One of the most touching tracks on an album filled with touching tracks.
Watch Bowie:
Being that yesterday was Friday night and the ninth anniversary of David Bowie's death, I wanted to do more than just listen to his music. I decided to watch a movie with Bowie. I'd recently noticed the Criterion Channel added a Bowie playlist that had The Man Who Fell To Earth on it, and it's been quite some time since I watched that one. En route, however, my finger stalled on the remote as the cursor passed over a different film - one I don't remember ever hearing about before:
Super fun film Directed by Richard Shepard. Reminds me a bit of After Hours, a bit of Quick Change, and a bit of The Dark Backward and The Birdcage (which came after). Spoiler-free Letterbxd review HERE, but the long and the short of it, with Bowie as the male lead, if you're a fan and missed this like I did, see it!!!
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Oh my god. This movie!!!
Read nothing! If this hadn't gotten a small theatrical run late last year and I could count it toward next year's best of, I have faith that twelve months from now, this would still be in my top ten. Holy F*CK! Kudos to Nick Frost on writing and starring in this, and Steffen Haars for Directing. Everyone involved does a smashing job!
January 10th - nine years ago today David Bowie soared from Earth. Hopefully, he's bringing joy through music to some distant cosmic race (and we'll eventually be able to get copies on vinyl!).
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Lowell Dean, the Writer/Director of Wolfcop, has a new Horror movie based around an underground Wrestling match meant to raise the Dark Lord? In, 100%.
Even though I don't count myself a wrestling fan, this looks pretty fun.
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I've been suffering a spot of insomnia and using it to blow through Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola's Joe Golem and the Drowning City.
About 90 pages in, this is a fantastic novel that kind of mashes up modern Steam Punk elements with Lovecraftian Horror and old-school Detective/Adventure/Fantasy tropes. Sounds a bit crowded, but it's not at all. The prose is brisk and vivid, and Mignola's illustrations are light and fantastic, capturing just enough imagery to really help accentuate the images the prose already brings to life. Here's the solicitation:
"In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that its residents began to call it the Drowning City. Those unwilling to abandon their homes created a new life on streets turned to canals and in buildings whose first three stories were underwater. Fifty years have passed since then, and the Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats, poor people trying to eke out an existence, and those too proud or stubborn to be defeated by circumstance.
Among them are fourteen-year-old Molly McHugh and her friend and employer, Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but now he is an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits, and Molly soon finds herself on the run.
Her flight will lead her into the company of a mysterious man, and his stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past is a mystery to him."
This is the first of several collaborations between Mignola and Golden that I'm reading, and I have my good friend Chris Saunders to thank for gifting me a beautiful hardcover copy last year during my trip to L.A.
Playlist:
Mick Jagger - Strange Game (Theme from Slow Horses single)
David Bowie - Black Star
Laylow -.Raw
L.A. Witch - Eponymous
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Arcade Fire - Everything Now
Antibalas - Where the Gods Are In Peace
Mr. Bungle - Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie - Outside
David Bowie - The Buddha of Suburbia OST
Vanessa Williams - Dreamin' (single)
Al B. Sure! - Nite and Day (single)
Diana Ross - Missing You (single)
Karate - Unsolved
Card:
Today's card is the Five of Wands - Strife:
From the grimoire: "Often signals the querent is unhappy with a situation such as work or home, but can also indicate inner conflict. Introduces the suite of Wands/For of Will undercurrent of moral or ethical issues (what will ultimately happen to other in the pursuit of our Will?).
Chaos that can prove growth."
Fives are Geburah - Severity; Mars. Fives are demanding cards.
So what are they demanding?
There's a balance found in Four that is interrupted by Five. This is demanding growth! Growth is Chaos, and in pursuing growth, we often offset others' balance as well as our own. So this is a 'tread with caution, but definitely tread!!!" card.
The apparently unreleased video for "Slow Burn," track four on 2002's Heathen. Such a great song; I'm not the only one to specifically call this one out here in our little music blog community.
Released 9 years ago today. It was a Friday, and no one realized that in three days David Bowie would be called back to his ancestors in the cold, black void of space. I'm wondering if this video is modeled after his home planet?
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Oh man, I am psyched for this week's books! Let's get into it!!
