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Tant qu'il y aura des hommes54-François Gagey: "J'ai une immense admiration pour les gens qui parviennent à rester libres!"François Gagey est un avocat-romancier, dont le 1er roman, "Combustions" vient de sortir et que je vous encourage à lire!Jeune homme de bonne famille, il s'est d'abord égaré dans le conseil avant de passer le barreau et de devenir avocat... et de s'autoriser enfin à écrire! Pour notre plus grande joie. Alors son enfance au sein d'une grande fratrie, ses parents, ses bêtises de jeunesse, la paternité qui a tout changé et "Combustions", sa trame et ses personnages, tout cela et bien plus encore c'est à découvrir dans ce premier épisode de la 3eme saison de TQ...
2025-09-0755 min
Baffling CombustionsStressStress, the state and verb - we all have felt it and rode it yet do we know what we're talking about? Indeed, can we - past Freud/Jung (psyche), load, and our sensual experience abiding its edge - locate it quite (or is it quite there at all)? Whatever it is, we find here an eddy of it among us in words - with a nod to Yoko Ono and David Peel's AMERIKA, their 1972 anthem (with John Lennon abroad), an excerpt of which closes this session.
2022-12-1859 minBaffling Combustionsbell hooks - Theory as Liberatory PracticeHere after a long summer, and then some, break we strike to the heart of the matter of what the hell we are doing with this enterprise via the 1992 essay "Theory as Liberatory Practice" by bell hooks.
Here's a link to the essay if you want to reach deeper:
https://www.uwyo.edu/aded5050/5050unit12/theory%20as%20liberatory%20prac.pdf
2022-11-171h 01Baffling CombustionsOATH 3 ("The Tennis Court Oath")The oath has been around, in numerous ways and at different levels of articulation, for a long time, and we will take ours in examining this verbal structure between us - ending now in a listen and look inside John Ashbery's poem "The Tennis Court Oath."
2022-06-1559 minBaffling Combustions75. Oath 2The oath has been around, in numerous ways and at different levels of articulation, for a long time, and we will take ours in examining this verbal structure between us - ending in a look inside John Ashbery's THE TENNIS COURT OATH.
2022-06-0656 minBaffling Combustions74. Oath 1The oath has been around, in numerous ways and at different levels of articulation, for a long time, and we will take ours in examining this verbal structure between us - ending in a look inside John Ashbery's THE TENNIS COURT OATH.
2022-06-0553 minBaffling Combustions73. Island 3Here we waterlock on "Island" in this third in a series of sessions that seek to explore this geological state that has just as much applicability to our psychic experience as it does to our terrestrial one. We touch not only its linguistic evolution (and the mysterious, silent "s") but also its representations as a trope for a family of our experiences that may go back to the start of consciousness as we intuit it.
2022-05-071h 08Baffling Combustions72. island 2Here we waterlock on "Island" in this second in a series of sessions that seek to explore this geological state that has just as much applicability to our psychic experience as it does to our terrestrial one. We touch not only its linguistic evolution (and the mysterious, silent "s") but also its representations as a trope for a family of our experiences that may go back to the start of consciousness as we intuit it.
2022-04-1656 minBaffling Combustions71. Island 1Here we waterlock on "Island" in a series of sessions that seek to explore this geological state that has just as much applicability to our psychic experience as it does to our terrestrial one. We touch not only its linguistic evolution (and the mysterious, silent "s") but also its representations as a trope for a family of our experiences that may go back to the start of consciousness as we intuit it.
2022-04-011h 10Baffling Combustions70. Love 4Love, in all its zones, arguably remains the capstone emotion of our mortal journey, which in words - as we seek to prove - is infinite. In this "four-point-five," final number (note previous broadcasts, including a half broadcast combining "void" with the start of "love"), in a series of sessions, we seek among excursions to touch on as many as we are able and unable, from its classical taxonomy to our near-term obsession with its anticipation, making and sustenance.
2022-03-191h 22Baffling Combustions69. Love 3Love, in all its zones, arguably remains the capstone emotion of our mortal journey, which in words - as we seek to prove - is infinite. In this "three-point-five" number (note previous broadcasts, including a half broadcast combining "void" with the start of "love"), in a series of sessions, we seek among excursions to touch on as many as we are able and unable, from its classical taxonomy to our near-term obsession with its anticipation, making and sustenance.
2022-03-071h 02Baffling Combustions68. Love 2Love, in all its zones, arguably remains the capstone emotion of our mortal journey, which in words - as we seek to prove - is infinite. In this "one-point-five" number (note previous broadcasts, including a half combining "void" with the start of "love"), in a series of sessions, we seek among excursions to touch on as many as we are able and unable, from its classical taxonomy to our near-term obsession with its anticipation, making and sustenance.
2022-02-1438 minBaffling Combustions67. Love 1.5Love, in all its zones, arguably remains the capstone emotion of our mortal journey, which in words - as we seek to prove - is infinite. In this "one-point-five" number (note previous broadcasts, including a half combining "void" with the start of "love"), in a series of sessions on love, we seek among excursions to touch on as many as we are able and unable, from its classical taxonomy to our near-term obsession with its anticipation, making and sustenance.
2022-02-0858 minBaffling Combustions66. Void III & the (Slow) Start of LoveHere we combine the end of our perusal of "Void" (the third of a series of sessions in this non-domain) - pulling and pushing and stretching its application until it breaks into words, etc. - with the start of a series of sessions on the nature of "Love"(perhaps void's match).
