Well, I totally fucked up Marty and Drexel's Live Music Week, so here's some new music from former 16 Horsepower's David Eugene Edwards.
It's hard to imagine a band and album that affected me more in the early 00s than 16 Horsepower's Low Estate. I love everything they did, and everything David Eugene Edwards followed that band in Wovenhand, and now everything he's released under his name (which is still also known as Wovenhand? I'm not really sure). But everything has been chasing that feeling I got the first time I heard "Brimstone Rock" and the thirteen songs that follow it. But that's the thing with an artist like Edwards - he makes such a deep impact upon introduction because his approach, his songwriting, his tone and his lyrics all combine to make such a signature sound, that it's similar to but completely unlike anything you've heard before until you hear him. So too with this new track from the forthcoming album Hyacinth, out September 29th on Sargent House. Pre-order HERE.
I blew through almost two hundred pages yesterday, which wasn't easy to do as we had guests visiting from out of town. This is one of those carry-it-everywhere-and-read-it-any-chance-you-get novels, and I am 100% riveted. If you've still not read My Heart is a Chainsaw and you love literature, Horror novels, Slasher flicks or just a damn good yard, grab that and this in one swoop and dig in.
• XVII: The Star indicates a turning point for the positive. Also, from the grimoire:
Watch:
I watched a couple flicks over the weekend, but none I enjoyed more than 2018's The Meg:
When I saw this in the theatre upon its original release, I didn't really care for it. Didn't hate it, but nothing about The Meg grabbed me at the time. After hearing Ben Wheatley is directing the sequel, and after seeing a trailer for Meg 2: The Trench a few weeks ago and really digging it (I can't turn the deep sea trench thing down, and there appears to be a lot more of that in this film), K and I decided to rewatch the first movie. You know what? LOTS of fun. I don't know if I was just in a more accepting mood because of my interest in the sequel, but I really had a good time with The Meg this time.
Read:
Less than one hundred pages from the end, I can tell you that Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper is one of the best sequels ever!
Playlist:
Calderum - Mystical Fortress of Iberian Lands
Led Zeppelin - Eponymous
Led Zeppelin - IV
The Door - L.A. Woman
Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol. 2: Philosophy of Beyond
Bohren and der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Sandrider - Godhead
Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley
John Harrison - Day of the Dead OST
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
Various - The Daptone Super Soul Revue LIVE at the Apollo
Card:
• Three of Disks: Works
• Five of Cups: Disappointment
• Ten of Cups: Sobriety
I'm having self-doubt that I can pull off this new novel the way I want to. That's a bit vague, but the cards definitely seem to be referencing this fear. There is a height I feel as though this story can attain, I'm just not sure I'm completely on the path to achieving that. Which would be a shame, because if I finish it and it's not what I want, I'll have to take a break for a while and come back to it. The Three of Disks indicate success through effort but juxtaposed with disappointing results. The Ten of Cups indicates perfect alignment, which leaves me needing a clarifying card:
"Fulfillment - when this comes up, go for your dreams - better than average chance something will pan."
