Super Gore

From their now ten-year-old album Gore. Been a while since I've listened to this one, and one listen put it right back into regular rotation.

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Watch:

With all the big-budget stuff James Gunn is doing for DC that I'm only just now getting in on, I had an urge to go back and rewatch his 2010 film Super. 

Man, does this hold up! So F*cked up, but Super also has a lot of heart. It's a push-pull with where this one takes you, and I'm happy I finally added a Blu-ray copy to my shelves. Everyone involved gives fantastic performance, and even though it makes you uncomfortable and uneasy, a strange affirmation of humanity seeps in at the end. If Gunn has a superhero ability, that's it right there. 

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Read:

Also, I'm about 150 pages into Project Hail Mary. My cousin's husband put this on my radar last summer, and I finally grabbed a copy from Clarksville Bookshoppe a couple of months ago. 

Just getting around to it now - possibly the last non-Stephen King or research-related read I'll have for the foreseeable future if I really double down and go with this Dark Tower/The Talisman re-read in anticipation of Other Worlds Than These. As promised, Andy Weir is a fantastic author and this is a fantastic read. Very light for something so infused with actual scientific data. The day I purchased this was my clue that a film was on the immediate horizon, so I'm squeezing this in before the March 20th release date. 

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Playlist:

Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer OST

Various - An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music/Second A-Chronology Vol 2 (Disc1)

Low Cut Connie - Art Dealers

Lou Reed - Eponymous

Fever Ray - The Bride EP

Melvins & Napalm Death - Tossing Coins Into The Fountain Of Fuck (single)

Helmet - Aftertaste

Blut Aus Nord - Ethereal Horizons

Adam Kesher - Local Girl (Hatchmatik Remix)

Faith No More - Angel Dust

Deftones - Gore

Rob Zombie - The Great Satan

Rammstein - Reise, Reise

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In

Foxy Shazam - Eponymous

Ghostland Observatory - Paparazzi Lightning

Team Human w/ Douglas Rushkoff - Chapel Perilous w/ Gabriel Kennedy & Grant Morrison

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Card:

I've been doing daily spreads with the Thoth deck, as well as before-bed single-card draws. The Two of Disks went face-up on my bedside table on Friday and I only just relinquished it. 

A change to the way I'm doing some 'Earthly' things will do me some good; that's enough of a kick in the pants to run with an idea I had recently. I'm getting pretty regular practice with spreadsheet creation and manipulation at work these days and I thought it might be advantageous to try adapting some of that stuff for personal functions. Primarily, money.

Ritual Howls - Going Upstate

It hit me today (writing this on Sunday) that Ritual Howls' Into the Water will be ten years old next year. That, in retrospect, made me reflect on how it's now been a decade since everything in my life got rewritten for the better. Not many folks get to start over again and improve their existence exponentially. I did, and these guys were one of the first bands I found waking up in that new life, this record in particular. So it will always be special.

Listening to this, the closing track, in the early night, winding home on the country road that takes me out of Clarksville proper where I sometimes write and into the unincorporated area where we live looked very much like this video. It was just kind of a perfect moment for October. 

Oh yeah, Ritual Howls have a new album dropping on Halloween this year. You can hear the singles and pre-order the Neon Green Vinyl over on their Bandcamp HERE.

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31 Days of Halloween:

1) Incident On and Off a Mountain Road///The Funhouse

2) Tales From the Crypt Ssn 1 Ep 4, "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone"///Cabin in the Woods

3) Satanic Hispanics

4) Creature From the Black Lagoon 3D///May

5) The Strangers

6) [REC]

7) The Autopsy - GDT Cabinet of Curiosities///[REC]2

8) Where the Devil Roams

9) The Roost

10) Good Boy/The Viewing - GDT Cabinet of Curiosities

11) Blood Moon (aka Wolf Girl)/All Hallows' Eve (The Last Drive-In Helloween)

12) The Shining/The Simpsons Ssn 6 Treehouse of Horror V

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Playlist:

Slaughterhouse - Sick and Tired EP

Gylt - I Will Commit A Holy Crime Tandem

Perturbator - Age of Aquarius

Perturbator - I Am the Night

Deftones - private music

White Lung - Eponymous

White Lung - Sorry

Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

Mark Ronson and RAYE - Suzanne (single)

RAYE - My 21st Century Blues

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Ministry - Psalm 69

Ritual Howls - Into the Water

Ritual Howls - Ruin (pre-release singles)

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Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.

And Grimm's Kickstarter for The Eldritch Lace Tarot deck is now live! You can go check it out and support it HERE.

• Page of Wands

• IV: The Emperor

• XXI: The World

Completion. To get there, though, I need the person holding the 'keys' to have an epiphany. Or maybe I'm the person holding the keys? If that's the case, I had the epiphany today. This is all vague, but I'll just say, working really hard on getting Black Gloves & Broken Hearts published by the end of the month. One big roadblock, and it's not me, it's the Emperor.