A few weeks back I went to see Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated film ‘Isle of Dogs’. I don’t particularly care for dogs, but I enjoyed the film. This isn’t too surprising since Anderson is one of my favorite modern filmmakers and has consistently amazed me throughout his career. Though it has[…]
After my blockbuster return to the exercise of occult eisegesis of popular music throughout the month of October it was only a matter of time before I felt comfortable dropping a Monday Magick column about a song that I have a personal affinity for aesthetically but whose occult bona fides[…]
Regular readers of my Monday Magick column should know by now that I’m capable of finding allusions to sex magick in some pretty unexpected locations. But one of the oddest places I found myself hearing such references was the music of rapper, producer, wanna-be fashion magnate, and noted egomaniac Kanye[…]
Monday Magick returns after last week’s foray into lethargy with something for “the robot”, or the devil, or maybe the robot-devil, in you. The composition in question is “Choronzon”, a New Age electronic instrumental by pioneering Krautrock outfit Tangerine Dream, from their 1981 LP ‘Exit’! For the uninitiated, Choronzon is[…]
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[…]
When it comes to practicing magick my peersonal preferences lean in the direction of so-called “sex magick”. The practical application of sex magick can be incredibly rewarding without having to delve into the ritual and theatrics that some other forms of magick demand of the practitioner. I was reminded of[…]
Moved by Josef Wäges, Reinhard Markner, and Jeva Singh-Anand‘s ‘The Secret School of Wisdom’ — a book which presents the authentic rituals and doctrines of the Bavarian Illuminati in print for the first time — which arrived in the mail today, I was inspired to take Monday Magick back to[…]
