From the forthcoming album Highly Irresponsible, out on October 25th on SharpTone Records. Pre-order HERE.
Watch:
Never been a Demi Moore fan, but maybe anybody can redeem themselves with the right Body Horror movie.
This trailer definitely evokes the work of Brandon Cronenberg and also, Ana Lily Amirpour's episode of GDT's Cabinet of Curiosities, titled The Outside. Hell, maybe even a bit of Larry Cohen's The Stuff. Writer/Director Coralie Fargeat's previous film Revenge crossed way too many lines for me, but I loved the look of what little I saw of it. Very much looking forward to seeing The Substance on the big screen when it opens on September 18th.
Read:
I finished Professor John Trafton's BRILLIANT Movie-Made Los Angeles last week, and after such an academic deep-dive into film and regional history - that I really can't recommend enough - I started Ramon Glazov's newly published English translation of Giorgio De Maria's 1975 novel The Twenty Days of Turin.
I posted about this early last week, how I hadn't been able to stop thinking about what little I knew about the premise via a post author Warren Ellis made on his LTD:
"A decade previously, Turin suffered twenty days of mass insomnia marked by nightly massacres committed by persons unseen or indescribable. The many hundreds of witnesses cannot explain what happened."
Something about this rattled around in my brain for several days until I finished John's book and promptly ordered a copy of De Maria's novel. Something about that setup reminded me of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind, and my expectations only grew.
I received the book yesterday, and at ~65% of the way through, I can confirm The Twenty Days of Turin is a fantastically creepy read. What's more, not only does it remind me of Zafón's work, but reading this is stirring up a desire to re-read Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show for the first time since I was a Freshman in High School, circa 1991. Both novels deal with secrets gleaned from the throwaway detritus of life - notes, scraps of paper, mail. I've always found the idea fascinating, and realize now there's a throughline between where it was introduced to me with Barker's opus, picked up later (in a manner of speaking) by Zafón's Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, and now reintroduced to me with De Maria's novel. I'm curious if there are more ideas like this out there, and if so, how I might find them.
Playlist:
Feel the Knife - So Raw... So Nasty... So Hideous.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Grey Rubble - Green Shoots (pre-release single)
Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Nature Sounds - Pure Nature (Track 7: Bird Calls)
Revocation - Fathomless Catacombs (single)
Braindamage - The Downfall
Perturbator - Bloodlust (single)
Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley (Expansion)
L'Enfant De La Forêt - ABRAXAS
Gang of Four - Return the Gift Part 1
Card:
Going to change the way I do this for a while. I'm feeling a bit rusty and disconnected from the cards, so I'm going to take 72 days and go through every card, in whatever order I draw them in, and explore them here. First up - XV: The Devil: