From their 2006 masterpiece Settle Down City. I found this album in a pile of my Ex's CD promotional advances one stoned afternoon circa 2007 and slowly latched onto it. Nothing sounds like this record. Or, at the time nothing did, at least.
Young Widows recently remastered and re-released the twentieth anniversary of this, and it's available on their Bandcamp HERE.
Watch:
Tuesday night K and I paid extra to sit in the RPX theatre at our local Regal and see Godzilla Minus Zero.
I've been pretty coy about posting a trailer here. I kind of just pretended this flick wasn't coming down the pipes. I'm not the world's biggest Godzilla fan, more because of lack of experience than any prejudice. Minus One was the first Godzilla film I ever saw and it blew me away. Then Shin Godzilla hit the theatres on re-release last year and I saw it three times. Now this.
I did not like Minus Zero quite as much as I did Minus One; I think this has a lot to do with how unencumbered with franchise or genre that the first film was, or at least appeared to me - based more on an angle of weaving in real history. Minus Zero takes the first film and, by continuing it, automatically becomes a franchise. Still, the FX here are incredible, and the story no less heart-rending/warming. This is brilliant filmmaking, and I look forward to the next.
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A few months back on Drinking with Comics, Mike and I were going through the October solicitations for our top five picks and I came across this:
At the time, I knew nothing about Goutanabe; I still don't really know much, but seeing the impressive HC format and Lovecraft's classic story, I was intrigued.
A few months after, I was talking to Grimm and he put Goutanabe on my radar by way of a recommendation for his manga adaptations of HPL's work. This was all very new to me, but looking at the interiors on a couple of those books, I was blown away. Also, when Grimm recommends artists, I always pay attention.
This dropped two Wednesdays ago and I brought it home this week. Man oh man! This is gorgeous.
Playlist:
Portishead - Third
Opeth - Still Life
Shellac - To All Trains
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Turquoise Moon - The Sunset City
M83 - I Sent You A Letter
M83 - Fantasy
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Godflesh - Decay
Floating - Firewatching (pre-release singles; thanks, Tommy!)
Opeth - Morningrise
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Eldritch Lace Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• Three of Wands
• 17: The Star
• 12: The Hanged Man
Here's my Friday the 13th pull, eh?
Having the foresight to spot change and not let it break you.
Apropos. I met with a Nutritionist yesterday. This person has worked with my sister for years and helped her conquer multiple health issues the regular US health don't care system would have just tossed her prescriptions for. I'm hoping this will be the same with me - my early stages of Fatty Liver persist and there are probably other things going on in the realm of my insulin tolerance and triglycerides. Changes are coming - it doesn't look like I'll have to stop drinking beer entirely again for any length of time like the three-and-a-half months I just did, but there's definitely room for improvement. I'm waiting on a lab order so she can get my blood workup (my "GP" actually was not alarmed at my triglyceride level and did not test my insulin, go figure. Same GP gave me the wrong colonoscopy results a few months before), then I can begin. In the interim, I've gone down to a Friday/Saturday drinking allotment, with one beer on Monday for DWC. I haven't been drinking every day since starting up again on October 13th, but I figured it would be good to get down a baseline schedule.
