Evil Dead Burn

Have we talked about how the Butthole Surfer's lost album, After the Astronaut, finally sees release next month on Sunset Blvd Records? This is one that, back when Napster was a thing, I used that platform to find as many of these tracks as I could and assemble the closest thing I could figure was the actual intended release as possible. Now I finally get to have this on vinyl? Damn!

I actually dug out my old burned CD and compared it to the track listing - looks like I got pretty freakin' close!

Pre-order After the Astronaut for a June 26th release HERE.

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Watch:

Evil Dead Burn. I am going to go out of my way to avoid this and every other trailer for this film between now and July 10th, when I plan to plop my arse in the theatre and wait for  Sébastien Vaniček's entry in the ever-expanding Evil Dead Universe. But I watched this twice and really dug it, so now I'm excited.

I get old school 80s Exploitation videos just from the opening shot of the house here. Reminds me of Don't Go In the House, or House at the Edge of the Park. And the entire sequence plays like something out of a Puppet Combo video game. Vaniček's Infested was in my top five of 2024, so when I saw his name get attached to this, my excitement began. This 'trailer' only ramps that up. I just hope that what happened to Evil Dead Rise doesn't happen here. The total saturation of that film's trailer just killed so many of the otherwise insanely disturbing images. Let's not do that again, okay?

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NCBD:

Pretty big week. Let's go grab some comics!!!

Sharkticons and the pit of judgment? I'm still not sure I'm feeling the Quintesson War being as big a deal as it purports to be, but I'll show up for that on the cover, no problem!

This Spawn: The Dark Ages book by Liam Sharp has been a gorgeous reminder of what comics can be. I'm still stoked at all the Wrightson-worship with Sharp's character design, and honestly, this has been a pretty cool ride. One more after this. I can't say I'm invested in the story, but I'm enjoying the hell out of it regardless.

The second issue of The Peril of the Brutal Dark felt like it took twice as long to reach my hands as it actually did, so that definitely means this book has me. Outer Dark Crime Noir? How can that go wrong? especially in the hands of the That Texas Blood creative team. The short answer is, it can't. 

I really dug both the Baroness and the Crimson Guard silent issues. The Zartan was so-so. But Copperhead getting his own issue? One of my all-time favorite Cobras, who really has not had hardly any 'screen time' since his creation over 40 years ago. Color me super jazzed.

One more after this! I have my bet on who is going to walk out of this alive, so let's see if I'm right.

I finally did that one-sitting reread of Event Horizon: Dark Descent and really liked it, so when I saw we're getting another chapter, this one a sequel to the film, I couldn't help but add it to my pull list at Rick's. I dig the fleshing out of the EH story, and am super curious to see what they do with this new chapter. 

Easily the weirdest comic I've read in some time, I can't wait to get into more Death Fight Forever!

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Playlist:

Steve Moore - Jimmy & Stiggs OST

Grotus - Mass

Grotus - Luddite

Garbage - Eponymous

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

MC50 - 10xMC5 Live

John Carpenter w/ Alan Howarth - Prince of Darkness OST

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

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Card:

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

• Nine of Pentacles

• Knight of Cups

• XVIII: Death

Finish it. Don't drown in self-satisfaction, but recognize and celebrate the win. It will lead to the next thing.

2018: March 28th 11:59 AM

After the Astronaut is the Butthole Surfers album Capitol never released, back at the end of the 90s/early 00s. I don't remember the whole story any more, but basically in the great 'alternative buy-up' that occurred after Nirvana's success, when label execs were plugging their ears and counting their checks from Oh the Guilt, the major labels spent a lot of time scratching their heads and signing checks to bands they thought might be the next "big thing". As long-time stalwarts of underground madness, the Surfers were held in high regard by a lot of people labels deemed to be 'in the know' and they were signed. One has to imagine the man who signed them never went back and actually listened to much of the band's back catalogue, certainly not Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac. Anyway, I think Capitol released two records for the Surfers and then pulled the plug on releasing the third. I ended up finding most of the tracks on Napster back when that was still a thing - that's what I used the sight for, not pirating stuff I could hand band's money for - and have loved it ever since. Eventually most of the content was released as The Weird Revolution album - I've never bothered with that, as it seemed superfluous to my version and the version of my favorite song - embedded above - is just different for me to turn my head back to the one I know. Not sure how the band feels about the Weird Revolution or even who put it out, but that's really just a Wikipedia entry away I'm sure. Anyway, I love this song. A lot. Specifically the way Gibby delivers the lines about Macaroni hanging from his chin and Sadness filling the air for the hurt shirt. 

Playlist from 3/27:

The Wire Tapper #23

Captain Jack - For Ron

Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
Darkness Brings the Cold - Devil Swank, Vol. #1

Odonis Odonis - Post Plague

Butthole Surfers - After the Astronaut

Card of the day:

While performing my standard, 3-shuffle pre-draw, the following two card leapt from the deck and landed on the floor.

My subsequent pull was:

I wasn't planning on doing an all-out spread this morning, but let's see what we have. So, going off of my notes in the Grimoire, we get the following:

Knight of Cups - Enlightenment, or perhaps Victory, is within reach, but there's danger of an emotional deluge. Act fast and be careful not to drown.

The Hierophant - a wise teacher, take advantage of opportunities to learn and advance in stature.

Six of Wands Victory - Energy has crested to reward, but this is a pinion card, caught between the fireball of energy in the Five of Wands Strife and the Seven of Wands Valour. This accentuates the 'act fast and be careful not to drown,' or maybe in this case it's be careful not to get burned.

Not sure how this applies to me for the day or moving forward, but it will be good to keep my eye open for it.