Another fantastic live performance as posted by the fantastic ARTE Concert YouTube page.
I'm super new to Hangman's Chair - I discovered them by way of singer Cédric Toufouti's work on Perturbator's Lustful Sacraments - so I had no idea they were big enough for a crowd like this. Always nice to see a band you're sweet on getting an ocean of love at a live performance.
I've posted recently about the band's new album, Saddiction, which you can pick up from Nuclear Blast HERE.
This show is an allegory for the ramifications of the Corporate paradigm we live in and its effect on human beings, and it's a damn good one, at that. It's really made me reflect on my life and my job, which is becoming so all-consuming that it's affecting my writing, my sanity, and maybe my overall person. I have dreams that express the fear I'm being slowly brainwashed into one of these fucking corporate pod-people, and it's terrifying.
Watch:
I really think I need to spend a little more time talking about Severance than I did the other day. This is, for me, the most important show I know of at the moment.
One of the major plotlines of Severance is how the "Outties" - i.e., the person when not at work- basically sell their "Innies" into slavery. Of course, the Outtie does not go unscathed. I've only seen far enough (season 2, episode 2) into the show to get a feel for one character's home life, but it's clear they are not happy. Because, of course, to draw a really strong comparison from Severance to a film I love:
You cannot treat one aspect of yourself poorly and not expect it to affect the overall organism.
This is an exaggerated pretense of how I feel about my work-life balance, a term that in and of itself makes me crazy. I spend far too much of my time working, thinking about work, solving my Innie's problems, and in this way, I feel like, just as The Substance is a remarkable allegory for beauty and self-worth, Severance is an allegory for the trade-off we make for money, status and all the other trappings of 'success.' To many people who know me, I might appear successful. In my own mind, however, I realize the damage the trade-off is doing.
Word.
Playlist:
Ministry - The Squirrely Years
Tim Hecker - Infinity Pool OST
Flying Lotus - ASH OST
The Veils - Asphodels
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Heilung - Lifa
David Bowie - Outside
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Slow Crush - Aurora
Low - Trust
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• Queen of Cups
• XVI: The Tower
• Seven of Wands
Look to your dreams for what comes after the Fall. Of special note may be causes previously thought irrelevant.
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