Back in November, the first issue of David Ian and Rebekah McKendry's Barstow took me by surprise and blew me away! The desert can certainly be a creepy place, and Barstow leans into that all the way. Can't wait to see where this goes!
Bruticus vs. Devastator? 'Nuff said! This has me twitching with anticipation that HasbroPulse might be gearing up to release a Combaticons set similar to the Constructicons one they did last year. I could let Devastator lads pass me by, but Swindle, Vortex and their crew are probably the only merger set I would love to own. The original versions just never did the character designs on the cartoon and comic book justice. To have a Swindle or Onslaught that actually look like the characters... that would be amazing.
I read the first issue of Dan Watters' Batman: Dark Patterns last month and really liked it. Watters has become go-to writer for me; I won't read everything he does for the big two, but I think I'm 100% up on everything he's released that's creator-owned. I'm digging these one-off Bat-series, though, so I'm back on Patterns this month for another round.
This book is just f*ckin' nuts! I don't know where we're going or how we ended up where we are (what a fantastic final page last ish!), but I'm hooked once again. Boss and Rosenberg have a punk rock dystopian epic on their hands.
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Rejoice! Vinegar Syndrome announced the Blue Ray for Ryan Kruger's Street Trash!
I pre-ordered mine as soon as I saw the announcement; this SEQUEL to the 1987 original came in at number six on my Top Ten Favorite Horror Films of 2024, which can be heard over on the latest episode of The Horror Vision.
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Chrystabell & David Lynch - Cellophane Memories
David Bowie - Heathen
David Bowie - Black Star
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
Hall and Oats - Greatest Hits
Card:
Today's card is the Knight of Wands:
The Firey aspect of Fire, or the Willful aspect of the Will, which feels convoluted or redundant. What does A.C. say about this one in his Book of Thoth?
"The moral qualities appropriate to this figure are activity, generosity, fierceness, impetuosity, pride, impulsiveness, swiftness in unpredictable actions."
This card implies a quickening and might warn about going off half-cocked. Things have to get done, but be careful how to do them. Impetuous actions don't often work out well, and impulsiveness can be a good thing, but it can also lead to a bad end.
You know, I never really gave Nothing's 2020 album, The Great Dismal, the chance it deserved. I wouldn't say I didn't like it, but before recently, I'd never bonded with this one like I did some of their others. That's changed, and this song resonates as a perfect album closer. Very MBV, but not, if you know what I mean.
Here's Nothing's Bandcamp HERE or their site (which is really well-made) HERE.
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F*ck. Not sure I'm ready to go back to this world...
Well, we have until April. Gonna have to look at A LOT of cat pictures to prep.
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Now that issue three of Rafael Grampa's Batman: The Gargoyle of Gotham is out, I sat down over the weekend and read all three. Holy smokes. This is seriously one of the best Batman series I've read, and even though I don't read all that many Bat-Books, I've read my share of the classics. I think this will sit amongst them. One of the reasons for that? The villains.
I've talked on Drinking with Comics about how I feel Bruce's standard rogues gallery is one of the major issues keeping from reading Bat-books. I rejoiced at Morrison's run when Prof. Pig and the Black Glove were introduced. Anything to get the same stupid, overdone bad guys out of the spotlight. I mean, yeah, I like a good Joker story here and there, and I loved Max's Penguin, but it's how you approach it. For the purposes of a Batman comic that's going to hold my interest, I need something new. And Mr. Grampa has certainly done that. Cry is fantastic (if that is actually their name), and whoever this is that showed up at the end of issue three blew me away. Let's not forget the weird, hallucinogenic psychic chick. There's just so much NEW going on here, and I absolutely reveled in it while reading. Can't recommend this one enough; I just hope it doesn't take the better part of another year to get issue four. If it does, it's worth it, but man - it would be tough just waiting a month or two.
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• Page (Princess) of Swords
• XVI - The Tower
• II - High Priestess
The Earth of Air, the Earthly realms of intellect. In other words, you can be as smart as you like, and it won't mean spit if you're not street smart. The Tower tells me I'm not as smart as I think, and High Priestess suggests nurturing, so I'm reading this as a direct rebuttal to the nearly crippling self-doubt and imposter syndrome that's been hammering on the inside of my skull for the last few days. I'm not as smart as I think - meaning I've misread everything and should chuck all that baggage in the bin.
