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Weird StudiesOn James Whale's 'Frankenstein' and 'The Bride of Frankenstein,' with Peter BebergalIn this episode, Phil and JF are joined by independent scholar Peter Bebergal, author of Strange Frequencies, Season of the Witch, and other books on the intersections of culture, religion, and the occult. The topic is Frankenstein—not Guillermo del Toro's latest but James Whale's 1931 talkie along with its 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein, both starring Boris Karloff. The conversation touches on Gnosticism, alchemy, modern techno-hubris, the Gothic, and much more.
Peter's new online course, Hacking the Invisible: At the Intersection of Technology and Magic, begins on November 20th, 2025, and runs for three weeks on Weirdosphere. Visit th...
2025-11-121h 10
I AM ConversationsJames Roguski: HOW TO BE HEALTHY AND HAPPYIn this I AM Conversations episode, James “Jim” Roguski—researcher, author, and activist—shares how a season of divorce, bankruptcy, and foreclosure redirected his life toward holistic health. We cover the lymphatic system and bodywork, Bach Flower remedies and emotions, muscle testing surprises, stress and environment (from EMFs to toxic worksites), epigenetics and the “biology of belief,” sound/frequency and pattern, plus spiritual and ancestral layers of healing. Jim’s closing message: you are unique—seek approaches tailored to you, be willing to unlearn, and take responsibility for change.Contact James (as requested in-show): +1-310-619-3055 (call/text/Telegr...
2025-10-141h 00
Wrestling With Entertainment"The Heir" Shawn Martel Interview #WrestlingWith #Interviews "The Heir" Shawn Martel in an interview that wears the crown. We talk, wrestling his father Keven Martel, being a third-generation wrestler, rivalry with PL, generation next championship, wedding to Kacey Diamond, being in a music video, making his own batman costume, love of anime and much more! Follow Shawn on socialsInstagram https://www.instagram.com/shawn.martel.wrestler/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/people/Shawn-Martel-Wrestler/100086918515367/Everything from Wrestling With Entertainment https://linktr.ee...
2025-10-141h 10
Weird StudiesProvidence of Evil: On Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu'
In this episode, JF and Phil examine the myth of the vampire through the lens of Robert Eggers' latest film, Nosferatu, a reimagining of F. W. Murnau's German Expressionist masterpiece. Topics covered include the nature of vampires, the symbolism of evil, the implicit theology of Eggers' film (compared with that of Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula), the need for shadow work, as well as the power of real introspection and self-sacrifice.
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2025-01-081h 20
The Hormone Solution with Karen MartelThe Testosterone Replacement for Women Conundrum: Libido Highs and Hair Loss Lows with James O'Hara James O'Hara is a family nurse practitioner who utilizes a utilizes an integrative approach to health which combines lifestyle interventions, appropriate supplementation, and medications when indicated to empower patients to feel better and live longer, healthier lives. Today we're speaking with James about testosterone replacement for women plus the benefits and drawbacks that come along with it, particularly during the transformative stages of perimenopause and menopause. We'll talk about how testosterone and other hormones play a role not just in sexual desire, but also mood, energy, and cognitive functions. From sleep patterns to genetic predispositions...
2024-05-181h 16The Hormone Solution with Karen MartelThe Testosterone Replacement for Women Conundrum: Libido Highs and Hair Loss Lows with James O'Hara James O'Hara is a family nurse practitioner who utilizes a utilizes an integrative approach to health which combines lifestyle interventions, appropriate supplementation, and medications when indicated to empower patients to feel better and live longer, healthier lives. Today we're speaking with James about testosterone replacement for women plus the benefits and drawbacks that come along with it, particularly during the transformative stages of perimenopause and menopause. We'll talk about how testosterone and other hormones play a role not just in sexual desire, but also mood, energy, and cognitive functions. From sleep patterns to genetic predispositions...
2024-05-181h 16
Weird StudiesTatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'
"Let the red dawn surmise / What we shall do, / When the blue starlight dies / And all is through." This short poem, an epigraph to "The Yellow Sign," arguably the most memorable tale in Robert W. Chambers' 1895 collection The King in Yellow, encapsulates in four brief lines the affect that drives cosmic horror: the fearful sense of imminent annihilation. In the four stories JF and Phil discuss in this episode, this affect, which would inspire a thousand works of fiction in the twentieth century, emerges fully formed, dripping with the xanthous milk of Decadence. What’s more, it is here gi...
