The Ocean - Milk of My Dreams

Getting back to this new album from The Ocean, Solaris, I was shocked to find the penultimate track is a collaboration with the legendary Tangerine Dream! This album really goes to some deep, far out places, and nowhere is that more apparent than on this track.

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NCBD:

The AI insanity continues. I'm telling you - I LOVE this book, but there are so many disturbing similarities to the dildos that populate "Amerigun" and our own timeline here in this country that every issues scares the shit out of me just as much as it puts a smile on my face. 

I had completely forgotten about Ordained, but here we are with the fourth and final (?) issue!

After taking a break from Fraction and Jimenez's Batman for the duration of the "Bad Seeds" crossover, I'm not 100% certain I am jumping back on board with this new issue. But we'll see. Now that this whole Kingpin... I mean, Vandal Savage storyline is over, hopefully we can get back to some of the awesome storylines Fraction planted in the first year of the book, before editorial no doubt rammed a crossover event down everyone's throat.

Fuck yeah! Hammerfist issue three is here and this cover says it all! HELL PARTY!!!

Still on the fence with M.A.S.K., but I'm hanging on for those Micronauts!

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Watch:

After missing it at not one but two Beyondfests in the last twelve months, I finally saw Tom Stern's The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt documentary on the Butthole Surfers. Man, this one was every bit as wonderful as I had anticipated!

The mix of archival footage, present-day interviews and animation/puppetry made for a deeply original feeling; closest thing I've seen to this was that Shane McGowan doc a couple years ago. 

It was cool to see a lot of the stories confirmed; the tales my friends and I knew from back before internet proliferation, when people passed on stories about bands like this via word-of-mouth. Also interesting to see the Surfers - who I never really knew much about outside their music - as people. Also, some genuinely tear-jerking moments. Fantastic film.

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Playlist:

Nun Gun - Mondo Decay

Algiers - Eponymous

QOTSA - Perfecth

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Godflesh - Decay

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Shapes of Midnight

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife

Genital Shame - Wellness Plan

Ministry - Hate To Go: Take Out Or Delivery

Portishead - Third

Opeth - Blackwater Park

The Ocean - Solaris

Anthrax - Cursum Perficio

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Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Eldritch Lace Tarot, which you can buy HERE.

• Queen of Cups

• 13: Death

• King of Cups

Subconscious change is required for mastery. 

I'm feeling embers beneath my feet; a change is coming, in how I approach myself. It might be something I don't want to deal with, but chances are, I'm going to have to.