I have to say, while holding Dreamkid's retro 80s synthwave sound at arm's length for well over a year, I think I've finally succumbed to full-on fan. Yes, there's definitely a chessiness at play here, but it doesn't matter. Dreamkid's music has a very genuine soul, which is weird to say about something with so much facade, but that's part of music, right? A ton of Metal is facade, so why not neon and glitter instead of Satan and blood?
From last year's Daggers album, which I've been listening to in late-night writing sessions for a few days now.
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In the past seven days, K and I have watched two and a half seasons of Apple TV's Slow Horses. This is a show based on Mick Herron's Slough House novels, none of which I have had the pleasure of reading.
That's the opening of the first episode. Slow Horses follows MI5 agent River Cartwright who is reassigned to Slough House after the debacle depicted in the Sneak Peek above. Slough House is where British Secret Service assigns their fuck-ups, and we meet a lovely cast who all suffer under the profanity-spewing, Curry-farting, Single-Malt-drinking Jackson Lamb, a right old bastard as played by Gary Oldman. Lamb was a legend but made a lot of enemies and got sent to Slough House to 'run out the clock.'
Lamb reminds me of two very different characters I've met before. On the one hand, Oldman invokes Jackie Flannery from State of Grace in all his whiskey-swilling, unwashed glory. The character also conjures more than a little comparison to an aged John Constantine, and I have to wonder if that's canon from the novels or if the show's creative team is showing its influence. Either way, Oldman is a delight every moment he's on screen.
So are all the other characters, too. Even the ones you despise. As the clip shows, this is a fast-moving series and, honestly, the best "spy" story I've come across.
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I guess re-reading Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey's Injection is, at the very least, an annual appointment for me now. I woke up Saturday and re-read the first volume and experienced nothing short of total comic book ecstasy.
I've held to the story that my two favorite comics of all time are Preacher and The Walking Dead, and on some level, they are and always will be. That said, I think Injection is up there, neck and neck, as well. This might even be a "win by a nose" situation, and what I mean by that is both Ennis and Kirkman's opuses are just that - epic, long-form series. At three six-issue volumes (that I hope will one day be joined by those final two), Injection is pocket-sized, in a manner of speaking.
Especially when you consider that this is among the best of the 'wide-screen' format series, so it reads quick. Rereading is easy, as opposed to the voluminous experience of rereading the other two. That's not without its merit, of course, but I can find far more time to read Injection, and it affects my brain in a different way.
Playlist:
Aidan Baker & Dead Neanderthals - Cast Down and Hunted
This had me both laughing out loud and thrashing at my desk all afternoon yesterday. Focusing your band around The Simpsons is a quick way to get dismissed as a gimmick, but take a listen and you'll see - Dr. Colossus fucking rules!
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Rewatched Adam Green's original Hatchet two nights ago and hot damn! I love this flick, but I always forget how much I love it until I actually sit down and rewatch it.
This is an obvious 'skin' of F13; however, I think by moving the 'Cabin in the woods' trope to the Louisiana swamps, effectively making it 'Cabin in the Swamp,' Green really breathes fresh life into the Slasher genre (always loved the tag: Old School American Horror). The cast is great and doesn't die in the order you'd imagine, and as annoying or vapid as some of them are, I actually don't want to see them die. That's usually not the case in modern slashers.
Playlist:
Aidan Baker & Dead Neanderthals - Cast Down and Haunted
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
Aidan Baker & Gareth Davis - Invisible Cities
Beth Gibbons, The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Krzysztof Penderecki - Henryk Górecki: Symphony N. 3
Windhand - Split
Dr. Colossus -
I'm a Stupid Moron With an Ugly Face and A Big Butt and My Butt Smells and I Like to Kiss My Own Butt
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - Heathen
Card:
First Tarot Pull of 2025, I have to make it a single card from Missi's Raven Deck:
Always one of my favorite cards in any deck; this reminds me to look at things beyond surface capacity. No surprise I'm turning forty-nine in three months because that's what we do as we get older - we gloss over things. Part of it is, I think, when we're younger we have way more of a perceptual filter. We're only aware of our own world and small increments beyond. Aging opens that up, and by the time you're in your forties, you're aware of so much that you look for shortcuts. When you consider the internet and smartphones and all the stimuli and information that flow through us every day, my theory gets an update - kids are aware of so much more than I was when I was younger. Now, what's that due to adults that have that widened awareness?