2024-03-201h 27
The Hormone Solution with Karen MartelSipping Deception: Me, James Swanwick, and the Alcohol Reality Check James Swanwick is an Australian-American investor, entrepreneur, speaker and former SportsCenter anchor on ESPN. He is the creator of the Alcohol Free Lifestyle, which helps people change their relationship to alcohol; the host of the podcast, "Alcohol Free Lifestyle", and creator of blue-light blocking glasses "Swannies" by Swanwick Sleep, which improve your sleep. As the new year approaches, many of us have resolutions that include reducing or quitting alcohol. Today, alongside James, we'll shed light on our experiences and journey of overcoming alcohol addiction. Together, we take a closer look at the effects of alcohol...
2023-12-231h 12The Hormone Solution with Karen MartelSipping Deception: Me, James Swanwick, and the Alcohol Reality Check James Swanwick is an Australian-American investor, entrepreneur, speaker and former SportsCenter anchor on ESPN. He is the creator of the Alcohol Free Lifestyle, which helps people change their relationship to alcohol; the host of the podcast, "Alcohol Free Lifestyle", and creator of blue-light blocking glasses "Swannies" by Swanwick Sleep, which improve your sleep. As the new year approaches, many of us have resolutions that include reducing or quitting alcohol. Today, alongside James, we'll shed light on our experiences and journey of overcoming alcohol addiction. Together, we take a closer look at the effects of alcohol...
2023-12-231h 12
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2023-12-1402 min
Odd People podcast116 Pokémon & reincarnation116 Pokémon & Reincarnation
The guys talk about what it would be like to have Pokémon in real life. And they debate reincarnation and Cult leaders.
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Stop Trading Your Time for Money with Eric MartelAdjustable vs. Fixed-Rate Mortgage: Which Saves You More? | Eric Martel's In-Depth Analysis🏠💰 In this comprehensive video, Eric Martel, a seasoned real estate investor and entrepreneur, takes you on an enlightening journey through the complex world of mortgages. With a rich background in flipping over 1,000 SF rental properties and a deep passion for real estate investment, Eric brings his unique insights and experiences to the table.
🔍 Today's focus is a detailed comparison between the classic 30-year Fixed-Rate Mortgage (FRM) and the often misunderstood Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM). Which one is truly more cost-effective in the long run? Can an ARM actually save you thousands? Eric dives deep into these questions, offering clear, analytical insights...
2023-11-1209 min
Weird StudiesThe Only Possible End: On Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'
There are works of weird fiction that dispense their strangeness so subtly that many readers never pick up on it, books that allow themselves to be pass for mundane, the better to haunt us after we put them down. Donna Tartt's debut novel The Secret History, published in 1992, is such a work. On the surface, it is a brilliant, yet completely naturalistic, telling of the lead-up and aftermath of a murder. But The Secret History is also a work of the depths, and readers who go in seeking the Weird will find it lurking on every page. More than...
2023-10-251h 33
Weird StudiesThe Science of Things Spiritual: Live in Lily Dale
On the last week of July, 2023, Phil and JF were delighted to speak at Shannon Taggart's Science of Things Spiritual Symposium in Lily Dale, the nerve centre of the Spiritualist movement. As speakers, your hosts were part of an inspiring lineup of scholars, artists, and researchers committed to exploring the borderlands of art, science, religion, and the paranormal. They also had the honour of launching the symposium with a live recording held on the evening of the July 27th. The topic was Frederic W. H. Myers' autobiographical essay, "Fragments of Inner Life," first published in full in 1961, some sixty...
2023-08-011h 48
Weird StudiesSacramental Reality: On Arthur Machen's "A Fragment of Life"
"A Fragement of Life" opens with Mr. Darnell waking up from a dream and going down to breakfast, where it is described that "before he sat down to his fried bacon he kissed his wife seriously and dutifully." He then proceeds to take the tram to visit a friend, with whom he has a long and tedious conversation about plants, clothes, kids, and how best to spend ten pounds. The story continues on in this mundane manner for quite some time, which is probably not what we would expect from Arthur Machen, virtuoso of the weird. But, as Phil...
2023-07-051h 25
Weird StudiesSong Swap: On Judee Sill's 'The Kiss' and Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.'
Occasionally, JF and Phil do a song swap. Each host chooses a song he loves and shares it with the other, and then they record an episode on it. This time, JF chose to discuss "Jesus, Etc." from Wilco's 2001 album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Phil picked Judee Sill's ethereal "The Kiss," from Heart Food (1973). It was in the zone of Time, in all its strangeness, that the two songs began to resonate with one another. Sill's song is a fated grasping at the eternal that is present even when it eludes us, and "Jesus, Etc." is a leap across...
