(No spoilers) Knowing nothing about Digger other than the trailer: it looks like Tom Cruise’s Hudsucker Proxy with a horrifically animated cat.
In the latest installment in a series I’m doing with my friend @conradflynn.bsky.social about the history of rock and the occult, tentatively titled Running with the Devil: Daryl Hall and his Robert Fripp-produced album Sacred Songs.
Running with the Devil: Daryl Hall and the Occult
“Mind over matter, the beauty is there, but a beast is in the heart”
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Tim Curry is survived by his frequent co-star, a big spooky mansion
Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth
Farewell to the great Dave Marsh, the first rock critic I remember reading and whose The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made profoundly shaped my worldview.
Dave Marsh, Bruce Springsteen Biographer and Rock Critic, Dies at 76
Dave Marsh, the music critic and biographer who documented the early days of Bruce Springsteen in his 1979 book 'Born to Run,' has died. He was 76.
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Honestly if I walked outside and saw this unexpectedly I’m pretty sure my first reaction would be “finally”
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 5mo ago‘Masters of the Universe’ drone show spotted over Los Angeles 💥 • Had 1600 drones • Guinness World Record for brightest drone show ever (via Amazon MGM)
I just saw that one of the tracks on the upcoming Boards of Canada album is titled Somewhere Right Now In The Future. 😂
James 서@lossless.bsky.social · 2y agoI was adding some items to a list of favorite quotes that I keep, and I saw this old favorite: They're probably in the future somewhere worrying about why it isn't like the past. - Sean Booth of Autechre when asked about Boards of Canada during a Twitch AMA on June 5, 2022
Tomorrow morning (Saturday March 14, 9 am sharp) I am presenting a learned treatise on the subject of smooth music at USC's Pop Conference. Free admission with pre-registration! www.popconference.org
PopCon | 2026
PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference.
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Catching up with new albums by Gorillaz, Bruno Mars, Megan Moroney, Bill Callahan, Crooked Fingers, and a new Clifton Chenier box in my latest newsletter.
Reviews: Gorillaz, Bruno Mars, Megan Moroney
Plus Bill Callahan, Crooked Fingers, a great Clifton Chenier box and a McCartney soundtrack.
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Just passed a weed store named FlynnStoned and I don’t know what to do with my anger
My second episode on Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast is now up. youtu.be/laaofgUMsBs?...
Conrad Flynn Pt 2 | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
YouTube video by The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
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And then Hideo Kojima has Norman Reedus looking like he’s about to drop the hottest post-grunge video of 2001.
bro this lady on Jeopardy was deep in third place going into Final Jeopardy, and she didn’t know the answer so she just wrote “i hope they both bet it all” and the other two guys fucking bet it all and got it wrong and she won
Beak looking like a Far Side character talking
Good Boy@goodboy.bsky.social · 8mo agoLook at this cardinal enjoying an unsalted cashew in our backyard.
Over on Substack (The Flynn Effect) and at Tom Erlewine’s (So It Goes) we discuss the spooky real-life stories about Mark E. Smith of The Fall. One tale even ties into a death at Disneyland. @sterlewine.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theflynn...
Running with the Devil: Disney's Dream Debased
The Fall appears briefly on "Stranger Things." The Manchester band was not unfamiliar with the occult, and frontman Mark E. Smith had a correct premonition that someone would die at Disneyland.
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Over on Substack, I went into the strange real-life historical figures that parallel, and possibly inspired, Back to the Future II. A movie that is weirder than we realized at the time.
Why Future Generations Will Obsess Over 'Back to the Future II'
This may be the most Hideo Kojimacore post I've ever done...but your kids are gonna love it.
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open.substack.com/pub/theflynn... Over on Substack, a lengthy post about the strange real-life history behind Back to the Future II. Time travel devices, Tesla, Elon, Trump’s scientist uncle, and von Braun. It’s a bit much—even for me.
Why Future Generations Will Obsess Over 'Back to the Future II'
This may be the most Hideo Kojimacore post I've ever done...but your kids are gonna love it.
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It’s a testament to the endemic interest in occult matters in the sixties that both the Grateful Dead and the Velvet Underground, despite being seemingly on opposite sides of the countercultural spectrum, were both called The Warlocks early on.
David Bowie was trending at the same time as the Renee Nicole Good. Coincidentally, Bowie's widow, Iman, is from the same Somali sub-clan, the Majeerteens, as Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
