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Terror - Still Suffer

Another belter of an album. Just bought a copy from Spindizzy.

Alice Cooper - Love It to Death
Alice Cooper - Killer
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire

Next off the shelf is Albert Camus "The Plague".  No idea what I am in for here but we'll see.

I read The Plague during the first lockdown. It's very good, but probably wasn't the ideal book to be reading for my mental state!

Jesus, 2020 was a bizarre year. I spent most of it drinking too much, listening to power metal while gardening, and reading weird horror like Thomas Ligotti. Good times   

Boards of Canada released a new video yesterday. Hopefully there's a new album on the way. 🤞

Just finished up Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin. It was grand. I love watching crime TV shows but the genre never really does it for me in book form for some reason.

You might fare better with an author like Derek Raymond. He wrote the Factory Series which could be described as noir, but they're much bleaker and more existential than most novels from that genre. How The Dead Live in particular is phenomenal. The prose is spell-binding.

GBH by Ted Lewis is another one worth checking out. He wrote the Jack Carter books, but GBH is more like a Camus novel set in Lincolnshire.

Savage man, thanks for the tips. I'll keep an eye out. By the Factory series does that include Wasp Factory? I only know that book by name.

Edit.  I see that Wasp Factory was by Iain Banks. The only novel of his I've read was The Quarry and it was total dogshit.

Here's a good article on Derek Raymond and his Factory novels: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/doors-closing-slowly-derek-raymonds-factory-novels/

The Wasp Factory is great, a warped Gothic fucker of a novel. It's a lot different to his other work as far as I'm aware - The Player of Games is the only other book of his I've read.

Just finished up Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin. It was grand. I love watching crime TV shows but the genre never really does it for me in book form for some reason.

You might fare better with an author like Derek Raymond. He wrote the Factory Series which could be described as noir, but they're much bleaker and more existential than most novels from that genre. How The Dead Live in particular is phenomenal. The prose is spell-binding.

GBH by Ted Lewis is another one worth checking out. He wrote the Jack Carter books, but GBH is more like a Camus novel set in Lincolnshire.

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes

Inflammable Material is vicious as fuck, and better than the debuts by the Pistols and the Clash. Jake Burns sounds like a possessed pit-bull.

Nobody's Heroes is a belter of an album as well.

The Malcolm reboot is very good. The original series dragged on for way too long, but the reboot is only 4 short episodes.

Started watching Veep on HBO Max. Absolutely brilliant, although the current escapades in the White House make it look quaint by comparison.

David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed

DOD in the top 5 is ludicrous, but at least we can all agree that Killers is their best album.

Immortal - At the Heart of Winter 

I watched Thoughts & Prayers, a HBO documentary about the training that takes place in schools to help teachers and kids prepare for an active shooter. The documentary is equally ludicrous and terrifying. We're shown kindergarteners undergoing an active shooter drill which is heartbreaking, and in another scene a salesman displays items that his company have designed including a bulletproof skateboard and bulletproof backpack.     

I've got one on the Shankill Butchers lined up as well that I've heard is fairly harrowing.

Is that the Shankill butchers book by Martin Collins? I got about half-way through that, but I couldn't stomach reading about the depraved deeds those animals committed. Eoin McNamee wrote a brilliant novel loosely based on the butchers called Resurrection Man. 

Dragged Across Concrete. Usually I can't stand Vince Vaughn, and this was no different. Damn poor movie, not a patch on Bone Tomahawk. Felt like Matt Walsh had written the script half the time.

I didn't mind this too much,though I also can't stand Vince Vaughn, including in this. That scene of a full 2 or 3 minutes of watching him eat a sandwich was bizarre.

Watched the Peaky Blinders film last night, having never watched an entire episode previously. Surprisingly dull stuff, and it def hasn't prompted me to check out the series as a result. Can't stand Barry Keoghan and his presence is enough to put me off watching something at the best of times.

Can't stand him either. He just seems like a bad actor to me, yet he's highly regarded. Every accent he does just sounds fucking weird. Even Irish and NI accents. So gives off a slight impression of being an arrogant twat, based on nothing other than my assumption...

Keoghan was terrible in Top Boy. He had a weird traveler accent, like John Conors after suffering a stroke.