Winter playlist ❄️ and a note ✍️ to you 🫵 (Patreon)

I was going to make this an Anchor show and answer your questions in between the songs, but in the end I thought it was better to just put this together as its own discreet thing. No particular stylistic theme other than I enjoy taking long winter walks with music like this playing. Hope you enjoy.

I want to say a massive thank you for supporting the work and offering so much encouraging/constructive feedback. I know it's kind of a cliché to say "I couldn't do this show without you" but, well, I really couldn't. I only brought the damn thing out of mothballs because you guys kept bugging me to finish Amerikan Tabloid (that was almost two years ago, come to think of it...my God), and now every last second of every episode only exists because you guys care enough to have thrown some loot into the hat. "Thank you" isn't enough really, so how about a ❤️ as well.

We'll keep kicking ass all through 2023 - my workflow is more honed and there are so many fascinating and fucked up places we have yet to explore. Think of the end of The Octopus and our time in America (for now) as the end of Phase 2 of the show. Phase 3 is going to be a homecoming of sorts, where we return to the haunted continent and my part of the world to revisit some old topics and massively expand on them, while moving into some dark, uncharted waters.

Also, keep an eye out for a relatively big merch-related announcement in the next week or so. I've been reluctant to release merch for some time, simply because I haven't come up with any shirt or mug or hat designs I really like. But I think (I pray) you'll like the alternative we've settled on just as much (we are still sketching out ideas for posters and shirts but, like I think I've said before, even if we aren't trying to steal the show in Milan, they still need to be of a certain quality before I can in good conscience ask for more money from people in these trying times).

Anyway, more details to follow soon.

Happy New Year, and I'll meet you on the sea floor for Chapter 10 of THE OCTOPUS.