2023-06-211h 20
Weird StudiesMythos of the Moment: On 'Twin Peaks,' Season 3
David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks has been a touchstone of Weird Studies since the podcast's inception. Back in 2018, Phil and JF recorded Episode 1: Garmonbozia while still reeling from the series' third season, which aired on Showtime the year before. Now, in preparation for their upcoming course on Twin Peaks, they watched the third season again and recorded this episode. Their conversation touched on the virtues of late style in the arts, the divergence of knowing and understanding, the fate of Agent Dale Cooper, and the dream logic of the _Twin Peaks _universe.
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2023-06-071h 18
Weird StudiesWaiting for the Miracle: On Vanessa Onwuemezi's "Dark Neighbourhood"
In this episode, Phil and JF discuss Vanessa Onwuemezi's, "Dark Neighbourhood," a tale of scintillant darkness from her debut collection of the same name. This strangest of strange stories is set in a vast encampment of destitute yet hopeful people whose lives consist entirely of waiting for their turn to step through the iron gates of the Beyond. Living off the dregs of civilization, they seem the last of our kind. They are the ones who, having made it to the front of the line, have the dubious honour of contemplating directly the mystery that awaits us all. Unlike...
2023-04-261h 30
Weird StudiesOn UFOs
In the 1950s, Carl Jung expressed frustration at the impenetrability of the UFO mystery, the "strange, unknown, and indeed contradictory nature" of this "ostensibly physical phenomenon" with "an extremely important psychic component." Throughout his writings on the topic, he marvels at the impossibility of coming to even preliminary conclusions. Fastforward to 2023, after a series of astounding disclosures on the part of qualified government people, and we have as much reason to be baffled as we ever had. In this episode, Phil and JF discuss the mercurial, tricksterish fact of ortherwordly things seen in the sky.
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2023-03-291h 30
Weird StudiesSex, Money, and Power are YOURS with our SECRET Art-Power Formula!
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Tired of failure and self-loathing? Want to be rich and famous while having a good time all the time? Wondering how to turn your banal opinions into Transcendent Truths? Look no further than this special, exclusive episode of Weird Studies, where we reveal, once and for all, the secrets of ART-POWER!
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2023-02-011h 34
Weird StudiesOn 'The Secret Life of Puppets,' with Victoria Nelson
Victoria Nelson saw it first: Popular culture teems with occult ideas, vestiges of bygone belief, fragments of ancient magic disguised as common entertainment. Her 2001 work The Secret Life of Puppets is in many ways the ur-text of weird studies, so prescient and probing it is even more relevant now than it was when it first appeared. In episode 128, Phil and JF discussed Nelson's wonderful first novel Neighbor George (2021). In this episode, Nelson joins the hosts of Weird Studies to talk about the vision that drove her to write Secret Life along with its equally insightful follow-up, Gothicka.
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2022-11-161h 04
PreReal PodcastTURNKEY RENTALS DEBUNKED with Eric Martel | PreReal Podcast #118Eric Martel purchased his first apartment building at just 18 years of age while still at university. After graduation, in his position as an actuary, he was dismayed to see hundreds of company pension plans being rolled over into 401(k)s shifting the retirement risk to employees. This made him reconsider traditional beliefs about saving for retirement. After the Dotcom crash of 2001 Eric started looking for ways to earn passive income and founded MartelTurnkey with his family. Eric now shares what he has learned, so you too, can stop trading your time for money.
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2022-10-2017 min
Weird StudiesOn Weirding, and the Virtues of Unknowing Everything
With the term "weird studies" gaining currency inside and outside academia, Phil and JF thought it was time to discuss the philosophical method they've been developing on the podcast since 2018. Borrowing a term from Erik Davis, they call it weirding, and here set about trying to understand what it is, and what it means. David Lynch's fondness for crying, the practice of queering in cultural theory, the all-too-real phenomenon of "global weirding,"the spooky agency of artworks, and the tragic death of E.T. at the hands of Damien Hirst are just a few of the subjects touched on...
2022-10-191h 12
The Hormone Solution with Karen MartelDitch the Chemicals & Eat Live Foods to Thrive with Tim JamesTim is one of those guys that will leave you feeling younger and more energetic just by hearing him speak. He's turning 49 but feels like he's 18 (with more energy!) What's his secret? After suffering from multiple health issues, including rectal bleeding, two separate skin issues, chronic acid indigestion and surgery to remove one of his organs due to serious digestive issues, Tim knew something had to change. But it was only after watching his closest ones die of cancer and the untimely death of his younger brother that he finally decided to take action. Tim's j...
