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Kevin Renfield presents … 15 tripped out video games

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Forward Instinct Midnight Ultra

‘In the American Southwest, a lone witch hunter travels across the desert, seeking to wipe out cultists of all sorts. Fight a variety of goons and ghouls, through small towns to dimension-spanning motels. Blast your way through a neon-dripped, pixelated nightmare in this high-speed, high-thrills FPS.’


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Jeremy Couillard Sometimes to Deal with the Difficulty of Being Alive, I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real

‘A video experience, a simulation, a game that plays itself, a database of games, an absurdist, sci-fi play, emails going to nowhere, conversation starters, meditations, secret lairs, fights, break-dancing, play on a network, play by yourself, don’t play at all and just watch, set it up in a gallery, set it up at a party…’


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HoneyBeeSoftware Djilyaro

‘Djilyaro is a short, first-person psychedelic game. In a strange place you awake with one goal, to find all the pieces and to be set free of this strange island. Although the closer you get to completion the stranger things become.’

 

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Double Fine Presents Kids

‘At the very beginning of Kids, you help a small group of faceless bodies fall into a dark hole. You don’t have much say in the matter, either: a crowd forms around the rim of the inky pit, and as you touch the screen, they all topple over. In the next scene, those same bodies helplessly float downward into seeming nothingness. You can’t stop them, but if you hold a finger on a body, it will temporarily slow down before falling again. I’ve played through this opening multiple times, and I’m still not sure what it means. That’s kind of the point. “Depending on who is playing it, there are quite different reactions,” explains Michael Frei, a Swiss filmmaker and artist who co-created Kids. “Some see it as something dark, some find it hilarious.”’


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Mogila Games Clinically Dead

‘It will happen eventually to all of us, but Mr. Samson is the guy who has no luck today – he’s dying. He is falling into his own mind and each next second is taking longer and longer. In the beginning, the first second felt like three seconds. Normal time was slower for him than for others. The next second one was like five minutes. He had a lot of time to rethink his life. For everyone else, this is the matter of seconds, but for him, this was taking forever. Finally, the last second of his life on earth was stretched to an infinite period of time… and this is the place where we are starting our adventure. The adventure where you are moving through a 4-dimensional system. Space and time are connected here and you are free to move not only in three directions (width, height, and depth) but also in the fourth one – time.’


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Cylne Cylne

‘Cylne is a first person surreal exploration game having a poetic and philosophical side. Explore and feel unreal worlds filled with environmental enigmas to try to achieve the chapter called “The Choice”… The meaning of the game is up to your interpretation and doesn’t impose narrative elements. Cylne is a particularly difficult game to describe. […] It renders the most basic concept of interaction unfamiliar by dropping the player in a world with its own rules, with its own sense of twisted dream-logic.’


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Rice Cooker Republic Bokida – Heartfelt Reunion

‘An open-world adventure with puzzle elements and a minimalist aesthetic. Bokida takes place on a dormant, seemingly monochromatic world of light that gradually reveals its beauty. Experience freedom while exploring a peaceful, intriguing environment.’


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Colorfiction 0°N 0°W

‘0°N 0°W is a first person exploration game with varied visual styles. Each time you play, the available environments are shuffled around, making each playthrough a unique experience. A cross country road trip strands you in a mysterious town lost amidst towering mesas and swaying dunes, will you beckon the glowing call of its lone storefront and embark on a fantastical multidimensional walkabout through space and time?’


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Benjamin Outram Crystal Vibes feat. Ott.

‘Experience candy-colored psychedelic sound rippling through an endless crystal universe. Crystal Vibes utilizes the cutting edge of spatial 3D audio and sound visualization that maps sound and light based on the science of the human senses, to push the frontiers of technology-mediated sensory experience in virtual reality. With the project’s predecessor described as “transcendent” and “like traveling through a psychedelic kaleidoscope” (Forbes 2016), this piece ups the ante with music from producer Ott.’


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Colin Northway Deep Under the Sky

‘Try life as a strange jellyfish on a remarkable world. Learn to fly through the skies of a psychedelic Venus, to explore and flourish. Fling, jet, grapple and roll your way through 80 levels of tentacle-flying physics fun. Time your bursts just right to explore every cleft and cranny of the floating beasts inhabiting the mysterious dark side of Venus. This game uses only one button but don’t be fooled – you’ll have to think like a jellyfish and zen to the heady biorhythms of the planet before you learn its secrets.’


