"Are there any more big rivers between here and Breckenridge?' 'Oh no, just the Colorado!' THE BIGGEST FUCKING RIVER I'VE SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! He said dripping with water." Cannibal! The Musical (AKA Alferd Packer: The Musical) Dir: Trey Parker (AKA Juan Schwartz) 1993

Happy Halloween and Happy 30th anniversary to the movie that makes our hearts as warm as a baked potato, Cannibal! The Musical!!🥳🍖☃️🐴

If you haven't read Jason McHugh's "Shpadoinkle: The Making of Cannibal: The Musical", it's a must if you're a SP/Matt and Trey fan, and/or for those going into the entertainment industry. He provides excellent advice on how to best execute these goals, especially how cold calls, "fourth walling it" and crashing the party (literally and metaphorically) can eventually open up some unexpected and amazing doors! If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, amirite? And THEN "crash" the party that's through that door!😄 And if you need a meeting spot, Red Robin is always a good place to start!😉🍟

I just bought that book about Cannibal the Musical and I AM SO EXCITED‼️‼️

I wanna know all the shenanigans that took place on set eeeeee

taken from the official orgazmo website via archive.org

“The funny thing about this story—leading into the whole Electric Apricot production—Les should get credit for at least one South Park episode. He came back from [staying at Trey Parker's house in] Hawaii totally fired up, and called me with this idea and I loved it, because it was getting an opportunity to make fun at everything I held sacred, which you don't get a chance to do every day. I loved the idea and was all for it. So we start kicking it around and feeling out how this might work. And then I get a call from Matt, who asks me what my least favorite jam band is, because it turns out they're doing an episode about jam bands for South Park! It's just like, Coincidence? I think not. Basically, Trey talked to Les and as Trey was going into South Park, they write everything in a week, and so that idea was fresh and they decided to go after doing a jam band episode."

-Jason McHugh in Primus: Over the Electric Grapevine

Sunwatchers - Music Is Victory Over Time

In the decade or so that hard-working New York quartet  Sunwatchers have operated, the group has steadily & subtly refined their sound - a brain-blasting mixture of jazz, psychedelia, krautrock, punk, noise, & Saharan blues - into something that is avant-leaning enough to appeal to the discerning jazz & experimental music fan & weird & wooly enough to get the true heads’ toes tapping. “Music Is Victory Over Time” is the band’s 5th album, and fourth for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records, seeing the long-running lineup of Peter Kerlin (bass guitar), Jim McHugh  (guitars), Jason Robira (drums), and Jeff Tobias (alto saxophone and keyboards) in prime form. The album’s beguiling title stems from a note scrawled in a book about electronic music donated to PITGOOSE Prisoner Books, the grassroots prison literature program run out of The P.I.T.  (aka Property Is Theft - McHugh’s Anarchist community space, venue, and info-shop located in Los Sures, Williamsburg). Scrawled as marginalia modifying a paragraph about durational minimalist composition, the concept illuminates music’s material and spiritual power to subdue the sensation of the passage of time, both as an experiential phenomenon and as a creative, communal, and socio-political force. McHugh says: “The notion resonated with our individual and communal experiences of loss, trauma, stasis, and frustration since 2020, our three-year semi-silence as a band relative to our previous characteristic prolificacy, and our progress, projects, and evolution since.” Group Vocals by Sunwatchers and Brittain Ashford Art/Design by Josh MacPhee Head/Tree logo borrowed from the 1970s East German Green Party SUNWATCHERS STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE DISPOSSESSED, IMPOVERISHED, AND EMBATTLED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.

Knight of Swords : Jason McHugh

Ingenuity / Haste / Driven / Directness

(Literary License Podcast)

Cannibal the Musical (1993)

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Cannibal! The Musical (originally known as Alferd Packer: The Musical) is a 1993 American black comedy musical film directed, written, produced, co-scored by and starring Trey Parker in his directorial debut while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder, before reaching fame with South Park alongside his friend Matt Stone who also stars in and produced the film. It is loosely based on the true story of Alferd Packer and the sordid details of the trip from Utah to Colorado that left his five fellow travelers dead and partially eaten. Trey Parker (credited as Juan Schwartz) stars as Alferd Packer, with frequent collaborators Stone, Dian Bachar, and others playing the supporting roles.  A live staged version was performed at Sierra College, in Rocklin, California, in May 1998. It was followed by Dad's Garage Theater, Atlanta Georgia, in the fall of 1998. The Dad's Garage version is highlighted in the special features of Troma's DVD release of the movie. The show has continued to find small theaters and audiences across America and beyond for many years. In 2001, a production was staged Off-Broadway at the Kraine Theater on East 4th Street in New York.  A large-scale stage production was produced by The Rival Theatre Company at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It featured West End performers. It was executive produced by Jason McHugh and directed by Frazer Brown

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Eating Raoul (1982)

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Eating Raoul is a 1982 American black comedy film written, directed by and starring Paul Bartel with Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Ed Begley Jr., Buck Henry, and Susan Saiger. It is about a prudish married couple (Bartel and Woronov) who resort to killing and robbing affluent swingers to earn money for their dream restaurant. The writers commissioned a single-issue comic book based on the film for promotion; it was created by underground comix creator Kim Deitch.  It would also become a hit off Broadway musical.

