Thanks to Mr. Brown, one of the purchases I made on this most recent Bandcamp Friday was the newly released "Depends on the Horse..." album, recorded in quarantine. The records is probably the most ersatz of the Milkmen's, and feels a bit more like a B-side compilation. NOT A BAD THING. Dig the description from their site (use this link HERE. There's another Milkmen bandcamp page that keeps popping up when I enter their name):
"Actually... this volume of songs is the soundtrack to the first 36 episodes of the weekly program "Big Questions with The Dead Milkmen" which can be seen on The Dead Milkmen's YouTube channel. The songs were inspired by and created in response to challenges the Dead Milkmen made to each other on the program. Songs 1 - 4 are from "The 4-Track Challenge" episode (September 26, 2020). Songs 5 - 9 are from the Cover Challenge episode (July 11, 2020). Songs 10 - 13 are from the Owner's Manual Challenge episode ("Read the Manual", August 15, 2020). Songs 14 - 17 are from the Genre Challenge episode (June 6, 2020). And song 18 is the theme song from the show, composed and recorded by Dean Sabatino."
I always say I dislike music videos that showcase the band pantomiming like they're playing the song, but in this case, I just can't help but smile seeing the Milkmen as they were back in the day. A great song from a great album. The Secret of Life kicks off Dead Milkmen Appreciation Week. For the next seven days, I'll post one track a day that make the Milkmen among my favorite all-time bands. And although Soul Rotation isn't an album I go to often, I pulled it out recently - thanks for the copy Mr. Brown - and really enjoyed hearing it again after a couple of years.
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Next Wednesday, 8/28, my new novel Shadow Play - Book One: Kim & Jessie will be released, and if I've done my job this time, it will be available in Bookstores as well as on Amazon. When I released my first published work, A Collection of Desires: 7 Tales of Modern Horror, I did so only through Amazon, with a free, Amazon-only ISBN number. This time, I've started a Publishing Company, Horror Vision Press (THV Press for eventual non-horror content), and released a new edition of A Collection of Desires complete with an internationally recognized ISB that means you can order it at Barns and Noble HEREandAmazon HERE. I'm not really sure what other book specialty stores exist at this point, but if you have a favorite and they do not have ACoD in stock, they should be able to order it from Ingram wholesale with the following ISBN: 978-1733410700.
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There's a new trailer for HBO's Watchmen series. Color me intrigued, as this doesn't look like anything I would have expected. There almost seems to be a comedic streak at times, and if that is the case, it will be interesting to see how that might or might not mesh with the harsher tones of the original series and cinematic adaptation.
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Playlist from the last few days:
The Dead Milkmen - Soul Rotation
Uniform and The Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
David Bowie - Lodger
Khruangbin - Hasta El Cielo
Windhand - Eternal Return
Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch - An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Album
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Ariel - Young Lovers
Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
Jenny Lewis - On the Line
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker - Red Right Hand (single)
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - The Night Creeper
I'd forgotten how goddamn funny this song is. I remember when The King in Yellow was first released, Mr. Brown sent it to me with the comment that the chorus about the 300 lb psychic baby was hysterical.
It is.
Playlist from yesterday:
Singles OST
Odonis Odonis - Post Plague
Odonis Odonis - Hard Boiled Soft Boiled
Silkworm - Firewater
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Dead Milkmen - The King in Yellow
Card for the day, which I actually pulled this morning at 6:32 AM, was indeed, following through from yesterday:
Energy that began with the five of wands Strife, ballooned with Six of Wands Victory, is now expended.
Also, the eye thing is totally a side effect of the prednisone and I am now, at my pulmonologist's recommendation, tapering off of it.
