Been drinking, felt the need to post. I was going to watch an Irish Horror Flick tonight, instead I think I'll round out the evening reading old Garth Ennis Hellblazer issues.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Happy St. Paddy's
I won't be able to celebrate appropriately until Saturday. Even then, this is the second year in a row I can't gather my movie night squad and feed them Corned Beef, Whiskey, and Phil Joanou's Irish Mafia epic State of Grace, which I watch every year. Still, they're in me heart, eh?
NCBD:
Well, this week is a pretty small haul, but it's an issue I've been looking forward to:
Also, this one came out last week, and I've had it on-hold with Atomic Basement:
Playlist:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love INThe Neverly Boys - Dark Side of Everything
Electric Youth - Come True OST
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
Genghis Tron - Pyrocene (pre-release single)
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon (pre-release single)
Tomahawk - Business Casual (pre-release single)
Tomahawk - Dog Eat Dog (pre-release single)
Card:
Mixing disparate ingredients to bring something new to the table. Committing to follow it through. I'm not quite sure how to interpret that at the moment, however, it may have to do with podcasting and my continued inertia/anxiety about attempting to bring DwC back to life. Plenty of ideas, and maybe the ones that I should be looking at stretch the pre-existing format as far afield as possible.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Neverly Boys
I received a surprise early birthday package from my good friend Mr. Brown yesterday. Not only was Huey Lewis' newest record inside, but also Dave Svitek of TVOTR's new band, The Neverly Boys, which I had completely forgotten about. The album Dark Side of Everything is FANTASTIC, and I can't stop listening to it!
Thanks, J.B.!
Thanks, J.B.!
Watch:
Bloody Disgusting ran an article about Director Patrick Rea's new film I Am Lisa HERE.You had me at "Werewolf Revenge Movie."
Playlist:
Electric Youth - Come True OST
Blut Aus Nord - 777 Cosmosophy
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Zonal - Wrecked
Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild
Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio - Lo Essential
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Neverly Boys - Dark Side of Everything
Card:
Victory, which tells me that, yes, I've finally finished a short story I've been struggling with since 2018! That feels good - a nice palate cleanser before switching back to Shadow Play.
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Dreams Come True
I'll admit, I love the song, but don't plan on watching the video. As she gets more clout behind her, and Still, any new music from Meg Myers is a welcome, joyous thing these days. Her aesthetic, instrumentation, production, and of course, songwriting, are top-notch and always hit me super hard, reminds me a bit of how Garbage hit me the first time I snagged my kid really listened to them.
Watch:
After renting Come True on Prime last night, Anthony Scott Burns just became one of my favorite directors. I can't recommend this one enough - imagine Dreamscape married with Beyond the Black Rainbow and that will get you in the ballpark, but Burns' style is all his own, and it's fucking glorious. I just posted the trailer a day or so ago, so here's what will no doubt live on as an ICONIC track from the soundtrack by Electric Youth and Pilot Priest:Upon finishing the film, I immediately shot over to Waxwork Records and pre-ordered on gorgeous Cyan Blue with Red and Yellow Splatter vinyl:
I will be 100% shocked if Come True doesn't end up in my top five movies of 2021. I cannot wait to buy this film on Blu Ray.
Playlist:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Radiohead - OK Computer
Meg Myers - SorryMastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Ministry - Psalm 69
QOTSA - Villains
Sam Cooke - One Night Stand! Live At the Harlem Square Club, 1963
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash
The Replacements - Tim
The Raveonettes - In and Out of Control
SOD - Speak English or Die
Soul Coughing - Irresistible Bliss
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Electric Youth - Breathing OST (For a lost film)
Electric Youth - Come True OST
Dream Division - Beyond the Mirror's Image
Card:
Three of Disks - Too much work of late, it's left me unable to function in my non-work life, so I'll take this as a nod that the hard times are over and things will even back out.
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Godflesh - Mothra
As I mentioned the other day, that algorithm on Apple Music has sent me into a spiral with a band I love but haven't listened to in a while. I feel a full-on Godflesh bender on the horizon, and I welcome it with open arms.
