The final track on the band's 1985 album The Head On the Door. Such a great outro to an album that goes through all kinds of emotional disturbances. As this sudden shift in the weather from nearly 100-degree days to cool and smokey 70s took me by surprise, it jump-started my internal Autumn. It's been a few years since I was into The Cure like I am at the moment, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
RIP:
John Cassaday, Age 52. An absolute GIANT - his work with Warren Ellis on Planetary remains the zeitgeist of 00s comics - a book that redefined pretty much everything about the medium. I think the first time I heard the term "Wide Screen Comics" was in regard to Cassaday and Ellis' seminal series.
Playlist:
Television - Marquee Moon
Garland Jeffreys - Wild in the Streets (single)
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Garland Jeffreys - American Boy & Girl
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Cure - The Head on the Door
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God*
Grinderman - Eponymous
*I only made it two tracks into this one. I'll probably try again, but I'm eternally disappointed that Cave and crew just seem to make the same album over and over again ever since Skeleton Tree and, to a lesser extent, Push the Sky Away, both of which I like upon release, but now feel a lot like Al Pacino's performance in Scent of a Woman - they're just stuck in the same phase. I miss the days when one Bad Seeds record would sound like The Boatman's Call, the next Abbatoir Blues or Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Card:
Today's card for study is the Eight of Wands - Swiftness:
Clear communication. Anti Confusion. Be upfront. Be real. Decisiveness.
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