Both absurd and sinister, Hook was the archvillain of JM Barrie's Neverland, partial to duelling, cigar-smoking and plank-walking.
Of those, the biggest is "Spend It," a monster production that 2 Chainz enlivens with a sinister hook — "I'm riding around and I'm getting it/It's mine, I spend it" — and leavens with one of last year's most comical verses: I take your wife, give her back 9 months after that, Similac!
Tom Hewitt is a suitably sinister Captain Hook, and the rest of the cast of more than 20, directed by Glenn Casale, seems happy enough to be there.
A View from the Bridge has its own challenges: originally written by Miller as a short story, its features as its protagonist Eddie Carbone, an Italian-American longshoreman from the Brooklyn slum of Red Hook ("a sinister waterfront world of gangster-ridden unions, assassinations, beatings, bodies thrown into the lovely bay at night", Miller wrote in his autobiography).
"Don't, don't, don't stop," suggests the hook in "Sinister," Todd Terry's latest track, released on Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label (of all places).
He also showed us his latest project: a small slaughterhouse that he wants to lease, on a cliff over the sea; abandoned decades ago, falling into ruin, and sinister, with primitive meat hooks and bloodstained walls, it had struck him as a venue for temporary, or maybe permanent, installations, and he wanted suggestions about which artists to invite.
It would be hard to make the case that Cannibal Corpse's "Meat Hook Sodomy," say, contains sinister subliminal messages that you can hear if you just listen closely enough, because the name of the song is "Meat Hook Sodomy".
"Consider your man card re-issued", read a sinister advertisement for a semi-automatic rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre.
Just enjoy its production, lead vocals that eventually hit a great hook, group-harmonized title in the chorus, and those sinister bass and thin, wanton guitar licks.
The album does not contain the off-the-hook experimentation of 2002's "Yankee Foxtrot Hotel" or the sinister tug of 2004's "Ghost Is Born" but is a kind of compilation of a band at the height of its powers.
He may not have hooks for hands, but everything else about the sinister cleric Abu Qatada indicates how evil he is.