Watch:
The trailer for Anthony Scott Burns' new flick Come True dropped recently, and it looks creepy as all hell.Ah, you had me at "A Neon-Soaked Cinematic Nightmare." Burns' name is one I marked after his segment in the Horror Anthology Holidays, which seems to be perpetually available on Netflix if you haven't seen it. His "Father's Day" is great, as are most of the others (Kevin Smith's marked the first Smith project in a loooong time that I enjoyed.)
Playlist:
The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
Ghost of Vroom - Ghost of Vroom 2 (single)
Helmet - Meantime
Godflesh - Pure
Drab Majesty - Unarian DancesDrab Majesty - Careless
Deth Crux - Mutant Flesh
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Card:
Definitive rulings aren't easy, but they're better for everyone. I tend to want to take on a lot of work for other people, but that's not always good for them and usually not good for me. A friend asked me to edit the manuscript for her first novel, and what I found as I worked through the first chapter - roughly 4K words - was a simple edit wasn't possible without getting into re-writing. I dove in and then checked myself: that's not going to do either of us any good, especially her. She needs this experience because as tired of the novel as she probably is at the moment, reworking it will only make her better. This isn't something that easy to tell someone, however, after assuring her I'm in to help for the long haul, in any way I can, I think it's for the best.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The Irresistible Bliss of Jolene's Cake
I bought a new phone this past weekend. It was time. One of the new features on Apple Music that is cribbed from Spotify is when an album you're listening to ends, they throw a bunch of songs at you that the almighty algorithm finds based on what you just listened to. This is a little cool and a little lame. Lame, because Nick Cave dredged up a bunch of really bad stuff the other day, cool because after I spun through Soul Coughing's Irresistible Bliss this morning, Apple went into Cake's "Frank Sinatra". One taste of that track and there was no way I wasn't going all the way through Fashion Nugget, one of my favorite records from the 90s. Here's the thing though. I count myself a Cake fan because of how much I love this record, but I'm not really familiar with their other stuff. So when this particular version of Nugget ended with a live version of "Jolene", I was floored. This track is amazing. Anyway, I'll finally be digging into some more of Cake's discography after this, so I'm pretty excited. It's not every day I get to have a band from my past feel so new to me (I think that's why I play so coy with some bands in the first place).
NCBD:
Only a few titles this week on NCBD, but that's fine. Last week was a killer.
Watch:
I caught David Keating's Cherry Tree on Shudder yesterday after work and enjoyed it quite a bit. Pretty cool little flick, but then these smaller, English/Irish films tend to be my jam.The make-up at the climax has a definite Nightbreed-era Barker feel, which was cool and added to an already very cool atmosphere.
Playlist:
Soul Coughing - Irresistible Bliss
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Der Butterwegge - Super Optimiert
Blut Aus Nord - 777 Cosmosophy
Blut Aus Nord - 777 The Desanctification
Godflesh - Pure
The Bangles - All Over the PlaceButthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Card:
Rewards for creativity and perseverence.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
The Bookhouse Boys
From the hallucinatory reverberations of the sax that opens this track, to the seething keyboards that close it, here's an entry from the original Twin Peaks series first OST that often gets taken for granted. Plus, the Bookhouse Boys!
Watch:
A few nights back, K and I finally got around to watching the copy of Criterion's 40th Anniversary, 4K restoration of David Lynch's The Elephant Man. This proved to be a deeply emotional experience, not just because of the movie itself, which is an emotional juggernaut, but also because of Criterion's loving restoration of the film and DP Freddie Francis' realization of Lynch's glorious Black and White vision.This is one of Lynch's films I had only seen twice before: once just after High School, a few years after I got into Twin Peaks' original airing, and once when I bought the DVD released in the early 00s. Neither viewing proved super memorable to me at the time, and now, I can't imagine why that would be.
Playlist:
ACDC - Highway to Hell
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Carnage
Alan Vega - Saturn Strip
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski - Polish Night Music
Aphex Twin - Syro
John Carpenter - Lost Themes III: Alive After Death
Ilsa - Preyer
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks OSTCard:
As a side note, if you're reading this and you pre-ordered Murder Virus back when I originally announced it here, please allow me to ask a favor of you. Go back in, cancel that order, and then re-order the book. Due to a printing error with the proofs I was sent, the early pre-orders will be getting an inferior edit of the book, thus I'm trying to catch the few that may have gotten through and get those folks squared away with the definitive version.
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