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Was torn between doing Empire of the Dark and Faust and eventually went with this after seeing the Corman-esque credits rolling in at the start.

It’s surprisingly entertaining, overall [the first 15 minutes].

The main guy, Steve Barkett, veers close to Neil Breen/McNamara Bros. terrain but has three times the charm and this piece is only half about the film really.

Just like Hologram Man and White Fire, there’s a murdered text underneath, a text that got rejected by various mags, and now it’s here, living its best life under the Trash F-Log banner.

If you think those are Karel Thole paintings you’re seeing darkened + bastardised, you’ll be right. I reckon they fit quite well with the tone that came up from some place beyond me [maybe from Satanite].There’s rage too, maybe the same impotent rage we all feel right now cos we can’t in reality soak the Zionists/Biden/half the Western World in green fire and posting stuff like this is both a coping mechanism and something bleak that makes me feel worse.

The white on black-ground is awful and terrible for your eyes, unless it’s only 22 pages, then it’s okay. More problematic is my future coping mechanism/something bleak, Xxun, which will be 100+ pages of white text on black-ground, maybe even more than that, I haven’t decided yet.

Yet maybe it’s not so bad cos I’ve been reading X( )-id </3 by Ami J. Sanghvi and that uses green text on black-ground. In fact, think of this piece as practise for my de-con-struc of that [coming soon], and that de-con-struc as practise for Xxun.

If your eyes do start to hurt, skip to the Steve Barkett in Supermarket pic, it’s in garish colour.

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