Getting back into Loathe's 2020 record, I Let It In and It Took Everything, which I first fell in love with in early 2021. How did I go so long without listening to this? Sure, I've spun it a few times in the last three and a half years, but not as much as I should have, considering how obsessed I am with it at the moment. Can't wait for something new from these guys - they did release a counterpart record in 2021, the all-instrumental The Things They Believe, but I'm talking about a new, proper album. A lot of things I see online lead me to believe we can expect a new one any time now, so I'll be waiting...
Watch:
I watched Ben Wheatley's A Field In England last Friday. I'd made two previous attempts to watch this one over the last ten years or so, and failed both times. I never once considered this was the film's fault, just a failure on my own part to relinquish myself to the slow-moving, otherworldly specificity of Wheatley's vision with this one. It was decided recently that we would cover Field on an upcoming episode of The Horror Vision's Sticks N' Stones - our Folk Horror discussion vehicle, and in looking for a unique angle to take I had the idea that I would eat the last of some psychedelic mushrooms I've had in my desk for going on two years now.
A strategy was born, and I undertook the endeavor this past Friday night.
I'll save the details of this cinematic expedition for the episode of our show. For now, though, let me just say this was a perfect strategy, and while the mushrooms were not nearly as potent as they were two years ago (I should have frozen them!) they offered a deeper watch than I'd been able to achieve on those other two occasions.
A really fine film, and a marvelous score by Jim Williams, who is very quickly becoming my favorite working film composer today.
Playlist:
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Mudhoney - March to Fuzz
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Man or Astro-Man? - Defcon 5...4...3....2...1
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything
Loathe - The Things They Believe
X - Los Angeles
Pigface - Live 2019 Limited Edition Vinyl (Thanks, Mr. Brown!)
Tubby Hayes Quintet - Down in the Village (Live at Ronnie Scott's Club, London 1962)
Melvins & Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire
John Carpenter - Lost Themes IV: Noir
Les Discrets - Prédateurs
Deadguy - Fixation on a Coworker
Pepper Adams - Encounter!
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Jackie Wilson - Higher (single)
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (single)
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• Ace of Swords
• V: The Hierophant
• Knight of Wands
Intellectual breakthrough possibly arrived at via a spiritual state. The Knight of Wands may indicate that what stands in the way of achieving this enlightenment is an imbalance between the intellectual and spiritual/emotional states, which kind of defines what it is to be human, especially in the chaotic period of upheaval that usually predates a breakthrough or epiphany.
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