2018: June 14th

Cracked this out yesterday. First time in a long while. Always really liked this album and this song.

New Drinking, Fighting, F*&king, and Crying is up HERE to read.

Playlist from June 13th:

Les Claypool - Of Whales and Woe
Deafheaven - Honeycomb single
Deafheaven - Canary Yellow single
Corniglia - Eponymous
Junior Jr. - Obligatory Demo
Nabihah Iqbal - Weighing of the Heart
Lustmord - Dark Places of the Earth
James Brown's Funky People - Part 3

No card today.

2018: June 13th - More New Deafheaven

After having our new bed delivered and waiting all night to sleep on something my feet don't hang off the end of, I knocked out for a paltry 3 hours and 57 minutes, only to lay awake until finally calling a fail and getting up for the day at just before 2:00 AM.

Sucks, right?

Well, I've been rewarded by a nice morning writing, some strong coffee (much more of that to come today) and... new Deafheaven!



I haven't listened to this one yet - the album is out in just 1 month on Anti- so I'm debating on whether or not to save Canary Yellow for within the context of the entirety of the new album, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love. Gonna be really hard to wait, though...

New issue of Garth Ennis and Goran Sudzuka's A Walk Through Hell today:

Finally finished Ash Vs. Evil Dead season 2 yesterday (I know, I know. What took me so long? I bought the fucker on Blu Ray the day it came out last year, watched a few episodes and then I don't know what happened. Anyway, started a rewatch last week, loved every second of it).

I'm plowing through Laird Barron's first Crime Novel, Blood Standard. I love all of this man's work - he's become my favorite working author. And Blood Standard is no exception - it is a fantastic romp through the fringes of the detective genre. Mr. Barron has all the nuts and bolts of what's expected down, so it's not that he's reinventing the wheel. But he maneuvers the tropes in a way that lays a solid claim to them. I'm not the most versed in the genre - my friend Joe knows a hell of a lot more than I do, but in our conversations, and in being a fairly wide-read person in other regards, I know the Ps and Qs of the detective story. Mr. Barron gobbles them up and spits them back out in such a surefire, staccato fashion that the book is an absolute joy to read, especially with such an interesting setting (Upstate NY by-way-of Alaska) and such a joyously violent protagonist (Isaiah Coleridge), who while a man well-versed in destructive forces, generally avoids them by being an unbelievably well-rounded and, thus real character. When Isaiah does snap though, wow.

Playlist from 6/12/18:

Sys Exe - Downride
Lebanon Hanover - Let Them Be Alien
Chris Connelly - The Tide Stripped Bare
Junior Jr. - Obligatory Demo
Rammstein - Herzeleid
Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Zombi - Shape Shift

Card for the day:

The completion of potential. The last card in the deck, so to speak, so a form of completion. Also, it'd be nice if the same literal interpretation that happened with Luxury yesterday happened with this one today.

2018: June 12th

I saw Hereditary last night. OUTSTANDING. See it in a theatre.



Playlist from June 11th:

Danzig - Danzig 7: I Luciferi
Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Melvins - Stag
Terminal A - Fruits of Gomorrah E.P.
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
Goblin - George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead OST

Not to interpret too literally - although sometimes it's good to not shy away from doing that with the cards - funny I should draw this the day our new bed is being delivered.

2018: June 11th

My friend Duff and his band Junior Jr. released their first proper offering, Obligatory Demo, this weekend and it is fantastic. There's a rough-around-the-edges quality that might lead some folk to dismiss this out of hand, however - give it a few spins and you'll see, the song writing and performance are such that I expect Junior Jr. to evolve into a massive, massive band.

Playlist from 6/10/18:

Danzig - Danzig 7 I Luciferi
Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
Lost Highway OST
Rammstein - Herzeleid

Card of the day:

Netzach, one step down the tree from the complete beauty of Tipareth, so there's longing, and maybe anarchy. And maybe that fits my mind frame at work right now, so I'll count this as a warning to curb my destructive thoughts.

2018: June 10th: A Banner Year for Horror

It's really shaping up to be a banner year for horror at the theatre. These are the two trailers that made my week last week, the Halloween was a complete surprise, I expected to not give a toss; add to them the surprise of the Suspiria trailer, and I'm psyched (this of course, doesn't even take into consideration all the gooey goodness that Beyond Fest will undoubtedly bring to LA in the fall. Yay!





Playlist from June 9th:

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night
Otis Redding - Tell the Truth
Ghost - Prequelle
Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
David Bowie - The Next Day Extra E.P

2018: June 9th

Well, Stranger Fruit by Zeal and Ardor is shaping up to be the best album I hear this year; pretty sure this is one of those albums that each song will take a turn rotating in as my favorite. Well done lads (and lady), can't wait to see you at the f*&king ROXY in October. Moving up.

Playlist from 6/08/18:

Ghost - Popestar E.P.
Lauryn Hill - MTV Unplugged 2.0
Underworld - 1992-2002 (disc 2)
Underworld/Iggy Pop - Bells and Circles
Ghost - Prequelle
Zeal and Ardor - Eponymous E.P.
Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit

Card for the day:

Hmm...

2018: June 8th

New Zeal & Ardor today (I think; the album has not become fully available on Apple Music yet):




Playlist from 6/7:
Underworld - Pearl's Girl Single
Underworld - 1992 to 2002, disc two
David Bowie - Black Star
Venue - Desireena E.P.
Algiers - The Underside of Power

Card of the day:

Ahh, my absolute favorite card in the deck. This always connects me to a higher ideal, separates out the micro from the macro. And I definitely think I needed that this morning!