Talk about an album that defines a year in my life. INXS's Kick was everywhere in 1987. I was eleven. I remember some stroke popular kid in my 4th grade class telling me in gym class how his father brought him home, 'the album all the college kids are listening to,' and brandishing the cassette. I assumed it was something stupid because this kid was my antithesis. However, I was wrong, it wasn't stupid at all. To this day, Kick and U2's The Joshua Tree still sound to me the way I physically felt at that time in my life, which is a really cool and kind of spooky thing, like my cells rearrange to some pre-recorded configuration when those sounds are re-introduced to my brain. No where is that more true than on this particular song.
Watch:
Keola Racela's Porno dropped on Shudder this past week. This is one I'd been waiting on for a while; I almost went to a screening at some point, pre-COVID (I think - that seems so long ago now, it's like some hazy, undiscovered country). Anyway, I'll be reviewing this one later today on a new episode of The Horror Vision, which will go up Monday, however, let me just say - I really liked this flick, and it had one of the hardest to watch scenes EVER.Playlist:
Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart
Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full
Bölzer - Hero
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic I Cenozoic
Sir Neville Mariner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Amadeus (Complete Soundtrack Recordings)
Opeth - Deliverance
Dance with the Dead - B-Sides: Vol. 1
Me and That Man - New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 1The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop OST
INXS - Kick
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power (1973 Bowie Mix)
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
I also spent an entire morning at work yesterday diving into The Black Tapes podcast. Can't recommend this one enough. I hooked.
Set up in a wonderful homage to Serial's first season, The Black Tapes deals with Paranormal Research and all the familiar hijinx - ghosts, demons, portals to hell. But the story is told through an NPR/This American Life kind of lens and because of that, it resonates in a very different way.
Card:
Threes and Swords - looks bad on the surface, but really, this is the cutting away of baggage in order to clarify and establish a firm foundation (fours). I've had two intensely productive days of writing and am clearing away a lot of the mental detritus that has had me clogged up these last couple months - fall out from world events, obviously - and am ready to end the year on the same mega-productive note that carried me through the first six months of it.