2022-01-1756 minBaffling Combustions65. Void IIHere we peruse "Void" (the second of a series of sessions in this non-domain), pulling and pushing and stretching its application until it breaks into words its physical, psychological and cosmic manifestation, with some salting of the metaphysical, to which the term seems to call.
2022-01-0359 minBaffling Combustions64. Void IHere we peruse the "Void" (the first of a series of sessions in this non-domain), pulling and pushing and stretching its application until it breaks into words its physical, psychological and cosmic manifestation, with some salting of the metaphysical, to which the term seems to call.
2021-12-3059 minBaffling Combustions62. Proverbs of Hell XHere is another installment (no. 10) in our on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverbs: "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. The selfish smiling fool, & the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod. What is now proved was once, only imagin'd." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading...
2021-12-1858 minBaffling Combustions63. Proverbs Of Hell XIHere is another installment (no. 11) in our on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverbs: "The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbit: watch the roots; the lion, the tyger, the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits. The cistern contains; the fountain overflows. One thought fills immensity." This session also includes a look at "Fowles in the Frith," an anonymous, short, lyric poem song of the Middle Ages. To note, in these sessions...
2021-12-1656 minBaffling Combustions60. AdultFrom March 2020 (read "pandemic start"), we here look into what is "adult," the word and state, touching on various views philosophical, psychological and personal. This session includes the reading and discussion of a number of poems: "This Be the Verse" by Philip Larkin; "The History of My Life" by John Ashbery; and "Market Day" by Jonas Meckas (translated by Vyt Bakaitis).
2021-11-2758 minBaffling Combustions61. Proverbs of Hell IX ("I contain multitudes")In this session we swerve from the text of William Blake's PROVERBS OF HELL to what news we may find of its shape in Bob Dylan's "I Contain Multitudes," the title and refrain of which is lifted from a line in Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." We touch on these two guys, as well as Anne Frank, Emily Dickinson, Mr. Poe and Dr. Indiana Jones, as we seek to fathom as always the heart of the heart of the eternal dilemma.
2021-11-271h 02Baffling Combustions59. Proverbs of Hell VIIIHere is another installment (no. 8) in our on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverbs: "Let man wear the fell of a lion, woman the fleece of a sheep." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things we're still working out.
2021-11-0557 minBaffling Combustions58. Canticle to the Sun - St. Francis of AssisiHere we discuss by turns St. Francis of Assisi's "Canticle to the Sun," most of which was composed in late 1224 while recovering from an illness. according to tradition. Further, the first time it was sung in its entirety was by Francis and Brothers Angelo and Leo, two of his original companions, on Francis' deathbed, the final verse praising "Sister Death" having been added only a few minutes before. From there to here, the Sun and all its raiments, rises here. This sessions ends with a reading of the song read in the native Unbrian language by Tony Cataldo of the...
2021-10-291h 12Baffling Combustions57. Without - Joy HarjoIn this fast-paced, spontaneous, testy analysis, we examine the poem "Without" by Jo Harjo, published in the New Yorker magazine. This session includes Harjo reading the poem, courtesy of the magazine, the link to which (and its text) is here:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/without
2021-10-0857 minBaffling Combustions56. Half-Life in Exile - Hala AlyanIn this fast-paced, spontaneous, testy analysis, we examine the poem "Half-Life in Exile" by Hala Alyan, published in the September 20, 2021 edition of the New Yorker magazine. This session includes the background tuning of Steve Cohn and Carl Baugher's "Heliotropism" and Alyan reading the poem, courtesy of the magazine, the link to which (and its text) is here:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/27/half-life-in-exile
2021-10-061h 05Baffling Combustions11. Swerve IIHere's the second part of our far ranging and fetching session on the term "swerve," and here attempts to speak of and into its application to Lucretius and his brand of Epicurean thought. This was recorded in October of 2019 - a throwback to the dawn of Baffling Combustions, and no. 11 on our chronology. To connect with the first part, Swerve I, here's link (or use whatever accustomed podcast platform):
https://soundcloud.com/bafflingcombustions/swerve-1?si=564c31d32ec24549ba4af32f598a162c
2021-10-0257 min
2021-10-0205 minBaffling Combustions55. Tin - Jane HirshfieldIn this fast-paced, spontaneous, testy analysis, we examine the poem "Tin" by Jane Hirshfield, published in the September 13, 2021 edition of the New Yorker magazine. This session includes Hirshfield reading the poem, courtesy of the magazine, the link to which (and its text) is here:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/tin
2021-09-1459 minBaffling Combustions54. Proverbs of Hell VIIHere is another installment (no. 7) in our on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverbs: "The fox condemns the trap, not himself"; and "Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things we're still working out.
2021-09-0358 minBaffling Combustions53. Proverbs of Hell VIEnding in Howlin' Wolf's "If You Hear Me Howlin'" not-to-be-missed soundtrack from the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, here is another installment in our on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverb, "The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in...
2021-08-1847 minBaffling Combustions52. Proverbs of Hell VHere again, installment in on-going examination of the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, written between the years 1798 and 1803. We look at the proverbs "The nakedness of woman is the work of God"; and "Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps." To note, in these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things we're still working out.
2021-07-201h 02Baffling Combustions51. Proverbs of Hell IVIn this fourth part of an ongoing session, we look at the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, arguable his first attempt - written between the years 1798 and 1803, coincident with the start and subsequent bending of the French Revolution - to articulate a personal philosophy. Here we spend all to puzzle out the proverb, among others, "Prisons are built of stones of Law, Brothels by bricks of Religion." In these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so...