 Opening Credits; Introduction (1.05); Amazing Design Advertisement (52.51); Background History (54.04); Eating Raoul Film Trailer (54.49); The Original (56.25); Let's Rate (1:42.42); Introducing the Double Feature (1:48.50); Cannibal – The Musical Film Trailer (1:51.11); The Attraction (1:52.53); How Many Stars (2:35.19); Over All Thought (2:36.09) End Credits (2:41.52; Closing Credits (2:43.21)

 Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – copyright 2021. All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  Eat Me – Demi Lovatto Featuring Ryan and Serpent. -. Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Holy Fvck’.  Copyright 2022 Island Records.

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used With Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

SOLD 🎭 Priscilla Queen Of The Dessert @ New Wimbledon Theatre 2014 (#116)

Title: Priscilla Queen Of The Dessert

Venue: New Wimbledon Theatre

Year: 2014

Condition: Good condition

Author: Book by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott

Director: Simon Phillips

Choreographer: Ross Coleman and Andrew Hallsworth

Cast: Ellie Leah, Laura Mansell, Katie Birtill, Blue Woodward, Alan Hunter, Jason Donovan, Julie Stark, Regan Shepherd, Richard Grieve, Graham Weaver, Ellie Leah, Philip Childs, Frances Mayli McCann, Leon Kay, Daniel McCarthy, Rocco McHugh

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In the two weeks following the murder of nine people at a church in Charleston by the white supremacist Dylann Roof as Americans demanded the removal of Confederate statues and flags, Miller encouraged McHugh to turn the narrative back on leftists and Latinos.

“Should the cross be removed from immigrant communities, in light of the history of Spanish conquest?” he asked in one email on 24 June.

“When will the left be made to apologize for the blood on their hands supporting every commie regime since Stalin?” he asked in another the following day.

When another mass shooting happened in Oregon in October 2015, Miller wrote that the killer, Chris Harper-Mercer “is described as ‘mixed race’ and born in England. Any chance of piecing that profile together more, or will it all be covered up?”

Miller repeatedly brings up President Calvin Coolidge, who is revered among white nationalists for signing the 1924 Immigration Act which included racial quotas for immigration.

9-1-1: A Helpful Guide For New Fans - Part 2

Abigail Clark:

- Played by: Connie Britton

- Everyone calls her Abby

- Former Olympic Swimmer

- Former 911 dispatcher

- Buck's ex girlfriend

- Eddie kinda hates her a little bit

- Left to Ireland, then Italy

- Came back engaged to a guy named Sam Egan

Patricia Clark:

- Played by: Mariette Hartley

- Abby's mom

- Had Alzheimer's disease

Shannon Diaz:

- Played by: Devin Kelley

- Eddie's wife

- Left alone to take care of her son while Eddie was in Afghanistan

- Left when he returned to take care of her sick mom

- Decided she wanted a divorce

Christopher Diaz:

- Played by: Gavin McHugh

- Eddie's son

- Has Cerebral Palsy

- SWEETEST BOY

- Was in therapy for a while

- Has issues about people leaving

- Likes carnivals and playing video games with Buck

- Loves Buck so much

- Basically adopted by Buck

- Has a special skateboard Eddie and Buck made for him

Albert Han:

- Played by: John Harlan Kim

- Chim's half brother

- Left Korea to get away from his dad

- Showed Bobby how to make Korean dumplings

- Likes baseball

- Also likes karaoke

Carla Price:

- Played by: Cocoa Brown

- Former nurse for Abby's mom

- Current nurse for Christopher

- Sweetheart

- Super smart

- Gives amazing advice

Karen Wilson:

- Played by: Tracie Thoms

- Hen's wife

- Rocket scientist with a PhD

- Loves her wife, kids and dog sooooo much

- Hates Hen's ex girlfriend, Eva

- Super supportive of Hen going to Med School

- Got drunk with Chimney once and it was hilarious

Josh Russo:

- Played by: Bryan Safi

- Gay

- 911 Operater who taught Maddie

- Maddie's friend

- Has Poker nights with Maddie, Buck and Chimney

- Sucks at Poker

- Kinda sassy

- Very single

Doug Kendall:

