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Hope you're doing well, Jon and have great holiday season!

The Vampillia collabs are some of my favorite Nadja related releases, couldn't resist the tape set.  Thanks for the post Don!  100% would've missed this.  I'd also somehow missed Artificial Act of God, so that's a double plus for me!

All 3 Nadja/Vampillia collaborations are going to be released on cassette in a box set - $35 + $9 shipping limited to 100. AB said a few would be on their site but recommended ordering from badmoonrising at Bandcamp 
On mobile today - hope this link works. Imperfection and Perfect World are always in rotation. 
Nadja/Vampillia Trilogy Box set
 

Nothing really posted about this one yet, and I added it in a post about one of their last albums from a few years back, but maybe it's better here:
I just discovered Plebeian Grandstand have a new album and bought a copy immediately after listening to just a couple tracks --year end material here!
http://plebeiangrandstand.bandcamp.com/album/rien-ne-suffit
http://www.debemur-morti.com/en/plebeian-grandstand/2235-plebeian-grandstand-rien-ne-suffit-galaxy-vinyl.html
in usa: http://meteor-gem.com/products/plebeian-grandstand-rien-ne-suffit-2xlp

Finally managed to watch a few movies :
 
Double Walker - This was decent, but a bit forgettable.   The filmmakers seem competent and I thought the lead was good.  I'm not quite sure if the movie made sense by the end or maybe it didn't seem to have any clear rules and that led to some confusion on my part.  I was expecting it to be a bit of a horror comedy based on the poster, but that isn't the case!
 
The Laughing Dead - I had so much fun with this one.  Unfortunately, not a whole lot happens in the first half.  Once you get to the second half though, it's a bunch of ridiculous, gooey practical effects and it goes big until the end.  I'm actually surprised this isn't well known, seems like it has cult classic all over it.
 
The Deep House - I gave up 50 minutes in.  It was so bad that I didn't want to sit through the last 20-30 minutes.  Dialogue is so awful and it's pretty boring.
 
I've also enjoyed the 5 episodes of Chucky I've seen.
 
 

A few things of late:
Ghoul - Indian limited event series based on Arab folklore. A little odd that this was made as a series since it’s only 3 episodes and totals right around a 2.5 hour run time, but other than that note this was great. Each of the episodes fly by, the cast and script are solid, it feels actually original vs derivative, and I am of course a sucker for folklore based horror. I don’t see a ton of talk about this ever which is a shame, as this is one of the better original horror offerings up on Netflix.
Dr Brain - this one is over on Apple+ which sucks - I’ve got a free one year subscription from when my work upgrade my iPhone (😂 - it’s because the phone is tied to my Apple ID) - because this is super great so far, but will likely have only a limited audience due to channel. It’s a mystery/detective show with some horror/paranormal (/sci-if) elements written and directed by Kim Jee-woon who made I Saw the Devil / A Tale of Two Sisters / a number of other films I haven’t seen that I need to remedy. It’s only 3 (of 6) episodes in so far, new episodes come out each Friday, but it is great as of the halfway point.
Other movies I saw recently: Hall (good but too short / more a good idea than a fully fleshed out movie); Found Footage 3D (pretty basic found footage movie with a handful of meta elements that work to various effect; the climax is a bit bonkers as it’s pretty slow burn until the last 15 minutes and then it just abruptly goes nuts); The Gate (dumb + fun 80’s horror - Steven Dorff’s acting debut! - that is tame enough to be a decent family film / kid-intro to horror); Alone (not the awesome/tense-AF American film from last year, the Thai follow-up film from the directors of Shutter. Shutter was better but this was still fun).
Hope y’all have a great holiday and eat yourselves dumb on Thursday! Got my vegan meal on order and am looking forward to making pumpkin pie and eating the entire thing + a whole tub of coconut cream cool whip all by myself (which is my thanksgiving tradition 😂)!

