Carrington exquisitely captures the moods of her paintings in her stories–disturbing, playful, strange. They read a little like Kafka’s parables or the dreams and nightmares of Angela Carter’s characters. With a symbolic density equal to poetry, well worth re-reading.
If you liked Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, then I highly recommend The Cat (1992). Lam Ngai Kai directed both and each is genre-hopping, maniacal fun. What seems like a variation of Poe’s “The Black Cat” turns into a multiple alien showdown on Earth. The cat is a general in one of the armies. With outrageous and goopy practical effects, you also get moments out of French New Wave.
Fantastic 80s metal with some Iron Maiden influences. About half of the album feels like a collection of epic end credit songs.
I finally got around to Pure Adult’s release from earlier in the year. I liked the singles, but hadn’t gotten to the whole record. I love the song structures here. Parts come and go and there are not traditional transitions. They do this well. I’m not sold on all the lyrics yet.
The Musicalia playlist is now part of John King’s The Drunken Odyssey. You can check it out there.
Stephen McClurg 