- Played by: Brian Hallisay

- The guy Maddie killed, not actually named Jason Bailey

- Do Not Trust Him

- Former Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery

- Kidnapped Maddie

- Awful person

| 12th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards Nominations Announced The Guild of Music Supervisors today announced the nominations for its 12th annual awards ceremony, which will take place virtually on Sunday, March 20, 2022. The awards will recognize outstanding Music Supervisors representing Motion Picture, Television, Games, Trailers and Advertising. Below are the nominations for the major categories. Also check out the nominations announcement presentation after the jump. For more information nominations, visit the organization’s official website. Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million : Mary Ramos – Being the Ricardos Tom MacDougall – Encanto Michelle Silverman – The Harder They Fall Linda Cohen – The Tender Bar Steven Gizicki – Tick, Tick… Boom! Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $25 Million : Pierre-Marie Dru – Annette Julianne Jordan, Justine von Winterfeldt – Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Becky Bentham – Everybody’s Talking About Jamie John Houlihan – The Eyes Of Tammy Faye Tracy McKnight – Flag Day Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $10 Million ; Victoria Beard, Sean Mulligan – Blue Bayou Katie Colley, Sean Mulligan – The Hating Game Alexandra Eckhardt – Passing Mandi Collier, Frankie Pine – Sylvie’s Love Rob Lowry – The Ultimate Playlist of Noise Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $5 Million: Andrea von Foerster – Happily Jen Malone – Malcolm & Marie Matthew Hearon-Smith – Red Rocket Henrik Hawor, Silje Katralen, Goran Obad, Emilie Sørensen – The Worst Person in the World Mandi Collier, Jen Malone, Nicole Weisberg – Zola Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film: “Guns Go Bang” from The Harder They Fall Songwriters: Jeymes Samuel, Scott Mescudi, Shawn Carter Performers: Kid Cudi, Jay-Z Music Supervisor: Michelle Silverman “My Father’s Daughter” from Flag Day Songwriters: Glen Hansard, Eddie Vedder Performers: Eddie Vedder, Glen Hansard, Olivia Vedder Music Supervisor: Tracy McKnight “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda Performer: Sebastián Yatra Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall “Fire In The Sky” from Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings Songwriters: Anderson .Paak, Bruno Mars, Son Tzu, Rogét Chahayed, Wesley Singerman, Taylor Dexter, Alissia Benveniste Performer: Anderson .Paak Music Supervisor: Dave Jordan “Be Alive” from King Richard Songwriters: Beyoncé, Dixson Performer: Beyoncé Music Supervisor: Susan Jacobs Best Music Supervision – Television Drama: Sarah Bridge – The Crown – Season 4 Kevin Edelman – Cruel Summer – Season 1 Jen Ross – Genius: Aretha – Season 3 Liza Richardson – Lovecraft Country – Season 1 Iain Cooke – It’s A Sin – Season 1 Best Music Supervision – Television Comedy or Musical: Jason Alexander, Justin T. Feldman – Dave – Season 2 Matt Biffa – Sex Education – Season 3 Janet Lopez – The White Lotus – Season 1 Jen Ross – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist – Season 2 Jonathan McHugh – Blindspotting – Season 1 Best Music Supervision – Reality Television: Peter Davis – The Challenge: All Stars – Season 1 Sarah Bromberg, Stephanie Diaz-Matos, Eric Medina – Sweet Life: Los Angeles – Season 1 Jason Markey – Fboy Island – Season 1 Jon Ernst – Siesta Key – Season 4 Best Music Supervision – Television Movie: Nicki Richards – American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules Laura Webb, Lindsay Wolfington – To All The Boys: Always And Forever Mikki Itzigsohn, Willa Yudell – The Voyeurs Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television: Title: “Look At Us” Songwriters: Mike Aaberg, Joseph Epperson, Lauren Evans, Mounir Ghantous, Tony Ghantous, Goapele K. Mohlbane, Faraji Wright Performers: Goapele (feat. Rexx Life Raj) Program: Homeroom Music Supervisor: Julie Glaze Houlihan Title: “Fuck The Pain Away” Songwriter: Merrill Nisker Performers: The Moordale Singers and Oli Julian Program: Sex Education Episodes 302 and 307 Music Supervisor: Matt Biffa Title: “Beginning Middle End” Songwriters: Leah Nobel, Quinn Redmond Performer: Leah Nobel Program: To All The Boys: Always And Forever Music Supervisors: Laura Webb, Lindsay Wolfington Title: “Change” Songwriters: Ronald Colson, Jeff Gitelman, David Harris, Maxx Moore, Gabriella Wilson Performer: H.E.R. Program: We The People Episode 101 – “Active Citizenship” Music Supervisor: Jen Ross Title: “Anyone” Songwriters: Badriia Ines Bourelly, Dayyon Alexander Drinkard, Demi Lovato, Eyelar Mirzazadeh, Jay Mooncie, Samuel Elliot Roman Performers: Cast of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (Skylar Astin) Program: Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist Episode 209 – “Zoey’s Extraordinary Mystery” Music Supervisor: Jen Ross Best Music Supervision for a Documentary: Jonathan Hecht – Dear Rider Tracy McKnight – Rebel Hearts Maureen Crowe, Janet Billig Rich – Sisters On Track Gary Welch – The Sparks Brothers Angela Asistio – Val Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries: Ian Broucek, Kevin Writer – Amend: The Fight For America Aminé Ramer – HBO Music Box Series: “Mr. Saturday Night,” “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, And Rage,” “Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss,” “DMX: Don’t Try To Understand,” “Jagged,” “Listening to Kenny G” James Cartwright – The Lady And The Dale Jon Ernst – Last Chance U: Basketball Iain Cooke – 1971: The Year Music Changed Everything http://mvnt.us/m1294939

