I havent had or seen this since 2014, it was the first craft beer 6 pack I purchased and it was somewhere between $26 – $30? The most expensive 6 pack I had purchased at the time. I love the art on the containers and on the 6 pack holder. Its also a great old school style Rye IPA. Caramel and spicy rye malts, and a real nice big traditional bitterness. That old school “balanced” idea. Great stuff.
1 shot Grappa
1 shot Campari
Pour over ice top with Chinoto and finish with a twist of Basil leaf left in the glass.
Don’t support Australia Day, but always happy to have a public holiday and have a few beers.
Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose, Orange Ale 4.2% 375ml can. Pretty sure a version of this was my first Gose? I’d have to look back but some version of this was always around in the early days and disappeared and is now back on shelves. Its a good, enjoyable Gose, nothing extreme, easy drinking. Nice!
Nowhereman Raspberry Citrus Lager, 4.5% 375ml can. I love Nowhereman, but this is a bit meh because this particular can has real low carbonation, the raspberry and citrus suffers because of this I think. Decent beer, I reckon It would have been great fresh on tap. Will try it again if I can.
Beerfarm Passion Pils, Pilsner, 4.2% 375ml can. Smells like passionfruit and passionfruity hops. Did not expect how hoppy this would be for a fruited beer, Its not dulled down to allow for the fruit at all, just a straight up Pilsner with passionfruit in it. Its a nice beer, with some passionfruit adding a slight sourness and a nice smell. Crazy.
King Road Brewing Seasonal Pilsner, 4.5%, 375ml can. Made with a local grown hop called Beedelup. Canned in October so worried these hops wont be shining like they should. Still, its a Pilsner, so we’re not looking too hard at flavour or smell as much as bitterness, I guess. It still smells fantastic, very lemony, and that nice standard lager smell. This is a fantastic Pilsner, the hops are a very rounded bitterness rather than a sharp or focused bitterness but still fully fulfills the Pilsner hop needs. Excellent choice of hop. The malts, the yeast, the balance is all really great. Super enjoyable. First beer from this brewery and I hope to try more.
Big Shed Smash Gordon, SMASH Pale Ale, 4.5% 375ml can. Gladfield American Ale malt and US Bru-1 hops. This is a pale ale, tastes like a perfectly fine pale ale. Clean as all heck. The malt is very slightly bready. The hops seem very candy berry and pineapple. Perfectly good pale ale. Nice.
Two teas that were pretty good.
Suntory Green Dakara Yasashii Mugicha. A standard barley tea. You can taste the seaweed which give its a nice extra taste.
Ito En Oi Ocha Bold Unsweetened Green Tea. This is really strong flavoured, and has a very pungent green tea smell.
I am loving these guys films. Something in the Dirt was my first encounter, a completely bizarre film about paranoia, disinformation, “buddies” experiencing the paranormal together and trying to document it.
It made me want to watch all of their movies and I have really enjoyed every one of them.
Resolution (2012), the first film by the duo. Not as outright crazy as Something in the Dirt, but lots of strange happenings around a relatively normal center story about a guy who wants to get his friend off crack so he chains him to the wall of the shack hes living in and stays with him until hes sober. While staying safe from drug dealers and exploring the surroundings it seems someone or some thing is recording them. This is definitely my favorite, though its hard to separate from The Endless.
Spring (2014) is heaps different to Resolution and Something in the Dirt. Its a body horror love story.
Completely different to what I was expecting. Its basically a “normal” horror film. Has make up effects and such. Its pretty good, its weird still and definitely interesting, has serious moments spliced with humor, particularly after the reveal happens to the main character, and has some of the quirky personality I really love in their Resolution and Something in the Dirt. And, like Resolution, an ending that leaves you guessing. But yeah its a professional looking supernatural horror about two lovers.
The Endless (2017) is in the same universe as Resolution and can be “interpreted” as a sequel, sharing some of the same characters. Two brothers who escaped a UFO cult as children are drawn back to it when they receive a video recording in the mail. One brother, Justin, thinks its a death cult, the other, Aaron, thinks its benign. They both have extremely different experiences at the camp – Justin’s one of horror, and Aaron’s one of an escape from reality. There are quite a few cross-over moments between this film and Resolution: A drug the owner of Sandy the dog smokes in Resolution (a red plant) reappears being smoked by a cultist. A cult member draws a picture of a “gun nut tweaker” – Chris, the drug addict main character from Resolution. Chris is also mentioned by a person trapped in the time loop to Justin when hes being told how to escape, and Justin visits the cabin and speaks with Mike and Chris, who is chained to the wall. Mike shows Justin a video of possibly the entity killing them and talks about how they are stuck in a loop. After Justin leaves we see Mike light fire to the cabin in what is possibly an alternative ending to Resolution. Justin encounters Aaron and they visit the trailer where the owner of Sandy the dog lives but he is away, they see the red drug plant again. Earlier while fishing Justin finds a tape and on it are the 3 religious people by the river in Resolution, two of them are Justin and Aaron. There is also a moment where they watch a TV and see they have been filmed by some”entity”. Another really great, bizarre and supernatural film by these guys.
Synchronic (2019) Two paramedics encounter bizarre deaths linked to a designer drug called Synchronic, its legal and I guess like K2 or bath salts, someone in the film calls it “fake Ayahuasca”. There’s a fair bit of story about the lives of the two guys and their personal issues, which is interspersed with the fucked up effects of the drug on the people they encounter during their job. Steve who has been diagnosed with a cancer on his pineal encounters the inventor of Synchronic who tells him the drug will be able to make him travel through time. He decides to experiment with it to find his partners daughter who had done the drug at a party and disappeared. And its gets weird. Like Spring, this is a more polished and “normal” film. It is mentioned the drug is made from a red flower, which is the drug we see in both Resolution and The Endless.
After Midnight (2019) and She Dies Tomorrow (2020), both films they were only producers on, I will watch at another time.
Rustic Films
Justin Benson @ Instagram
Aaron Moorhead @ Instagram
Bizarre, excellent film.
Does it even have an explanation beyond a character study of I guess a rather gullible person and a person who is already more invested both wanting to find answers. And I guess the dis/information overload of modern society. I liked it, a lot, watching it was confusing but thinking about it after I think is the only way to pull it together, which felt impossible while watching. Neither of them were right, but John was an asshole, convicted to something more already. And Levi was just looking for answers, troubled, and they both just got wrapped up in ultimately destructive bullshit. I don’t think the “behind the scenes” footage in the credits was in film, or showing the characters faking anything. I think we have to assume the supernatural things were their delusions, an expression of the characters investment in their endeavor, their want to see or understand more, hence why it created conflict when one or the other did or didn’t see or believe in each others things.
Honestly. I have no idea. I loved it.
