Mr. Brown first put L.A.'s Agriculture on my radar, and while I've logged a couple evenings spinning their 2025 album, The Spiritual Sound, I'm not sure I actually "got it" until I saw this live performance on KEXP.
NCBD:
A nice, easy week with two books I am very much looking forward to reading:
"The truth behind the Port Lindon disaster is revealed, but not everyone will survive to hear it."
Mystery, Crime and Suspense, the way only the Laphams can do it! I've loved having a new series from them, so much so that this might kick off a long-overdue Stray Bullets reread.
Apparently, Walsh and Tynion's Exquisite Corpses just got optioned for adaptation. Couldn't happen to a crazier, bloodier book. Already cinematic in scope, this one really kicks you in the face every month. Hold my beer while I put in my mouthguard, new issue
Watch:
Last Thursday night, K and I hit our local theatre for the first showing of Nia Dacosta's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. We were coming in hot off our first rewatch of Danny Boyle's preceding film, which we were both a little lukewarm on after our initial theatrical viewing back in July of 2025.
Watching that first film again, I found I had warmed to it. Boyle is first and foremost an innovator, and I think my initial disconnect from the first chapter in his and Alex Garland's 28 Years Later trilogy had a lot to do with the visual language of the film, and not so much with the story. Jarring camera work, counterintuitive editing, stylized backgrounds and stock footage, and mixed-media injections all made for a unique but initially confusing undertaking. Having gotten that out of the way and acclimated to the expectation for these elements, the film played a lot better.
And now we have this: a film so confident and viscerally affecting, not even the trailer takes away from it.
I can't wait to see this one again on the big screen, and maybe more importantly, what a success like The Bone Temple will do to propel Dacosta's career into the stratosphere.
Playlist:
Muddy Waters - Electric Mud
David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski - Polish Night Music
Mountain Realm - Stoneharrow
Various - Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series)
John Zorn - IAO: Music in Sacred Light
Gylt - In 1,000 Agonies, I Exist
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol. 1: 𝝙𝝙
David Lynch - The Air is on Fire
Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound
Card:
One Card from Thoth for today:
Who says you can't always get what you want?
