Thank You Judge

 

From David Lynch's 2001 collaboration with John Neff, BLUEBOB. This song cracks me up. There are lots of little things to notice the more you hear it, and all of it lands for me. One thing people often forget is just how damn funny David Lynch was. 

This is long out of print, and the version you can download from Bandcamp HERE has a slightly different track order. Glad I grabbed this the second it went on sale back in the day - I'll be buried with my CD copy. 

(Please! Someone release this on vinyl!!! Sacred Bones - I'm looking at you!)

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Knowing nothing about YouTuber Markipliars, Game designer David Szymanski or his creation Iron Lung, I went to my local Regal and saw the premiere of Iron Lung last night.

I believe I mentioned this here a few weeks ago, when, upon exiting the aforementioned theatre, I saw the poster below, looked up the screening times and saw it had already almost sold out for the entire weekend.

That shit just doesn't happen in Clarksville. I mean, closest I've seen is the last two Terrifier films, but even those didn't sell out a month in advance. So there's hype, and it took some reading to figure out why. Pliars' YouTube channel is among the largest and most successful. Not necessarily a good omen, but I decided to abstain from anything else he's done until I've seen the film.

So how was Iron Lung?

Let's talk about a different movie instead, shall we?

Maika Monroe has just been on fire the last few years, and this new Blood Covenant anthology film looks like it will fit right in. I really dig this trailer and can't wait for a release date. Honestly, I'm just happy to have a new trailer drop for something I'm looking forward to. Despite a couple great films in January, 2026 is feeling like a bit of a dry year for Horror so far. 

Read more about Blood Covenant over on Bloody Disgusting HERE.

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Playlist:

BLUEBOB - Eponymous

Daydream Twins - Solstice For Embodiment

Mars Red Sky & Monkey3 - Monkey on Mars EP

Sunn O))) - Metta, Benevolence BBC6 Live: On the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs

Sunn O))) - Domkirke

Deadmau5 - Random Album Title

Alone in My Room - II

The Veils - Total Depravity

Helmet - Aftertaste

Self - Porno, Mint and Grime

The Afghan Whigs - In Spades

Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun

Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence

White Lung - Paradise

White Lung - Premonition

Radiohead - Kid A

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• Eight of Cups: Indolence

• III: The Empress

• Knight of Disks

See how card 1 is Indolence - lack of motivation, and card 3 is Knight of Swords, literally motivation. I've been teetering between long bouts of inactivity writing and some really good days (like today) at the keyboard. Sounds like a pendulum, eh? What's the deciding factor? I'm way too engrossed in my day job. That shit isn't me, but it's owning me lately. I worked extra hours multiple days over the past week, and didn't take a lunch or barely move away from my desk for a week. I need to put that back in its box. I took a good step toward that today, and will make sure to do so again tomorrow. They want to own you - Don't let them!!! 

NEW MUSIC FROM QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE!!!

 From the forthcoming album Times New Roman, out June 16th. You can pre-order HERE. 

SUPER cool song - I hear T. Rex a lot in here, always a good thing. I'm also noticing the guitar sound on the verses has that super distorted "junkyard" feeling that I loved so much from Era Vulgaris, pushed back to the front. I've never been sure if that's a soft application of a ring modulator or a pitch shifter or both. Either way, loving it here.

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From an article on Bloody Disgusting this morning (HERE), I give you the trailer for God is a Bullet:

 

Satanic Cult? I'm in! Also, Maika Monroe has been in some killer genre flicks over the last few years, and she's been great in all of them. 

  

Is it a bit weird that this film is directed by Nick Cassavetes, director of The Notebook? Not to judge the man - lots of people break in with what they can and then follow their passion (consider the case of Ryan Gosling, star of The Notebook), but there's also a track record of non-Horror folk 'hanging out in Horror' for a paycheck. Hopefully, that's not the case.

This one's getting a wide theatrical release - not sure if it will play by me; at first glance, I thought having the title God is a Bullet would stigmatize it right out of the local theatres here, then I realized having "bullet" in the title might actually push it in any way. After all, if there's one thing people seem to like more than god here, it's bullets.

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Playlist:

The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave

The Raveonettes - In and Out of Control

The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives

Ghost Cop - End Credits

Ghost Cop - One Weird Trick

Screaming Females - Desire Pathway

Danko Jones - We Sweat Blood

Iress - Prey

Type O Negative - Origin of the Feces

Mars Red Sky - Eponymous

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The Afghan Whigs - Soldier

 

Somehow I totally missed this stunning single the Whigs released in 2017.

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Maika Monroe is really on my radar of late. True, she was fabulous in both The Guest and It Follows, and both were years ago. Seeing this year's Watcher a few months back at a Beyondfest screening, she really stole the show. And now this:

 

I signed up for Paramount + again recently so K and I could finish Evil, Season 3, and looks like I'll probably hang onto it a bit longer to catch this on Friday, October 7th.

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Playlist:

Various - Return of the Living Dead Soundtrack (Playlist)

The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us

The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle

The Misfits - Legacy of Brutality

Idles - Joy As An Act of Resistance

Melvins & Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire

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Re-engaging with Magick this weekend could lead to a breakthrough, but it may also lead to Ruin. I'm pretty sure I know exactly what this is talking about, and my intention remains to stay away.

7 Days of Ozzy - Day 7: Therapy

 

And for day 7 of our 7 Days of Ozzy, I had to go with something a little bit different. Love the first Infectious Grooves album, and especially this track, which benefits enormously from Ozzy's vocals. I'd say this is similar to Sting's contribution to Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" - you just can't imagine the chorus being sung by anyone else.

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Saturday night Beyondfest & the American Cinematheque held a free advance screening of Chloe Okuno's new film Watcher at the Aero Theatre. Holy smokes - a fantastic psychological thriller with a gut-punch ending. LOVED it! 

The cinematography and direction in this one are fantastic, as are all the performances. The film really gives you a feel for the slow-motion paranoia that upturns Maika Monroe's Julia's life after she moves with her husband to Bucharest - a city she's never been to where most people speak Romanian - a language she doesn't speak. This isolation feeds directly into her paranoia, so you really don't have a sense of what's real and what's imagined in Julia's escalating panic, stoked by the fact that a serial killer stalks the city in the background of their lives.

Afterward, Maika Monroe and Karl Glusman did a Q&A moderated by Heidi Honeycutt. The two stars discussed filming in Romania during the Pandemic, the endless beauty of Bucharest, and how they prepared for the isolation and paranoia of the film. I can't recommend this one enough. 

Distributed by IFC Midnight, Watcher opens wide June 3rd on 500 screens - the company's largest theatrical opening to date.

Then, in keeping with the themes Watcher introduced, K and I took in a matinee of Alex Garland's new film Men.

Bold Horror Statement*: If The Witch and Midsommar kicked off the current zeitgeist resurgance of Folk Horror, Men is it's apex. Not to say it's better than them, but it seems to coelsce so many of the themes and images into an entirely new thing.

 

I'll be seeing this one on the big screen again.

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* Props to Shock Waves and Colours of the Dark!

 

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Playlist:

Black Sabbath - Eponymous

Joseph Bishara - Malignant OST

David Lynch - The Big Dream

Sparks - Lil' Beethoven

Mannequin Pussy - Patience

Canadian Rifle - Peaceful Death

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell

Pale Dian - Narrow birth

Ghost - Impera

Revocation - The Outer Ones

Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium (Undreamble Abysses)

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Confirmation on an inkling for investment.