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Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

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Top Halloween Favorites on Netflix

  1. The Nightmare Before Christmas: This class Tim Burton movie about about a pumpkin king who wants to take over Christmas. 
  2. Pontypool: A psychological thriller in which a deadly virus infects a small Ontario town.
  3. The Others: A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.
  4. The Addams Family: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
  5. Creep: When a videographer answers a Craigslist ad for a one-day job in a remote mountain town, he finds his client is not at all what he initially seems.
  6. Housebound: A would-be thief is remanded to the custody of her estranged mother, who turns out to be correct in her assertion that evil spirits are afoot in their family domicile.
  7. American Mary: The allure of easy money sends Mary Mason, a medical student, into the world of underground surgeries which ends up leaving more marks on her than her so called “freakish” clients.
  8. V/H/S: When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
  9. The Babadook: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son’s fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
  10. Odd Thomas: In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

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some additions, since Netflix apparently axed a bunch of its horror library lately (including the classic Night of the Living Dead which is in public domain so there’s no reason NOT to have it????) 

The Wailing, which is an unfortunate English title but a very good claustrophobic, intense thriller from Korea about a detective investigating a strange disease that has gripped a rural town

Tucker and Dale vs Evil, a horror-comedy lampooning the hillbilly horror genre, where two good-natured rednecks find themselves accused of being psychotic killers through a series of misunderstandings and gruesome slapstick deaths

Hellraiser, an often-underrated classic IMO. A dark and moody tale of a man who tries to extricate himself from his demonic bargain with hedonists from a dimension beyond human comprehension, and the consequences.

Raw, a recent French horror movie where a life-long vegetarian is forced to eat raw meat at a hazing ritual and develops an insatiable craving for flesh. French horror movies tend to be uncomfortably visceral and this one is no exception.

Cabin Fever: apparently this is a remake using the original script with a bit of trimming. I’ve never seen the remake but when I first saw the original I thought it was a fantastic satire of misogyny and fear of female bodies and sexuality in the horror genre. In retrospect I’m pretty sure it’s none of those things actually but if you want to see wildly unlikeable teens die in increasingly gross-out ways, definitely check this one out.

Interview with the Vampire – I know you’ve heard of this one but it is IMPOSSIBLE to understate how important this book and the subsequent movie was to the genre. This completely changed the perception of vampires in popular culture and spawned a thousand imitators and almost singlehandedly birthed a legion of languid Victorian goths in the 90s

Cube, a low-budget 90s effort featuring a group of people trapped in a puzzle-filled futuristic maze with the vibe of a nightmarish adventure game.

the fact that so much stuff has been taken off Netflix without warning and the fact that it was a goddamn pain in the ass to even FIND a list of the shit they DO have maybe says something about the predominance of streaming services for movies hmm

Reblogging for the additional information.