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Darjeeling Californium

‘Californium is a first-person exploration game created as a homage to the American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Dick is well known for his many written works including The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? which inspired the movie Blade Runner. He is also widely recognised as the author of the short stories that inspired other such films as Minority Report and Total Recall. For those familiar with Dick’s work it is easy to see how Californium was created with his unique style in mind; Dick often focuses on the issues of drug abuse and paranoia, both of which are touched upon in the game.’


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McKenna Sanderson Ethereality

‘Ethereality is an experimental graphic design project. The overall concept is a “three-dimensional” interactive rave flyer in the format of a simple game. Once the player has collected all 100 kandi, they will gain entry to the “real-life” rave – the door will disappear, revealing all the necessary information to make it to the rave (all that would normally be found on a flyer.) The different music throughout the environment is intended to mimic the feeling of being at a party, or club. The overall look and feel is based on the sensory overload often experienced at a rave. This project was heavily inspired by 90s rave culture and graphic design on rave flyers found on ravepreservationproject.com’


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Dreaming Methods Wallpaper

‘A US-based computer engineer and innovator returns to his remote family home in rural England following the death of his elderly mother. His agenda: to close the place down and sell it. But not before he tries out an experimental Augmented Reality device he’s been working on, primed to help him uncover the history behind one particularly enigmatic room in the house – a room that has remained locked since his childhood. Part of a research project called Reading Digital Fiction led by Professor Alice Bell from Sheffield Hallam University, Wallpaper was designed, written and coded by digital artists Andy Campbell and Judi Alston.’


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Nathan Whitmore GPT Adventure

‘I just got hopelessly lost in a bizarre new text adventure game, but for once it wasn’t entirely my fault. That’s because the game, appropriately named GPT Adventure, is generated as I play by a neural network that was trained on transcripts of existing text adventure games. It’s like a strange, dreamlike version of 1970s text adventures like “Zork” or “Adventureland.”

‘The game was created by Northwestern University neuroscience graduate student Nathan Whitmore. In his blog, Whitmore writes that he was inspired by the Mind Game, a fictional game generated in real-time by AI in the sci-fi novel “Ender’s Game.” GPT Adventure — which you can play here — isn’t that sophisticated, but the experiment is a fascinating glimpse into the future of procedurally-generated video games.

‘The game uses GPT-2, the infamous fake news-writing algorithm created by OpenAI. Like most AI systems, the game tends to forget what it already told the player, transporting them willy-nilly through various chambers and corridors whether they like it or not.’

 

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Asmik Ace Entertainment LSD: Dream Emulator

‘”LSD: Dream Emulator” is an obscure Playstation game released only in Japan. The game lives up to half its title – the people who made it clearly overdosed on hallucinogens. The “Dream Emulator” part fares a little worse. Imagine, for a moment, that your dream world is a Nintendo 64. This game’s emulation of that world would consist of taping the N64 controller to a washing machine and having you watch your laundry while a Japanese guy hums the Mario theme in the background.’


