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Dark City2. OCCULT: The Double Life of Rocketeer Jack Parsons Pt 2Pasadena, CA | In Part 1, we introduced you to Jack Parsons, pioneering rocket scientist by day, occultist by night. This week, we will detail the downright bizarre rituals he engages in as his occult obsession drives him to near madness. From getting caught up in a destructive love triangle with the founder of Scientology to losing his hard earned professional credibility, Jack’s life could not be filled with more drama. Even the abrupt and tragic end to his life will leave us asking the question - would a rocket scientist really do that?Follow us for episode phot...2024-04-0340 minDark City1. OCCULT: The Double Life of Rocketeer Jack Parsons Pt 1Pasadena, CA | Can a black arts occultist by night also be a pioneering rocket scientist by day? Sure can. We are kicking off Season 1: Los Angeles (and the Dark City series!) with the unlikely but true life story and accomplishments of Jack Parsons, one of the principal founders of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Coming of age in the 1920s and early 1930s, Jack lived in a world that believed a trip to the moon would never be possible. Always one to push the boundaries of convention, what started as Jack’s scrappy experiments with homemade explosives in the Arroyo...2024-03-2744 min
Grappling Rewind: Breakdowns of Professional BJJ and Grappling Events#317 MEGA RECAP Fight Pass Invitational 5 and 2023 IBJJF NoGI WorldsThis week on the show Maine and Miranda recap the Fight Pass Invitational 5 FPI 5, and the 2023 IBJJF No-GI Worlds. Plus preview the teams for AIGA Championship.In news we talk about the ONE FC apprentice Season 2 launching in Asia. the 50k belt match proposal between Nicky Rod and Gordon Ryan. Gutenberg leaving GFT to go to AOJ, and Talita Alencar winning her UFC debut. In the recap of the Fight Pass Invitational 5 we recap Felipe Pena vs. Nicholas Meregali that saw Meregali submit Pena with a RNC. In Yuri Simões vs. Nicky Rod...2023-12-122h 27
Scare UWitching and Bitching (2013) with Cintra WilsonDetermined to make better lives for themselves, Madrid town square "mascots" Tony and Jose, in their guises as a silver-hued Jesus and a green-skinned toy soldier, rob a shop specializing in the exchange and purchase of gold. Joined by Jose’s son Sergio, who has forsaken his homework for a day with dad, the men make off with countless rings and other gold trinkets, commandeering a taxi driven by Manuel, and containing a passenger who just wants to get to Badajoz. Their goal: make it to France, safety, and prosperity. Just one problem: Sergio left his backpack in the store...2023-01-091h 23
Words That Move Me with Dana Wilson154. Question of the Year (feat. every podcast guest from 2022!)It’s a Words That Move Me tradition! All of my guests from 2022 will answer the same question.. What is the tool you use the most often? Want to know who’s talking? Follow along with our guide below! I would also love to hear from you. What is the tool you use the most often? Enjoy this conversation with all my guests from 2022.
12:11 Liana Blackburn
13:34 Cat Rendic
14:09 Poppin’ Pete
15:40 Michelle Dorrance
16:17 Kara Mack
18:12 Gary Imhof
19:43 Brian Shutters
20:38 Jeff Mortensen
21:29 Ma...2022-12-2144 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainFASHION IN MUSIC 2010 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cintra.substack.com2022-10-1909 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainAn EMBARRASSMENT OF GHOSTSThere are few things more intellectually embarrassing than having a rich history of paranormal experiences. “Oh really?” Your friends ask snarkily when ghosts pop into the conversation, because they already think you’re half-crazy. “What drugs were you on?” Some people really sink their teeth into it and insist that there would be forms of “scientific proof” if such things existed, and cite the countless debunkings of spiritualism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Houdini did people like me no favors. Some of the most outspoken anti-ghost jerks are people who have seen ghosts themselves and chalk up even their...2022-10-1210 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainRUTHLESSWhen I was about sixteen, I had already had a fake ID for two years. The first one I made myself with the kind of rub-off press type that architects used to use, and a Carte Orange — a monthly pass for the Paris metro, that had my photo on it. I laid out all of the pertinent information — like date of birth — in French. It worked, and my club life in San Francisco began. By the time I was 15, my parents had given up trying to impose any control on me whatsoever; I had a 6AM curfew for school n...2022-10-0508 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainYOU EARN IT THE HARD WAYI used to write an advice column for the San Francisco Examiner in the nineties, called Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain (hence the title of the Substack.) The photograph of my head next to the byline featured my hair on fire. The conceit was that I was a Psychic Psupergenius, here to solve your various earthly woes. I was the Oracle. Sometimes I gave terrible advice. Sometimes the advice was good. Sometimes I waxed philosophical about relationships, since I was usually failing at them. I was usually an emotional wreck, and unintentionally wrote about depression a lot, without calling it wha...2022-09-2806 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainBOUGIE BITCH“Did you see the email I sent you? That houseboat listing? It’s only $85,000,” said my uncle, who happens to be my current landlord, a few weeks ago. He became the gilded landowner that he is now by first rebuilding