moodboard: Soundtrack for the "American Psycho" comic by the synth maestro Perturbator.

I got a chance to read the First issue of the American Psycho comic (2023) in its reworking and homage to the 1996 movie adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel "American Psycho", directed by Mary Harron, with its cleverly devised screenplay co-written by Guinevere Turner.  Suffice to say, the comic is awful, in its attempt at trying to fuse the perplexity of Ellis's main character Patrick Bateman's neurotic, cocaine induced psychosis, into a gory murder mystery (adding new characters and 'modernizing' the narration); while utilizing Harron and Turner's 1980s 'sardonic' overture of Ellis's own reflective critique of hyperconsumption. It simply doesn't work, anymore or less than a failed script idea that became a comic book. 

But, the soundtrack for the 'comic' is good, such as Perturbator's track.   

Remember. We all became yuppies in the 2000s, when it was mortgages and DVD players, later Netflix and designer brand collaboration sneakers, credit card debt, digital repetition, global pandemics and inflation, hyperreal wars as gentrification is falling to pieces.   Not to forget protests, where everybody, including the protestors, are filming each other.

Maybe something new is on the horizon.

Or maybe there isn't.