Weekend Guide:🔥Welcome to Hell🔥

Snatch Wylden's "Hell"

Jesus, take the wheel.

Welcome to hell.

Snatch Wylden’s Hell.

William Cody Watson and I have history. Friend. Collaborator. Influence. WCW is an arbiter of taste - books, music, film - the guy sure does know his shit. I have always been interested in tracking whatever he’s on about.

This week, I’m passing WCW the mic. Giving him some room to share the inspiration behind his new work “Snatch Wylden’s Hell”.

Listen to what the man said.

Snatch Wylden’s “HELL” is a surreal topography of [the] traumatized psyche and the quest for both self-destruction and self-realization and the pestilential absurdity that lies through it all. Its antipoetry narrative displays what hell is (or can be) and how to get there, through a lens greased by Brackhage, Beksiński, Hooper, Cioran, Fukui, and death metal.

See below for some very tight WCW recommendations:

5 Books

Jean Baudrillard - Transparency of Evil

Christopher Norris - Hunchback ‘88

Harry Crews - Feast of Snakes

John Trefry - Apparitions of the Living

Paul Curran - Left Hand

5 Movies

Alain Robbe-Grillet - L'Eden et après

Marguerite Duras - Agatha et les Lectures Illimitées

Stan Brakhage - Dog Star Man

Jean Rollin - Lèvres de Sang

Philippe Grandrieux - Sombre

5 Albums

Exhumed - Gone Metal

Geto Boys - Geto Boys

Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels

Antediluvian - The Divine Punishment

Ozzy Osbournce - Blizzard of Ozz

If the recommendations aren’t enough for you, Mr. Watson cooked up a special mix for the Guide faithful. Enjoy.