and flipping houseboats for a few decades. He knows houseboats. “Also, I’ve been thinking about you for this dock for a while. It’s called Waldo Dock (not its real name.) It’s a commune of people made up entirely of low-income artists and maritime workers. That’s it. They won’t let anyone else take residency. You’re one...2022-09-2107 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainI WORE MELANIA'S DRESS AND IT WAS TERRIFYING(I apologize in advance for these links not working. I was thinking this article was interesting because of fashion’s ability to predict the future.) In the spring of 2011, toward the end of my stint as a New York Times Critical Shopper, I was assigned to review the then-new Dior flagship in uptown Manhattan. It was a palatial monument to the ability to spare no expense: All was silver, white, and mirrors, some reflecting giant videos of models on the catwalk showcasing that season’s collection. The offerings were so snickeringly retro-sexual as to verge on parod...2022-09-1406 minWords That Move Me with Dana Wilson140. Making Statements with Culture Critic Cintra WilsonFashion icon and writer of “Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style”, Cintra Wilson, joins me on the pod today. Cintra is constantly making statements both as a writer and fashion connoisseur, and you’ll get to hear a few of those fabulous statements on style, fashion, femininity, counter culture, and more on the pod today. You’ll learn about the life and work of Cintra as well as where “hip” comes from and where it is now. Please enjoy this conversation with my long lost sister, Cintra Wilson.
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Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE 1 MINUTE 56 SECOND ORGASMWhen I was 18, I got my first professional writing job, writing pornography for 976-lines (a phone number you could call, enter your credit card information, and hear a pre-recorded 2 minute porn script “performed.”) A lot of the cute actress girls in my drama class at San Francisco State were reading the scripts for extra money. I was a pothead, mostly making my way through college doing afro-Haitian dancing and selling joints I rolled badly from a Hefty bag of “shake” (the world’s weakest marijuana - no buds, mostly just crushed leaves). I used to keep jo...2022-09-0706 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainGALLIANO GALLIANO(This piece previously appeared in Salon.com in 2011. I think it’s still relevant.) "I'm tired of pretending I'm not special anymore."-- Charlie SheenIt has been an incredible, red-letter week for the epic grand-mal celebrity meltdown. Charlie Sheen has proven himself to be the poet laureate of all once and future megalomaniac sex-addicted crackheads, and John Galliano's once brilliant design mind unraveled like a cheap acrylic Christmas sweater in a bar in Marais and dressed down French patrons in a torrent of Nazi jackbooted verbal abuse, prompting exco...2022-08-3113 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainTHE LUXURY OF TELEVISION: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTSI’ve lost a lot of fake friends on my walk through life. It hurts the same way as losing real friends — losing that investment of time, the building of shared experience, the history, and ultimately, my belief in them as genuine people. I don’t get that close to many people, and my loyalty is so absolute, I tend to be disappointed in others who don’t share my friendship vision. Which is why making a real, true-blue friend is such a blessed event. During the beginning of Covid, I stumbled upon an entirely new kind of friendshi...2022-08-2409 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainRIP, ELIZABETH TAYLORThis article previously appeared on Salon.com. (I think.) Last week, in Miami, I stayed at a self-described "gay hotel," mostly for the kicky interior: every room featured, over the bed, an enormous photo-portrait of Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. She was, after all, the ultimate queen.A friend of mine in his sixties once told me the story of his accidentally running into Elizabeth Taylor with her entourage in an alley in New York, one night. He was a successful model and Princeton architect -- no stranger among beautiful people. But the...2022-08-1709 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainHOW I THINK REPUBLICANS LIVEThis is a completely unhinged piece that happened because I was thinking of Doug Kenney’s “My First Blow Job” and imagining I was working for National Lampoon circa 1981. This will probably get me taken out of context and cancelled again, but fuck it. It’s satire. In a gated residential community stands the family McMansion. A giant American flag billows above the front porch next to a yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. The long driveway is filled with trucks, jet-skis. The clean two-car garage is full of refrigerators, teeming with meat, and enough ca...2022-08-1007 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainSTOMP IT OUTSome iteration of this piece previously appeared in Elle magazine. You threw a lemon at me and hit me in the foreheadThat’s what love does to you/makes you cheekyAy, I love you so much that I just can’t punish you- A bulerias from Carlos Saura’s “Flamenco”When I first met Glenda Koeraus, the dancer who would later be known by flamenco audiences as Sol la Argentinita (and later known by me, only half-jokingly, as my guru)-- I was a basket...2022-08-0326 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainJOHN, I’M ONLY DANCINGEver since the craven Nazi fuckheads in the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, I’ve been thinking about feminism. I was expecting a lot more of a production, frankly, from