2021-07-0959 min
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2021-07-0127 minBaffling Combustions50. Proverbs of Hell IIIIn this third part of an ongoing session, we look at the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, arguable his first attempt - written between the years 1798 and 1803, coincident with the start and subsequent bending of the French Revolution - to articulate a personal philosophy. In these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things were still working out.
2021-06-1259 minBaffling Combustions49. Proverbs of Hell IIIn this second installment on Blake's "Proverbs of Hell" we touch on Swendenborg and his influence on this work and then touch the electric wire of a single proverb: "No birds soars too high, if he soars on his own wings."
2021-06-1259 minBaffling Combustions48. Spring - Ishion HutchinsonIn this fast-paced, semi-spontaneous, testy analysis, we examine the poem "Spring" by Ishion Hutchinson, published in the June 7th, 2021 edition of the New Yorker magazine. This session includes Hutchinson reading his work, courtesy of the magazine, the link to which (and its text) is here:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/spring
2021-06-1253 minBaffling Combustions47. Hood"Steal from the rich and give to the poor " - words we hope we may all come to thrive by - is in no figure better exemplified than one Robin Hood, for whom no introduction is necessary or adequate. Here we look into his historical origin in not-so-merry old England, sloughing through the Dark Ages of feudal society " - as well as what this beguiling Green Man might represent for us today in our lives stuffed with gadgets, distractions and more than anything else crises - including our imperiled natural world, the felicitous co-habitation with which (at least in imagination...
2021-06-0454 minBaffling Combustions46. Proverbs of Hell IThe first part of an ongoing treatment, we look here at the poet, printer and radical William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," a prose poem first published in THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, arguable his first attempt - written between the years 1798 and 1803, coincident with the start and subsequent bending of the French Revolution - to articulate a personal philosophy. In these sessions, we do a granular - and maybe even (in keeping with Blake) infinitely so - reading of this perfect articulation of things were still working out.
2021-06-0241 min
Prairieland Paranormal PodcastEP 29: Spontaneous Human CombustionIn this episode, we will be exploring the phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustions. We will discuss some of the nearly 200 cases of people who have mysteriously burst into flames with no apparent cause. We will also share some of the rare cases of people who have survived Spontaneous Human Combustion. Finally, in the post-show, we will look into case similarities and theories.
2021-05-0440 minBaffling Combustions45. Hell IIThis is our 2nd half of our light on "hell"--its sometime reality and persistence and future within our Western Civ. twist. We go into its historical analogs out of Europe and try to figure what it's place might be today.
2021-04-3036 minBaffling Combustions44. Walking II (revisited)Picking up where we left off, in Part 1, discussing a walking that doesn't involve walking, in Walking 2 we continue our reading of Thoreau's essay, touching on the monomyth, John Brown, Charles Olson, Emerson, the art of walking backwards, Robin Hood and Johnny Cash. Gilgamesh as well as the Australopithecus come up as well as Thoreau's sense of a new literature " or we haven't seen nothing yet.
2021-04-2959 min
The Cannon CanonCONTAMINATION (w/ James III)I don't know what Mars is and I was never there! The Cannon Bros (Frank & Geoff) are back covering the 1980 (or '82?) Italian low-budget sort-of "Alien" rip-off "Contamination". This time we're joined by the incredible James III (Netflix's Astronomy Club, All That, Black Men Can't Jump in Hollywood podcast)! In this episode: Geoff spins around in his Italian cinema wheelhouse, spoiling your end scene monster in the opening credits, the logistics of cyclops space eggs, Goblin phoning it in and the Italian love language of the slap! Fire up the flamethrowers and turn some knobs on a cheap giant...
2021-04-091h 36
The Old North State PodcastBladenboro is SpookyIn this week's episode, we give you the Bladenboro Fire Poltergeist and the Beast of Bladenboro!
SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Bladenboro
https://northcarolinaghosts.com/piedmont/beast-bladenboro/scary-truth/
https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2019/10/20/the-beast-of-bladenboro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladenboro,_North_Carolina
https://www.starnewsonline.com/article/NC/20061029/News/605129891/WM
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Vampire_Beast
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/north-carolina/beast-of-bladenboro-nc/
http://www.boosttheboro.org/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-carolinas-1932-series-of-spontaneous-combustions-is-still-unsolved
https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/solving_the_1932_bladenboro_f...
2021-04-0931 minBaffling Combustions43. Walking I (revisited)"Walking" is from Henry David Thoreaus essay of that name, though alternatively he called it The Wild," so Walking the Wild takes us to what lurks inside it all, including the origins of revolution and ownership in the tyrannies of industrial time and privacy. We also here (in this first of a two-part discussion) talk about walking itself as an act and about getting lost as well as how, Thoreau writes, In wildness is the preservation of the world" which was to become the motto of the Sierra Club. Thoreau is a bewilderer who postulates things about 150 years ahead of...
2021-04-0859 minBaffling Combustions42. Hell IHere we turn our light on "hell"--its sometime reality and persistence and future within our Western Civ. twist. We go into its historical analogs out of Europe and try to figure what it's place might be today. To note, in our second transmission we will commit ourselves to an analysis of Blake's PROVERBS OF HELL.
2021-04-0359 minBaffling Combustions41. BlueIn this last for now session of fan-proposed topics for examination we look at "blue" and all the ways this English word for a color is deployed in our everyday and extraordinary lives with particular emphasis on The Blues, including its mysterious origin and on-going persistent in what keeps us from totally cracking up. Great good thanks to the inestimable connoisseur of suchness Matthew Morse for the assist!
