Today's treat on This Is Horror Podcast YouTube is the full conversation with Kylie Lee Baker in which we talk about Japanese Gothic, Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, her writing routine, and much more.
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The cycle begins anew with the 5 must read horror articles online, curated by @kevharrison.bsky.social, only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
I love how you see the connection between jazz and weird fiction too. So much jazz is concerned with achieving a sense of enlightenment. Really, you could lump a lot of prog, fusion, and folk into that as well. It's all connected.
Listening to Robert Plant's SAVING GRACE album and finding it's scratching a current itch I have quite well. Make no mistake, this latest by Plant covers everything from Folk/Americana to country and all stops in between, but he sounds better than ever.
I'm coming to appreciate music I didn't care for when I was younger. Especially Neil Young. It's not getting older, because I still find bands like early Opeth and Blood Incantation fascinating. I'm still a metal head, but I'm a rocker too. Fortunately, there's a ton of Neil's music out there.
I go back to the work tomorrow. I did not accomplish much during my vacation other than rekindling my love of guitar playing and relaxing my brain. I didn't write much, but to be honest, I'm cool with that. Reset in progress, feeling good and guilt free about the way things are progressing.
Very late to the party but I finally watched 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE and loved it. Really digging the post-apocalyptic folklore they’re building here.
I use Hudson vinyl covers for most of my albums, but some of the gatefolds won't fit and the trifolds definitely won't fit.
Vinyl enthusiasts ... what outer sleeves do you use to protect your gatefold/trifold albums. I'm not interested in those fancy ones that cover inside and outside of the album, just wanting something to protect my album covers. There's a ton online but most do what I don't want them to do.
Today's treat on This Is Horror Patreon, submit questions for Dan Howarth (@danhowarth20.bsky.social) as he returns to the show to discuss his new novella, DRONE.
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Today's treat on This Is Horror Podcast, Kylie Lee Baker talks about writing Japanese Gothic, chapter outlines, her best writing advice, and much more.
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I love it when websites remind me I have an adblocker. Makes me smile and click “Dismiss” when they want to turn it off.
I'm so happy she's back!
Listening to Herbie Hancock's Empyrean Isles reading about prog folk bands. Life is weird but I like it like that.
except from writing session 4/17/26
Excerpt from today's writing session.
Bob Pastorella signing copies of THE SMALL HOURS
How about a "what if" concerning the greatest vampire?
THE SMALL HOURS, published by @ghoulish.bsky.social, answers those burning questions you never knew you had.
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It's funny, horny, and very, very bloody!
While jazz still serves as an inspiration for my WIP, I have slipped further down the progressive folk rock audio landscape. The connection, of course, is folklore and the occult, magic and shifting the veil between the spiritual and corporeal world.
The Top Gun franchise is, to me, a culmination of everything that's wrong with the world. I loath the first movie, have never seen the 2nd, and now there's a 3rd one on the way. Why? One was too much. I will never understand why some people continuously glorify the American military apparatus.
Listened this morning, loved it, sliding into regular rotation, but that's no surprise from someone who recently ordered a never played copy of Hesistation Marks on vinyl for a pretty penny or two.
Listening to Green Lung's Black Harvest. I think what I love about these guys is they're like a modern version of a mix between Sabbath and Deep Purple/Jethro Tull.
When I see "the creator didn't seem to have a grasp for the material" in a review I can almost guarantee the reviewer is clueless. Just say it didn't work for you and move the fuck on.
That's like saying "this is bad". No, you didn't like it, big deal, there's a bunch of stuff I don't like either.
Dammit, apparently my info must have been sourced by A.I.. Sorry.
Listening to Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes on vinyl and for all its excessiveness, it was truly groundbreaking when it released. You can hear how it completely influenced Rush, which is a damn good thing.
My finger's are toughening up. Been playing with the different channels on the amp hunting for that clean Gilmour sound, which is basically low gain, some compression and sustain. I'm pretty close, but if there's one thing I don't like about playing it's fucking with the effects. I just wanna play.
Seems the reason this place is wonky today is because it's been enshittified with A.I. ... right?
Those beholden to A.I. are incapable of critical thought. They are the ones who cannot, so they take "fake it until you make it" to a whole nother level. Fucking hacks.
Sad to see Allan Holdsworth passed away yesterday from heart disease. Another jazz legend gone. RIP.
I know lots of people have been sharing this but it’s too amazing not to share myself. Tom Waits & Massive Attack have made an incredible, angry track. Please watch the video. So important.
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