The Virtue of Saying Yes with Kyle Flynn

First Draft Episode #218: Kyle Flynn

Kyle Flynn is the keyboardist with indie rock group Father John
Misty, as well as writer of television and movies.
Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode



The documentary, The Decline of Western Civilization: Part
II, is absolutely incredible




Kyle taught himself to play guitar using tablature in Guitar
World magazine




Kyle and I both went to the University of Washington and
graduated from the English department




Acceptance (check out their debut album Phantom, and they
have reunited and released a new record, Collision By Design)
was the pop-punk band who first brought Kyle on tour as a
merch guy, and he ended up filling in and touring with them
for months




Other bands in Kyle’s post-college musical world included my
then-favs (okay, still some of my favs), Further Seems
Forever, Thursday, Finch, and Yellowcard




Kyle and his brother Kevin were friends with comedian and
actor Nick Thune (check out his specials, Folk Hero and Good
Guy), and when Nick went to Los Angeles to pursue comedy, he
sold Kyle and Kevin’s script in the room with Warner Brothers




In 2007, right when Kyle and his brother Kevin got to LA to
work on the script they’d sold to Warner Brothers, the WGA
(Writer’s Guild of America West) went on strike. But Kyle and
Kevin made a lot of great connections while picketing with
other writers, like Steve Zaillian, Academy Award-winning
screenwriter of Schindler’s List




Kyle’s friend from Acceptance, Christian McAlhaney went on to
join a new band, Anberlin




Kyle played in The Narcs, the house band for Nick’s BIG Talk
Show, the late night talk show spoof Nick Thune put on
monthly at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in Los
Angeles. Other members of The Narcs include: Liv Marsico (of
Liphemra and previously drummer with Cold War Kids and Gothic
Tropic) and Miles Gray (comedian and current co-host of The
Daily Zeitgeist podcast). While doing that gig, Kyle met Josh
Tillman (a.k.a. Father John Misty) and left an interesting
impression.




Josh Tillman (a.k.a. Father John Misty) was previously the
drummer in the Seattle indie band Fleet Foxes


 


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