In some cases, in a lot of cases I'd say, it shuts it down completely. We look at the world only as we want to see it. And the almighty algorithms just exacerbate that by creating these endless feedback loops that just cycle our own thoughts back through our head. So in 2025, I'm going to try and remember, every day, to look deeper. I've even made a note on my desk to remind myself.
Day late, but it's still poignant. Holy shit - we made it to 2025!!!
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I saw this pop up on my local Regal's calendar and went from thinking I'd never heard of it to swearing I had posted the trailer on here previously. Not the case, but now that this is on my radar, I'm kind of dying to see it.
I feel like the release timing for this one was perfectly staged - people who saw Nosteratu and want more historical Horror can plop their arse in the theatre again and see what looks like a wicked combination of The Witch and Cold Skin.
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Short week. Here we go:
Nice to have a short week at the moment. I've got a lot of other reading to do.
Featured in Jenn Wexler's The Sacrifice Game, now an annual Christmas watch for me. Check out L.A. Witch's Bandcamp HERE. I've just started exploring their stuff and I'm digging everything I hear. A little Mazy Star, a little Classic Rock a la The Door, maybe some Cults, but all distinctly L.A. Witch!
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A VERY solid film. I really dig Jenn Wexler's The Ranger as well, but this one has such a turn to it, just blows me away every time.
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K gifted me Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House for Christmas, and after starting it the other day, I'm already more than halfway through. Fantastic!
I don't want to say too much, just that if you've read and dug any of Grady Hendrix's other novels, you'll definitely dig this. If you're unfamiliar, I'd still say start with My Best Friend's Exorcism - which remains one of my all-time favorite novels - but this is also very good.
This particular track is old now - dropped way earlier in the year. That said, I think it's the most recent release from James Kent under his Perturbator moniker. Recently, I went through a big jab on Kent's music and got to thinking that, damn, it's been a minute. Lustful Sacraments dropped in 2021 and Final Light in 2022, so we're due. Then I saw this:
I immediately checked the Blood Music website and found it is down for updates, so that tells me the new record is coming SOON! Perturbator is by far their biggest name - not to take anything away from the other wonderful artists on Blood Music - and it makes sense they would reconfigure the site to accommodate a drop this big. So I'm checking daily and wanted to pass the tip along.
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This week's pull is on Thursday, and it's the biggest one in a while:
New book. Not sure I'm picking this up until I hold it in my hands, but I dig the concept and the art. Here's the solicitation blurb from League of Comic Geeks:
"A tormented Oklahoma sheriff and a scrappy photojournalist hunt a serial killer at the height of the dust-choked Great Depression.
In the darkest days of the Great Depression, death stalks the Dust Bowl. As towering dust storms blast the parched Oklahoma panhandle, farmers try to flee the failing town of New Hope, but no one gets far. Battling his own demons, Sheriff Meadows teams up with Sarah, a traveling photojournalist, in a desperate fight to stop a serial killer on the loose — the Death that rides the Dusters."
I'm not going to lie; part of my interest in this one stems from its similarities to a project I previously worked on with Jonathan Grimm. Our never really caught hold of our creative energies, but I'm curious as hell to see someone else work with the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Scott Snyder and Attila Futaki kind of took this road with Severed - which is excellent - but the setting in that one wasn't quite the character it sounds like here.
Being that DC books come out on Tuesday, I actually messaged Rick's to see if this came out and it did! Great excuse to re-read the first two and hopefully prep for the fourth and final book, which, as of now, has no solicitation date.
Things are heating up in the Battle for Springfield. We have mutated Cobra Vipers of all varieties, ninjas, robots - after avoiding the absurd for so long, Larry Hama has embraced the SciFi potential of this property with open arms without sacrificing his real-world military background, and it works!
Issue one was pretty cool, so I'm in on this Norwegian Black Metal Horror/Thriller. We've got a dad female fan/photographer, a nefarious band, and a whole lot of Vengeance coming down through the woods.
