I recently mentioned to an old friend I reconnected with that, while I LOVE Idles' 2018 album, Joy as an Act of Resistance, I've had a tough time getting into anything since. Not because I don't like what I've heard; I know myself and I call this the "PJ Harvey Syndrome." I adore PJ Harvey, but I fall so hard for an album at a time that it becomes difficult for me to acclimate to any of her other works beyond that album for usually years at a time. It started with about five years of To Bring You My Love, grew to include Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea for about another seven years, then finally let in Uh Huh Her. And that's about where I am with Ms. Harvey - I'm overdue for sure.
Back to Idles, David mentioned I should start with Idles From the Basement concert on YouTube, and I'll be gotdamned if he wasn't exactly right. Thinking this is the album that opens these guys' post-Joy work up for me. I had not realized just how much they'd developed as a band - watching this, it's difficult not to make comparisons to Birthday Party-to-Bad Seeds Cave and crew, especially while watching Guitarist Mark Bowen alternate between a whole slew of different instruments a la Warren Ellis.
I'll be starting the day off with 2021's Crawler, so here's to the hearty exploration of sound and fury!
NCBD:
Nothing on my pull list at Rick's today, so how about instead I post the latest Drinking with Comics, where Shin and I rattle off our top five list for 2025!
I went straight to the top five comics published this year; Mike did a little something different. When all is said and done, I think there's a lot of great stuff out there, and this is definitely meant to encourage folks who are looking for something new.
Watch:
K and I finally got around to Luca Guadagnino's latest film, After the Hunt, last night. As usual, this man excels in filmmaking.
The tension is profound. The acting is superb, and while I admit that I've spent most of my life running from post-Flatliners Julia Roberts, she is exceptional here. The film says so much with a bombastic nuance that leaves you breathless by the end, and I actually think it helped me come to a conclusion about our society that, while it's not a good thing, is definitely appreciated as a warning.
Playlist:
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
White Reaper - Only Slightly Empty
Gylt - I Will Commit a Holy Crime: Tandem
Orville Peck - Appaloosa
Netherlands - Vapors
Slow Crush - Thirst
Teenage Wrist - Chrome Neon Jesus
HEALTH - Conflict DLC
Mondo Decay - Nun Gun
Fever Ray -
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The First Born Son is Dead
The Cure - Pornography
Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Ildes - From the Basement
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• XVI: The Tower
• Seven of Cups
• Six of Wands
Do not let massive emotional change poison the creative urge.
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