These Arms Are Snakes

 

In honor of the fact that These Arms Are Snakes has once again reunited for a show (Seatle, WA). Hopefully, there's new music coming, miss these guys.

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Evil came back in a BIG way this past Sunday. I'll spare you my annoyance at having to sub to yet another streamer, this time Paramount +, because as it happened, I got two months for .99. Plus, honestly, this show is so freaking great, I would totally pay whatever the usual price is. Here's the trailer for season two:

While we were on Paramount, I remembered another show I'd been curious about, Strange Angel lived there. This one came out a few years ago, did two seasons and I'm not sure if it wrapped up or was canceled. I also wasn't sure I'd dig it, but Strange Angel is about Rocket Propulsion Engineer Jack Parsons, one of the men who designed the propulsion that put us on the moon. Parsons was also hand-picked by Aleister Crowley to run the California chapter of his occult organization.

 

From what I've seen so far I'm intrigued, even if the show appears to be "Hollywooding" up Crowley's organization as animal/virgin sacrifices, which of course they were not. The show is based on the book of the same name by George Pendle, which I didn't read, although starting around 2002 I read probably just about everything else I could find about Parsons, whose mix of military and the Occult absolutely fascinated me for a time. Still does, really, which is why I'm going to - for now at least - continue with the show.

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Playlist:

Entropy - Liminal

Deftones - Gore

Celtric Frost - To Mega Therion

Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World

Numenorean - Adore

Lustmord - Heresy

These Arms Are Snakes - Easter 

Tape Waves - Bright

Cathedral Bells - Ether

Bells Into Machines - Eponymous

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Missi is going to laugh at me, but I still can't figure out what I'm not letting go of! I shuffled the HELL out of the deck for this draw, and as the saying, such is Ka.

Small Black - Tampa

I had never heard Small Black before Heaven Is An Incubator posted about their upcoming album Cheap Dreams one day last week. Seeing the album cover, I KNEW this would be awesome, and it is. You can pre-order Cheap Dreams from Small Black's Bandcamp HERE; looks like there are a few copies of the 'Red Rain' variant left for the vinyl. "Tampa" is the B-side from lead single "Duplex", and both are killer tracks. And this album cover is haunting! 

I just want to walk into that scene and disappear.

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We finished the first season of CBS's Evil on Netflix and here I am, thinking I can just subscribe to CBS All Access and see the second season, and WHOAH! Not out yet! 

WTF?!?

For a procedural, this show is NUTS, and it has some genuinely scary AF moments and Michael Emerson gives Paul Reiser's Burke from Aliens a run for his money in the slimy scumf&ck department.

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Playlist:

Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon (pre-release single)

Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

Small Black - Duplex Single

The Bangles - Different Light

Credence Clearwater Revival - Eponymous

Drab Majesty - Careless

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Sudden change. I feel a touch hesitant about this. 

Refugee

Because this was the first song I listened to when I woke up this morning, and because it's such an awesome example of the marrying of Rock and Pop that was so flawless in the early 80s.

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Kind of stumbled into watching the first season of Evil on Netflix this weekend. I'd seen the minimalist billboards for this around town last year and was intrigued, but being that it's on CBS I dismissed it as network. However, this one's pretty cool for network (and it's not actually on regular, network CBS, but their All Access). There's some really interesting camera work and a decidedly bigger budget - or at least a bigger 'approach' - than a network show would take. And there are some genuinely scary moments so far, so I'm in. 

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Playlist:

Ministry - Houses of the Mole

Ministry - Amerikkkant

Lard - Pure Chewing Satisfaction

ISIS - In the Absence of Truth

Deafheaven - New Bermuda

ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste

Ministry - The Last Sucker

The Bangles - All Over the Place

Deth Crux - Mutant Flesh

Etta James - Third Album

Etta James - Second Time Around

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Financial breakthrough, which I will gladly take on with a smile.