Tom Waits and Massive Attack??? Holy Christos - this is... wow. Just wow.
No idea if this is harbinger to a full collaborative album. Most likely, Waits is on one track from the previously hinted at new Massive Attack album. Either way, listening to this on headphones while I type, this feels like balm for my soul.
You can read more about this single HERE.
Watch:
I finally had the chance to sit down and watch Steven Kostanski's reimagining of Roger Corman's Deathstalker. Not to dismiss a Corman flick from the 80s, but Kostanski's film renders the original irrelevant - especially with how goddamn hung up it is on SA.
The FX here are, as one would expect, top-notch. There are images in this film that unearthed shit from my imagination that must go back to early childhood. In particular, the red "licorice" armor guys. Coppola's Dracula in his wolf armor tickled this same nerve, too, but the feeling I get from Kostanski's work is vestigial. Add to this the surreal touches and odd humor he instills in everything, and we have us a winner.
Read:
About a third of the way through Stephen King's The Drawing of the Three, and it's even better than I remember it being.
"...but it was too late - they were tumbling backward thorugh that doorway, and the droning hum of New York City at night, so familiar and constant you never even heard it unless it wasn;t there anymore, was replaced by the grinding sound of the waves and the grating, questioning voices of dimly seen horrors crawling to and fro on the beach."
In my original discovery of these books, I think the "real world" of the titular three's world (our world) felt like a left turn when I read this, and of course, the year I read this, Wastelands came out, and that book has remained my favorite of the DT books since. Reading book two again now, I'm floored by how this hits the ground running. The whole beach/lobstrosity sequence ("Dad-a-chack? Did-a-chick? Drum-a-chum?") has stayed with me since that first read, and it's every bit as effective now, but the Eddie Dean on the airplane stuff is pure page-turning goodness. I can't wait to get deeper into this one, and the series in general. This is the reread I've been planning for years, and I'm jazzed about doing it now.
Playlist:
Zombi - Shape Shift
Steve Moore - VFW OST
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Atticus Derrickson - Black Phone 2 OST
Plague Bringer - As the Ghosts Collect, the Corpses Rest
Corrosion of Conformity - Good God/Baad Man
Steeve Moore - Jimmy & Stiggs OST
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer OST
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
sunn O))) - Loser
Blackbraid - Celestial Womb EP
Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground (single)
Nine Inch Noize
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• Nine of Swords
• XI: Justice (Lust in Thoth)
• Eight of Wands
Nine of Swords = deception. Eleven here is Justice, a primordial urge we lust for in 2026, fighting against the tyrannical mega corporations that define our increasingly suffocating existence. But wait - there's a way out. But it's a formidable act of Will, and not easily achieved from within the belly of this giant, dying machine called society that's bleeding out and drowning us in its blood.