Official Trailer For A HOUSE ON THE BAYOU Starring Angela Sarafyan

Official Trailer For A HOUSE ON THE BAYOU Starring Angela Sarafyan

Blumhouse and Epix have released this official trailer for A HOUSE ON THE BAYOU Directed by Alex McAulay  Executive Producers: Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold, Mary-Margaret Kunze Cast: Angela Sarafyan (Westworld), Paul Schneider (GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, Parks & Recreation, Lia McHugh (Marvel’s ETERNALS, THE LODGE), Jacob Lofland (MUD, MAZE RUNNER) Premieres November 19, 2021 on EPIX &…

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TMA Statements In Chronological Order

But, not by when the events happened, by the order when the Statements were entered to the Institute. Because that wasn’t on the wiki timeline. 

Below the cut because i’m not a monster. 

Format is:

Episode // Entity // Statement Giver// Statement Given // Event Date

   • #140 The Movment of The Heavens // The Dark // John Flamsteed // 1715    • #116 The Show Must Go On // The Stranger // Abraham Janssen // 2 November 1787    • #23 Schwarzwald // The Eye // Albrecht von Closen // 31st March 1816 // Winter 1815    • #127 Remains to be Seen // The Eye // Jonathan Franshawe // 21 November 1831 // April – November 1831    • #152 A Gravediggers Envy // The Buried // Hezekiah Wakely // 1837 - 1839    • #50 Foundations // The Buried // Sampson Kempthorn // 12th June 1841 // 1836    • #58 Trail Rations // The Flesh // Mrs. Carlisle // 10th November 1845 // October – November 1845    • #105 Total War // The Slaughter, The Eye // Charles Fleming // 1862    • #98 Lights Out // The Dark // Algernon Moss // 14 May 1864    • #138 The Architecture Of Fear // The Eye // Robert Smirke // 13 February 1867    • #7 The Piper // The Slaughter // Clarence Berry // 6th November 1922 // 1917-18    • #133 Dead Horse // The Hunt // Percy Fawcett // 27 June 1930    • #99 Dust to Dust // The Buried // Robert E Geiger // 20 February 1952 // April 1935    • #137 Nemesis // The Slaughter // Wallis Turner // 3 July 1955 // Winter 1942    • #29 Cheating Death // The End // Nathaniel Thorp // 4th June 1972 // 17th June 1775    • #60 Observer Effect // The Eye // Rosa Meyer // 12 July 1972 // April – July 1972    • #95 Absent Without Leave // The Slaughter // Luca Moretti // 2 November 1977    • #44 Tightrope // The Stranger // Yuri Utkin // 2nd March 1979 // November 1952    • #85 Upon the Stair // The Spiral // Unknown // 1980 – 1990    • #86 Tucked In // The Dark // Benjamin Hatendi // 2nd March 1983    • #84 Possessive // The Corruption // Adrian Weiss // 1 December 1990    • #125 Civilian Casualties // The Slaughter // Terrance Simpson // 19 July 1993    • #77 The Kind Mother // The Stranger // Lucy Cooper // 15 September 1994 //August 1994    • #93 Contaminant // The Corruption // Lester Chang // 5 March 1995    • #96 Return To Sender // The Stranger // Alfred Breekon // 15 May 1996    • #53 Crusader // The Eye // Walter Heller // 5th September 1997 // November 1941    • #2 Do Not Open // The Buried, The Stranger // Joshua Gillespie // 22nd November 1998 // 1996 -1998 (?)    • #46 Literary Heights // The Spiral, The Vast // Herbert Knox // 21st December 1998 // September 1997    • #17 Boneturners Tale // The Flesh // Sebastian Adekoya // 10th June 1999 // 1996    • #66 Held in Customs // The Buried // Vincent Yang // 22 February 2000 // January 19 2000    • #78 Distant Cousin // The Stranger, The Web // Lawrence Moore // 12 June 2001    • #21 Freefall // The Vast // Moira Kelly // 20th October 2002 // 3rd-5th or 7th June 2001    • #35 Old Passages // All // Harold Silvana // 4th June 2002 // June 2002    • #9 A Father’s Love // The Dark, The Hunt // Julia Montauk // 3rd December 2002 // 1990-95    • #155 Cost of Living // The End // Tova McHugh // 3 December 2002    • #68 Tale of a Field Hospital // The Corruption // Joesph Russo // 3rd June 2003 // 1st June 2003    • #27 A Sturdy Lock // The