I think I said the same thing last month, but what the hell - HOT ROD! I felt a little guilty not putting Void Rivals in my Top Ten Comics of 2024 list, but Transformers and Cobra Commander won out on what is at least a partial nostalgic advantage. Still, this book is probably my favorite of the Energon Universe, and it just keeps getting better as those properties we love are enmeshed in Kirkman's new addition.
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Tonight! All my dodging and weaving to avoid Robert Egger's Nosferatu trailer pays off when I plop my arse in the theatre and watch it for the first time (pretty sure there will be a return engagement):
My excitement for this one is not super high, not because I think it will be anything short of extraordinary, I'm still just a little baffled Eggers chose to follow The Northman with a remake. That said, my guess is Eggers's version will be less a remake and more his own thing.
Playlist:
Steve Moore - Christmas Bloody Christmas OST
Windhand - Eternal Return
Windhand - Eponymous
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
Mr. Bungle - Raging Wraith of the Easter Bunny
Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley
Dreamkid - Daggers
Perturbator - Bloodlust (single)
Health - DISCO4 :: Part 1
Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments
Cult of Luna - Vertikal I & II
Final Light - Eponymous
Rodney Crowell - Christmas Everywhere
Calexico - Seasonal Shift
Steve Moore - Mind's Eye OST
Steve Moore - VFW OST
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
Love the way this deck looks under different lighting.
This spread is basically a cautionary tale - watch out for dogmatic principles and false prophets who appeal to emotion.
From Calexico's EXCELLENT Seasonal Shift record, which Mr. Brown gifted me several years ago, and which has become a seasonal favorite. Have a wonderful holiday, secular or not, and remember! It's about Peace, Love and Happiness. As in, EVERYBODY'S happiness.
Last week, Mike Shinabargar and I released a video outlining our five favorite comics of 2024. I wanted to break that down and round the list out as a comprehensive Top Ten because that's how deep the Letterman runs in my DNA.
10) Andrew Krahnke's Bloodrik
A modern comics success story, I loved Andrew Krahnke's Bloodrik and am dying for more. A "Barbarian Survives in the Prehistoric Wilderness" story a la old-school Krull or Conan, Bloodrik is Krahnke's labor of love, taking it from a self-released project to a three-issue mini from Image.
9) Energon Universe: Transformers
Daniel Warren Johnson, Jorge Corona and their crew have, in just over two years, given us a brand new all-time Transformers continuity. Let me make my preferences plain: We have the original Transformers cartoon and movie (I really only care about the post-movie seasons), we have the original Marvel comic continuity developed by Bob Budiansky and later taken to glorifying new heights by Simon Furman, and for a looong time that was it. I didn't go looking for more, either. IDW fired off countless iterations that I had no interest in.
Robert Kirkman's Energon Universe, however, is more than Nostalgia Fuel - it's proof you can revitalize nostalgic properties for a new age, taking the benefits of creative hindsight and applying them to make something new and exciting. This Transformers book does that, and I've loved every minute of it so far. Aso, SO much purple!
8) Epitaphs From the Abyss
Earlier this year, seminal indie stalwart Oni Press acquired the rights to and relaunched EC Comics. Instead of just banking on the nostalgia and notoriety of the label, they actually approached this in a very smart and refreshing way. There are A LOT of Horror Anthologies on comic book stands these last few years, and none of them do the kind of justice to the format Epitaphs does.
7) Michael Walsh's Frankenstein
I've missed Michael Walsh's Horror Anthology The Silver Coin immensely this year, but having his take on my favorite Universal Monster acted as a nice reprieve from the Walsh-Withdrawal. I love Frank, both the original Novel version by Mary Shelley and the James Whale Hollywood version from the 30s, so seeing Walsh play in this world was wonderful. The four-issue mini-series retells the Whale version, adding new layers of depth by showing us the stories of several of the body parts that went into making the monster and how the acquisition of those pieces affected characters we had not been introduced to until now.
6) Phantom Road
The "Gottasee" of this book is staggering, and it's on bloody hiatus as Lemire starts up Minor Arcana and confesses he's burnt out on Horror.
AHHHHHHHH!!!!
Seriously, we know so very little of what is happening in Phantom Road, but everything we've seen is bonkers, so I really hope Mr. Lemire and artist Gabriel H. Walta return soon.
Finally, here are my top five, which I'll list here but leave the video to explain (it's all pretty self-explanatory by this point, anyway).
