Julian Winding - Dolce Mio (Her Private Hell OST)

The final track on the soundtrack for Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell. Most of the score is written and performed by Pino Donaggio, but there are several tracks by Julian Winding, and each one is fantastic. This particular one closes out the album.

Someone release this on vinyl!!!

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Watch:

Nicolas Winding Refn's 28-minute Giallo-infused short film A Touch of Crude, funded by Prada, is more than just a showcase for their fashion line. 

 I only just learned of this via the most recent issue of Fangoria magazine, where Isaac Feldberg’s Monster Invasion column focuses on Her Private Hell. Even after initially reading this a few weeks ago upon receipt, it wasn't until digging back into the issue yesterday morning as I prepped the next episode of The Horror Vision that I realized this might be something I could watch online. Sure enough - see above. 

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Read:

I'm about two hundred and something pages into The Dark Tower Book Five: Wolves of the Calla and, remembering that this is one of the books in the series I've only ever read once, back when it was first published on November 4, 2003, I'm shocked at how perfect this book picks up the transition from Wizard and Glass. 

I mean, it feels like King wrote this in one continuous stream, despite the fact that, between books on June 19, 1999, King was hit and almost killed by a car and went through an arduous recovery. In spite of all that, the story is completely intact, and it feels like no time off occurred between books.

I guess that's Ka for ya.

Reading this one now, it strikes me how deftly King manages to continue the overall story of Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake and Oy on the path of the beam and integrate a pretty thrilling classic Western story at the same time. We spend roughly two hundred pages picking up after the events of Wizard and Glass, continuing the "Path" story, introducing Todash - which I adore - and then segue into the "Defend the town from the reavers" trope that so many classic Westerns employ, only here, executed in King's unique vision. I'm curious if by the end of this one it will outrank Wizard as "the best of the series," and if so, if that trend will continue on through the final two books of the series.

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Playlist:

Her Private Hell - Pino Dinoggio

Carpenter Brut - Leather Temple

Róisín Murphy - Overpowered

Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist

The Caretaker - Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia

Goatsnake - Black Age Blues

The Jesus Lizard - Rack

Melvins - Tarantula Heart

Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

Ministry - The Last Sucker

The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer

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Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Eldritch Lace Tarot, which you can buy HERE.

• King of Wands

• Five of Swords

• Two of Wands

Inspiration comes from the inner turmoil of stepping outside your comfort zone. Back to the fortune cookie-esque reading, but it's timely.

Department of Neon Truth

 

I rewatched Nicolas Winding Refn's 2016 The Neon Demon yesterday and was once again completely blown away by it. The visual textures are sleek and beautiful while remaining as soulless as the industry they house in the story. This is perfect for Julian Winding's throbbing, minimalist techno (not calling it EDM, sorry).

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Watch:

Interestingly enough, not a day after I read an article about Huesera: The Bone Woman in the latest issue of Fangoria, the trailer dropped: 

 

The first feature from writer/director Michelle Garza Cervera and distributed by the delightful XYZ Films; I'm kind of chomping at the bit to see this one. Something about the mythology at play here really fascinates me.

 

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Last week I doubled down on my James Tynion reading and picked up the first four trades of Department of Truth. This is research for an upcoming deep-dive Butcher and I are doing for The Horror Vision; the project began as a lay-everything-out for Tynion's Something is Killing the Children mythology; only before we could get going, The Book of Slaughter dropped and kind of answered everything we were going to attempt to draw conclusions on. However, knowing the overall premise of Dept. of Truth, I began to realize the real deep-dive is seeing how these two connect because I am almost certain that they do. 

We'll obviously get more into it on the show, which will hopefully drop in about two weeks, but for now let me just point out that in SIKTC, the thing that manifests the monsters is belief, and the titular Department in DOT's entire job is managing belief in conspiracies because the big secret of the world is that if enough people believe in something, it becomes reality.

There's a layer to my enjoyment of DOT I hadn't anticipated, and that's that it looks and reads almost exactly like a late 80s/early 90s Vertigo title. I'm still picking away at the first couple trades of Peter Milligan and Chris Bacchalo's Shade The Changing Man from 1990-1991, and there are so many similarities, it's unreal. Add to that the Bill Sienkiewicz-like art from Martin Simmonds, and I've realized this is a book I should have been reading from the beginning. Better late than never, though.

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Playlist:

David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time

Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct

Various Artists - Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)

Metallica - 72 Seasons (pre-release singles)

The Police - Synchronicity

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Freaks)

Off! - Free LSD

Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments

Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars

Cliff Martinez - The Neon Demon OST

Final Light - Eponymous

Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil

Special Interest - Endure

Lard - Pure Chewing Satisfaction

Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire

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Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Bound Tarot, which you can buy HERE.

A strenuous emotional sacrifice to achieve a goal. (that's a crappy reading, but I'm short on time)