Showing posts with label John Coltrane. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Coltrane. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Blue Train

 

Continuing the more mellow side of things, here is what I would easily consider my favorite Coltrane song from my favorite Coltrane album.




NCBD:


A new Miskatonic one-shot I'm pretty excited about, complete with another great cover by Jeremy Haun.


The final issue of the "1981" storyline, and one of my favorite covers of the year.


It felt like this fifth issue of the new, ongoing X-Men title took forever to come out, so I guess that means I'm hooked. 

Short week, which is good, as I have to pick up issues 8-10 of Sword, which I started reading a little over a week ago and can't get enough of:


Magneto isn't exactly part of this team, but he's played a fairly big role in the series so far, acting as a sort of Krakoa liaison to the S.W.O.R.D. space station, where Abigail Brand - formerly of Alpha Flight - runs a sort of Galactic Embassy/Outpost/First Response/R&D team that has played an insanely interesting role in the furthering of the new Mutant agenda. The thing I think I'm liking best about this new X-endeavor is just how conniving the leaders of Krakoa and their most trusted personnel are. I've never been a Xavier or Magneto fan, but remove the altruism and set them side-by-side in their thinking - which never was that different to begin with once Charles' ridiculous altruism is removed - and they're extremely likable as puppeteers. And Abigail Brand fits in with them on that all too well, as there are some mighty sneaky maneuvers she's been pulling on behalf of the effort, and they make for extremely interesting reading. This "game of thrones" approach to the X-characters is a far more interesting way to utilize these characters and their decades of pre-existing continuity than the constant battle-friend-battle format that the books have been seized in for about twenty years too long. 




Playlist:

Zombi - Liquid Crystal
Opeth - Deliverance
Emilil Levienaise-Farrouch - Censor OST
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Vol. 1
Raspberry Bulbs - Before the Age of Mirrors
Giant Dog - Pile
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Black Prism - Eponymous
Sleep - Dopesmoker

Monday, April 2, 2018

2018: April 2nd, 5:07 AM

This song. Wow.



Playlist from 4/01:

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Card of the day:

Two, as one drifted from the pile while I shuffled and made itself known, so to speak:


Ace of Swords was the actual card I pulled. This card is BREAKTHROUGH and I feel that's a direct reference to the fact that in all the busyness yesterday, moving and cleaning and whatnot, I actually managed to get a final edit done on two more of the seven stories for the anthology.


This seems to be piggybacking off the last two pulls in some weird, reverse energy fluctuation. I had the Six of Wands and the Seven of Wands, a influx of energy and the expenditure of that energy, respectively. Now I have the beginning of that triumvirate, where the energy amasses. Fits, if I'm going to make a push this week to finish the editing and the first issue of Parish Fen, which is exactly what I'm going to do, all while hopefully only working about 45 hours between now and Friday and taking an actual weekend off.

Friday, December 25, 2015

John Coltrane - Blue Train


My favorite Coltrane album. My favorite Jazz album for that matter. Fits this time of year like a glove. Put it on, sip some tea or coffee and maybe read a short story. However you do it, enjoy.