I love reissues of classics, even though I don’t buy a lot of them. At one point, realizing I had over 13 copies of 1984 and limited space led me to getting rid of most of them.
Anyway, I like “The Willows”, but haven’t been made a superfan of Blackwood yet. He sets fantastic moods, but the characters and the sentence-to-sentence writing often feels clunky, like an ok episode of The Twilight Zone.
My caveat: Blackwood wrote rooms full of books and I’ve barely made a dent. I may be surprised later.
I’m bad at TV. I generally don’t watch episodic shows, but I couldn’t stay away from Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities for long. I haven’t finished the run, which ends with what seem to be two overall favorites. To its credit, I’ve heard a variety of different answers for favorite episodes. A good sign.
I’m enjoying it, but I’ve always loved horror anthologies (one of the few genres that I will check out in episodic form). They are notoriously uneven and so is CoC. For me, some episodes have been too long and some too short. The strengths of the series so far have been the acting, characters, and effects (mostly).
Scum was the album I heard that redirected my head and ears from metal and prog perfectionism to grittier textures and rawer recordings. It’s still a favorite of mine. Napalm Death’s newest album, Resentment Is Always Seismic, might be one of my newest favorites.
I finally got to see them live this week. Sure there were older folks like me there and some old friends (who were great to see!), but I was happy seeing how young the crowd was. I don’t know if people can relate to the times when you tape-traded to hear new rap songs because they weren’t on the radio, much less in a store. Death metal went through a similar process. It was hard to find this stuff for a long time.
Many of the younger folks seemed to know the opener Frozen Soul, who were fantastic, as was Brujeria.
Plate Six was/is a local rock band that I’ve always liked, but they split up around the time I moved to town. I’ve missed the reunion shows. Anyway, they put out a great ep covering songs by another local, Dan Sartain.
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Love Frozen Soul. Their album is super-focused and relentless!
The Autopsy on the Cabinet series was written by the GREAT Michael Shea, if you haven’t check out any of his work. H was an excellent writer!!!
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They were great live! They had the pit doing push-ups at one point, which cracked me up!
That episode is a favorite of mine so far. If I’ve read him, it’s likely in the many anthologies I’ve read, but the name isn’t familiar. Will check his work out! Looks like lots of weird fiction in his bibliography!
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I’d highly recommend his short story collection Polyphemus and his novel The Extra. Wild, violent, vivid and weird, with characters that live on society’s fringes.
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And his fantasy work (which can be quite horrific) with the fantastic character Nifft The Lean!
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