Brigitte Calls Me Baby

 

My good friend (and unbelievable artist) Jeffrey Equality Brooks tipped me off to these guys one day last week and upon my first listen to Brigitte Calls Me Baby's 2023 debut EP This House is Made of Corners, I was instantly smitten. Tell me you love The Smiths and The Veils without telling me you in words. This entire EP is fantastic. You can order the record from the group's Bandcamp HERE. 

 

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Watch:

After watching Alice Maio Mackay's Bad Girl Boogey a few weeks back, I'll pretty much follow wherever they go next. Where they go next is T-Blockers. Here's the trailer (that I only skimmed for a few seconds):

 

There is a visceral element to Mackay's work that feels born of a considerably different era. To say that BGB captivated me with its Video Nasty gore is an understatement, and it looks like those ideas have been pushed even more to the forefront of this new film.

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Playlist:

Justin Hamline - The House With Dead Leaves

T. Rex - The Slider

Bauhaus - Telegram Sam (single)

Bauhaus - Third Uncle (single)

Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

Can - Tago Mago

Can - Turtles Have Short Legs (single)

The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

Brigitte Calls Me Baby - This House is Made of Corners EP

Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Flying Lotus - Pattern+Grid World

The Body & Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven

Boris and Merzbow -  2R0I2P0

The Damned - Evil Spirits

The Besnard Lakes - ... Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

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Card:

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

• V: The Hierophant

• Two of Pentacles

• Eight of Pentacles

Focus on what you don't know about the world around you, particularly how your opposition changes itself. I'm reading this as pertaining to recent woes I've had with the website for The Horror Vision. I won't go into detail, but it's Wordpress, it's down, and I want to replace it. For that, however, I have a lot of work ahead of me and my attention has been increasingly drawn toward what I don't know about the world of the internet, which definitely feels more and more like an opposing force in so many way.

Tears for the Dying - Lost Girls

I found Tears for the Dying last night watching Alice Maio Mackay's Bad Girl Boogey, which just hit Shudder. This track grabbed me the moment it began to play onscreen, and it was just with quite a gusto I made my way over to Apple Music and downloaded the entire album, which I have yet to play, but am looking forward to this morning.

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Watch:

As stated above, I threw on Alice Maio Mackay's Bad Girl Boogey last night and was instantly blown away. This film has such a DIY feel, but also, it feels so much like a Video Nasty from back in the 80s. 

The opening setup and kills, which take place over the course of many "Halloweens" and involve different groups of people are brutal and stem from a creepy, blue-collar Occult underground that just works for me in so many ways.

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Playlist:

Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform

The Veils - ... And Out of the Void

Cake - Fashion Nugget

Cake - Motorcade of Generosity

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission

Jim Williams - Possessor OST

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

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Card:

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

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• 0: The Fool

• VIII: Strength

• Seven of Cups

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The journey here is one of Strength, or rekindling it. Victory is assured, or at least likely, but the first steps have to be taken. I'm afraid this pain in my knees is not going to go away; that would suck. I feel an apathy toward myself has crept in around the edges of my life; I'm so focused on the things I focus on (the elements of the world that tend to populate these pages), that it's difficult to muster the reserves to focus on myself. Because, of course, "something always comes along to save the Simpson children." Only, that's not true, is it? Just because I'm sitting here typing, healthy now, doesn't mean I will be in a year, a month or even a day.