The Damned - Beauty of the Beast (Live in London)

From The Damned's double live disc Night of A Thousand Vampires, which Mr. Brown gifted me a few months back, and has in the last week or two, become an indispensable part of my morning ritual and one of my favorite live albums of all time.

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Watch:

Last night, I took K to see the new Crow movie. You can read my thoughts over on Letterbxd, but in a nutshell, skip it unless you like having dirt rubbed directly into your eyes.

This is the only Crow I will likely ever recognize. 

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Read:

I cannot remember the last time I was so excited to read a book:

Written by Giorgio De Maria in 1975 but not translated into English until this year, Warren Ellis posted about The Twenty Days of Turin on his LTD earlier in the week, and the second I read the synopsis, my mind locked with anticipation for reading this. As Ellis writes by way of summary:

"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."

Literally, all I needed to become obsessed. I've been hemming and hawing with what my next book to read will be, just found it. 

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Playlist:

The Damned - Night of A Thousand Vampires

Zeal & Ardor - GREIF

Dave Edmunds - Chronicles 1968-1984

Sweet Lizzy Project - High (single)

Arab Strap - I'm Totally Fine With It Don't Give a F**k Anymore

Turnstile - GLOW ON

Jim Williams - Possessor OST

The Veils - Total Depravity

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James O'Barr's tragically beautiful comic The Crow...

... is the topic of this week's edition of Thee Comic Column over on Joup.

My Suggestions for the Top 5 Graphic Novels Everyone Should Read

This week's Thee Comic Column over on Joup is the 100th edition! To celebrate I've compiled this list - it's not necessarily a list of my favorite five - though it's probably close - but the suggestions I would give to anyone - my mom, your sister, Sister Ray, Billy Joel - whoever on how to break in to comics. Because honestly, I feel these books transcend whatever anyone could expect of them and could all shatter whatever misconceptions keep people from giving the comics/GN's a fair shake.