Second pressing of Panopticon - ...And Again into the Light.  2 variants
 
https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/products/panopticon-and-again-into-the-light-2lp-cd-pre-order

Second pressing of Panopticon - ...And Again into the Light.  2 variants
 
https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/products/panopticon-and-again-into-the-light-2lp-cd-pre-order

I enjoyed Kuso and also completely agree with it being hard to recommend.  Definitely a strange piece of cinema!  I can't imagine watching it a second time, but I'm onboard if he decides to do another movie.

Randomly decided to watch Kuso on Shudder this morning.  I remember hearing about it years ago and how weird and gross it was and finally felt like checking it out.
 
It was as good as something like that could be I guess haha.  Felt like a David Lynch/Adult Swim fever dream.  Definitely was pretty gross but I’ve seen quite a bit of fucked up stuff in my years of watching horror so it probably wasn’t as crazy to me as it might be to others.  Hard to recommend something like this but I guess check it out if you’re a fan of David Lynch and Adult Swims random gross stuff.

Awenden / Feminazgul 12" split.
 
https://tridroid.bandcamp.com/album/awenden-feminazgul-split

When I bought my tape deck about 10 years ago, I found this to be pretty useful.  Should still be relevant.  I've got a Nakamichi DR-3 that I love.
 
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/gdead/taping-guide/part1.html

Bliss Fields (Iris) - Slowly, Forever 
https://acrobatunstable.com/shop/0pl5yeakbdrro94xwcccihdutmjxbl
2 Variants.
No brainer..easy order!!

When I bought my tape deck about 10 years ago, I found this to be pretty useful.  Should still be relevant.  I've got a Nakamichi DR-3 that I love.
 
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/gdead/taping-guide/part1.html

Think some folks here will dig this
 
https://fotoform.bandcamp.com/album/horizons

Some new Nils Frahm coming; deep cuts, old tracks and unreleased materials in a double album. Super excited for it. No PO for Vinyl yet except for Amazon, which, pass, so waiting for a legit PO.
https://www.stereogum.com/2166253/nils-frahm-all-numbers-end-old-friend-new-friend/music/

Managed to make it a little past 31 this month.  Didn't get to everything I'd hoped, which seems to happen every year. 
 
1. Final Destination
2. Audition
3. Suspiria
4. Skinned Deep
5. Bubba Ho-Tep
6. The Night House
7. V/H/S 94
8. The Addams Family
9. Final Destination 2
10. The Funhouse
11. Little Shop of Horrors - Director's Cut (1986)
12. Mother of Tears
13. Cujo
14. The Dead Zone
15. Wrong Turn 2
16. Final Destination 3
17. Halloween Kills
18. House
19. Critters 3
20. Titane
21. House of Wax
22. Maniac
23. The Final Destination
24. Scream
25. Evil Dead Trap
26. An American Werewolf in London
27. Final Destination 5
28. The Return of the Living Dead
29. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation - Director's Cut
30. Friday the 13th : Part VII The New Blood
31. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 : The Dream Master
32. Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
33. Hellraiser

Oh, I mean I actually saw actors perform the musical live.

It's such a great movie!  
I love the attempt to move away from Michael Meyers - the first two films taken together are a perfect beginning to end experience, I can absolutely see why they'd think to just move on and make it more anthological - but of course I also love more Michael Meyers.

Silver Shamrock!  I love Season of the Witch so much!  I really dug the small nod to it in David Gordon Green's Halloweens.  Such a weird swing and miss trying to make Halloween an anthology franchise.

Celer fans, watch out
https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/discourses-of-the-withered-remastered

Yeah, last I saw it was still in the works, but that was a while back.
 
Had a pretty fun movie week (with the exception of Halloween Kills, which I dislike more every time I think about it)
 
15. Final Destination 3
16. Halloween Kills
17. Hause
18. Critters 3
19. Titane
20. House of Wax
21. Maniac
 

It's getting to be that season... love them. Perfect for cassettes too.

New You'll Never Get to Heaven
 
https://youllnevergettoheaven.bandcamp.com/album/wave-your-moonlight-hat-for-the-snowfall-train

Digging this
 
https://kaelanmikla.bandcamp.com/album/undir-k-ldum-nor-urlj-sum