Drinking w/ Comics #43 - Special Guest Dusty Grave

Co-owner of Batcave Records, Singer for Stellar Corpses, secret member of Bat! whose debut album is forthcoming on Cleopatra Records (when they're not fighting the forces of darkness!) - Dusty Grave joins us to talk Dylan Dog, Cemetery Man, The Sandman Universe, Unholy Grail and much, much more!

New Music from The Ocean - Permian: The Great Dying

I don't know what's more disturbing, the fact that it's actually been five years since the last album from The Ocean (they released a split 7" with Mono in 2015), or all the changes that have taken place in my life since. Either way, this track is MUCH anticipated and proves this band will never let me down. You can pre-order the new album, Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic on the Metal Blade Records site HERE. Release date November 2nd.

Props to my friend John for tipping me off to this release. Made my night!

New Windhand Single Diablerie

Windhand dropped the second single off the upcoming Eternal Return, out 10/5 on Relapse. You can pre-order this HERE. I for one cannot wait!

2018: September 6th

I am in love with this White Lung album! They used the track Wild Failure in that movie Excision I wrote about yesterday and I've been listening to the album since.

NCBD yesterday:

And, what I forgot came out and will no doubt have to hurry to grab a copy of:

Playlist from yesterday:

Reverend Horton Heat - Martini Time
The Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
Stellar Corpses - Respect the Dead
White Lung - Eponymous
Ennio Morricone - Black Belly of the Tarantula OST

I watched David Lynch's Inland Empire last night for the first time in probably over ten years. One of the most incredible theatrical experiences I've had when it came out back in 2007, I've never made it through the entire film on DVD, simply because it is long, fragmented, and requires very specific viewing criteria for me, criteria that usually means I end up falling asleep because of my early schedule. That criteria is

1) Absolute Darkness
2) Stoned
3) As few interruptions as possible

This usually means I have to watch it late at night, and I just don't make it through. Inland Empire really shines in a theatre, but at home it's a bit arduous. That said, it is a wonderful film, amazingly dream-like, and after reading this awesome little interpretation, I am contemplating another viewing sometime within the next week.

Card of the day:

Again, let's go face value and say this means I'll finish the editing on DwC 43 today.

2018: September 5th

This Yonatan Gat record is completely blowing my damn mind! Thanks to Mr. Wellman for the hesitant recommendation. I Love it!

Watched Excision on Shudder last night. Jesus, the description Shudder uses is perfect, "...blackly comic high school horror film that feels like Welcome to the Dollhouse if it were directed by David Cronenberg. Even the trailer is insane:



Richard Bates, Jr. has three movies and I love all of them.

Playlist from 9/03:

Etta James - Eponymous
Them Are Us Too - Remain
David Bowie - Black Star
Radiohead - O.K. Computer
Yonatan Gat - Universalists
Airiel - Molten Young Lovers
King Woman - Doubt EP
Them Are Us Too - Amends


Playlist from 9/04
Alice in Chains Rainier Fog
The Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
Danzig 666 - Satan's Child

Card of the day:

I can take this one at face value today. Feel really good. The best in a while.

2018: September 3rd RIP Conway Savage

Long-time piano player for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Conway Savage passed away earlier today, so I thought this performance was doubly in order.

Playlist from 9/02:

Stellar Corpses - Respect the Dead EP
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time

Card of the day:

As the final card in the suit, the Princess can be seen as the end result of the transformation begun in the Ace. Aces are always breakthroughs to me, in the case of Cups an emotional breakthrough. I feel like this describes where I am; I messaged a friend I haven't seen in a few years out of the blue earlier just to tell him I love him. My cup runneth over with emotion. But it's not schmaltzy or crippling; instead, I my emotional battery feels supercharged, while physically I remain somewhat drained and limited. My daily stretching - which falls by the wayside often of late - still tells me the damage from pulling my Hamstring almost a year ago has still not completely healed and it limits me. This of course causes unsought reflections on aging and mortality, which of course probably explains my current wealth of emotions.

2018: September 2nd

Thanks to Jeff at the Comic Bug I found Vaguess. As you can no doubt hear from the above, they are awesome. Guilt Ring will definitely end up on my favorite albums of the year.

Long day of work and sinus infection yesterday. This iteration of the infection proved what the previous one (last year) suggested: the Z-pack antibiotic no longer works. The doctor I saw at the urgent care the other day backed this up, saying he has seen approximately 40% resistance to azithromycin. As a back-up, he prescribed me a secondary prescription of doxycycline hyclate. All this just further proves a theory I have had for about fifteen years now - being that bacteria lives generations for every day we do, eventually it will outrun our defenses and conquer us. The widespread proliferation of antibacterial hand sanitizers and a quick-to-subscribe attitude to antibiotics has expedited that outcome, so be prepared. And if you can't seem to beat your sinus infections, use doxycycline hyclate - until that no longer works.*

I watched a 1971 Italian Giallo last night called Black Belly of the Tarantula. Talk about an awesome title! Directed by Paolo Cavara and scored by none other than the great Ennio Morricone, I loved the flick and intend on hunting down the score on vinyl. It is gorgeous! Here's a taste:



Playlist from 8/31:
Secret Chiefs 3 Traditionalists - Le Mani Destre Recise degli ultimi Uomini
Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Roxy Music - Eponymous
Windhand - Grey Garden (single)
Kyuss - And the Circus Leaves Town

Playlist from 9/01:

Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
Yonatan Gat - Universalists
Vaguess - Guilt Ring
The Veils - Total Depravity
BeNNi -The Return
Chris Connelly - Artificial Madness
Bowie - Stage
Bowie - Outside

Here's a card I haven't drawn since I began doing these daily pulls. See how intoxicating the visuals are, with their soft pastels and robust female figure? The surreal aspect, where her lower half almost looks more like a mermaid's fin than legs? Of the Swan - which Crowley refers to as a Pelican, and although that may have been his intent, Lady Frieda Harris most certainly painted a swan - tending its young is motherly. I'm interpreting this as my nurture of my ideas, which are essentially like children to me.

*Yes, I realize I am both lambasting and advocating the use of antibiotics here. I only use them for sinus infections, which I get about twice a year.