From their 2013 masterpiece Tomorrow's Harvest, which, to my ears, plays like the sweetest soundtrack to an 80s Horror film that never existed.
All this talk of the upcoming album has me excited to dip back into all the BOC music I love, and I love this one the most.
Watch:
After swearing off Lee Cronin's The Mummy for almost two weeks, I ended up seeing it last Thursday, and I actually really liked it. I hate the trailer and pretty much every single piece of art released for the film, which was a large part of why I swore the film off to begin with, but here's something that's not too obnoxious:
To crib directly from my Letterbxd review:
"Lee Cronin suffers from publicity that seems bent on ruining his films. The trailers take the weakest, most trite scenes from his films and blow them up as if they were the entire movie. It happened with Evil Dead Rise, "Mommy's with the maggots now," and it happened with The Mummy, "Don't worry, grandma, it's fun to be dead."
Both of those scenes are cringe-inducing in my opinion. Especially when they've been forced down our throats for months on end at the theatres. But against all the odds, The Mummy actually turned out to be fun and pretty intense at times. Kinda “Evil Dead Exorcist.” In fact, I almost wish it could have just been another Evil Dead flick, so they could have shaved 30 minutes of setup.
Jack Reynor did a great job. His performance buoyed some of the more goofy stuff. He sold me on his grief, anger and frustration. And Natalie Grace… I didn’t care for the makeup they used for her, but she did a really good job. Creepy movements. Nightmare fuel."
Seeing and liking The Mummy (for the most part) put me in mind to revisit Cronin's Evil Dead Rise for probably the third time since I bought the Blu-Ray. And at least a year has passed since my most recent viewing, and two since the movie came out, I find that, as I originally suspected, I can honestly say I really like this one. None of the things about it that bugged me at the time it came out still do, except, of course, I really wish the trailer hadn't ruined some of the imagery centered around Lily, as trying to see it with new eyes definitely makes me think it would have been far more effective had it not been ruined by that same inundation The Mummy just suffered.
Also, EDR has probably the best opening of any Evil Dead film to date. Just my opinion, but it's pretty freaking epic.
Playlist:
Steve Moore - Christmas Bloody Christmas
Electric Youth & Pilot Priest - Come True OST
Radiohead - Kid A
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immoliate Yourself
sElf - Gizmodgery
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Animals
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Gnarls Barkley - Atlanta
sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• King of Cups
• Knight of Wands
• King of Wands
That's a lot of masculine energy. Let's look at some overviews here:
King of Cups - Emotional upheaval or conflict
Knight of Cups - Controlling those emotions with Will
King of Wands - Sometimes, to get control, aggression is required.
Being smart enough to recognize when my emotions are getting the best of me, and being strong enough to prevent my response to those emotions from getting out of control.
Total work pull. People piss me off all the time, and sometimes I get worked up enough where I want to say something. Here's the reminder not to say something. Grin and bear it. Stay dressed in the fatigues of the enemy. They pay your bills.