2021-03-2656 min
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2021-03-202h 11Baffling Combustions40. Unibomber IIThis is the second part of our "Unabomber" (Theodore Kaczynski) session. Again, special thanks to Paul Sigismundi for offering us this topic, which we seem to have fielded without totally losing it. This session concludes and is dedicated to the memory of Samson Gruber, the "Icarus of Bronx Science."
2021-03-1039 minBaffling Combustions39. Unabomber IFollowing our jag of listener-instigated topics, which we fuse and defuse in as spontaneous a manner as we may fashion, this week we were given "Kaczynski," or (in the interests of disambiguation) the man the FBI termed the "Unabomber." Having found enough here to spread across two sessions - albeit fronting a storm of computer challenges (appropriate for cat who advocates the overthrow of technological society) - we track his traumatic story, philosophy and place in our collective, including touching on how Ted's today pacing out his life sentence in the super-max in Florence, Colorado. Special thanks to Paul Sigismundi...
2021-03-0859 minBaffling Combustions38. FreudIn a Baffling Combustions' first we invited one of our fans to propose our topic: Freud, with particular attention to his contemporary relevance, which we managed to find while mulling how little practically his ideas seem to have found register in contemporary mental health therapies. Also, in this session we reveal Freud's actual very last words - never before revealed! Our thanks to Charles Paikart!
2021-03-0159 minBaffling Combustions37. Salt IIHere we toss more salt into the gap opened in our first SALT session, boldly proposing, modestly withdrawing and sideways implying this crystalline structure is not just essential to our collective human anatomical - the destroyer and preserver of organic creation itself - but also our soulistic integrity.
2021-02-2059 minBaffling Combustions36. Salt IWe turn here to "salt," touching in this first of two podcasts on not only its crystal constitution but also (mostly) its esoteric sense as a metaphor that we all need to keep it together. This podcast carves a particular jag through Maurice Nicoll's THE MARK in which he explores the concept "sin" as manifest in the Gospels, a most salty text.
2021-02-2059 minBaffling Combustions35. Crack-Up IIEnjoy the conclusion of our our session on novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1936 essay "The Crack-Up," in which he writes with aching candor on his psychological collapse and fragmentary, absent spirit, psychic reconstitution. Here's a link to Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up":
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4310/the-crack-up/
2021-01-1638 minBaffling Combustions34. Crack-Up IWhat better could follow on HEALTH (our two-part treatment) than CRACK-UP 1 (also in two parts), our session on novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1936 essay "The Crack-Up" in which he writes with aching candor on his psychological collapse and fragmentary, absent spirit, psychic reconstitution? To note: This session includes reference to the Cave Canem Foundation, dedicated to African-American poetry and poetics. Fitzgerald concludes his essay with reference to that Latin phrase (trans., "Beware of dog"). The Foundation's name came from a sign the poet Toi Derricotte spotted while visiting the House of the Tragic Poet in the volcanic ash-covered city of Pompeii...
2021-01-1558 minBaffling Combustions33. Health IIIn HEALTH 2, we continue where we didn't leave off and manage as ever to leave other leavings left off, which might be one face of health - to know what to forget. This session includes a semi-mini-biography of Sparrow's exemplary father, who will turn 102 in February.
2021-01-0859 minBaffling Combustions32. Health IIn this first of a two-part session, we examine the nature of health and what exactly (and otherwise) it might be - including the mystery of the relative absence of its definition within western psychological science. This is a broad-ranging - and we hope far-fetched - discussion that concludes, temporarily, that, like love, there may be an infinite range of health states.
2020-12-3159 minBaffling Combustions31. Surreal IIIn this session (the second of two) we tackle Andre Breton's Second Manifesto of Surrealism, publishing in 1929—to find ourselves not unexpectedly floored, though we manage to stand again, chastened. BE AWARE: This session ends with the Frankfurt School and the Orgone Box. Here’s a link to Breton's manifesto:
http://theoria.art-zoo.com/second-manifesto-of-surrealism-andre-breton/
2020-12-201h 00Baffling Combustions30. Surreal IIn this session (the first of two) we go in and out, through and around Andre Breton's First Surrealist Manifesto (Le Manifeste du Surralisme), publishing in 1924. (To note, this session ties in with our discussion of Gertrude Stein's "Composition as Explanation" in Steintime 1 and 2. Below is a link to a translation of Breton's text.
https://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/F98/SurrealistManifesto.htm
2020-12-1056 minBaffling Combustions29. Now II"NOW 2" starts where one (NOW 1) in this series was abandoned, and as it occurs on our 2020 Election Day its attention's magnetized to its cultural and political nuances, with no small amount of fragmentary presence. This session concludes with a recording from Claudia Rankine's "December," a multi-vocal film performance from The Shed in New York.
2020-10-2459 minBaffling CombustionsNOW 1Here in this first of a two-part series we tackle "now" from numerous vantages, among others including as a word with all its practical denotation and connotations as well as its application to "being in the present," as popularly voiced by Eckhart Tolle. It includes the beginnings of a near-term historical perspective in its use from the 1960s as it's evolved into a pseudo-secular faith call. FAIR WARNING: Reflecting our attempt to get to now, this session's quiet points have been struck and/or shrunk to induce a rapid fire (an element of combustion).
