#Spiral Drive

[doomedandstoned]

THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW

~Season 9, Episode 1~

This is the first episode of 2023 and also marks the ninth season of The Doomed & Stoned Show. For almost a decade we've been bringing you some of the best music from the heavy underground, with a focus on contemporary doom metal and stoner rock. Get access to previous seasons of the show here.

In this show, Billy Goate (Editor, Doomed & Stoned), John Gist (CEO, Vegas Rock Revolution), and Bucky Brown (Contributor, Doom Charts) get into their Top 5 favorite albums of 2022, exploring 15 unique albums between them. We hope you dig it.

PLAYLIST

INTRO (00:00) 1. Black Lung - "Dark Waves" (00:31)

HOST SEGMENT I - no. 5 albums (05:38)   > incidental music: Heavy Relic 2. Steak - "Dead Meat" (22:47) 3. Rumours - "Broken Sighs and Burning Tears" (25:49) 4. Hazemaze - "In The Night Of The Light For The Dark" (32:16)

HOST SEGMENT II - no. 4 albums (38:00)   > incidental music: Heavy Relic 5. Messa - "Dark Horse" (51:56) 6. Spiral Drive - "Lines For Lives" (59:03) 7. Sasquatch - "Lilac" (1:04:02)

HOST SEGMENT III - no. 3 albums (1:08:17)   > incidental music: Mephedrone 8. Sergeant Thunderhoof - "You've Stolen The Words" (1:22:34) 9. King Buffalo - "Mercury" (1:31:12) 10. Domkraft - "The Brush Descends the Length" (1:35:43)

HOST SEGMENT IV - no. 2 albums (1:39:23)   > incidental music: Mission Pilots and the Dropkick Apollos 11. Sons of Arrakis - "Lonesome Preacher" (1:47:51) 12. Abrams - "Better Living" (1:53:05) 13. Kurokuma - "Jaguar" (1:57:22)

HOST SEGMENT V - no. 1 albums (2:05:16)   > incidental music: Frozen Planet...1969 14. MWWB - "Altamira" (2:37:08) 15. Grave Bathers - "Blood Money" (2:44:53) 16. Freedom Hawk - "From The Inside Out" (2:50:11)

OUTRO (2:54:33) 17. Early Moods - "Last Rites" (bonus track)

Thumbnail: detail of Grave Bathers cover art by Benjamin Marra.

[weirdplutoprince]

bunny comic

[spijkerschrift]

Because it's Spiral Drive.

[californiannostalgia]

symbolically tashi is motivation, patrick is faith, and art is dedication

you can't play good tennis without all three

[samipekoe]

I was bummed out about the amnesia thing but soon I found a way to make it feed my illness

[p4nishers]

im actually gonna choke and die at this point. bobby has to PULL EDDIE off buck. like he actually fucking tugs at his coat and PULLS HIM AWAY. clawing my eyes out EDDIE DOESN'T LOOK AWAY FROM BUCK UNTIL HE ABSOLUTELY HAS TO. WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS.

[imminent-danger-came]

So like, "Sunshine boi who is mentally ill" MK takes don't cut it for me. It's too simple.

Like, yes, of course MK is mentally ill with a self-esteem of wet-paper. But he's also complacent. He has no real motivations out side of saving his friends and maybe the world (which usually line up). He hate's change. He refuses to acknowledge anything that questions his world view. In 4x05 MK says he can just ask Monkey King if he's MK's dad. MK doesn't ask. After they free Wukong he doesn't ask about the curse, or the stone, or the visions of Wukong he saw. Why? Because he doesn't want to acknowledge it. He doesn't want to know about himself. In 4x11, MK pushes Macaque about what happened between him and Wukong, if only to cement Wukong's "good guy" status in his head. In 4x02 he didn't even question risking releasing the curse to save his friends. In 4x08, even after learning about Azure's view of Wukong, this doesn't change's MK's choices. He immediately wants to let Wukong out of the scroll, without considering what the best course of action would be. He just wanted to free Wukong, consequences be damned, even if it meant relying on this strange new power that scares him (which makes him the opposite of Macaque, who couldn't/wouldn't free Wukong from the mountain). This cognitive dissonance upsets MK so much that when Azure presses him about his relationship with Wukong in 4x13, MK snaps. He doesn't want to hurt his friends the way Wukong hurt him ("Can't you see you're hurting the people who care about you the most?" [3x10] and "I can't risk hurting the people I care about, the one's I have left" [4x08]). And yet, MK leaves in 4x08 just like Wukong left in 3x10, hurting his friends in the exact way Wukong hurt him. He always wanted to be more like the legendary Monkey King, and now he is. Now he has all of the worst parts of Wukong in him. Nothing else matters as long as he has his friends by his side. But what if he runs away? What if he pushes them away? What if his friends turn on him, seeing him for the monster he will become? What then?

[nerdie-faerie]

I'm once again thinking about the missed opportunities to have Klaus and Kol bond more. Part of Klaus' whole motivation as a vampire is to get his werewolf part back and to finally be stronger than Mikael (sort of, I'm simplifying) both of which can be obtained by breaking his curse. But Kol? Kol is the only other original that can relate to having a fundamental part of themself ripped away from them. Klaus might not have known he was a werewolf until he killed, but he likely still had a connection he couldn't explain, as evident by him going to watch the wolves transform. And something he'd never been able to explain was now gone. He might only be able to realise the connection afterwards through its absence.

