I'm not sure how I never posted this track before, because I can see I liked it and I recognize it. Regardless, I could not find it in a search on this site. Regardless of whether it appeared in these pages previously, I've really felt an affinity toward this band, this album, and this song lately, so here it is again and HERE is Me and That Man's Bandcamp.
If you're unfamiliar, this is Nergal from Behemoth's 'other' band, and it kind of sounds like if Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds hailed from Norway and sold their souls to the Dark One. Which is to say, they are AWESOME!
Watch:
Friday night, I finally got around to watching Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw The TV Glow.
To say this film had a deeply profound effect on me would be an understatement. I know relatively little about Schoenbach's; last year, I watched their We Are All Going to the World's Fair and was pretty blown away by that, as well. But TV... this one is so much more accomplished. Part of that is, I'd guess, that Schoenbach had a bigger budget the second time around, but also, they have obviously honed their craft.
There's so much 00s Hauntology in this film that it's almost unbelievable to me. I mean, that entire movement was so liminal and audio-based that I find the effectiveness of this filmmaker's ability to 'put it on screen' fascinating and deeply endearing. The blurred pre and post-millennium transition from a still mostly analog cultural paradigm to a fully digital one created a wave of interesting cultural artifacts; people repurposing analog alongside the digital and really projecting the past out into the future to create what was, at the time, a movement so rooted in uncertainty and change that it didn't last long and kind of ate its own tail on the way out, so it almost feels like it didn't exist at all. But Schoenbach proves it did, with a movie whose plot is pretty much what I just described, verbatim.
Also, have to say. I was a little more than halfway through and already spellbound when King Woman showed up and performed a stunning version of Psychic Wound.
I mean, how could I not LOVE this film?
Playlist:
The Police - Outlandos D'Amour
Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool
Converge - Love Is Not Enough
Jerry Reed - East Bound and Down
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞
Faster Pussycat - Wake Me When It's Over
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Drug Church - Prude
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Nihill - Krach
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Napalm Death - Resentment Is Always Seismic (A Final Throw of Throes)
Napalm Death - Suffer the Children (single)
• Ace of Cups
• Two of Pentacles
"A connection of mind and spirit creates opportunity for lucrative partnership."
Some of my recent readings have really had a 'fortune teller' feel. I hate that. It makes it hard to take things seriously.
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