I've officially felt the change to my Autumnal self, and as such, Joy Division has been creeping into my daily listening more and more. In honor of that, I thought it pertinent to start the week with a favorite.
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In preparation for the first part of Stranger Things' final season arriving in November, K and I began rewatching the series from the very beginning. With all the delays and general negative cultural cache that's accumulated around this one, I'd forgotten just how goddamn awesome ST actually is.
In particular, I'd forgotten that they tie Brennan's experiments in Hawins to Project MK Ultra, a topic that has fascinated me for well over twenty years at this point. It's nice to dip back into this and see it holds up to the way I remember it - pretty much perfect.
For me, a lot of that negative cultural connotation comes from how long this whole thing has gone on. I remember watching Season Four, which I loved, back in the Spring of 2022 and seeing a lot of publicity that the next season would be out the following year. The premiere of Season Five on November 26 will be 3.5 years since Season Four premiered. That just seems crazy to me. So much momentum built up and dissipated, and for what? I'd wager that Netflix had the Duffer Bros. work up a spin-off in the interim, something that could be advertised when the show finally ends with its finale this coming New Year's. That's fine, but man, I don't know - if this show wasn't so damn good, I would have jumped off a long time ago.
But as I stated above, it is that good, so I'll just swallow that annoyance and get on with stoking my fan embers in the two months I have left before November 26th.
Playlist:
Joy Division - Closer
David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails - Back in Anger 1995
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Revocation - New Gods, New Masters
Mastodon & Lamb of God - Floods of Triton (single)
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Pasco 637 - Cuando Acecha la Maldad (single)
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Black Queen - Infinite Games
lords. - bleeding out
lords. - single playlist
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood (single)
David Bowie - Outside
Radiohead - Kid A
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Deftones - private music
The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
Intensive Care & The Body - Was I Good Enough?
Netherlands - Vapors
Soundgarden - Bad Motorfinger
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
And Grimm's Kickstarter for The Eldritch Lace Tarot deck is now live! You can go check it out and support it HERE.
• Seven of Swords
• Knight of Cups
Loss of engagement or apathy as a way to trick my mind out of the rut it's been in the last month or so. I'm not talking about a debilitating rut; I'm getting a lot of outlining accomplished on the Shadow Play sequel, but I've been preoccupied with the internet and my phone in general and that always leaves me feeling like shit. Digital hangover. So I've convinced myself I don't care about those connections anymore, and it's worked wonders. With the way now cleared, I simply have to follow where my nature takes me. Which is, of course, my own personal aesthetic, expressed best through writing.
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