Kol though. Kol had grown up with magic, a connection to nature and the world around him in a way the rest of his siblings supposedly didn't have. And then he gets turned. And not only has his baby brother died, his father has just murdered him and the rest of his siblings after forcing them to drink human blood, which he'll later learn. Now, not only does he have to deal with the grief of Henrik's death and also his own but also the loss of his magic. A loss that's likely only worsened by Kol being a self-proclaimed child prodigy.

Kol is pretty much the only one who could understand what Klaus is going through with the binding of his wolf. We know Kol searched for ways to get his magic back/carry on practicing magic in the same way that Klaus was looking for ways to break his curse. While Klaus likely could still feel his wolf there despite being bound, Kol has no access to his magic anymore. I just think they should've been able to bond or connect over their shared loss of an intrinsic aspect of their selves at the hands of their parents

[crunchy-rocc]

oc posting ….. worst therapist ever and his ex patient

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ah yes! the joys of executive dysfunction and something being Fundamentally Broken In Your Braincase!

[fieriframes]

[Farewell vicious night. The Ancient Fire calls your name. The invisible spiral will always remember the responders to the Midnight Caller. The ones who write the stories. And to whom the stories go. Perhaps the eternal moon will rise again. Perhaps the darkness has reached its end.]

XIV - La Ville Invisible

Après être arrivé au lieu où se confondent existence et non-existence, une porte verte est apparue, invoquée là depuis les plaines pastorales de la plus ancienne Arcadie. J'ai chanté à la porte ces paroles qui précédaient les ténèbres : Daphnis ego in silvis, hinc usque ad sidera notus.

Des années de mystère m'avaient amené à ce seul paragraphe. Un voyage où, à chaque étape du chemin, j'espérais une conclusion, mais j'ai reçu davantage de questions à la place. Cette fois ne faisait pas exception.

Je l'ai répété encore et encore dans mon esprit. C'était enivrant. Ça ressemblait à une incantation pour des esprits puissants, comme écrit dans les livres. Mais les esprits ne sont jamais venus à moi. Même mes rêves avaient commencé à échapper à ma mémoire, comme l'amnésie dans une berceuse.

J'ai appris autant que possible sur la partie la plus significative du paragraphe : Daphnis ego in silvis, hinc usque ad sidera notus. Je fus Daphnis, habitant des bois, d’où mon nom s’est élevé jusqu’aux cieux. Cette épitaphe qui apparaît sur de nombreuses pierres tombales arcadiennes. Les origines mêmes de l’expression Et In Arcadia Ego. Les mots qui ont précédé les ténèbres.

J'ai appelé Mars Éditions encore et encore, personne ne répondait. Je suis allé au 12 Rue Jacob, mais l'enseigne au néon était éteinte et il n'y avait personne à l'intérieur. J'ai appelé The Library of Babel à Londres où j'ai acquis Nuit Sans Fin, sachant exactement à quoi m'attendre. C'est-à-dire pas de réponse.

Il me semblait que j'étais vraiment seul.

Dès le début, on avait eu l’impression que quelqu’un, ou peut-être l’univers, essayait de parler sans voix. Si j'étais honnête avec moi-même, aussi fou que ça puisse paraître, j'avais l'impression que Leonora elle-même essayait de me dire quelque chose. Chaque fois que j’arrivais dans une impasse, j’avais l’impression de la laisser tomber.

Cette ultime impasse n’a fait qu’intensifier mon intérêt pour cette phrase latine particulière et tout ce qui l’accompagnait. J'ai plongé non seulement dans le monde de l'épopée romaine et de la mythologie celtique, mais aussi dans celui de Leonora et d'autres artistes surréalistes. Livres, expositions, cours du soir, documentaires, tout ce que je pouvais trouver.

Je dois admettre que le rayon de ce nouvel intérêt s'est élargi de jour en jour et j'ai découvert de nouvelles avenues et de nouveaux mystères à explorer. Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, Noëmi Manser, Kati Horna, Hilma af Klint, Julia Soboleva ont tous transformé ma vie en un rêve ambulant et ont ajouté une touche de magie à ma façon de penser et de voir le monde. Comme si mes yeux s'étaient ouverts sur “l'autre Paris”, l'invisible, les passages secrets entre les couches.

Malgré cela, Leonora ne m'a jamais quitté. J'ai une obligation envers elle que je n'ai pas remplie. Je ne sais pas quand, je ne sais pas comment, mais j'espère plus que tout qu'un jour je pourrai répondre à l'appel. Que si je peux enfin être là pour elle. Pour son esprit. Pour jouer mon rôle. Il y a une raison pour laquelle elle m'a trouvé, mais je ne la connais pas encore.

En attendant, je la garde dans ma vie. Dans mes rêves, en cette nuit sans fin. 𑁍

[spijkerschrift]

Current mood.

[ddarker-dreams]

yan scara is so weird because he'll regale you with a monologue about how he'd smolder the world in ash and flame should you ever leave him, but simultaneously finds it too embarrassing to say you look pretty or whatever. like where was that sense of shame five minutes ago during his macabre speech ??

[lollytea]

I do love the netflix avatar in my own way because it provides me with enrichment in the same way brain puzzles do for chimps. Like something is WRONG here and it's your very special job to figure out why! And then you will get juice reward!!

[watchingyoufromthestars]

Dndads fans who’ve listened to tma does anyone have any ideas on who I could parallel for my last three fears? I’m setting up all the entity marks and I’m still missing Vast, Flesh, and Dark. I’m considering Barry as a Flesh avatar but I also want to put him in Willy’s (Elias) inner circle along with Bill (Peter). Can be literally any character even NPCs we met for only one episode. The only off limits ones are the s2 teens including Hermie. Their roles are super set in stone.

[ashtonsunshine]

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