I was holding off on listening to the singles The Afghan Whigs have released from the upcoming How Do You Burn, however, I'm seeing them this coming Saturday night, so I broke down and started getting to know them. Being that the album drops this Friday, September 9th, I'll have all day to listen to it. So far, really great stuff. Not sure it will top In Spades, but that would be quite the feat.
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Friday, September 2, 2022
Linger Fickin' Good, Baby!
Getting psyched to see "The Revolting Corpse" at the end of the month, courtesy of Mr. Brown. I'm not entirely sure who will be on stage, but either way, it's sure to be amazing.
Like Marabou, I've had this one for over a decade. After this, I'm thinking I may re-read Welsh's 2006 novel Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chiefs, which I haven't read since it came out.
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K and I wrapped up Evil season 3 on Paramount Plus the other day. As always, this show leaves an ENORMOUS void when it's off. I have a feeling the next season may be the final; either way, with the low-grade anxiety Netflix is resonating with its coy attitude toward Sandman's renewal, it's good to know that the next season of Evil has already been announced.
Next up, Feud!
We'd been meaning to watch this since it aired back in 2017, and our timing proves fortuitous, as a quick look-up on IMDB surprised us with the listing for an upcoming season two slated for next year.
Read:
I finished Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares. Jesus. This was easily his darkest book, and that's bloody well saying something. Still, I loved most of it; it always feels like slipping into a favorite Marathon Shirt when I tackle one of Welsh's novels, and despite several absolutely soul-searing scenes, this was no exception. Next up, Welsh's long-time friend Sandy McNair's tell-all book Carspotting: The Real-Life Adventures of Irvine Welsh.
Playlist:
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Charles Bradley - Changes
Cocksure - Corporate_Sting
The High Confessions - Turning Lead Into Gold with the High Confessions
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Willie Nelson & Leon Russell - One For the Road
The Black Angels - Eponymous EP
The Black Angels - Death Song
The Afghan Whigs - How Do You Burn? (pre-release singles)
The Afghan Whigs - In Spades
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
The Bangles - Different Light
Joseph Bishara - Malignant OST
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Melvins & Lustmord
It was not until just last week that I realized Melvins had collaborated with Lustmord on an album. THIS is mind-blowing stuff.
One of my most anticipated series since the previous issue. This one is such a great heir to the Neil Gaiman/Vertigo legacy.
Being that issue 3 just came out last week, I'm not entirely sure this will land today. We'll see. Either way, this series is worth the wait.
I feel like it's been quite some time since the previous installment of West of Sundown. That's not really true, I think I've just, you know, moved across country and completely restarted my life since issue 4. Can't wait to read this next chapter.
Probably my favorite cover with Scott Summers on it EVER.
NCBD:
We start this week's NCBD with the final issue of Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood.
I Love this series. When they first announced they were doing one of these BW&B for Moon Knight, I was surprised. I'm hoping they do some other left-of-center characters, and that it wasn't just the Moon Knight Disney+ series that spurred this particular title. I'd love to see a Taskmaster or even, hell, a Wilson Fisk, Kingpin BW&B. Come on Marvel, let's see what you got!
Read:
There was a time when I bought every novel Irvine Welsh released the day they came out. That stopped after his 2012 Skag Boys. Not because I don't love Welsh's work. On the contrary, his prose is a HUGE influence on my own, and being that I had shifted to working on a genre series, I was afraid that influence would hinder my completion of the first Shadow Play novel. Shadow Play ultimately took another seven years to finish, starting and re-starting it. In between, I cranked out a lot more genre work, always keeping Welsh at bay.
Last Sunday, the damn burst.
I'm a saver - if I discover an author who already has a few novels on the shelf, I'll always save one. So was the case with Welsh's 1995 novel Marabou Stork Nightmares. Well, after learning Welsh had just released a follow-up Ray Lennox novel to Crime with The Long Knives. I realized I've now missed five Welsjh novels including this one. To quote Lebowski, "this will not stand!"
So I cracked open Marabou and cannot put it down.
It's crazy to think this was Welsh's second published novel. The narrative is written in the same kind of experimental fashion that Filth is - I don't want to try and explain it here, but needless to say, Welsh finds a pretty insane way to move between main character Roy Strang's coma-narrative and his real life and what he hears while he's inside the coma, bubbling up just below the surface of waking. Which Roy does not want to do. I love Welsh's work so very much, I can't believe I've been away from it this long.
Playlist:
Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Megadeth - Rush in Peace
Melvins & Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire
Anthrax - Attack of the Killer Bs
Patty Smythe - The Warrior (single)
The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Paleozoic
Scott H. Biram - Nothing But Blood
Amigo The Devil - Born Against
The Mysterines - Reeling
Young Widows - Settle Down City
Breather Resist - Charmer
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Bound Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
The way that I will choose to accomplish something will usher in notable change, part of which will be condemnation by someone I respect.
I've got a BIG new project in the works, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people - not necessarily people I know - will give it a big eye roll just for what it is. Unfortunate. "The work that transforms the medium."
I hope.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
My Best Friend's Exorcism!
Some old Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for this Saturday morning. Live from 1986, no less!
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I have been waiting for this one for quite some time:When I first read Grady Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism, back in 2018 or so, I immediately bought it for like ten of my friends. I love that book - at the time I finished it, I ranked it as my third favorite novel, behind Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park. I don't know if that ranking would hold up, but maybe. It's a fabulous flick, and with Freaky's Christopher Landon Producing, I have a very good feeling about this adaptation.
