Monday, February 10, 2025

Cherubini - Requiem in C Minor

 

One beautiful piece of music I've often taken for granted.


Watch:

Friday night, I watched Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on Joe Bob Brigg's The Last Drive-In Patreon. I'd seen this posted on the Patreon a while ago and had been saving it. Couldn't think of a better time; I'm two-thirds through my rewatch of Twin Peaks The Return and wanted to slow the roll on that. It's definitely gained momentum fast while watching, and I backed off to kind of savor it. 


The original air date of this one was March 6, 1999, on Joe Bob's Last Call. One of the cool things about the Patreon is even though Joe Bob's old shows were basic cable and, therefore edited, the films they put up are the whole enchilada.

I can't say I agreed with most of JB's commentary on the film. However, it was '99, and Twin Peaks was a distant memory to pop culture at large (not to me and my friends; Brown, myself and two other friends would make our first sojourn to the Twin Peaks Fest (RIP) in Washington state a year later in 2000), so without a fresh rewatch of the series - which would have been somewhat hard to do unless you had the Worldvision VHS box set I'd had since it was released in 1993 for $99.95 (had to look the release date on that one up), you probably hadn't seen the series since it originally aired in 90/91 or perhaps when the Bravo network reaired it in 1993. So FWWM would make even less sense.




Read:

Speaking of surrealist Horrro, I finally got around to starting Sopia Ajram's Coup de GrĂ¢ce.


Here's the description lifted directly from Goodreads:

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke.

Don't remember where I first heard of this one, but I'm enjoying it so far, even though I'm still having a lot of trouble concentrating on prose at the moment. 




Playlist:

Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
The Jesus Lizard - Down
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Deth Crux - Mutant Flesh
Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything
Flogging Molly - Float
Riccardo Muti - Verdi: Requiem & Cherubini: Requiem in C Minor
Wolves in the Throne Room - Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge EP
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Blut Aus Nord - The Mystical Beast of Rebellion
Boston Baroque, Conductor: Martin Pearlman - Chrubini: Requiem in C Minor




Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.


• Two of Pentacles
• Two of Wands
• Four of Wands

Stability ahead.

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