Monday, December 02, 2013

When mind escapes flesh

My bed has turned into an intermittent black hole. It started a month ago when a carefully rolled joint just disappeared. No puff of smoke, no blinding flash of light. Just gone. That was followed by 2 pairs of scissors, a CD of Undying Inc's debut ep, my earphones and a couple of james lee burke books. All vanished without a trace. A ghost with a penchant for origami and slam or a homicidal spirit biding its time in the company of some burke. That Undying Inc CD is enough to drive the living to murder. Don't know what effect it'll have on the dead.

I'm irritated a lot. Annoyed and impatient with people. Unwind Inc. A weekend without work after a long while. Show tomorrow and practice at some point today. Been a while. Should be good. I'm not confident about Hangman. So set list is Weird Tales, I, Zombie, Book of the Fallen and Hangman.  Yippie! I should come up with easier parts to sing. So finally, 30 minutes on stage. I, Zombie and Weird Tales. Haha! I, Zombie came out really well. Best live version yet. Weird Tales was a bit off in the first half but settled down nicely after that. Overall, a patchy set but a few people liked us.

I wish they'd kill Mickey already. The scene with Jon Voight and Elliot Gould was absolutely brilliant. Right down to the hallucination. Generally well written and acted but James Woods is unnecessary and very, very hammy. Overall, Ray Donovan is worth following. Season finale tonight and it was pretty good. James Woods got a bullet in the head, Mickey's still around and Ray got lucky.



The first time I heard "for god your soul" I was 16. Impressionable age. Autopsy had already happened but when Shirinc went "For god your soul... For me your flesh", something just switched on in my head. John Tardy on Infected and Chris Reifert on An act of the unspeakable were the 2 other defining moments of death metal vocals growing up. So thanks to this wondrous thing called YouTube...






4 comments:

kvrdreich said...

You're clearly over 30,and presumably a stoner in a not so fancy job, which i bet doesn't pay very much.
Do these things bother you? do you suffer from (or have previously suffered from)existential anxiety?are you bitter?
do you perhaps regret not having pushed yourself to do better?
I've been reading you blog for quite some time now,and i sense a kind of cynical melancholy.
I'm sorry for being so blunt.

reeferjournal said...

wow. scary shit. You got a few things right although I've been in quite a good pace for the last year or so, mentally. Happy with my job and life which is quite rare for me. Existential anxiety was a part of my everyday life for a while but I think I've crossed that bridge. As for being bitter, no. Cynical melancholy is probably a fair description.

Thanks for reading. Always a pleasant surprise. :)

kvrdreich said...

May i ask how exactly you got over your existential fears? i suffer from a kind of chronic,virulent cynicism and apathy,and for the past year or so with cosmic insignificance and meaninglessness.

reeferjournal said...

I had a few friends and my family that were very supportive but mostly the choice to get out of bed every morning is yours alone. Took a long while but was worth it.