos mainly adheres
to reality, giving
Vampire Nation depth and giving the subgenre
of vampire fiction a worthy addition.Stating at the outset, "This
is a work of satire inspired by history," Sipos implies that his vampires
are symbols, but he does not create mere stereotypes of villains.The author's
list of relevant nonfiction works on communist Romania initially made me
consider him a possible Kim Newman wannabe.Sipos throws the reader into his horrific reality from
the very beginning, where on the author's dedication page he implies that his
parents are immigrants who escaped Romania's Communist regime.Unlike Staab,
Sipos doesn't simply use character stereotypes to tell the story.Instead, he relies on the American popular notions of Communism that will
be in the back of the minds of readers to help inspire their imagination
and terror.Production of the film quickly takes a back seat to the
perils of survival in Bucharest, where Henry is beset by all the shortcomings
we capitalists have come to associate with Communism: lack of food, lack
of the conveniences of daily living (functioning phones and plumbing, etc.Henry's single ally is Anya, whose identity
is never fully determined.Instead
of fantastic stereotypes, Sipos relies on historic events and realistic
details (Yes the trees in Ceausescu's Bucharest really were painted green
to simulate an unnatural vitality).Solo composer who enjoys mixing media with other artists.Why All The Question Marks?Click now to send a note to the
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band administrator if you would like to see if this song
has what it takes.He had been a world traveler since birth, and his unique experiences and bizarre musical tastes lent themselves to the strange songs he started writing.Nech and Eternal getting bigger recognition from the mainstream.Write a ReviewYour TakeTell the world what you think about Vampire Nation!
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