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p.s. Hey. Today we luck out because a kindly, dedicated reader of this blog, Kevin Renfield, has gathered together fifteen psychedelic video games he likes enough to pass along, and they are indeed pretty cool. Check them out. Thank you so much, Kevin. ** rewritedept, Okay, I’ll dedicate at least some initial time to McClusky. I love Pinback, as you probably know. They’re grotesquely undervalued. One of the characters in Zac’s and my next film sings a little bit of a Pinback song even. It sounds like today’s post might be up your current alley. Uh, let me think about that book recommendation thing. ** Adem Berbic, One man’s offbeat is another man’s towering. Martin Amis, role model, how extremely uninteresting. It’s interesting how ‘class’ always seems to rear its head as a fetish subject amongst Brits. I guess I associate ‘class’ with being overly adult, but I’m weird. I don’t even read The New Yorker. Charlotte would be good, obviously. You guys have a lot of very good young writers over there, shouldn’t be too hard. ** Bill, Hey. Yeah, sometimes Lee Bul really speaks to me, and sometimes the work seems like it should a film projected onto it or something. I don’t know Zao Wou-ki, but I’ll look for the work. Thanks. ** Charalampos, Ah, a true Aumont fan. Nice. The Rollin film is fun. Greetings back from … I think it’s still called Paris. ** Hugo, I just almost never find Pattinson’s acting interesting or convincing in the slightest. Did you make it to London? ** Carsten, Happy to have located a Carsten treat. I’ve suddenly come down with an eye infection, and my left eye is all swollen, which is to say I’ll be joining you on antibiotics any minute now, I suspect. Hopefully it’ll effect me like it does you. I need to shake off jet lag’s fumes. I’ll check out ‘Che’. Soderberg’s a huge fan of Robert Pollard, had him to do the score for one of his films (‘Bubble’) and attempted unsuccessfully to do a broadway musical with Pollard, which eternally endears the guy to me. Very interesting thoughts re: him/his work. Thanks, pal. ** hagai aviel, Yes, Tina Aumont was in Gian Luigi Polidoro’s ‘Satyricon’ (1969), not Fellini’s. My mistake. I’ve corrected that. Thanks. ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks for the alert re: Bedwyr Williams. I don’t know his work, but I just followed him on Instagram, so I’ll catch up. Oh, and I’ll examine his Patreon too. ** John Christopher, Hi! Oh, cool. This week is a little rough for me, but write to me, yes, and let’s figure something out. Safe trip today. ** Gustavo, Hi, Gustavo. Good to meet you. Thanks a lot for coming inside. And for your kind words about my stuff. I’m really happy you saw and liked ‘Room Temperature’. Please come back anytime and hang out. I’d be interested to know more about you and what you do, if you feel like it. ** kenley, Hi! Are you still in Wonderland? My body is gradually adjusting to its current time zone. But one of my eyes is suddenly infected, so it’s trading one mishap for another. Have major fun. ** Diesel Clementine, Hi! Gluon, total news to me. Strange, interesting, I’ll investigate. Free indirect voice … what exactly do you mean by that? I’m not sure I know. A metaphysics? Mm, probably. I mostly think about form and let the other aspects happen instinctively while I chisel, but, yeah, probably. I’ll think about it. In real life? No, I don’t think I take a metaphysical approach to the real version, or not consciously. Why? You sounds very alert and percolative and great. Me, I’m angling towards full power. Thank you, Diesel. ** Steve, I have an eye infection at the moment, so, different effects, but I get and feel for you and yours. At the moment there are no upcoming film travels in the US, just in Europe (Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, maybe Frankfurt, …), but something might come up. My lag is fading out, not rapidly enough, of course, but I didn’t have to take a nap yesterday, and that’s something. ** HaRpEr //, Not right as rain yet, more like wrong as drizzle. I love Clementi’s films, particularly the one she’s in. They’re very of their time and psychedelic, but amazing. I just watched ‘Casanova’ again after decades this weekend for my Zoom Book/Film Club. It’s imperfect, but if you like the ‘Satyricon’ era Fellini, there’s a lot of great stuff in there. I wrote a porn film once that never got made, and it ended up being anti-horny, which is why it never got made. ** Nicholas., Well, hello there, sir. Don’t stop, for goodness sake. Dinner? Uh, my vegan stuff and mashed potatoes wrapped in tortillas version of my usual eating material. Your journal entry is beautiful. It has this kind of serenity or something that’s new to your tone (to me) and quite effective. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T! Awesome that you watched ‘Visa de censure n° X’. And dug it. You continue to rule. Clearly. ** Laura, I’m just bored of sexed up stuff. There’s too much stuff that has giving people a boner as one of its top priorities. Too often it’s just a substitute for actual thinking and aesthetic adventuring. It’s all just so edgy conventional. I don’t know. My reading got cancelled because I didn’t arrive in time. That’s all. Fine with me because I don’t relish doing readings. Here? Just trying to wake up enough to do all the things I need to do right now. Not shiny, but maybe soon. Feel upper! ** Thom, Hi. Oh, I guess I missed it, yeah. Thanks for copying/pasting. Yay, Trecartin is a god. ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ too in its own way. Worth the hunt, pal. Holobiosis is a good title. It made my mouth kind of crazy when I pronounced it. I’m so happy that you’re reading such amazing stuff, and that you’re inspired in your writing. That is the ultimate accomplishment to any artist, to trigger that. You sound really fiery. I’m sort of vaguely returning to my usual state, thank you. Any minute now. Or, well, hour now. Do your week up proud. ** Right. Let Kevin’s picks sweep over you until I see you tomorrow.