2020-10-2459 minBaffling Combustions28. Now IHere in this first of a two-part series we tackle "now" from numerous vantages, among others including as a word with all its practical denotation and connotations as well as its application to "being in the present," as popularly voiced by Eckhart Tolle. It includes the beginnings of a near-term historical perspective in its use from the 1960s as it's evolved into a pseudo-secular faith call. FAIR WARNING: Reflecting our attempt to get to now, this session's quiet points have been struck and/or shrunk to induce a rapid fire (an element of combustion).
2020-10-2459 minBaffling CombustionsMANUSCRIPTThis session calls to the process-hung state of the "manuscript" and not just in its conventional meaning - a typically hand-written original document - but also its supplemental, philosophical, ontological,poetical and existential associations. It's not as dry as it sounds - or if dry its combustible material to which we touch fire to light the way ahead.
2020-10-1058 minBaffling Combustions27. ManuscriptThis session calls to the process-hung state of the "manuscript" and not just in its conventional meaning - a typically hand-written original document - but also its supplemental, philosophical, ontological,poetical and existential associations. It's not as dry as it sounds - or if dry its combustible material to which we touch fire to light the way ahead.
2020-10-0858 minBaffling CombustionsBREATHSometimes that with which we are most familiar to us is, paradoxically, most strange, such as breath. Here we breathe on it, expanding on and contracting in its practical qualities as well as teasing out some of its wild and dear associations.
2020-09-2259 min
Europ'CastLes premiers européens : l'intégrale partie 1Pour ce long format spécial week-end d'Europ'Cast consacré aux premiers européens, vous découvrirez l'origine de ces premiers Hommes qui ont foulé le sol de l'Europe actuelle.
Nous partirons en Bretagne pour découvrir des traces de foyers de combustions parmi les plus vieilles du monde. Nous prendrons ensuite la direction de la Mayenne pour découvrir l'art pariétal des grottes de Saulges. Enfin, nous découvrirons les chemins de l'art rupestre préhistorique du Conseil de l'Europe.
2020-09-1021 minBaffling Combustions25. Steintime IIIn this second of two podcasts we augur further into, and maybe a little way through, Gertrude Stein's essay "Composition as Explanation," originally delivering into human time in the winter of 1925-26 in England as a lecture and subsequently published as a text the following year. In this second approach we look through some holes we knocked out in the first round. This work is dedicated to Marcus DeCosta, the American educator, who died in early August of 2020. Here's a link to the text:
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/694…-explanation
2020-08-2657 min
Early Stuart EnglandEpisode 2.16: Combustions and Burnings1630-1643The limits of religious freedom are tested in the New England colonies. 380 years later a podcaster repeatedly fails to pronounce "Massachusetts".
2020-08-1548 minBaffling Combustions24. Steintime IIn this first of two podcasts we augur into Gertrude Stein's essay "Composition as Explanation," originally delivering into human time in the winter of 1925-26 in England as a lecture and subsequently published as a text the following year. In this first approach we knock around various notions that seek to light the way toward some interpretation of what Stein means in her numerous time registers, though they admittedly remain elusive, which of course we love.This work is dedicated to Jonathan Oppenheim, the American film and television editor and producer, who died in July 2020. Here's a link to the t...
2020-08-0759 minBaffling Combustions23. AlgorithmMade in February, a month before the business launch of the Trump Virus, we look at the “Algorithm,” it’s early history and its late incarnation as the fuel source of “the Mammon of mechanized greed” (D.H. Lawrence). Here by some remove we hear from a host of human males whom it touched (if not scarred): Leibnitz, Turning, Freud, Cocteau, Whitehead, Hilbert, Yeats, Harari ("'Algorithm' is arguably the single most important concept in our world"), Bradbury, Darwin, Boyd and Rodney Dangerfield. This podcast is dedicated to Sparrow’s father, Dr. Jack Gorelick, who had recently celebrated his 101st birthday.
2020-07-2354 minBaffling Combustions22. PodcastWe were going to call this podcast "Podcastism,” which means nothing — even to us — yet we wanted to mark this as somehow different from what this (Baffling Combustions) is as we explore the nature, origin and future of this medium that took off with the introduction of the iPod in the early ‘00s and shows no sign of sunsetting (unlike its initial vehicle of transmission). Highlights include riffs around the “perfect podcast” (this might be it!), 2001: A SPACE ODDYSSEY, William Burroughs (the “cut up” method), the exigencies of Ambitheism (Sparrow’s religious homebrew), Rodney Dangerfield and John Cage. This podcast was recorded a few...
2020-07-0658 minBaffling Combustions21. Lafayette IIIn this second LAFAYETTE session we continue our riff on the Marquise and the Square that bears his name with more context, Lafayettean lore and grace notes around his words resonant with the BLACK LIVES MATTER protests: "When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties."
2020-06-2747 minBaffling Combustions20. Lafayette IIn this first of two sessions, Sam Truitt, Andrew McCarron and Sparrow X. Carter talk about “Lafayette,” both the historical figure (French Marquise and a US founder) and the square in Washington, DC that bears his name. The latter particularly has featured in the news recently: both as the site of the teargas-stun-grenade attack on BLACK LIVES MATTER protestors (that cleared it for Agent Orange’s bizarre march across it to bible thump at a nearby church); and as a sudden “no man’s land,” with its six-block entirety barricaded with eight-foot, chain-link fencing. The latter has been taken down, though not t...