Spiral // Paul Mckenzie // 24th August 2003 // July 2003    • #146 Threshold // The Spiral // Marcus Mackenzie // 1 September 2003    • #88 Dig // The Buried // Enrique MacMillian // 4 November 2003    • #70 Book of the Dead // The End // Masato Murray // 9th December 2003    • #52 Exceptional Risk // The Dark // Phillip Brown // 9th April 2004 // 1st November 2002    • #24 Strange Music // The Stranger // Leanne Denikin // 17th Jan 2005 // August 2004    • #59 Recluse // The Web, The Desolation // Ronald Sinclair // 29th November 2005 // Early to Mid 1960’s    • #134 Time of Revelation // The Extinction // Adelard Dekker // 22 January 2006 // 2005, 1867    • #75 A Long Way Down // The Vast // Stephen Walker // 7 November 2006 // Early October 2006    • #139 Chosen // The Desolation // Eugene Vanderstock // 30 November 2006    • #115 Taking Stock // The Flesh // Michaele Salesa // 4 January 2007 // Autumn of 1999    • #8 Burnt Out // The Web, The Desolation, The Spiral // Ivo Lensik // 13th March 2007 // November 2006    • #67 Burning Desire // The Desolation // Jack Barnabas // 18 March 2007 // October – November 2006    • #3 Across the Street // The Stranger, The Web // Amy Patel // 1st July 2007 // 7th April 2006    • #51 High Pressure // The Vast, The Buried // Antonia Hayley // 7th January 2008 // August 2006    • #106 A Matter of Perspective // The Vast, The Eye // Jan Kilbride // 10 February 2008    • #49 The Butchers Window // The Flesh // Gregory Pryor // 11th March 2008 // June 2007    • #62 First Edition // The End, The Eye // Mary Keay // 3rd July 2008 // 1955    • #154 Bloody Mary // The Eye // Eric Delano // 21 July 2008    • #130 Meat // The Flesh // Lucia Wright // 19 December 2008    • #18 The Man Upstairs // The Flesh // Christof Rudenko // 12th December 2008 // 22nd October 2007    • #156 Reflection // The Extinction // Adelard Dekker // 4 January 2009    • #5 Thrown Away // The Flesh etc. // Kieran Woodward // 23rd February 2009 // 8th August 2008    • #97 We All Ignore The Pit // The Buried // Jackson Ellis // 3 March 2009    • #57 Personal Space // The Lonely, The Vast, The Dark // Carter Chilcott // 4 April 2009 // September 2007    • #145 Infectious Doubts // The Desolation // Arthur Nolan // 2 February 2009    • #114 Cracked Foundation // The Web Shtranger or Extinction // Anya Villette // 22 April 2009 // 23 April 2009 or 9 April 2009    • #37 Burnt Offering // The Desolation // Jason North // 6th August 2009 // August 2009    • #108 Monologue // The Lonely, The Stranger // Adonis Biros // 20 August 2009 // August 2009    • #144 Decrypted // The Extinction // Gary Boylan // 3 October 2009 // August 2009    • #126 Sculptor’s Tool // The Spiral // Deborah Madaki // 11 October 2009 // Spring 2004    • #72 Takeaway // The Flesh // Craig Goodall // 20 October 2009 // 27 September 2009    • #107 Third Degree // The Desolation // 1 February 2010 // January 2010    • #48 Lost in the Crowd // The Lonely // Andrea Nunis // 25th March 2010 // September 2009    • #10 Vampire Killer & #56 Children of the Night // The Hunt, the Web // Trevor Herburt // 10th July 2010 // 1959 (first event), Winter 2009    • #69 Thought For the Day // The Web // Darren Harlow // 18th November 2010    • #31 First Hunt // The Hunt // Lawerence Mortimer // 9th December 2010 // 30th November - 1st December 2010    • #33 Boatswain’s Call // The Lonely // Carlita Sloane // 2nd January 2011 // Late November 2010    • #45 Blood Bag // The Corruption // Thomas Neil // 9th February 2011 // Spring 2010    • #148 Extended Surveillance // The Eye // Sunil Maraj // 3 April 2011    • #14 Piece Meal // The Flesh // Lee Rentoul // 29th May 2011 // Early 2011    • #19 Confession & #20 Desecrated Host // The Spiral, The Web, The Desolation (Hilltop Road) & The Spiral, The Flesh // Edwin Burroughs // 30th May 2011 // November 2006    • #112 Thrill of the Chase // The Hunt // Lisa Carmel // 13 November 2011    • #113 Breathing Room // The End // Adelard Dekker // 