I don't know of another piece of music that fills me with such calm. I think it's because I started really getting into Trailer Park Boys shortly after I moved to L.A. in 2006, and I associate those first five years there as being the last bastion of the world before the post-apocalyptic bullshit started. This isn't political - well, not entirely - everyone's wrong. Everything's broken. This song represents a kind of precipice to me, and although the world has since fallen off, every once in a while I hear this and it slows the fall, reminds me what it was like to have our feet planted on what we thought was solid ground*.
* It was never solid ground and every generation feels this. The current generations, though, are the ones living it.
Finally - "The Quintesson War" begins! I've declared my love for these odd techno-organic monstrosities on this page many times, and I'm happy as hell to have a six-issue arc dedicated to them in Void Rivals. Unlike fellow Energon Universe title G.I. Joe's current "Dreadnok War" storyline, VR isn't going bi-weekly for this stretch, and I'm fine with that. Just happy to be getting more Quintesson goodness!
When I downloaded this cover, I noticed right away the "7 of 8" added to the corner box. NO! I thought Zander Cannon's Sleep was going to go on longer than just eight issues! I will miss this book SO MUCH! That said, I can not wait for the revelations we're sure to be getting over the next two issues. I mean, I don't need it all explained and wrapped up, but I'm dying to get at least a glimpse at what it is that Jonathan becomes when he falls asleep. That's really all I ask.
The penultimate issue of this Event Horizon prequel series. This one isn't quite what I expected or hoped for, but it's definitely building to something. I'm hoping that something is as INSANE as those snippets of these events play in the movie. We'll see.
NCBD:
Short week this week.
Watch:
I had the distinct pleasure of being offered a copy of Kyle Valle and Erin Áine's ZombieCON, Vol. 1 this week. Here's a trailer that just barely scrapes the surface of goodness contained within:
This is a super indie film, but I have to say, they really made everything about it work. This feels like it should have come out ten years ago - NOT a knock - and reminds me so much of Joss Whedon - specifically that Dr. Horrible web-series Whedon did circa 2008. This comes from a place of love with the Convention circuit and the entire culture that goes with it.
Playlist:
Radiohead - Kid A
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Somnium Nox - Apocrypha EP
Somnium Nox - Terra Inanis EP
Black Taffy - Out Moon
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Odonis Odonis - Eponymous
Ashes and Diamonds - Are Forever
Eagulls - Eponymous
Faetooth - Labryinthine
Deadguy - Near-Death Travel Services
Deftones - private music
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• Three of Swords
• Five of Pentacles
• Seven of Pentacles
Blockage, worry and calamity.
I had an Al Swearingen moment this morning. I drank a bit more beer than I probably should have last night, fully expecting to wake up in the middle of the night to answer the call of nature. Didn't happen. As a matter of fact, I woke up this morning and didn't feel an aching desire to relieve myself then, either. All day this has haunted me. I drank a ton of coffee, but never really felt like what came out was equal to what went in. That's not normally how my body works. So I see this full, and I'm a skosh concerned.
Let's put a pin in this one and hope everything comes out okay tomorrow.
