New album Good God/Baad Man, out April 3rd. You can pre-order from Nuclear Blast Records HERE. Sounds good up real loud. Would you expect anything else from COC? Nope.
Watch:
If you want to hit the theatre this weekend and have a ton of fun, my recommendation is right here:
I knew nothing about this film going in - I don't even think I'd heard of it before a week or two ago. Written by David Koepp - whose name I knew I recognized but did not realize from how many movies (Jurassic Park, Stir of Echoes, Presence, Premium Rush) and directed by Jonny Campbell, Cold Storage is a BLAST! Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell, Liam Neeson, Sosie Bacon - we've got a stacked cast, a great setup and an execution that evokes a bit of a comparison to such films as Slither, Street Trash, and Return of the Living Dead. This is kind of the pop version of a splattery outbreak flick, and it just works.
Read:
I finally got around to reading Savage Sword of Conan issue 11, the now-fabled issue helmed entirely by Liam Sharp. All I can say - asbsolute masterpiece!
That's a piece of full-page art from the issue, which Mr. Sharp posted on his Substack newsletter The Brave and the Bold - which you can subscribe to HERE.
This book is just extraordinary, and I do not mean just the art. The storyline is pure Hyperborean Weird Fiction - Conan is injured and enters a liminal realm within which nothing is as it seems. Wolfmen, a beautifully dangerous sorceress, and scheming rulers all vie for his assistance. As usual, the Cimmerian is his own man, even in the face of insanely unfavorable odds.
Playlist:
Daydream Twins - Solstice For Embodiment
John Cale - Fear
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Mr. Bungle - California
Tomahawk - Eponymous
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Lamp of Murmur - The Dreaming Prince in Ectasy
Burzum - Filosofem
Mountain Realm - Stoneharrow
Ulver - Neverland
Blut Aus Nord - Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
David Lee Roth - Crazy from the Heat EP
David Lee Roth - A Little Ain't Enough
Corrosion of Conformity - Gimme Some Moore (pre-release single)
Card:
Continuing my newly reinvigorated workings with the Thoth deck:
Note to self: the green light works much better with Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• Prince of Wands
• XX: The Aeon
• Ten of Wands: Oppression
The "Airy" aspect of Fire, or MOTIVATION. The Will to change the work, the paradigm, the Aeon and not succumb to the Oppression of the familiar.
While there's some genuine intuition in this reading, I feel like I've fallen back on rote interpretations and interpretative guides. The added inroads I've made with this deck and Tarot in general just do not seem to want to stick. Part of this is because I am always distracted and I am always anxious. I hate that - I did not use to be this way. Modern Life is Rubbish, though, and it's pretty difficult not to be distracted in this day and age. Oh! What's that - yeah, that's right. I talked a bit about restarting meditation a few months ago and NEVER DID. You think that might help? Yep....
