Recently, I was back in Chicago for my good friend and Horor Vision cohost Professor John Trafton's Moving Histories Panel at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (CSMS) conference hosted at the Freemont Hotel in downtown Chicago. The panel was on Saturday, so I drove in solo on Friday, and my sister Kim and I met John for pizza and beers at Piece Brewery/Pizzaria. Great food, great beer.
After dinner, Kim and I took John to one of the few Wickerpark legends that remains from back in the day - Estelle's. The 5:00 AM on the weekend lounge still has great ambience, a killer jukebox, and an all-around air of history to it. In service of my second point, QOTSA-project Desert Sessions track Subcutaneous Phat came on. I couldn't place it at first, but as soon as I did, I knew I'd be digging out my CD copy of Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10 upon returning home.
Absolutely killer track!!!
Watch:
How did I miss that Ari Aster's fourth film, a contemporary Western set during the recent pandemic, is on the horizon? Here's the teaser trailer, the only thing I'll be watching in the run-up to this film's eventual release, which has yet to be announced:
Also, check out this poster. This has to be my favorite film poster in years:
Can't wait for this one to hit theatres. I know Aster's third film, Beau's Not Afraid, did not get the kind of love his first two films, Hereditary and Midsommar, did, but I loved it and, while I'd love to have Aster back in the Horror genre, I'm there for anything the man does at this point.
Read more about this on Bloody Disgusting HERE.
Read:
Somehow, I forgot to post about this back when I received it from K for my birthday and promptly read it the next day. Warren Ellis and JH Williams III blew my mind back in 2005 with their six-issue Desolation Jones book (the series continued for two issues beyond this with a new arc artistically helmed by José Villarrubia, but it only went two issues before Warren Ellis' infamous Hard Drive crash that led to the end of most if not all of the series he was writing at the time (Doktor Sleepless, New Universal, Fell, etc). Recently, however, Williams spearheaded the release of a remastered, oversized hardcover, and K gave me a copy for my birthday. It is fucking GLORIOUS!
Playlist:
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Desert Sessions Vol. 9/10
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
Toast - Clincher
Ghost - Meliora
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Preoccupations - Arrangements
Type O Negative - October Rust