2022-08-061h 17The Hormone Solution with Karen MartelDitch the Chemicals & Eat Live Foods to Thrive with Tim JamesTim is one of those guys that will leave you feeling younger and more energetic just by hearing him speak. He's turning 49 but feels like he's 18 (with more energy!) What's his secret? After suffering from multiple health issues, including rectal bleeding, two separate skin issues, chronic acid indigestion and surgery to remove one of his organs due to serious digestive issues, Tim knew something had to change. But it was only after watching his closest ones die of cancer and the untimely death of his younger brother that he finally decided to take action. Tim's j...
2022-08-061h 17
Weird StudiesLuminous Miasma: On Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Edgar Allan Poe can be lauded as a major inspiration for many innovative artists, genres, and movements, from horror fiction to the music of Maurice Ravel. He has also been a major inspiration for Weird Studies, particularly his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." In this episode, JF and Phil try to pinpoint just what it is about this tale that is so compelling, discovering in the process that whatever it is cannot be pinpointed. Instead, the haunting mood of the story emerges from the peculiar arrangement of all its parts, becoming something entirely new.
2022-08-031h 33
Tim James UpgradedEpisode #124 Karen Martel, What's Happening To My Hormones?Episode #124 Fifty years ago very few people had hormone imbalances, now over half of us are dealing with symptoms that drastically reduce our quality of life. When our hormones are not working properly this can lead to poor sleep, auto immune issues, weight gain and lowered sex drive to name a few. So having your hormones balanced is a big deal when it comes to waking up and feeling good. In this episode I interviewed Karen Martel, who is a health coach that after childbirth started gaining weight and having a hard time sleeping. Over the years...
2022-07-1157 min
The Hake ReportMedal of Freedom! Boomer Gen-Xers! ’People-Pleasers’! (Thu. 7-7-22)Backstabbers and people pleasers! Recipients of the Un-presidential Medal of Freedom — bunch of un-American people! The Hake Report, Thursday, July 7, 2022 AD: Tiara Mack first openly queer elected to Rhode Island, twerks for degenerate causes, what a mess // TheSkimm reports on recipients of the worthless Presidential Medal of Freedom, Simone Biles, talented gymnast but an emotional mess, 17 so-called Americans who embody the dirty soul of the nation, Sister Simone Campbell, Julieta Garcia, first Hispanic woman to serve as a college president in the US, Gabrielle Giffords, female democrat got shot in the head but she’...
2022-07-071h 57
Weird StudiesLeaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"
Like Caligula declaring war on Neptune and ordering his troops to charge into the Mediterranean Sea, our technological masters are designing neural networks meant to capture the human soul in all its oceanic complexity. According to the cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane, this is a fool's errand that we undertake at our peril. In her paper "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity," she makes the case for the irremediable fluidity, spontaneity, and relationality of people and societies. She argues that ongoing efforts to subsume the human (and the rest of reality) in predictive algorithms is actually narrowing the human experience, as...
2022-07-061h 16
Odd People podcastSusan DarwinEpisode number 75 Susan Darwin
Susan Darwin is an amazing artist whose local roots brought her artwork back to the area. She is an oil painter and observes the world around her in great detail. I hope you'll take the time to visit her exhibit at the James Arnold Mansion at 427 County St. in New Bedford Ma. from June 4th until July 23rd.
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2022-06-0657 min
PreReal PodcastHow to achieve financial freedom with Turnkey Rentals with Eric Martel | PreReal #098Eric Martel purchased his first apartment building at just 18 years of age while still at university. After graduation, in his position as an actuary, he was dismayed to see hundreds of company pension plans being rolled over into 401(k)s shifting the retirement risk to employees. This made him reconsider traditional beliefs about saving for retirement. After the Dotcom crash of 2001 Eric started looking for ways to earn passive income and founded MartelTurnkey with his family. Eric now shares what he has learned, so you too, can stop trading your time for money.
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2022-06-0235 min
Weird StudiesFraming the Invisible, with Shannon Taggart
Shannon Taggart's book Seance is a landmark in art photography and the history of psychical research. Taggart spent years photographing practitioners of spiritualism in the U.S. and Europe in an effort to capture the mysteries of mediumship, ectoplasm, and spirit photography. In this episode, she joins JF and Phil for a conversation on the often-misunderstood tradition of spiritualism, the investigation of the paranormal, and the real magic of photography. If the technological medium is the message, then perhaps the spiritual medium is the messenger.