14 Comments

  1. Dominik

    Hi!!

    Welcome back, Dennis!! I’m a few days late, but we’ve just gotten back too – we went back home to Hungary for the election. We’re still in complete disbelief!

    I’m sorry about the flight fuckups during your trip, but it sounds like the screening went really well! How’s your jet lag? And how are you otherwise? What are your plans now that you’re back home?

    Love healing your eye right away, Od.

    Also, thank you for the wonderful post, Kevin! I know next to nothing about video games, psychedelic or otherwise, so this is a real trip.

  2. Adem Berbic

    I think the Amis thing comes from this little blip in the 80s and 90s where Andrew Wylie came over and enchanted the British publishing world with the promise of money and glamour, so there’s a bunch of people who see Amis, Rushdie, etc. as ultra-rock stars. That blip interests me in a sort of anthropological way – it feels very culturally perverse to me, not in a good way, and I think there’s some writing in it – but I have some pretty grave objections to the cultural output from it.

    And yeah, the whole class thing is so intricate. The interesting part here is the interaction between ‘class’ as socioeconomic stratum (which is so rigid here, it’s basically a couple stops short of a full caste system) versus ‘class’ as in ‘that’s classy, sophisticated, cultured, etc.’ Growing up here definitely gives you (or at least me) a pretty nihilistic view of how the upper strata have a load of strategies for deciding what the second meaning of ‘class’ is, and how fighting that is ultimately always a losing battle before XYZ gets co-opted by people for whom any kind of cultural artefact is just empty social currency. Sometimes I really wonder whether the US writing world has seemed a bunch more vibrant in recent decades because there isn’t this imposed thing of your place in society deciding your relationship with creativity.

    I think everything I’ve described above fits into a huge mental tapestry or texture which at some point I’ll have to get down in writing and if I do it right it’ll come close to killing me.

    For the launch, a bunch of friends have jumped in to perform live abstract noise stuff. It’s been sort of heartwarming. I’ve long wanted the writing world here to be less insular and more open to other disciplines. It’s like there’s this big vibrant soup of weird music and performance and visual art and avant garde-ness in London, and then most (not all) of the writers just are in a corner writing and paying the rest absolutely no attention.

  3. Charalampos

    Pinback Talby is one of the most beautiful songs ever. I wonder if this the song the character sings, not that you have to answer that though haha
    I have to see if they have more songs of such quality and explore their discography
    I discovered that Soderberg is a big Pollard fan literally yesterday when I started Hunting accidents book and he did the introduction which is a good fun intro with bullet points. At first I thought it was someone with same name as him haha, had no idea.
    I am going to watch the Rollin film real soon. My favourite Rollin film ever is The Night of the Hunted, every opportunity to name drop that film I will take haha
    Hi from super sunny Crete

  4. Carsten

    Ai, sorry to hear about the eye infection. I hope the antibiotics work quickly. I have a bump near my right eye, probably an abscess. It came with the last sinusitis in December, then almost vanished & now it’s back. Very tiring.

    Had no idea about the Soderbergh-Pollard connection. Soderbergh is a very curious cat. His body of work is wildly uneven, which is not surprising given the pace with which he works & the many experiments he embarks on. I gotta revisit “Traffic”. Haven’t seen it in years & wonder how it holds up. “Contagion” went viral during Covid & I quite enjoyed that one too. But “Che” is in a class of its own. I don’t know how interesting the subject matter is to you, but formally I think you’d dig it. It’s all about process & rhythm, plus it succeeds in being totally non-judgmental or biased. And Benicio was born to play Che.

    Watched some YouTube interviews with Ishmael Reed yesterday. You’re right in what you said the other day, that he isn’t a showman like Hunter Thompson. Still, it’s a pity his voice is not amplified more. He still knocks out great think-pieces about politics & culture. Someone ought to convince him to do a podcast, haha.

  5. _Black_Acrylic

    @ Kevin, thank you for this showcase! Not remotely into video games but very much into tripping out, so it has been most welcome.

