Drug Church Live in Dublin!!!

In 2001 I saw one of my favorite shows ever at Whelans, possibly because I had just flown in to Dublin that morning and was running on adrenaline and lust for the Irish girl I'd flown across the world to visit. Not everything worked out great, but I got to see Damien Frost, New Prayer Breakfast, and another band I'm blanking on at the moment at one of the coolest venues I've been to. To find this Drug Church show posted from there was a blast, and it really just made me remember, A) how much I want to go back to Ireland and, B) how much I want to see Drug Church live.

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Watch:

Last night, K and I got to see John Carpenter's The Thing on the big screen for the second time. This is a film that never fails to fill me with inspiration, to blow me away, to remind me just how amazing cinema can be. Also, how the greatest works of art are often not appreciated at first. The Thing bombed upon release; reflecting on that now, it seems unbelievable, but it's a fact. Kinda gives me a little hope. 

Anyway, whenever I watch The Thing, I follow it up with Simon Gesrel's video for Zombie Zombie's Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free. It's almost as impressive as Carpenter's film (in a totally different way).

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Playlist:

Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain

Blackbraid - Blackbraid III

Joy Division - Still

Mastodon - Leviathan

The Soft Moon - Criminal

Dreamkid - Daggers

Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart

Gram Rabbit - Music To Start A Cult To

Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun

Sterolab - Oscillations From the Anti-Sun (disc 3)

The Jesus Lizard - Down

The Jesus Lizard - Rack

Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman

Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me

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Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE. Grimm's newest deck looks maybe even more awesome than The Hand of Doom (hard to believe, but I said it). Head over to his Kickstarter page for the upcoming The Eldritch Lace Tarot Deck and hit "Notify me upon launch." This looks amazing! 

• Page of Wands

• Six of Pentacles

• Ten of Wands

Lots of Will being distracted by a perfect earthly set up. Seems like money getting in the way, like it always does.

Interesting. I found out yesterday the yahoos in the payroll department of the corporation that I work for neglected to set up the health care benefits I signed up for in 2025. Correction - they started taking the money out in January, then stopped in February. Now I owe over 1500. This fact has destabilized me with anger, and I'm fairly cetain that's what this pull is referencing. 

By Endurance We Conquer

 

Some classic Thou. I still prefer the album art on the old CD, but I dig that the band eventually aligned all the older records through the artwork.

Something about this image just fits the music so well. It's cold, lonely and a little eerie. 
 

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Read:

Two of my old compatriots from the Los Angeles chapter of The Horror Writer's Association are publishing a novel this coming Friday that I'm dying to read. 

Placerita comes to us courtesy of the fine folks at Cemetery Dance are releasing this one. Here's the solicitation from the Publisher's website:

"It's 1928, and something strange is afoot in the desert town of Placerita just north of Los Angeles. When young biologist Alexis Crawford discovers an unidentifiable specimen washed up in the wake of a devastating flood, it begins a journey that will reveal the dark conspiracies at the heart of California and the secret known only to a few: that beneath the City of Angels is an ancient world of tunnels lined in gold, a world that is home to the legendary Lizard People.... Like a cross between 'Chinatown' and the biggest conspiracy theory of them all, Morton and Palisano’s 'Placerita' addresses the intrigue behind 1928’s catastrophic collapse of the St. Francis Dam, corruption, organized religion and saurian urban legends in a fleet new noir that wastes little time in getting to the good stuff." PLACERITA is an intriguing premise, set against the ambiance of the 1920's and steeped in the culture of early 20th century California

You can order this one from the Cemetery Dance website right HERE, or wherever books are sold.

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Play:

Being that before I bought a Nintendo Switch two years ago, I hadn't owned a video game console since the original Nintendo, I missed a lot of games and gaming culture. That's not really an issue - I'm about 10-20% gamer, no more. I just don't have time, as any time I spend on a game is time I regard as stealing from writing. That said, I do steal some time every once in a while, so now that I have a Switch, I'm constantly on the lookout for cool games I missed being ported over. Case in point:

Also, being that my interests lie in the Horror realms, Bloody Disgusting is a great place to find out about stuff like the above. Here's a link to the article on this one. John Carpenter's The Thing as a video game... I've heard some things about this one over the years and am very much looking forward to the creeping fear and isolation.

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Playlist:

Thou - Umbilical

Thou - Summit

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full

The Raveonettes - Chain Gang of Love

Man Man - Carot on Strings

Man Man - Life Fantastic

The Raveonettes - In and Out of Control

††† - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete

Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra

The Raveonettes - Observator

Soup Horse - The Choir (Single)

Soap Horse - Carrara 20/10/23

The Ravenonettes - 2016 Atomized

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Card:

Back to my mini Thoth deck for today's pull:

• Princess of Disks - Stability; graciousness. Good intent.

• Knight of Swords - Intellectually soaring; intelligence on fire - beast mode!

• Knight of Disks - Industrious and patient.

Returning to work tomorrow will be a challenge, but I'll more than rise to it. 

2019: August 1st - Tigers Are Not Afraid Trailer

I've been hearing about this one for months, so I was pretty excited to see Shudder drop the trailer. Not sure how wide a theatrical release it'll get, but I'll definitely make the attempt to see it.

Speaking of seeing things in the theatre, It Chapters One and Two director Andy Muschietti is curating a special run of classic horror films at Arclight Theaters all over the greater Los Angeles area. The roster is fantastic, and I'm going to do my damnedest to catch John Carpenter's The Thing and Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist on the big screen for the first time. Here's a link to the Event's page on the Arclight site, and in honor of my excitement, here's the trailers for two fantastic 80s horror films:






Playlist from 7/31:

Opeth - Watershed
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Drab Majesty - Careless
The Devil and the Almighty Blues - II
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
Cibo Mato - Stereotype A
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland
Sleep - The Sciences

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No card today.