Showing posts with label The Last Drive-In Patreon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Last Drive-In Patreon. Show all posts

Monday, February 10, 2025

Cherubini - Requiem in C Minor

 

One beautiful piece of music I've often taken for granted.


Watch:

Friday night, I watched Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me on Joe Bob Brigg's The Last Drive-In Patreon. I'd seen this posted on the Patreon a while ago and had been saving it. Couldn't think of a better time; I'm two-thirds through my rewatch of Twin Peaks The Return and wanted to slow the roll on that. It's definitely gained momentum fast while watching, and I backed off to kind of savor it. 


The original air date of this one was March 6, 1999, on Joe Bob's Last Call. One of the cool things about the Patreon is even though Joe Bob's old shows were basic cable and, therefore edited, the films they put up are the whole enchilada.

I can't say I agreed with most of JB's commentary on the film. However, it was '99, and Twin Peaks was a distant memory to pop culture at large (not to me and my friends; Brown, myself and two other friends would make our first sojourn to the Twin Peaks Fest (RIP) in Washington state a year later in 2000), so without a fresh rewatch of the series - which would have been somewhat hard to do unless you had the Worldvision VHS box set I'd had since it was released in 1993 for $99.95 (had to look the release date on that one up), you probably hadn't seen the series since it originally aired in 90/91 or perhaps when the Bravo network reaired it in 1993. So FWWM would make even less sense.




Read:

Speaking of surrealist Horrro, I finally got around to starting Sopia Ajram's Coup de GrĂ¢ce.


Here's the description lifted directly from Goodreads:

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke.

Don't remember where I first heard of this one, but I'm enjoying it so far, even though I'm still having a lot of trouble concentrating on prose at the moment. 




Playlist:

Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
The Jesus Lizard - Down
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Japandroids - Celebration Rock
Deth Crux - Mutant Flesh
Loathe - I Let It In and It Took Everything
Flogging Molly - Float
Riccardo Muti - Verdi: Requiem & Cherubini: Requiem in C Minor
Wolves in the Throne Room - Crypt of Ancestral Knowledge EP
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Blut Aus Nord - The Mystical Beast of Rebellion
Boston Baroque, Conductor: Martin Pearlman - Chrubini: Requiem in C Minor




Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.


• Two of Pentacles
• Two of Wands
• Four of Wands

Stability ahead.

Monday, September 23, 2024

Body Count - Comfortably Numb

 Wait... what?

I don't love this, but it's definitely worth posting. "Comfortably Numb" was probably my favorite song when I was a stoned teenager in high school. My friend Anthony and I were obsessed with Pink Floyd, and this song... just moved the world for me. I still love it, but it's not all that often I go back and revisit Floyd in the religious manner I used to. Still, seeing this as a cover by Ice-T's thrash metal band Body Count floored me, and it's definitely worth a listen, as they do some interesting things with the song, which is an advance single from the upcoming album Meerciless, out November 22 on Century Media. Pre-order HERE.




Watch:

Last night, K and I watched Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist on Joe Bob Brigg's The Last Drive-In Patreon. The original air date of the episode was 4/3/99 - why does the late '90s look so old to me now? - on a TNT series called Joe Bob's Last Call

As a huge fan who only ever heard of Joe Bob in 2018 when he hit Shudder with that Marathon (I never had cable growing up), I've obviously become aware of Monstervision and Up All Night, but Last Call was new to me. I'll have to look to see where that slots in between the others. Anyway, Poltergeist is something of an annual or bi-annual Autumn watch for me, and it was especially wonderful watching it with Joe Bob.


This is a perfect film, in my opinion. I never bothered with the 2015 remake, even out of curiosity, and I likely never will. The world on display in Poltergeist is the world I grew up in - early 1980s suburban America - and that's part of what makes it so effective both as a Horror film and a nostalgia piece. Also, I find it super interesting that the first few times I saw this film I was very young and Jobeth Williams was a "Mom" to me, but over the years as I've aged and the version of her in the film hasn't, she's become one of the hottest Horror movie women I've ever seen. 




Playlist:

The Damned - AD 2022 Live in Manchester
Human Impact - Gone Dark (pre-release singles)
Human Impact - EP01
Mogwai - God Gets You Back (single)
Dale Crover - Glossolalia
The Mysterines - Afraid of Tomorrows
Bauhaus - Go Away White
Aerosmith - Pump
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Zeal & Ardor - GREIF
Body Count - Comfortably Numb (single)
Body Count - Eponymous
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black




Card:

Today's card is the Ace of Disks:


Financial Breakthrough. Successful implementation of new ideas/rules/parameters in matters of Earthly providence. Growth and prosperity.