New Music From Deafheaven

 

I haven't listened to this yet and likely will not in an attempt to preserve the album experience when Lonely People With Power drops on March 28th. You can pre-order your copy directly from the band HERE.

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NCBD:

Short pull this week, although I'm hoping some of those outstanding books start to filter in today.

I'm still waiting on issue #6 with that awesome cover, so maybe that will show up today, too? 

LOVE this cover. It's not the "A" cover, so I may not find this in the wild, but I'm going to try. Stalker fucking rocks!

I did not love The Seasons issue #1. In fact, I struggled quite a bit to get through it at first, and about halfway through, I began to grow listless, flipping to the backmatter where I saw Rick Remender reference  Miyazaki as an influence. 

This doubly convinced me this book would be a hard pass for me. I can recognize Miyazaki's grandeur, but his work is just not for me. Then I begrudgingly finished the issue and actually found myself drawn in at the end. So, in the interest of always supporting independent comics and giving Rick Remender the benefit of the doubt (he's earned it for sure!), I'm jumping into issue #2 with an open mind and will reassess after I read it. 

Also from Remender's Giant Generator, I'm very much digging Phil Bram and JG Jones' Dustbowl slow-burn Horror show Dust to Dust.  

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Peaks:

The Twin Peaks Day/David Lynch Tribute at the Eastside Bowl on Monday night turned out to be pretty fun. K and I didn't stay long due to a general creeping exhaustion from long days at work, but here are a few pictures we snapped.

David Lynch shrine. Very cool. We stopped to pay our respects.

My cousin pointed out that in pictures, this bar looks a bit like Power and Glory from FWWM (when that name became available, I have no idea. I'd never heard it before a few months ago, but it pops up here and there. 

"It's kickin' in, Jacques!"

"A log for you, an owl for you. Presto!"

Special thanks to Easide Bowl and The '58 for putting this on. Hoping it recurs next year - I'll end up getting the day after off or something so we can properly celebrate (maybe wake up in Canada).

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Playlist:

Frank Black - Teenager of the Year

Melvins - Houdini

Various - An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music/Second-a-Chronology Vol. #2 (Disc 1)

The Ravenonettes - The Raveonettes Sing...

X - Under the Big Black Sun

Tennis System - Technicolor Blind

Hangman's Chair - Saddiction

Drug Church - Prude

Ritual Howls - Into the Water

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Card:

Getting back to some more rigorous study interpretations - or as rigorous as I can provide at this point with my attention split between finishing a novel, an ever-increasing mental demand at work, and the encroaching apocalypse.

The Hermit reminds me of a lot of my friends. Also, myself, really. 

From the grimoire (within which, there's not a whole lot on this one): "Dark and lonely period of gestation. Fetal; a re-grouping."

Sounds like everyone with half a fucking brain in 2025, doesn't it? What's good ol' A.C. say? That the card is tied into the Hebrew letter Yod, the first letter in Yod Hau Vau Hau, the name of God. The figure on the card is shaped to resemble Yod, and the color of his cloak reflects Binah, the great Mother, tying this back into Fertility. Gestation is the result of Fertility; ideas are the result of Gestation. You get the point.