2012    • #12 Page Turner // The Desolation, The Eye // Lesere Saraki // 11th February 2012 // 23rd December 2011    • #153 Love Bombing // The Corruption, The Flesh // Barbara Mullen-Jones // 2 March 2012    • #110 Creature Feature // The Web // Alexia Crawley // 14 March 2012    • #1 Anglerfish // Stranger //Nathan Watts // 22nd April 2012 // March 2010    • #38 Lost and Found // The Spiral // Andre Ramao // 6th June 2012 // March 2012    • #36 Taken Ill // The Corruption // Nicole Baxter // 19th November 2012 // August – September 2011    • #136 The Puppeteer // The Web // Alison Killala // 1 December 2012 // 2012    • #124 Left Hanging // The Vast // Julian Jennings // 11 December 2012 // 2012    • #149 Concrete Jungle // The Extinction // Judith O’neill // 13 May 2013    • #54 Still Life // The Stranger // Alexander Scaplehorn // 23 June  2013    • #4 Page Turner // The Vast, The Spiral, The End // Dominic Swain // 28th June 2013 // 10th November 2012    • #90 Body Builder // The Flesh // Ross Davenport // 7 August 2013    • #157 Rotten Core // The Extinction, The Corruption // Adelard Dekker // 14 August 2013    • #30 Killing Floor // The Flesh // David Laylow // 1st September 2013 // 12th July 2013    • #129 Submerged // The Buried // Kulbir Shakya // 4 September 2013 // July or August 2013    • #83 Drawing a Blank // The Stranger // Chloe Ashburt // 19 October 2013 // September – October 2013    • #42 Grifter’s Bone // The Slaughter // Jennifer Ling // 3rd November 2013 // Autumn 2013    • #32 Hive // The Corruption // Jane Prentiss // 23rd February 2014 // Pre-2014    • #63 The End of the Tunnel // The Dark // Erin Gallagher-Nelson // 31st March 2014 // 26th March 2014    • #102 Nesting Instinct // The Corruption // Francois Deschamps // 4 June 2014    • #103 Cruelty Free // The Flesh // Dylan Anderson // 2 July 2014    • #135 Dark Matter // The Dark // Manuela Dominguez // 14 July 2014 // 2007    • #87 The Uncanny Valley // The Stranger, The Desolation // Sebastian Skinner // 10 October 2014 // September 2014    • #15 Lost Johns’ Cave // The Buried // Laura Popham // 9th November 2014 // 14-15th June 2014    • #150 Cul-de-sac // The Lonely // Herman Gorgoli // 9 November 2014    • #6 Squirm // The Corruption // Timothy Hodge // 9th December 2014 // 20th November 2014    • #122 Zombie // The Stranger // Lorell St. John // 1 February 2015    • #11 Dreamer // The End // Antonio Blake (Oliver Banks) // 14th March 2015 // 12th March 2015    • #16 Arachnophobia // The Web, The Corruption // Carlos Vittery // 9th April 2015 // Early 2015    • #25 Growing Dark // The Dark // Mark Bilham // 19th April 2015 // January – March 2015    • #64 Burial Rites // The End // Donna Gwynne // 20th May 2015 // 2012    • #74 Fatigue // The Spiral // Lydia Halligan // 8 June 2015    • #123 Web Development // The Web // Angie Santos // 1 August 2015 // January 2015    • #13 Alone // The Lonely // Naomi Herne // 13th January 2016 //30th & 31st March 2015    • #22 Colony // The Corruption // Martin Blackwood // 12th March 2016 // March 2016    • #26 A Distortion // The Spiral, The Corruption // Sasha James // 2nd April 2016 // 1st April 2016    • #28 Skintight // The Slaughter, The Stranger // Melanie King // 17th April 2016 // January 2015    • #34 Anatomy Class // The Stranger // Lionel Elliot // 12th July 2016 // January – March 2016    • #39 Infestation // ATTACK ON THE INSTITUTE // 29th July 2016    • #40 Human Remains // Post Attack Debrief// 29th July 2016    • #41 Too Deep // Buried and Dark suspected // 2nd September 2016 // mid-august – September 2016    • #43 Section 31 // The Desolation, The End // Basira Hussain //19th September 2016 // August 2011 and 18 July 2014    • #47 The New Door // The Spiral // Helen Richardson // 2nd October 2016    • #55 Pest Control // The Corruption, The Desolation // Jordan Kennedy // 3rd November 2016 // 2011 & 2014    • #61 Hard Shoulder // The Hunt, The Stranger, The Buried // Daisy Tonner // 1st December 