Some bands I can only listen to in the fall. Play them for me in the spring or summer, and they sound ridiculous. Pretentious, even.
But once the temperature drops, the days get shorter, and everything starts dying? Suddenly, they’re brilliant.
So, naturally, I’ve been listening to a steady diet of Misfits, Samhain, and Rudimentary Peni (especially Cacophony), which might be one of the most perfectly autumnal records ever made).
Apparently, autumn has a very specific soundtrack, and much of it involves corpse paint, questionable religious imagery, and folk who probably own too many candles.
Finished reading: Hard Boiled by Frank Miller 📚 I haven’t read this since it was released in 1990. God Lord, what an experience! It’s a cyberpunk Where’s Waldo chock-full of ultraviolence, pornography, urban decay, and pop culture, illustrated by uber maximalist Geof Darrow. There’s so much detail that I’d need a magnifying glass to take it all in, and each page was nearly headache-inducing. Can’t wait to read it again!
Finished reading: BLACK SWORD HACK by Kobayashi 📚 I’ve been re-reading the Elric series and tempted to run a RPG inspired by the series. Black Sword Hack seemed like a good place to start.
Finished reading: Polostan by Neal Stephenson 📚 I added this book to my stack a year ago, not knowing much about it except that one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson, wrote it. I still have no idea what the series is about, other than that this novel introduced us to our protagonist.