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2021-12-221h 21
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2021-11-1002 min
Weird StudiesInfinite Play: On 'The Glass Bead Game,' by Hermann Hesse
JF and Phil have been talking about doing a show on The Glass Bead Game since Weird Studies' earliest beginnings. It is a science-fiction novel that alights on some of the key ideas that run through the podcast: the dichotomy of work and play, the limits and affordances of institutional life, the obscure boundary where certainty gives way to mystery... Throughout his literary career, Hesse wrote about people trying to square their inner and outer selves, their life in the spirit and their life in the world. The Glass Bead Game brings this central concern to a properly ambiguous...
2021-10-271h 20
Weird StudiesOn Skepticism and the Paranormal
Modern skeptics pride themselves on being immune to unreason. They present themselves as defenders of rationality, civilization, and good sense against what Freud famously called the "black mud-tide of occultism." But what if skepticism was more implicated in the phenomena it aims to banish than it might appear to be? What if no one could debunk anything without getting some of that black mud on their hands? In this episode, Phil and JF discuss the weird complicity of the skeptic and the believer in the light of George P. Hansen's masterpiece of meta-parapsychology, The Trickster and the Paranormal.
2021-10-131h 20
Weird StudiesOn Joy Williams' 'Breaking and Entering,' with Conner Habib
Joy Williams' third novel, Breaking and Entering, is the story of lovers who break into strangers' homes and live their lives for a time before moving on. First published in 1988, it is a book impossible to describe, a work of singular vision and sensibilty that is as infectious in its weird effect as it is unforgettable for the quality of its prose.
In this episode, the novelist, spiritual thinker, and acclaimed podcaster Conner Habib joins JF and Phil to explore how the novel's enchantments rest on the uniqueness of Williams' style, which is to say, her bold...
2021-09-291h 27
Dad At 65Food on the RunCombining kids’ activities with proper nutrition when you find yourself on the road a lot can be an adventure. James shares his own solutions for feeding Aaron on the run. Jonathan Martel, a dad with two young daughters who are professional actors, guest stars. For more information on Jonathan's daughters see below.Bella Leia:iMDB:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10504153/Email: anita@bellaleia.com Becky Leia:Email: anita@bellaleia.com
2021-08-0532 min
Weird StudiesWe'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pepper' and the Beatles
It is said that for several days after the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the spring of 1967, you could have driven from one U.S. coast to the other without ever going out of range of a local radio broadcast of the album. Sgt. Pepper was, in a sense, the first global musical event -- comparable to other sixties game-changers such as the Kennedy assassination and the moon landing. What's more, this event is as every bit as strange as the latter two; it is only custom and habit that blind us to the profound...
2021-08-041h 23
Dad at 65Food on the RunCombining kids’ activities with proper nutrition when you find yourself on the road a lot can be an adventure. James shares his own solutions for feeding Aaron on the run. Jonathan Martel, a dad with two young daughters who are professional actors, guest stars.
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2021-08-0432 min
Weird StudiesOn Pan, with Gyrus
"What was he doing, the great god Pan, down in the reeds by the river?" With this question, the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning opens her famous poem "A Musical Instrument," which explores nature's troubling embrace of savagery and beauty. It seems that Pan always raises questions: What is he doing? What does he want? Where will he appear next? Linked to instinct, compulsion, and the spontaneous event, Pan is without a doubt the least predictable of the Greek Gods. Small wonder that he alone in the Greek pantheon sports human and animal parts. In this episode, Phil and...
2021-07-071h 18
Weird StudiesCuring the Human Condition: On 'Wild Wild Country'
In this never-before-released episode recorded in 2019, Phil and JF travel to rural Oregon through the Netflix docu-series, Wild Wild Country. The series, which details the establishment of a spiritual community founded by Bhagwan Rajneesh (later called Osho) and its religious and political conflicts with its Christian neighbors, provides a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation on the nature of spirituality and religion. What emerges are surprising ties between the “spiritual, not religious” attitude and class, cultural commodification, and the culture of control that pervades modern society. But they also uncover the true “wild” card at the heart of existence that spi...
