Tomorrow's newsletter is written, the week's bit of subscriber-exclusive 100-word microfiction all tucked in. Haven't decided if I'll return to doing the audio versions yet, that decision'll have to wait until tomorrow morning. If you'd like to partake, you can sign up here.
THE 80'Z – UZC
While my brilliant hermano didn't succeed in making me love 80's music (he’s brilliant, not a miracle worker), he did succeed, WILDLY, in making me love his take on 80's music: the most fun 23 minutes you'll have with an album this week.
Update/20231018 :: new video!
seven quick notes on THE FLASH (2023) No. 1
The Flash is one of my least favorite characters
until the right team hits the right notes
and he becomes one of my favorites.
This is the right team hitting all the right notes
(whatever they are – though Wally's a big plus)
and then some.
Can't wait for issue two.
66 RUE L – Chantal Michelle
Haunting and evocative synthesis of ambient and jazz and musique concrète into something wholly her own. A most happy discovery – will have this one on heavy rotation for awhile.
DOCTOR X (Michael Curtiz, 1932)
(Directed by Michael Curtiz from a script by Robert Tasker and Earl Baldwin adapted from the stageplay TERROR, by Howard W. Comstock; starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, Leila Bennett, and George Rosener. Released 03 August 1932; watched 2023w40 via Criterion Channel)
SYNTHETIC FLESH!
My passion for pre-code two-strip technicolor remains intact and, though I view DOCTOR X as the lesser of Curtiz's pre-code, Fay Wray-starring offerings (MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM is a masterpiece – and I prefer it to its 1953 remake), I can't help but love it. Will rewatch WAX MUSEUM before the month is out to cement that opinion – anticipate seeing DOCTOR X as trial run for things mastered in WAX: Atwill (one of my favorite actors) as the scientist; the globby makeup of the killer – SYNTHETIC FLESH!! –; Fay Wray screaming – no one was more luminous than she in two-strip technicolor; the newspaper reporter hero (barely Jimmy Olsen here in contrast to proto-Lois Lane in WAX); the fiery denouement in X being the inciting incident in WAX...
An entertaining romp that, if nothing else, kept me guessing and, unlike WAX MUSEUM, had a psychopath screaming SYNTHETIC FLESH! May revise my opinion accordingly.
