New Zeal and Ardor!!!

 

Another new Zeal and Ardor track dropped last week. From the forth-coming, self-titled new album out February 11, 2022, I've successfully avoided listening to this one so far. Too many singles off an upcoming album can be like watching an extra-long movie trailer that tells you too much. I don't like hearing the songs without the context of the larger work of which they are a part. That said, I'm about to break down and jam this one, because, well, because Zeal and Ardor, you know? Pre-order the album from the band's store HERE.

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NCBD:

UPDATE: I originally posted the books hitting shelves on 10/27 here for 10/20. This is the corrected list.

Last month, I grabbed the first issue of this series on a lark. Really dug it, and I couldn't pass up this cover on issue 2!

Super into where this book is going again after issue 121. How can they sustain such a fantastic title for this long? I guess with the momentum of nearly four decades behind the characters, it makes sense. Or does it? No other book lasts this long and is good the entire way through. Maybe Claremont's Uncanny X-Men or Peter David's Incredible Hulk. This iteration of the Turtles began in 2012, so that's nearly ten years! Wow.

And lastly, the new Brubaker Phillips Reckless GN! Rejoice! These have become among my favorite things in life. 

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31 Days of Halloween:

1) VHS 94 (don't waste your time)

2) The Mutilator

3) Demons 

4) Vortex

5) Possession

6) The Black Phone

7) Slumber Party Massacre

8) Antlers

9) No One Gets Out Alive

10) A Nightmare on Elm Street '84

11) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010

12) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

13) Satan Hates You

14) Night of the Demons

15) Lamb

16) The Company of Wolves

17) There's Someone in the House

18) A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

19) Titane

20) A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

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Playlist:

The Final Cut - Consumed

Dennis Michael Tenney - The Beast Inside (single)

Various - Apple 80s Hard Rock Essentials

Skid Row - Eponymous

Slayer - Decade of Aggression

Pretty Maids - Red, Hot and Heavy (terrible album title)

Trust Obey - Fear and Bullets

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Card:

A new, solid foundation for moving forward. 

Dreams Come True

I'll admit, I love the song, but don't plan on watching the video. As she gets more clout behind her, and  Still, any new music from Meg Myers is a welcome, joyous thing these days. Her aesthetic, instrumentation, production, and of course, songwriting, are top-notch and always hit me super hard, reminds me a bit of how Garbage hit me the first time I snagged my kid really listened to them.

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Watch:

After renting Come True on Prime last night, Anthony Scott Burns just became one of my favorite directors. I can't recommend this one enough - imagine Dreamscape married with Beyond the Black Rainbow and that will get you in the ballpark, but Burns' style is all his own, and it's fucking glorious. I just posted the trailer a day or so ago, so here's what will no doubt live on as an ICONIC track from the soundtrack by Electric Youth and Pilot Priest: 

Upon finishing the film, I immediately shot over to Waxwork Records and pre-ordered on gorgeous Cyan Blue with Red and Yellow Splatter vinyl:

I will be 100% shocked if Come True doesn't end up in my top five movies of 2021. I cannot wait to buy this film on Blu Ray.

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Playlist:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

Radiohead - OK Computer

Meg Myers - Sorry

Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

Ministry - Psalm 69

QOTSA - Villains

Sam Cooke - One Night Stand! Live At the Harlem Square Club, 1963

The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash

The Replacements - Tim

The Raveonettes -  In and Out of Control

SOD - Speak English or Die

Soul Coughing - Irresistible Bliss

Cake - Fashion Nugget

Electric Youth - Breathing OST (For a lost film)

Electric Youth - Come True OST

Dream Division - Beyond the Mirror's Image

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Card:

 

Three of Disks - Too much work of late, it's left me unable to function in my non-work life, so I'll take this as a nod that the hard times are over and things will even back out.