2020-06-1759 minBaffling Combustions19. Quarantine VIII - Session 1 on Robert CreeleyIn this first of two sessions we talk humbly about, around, and through Robert Creeley by way of examining two poems: "The Immoral Proposition" and "Kore" (with more to come in our next session). This talk is characterized in part by our coming to terms of our inability to come to terms with what Creeley left us past deep appreciations and some loose holds on his poetics, intermixed with wonder at how much he was able to enjamb into the finitudes of his practice: "O love,/where are you/leading/me now?"
2020-06-0158 min
A Brief ChatABC #137: Poetry Fridays with Sparrow
In which Sparrow reads his poetry. Sparrow lives in Phoenicia, New York, in the shadow of Roemer Mountain. He cooks every day. Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies will come out this fall from Monkfish. You can hear Sparrow on the podcast Baffling Combustions and also follow him on Twitter.
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2020-05-2910 min
A Brief Chat with Jason CraneABC #137: Poetry Fridays with Sparrow
In which Sparrow reads his poetry. Sparrow lives in Phoenicia, New York, in the shadow of Roemer Mountain. He cooks every day. Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies will come out this fall from Monkfish. You can hear Sparrow on the podcast Baffling Combustions and also follow him on Twitter.
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2020-05-2910 minBaffling Combustions18. Quarantine VII - Crusoe in EnglandFeeling we may benefit from a work both far away and near, about isolation and home building and care (even in words), Elizabeth Bishop’s “Crusoe in England” came to mind. Below is a link to the poem (with a recording of Bishop reading the poem), and otherwise listen here to us mull what Bishop made of Daniel Defoe’s most famous, seventeenth-century castaway’s experience and reflections—a timeless poem. She writes: “The sun set in the sea; the same odd sun/rose from the sea,/and there was one of it and one of me” – as Ted would say, “just like al...
2020-05-2457 minBaffling Combustions17. Quarantine VI - Eve of EasterHere we steer into Bernadette Mayer's "Eve of Easter," leaving what wakes - the "shocking resurrection idea" included and all that that might freight. The poem was first published in Mayer's GOLDEN BOOK OF WORDS (Angel Hair, 1978) and republished in EATING THE COLORS OF A LINEUP OF WORDS: THE EARLY BOOKS OF BERNADETTE MAYER (Station Hill Press, 2015). This podcast also includes a Public Access Poetry recording of Mayer reading the poem on April 26, 1978. (There's a lot of ambient sound in that recording, sorry). One program note: We fail to mention that the poet John Milton's first wife was named Mary...
2020-05-191h 05Baffling Combustions16. Quarantine V - Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of AliceHere we speak of Alice Notley’s “Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice,” published in Selected Poems of Alice Notley (Talisman House, Publishers, 1993). Abetted in part by Sparrow having been Notley’s student in the mid-1980s, we turn up what insights we may glean about this work of dictation, actual or implied, from the departed Kerouac, touching on his life story and late challenges with the Beat movement he in part set in motion. This brings us to some discussion of the exigencies of the Lower East Side of New York’s '80s poetry forty years back...
2020-05-101h 02Baffling Combustions15. Quarantine IV - Red ShiftFour weeks into our collective Great Pause, the Bafflers examine “Red Shift,” Ted Berrigan’s iconic New York School poem. This close reading – distinguished in part by our own Sparrow having been Berrigan’s student - proceeds from the astrophysical definition of “redshift” to speculations into what attributive meanings to which Berrigan might allude. This includes a broad look into the nature of time as surfaced in the poem and in part depth charged in Berrigan situating the poem “at 8:08 p.m.” (the Eight-Fold Path, I-Ching and Hubble’s insights into an exploding universe). We touch on his forebearers – Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara...
2020-04-301h 17Baffling Combustions14. Quarantine III: Self-Portrait in a Convex MirrorIn our on-going inquiry into the nature of the Great Pause, this third QUARANTINE session trains itself on John Ashbery’s much ballyhooed poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” an ekphrasis composition taking its frame and flame from the painting of the same name by Italian Renaissance artist Francesco Parmigianino (1503-1540). Without wandering too far from the work, we cite and sometimes linger on Raymond Roussel, Lisa Jarnot, Charles North, Kenneth Koch, the soul and its shapes, the appearance of “sequestered,” Walt Whitman, Jonathan Swift, W.B. Yeats, “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,” the word “speculum,” Wallace Stevens, Jorie Graham and, once m...
2020-04-2458 minBaffling Combustions13. Quarantine IIIn this second QUARANTINE session we range over where we are and where we’re not, looking back to glimpse the way ahead and what the unknown feels like, through ruminations on THE CAVE IN THE SNOW, the memoir of a 12-year spiritual retreat by Tenzin Palmo (English born Diane Perry), Dag Hammarskjold’s MARKINGS, the web and the Zoom, hand wringing over hand washing, Sparrow’s dictum that “staying home is the new activism, and Jack Spicer’s poem “It is Forbidden to Look”—-where our discussion in and on the Great Pause took a pause. Following the form of the Spicer po...
2020-04-191h 08Baffling Combustions12. Quarantine IWe owe the word “quarantine” to the Venetians who in 1377 instituted a policy of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days. While hard athwart those among us with COVID19, the quarantine sense is felt by all of us as an echo as we pass through this time of more or less world-wide social isolations, distancings and lock downs. Here we touch on and grapple with some of its immediate practical realties, associations from the past, and speculations on the shape of things to come as we discuss the Dead Sea Scrolls, John Donne, the parable of the...