the feminists of my country. Where were the thousands of bra-burning, barricade-mooning teams of badass valkyries on motorcycles with shaved heads, pussy hats, ski masks and combat boots, brawling in the streets and in the halls of justice? Where are the rock star voices? Who is our Gloria Steinem right now? I guess I thought I could call 1-800-WYMMINS and hook up with my local chap...2022-07-2708 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainA FILM TOUR OF THE SARTORIAL SEVENTIESBefore the 1990s, the era when the power centers of fashion began to be much more numerous and dispersed, decades could be easily identified by the most prominent looks and cuts of their pervasive styles. The closet of the sixties in no way resembled the closet of the seventies; the clothing of the seventies was considered so outré it would practically get you beaten up in the eighties. Style was a singular and perishable flowering every ten years, and movies offered a fabulous glimpse at the aesthetic gardens of their time.The seventies were a thrillingly specific period for n...2022-07-2016 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainKICK-ASS CHICK(I apologize to all photographers whose work I am using to illustrate this article. I was unable to find names to attribute the photos. But if you send me your names I will add photo credits!) There is something about the combination of ADHD and OCD in me that makes me binge on specific TV shows. My guiltiest pleasure for several months now has been the tattoo reality show “Ink Master,” starring your master-of-ceremonies, delicately preserved rock star Dave Navarro (a perfect game show host, and prettyboy for the Death Rock matrons in the audience to swoon...2022-07-1307 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainPRADA MEINHOFFThis piece was written when OWS was actually occupying Wall Street. "People should not be afraid of their governments. Government should be afraid of their people." — Alan MooreWeeks ago, I saw a photo on the internet that really stuck in my gag reflex: A piggy-faced group of Wall Street insiders -- men in pinstripe suits and ties, women in silk dresses and big ass, fuck-you, 11mm Barbara Bush pearls -- were sitting on balcony overlooking Zucotti Park, smugly looking down on the protestors, drinking champagne. Two thoughts occurred to me:1. This...2022-07-0609 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainI, GODLESS BABYKILLERI didn’t want to write about the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, because it disgusts me to the point of compulsive rock-kicking, and makes my stomach undulate like it is full of angry sand worms, but my mother said I had to. I never listen to her, but I suppose she’s right. It’s the kind of thing I am supposed to comment on, but when the wind gets knocked out of you because the Boot of Tyranny is standing on your face, it leaves you somewhat….speechless. I feel like a stun...2022-06-2907 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainA PROGRESSIVE ANALYSIS OF DEMI MOORE’S “STRIPTEASE”Every seven years, it seems, Demi Moore is expensively chopped, dropped, shaved, airbrushed and hydraulically re-sexualized for a new demographic of boner-attention. The X-Box contingent is discovering, today, what the Gen-X boys witnessed before them: Despite Repeated Motherhood, Demi (through a vigorous combination of rude will and 6-digit surgeries) Is Still Fuckable! (see Kutcher, Ashton; Dude, Where’s My Mom?)In 1996, La Moore was paid $12.5m -- the highest fee any actress had ever been paid, at that point – to unveil her Demispheres in the movie Striptease, to the delight of several sweaty, jism-clogged fans worldwid...2022-06-2206 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainMOTORCYCLE DIARIESAll names have been changed to protect the stupid (except mine, because fully I admit how stupid I was.) I recently sold what I think will probably be my last motorcycle. I can’t tell yet. Every few years, a tremendous, lusty feeling will grip me, and it ends up with me buying a motorcycle. Last time, I found myself compulsively buying body armor on eBay. I told myself I was buying it to participate in Occupy Wall Street riots, but then I ended up buying a gorgeous black Ducati Monster 695 named Donna, by her previo...2022-06-1507 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainMEN WHO HURT THEMSELVES FOR A LIVINGThis article previously appeared on salon.com in 2002. Before Sept. 11, in those long-lost days when America's bravest young men had no war, famine, saber-toothed tigers or any other actual challenges to pit themselves against, they were forced to prove their manliness through inventive forms of public masochism: the more gratuitous, idiotically conceived and potentially harmful, the better.Spearheading the ranks of bescabbed professional skateboarders, fractured BMX riders, dead BASE jumpers, no-necked backyard rasslers and hundreds of jacked-up halfwits that make up the puncture casualties at Pamplona's annual running of the bulls are two c...2022-06-0811 min
Cintra Wilson Feels Your PainA REMEMBRANCE OF HOUSEBOATS PASTGrowing up as a grade-school kid on the Sausalito houseboats in the 1970’s was interesting, particularly since nowadays the environment would probably be deemed unsuitable for children and the entire community probably would come under indictments for Conduct Unbecoming of Adults, mopery, or light hooliganism. Our houseboats were, at least, at Gate 6 ½, and not at Gate 5 a quarter mile down the road, where the residents (a much grittier, more hardcore group of hippies than on my dock — filthy men on rusty bicycles, kids running around the splintering, nail-filled docks in bare feet, everyone poaching electricity from a street...2022-06-0107 min