Aphex Twin's 1995 ... I Care Because You Do was once an almost nightly staple of my listening, but it's been quite some time since I'd spun this one. Felt really good to reconnect.
Watch:
I'm a pretty big fan of a number of Brad Anderson's middle-career films, but at some point, I fell off. Vanishing on 7th Street didn't do for me what I'd hoped, and Anderson's follow-up, The Call, admittedly did not get a fair shake due to my allergic reaction to the lead actress. All that aside, I LOVE Transsiberian and Session 9 - both of which Anderson wrote and directed, and The Machinist holds a special place in my heart despite the twist. When I stumbled across the trailer for upcoming Worldbreaker, I was interested - I don't know that Anderson has done anything like this before, and that alone puts it on my list.
This is getting a theatrical release, but I'm not sure if I'll be getting it here in Clarksville or not. Either way, I'll definitely check it out once I'm able.
Read:
A few weeks ago I had my local independent book store, Clarksville Book Shoppe, order me a copy of Nat Cassidy's 2025 novel When the Wolf Comes Home. I'd heard a lot of good things of late, and decided I felt like walking into a well-received, recent Horror novel absolutely blind.
This definitely fit the bill.
Cassiday's prose is sold. Like, SOLID. His ideas are unqiue and, even though a couple things in this one rubbed me a little wrong, overall I really enjoyed it and 100% recommend it to fans of contemporary Horror.
Not a werewolf novel, but also not entirely not a werewolf novel, the shapeshifting in this book has a very unique mechanism behind it; one that opens the story up to a much larger arc than first apparent. His characters are deeply developed and as real as characters get, and because of that, there are a couple of moments throughout that really hit me hard and made me set the book down before continuing for a day. Some harrowing circumstances befall Nat's characters, and he makes us love them enough that it hurts.
That's great writing, isn't it?
Playlist:
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Tool - Aenima
Alice in Chains - Eponymous
The Soft Moon - Criminal
Fever Ray - Eponymous
Gylt - I Will Commit A Holy Crime: Tandem
Chicago Underground Quartet - Good Days
The National - High Violet
Aphex Twin - ... I Care Because You Do
Sunn O))) - Metta, Benevolence BBC6 Live: On the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs
QOTSA - Songs for the Deaf
Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
Roxy Music - Eponymous
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Card:
One of my favorite cards in the Crowley/Harris Thoth deck, XVII: The Star.
Basically, a "go for it," situation.