2020-04-1150 minBaffling Combustions10. Swerve IIn this far ranging and fetching introduction to the term “swerve”—the first of two (saving its application to Lucretius and his brand of Epicurean thought to our next meeting)—we carve around the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE), the nature of sermons, the polysemy nature of the term, Brancusi’s “Bird in Space,” the Bill Murray-cast film adaption of “The Razor’s Edge,” Ross Macdonald’s short story “The Guilt-Edged Blond,” Paul Davies’ HOW TO MAKE A TIME MACHINE, The Hardy Boys, Dashiell Hammett’s “Flitcraft Parable,” the literary term “volta,” Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex,” John Ashbery, chance and chaos processes, and variation on a line by Robert...
2020-03-3142 minBaffling Combustions9. GiftWe open “gift” with a definition: “it is a displacement outside (or deep inside?) the realm of exchange that operates mysteriously, as distinct from ‘present’ it comes out of nowhere.” What we find inside is Charlie Haden and Kenny Barron’s “Night and the City,” Lewis Hyde on “Lucky Find,” Pauline theology, the moor behind the Bronte’s house, Ted Berrigan, Augustine, the gift of the knife, Frost’s “The Gift Outright,” a reading from an unpublished ms. by Peter Lamborn Wilson on the Yazidi religion, Zeus and Hermes-Thoth, John Clare, Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell’s “The Gift” (the film), the Sabbath, a mantra of Brah...
2020-03-281h 16Baffling Combustions8. EarthAs we enter the Great Pause, here is a cast from last December wherein we reach into the depths and gonads of Earth/earth and its uncanny relationship to what’s “Ur,” including — among our personal earthly musings — Louis Untermeyer’s “Caliban in the Coal-Mines,” the nature of the Golem, Earthworks, Earthships, the Gaia Hypothesis, Essentialism, Chiffon margarine, THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG, The Penguins’ “Earth Angel,” Walt Whitman’s “Urge, Urge, always the procreative urge!” (misquoted), the Laudato Si encyclical by Pope Francis on ecological consciousness, Pete Seeger and the Clearwater, Robin Hood, “The Mountains—grow unnoticed—” (757) by Emily Dickinson, moss and the moon. This session is d...
2020-03-1953 minBaffling Combustions4. ChariotHere we throw words at the chariot, beginning with a review of this classic “supreme military weapon” emerging out of Eurasia about four thousand years back, before tackling its various archetypal, literary and artistic deployments. These include Plato’s chariot evocation as a way of explaining the soul’s construction; Emily Dickinson’s poem posthumously titled and adulterated as “The Chariot” (though we include a reading of its original lineation, words, and a missing stanza (no. 475)); the seat of Arjuna and Krishna’s conversation in the BHAGAVAD GITA; the Tarot card of this name; Erich von Däniken’s CHARIOTS OF THE GODS; Ducham...
2020-03-1258 minBaffling Combustions5. AngelIn ANGEL we discuss this winged, pre-, supra- and post-human—-and needless to say fabulous--entity of primordial origin, touching on the Cone of Silence, the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Book of Enoch, Paul Tillich, Milton, the incarnation of evil, and Al-Hallaj, the Persian Sufi mystic martyred for proclaiming, in so many words, “I am Allah.” We speak of angelic sexual practice (if they have gender), the thesis of angels as representative of an influence field—-including Rilke’s meeting and intermingling with it—-and conclude with a reading of Bob Dylan’s “Three Angels.”
2020-03-0558 minBaffling Combustions6. BlakeIn BLAKE we touch and sometimes reach the work of the poet William Blake by way of his “Introduction” to his SONGS OF EXPERIENCE as well as “The Echoing Green” and “The Blossom” (from SONGS OF INNOCENCE), among others, as they may intersect with reference to Juliana Spahr, Robert Graves, Swedenborg, Bob Dylan, Druidism, child labor and the “dawn poem” (or Alba) as well as the importance of the “transvaluation of values” to what it means to turn our worlds around and look again around that which has no map except the one we speak into lines that transverse them.
2020-02-281h 12Baffling Combustions7. WarrenBefore too much time lapses on the election clock, we impart our recent WARREN - that is Elizabeth Ann Warren - in which we discuss, among other things, nothing you ever wanted to know about her and never thought to ask. Through the unique perspectives of astrology, William Irwin Thompson and some murky political calculations, etc., we examine her "fight," conversion experience - from capitalist water carrier to down-trodden champion - her nickname ("Datum'), comparisons to other candidates and current and former presidents - and generally thing having not much to do with Allen Ginsberg. Take heed, this session includes...
2020-02-211h 19Baffling Combustions1. Walking I"Walking" is from Henry David Thoreau’s essay of that name, though alternatively he called it “The Wild”—so “Walking the Wild” takes us to what lurks inside it all, including the origins of revolution and ownership in the tyrannies of industrial time and privacy. We also here (in this first of a two-part discussion) talk about walking itself as an act and about getting lost as well as how, Thoreau writes, “In wildness is the preservation of the world”— which was to become the motto of the Sierra Club. Thoreau is a bewilderer who postulates things about 150 years ahead of his time and sa...
2020-02-0558 minBaffling Combustions2. Walking IIPicking up where we left off, in Part 1, discussing a walking that doesn’t involve walking, in “Walking 2” we continue our reading of Thoreau’s essay, touching on the monomyth, John Brown, Charles Olson, Emerson, the art of walking backwards, Robin Hood and Johnny Cash. Gilgamesh as well as the Australopithecus come up as well as Thoreau’s sense of a “new literature” — or we haven’t seen nothing yet.
