New Year

It's hard to believe that it's 2023.  Sigh.  Where the hell did 2022, let alone 2020 and 2021, go?  They all went by so incredibly fast that it literally scares the living hell out of me.

No news flash here but I've never been a party or a people person so New Year's Eve normally is a time to watch a couple if not a slew of films at home.  This year's choices were the oddly disturbing "Brimstone & Treacle", a film I haven't seen since the mid 80's, and then followed up by "The Ice Storm", a film I literally despised when I saw it in the theater originally but would now rave about.  Both films are rather disturbing, I think, and the end of "The Ice Storm" isn't exactly uplifting, and so 2023 began with tears in my eyes as the film was finishing up.  Now, if that isn't a "me" way of ringing in the new year...well, I don't know what is.

Ironically, I kept hearing rain all through "The Ice Storm" and was mildly impressed with how realistic the sound bar was sounding tonight.  Little did I know that it's actually pouring rain outside, and how appropriate the timing was, as if it was trying to add a bit more ambience to the already heavy mood filled movie.

I'll admit that this week has not gone really according to plan on multiple levels but I have been trying to get a little bit of work done and also relaxation time in.  I'm not sleeping well right now and I'm not sure why, and I've been overall in not the greatest mood either.  I kind of feel like the last 3-4 months finally caught up with me at long last.  I did just discover that Dark Horse Comics released a slew of original "Tales from the Crypt", "Vault of Horror", and "The Haunt of Fear" comics in big bound bundles and so I've been reading some of the latter in the evening which has been quite fun.  I remember buying some of those back in the late 80's when they were reprinted for a short period of time.  I have no idea what happened to those comics that I owned and I fear that my parents, in their infinite wisdom and not so good nature, threw all of them out at some point.  In any event, it's been nice revisiting some of that stuff after all of these years and I'll surely buy more.

In regards to music, I have been working on the "Lost Weekend" remixes and so far they're coming along nicely.  I did a bit of work on the Defrost Nixon album but it was incredibly frustrating so I have yet to return to it.  At the same time, I know that Peele is still struggling with "The Effects of Connection" and we're both experiencing some of the same issues, mainly drum problems.  It'll be interesting to compare how we both deal with these issues in the end and what the final result comes out being.

That's it for now (it's 12:30am) but more in a few days.  Happy New Year everyone and let's hope for a decent 2023!  I think we'd all agree that we sure could use it.