Playlist:
S4lem - King Night
S4lem - Yes I Smoke Crack EP
Revolting Cocks - Linger Fickin' Good
Lustmord & The Ocean - Primal (State of Being) EP
The Ocean - Heliocentric
The Ocean - Anthropocentric
The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Lard - Pure Chewing Satisfaction
Lustmord - Hobart
Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
Metallica - Garage Days Re-Revisited
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Distant Sky (Live in Copenhagen)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks
The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Pink Mountaintops - Peacock Pools
Deftones - No Koi Yokan
Ghost - Mary on A Cross (slowed + reverb) single
The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir
Brenton Wood - Brenton Wood's 18 Best
Seasurfer - Zombies
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Disassociation
Card:
Late night Thoth Spread:
Pulled this while up late, finally attempting to get a small NFT venture off the ground. Immediate recognition, but I don't know anything about this world. I need to lean on my good friend Billy Big Beak in order to navigate what's happening. So the reading is pretty clear - what can look like success can actually be a load of BS.
BE CAREFUL.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
New Dead Cross!!!
More new Dead Cross! I'm digging what I'm hearing from this second album more than I did the first, can't wait to hear the entire thing, which is out October 14th on Ipecac Recordings. Pre-order a copy HERE.
Watch:
This dropped yesterday:As far as Teaser Trailers go, I think this is perfect. Of course, there's the part of me that wants to see more, but really, I'd rather wait and get it all at once in my first viewing. Hey, it's gotta be better than most of the Dimension sequels, right? Let's hope this 20th Century Fox/HULU pairing the Mouse has going will turn out another unexpectedly fantastic sequel, like Prey.
Quote:
"Having made the world lousy, imagine ye are of significance to Heaven?"
- Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos: The Sermon of the Hypocrite
Playlist:
Soundgarden - Super Unknown
Various - Every Day (Is Halloween) Playlist: Small Cat, Big Yard
Suburban Living - Always Eyes EP
Suburban Living - Cooper's Dream EP
True Widow - As High As the Highest...
Nirvana - With the Lights Out
Nirvana - Lithium single
Suburban Lawns - Eponymous
Ministry - Moral Hygiene
Ministry - Everyday (Is Halloween) The Lost Mixes
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Small Black - Cheap Dreams
Card:
I returned to the Raven Deck this morning, and The Hermit sprung out at me:
So I have some work to do, and isolation will definitely be a part of it.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
No Devotion For Mr. Gibson
A little old-school Chicago Industrial to kick things off today.
Watch:
This is my favorite thing I think I've ever encountered on the internet. No BS. A HUGE thank You to Seth:
I literally just want to watch this over and over and have Bobby Fingers tell me everything is going to be okay. Seeing this, and sending it over to my former bandmate Joe.Baxter, I can't help but feel like when we finally try and finish recording all that unfinished Christian Fisting material, we should dust off the old "Mel Gibson's a Cunt" song we had, written in the wake of that 2006 arrest that is being modeled here.
NCBD:
It's Wednesday, and that means new comics are on the shelves! Here's what I'm picking up at Rick's Comic City!
Street-level Spidey on a Goblin hovercraft? interesting. Love this cover.
The penultimate issue of Deadly Class!
I definitely liked the twist Marvel's Judgment Day took at the end of the second issue. Hoping this continues to expand that, instead of focusing on what we already know has happened. I get that in the onset of this series beginning, we only really got a 'thin slice' of the siege on Krakoa and holocaust on Arrako, but showing us all the nooks and crannies of those battles is getting a touch old. Issue 2 moved things forward, but then Death to the Mutants moved it back again.
This book is fantastic but truly independent, so there have been a lot of scheduling delays. I'm hoping it actually lands today.
LOVING this new Shaolin Cowboy series. Geof Darrow is an amazing artist, and he's really cooked up an "Anything Goes" world with this one. I pulled out my copies of the previous series and realized the titular character died at the end of it. This means Darrow has been - as he should be - doing whatever the hell he wants time-wise with this odd, post-apocalyptic mash-up series. I need to pick up the collected first series of this and read them all straight through. Not that you have to, because, like I said, I love that Darrow appears t be jumping around.
I'm not 100% sold on this big, TMNT 'Event,' but I'll hang for a while.
Playlist:
Various - Every Day (Is Halloween) Playlist: Small Cat, Big Yard
Various - Every Day (Is Halloween) Playlist: You, The Knight, and the Music
Leaving Time - Eponymous EP
Revolting Cocks - Big Sexy Land
Pailhead - Trait
Melvins - Stoner Witch
Various - Snatch OST Playlist
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
David Bowie - Station to Station
Card:
Pulling out the Raven Deck for today's reading:
Some isolation will do me good today. Hopefully finishing something I've been working on.
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Something In the Dirt
From the forthcoming album The End, So Far available on September 30th. You can pre-order the album HERE. I like the video a lot more than I like the song, but I've always been hot/cold with these guys. Still, they've evolved over the years, and that definitely means something.
Watch:
The teaser trailer for Benson and Moorhead's new film Something In the Dirt dropped yesterday. Here'sn our first look:I really can't wait for this one. These guys are Aces in my book.
Playlist:
Various - Every Day (Is Halloween) Playlist: Small Cat, Big Yard
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet (Live)
Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown
Forhist - Eponymous
Somnium Nox - Apocrypha
Fen - Epoch
Card:
Lots of big ideas, but I have to narrow my focus for a bit to accomplish what I want.
As usual, the cards are pretty spot on. I'm writing again - been going to local coffee shops after work. I have quite a few short stories on deck, and part of the "following the inner voice" here is figuring out which ones I want to allocate for the free Kindle book I'm aiming to publish shortly before Halloween, and which ones I want to submit.
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