    @ Dominik, was thinking of you as the results came in last night. Congrats, and let’s hope this sees the global pendulum swing in favour of political folk who are not complete bastards. Chance would be a fine thing, right?

  6. julian

    I thought I left a comment on the Tina Aumont post, but I guess I didn’t actually post it. Luckily, I write down all of these comments in a Google Doc first so I’ll just post it here:
    I need to check out some of these movies. I’ve been going through a phase of being very interested in 60’s psychedelic/occult culture. Glad to see the troll problem seems to be resolved for now. Also, I very much agree with you that things should try to be less sexy. Or at least complicate their sexiness with things that are very unsexy. Good to hear that the new script is almost finished.

  7. Brendan

    Hey Dennis. I’m living upper east side, near the Met. It’s a serious change from DTLA. I really needed it. My job has an office here so I’m doing the same thing for work as before. And I’ll be making art, etc of course. At the moment I’m still unpacking and figuring things out. What’s your favorite place/thing to do in NYC?

  8. Matthew Simmons

    Excellent list! Might I also humbly suggest Eclipsium, a game released last year by Critical Reflex? There were a few good psychedelic body horror–or body discomfort, at least–games last year that I enjoyed quite a bit.

    Hey, long time! Hope all is well.

  9. Laura

    @Kevin thanks for the post! i’m functionally illiterate videogame-wise so these are all extra fascinating to me. the one where you can hold people back from plunging themselves into a hole in the world or whatever, but only for so long, is v poignant <3

    @DC aii your poor eye! hope Odin mode flashes by w nothing going wrong (hug)

    lol i totally think horniness is a potentially super exalted altered state, obvi also in combination as it tends to happen. like… it isn’t dualistic so you pair it w common sense and the world is split in two, bring in metaphysics, or better, raw failure, and it’s vision, mixed w boredom you’re as good as a thing, rage and revulsion are such impersonators… and then the creatural needs no excuse to exist, right? idk, i think we’re so limited by reality but that’s why it’s great we keep trying to speak and make one another want to fuck and stuff, a saving grace.

    you should know i recently kidnapped you a bit re: this issue so one of my characters enters this uh wanking mania in the midst of reading The Sluts, which i think is p understandable (another one panics bc he thinks you might be writing about him, in which case how well does he know himself and how real is he even). hope you don’t loathe it lol =)

    obvi an inauthentic (or inauthentically aspirational) stab at sexiness is a v fucked up thing… like, felt, if it’s an excuse or dulls whatever, then it probably sucks. and this is always a huge minefield wherever women come in obvi… but! there’s your old pal Kathy Acker’s Janey Smith and then there’s idk airbrushed models wearing push-up bras and wings lol, they’re not the same and i’ll totally ride for the former (i mean i will).

    hey, i’d been meaning to ask, when is Room Temperature starting its streaming life, do we know…? so miffed i’ve not seen it yet, Dennis, got a feeling it’s my sort of thing.

    anyway! much love to you and, since we’re talking Kathy Acker lol, treat your eye super well like it’s a window a window a window and a red night and a book and a bird ^_^

  10. jay

    Hey Dennis + Kevin Renfield! ❤️❤️ LSD: Dream Emulator ❤️❤️, such a cool game. It’s kind of unfortunate that big companies don’t really finance these weird unmarketable passion projects anymore, although I guess it’s better that they’re done by individuals with no oversight nowadays. I would maybe put Rez down as an extra on this list, that game’s pretty out there.

    Hope you’ve been well. Sounds scary, about your mum and the piano I mean. I remember my bio dad very angrily playing the same few bars of Bach whenever anyone annoyed him, I think it’s like a natural anger/misery release mechanism for some people, maybe specifically playing music loudly and badly, like a really pretentious version of teenagers slamming their door and playing metal as loud as they can. I definitely totally get it, it’s an unbelievably cathartic way to spend a few hours. I must’ve played, like, 14 hours over the weekend, my hands were shaking from muscle stiffness for a lot of today. There’s something very pleasant about totally giving over your body to a set of instructions in order to make something nice-sounding, if that doesn’t come of as a bit fetishistic. Anyway, thanks for the great day, Kevin Renfield and Dennis, see you!

  11. HaRpEr //

    I’m famously a gaming novice but maybe this can help change that. A lot of these seem great for me because I really just like wandering around and moving in repetitive, hypnotic patterns in games.

