Dispatch from the Neo-Gilded Age

I've got the songs I wanna put on the next podcast lined up, just haven't pulled the trigger because I've been in vidja game mode. Put down Pillars of Eternity and have logged some serious hours over the past couple of weeks on Conan Exiles. Keep getting my ass kicked and having to start over from scratch. Super-fun game but very frustrating. Downloaded the Rise and Fall expansion for Civ VI, but wasn't impressed with it at all.

Last weekend I did deep cleaning on a lot of my classic rock records, replaced the paper sleeves and gave them new outer plastic sleeves. I got an autographed Johnny Otis album!

Been rocking The House of Love's second self-titled album (they have three self-titled albums, apparently) on my streaming service. Never got into 'em until recently, but certainly in my wheelhouse of what I enjoy:

Listened to R.E.M.'s Document tonite. A political album that rings as true now as when it was released in 1987.

Oh, a couple of weeks ago saw The Jesus Lizard in Austin. One of the finest shows I've ever attended:

Watched most of Batman: Bad Blood cartoon on Netflix today. Cool stuff.

Bought some new canvases and painted something to get out my feelings on the fucked up appointment of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. That is some illegitimate bullshit. My painting is a little extreme and I'm not ready to share it.

The Gilded Age only lasted about thirty years.

Hopefully I'll feel like crankin' out a show tomorrow.

You ever seen Blood Freak? That's what we're watchin' right now.

Me, Me, Me: Some Things I'm Into

If I did a blog post on what I am up to other than new music from Bandcamp, I'd have a lot more content. Like for instance, I make memes of petulant child-presidents:

And I paint:

And I have my own little shitty recording project:


...and I play games on Steam (currently caught up in Pillars of Eternity), and watch movies and some TV (mostly Frasier re-runs over and over again but I did finish Altered Carbon and recently started Xena the Princess Warrior) and read books and comics. I saw the new The Predator Movie. CNQ Broseph-in-Chief Gary Dowell sums up my feelings on it on his long-running movie blog, movieink.net. Though the review does not mention my feelings for Olivia Munn, which are strong. She's great in the movie, holding her own with the strongest of the male leads (Thomas Jane, Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, in that order, IMO), and also I love her. Is that weird.
Augusto Aguilera was good too as one of the crazy vets fighting the Predator. The movie was funny and gory but the third act dragged.

I just bought a copy of Fear, the Woodward book, and enjoying it so far. Surprise, the Prez is a piece of shit.

I really like Bandcamp, I think that's obvious. Like, CNQ wouldn't be the same blog without Bandcamp. And over the years the music site has evolved to have some taste-makery type stuff to click on their home page, so it sometimes makes me wonder, what am I for? But when the splash on their homepage is something about Cosmic Black Metal, I'm pretty sure I still serve a purpose, even if I don't post about my other interests.