{"id":242,"date":"2014-09-05T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T23:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2014-09-06T00:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T00:43:20","slug":"my-vampire-buddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxkochuncorked.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"My Vampire Buddy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u00a0love all monsters. Man-made,\u00a0supernatural, mutant-hillbilly…vampires. Especially vampires.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My garlic-adoring wife Nichole doesn’t do vampires. She does zombies. My friend Kari<\/a> doesn’t do zombies. She does vampires. In this case, I suppose you could go ahead and declare Kari my Vampire Buddy<\/em>. We watched “True Blood” together, suffered the “Twilight” movies together,\u00a0caught a screening of Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu” at Cinefamily<\/a> earlier this\u00a0year\u00a0with our friend Carrie (greatest opening credit sequence<\/a> to any vampire film ever), and made our way over to the Vampire Lounge<\/a> in Beverly Hills not too long ago (or was it?) for a tasting of their wishfully-bloody offerings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The only problem with loving the Art of Vampirism<\/a> so much is not being able to sleep in a coffin during the sun wrath because I’m way too goddamn claustrophobic. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh, wait, I’m still human. \u00a0FUCK!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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So the other day, I was hanging with my Vampire Buddy and we took in\u00a0arthouse indie icon\u00a0Jim Jarmush’s<\/a> “Only\u00a0Lovers Left Alive”. \u00a0Our mutual mate of morose\u00a0tendencies, James Sie<\/a>, had been touting this one hardcore to me and I knew once it hit iTunes<\/a> that my VB and I had better to stop at NOTHING to withstand it. And, OH, how we did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not only do I think this might be one of Jarmush’s finest films, but also his most heartfelt. \u00a0This is a love story spanning centuries that almost takes the piss out of the genre by basing it in a very sad, subdued, human-centric reality. Tom Hiddleston<\/a> (a gloriously gifted dude I had no idea existed) plays a reclusive, rock star-like vamper\u00a0named Adam who’s just about HAD IT with immortality. He’s bored, he’s tired, he’s lost his bloodlust\/his hankering to hunt, and it appears he just wants OUT. Tilda Swinton<\/a> is Eve (‘natch), Adam’s undead wife (they’ve been married multiple times\u00a0throughout the ages), who is perfectly contented to living alone in Tangier<\/a> and reading every notable work of literature ever drafted in time and talking to her Adam on makeshift Skype-like technology (even John Hurt<\/a> shows up as a certain playwright you may or may not have heard of). Well, one night Adam decides that it’s enough already and he needs to see his wife one more time. The extent in which uncomfortable, inconvenient, worldwide vampire travel ALONE\u00a0is conducted and\u00a0portrayed in this\u00a0film will astound you. It’s pure black magic. With red satin sheets to\u00a0wrap about you and a haunting, alt-rock-trance-y soundtrack that destroys (also available on iTunes).<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, yeah. It’s good to have a Vampire Buddy who you can take the ghostly horse buggy up to the\u00a0foreboding, fog-blanketed castle with. Because vampire stuff can be a very emotional, self-reflecting experience. Dare I admit, even a little romantic. Blech!<\/strong><\/p>\n

WINE PAIRING:\u00a0 Suck-cumb to “Only Lovers Left Alive” with a True Blood Santa Maria Valley Pinot Noir from Vampire Vineyards. Dude, what more do you need, the stuff-of-life juice\u00a0<\/strong>even comes in it’s own red-velvet-lined COFFIN CASE!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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