Shaolin Wooden Men - Mirror Ball of Death

Holy cow! The Loved Ones - a fantastic Australian horror flick my friend Missi showed me this evening.

H.P. Lovecraft Film Fest Los Angeles 2013

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Tomorrow at the Warner Grand in San Pedro. Cannot wait. Dagon and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, along what will undoubtedly be some amazing shorts and great vendors. Tickets available here.

The art for this amazing flyer by the way is by one Jason Bradley Thompson

The Ocean Has a Video and a Film (NSFW)

I totally missed out on the fact that there is a version of The Ocean's Pelagial record that comes with a film shot to the length of the album (a 53:13 long song they were unfortunately forced to break into pieces when I saw them live at Summer Slaughter). Apparently I also missed the fact that they released a music video a few months ago for Bathyalpelagic II. A big, hearty thank you to Metal Sucks for bringing all this to my attention. Read their articles here and here.

The Only In Utero Review You Need

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Great review of the reissue of an arguably classic record by Chester Whelks on Joup.

New Luscious Jackson Record!!!

Another insanely busy week - so busy that I almost completely forgot that I read about a new Luscious Jackson record on Brooklyn Vegan (their article on it right here) at some point earlier in the week! How the hell could I forget about that? Good thing the weekend sometimes allows me to collect my thoughts and re-examine a lot of the stuff I read in quick, passing bursts throughout the week when I can steal a moment or three.

When Luscious Jackson called quits it hurt. And even though we got the wonderful Jill Cunniff solo record City Beach there was no way it was going to be enough to quell the sting from losing the band that put out Fever In Fever Out and Electric Honey, two fine examples of main ingredient funk, synth and straight up pop. The news of a brand new album is pretty much from out of left field to me and makes me very, very happy.

The new Luscious Jackson album is titled Magic Hour and it will be released on November 5th via their own City Song record label.

Ryan Black's Tension #1 Rocks!

I do a post Tension #1 release interview with Ryan Black in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup. (essentially a sequel to my interview with him from May which can be found here).

The book is a fantastic independent debut. There's espionage, reality-based super powers (main character draws Dark Matter for his power! How awesome is that?), accommodating stewardesses and dirty black ops government agencies!

Sunday It All Comes Apart

I don't want it to but I need this to end. It is devastating me. However, at the same time the writing is so good that I'm pretty sure I can actually feel myself becoming a better writer just watching it.

I'm going to cry.