From JD McPherson's excellent 2024 album Nite Owls. I gave this one a spin a few times last year, but on the way back from Chicago over the weekend, Mr. Brown threw me a burned copy and I stepped into its sonic beauty early yesterday and just couldn't get out. Fabulous, and one of those that should have made my "Best of" list last year (there are always regrets).
You can snag a copy of Nite Owls from New West Records HERE and it's available on every streaming platform. Especially with the heat we're experiencing in the MidWest/South right now, the guitar on this track is like a cool drink of minty water. Love it!
NCBD:
This week's Pull has a couple of new number ones I'm absolutely ecstatic about. Let's get into it:
Building up to a reread on this one. I love the worlds that Lemire creates and the textures he creates them with when he writes and draws.
It has been SO Long since Lazarus graced comic shop shelves. Not a complaint, but in the intervening years, I've come to reference this book to anyone I talk politically/socially to, because it's undeniable - the future Rucka and Lark set out in this series is our future. Chilling.
Watch:
Monday night K and I saw Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 28 Years Later, and today as I'm typing this, I'm not really sure how I feel about it.
Let me say this up front - 28 Years Later is not a bad film. Anything I didn't like about it is, in my mind at this time, suspect, because it's all due to the unique approach to pretty much everything that Boyle took.
It's already become common knowledge that Boyle used iPhones for some of the filming. In fact, an article I read on Wire discussed how he used specially built rigs that held 20 iPhones, allowing them to film the action from slightly different angles and cut between them. I think the result of this "poor man's bullet time" as he called it created a different and jarring visual experience. It's not bad at all, but it really helped the film usurp pretty much all of my expectations.
There are a lot of other off-putting textures here as well: old movie footage sewn in periodically as a kind of juxtaposition between the world as they know it and the world as it used to be. A heightened sense of motion that made me wonder if there was a different frame rate involved. All of this combined to make for such a startlingly different cinematic experience than I've ever had before.
And then there were the track suits. But I'm leaving that out for now, as ultimately, I think 28 Years Later is going to remain slightly uncemented in my mind until I see the sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (or whatever the second in the new trilogy's title ends up being).
Playlist:
Pixies - The Night the Zombies Came
Low Cut Connie - Art Dealer
YUNGBLUD - Idols
Dan Le Sac Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill (single)
Ren - Sick Boi
Drug Church - Prude
Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services
Frank Black and the Catholics - One More Road For the Hit
Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
Cocksure - K.K.E.P.
Cocksure - Corporate_Sting
JD McPherson - Nite Owls
Amigo the Devil - Vol. 1
Willie Nelson - Oh What a Beautiful World Songs of Rodney Crowell
The Reverend Horton Heat - Space Heater
Meat Puppets - Dusty Notes
What's the Furthest Place From Here? 7" Series - Chapter 006
What's the Furthest Place From Here? 7" Series - Chapter 004
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine - White People and the Damage Done
Primus - Frizzle Fry
The Cult - Electric
Ween - Painting the Town Brown
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• XIX: The Sun
• Six of Cups
• Ace of Cups
Open your eyes!!! Six of Cups indicates speaking directly to the "Godhead," which I'll interpret here as the sub or superconscious. GNOSIS is the breakthrough the Ace of Cups suggests.
Specifically vague? Yes and no. I, of course, interpret this as having something to do with writing, which I started on full-bore again yesterday. I think there's an inkling here that the story I'm trying to tell is inside my mind, it just keeps getting blocked up on its way out, so that a ton of extra ideas end up bogging it down, i.e. capricious ideas that catch my fancy like the jingle of keys in front of a cat. I've said this here before and never follow up, but I need to begin meditating. No cleaner way to start a conversation with the deeper well inside.
