Started my Thursday morning off with John Harrison's Day of the Dead Soundtrack. There is no way this album isn't a massive influence on Boards of Canada.
This is interesting - this youtube post is from the 2022 Numenorean Music release of the score. Unlike the Waxwork vinyl edition I actually listened to, this changes the opening track of the album from "Main Title" to "Dead Suite," a track that essentially merges the first five tracks from the Waxwork edition. It should be noted that, without doing hardcore research, the Waxwork edition purports to be the definitive edition, and the accompanying essay by Harrison backs that up. From the Waxwork website:
"In 2013, Waxwork Records and composer John Harrison unearthed the original, lost 1985 master tapes containing the complete DAY OF THE DEAD film score from the attic of a recording studio in Pittsburgh, PA. After restoring, mixing, and mastering the complete musical cues for vinyl, Waxwork assembled a definitive and deluxe release of the film’s classic synth heavy score, approved by both the composer and director George A. Romero."
I actually had a bit of fun cueing up the vinyl with this youtube track and playing them simultaneously. In doing so, I was able to note their identical nature until a divergence that occurs at approximately 13:08 on the Numenorean version.
Unfortunately, the Waxwork is often out of print. However, if you go HERE you can sign up for notification when they bring it back, which they do so periodically. I can say this is easily one of, if not my favorite, record I have by them, so it's 100% worth it if you're a fan.
31 Days of Halloween:
Ti West's first film, The Roost (2005), is criminally unavailable, and while I have a DVD I purchased from Blockbuster back in the 00s (it even has an embossed Blockbuster logo on the plastic of the inside front cover), this one is almost as hard to find as his follow-up, Trigger Man. Someone put these on Blu-ray! Seriously!
Anyway, The Roost has become a semi-annual Halloween watch for me - thinking it made its way to annual this year - and I sat down with a vape pen and a beer to enjoy it last night. This one never disappoints, so while looking for a trailer to post, I came across the youtube channel Horror Channel Return, which has it up in full. Again, I can't feel bad posting this, because the film is just not available for people to watch. So I'm reposting it here, with the hopes that you'll buy it when and if you can, but also, that you'll head over to Horror Channel Return and check out the other cool stuff they have up. At a glance, I saw Rocktober Blood, so, yeah, instant sub.
1) Incident On and Off a Mountain Road///The Funhouse
2) Tales From the Crypt Ssn 1 Ep 4, "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone"///Cabin in the Woods
3) Satanic Hispanics
4) Creature From the Black Lagoon 3D///May
5) The Strangers
6) [REC]
7) The Autopsy - GDT Cabinet of Curiosities///[REC]2
8) Where the Devil Roams
9) The Roost
Read:
I'll admit, I had a few reservations about the end of Daniel Warren Johnson's run on the Energon Universe Transformers title and Robert Kirkman taking over. In retrospect, that's assinine. Kirkman wrote one of my favorite comic series of all time - The Walking Dead. Not only wrote, but kept it my favorite monthly book from the time I began reading it monthly with issue #25 to the end with issue #193. Favorite because it sustained a level of engagement, surprise and fervor that entire time. That's thirteen years!!!
As a lovely outro to series artist Jorge Corona (see also, The Me You Love in the Dark), he illustrates the first handful of pages, a Decepticon 'pep rally' of the violent sort, as Megatron returns to his rightful (?) place as leader. I LOVE the reasoning Megatron employs here - that all the "Domination! Oppression! and Conquest!" they enact is all in the name of eventual peace. Brilliant! So many parallels...
If this is any indication - and I'm certain it is - we are in for quite a ride, especially with Kirkman also writing the auxiliary Transformers book, Void Rivals. I think things are really about to get fun.
Playlist:
Ozzy Osbourne - Tonight (single)
Joy Division - Still
RAYE - My 21st Century Blues
Gylt - I Will Commit A Holy Crime Tandem
Slaughterhouse - Sick and Tired EP
Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
Goatsnake - Black Age Blues
Jammes Luckett - May OST
Sam Hain - Unholy Passion
White Lung - Paradise
Slaughterhouse - Fun Factory
John Harrison - Day of the Dead OST
Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave - Phantasm OST
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer OST
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
And Grimm's Kickstarter for The Eldritch Lace Tarot deck is now live! You can go check it out and support it HERE.
• XIII: Death
• II: High Priestess
Creative Energy leads to a "death" - a complete change in scope for an already established idea.