2016 // 24th July 2002    • #65 Binary // The Spiral, Extinction // Tessa Winters // 7th January 2017    • #71 Underground // The Buried // Karolina Gorka // 25 January 2017 // 6 January 2017    • #73 Police Lights // The Dark // Basira Hussain // 11 February 2017 // 10 February 2017    • #76 The Smell of Blood // The Slaughter // Melanie King // 13 February 2017    • #79 Hide and Seek // The Stranger, The Spiral // 16 February 2017    • #80 The Librarian // All // Jurgen Leitner // 16 February 2017 // 1994    • #81 A Guest for Mister Spider // The Web // Jonathan Sims // 18 February 2017 / 1995    • #82 The Eyewitnesses // The Eye, the Slaughter // Daisy Tonner // 18 February 2017    • #89 Twice as Bright // The Desolation // Jude Perry // 24 April 2017    • #91 The Coming Storm // The Vast, The Spiral // Michael Crew // 28 April 2017    • #92 Nothing Beside Remains // The Eye, The Lonely // Elias Bouchard, Barnabas Bennett // ? [Possibly 28 April 2017]    • #94 Dead Woman Walking // The End // Georgie Barker // 29 April 2017    • #100 I Guess You Had To Be There // The Desolation, The Dark, The Spiral, The Web, The Lonely // Lynn Hammond, John Smith, Robin Lennox, Brian Finlinson // 2 May 2017 – 26 May 2017    • #101 Another Twist // The Spiral, The Stranger // Michael // May-June 2017 // October 2009 – 2011    • #104 Sneak Preview // The Stranger // Timothy Stoker // 14 June 2017 // August 2013    • #109 Nightfall // The Dark, The Hunt // Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert // 29 June 2017 // July 2010    • #111 Family Business // Multiple, The End // Gerry Keay // 30 June 2017 // September 2008    • #117 Testament // The Eye // Jonathan Sims, Basira Hussain, Melanie King, Martin Blackwood, Timothy Stoker, Daisy Tonner // 2 – 4 August 2017    • #118 The Masquerade // The Stranger // The Unknowing Begins // 6 August 2017    • #119 Stranger and Stranger // The Stranger // The Unknowing Ends // 7 August 2017    • #120 Eye Contact // The Eye // Elias Bouchard // 9 August 2017    • #121 Far Away // The End, The Web // Oliver Banks // 15 February 2018    • #128 Heavy Goods // The Stranger // Breekon // 3 March 2018    • #131 Flesh // The Flesh // Jared Hopworth // 20 March 2018 // 2016 – January 2018    • #132 Entombed // The Buried // Jonathan Sims and Daisy Tonner // 24 March 2018    • #141 Doomed Voyage // The Vast, The Spiral // Floyd Matharu // 11 June 2018    • #142 Scrutiny // The Eye, The Buried // Jess Terrell // 12 June 2018    • #143 Heart of Darkness // The Dark // Manuela Dominguez // 16 June 2018    • #147 Weaver // The Web // Annabelle Cane // 20 July 2018    • #151 Big Picture // The Vast, The Lonely, The Extinction // Simon Fairchild, Martin Blackwood // 14 August 2018    • #158 Panopticon // The Eye, the Extinction, The Lonely // Martin Blackwood, Peter Lukas, Basira Hussain, Jonathan Sims, Daisy Tonner, Elias Bouchard, Gertrude Robinson // 25 September 2018    • #159 The Last // The Lonely // Peter Lukas // 25 September 2018    • #160 The Eye Opens // All // Jonah Magnus, Jonathan Sims // 18 October 2018    • Vigilo, Audio, Supervenio. The World Ends    • #161 Dwelling // No // Sasha James, Tim Stoker, Martin Blackwood, Elias Bouchard, Jonathan Sims, Jurgen Leitner // No Longer Applicable // Unknown    • #162 A Cozy Cabin // No // Gertrude Robinson, Gerry Keay, Sasha James, Timothy Stoker, Martin Blackwood, Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable // 2013 – 2015    • #163 In The Trenches // The Slaughter // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • # 164 The Sick Village // The Corruption // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #165 Revolutions // The Stranger // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #166 The Worms // The Buried // Jonathan Sims // No Longer Applicable    • #167 Curiosity // The Eye, The Web, Others // Jonathan on Gertrude Robinson // No Longer Applicable    • #168 Roots // The End // Oliver Banks // No Longer Applicable