2020-02-0559 minBaffling Combustions3. SilenceOur “silent” exploration takes us from the word’s Latin origin and Medieval carryover into English in which it rooted and grew in at least two attitudes—the edgy and fuzzy—that appear to wrestle. How do we use silence and how does it use us? Excursions include, among others: The Lollards, penology/shunning, cosmic consciousness, mystical union, the New York City subway system, the Parsis’ Towers of Silence, “The Science Behind Why Awkward Silence Works,” the Bhagavad Gita and readings of John Ashbery’s “Some Trees” and Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man” (a little tricked out). Warning: This podcast includes swathes of “(silenc
2020-01-291h 13Baffling Combustions26. BreathSometimes that with which we are most familiar to us is, paradoxically, most strange, such as breath. Here we breathe on it, expanding on and contracting in its practical qualities as well as teasing out some of its wild and dear associations.
2020-01-2959 minBaffling CombustionsSILENCEThere's nothing there until there is - or silence is recollection and so doesn't exist. Or it does here, where we least expect, faster than thought or then we ever did. Find out.
2020-01-011h 13
Ant on the MoveBook Review - Collab with Bear from the Combustions GuysJoin us as we talk about books we have currently read on the Podcast. You can check out the books by checking the links below. Craig Parshall - http://www.craigparshallauthor.com/#booksRachel McMillian - https://www.amazon.com/Herringford-Watts-Mysteries-6-1-ebook/dp/B07PZZMBNX/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Herringford+and+watts+mysteries&qid=1567526005&s=gateway&sr=8-4Thank you for Listening to Ant on the Move!Instagram ↓https://www.instagram.com/antonthemove/Youtube ↓https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLSh...
2019-11-0227 min
Phaune RadioDormance, Petites Hantises Faites MaisonAucun mort ne revient jamais.
Mais certains restent.
—-- Saint Jean
À moins d’être expert en histoire française des sciences occultes, il y a peu de chances que vous ayez entendu parler d’Émile Tizané. Et pourtant…
Et pourtant, dès les années 30, cet officier de la gendarmerie a été l’un des protagonistes clefs pour la recherche paranormale. Pendant plusieurs décennies, il a traqué officieusement aux quatre coins de la France chaque manifestation de poltergeists et autres phénomènes inexpliqués : esprits frappeurs, maisons hantées, déplacements d’objets, grêles de pierres, combustions spontanées… Tout a été passé...
2019-10-1855 min
Podcast de Font de MisterisFONT DE MISTERIS T7P37- COMBUSTIONS HUMANES ESPONTÀNIES- Programa 267| IB3 RàdioJa pots trobar al servei #ALaCartaIB3 el programa d'ahir vespre de Font de Misteris a IB3 Ràdio. Hem dedicat l'edició a parlar de tot allò que envolta a les conegudes com a combustions humanes espontànies. Un dels més aterridors fenomens sense massa explicació lògica. Que són? Quins casos es coneixen?
Pots escoltar el programa els dissabtes a les 22h sintonitzant IB3 Ràdio als dials: 106.8 (Mallorca), 88.6 (Menorca), 93.7 (Eivissa i Formentera), 89.2 (Alcúdia, Andratx i Sóller), 92.7 (Calvià), 96.4 (Capdepera), 101.1 (Pollença) i 102.3 (Sant Josep) o ib3tv.com.
2019-07-0455 min
Les mil i una nitsVeritats i mentides del tantra: l'ABC del sexe tàntricVivim en un món una mica boig. Immediatesa, rapidesa... ho volem tot i com més aviat millor. Amb aquest ritme, no és estrany que fins i tot el sexe vagi ràpid. Per això avui ens aturem en el sexe tàntric: una manera d'entendre la sexualitat que va contra corrent. No parlem d'un sexe explosiu ni de combustions ràpides, parlem de lentitud, de consciència, de l'aquí i l'ara. Volem entendre el sexe tàntric amb Elma Roura, professora del màster de Desenvolupament Personal de Lideratge a l'Institut Borja Vilaseca de Barcelona, i Àurea Poch, facilitadora...
2018-07-0756 min
Karl Arnold's showHow to Replace and Buy Your Best Car Accessories Tools Spark PlugA spark plug is an electrical device that ignites compressed fuels such as aerosol, gasoline in internal combustion engines to initiate combustions.Simply put, a spark plug is a device in the engine that aids it to ignite in. Spark plugs have a wide application in combustion engines such as those found in cars, boats, lawn mowers, generators amongst lots of combustion engines.Source: http://coolcaraccessories.net/best-spark-plug-reviews/
2017-07-2017 min
Arkanum - 8ª TemporadaCombustió espontània (8ª Temporada ) Nº 223La combustió espontània és un fenomen en el que una persona o un objecte es crema sense cap causa aparent. Sembla que es produeix des de dins cap enfora del cos però no s' ha trobat explicació als fets. En aquest programa veurem les característiques de la combustió espontània, recordarem alguns dels casos més coneguts i impactants i veurem les diferents hipòtesis sobre què pot provocar aquestes combustions.
2015-10-1653 min
AlcohollywoodDetective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)This week, we continue Mystery Month with the 2010 wire-fu historical action flick Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame! In 7th century China, in the wake of a series of mysterious spontaneous combustions, Detective Dee (Andy Lau) is brought in to stop an assassination attempt of Empress Wu on the eve of her coronation. Director Tsui Hark and fight director Sammo Hung provide some great wire-fu action sequences among the convoluted plot that is typical of these kinds of Chinese epic modern films. Despite the sometimes-confusing nature of the plot and the dry...
2013-05-1000 min