Five For Friday: Get you are spook on
October 15th, 2015
Hideous reader, have you not noticed the leaf corpses strewn on the pavement? The stygian dark outside, even though it’s just past tea time?
Aye tis come again. Death season, when women with warty noses gather to mix their potions and slather their pungent unguents pon their flight rods and cats slink in and out of the shadows who art their kin…
Sorry, went a bit Gaiman there. Here’s five links gonna shit you up bruv. Halloween innit.
1. Saving the toughest for first: Current 93 doing Thomas Ligotti’s heat death of the universe poem I Have a Special Plan for This World.
This is really horrid, I’m sorry.
Be as strong as you can.
It won’t make any difference.
2. Perfect slaughtering season fare: Praeterlimina – a journal of daemonology, magic and the human condition.
Smart motherfuckers having hyperstitional fun, like MR James gone digital.
3. And this? Well this is just a cosy cuddle by comparison isn’t it, a wonderful reunion with an old friend?
Well no, no it’s not really. Go to 28:26.
4. A Batman horror comic I did a while back . The only comic I’ve ever tried to make I think, weird for someone who likes comics so much…
The Mindless Lads were kind enough to pimp it for me a bit at the time, so apologies if you’ve seen it on here before. I would’ve been doing it around this time of year a couple of years ago, maybe that’s why I just remembered it. I think it’s actually not that bad – loads of mistakes obvs, but it does an alright job of providing a bat-channel for some of the black hole / speculative realist / super-nihilist stuff I was reading at the time. It’s definitely a bit grim, with the amateurishness hopefully contributing to rather than detracting from the intended, alienated affect that earns it a spot here. That and I can’t think of anything else.
5. Finally, an old favourite. Traditional at this time of year because that brilliant Madrid sunshine is quite the tonic.
The most Ballardian film ever, anticipating his Mediterranean/riviera period by a couple of decades, but with a lovely EC Comics kick in the finish.