Listed: Smoke Bellow

Smoke Bellow is a funky, trippy, philosophically minded post-punk trio conceived in Australia but lately operating out of Baltimore. Its founders, Meredith McHugh and Christian Best, have made three albums together; their new drummer Emmanuel Nicolaidus used to play in the much-loved Baltimore noise-punk-experimental trio, Thank you. Their latest album, made during the throes of the Pandemic, is called Open for Business, and it is considerably spikier and more rhythmic than past endeavors. In her review, Jennifer Kelly wrote, “Smoke Bellow proceeds irregularly on this third full-length, letting bass lines wander in loose conjunction with artful splatters and clashes of percussion. Post-punk, but in a muted, trippy way, the band bounces dreamily from one surrealist landscape to the next.” Here, McHugh and Best list some of the music that inspired them.

It is so nice to be asked to do these sorts of things. Generally, when we start thinking about writing a new record, we will compile a playlist of songs and art to guide our thoughts. This list is but a few that helped steer us through this writing process.

Thanks heaps for asking us! — Christian & Meredith.

The Honeymoon Killers — “Decollage”

This song was introduced to us by our wonderful friend, Jason Willett who runs a local Baltimore record store called the True Vine. This must be the best bassline of all time? It’s so dry and elastic. The production is ideal as well. The video features a spy plot, berets, sabotage, a Cessna!

Mope Grooves — Desire

This record took us by surprise. All gems, right through. The production is lovely and gritty. The sounds and textures are so well thought out. A masterpiece.

Wume — “We Go Further”

Hands down our favorite Baltimore band. They manage to make heady, joyous and danceable electronic music. Al Schatz is such an inspiration for creating interesting synth sounds and April Camlin is as close as I’ve seen to a meld between Jaki Liebezeit and Klaus Dinger. The video is a special bonus as it is made by another lovely Baltimore fellow — Matmos’ M.C. Schmidt. An inspiring band!

The Gist — “Assured Energy”

One of our favorite bands of all time is the Young Marble Giants. The first time we heard this song by the Gist was on the radio in the car, on the way home from swimming in a river. Later, we found out that The Gist are a super group started by Stuart Moxham from Young Marble Giants, and included members of Swell Maps, Essential Logic and Vivien Goldman too! There is still the suggestion of YMG, but this song feels like a perfectly fleshed out version of their skeletal sound.

Norman Salant — “Golden Arm”

Live version (beaming face at 1:41!):

Out of all the songs on this list, we have listened to this one the most. The pared back and repetitive bass, drums and guitar allow the dual saxophones to breathe and play off each other in conversation. There is a live version that features the beaming enthusiastic face of the guitarist, pure joy!

Victoria Hannan — Kokomo

Our lovely friend Victoria wrote this incredible book. It really speaks to the complex relationship we have with Australia/Australian culture, with living away from our families, the beauty of our close friendships and chosen families. Victoria has provided the cover images for every record we have released so far. We even named a song after her on this record. We just couldn’t be prouder of her achievements!

Furniture — “Why are we in love”

This band was introduced to us by a friend (thanks Phil!). The clarinet line is magical. The driving percussion is perfect. The jagged guitar jumping in is jarring in the best way. The lyrics are very, very earnest which at first made us feel uncomfortable, but now we like them. There is something about the overall tone of this recording that takes you into the room with them. It’s the best kind of documentation that sounds exactly like a time and place.

Anna Domino — “Every day I don’t”

There is just something so natural and effortless about this song. It sounds like it was written instantly. The meandering guitar acts as the guide through the song, and the vocals are perfectly reserved and simple. We first heard this song on a very hot day, the kind of day that makes your mind slow down and your muscles feel floppy. This song matches that feeling.

Suburban Lawns — “Flavor Crystals”

We are obsessed with this song. It never fails to motivate silly dance. The lyrics are hilarious. Su Tissue rules.

D’Metrius Rice

Demi is the most prolific artist we know. His work is kinetic, psychedelic and incredibly direct. He keeps evolving at an unmatchable pace, with each new iteration retaining the essence of what made his work so enthralling all along. Follow his Instagram feed here.