The Final Cut - U.F.O.T.M

From their 1993 album Consumed, a favorite from start to finish for more years than not, at this point. The opening samples from Flatliners always get me. 

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31 Days of Halloween:

1) George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead

2) V/H/S/ playlist (Amateur Night; Safe Haven; Slumber Party Alien Abduction; Bone Storm; Dreamkill)

3) The Warriors

4) Big Trouble in Little China

5) Dreamscape

6) Infirmary*

7) Beware Boiúna*

8) Milk & Serial

9) Pumpkinhead

10) Deathgasm (The Last Drive-In Presentation)

11) Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings*

12) Carrie (Mike Flanagan)*/ John Carpenter's The Thing

13) The Roost / Return of the Living Dead III*

14) Trigger Man

15) Evil Dead Burn

16) Pulse*/ Lord of Tears*

17) Impetigore*/ Sator

18) My Soul To Take*/ The Serpent and the Rainbow

19) Terrifier

20) Evil Dead 2013/ All Hallows Eve

21) Crystal Lake*/ Friday the 13th

22) All Hallow's Eve 2*/ A Nightmare on Elm Street

23) The Last Drive-In Halloween House Party: John Carpenter's Body Bags/ WNUF Halloween Special*

24) The Cycle*/ The Howling

25) Dark and the Wicked/ Pet Sematary/ November

26) Cobweb/ Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VII and VIII 

27) The Ninth Heart*/ Flatliners/ Suspiria

28) City of the Dead/ Treehouse of Horror VIX

29) The Rocky Horror Picture Show/ The Convent/ Lords of Salem

Every time I watch Rob Zombie's Lords of Salem, I'm struck by how sad it is, how beautiful it is, and how absolutely, gloriously blasphemous it is. I like most of Zombie's films to one degree or another, but this film is beyond anything else he's ever done. 

We also watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and it's funny that I never realized Patricia Quinn is in both films. That's another thing I've always dug about Zombie's films - how he casts his heroes. 

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Playlist:

John Carpenter w/ Alan Howarth - Halloween III: The Season of the Witch OST

Goblin - Phenomena OST

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult  - Eponymous

Jeff Grace - House of the Devil OST

Danzig - Danzig II

Ritual Howls - Virtue Falters

Beach Creeper - In Surf Of

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Shapes of Midnight

The Final Cut - Consumed

Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste

Dreamkid - Daggers

My Apple Music Halloween Playlist

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Card:

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

• 21: The World

• 20: Judgement

• Five of Wands

Faced with stagnation, pivot into what comes next.

I read this twofold. First, that my annual Halloween celebration is nearly over and once it is, I'll pivot back into work mode on the book (been slow and feeling a little frustrating, as I've mentioned here recently). Also, I think I need to skip ahead of the scene I'm stuck on and work on the scene after in order to free myself of the block.

2018: October 12th

Here's a track off one of my seasonal go-to's this time of year, The Final Cut's 1992 Consumed, which also happens to be my pick for today's edition of The Joup Friday Album, which you can read over HERE on Joup.co.

Continued 31 Days of Horror last night with Killer Klowns form Outer Space. Man, John Vernon is the shit, isn't he?

31 Days of Horror:

10/01) Summer of 84
10/02) Rope
10/03) Dreams in the Witch House
10/04) Crash
10/05) The Fly
10/06) Re-animator
10/07) Night of the Demons
10/08) Species
10/09) The Roost
10/10) The Convent
10/11) Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Tonight? I'm thinking either George A. Romero's Day of the Dead or Dario Argento's Phenomenon. But we'll see.

I didn't talk about NCBD yet this week, primarily because I've been too busy to stop in and pick up the one thing that came out on my pull. But oh what a 'one thing' it is:

This original Hardcover Graphic Novel from the creators of recent favorites of mine Fatale, The Fade Out, and Kill Or Be Killed, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies ties into the Criminal Universe in a small way via that series' first arc, Coward. Interestingly enough, I just read Coward for the first time a few days ago. I couldn't have timed that better if I'd tried! Criminal is the only Brubaker/Phillips series I've yet to engage with, and this little serendipitous jaunt should catapult me further into it nicely. Thanks to my good friend Joe.Baxter for lending me his trades and getting me started!

Playlist from yesterday:

Monolord - Rust
The Black Queen - Infinite Games
In Solitude - Sister
Blut Aus Nord - Memorial Vetusta II - Dialogue with the Stars

No, that damn second part of the novel still isn't finished, but I did come up with the plot point I believe it has always been missing. The somewhat clunky elements that haunted a certain character's motivations have now been replaced with what I can joyously say is a new, elegant arc that puts everyone where I need them to be for the plot to resolve in part three. I spent a good deal of time yesterday re-writing chapters in part one in order to massage this element in and it sent me skyrocketing into the second half with renewed vigor. So here's to that!

Card of the day:

Mind distracted at times you say? Why yes! All that writing time yesterday was hard-earned in between being distracted by this and this and this.

Bastards!