A while back I posted about The Black Tapes Podcast and how obsessed I had become with it. Well, not only have I re-listened to season one of that show several times since then, I’ve also become just as obsessed with the Tanis Podcast, another paranormal-themed serial drama from Pacific[…]
Milton William “Bill” Cooper was a former Naval intelligence officer turned author, lecturer, and broadcaster. He is perhaps best known for writing the conspiracy classic ‘Behold a Pale Horse’, which inspired paranoia across generational and cultural lines, and was instrumental in popularizing kooky theories about the “Illuminati”, the “New World[…]
Once again my obsession with conspiracy-themed talk-radio pays off by exposing me to another potential Monday Magick featuree! This week’s entry is another “lost classic”, an orchestral Folk-Pop number titled “Jerome”, from ‘U.F.O.’, the supernatural-tinged debut LP from the mysterious Jim Sullivan, which was re-released not too long ago by[…]
Imageyenation dandies, Athens, Georgia Indie-Pop outfit of Montreal, make their second Monday Magick appearance this week with “Enemy Gene”. Taken from their tenth studio album, 2010’s ‘False Priest’, the tune features guest vocals from Alternative Soul/Pop singer Janelle Monáe. The impetus for my posting “Enemy Gene”, an uptempo, dreamy number[…]
This week’s Monday Magick entry is another relatively recent release. This time it’s “Illuminati” from ‘Rebel Heart’, the 13th album from the self-styled Queen of Pop, Madonna. On “Illuminati” Madonna takes a cue from Jay-Z’s “Heaven” (which I dedicated several paragraphs to dissecting here) and addresses conspiracy theories surrounding the[…]
We’re keeping the vibes mellow yet mysterious again for this week’s Monday Magick entry. “In the Morning of the Magicians” comes from one of the best Pop/Rock albums of our modern era, The Flaming Lips’ 2002 sci-fi-themed electro-psychedelic opus ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’. The lyrics leave a lot of[…]
‘As Above So Below’ Rated: R Director: John Erick Dowdle Starring: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert, Ali Marhyar I was instantly intrigued by ‘As Above So Below’, a 2014 horror film set in the Paris catacombs, when the first trailer started making the rounds last[…]
Over the last few months I’ve become more and more fascinated by investigator and author Walter Bosley and his ‘Empire of the Wheel’ series which focuses on the high weirdness of California’s so-called Inland Empire. I happen to have been born in the area and spent time in several of[…]
YouTube is full of nutty videos made by kooky motherfuckers detailing unbelievable conspiracies, many of them involving a shadowy and ill-defined group called the “Illuminati”. Lemmino of YouTube channel Top 10 Memes has produced one of the most even-handed and hilarious videos about the history of the actual Bavarian Illuminati[…]
This week Monday Magick makes its first foray into the Hip-Hop genre with a track from Wu-Tang Clan affiliates Sunz of Man and Killarmy. The track, “Soldiers of Darkness”, was only released as a single via the RZA’s independent Wu-Tang Records label in 1995 with “5 Arch Angels” featuring Shabazz[…]
Our Labor Day candidate for Monday Magick, “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry featuring former Three 6 Mafia frontman Juicy J, is probably a surprise to some. But I totally meant to share this video when it debuted several month ago. After all, there’s a whole YouTube cottage industry of conspiracy[…]