    I have a real interest in films that ride a weird but fascinating line between being genius and terrible, probably due to the weight of such a huge, basically impossible vision. Maybe ‘Casanova’ is in that category? I’d say films like ‘Boom!’, ‘Showgirls’, and ‘Megalopolis’ fit the bill.

    Have you ever seen ‘Tiptoes’? It’s bizarre. The plot is that Gary Oldman has dwarfism. It was initially supposed to be a fairly visionary project by the director of ‘Freeway’, but the studio said no way when they realised what was happening and edited it to be an inspirational family drama, quashed by the fact that every scene is utterly bizarre. I recommend it, anyway.

    The class dynamics in the UK have always been really disheartening to me. There’s a really distinct divide. Of course, there’s the same thing in America where there are rich people who want to appear ‘poor’ to seem cool, and poor people who want to appear ‘rich’, but there’s also a really peculiar fetishism for being bourgeois and a disdain towards anyone who can’t fit that. There’s a lot of people who love the elitism of the publishing industry and act like that’s a subversive position. Being proudly mediocre is strange.

  12. Gustavo

    Hey Dennis, thanks for the reply. This website is really cool. Some sick games in this list. I have seen LSD: Dream Emulator before, Californium in particular got my attention, I will try to check it out. As for me, I am based in Brazil and I’m still in college studying mechanical engineering, not sure if you have a lot of readers from over here. I am really into vídeo games and comics. As for my literature, it is really limited, I usually stick with the “classics” that are overly focused on plot, I got a little tired of them lately. I will stick around and use this blog to gather some recommendations on experimental stuff

  13. Steve

    Are the antibiotics helping? Is the infection affecting your vision? (Despite my blurry vision, I’m forcing myself to keep reading.)

    I’d thought about going to Locarno this summer, but after looking at nearby hotel and restaurant prices, I’m aiming to attend 2027 Rotterdam instead. The city seems a lot more affordable – one article I read said Switzerland and Norway are the most expensive countries on the planet.

    When I read discourse about class in the UK, the attitude that the best artists are working-class lingers in the background, even though in the status quo, so many British actors and musicians are repo babies. (Just like Martin Amis!)

    I came across a fascinating Youtube channel, Obscurites Japonaises: https://www.youtube.com/@ObscuritesJaponaises-cx7cj. They’ve posted tons of obscure Japanese music, particularly punk and visual kei, much of it impossible to track down elsewhere in the West.

  14. rewritedept

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    yeah, pinback rule. today’s post rules too. i wanna mess around with some ROMs of that LSD dream emulator game. you know me, though. i’m just a drug fiend. hey, at least i’m not strung out on oxy anymore. quit drinking a few years back too, when i discovered that booze makes me violently ill now. before i quit, i was drinking a 12-pack a day, plus killing off two litres of jameson a week. i don’t miss it (i mean, i do still have a cocktail once in a while like when i’m out with my dad or on special occasions, but my body literally won’t let me drink more than two (by drink three, i have a blinding migraine and will usually be unable to keep food or water down for two or three days)).

    got my super cool pinback T, which you can see at the insta. had an uneventful day and weekend, worked, watched some movies (cecil b demented, cry-baby, dirty shame, and pecker, as well as more arrested development (i keep forgetting the dino jr doco is streaming on criterion channel for the next little bit and i need to watch it)). hung out with my adorable teddy bear of a kitty cat. did you get some good rest and chase away that jetlag?

    yes, as i said, i’m super late to pinback/rob crow. i always knew who they/he were, just never got around to them until after the first plosivs record blew my mind. luckily, my roommate’s a big pinback fan so he helped point the way for me. that plosivs record fucking rules too. both plosivs records are pretty solid, really. it’s about time crow and swami john finally did a project together, although it would just be that much better if rick froberg was still alive. at the least, apparently the last hot snakes album is almost ready for release, so we’ll get to hear what they were working on when rick kicked off. i generally adore that whole san diego scene, from jehu to the locust to 3mp and all points between. one of the funniest things i’ve ever seen was this hippy/crusty dude moshing barefoot at a locust show. glad i got to see them once before they called it quits, i missed my chance with jehu but did see hot snakes in 2012.

    hope yr monday was great and that tuesday promises the same.

    talk soon.

    -c.

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