The first part of our rambling discussion of the “grunge” moment in culture.

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Music by Wyatt Keusch

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A Dark Song is both a wonderfully effective horror film and also an uncommonly realistic representation of the actual occult experience.

It’s been a while since we’ve done an explicitly occult-oriented film, so we hope it’s understandable that we go a bit hard on the magick talk for this one.

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A Dark Song by Liam Gavin

The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage

The Magick of A Dark Song by Duncan Barford

The Abramelin Diaries by Ramsey Dukes

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Although we generally try to stick to the high ground and only talk about things we love, our Alien episode brought up a lot of negative thoughts about 2017’s irredeemably bad series entry, Alien: Covenant, so we thought it would be fun to indulge those for a change.

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Alien Covenant

Black Rain (film)

Ridley Scott’s Apple commercial

Budweiser frogs commercial

Wassup commercial

Tootsie Pop commercial

Mark Trayle

Noel Gallagher’s Oasis DVD commentary

The Counselor (film)

Whitest Kids U Know Sex Robot sketch

Die Toteninsel by Arnold Böcklin

Episode Twenty-Eight: Basket Case

Our Robocop Remake

The most important scene from Our Robocop Remake

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Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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This week we tackle Ridley Scott’s 1979 “haunted house in space” masterpiece, Alien.

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Alien by Ridley Scott

Slit-scan photography

Handsome Squidward Prometheus aliens

Ripley cat lady meme

NASA facility with its own weather system

William Gibson’s Alien 3

Dark Star (film)

Galaxy of Terror (film)

Barry Schrader

Metroid (video game series)

Modern Rubbish on Discord!

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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One of our usual pre-topic warm-ups decided to take us on a journey, through which we discuss the importance of trust in art, via podcast favourites Alan Moore, Hideo Kojima, Thomas Ligotti & more!

Music by David Paha.

Steven Warwick returns! This time we talk Hellraiser, Nine Inch Nails & Carl Jung!

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Steven Warwick

Hellraiser by Clive Barker

The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor interview re: Sharon Tate’s sister

Challengers (film)

Time Will Crawl by David Bowie

Love Lies Bleeding (film)

Drive film

NON / Boyd Rice

Come To Daddy by Aphex Twin

DeForrest Brown Jr.

Mike Kelley

Birth (film)

Borg (Star Trek)

Star Trek: First Contact (film)

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung

Giant head of Karl Marx in Chemnitz

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Wyatt reads an excerpt from Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, while Dave provides the drones.