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  1. Microwave cauliflower + Mozzarella + Dandelion tea + L-theanine + Paul Giger’s Schattenwelt -------------------------------------------- Coffee comedown on a rainy Saturday
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    The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian. Includes my two favorite Conan stories, “Tower of the Elephant” & “Queen of the Black Coast.” Some really great Lovecraftian bits in these, too: “Conan felt his soul shrivel and begin to be drawn out of his body, to drown in the yellow wells of cosmic horror which glimmered spectrally in the formless chaos that was growing about him and engulfing all life and sanity. Those eyes grew and became gigantic, and in them the Cimmerian glimpsed the reality of all the abysmal and blasphemous horrors that lurk in the outer darkness of formless voids and nighted gulfs. He opened his bloody lips to shriek his hate and loathing, but only a dry rattle burst from his throat.” Fucking metal. Next up for me is a long overdue revisit of the Gormenghast trilogy, which is bloody magnificent.
  3. I’m sorry, dude. I woke up missing my own grandmother just this morning.
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    Thanks guys! Hadn’t heard of The Fisherman; will definitely find meself a copy of that one. Not too optimistic about Adam Nevill based on the excerpts I just read, but I’ll give him a shot. About halfway through Powers of Darkness (the translator-tweaked Dracula I mentioned above). Turns out it’s really different. Lots of details and weird occurrences that give it sort of an Irish/Scandinavian folklore feel, to my mind—nothing heavy-handed, just reads a bit less modern Gothic in tone (Henry James, Mary Shelley stuff). It’s also got loads of footnotes which are occasionally interesting but mostly not. Good for a dreary evening or two in any case.
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    Alright fellas, help me put together a kickass pile of spooky books to read this autumn. I dug out Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf last night (it was next to a bunch of old Goosebumps books—hell yeah), and before that I reread Alan Moore's From Hell. Plus I got this thing called Powers of Darkness, which I guess is what happened when Bram Stoker's Icelandic translator for Dracula decided to blood-and-gore things up a bit. So that could be fun. or crap, but maybe fun crap. Suggestions? I hunger for fresh blood
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    I grabbed The Box Man at the library yesterday on the strength of this recommendation. For some reason I was expecting something more… I dunno, like, Ishmael Reed’s Hocus Pocus-esque, or something—maybe just because of seeing the interspersed news articles & images when I flipped through it. Still, I’m intrigued enough to push on with it, unlike Franzen’s Purity, which I sat and read about a third of before putting it back on the shelf. Boooring. Recently read: Rendezvous With Rama (Clarke) — SF classic. Groovy cover art, too. Riddley Walker (Hoban) — One of my favorite SF books of all time. I actually read this twice in a row this time, cover to cover. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen & The Moon of Gomrath (Garner) — YA fantasy. Absolutely crammed with wizards, dwarves, goblins, all that good stuff, plus they’ve got some truly frantic, frightening sequences for children’s books. TBH though I only reread these because I’ve misplaced my Taran Wanderer series books (Alexander), which I adored as a kid. The Invention of Morel (Casares) — Really good read, though it’s kind of hard to know whether to attribute its awkwardness to deliberate stylistic choices or naive/outsider artistic status on the author’s part. Weird & cool, & for whatever reason reminded me that I’d like to watch The Lobster again. Next up: The Death of a Nobody (Romains), Locus Solus (Roussel), & Voice of the Fire (Moore), if I can get my hands on a copy.
  7. Very last few seconds of this track sound rather familiar…
  8. ...Kevin Costner drinks his own pee around 2050. He'll be 95 in 2050 so I expect nothing less. Let’s be fair to Kevin though, guys: NestleCorp will have owned all potable water for years by that point, so we’ll all be drinking our recycled pee by then
  9. Still hands-down my favorite audio delivery/storage mechanism: Charmingly cheesy & plasticky, without being fatally delicate (viz. vinyl) Portable, but not too portable (pro tip: cassette Walkman is for rollerskating, CD Walkman is for rollerblading) Easily manipulated & recycled Cheap as hell Ideal fidelity for 80s thrash metal, shoegaze, & pop (incidentally also the most abundant genres to be found in discount cassette bins) I generally record all my own stuff onto cassette & only later record to digital (initially because of limitations of my shitty setup; later out of habit & simple fondness) Only working part of my first car’s stereo system anyway When they inevitably go bad, the results are awesome or hilarious instead of frustrating (again, viz. vinyl/CD/corrupt digitals) I actually just scored a Technics RS-B18—along with an SA-200 & an SLD-5—for free last week!
  10. btw since i last posted in this thread i picked up an 85 pink trek that i had converted to single speed as my day to day commuter. nearly 2k miles on the pink pony looks like fun! I’m constantly torn between upgrading parts (nicer wheelsets, stems, seats, etc.) & worrying more about my baby getting vivisected while locked up somewhere. So I still roll the same shitty stock wheels & blister my butt on a sub-par seat; at least that way I can leave it outside while I’m at work or whatever.
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    Yeah? I enjoyed A Frolic of His Own. Been meaning to get around to JR or Recognitions. Right now it’s Graham Greene’s End of the Affair & random poetry to decompress from a couple endless editorial slogs. I discovered Zbigniew Herbert recently via this collection & some of it makes me very happy. I definitely prefer watching an artist fail in hopeless, naïve earnesty & being able to relate over the alternative of being successfully razzle-dazzled but coming away feeling more or less empty.
  12. The hypnagogy is strong with this one
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    I finally got around to reading some Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky & have thus far found it exceedingly enjoyable. Next on my bucket list is to try (yet again) to make it through Tristram Shandy in one go.
  14. Looking forward to hearing this, although I’ve liked each LP of his less than the last. Agreed with fumi that X22reme or whatever is not great; the video makes it seem even weaker imo.
  15. Personal Rock is a Personal Favorite of universally beloved & respected WATMMer Doorjamb. (L-F-J-R is pgood too)
  16. What an interesting point. (about perceived duration) Agreed, it’s very much ‘of a piece.’ I would actually say the same of Geogaddi too, though there it’s less apparent at first because: (1) so many tracks are perfectly capable of standing alone as well as meshing with the album proper, and (2) TH’s cohesion is on par with a cinematic score; the nature of its tightness is dramatic/illustrative, as though it were conceived as complementary to some absent visual or narrative corollary piece. Whereas Geogaddi’s cohesion is paradoxically grounded in a global abstraction, an omnipresent sense of doubt or disbelief akin to magic (n/either angelic n/or diabolic). TH coheres like an operatic suite; G hangs impossibly together like a fever dream.
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    coincidentally I just started reading Count Zero last week, seems ok so far. Tanks guise. Picked up MLO at a garage sale last week, but reckon I’ll hunt down CZ first. Gibson’s not a priority at the moment anyway; this time of year it’s all about the old school spooky: Poe, Stevenson, Lovecraft, James, De La Mare… Stuff to listen to haunted house SFX by
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    one of you sci fi geeks please advise: having read Neuromancer, would I be foolish to skip the middle one before reading Mona Lisa Overdrive?
  19. really digging this[bandcamp]2074117152[/bandcamp]
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