Gatta Morta is a new band featuring Buzz Osbourne (Melvins), Jeff Pinkus (The Butthole Surfers, Melvins) Coady Willis (Big Business) and - totally new to me - Clinton Jacob from Chicago band Mr. Phylzzz. I was unfamiliar with Mr. Phylzzz until Mr. Brown mentioned them to me in relation to news of this EP, which is on sale via Amphetamine Reptile and most likely long sold out. Pre-order whatever is left HERE. If you missed it like I did, you can wait a year or so, and Ipecac will probably put out a version as well.
Watch:
Na Hong-jin's Hope looks a bit like another A Quiet Place analog; however, I'd say the similarities are probably how the film secured a wide release in the States and are likely played up for the trailer. Either way, looks pretty rad:
Hoping this one will find its way to me here in Clarksville, but I suppose I'd be amenable to a drive if I have to.
Shit - I'm exhausted and yet also jazzed just by putting these plans down on paper.
Read:
I finished Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla two nights ago and, after reading the corresponding chapter about the book in Bev Vincent's The Road to the Dark Tower, immediately picked up Dark Tower Book Six: Song of Susannah.
Here's another one I've only read once, and not since it was first published over twenty years ago. A lot of Wolves... came back to me as I read, but I also retained more of an idea of that novel than I did with this one. I remember King himself making an appearance, but with some of the crosstalk between books that pepper Bev Vincent's handling of these last few, I am getting a sense I remember very little of both this and the final book.
Song of Susannah is a paltry 400-something pages compared to Book Five's 709 and Book Six's 800+, and that's not a complaint. I still have two Talisman novels to read after this (three once Other Worlds Than These drops in October) and based on a tidbit Vincent mentioned that I'd never heard before - namely that the Crimson King actually first appeared in Insomnia, a book Mr. Brown read when it came out while we were in our Senior Year of High School and I've been curious about since - I think I'll be adding that nearly 800-pager to the year's list. There's a cheap first edition hardcover in an antique store near me that has my name on it. After that, I'm considering rereading The Regulators and then finally diving into Desperation (following the announcement that Sam Raimi will be helming an adaptation of that), both of which I have hardcovers of. There's also the Robin Furth/Jae Lee comics that broaden the overall Dark Tower series, all of which I've read but not since publication.
Shit - I'm exhausted and yet also jazzed just by putting these plans down on paper.
Playlist:
The Black Keys - Magic Potion
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Drain - ... Is Your Friend
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
United Future Organization - 3rd Perspective
Carlos Rafael Rivera - They Will Kill You OST
Secret Chiefs 3 - Hurqalya (Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws)
Ween - God Ween Satan Live (disc 1)
Tomahawk - Eponymous
Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer (disc 1: Tower)
The Ocean -Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
The Ocean - Solaris (pre-release singles)
Morphine - The Night
Miles Davis - Bitch's Brew
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Eldritch Lace Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• 16: The Tower
• 18: The Moon
• Knight of Pentacles
Drawing the Tower has plenty of connotations, just in common with what I'm reading, but aside from that, I can see that I'm in for some ying and yang balancing and possibly some unexpected developments pertaining to my goals, which is great, because things have been tough. My health hasn't been great - it's undetermined whether I've passed this stupid stone, may have another gestating, and there's a persistent discomfort in my left stomach that's freaking me out. All this has left me pretty on edge, run down and just generally morose. Yesterday was different, though, and hopefully the cards herald a change.
