New Music from Myrkur!!!

 

Not certain if this single heralds a new Myrkur album coming this year, but that'd be pretty cool. I just cracked out the first record recently and it left me wanting new music.

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NCBD:

Okay - there had better be an ocean of Sharkticons in this issue. Just sayin'. Among my favorite of all Transformers released, I love these bitey little fuckers. Maybe because they kind of remind me of the old B&W TMNT robot mousers, or maybe because they had their debut in my beloved Transformers '86 with no small fanfare. Seriously, the Quintesson/Sharkticon segments are among my favorites in that film. Cant' wait to see what kind of damage Kirkman unleashes with them here. 

Roadblock's food truck defense system? Not sure what's going on here, but I'll be happy to get my hands on another issue of Joe so soon after that brilliant final issue of Dreadnok War!

Ah - Phil Bram and J.G. Jones' Dust to Dust is finally back. I believe there is just one issue left after this, out March 4th. Definitely going to wait to read this until that drops, so I can sit down and read the entire story in one sitting. 

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Watch:

There's not much Marvel does anymore that I like, but this? I am all about this:

What a super WEIRD trailer, right? Excited to see some old faces return, and I'm really digging the storyline with Michael Gandolfini and that looks like it will continue to evolve this season. 

Also, according to IMDB, this looks to have already been picked up for a third season, so I guess the "Born Again" moniker is the overall title of the revamped show, not the name of a specific limited-series storyline, as I originally assumed.

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Playlist:

Steve Moore - Jimmy & Stiggs OST

David Lynch & Angelo Badalamenti - Mulholland Drive OST

Blood Cultures - Skate Story: Vol. I

Sunn O))) - Glory Black (pre-release single)

Sunn O))) - Metta, Benevolence BBC6 Live: On the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs

BLUEBOB - Eponymous

The Veils - Total Depravity

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nocturama

QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf

QOTSA - Eponymous

The Afghan Whigs - In Spades

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Card:

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

• Six of Cups

• Three of Swords

• Ace of Cups

"Finding an emotional center after trauma can only come through empathy."

Okay, I'll admit I'm really reaching with this one. I see this spread and I feel like it's talking to me, but the message is coming out muddled, thus the crappy interpretation above.

Is it enough to think this is a direct nod to my emotional state after seeing this earlier today?

Never Tear Apart Good Porno

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.

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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.

 

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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. 1

The 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.

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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.