After a recent text conversation with Mr. Brown, I fell down a Melvins rabbit hole yesterday. I hadn't heard 2010's The Bride Screamed Murder since back around the time when it came out, and even then it wasn't an album that impacted me at the time (a lot of times, if I'm not in a "Melvins Mood," their shit goes right past my head, then I hear it again at some point and love it immediately). Bride is a fantastic record, one of my favorites of theirs from the last ten years, but the album closer "P.G. X3" might be my favorite track by the band since "A History of Bad Men", on 2006's (A) Senile Animal.
Watch:
My excitement for this is building!While I wasn't blown away by Season Four at its start, by the end they had me again. The announcement that Mike Barnes returns in Season Five has me think this is definitely an "All the soldiers in a row" moment for the show.
Playlist:
Various - Every Day (Is Halloween): Playlist
Melvins/Dumb Numbers - Broken Pipe EP
Melvins - Five Legged Dog
Melvins - Bride Screamed Murder
Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
Melvins & Jello Biafra - Sieg Howdy!
Melvins - The Crybaby
Sinoia Caves - The Enchanter Persuaded
Majeure - Mass Flashback
Tanya Tucker - Delta Dawn (single)
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar
Zeal and Ardor - Eponymous
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Palms - Eponymous
Stevie Wonder - Greatest Hit Vol. 2
Sharon Jones and the Dap Tones - Give the People What They Want
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Bound Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
Here's a direct commentary on something I've known for some time. As I've gotten back into reading and thinking about the practice of Magick, the major impediment to me actually doing very much with it, is drinking. Which, averaging four beers a night right now, is something I probably do too much of.