5) Cobra Commander
4) The Deviant
3) Houses of the Unholy
2) Principles of Necromancy
1) Jeff Lemire's FISHFLIES
Finally, a special shout out to Chip Zdarksy's Z Comic News, one of the most delightful surprises in years!
After posting about Genevieve Artadi last week, my friend Garrett introduced me to the band Knower. While yes, that is a terrible name, this is a fantastic band, and Ms. Artadi provides vocals. I really don't know anything beyond the two tracks Garrett shared with me so far, but I'll be digging today.
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I wasn't interested in this one until I saw John Carpenter is doing the score.
Not a bad looking flick by any means, and odds are I would have gone to see it in the theatre just to go. The movie pass really makes that a no-brainer. But A24 has achieved that same connotation with me that Touchstone Pictures did in the 80s and Fox Searchlight did in the 00s - they have such a specific tone MOST of the time that they begin to feel as though there is an A24 checklist behind the production of each one. Again - there are definite exceptions to this. Most of their BIG releases still feel unique and important. But a lot of the 'fodder' that fills the calendar between those releases feels... rote. Will that be the case here? Well, I don't know, but I'm down for a non-Carpenter film scored by Carpenter, so I'm in.
Playlist:
Final Light - Eponymous
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Willie Nelson - Pretty Paper
James Last - Christmas Dancing
Various - I'll Be Home for Christmas
Calexico - Seasonal Shift
Rodney Crowell - Christmas Everywhere
Bing Crosby - Merry Christmas
The Bangles - All Over the Place
Dreamkid - Daggers
The Smashing Pumpkins - Luna (single)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Extra Acme
Nat "King" Cole - Christmas with Nat King Cole
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
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Today's card for study is VII: The Chariot.
Here's what I have written in the Grimoire for this one:
"The Chalice/Grail - origin of ideas (mushroom???) origin of Imagination and with it, Creativity."
This card represents a new idea or path as the outcome of an ordeal. Whereas The Fool is fresh, this is a beginning rooted in what came before, hence the chariot imagery. A vehicle, which can also be a door or method of transport. Seeing this means you should get excited, but you should also recognize that change is coming.
Crowley offers this, which I quite like:
"The canopy of the Chariot is the night-sky blue of Binah <THe Great Mother>. The pillars are the four pillars of the Universe, the regiment of Tetragrammaton. The scarlet wheels represent the original energy of Geburah which causes the revolving motion."
It's good to encounter passages like this in The Book of Thoth, as so much of it is nonsensical, Crowley talking a lot to convince everyone how much he knows that we don't. He also equates this card to Cancer, and while I don't traffic in Astrology, he continues, "Cancer is the cardinal sign of the element of Water, and represents the first keen onrush of that element." This fits my own interpretation, so I wanted to double-down and mention it here.
Working on a short story on Nosleep that has a very "Satanic Panic" vibe, so allow me to perpetuate that mood with some classic Mercyful Fate!
The first chapter of I Found Evidence My Parents Were Members of a Satanic Cult is up HERE. Check it out and throw up the horns when King belts out those infamous lines:
Copulation in the night
Two shadows upon a grave
Screams of pleasure,
Screams of pain
Young lovers you must be insane
It's desecration of souls
In their holy lair
So I say again stay away
It's desecration of souls
No on-the-grave fuckin' in my story (yet), but this definitely helps offset the otherwise all-encompassing Christmas vibe as we celebrate the holiday early this Saturday.
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I had not heard of Grafted or Co-writer/Director Sasha Rainbow before Bloody Disgusting posted about it yesterday, but without even watching this trailer, I am in!
It's no secret that Body Horror was already on the rise as a subgenre when Coralie Fargeat's The Substance blew everyone's doors off earlier this year; will it go the route of the Zombie and Possession themes and proliferate to an unsustainable level? Hopefully not, but if that happens, it's still a ways down the road. Until then, let's sit back and watch through our fingers as filmmakers bring us
Playlist:
Pixies - Doolittle
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Grandy Ducy - Petite Fours
Nothing - Guilty of Everything
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Suicidal Tendencies - Eponymous
Genevieve Artadi - Forever Forever
Zeal & Ardor - GREIF
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (Suspended in Dusk Version)
