Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Too Easy

 

From their forthcoming debut full-length album Too Easy, out now. Order HERE. Really digging this band. 

 

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Wes Craven passed away on August 30th, 2015, so for the last few nights, I've been watching some of his lesser-known works for a tribute episode we're going to do on The Horror Vision. Last night, I chose Shocker.

 

I saw this back when it first hit VHS, but not since. Let me tell you, this was way more enjoyable than I remembered! Shocker is a totally misguided attempt to make another Freddy-level character/mythology, and while the film fails to do that, it ends up being super fun just from how hard it swings for that ball. Mitch Pileggi deserves a goddamn award for how 'all-in' he goes with the role of Horace Pinker, and while a whole lotta the movie makes no sense whatsoever - why park a van with your name on it in front of the house where you're killing people? Why does Jonathan's girlfriend come back as a powerful spirit for good? How could all the police in this town be that fucking stupid? - none of the inconsistencies, absurdities and downright missteps do anything but add to the fun. 

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Playlist:

Perturbator - Dangerous Days

Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry

Prince - Little Red Corvette (single)

Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

The Ocean - Heliocentric

Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect

Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

Peter Gabriel - So

Oranssi Pazuzu - Valotus (pre-release single)

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Card:

Today's card for study is the Six of Wands: Victory.

View troubles and disruptions as lessons - they have been necessary to grow. Life is Victory simply by living. Not everyone makes it out of the Strife and Chaos of the Fives. 

Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Eddie My Love

 

Man, what a fabulous music video. From This House is Made of Corners, available HERE.

 

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X-Men '97 has been the biggest shock of the year for me, and this week's episode RIPPED!

More and more, I'm seeing this cartoon as a very suitable replacement for the current X-Books. I might not have Krakoa, but I have a new continuity based on ones I previously know, with enough surprise story architecture to really keep me guessing. Also, this show has some teeth! Was not what I was expecting from a cartoon on Disney + but then again, as I'll talk about in a moment, maybe Disney has come around on embracing more mature content again (remember The Black Hole?).

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NCBD Addendum:

Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows on Get Fury?

Get Fury is a sequel of sorts to Ennis' Fury series as well as his Punisher: Born, Punisher: The Platoon. It opens in 1971 during the Vietnam War. Colonel Nick Fury has been captured by the North Vietnamese. The U.S. Army's solution to making sure he isn't successfully interrogated? Send Captain Frank Castle on a Black Op to assassinate Fury. Sounds right in Garth Ennis's wheelhouse, no?

I honestly didn't think we'd ever get another Garth Ennis Fury series like the MAX one from the turn of the century. I'd heard a story from someone inside the industry that basically puts the reason George Clooney turned down an early role as Fury as his reading that Max series. With the recently announced "Red Band" Werewolf by Night series coming in August, are we back to Marvel embracing a similar approach as they did with Max? Certainly, Disney has seemed to relinquish all concerns about cross-pollinating R-Rated material with their family-friendly aesthetic - when I sign in to Disney + now, I see everything on Hulu right alongside all the Disney stuff. So obviously, they've made the decision we all knew they would and embraced Marketing over brand optics.

As Hunter would say, "Works for me."

Get Fury is a 3-issue mini-series; the first issue hit shelves yesterday. 

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Playlist:

Ian Lynch - All You Need Is Death OST

Jim Williams - Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched OST

High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis 

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse

Wach - Quae Infra Volo Videre (pre-release single)

Oranssi Pazuzu - Live at Roadburn 2017

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Card:

Checking in with Missi's Raven Deck for the first time in a while this morning. Just looking for one card to summarize the day:

I'm choosing to interpret this as straight beauty and good vibes. A bit hippy-dippy, but I'm in a "broad strokes" mood.

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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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.