Doompunk Dispatch

Tag: Cult

  • Tulpa-Punk

    I collect parafictional paraphernalia. You know what I’m talking about: fake things within real things. Hoaxes you can hold in your hand. Nesting doll tales. I boast the complete works of Sutter Cane on my shelf, including the book with actual words between the covers, for which I sacrificed my sanity in a review here. Sutter…

  • Words Grow Weird in Alphabet Gardens

    “…when the great Demiurge, Faro Lord of Waters and the Word, was setting the world in order, he made women fertile with tomatoes and in return women continue from time to time to make offerings of this vegetable to the god.” ~ Dictionary of Symbols Blue sky over a green field with short grass. The…

  • Book Review: Sutter Cane’s In The Mouth Of Madness

    [Originally published on Psychopomp.com] The mind behind reality is insane. That’s the seed from which sprouts the fleshy jungle of Sutter Cane’s masterwork, In The Mouth of Madness, the culmination of his horror career. Is the mind behind reality your own consciousness, that hermit sea trapped behind the rocky shore of your skull? Or is this…

  • Word Begets Image

    [Originally published on I Have That On Vinyl] “Word Begets Image, and Image Is Virus.” I first heard those words on a CD called The Elvis of Letters, which I snatched for ten bucks from the old Amoeba Music on Sunset. I had made a habit of buying cheap discs in the hopes of jolting myself…

  • Delicious Lysergic Doom

    Title tale of the book, DRIPPY TRIPPY DOOM. We arrived at the church late into the night. Peering up, I appraised the wooden structure. Abandoned years ago when apocalyptic Lutherans were driven out of the basin by the Tongva, it had fallen into disrepair. A century of high desert winds had gifted the teetering steeple…

  • The Color of Hope in Furiosa: Black & Chrome

    [originally published in Exploits #86, an Unwinnable publication] The Black & Chrome edition of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is not entirely black and white. We see startling bursts of color that magnify the film’s thematic preoccupations. This begins with the story’s original sin: a bright peach plucked from the edge of the Green Place.…

  • Call Me Face Stabber

    a strange tale with original art by Jorge Peña

  • Beauty of Horror: Beyond the Black Rainbow II.

    [Check out Part I. — Picking up from 47:09] David Kane: I just wanna say that I love the opening of this movie, because I love dystopian propaganda as an aesthetic. Shockaholic: (laughs) It’s very good. DK: It’s the perfect paradox of, “You should feel fine,” and as a viewer, you’re like, “I’m gonna go…

  • Beauty of Horror: Beyond The Black Rainbow I.

    In 2020, Chandler Bullock a.k.a. Shockaholic was kind enough to host me on their podcast Beauty Of Horror. Our topic was Panos Cosmatos’ masterful film debut. You can listen here and follow along with this transcript of our conversation (I edited out some of my copious stammering): ANNOUNCER: This is the Anatomy of a Scream…

  • Graphic Novel Review: Polygondwanaland

    Check out my review of Hellmouth Comics‘ adaptation of the psychedelic rock album Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. It’s live on kglw.net. The author and illustrator were kind enough to answer questions for an interview, which will be posted later. Keep thy three eyes open wide. In the meantime, here’s a primer…