2021-05-261h 31
Weird StudiesArt in the Age of Artifice
The question of art has been of central concern for JF and Phil since Weird Studies began in 2018. What is art? What can it do that other things can't do? How is it connected to religion, psyche, and our current historical moment? Is the endless torrent of advertisements, entertainment, memes, and porn in which seem hopelessly immersed a manifestation of art or of something else entirely? In this exploration of the main ideas in JF's book Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, your hosts focus on these burning questions in hopes that the answers might shed light on...
2021-04-281h 26
Martel's Movie Madness: The PodcastEpisode 99: Low Budget and LowbrowHey y'all this week on the show we talk about two super low budget films by prolific filmmakers. I'm talking of course about James Balsamo and the infamous Bill Zebub, two films with a lot of tongue in cheek humor and gratuitous nudity!
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2021-04-2347 min
Weird StudiesDemon Seed: On Doris Lessing's 'The Fifth Child'
Doris Lessing's uncategorizable oeuvre reached strange new heights in 1988 with the publication of her short novel The Fifth Child. The story couldn't be simpler. In the England of the 1970s, a couple determined to live out a dream that many of their generation have rejected -- the big family in the old house with the pretty garden -- conceive a child that may or may not be human. From that moment on, the boy, their fifth, becomes the alien force that will tear their dream to pieces. Profoundly ambiguous and unsettling, The Fifth Child is a weird novel that...
2021-03-311h 26
Weird StudiesGlitch in the Matrix: A Conversation with Rodney Ascher
With his latest film, a meditation on what it means to believe we live in a computer simulation, Rodney Ascher has once again placed himself among the most innovative and visionary filmmakers working in the documentary form today. While the "Simulation Hypothesis" has been a hot topic ever since The Matrix came out in 1997, it is Ascher's ability to suspend judgement, training his camera on the experience of believers rather than the value of their beliefs, that makes A Glitch in the Matrix such a unique and significant exploration, a strange work of "phantom phenomenology."
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2021-02-171h 27
Weird StudiesGlyphs, Rifts, and Ecstasy: On Arthur Machen's Vision of Art
It would be wrong to describe Arthur Machen's Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy in Literature (1902) as a work of nonfiction, since the book features a narrative frame that is as moody and irreal as the best tales penned by this luminary of weird fiction. But if the eccentric recluse at the centre Hieroglyphics is a fictional philosopher, he is one who, in Phil and JF's opinion, rivals most aesthetic thinkers in the history of philosophy. The significance of this text lies in its willingness to disclose a function of art that few before Machen had dared to touch, namely...
2020-11-251h 07
Weird StudiesOn David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'
David Lynch's Lost Highway was released in 1997, five years after Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me elicited a fusillade of boos and hisses at Cannes. The Twin Peaks prequel's poor reception allegedly sent its American auteur spiralling into something of an existential crisis, and Lost Highway has often been interpreted as a response to -- or result of -- that crisis. Certainly, the film is among Lynch's darkest, boldest, and most enigmatic. But of course, we do the film an injustice by reducing it to the psychological state of its director. Indeed, one of the contentions of this episode...
2020-09-301h 19
Weird StudiesThe Pit and the Pyramid, or, How to Beat the Philosopher's Blues
Your hosts' exploration of mysticism and vision in pop music continues with two powerful pieces of popular music: Radiohead's "Pyramid Song" from the 2001 album Amnesiac, and Fran Landesman and Tommy Wolf's "Ballad of the Sad Young Men," from the 1959 Broadway musical The Nervous Set. Synchronicity rears its head as the dialogue reveals how these two gems, selected by JF and Phil with no expectation that they might form a set, begin to glow when placed side by side, amplifying and focussing each other's eldritch light. This episode touches on Neoplatonic myths of spiritual ascent, African-American spirituals, Plato's realm of...
2020-08-191h 18
Weird StudiesLove, Death, and the Dream Life
In this episode of Weird Studies, an improvised analysis of two pop songs -- Nina Simone's version of James Shelton's "Lilac Wine" and Ghostface Killah's visionary "Underwater" -- becomes the occasion for a deep dive to the weird wellspring of artistic creation. In trying to understand these songs and why they love them so much, your hosts touch on themes such as necromancy, decadence, liebestod, visionary experience, the Muslim image of paradise, the necessity of rifts, Norman Mailer's concept of "dream life," and the magical operation that is sampling.
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2020-08-051h 05
Weird StudiesOn John Keel's 'The Mothman Prophecies'
At the time The Mothman Prophecies' was released in 1975, and again when he penned an afterword for the 2001 edition, John Keel appeared to have made up his mind about the "ultraterrestrials" that he had tracked and hunted for most of his adult life. They were unconcerned about the welfare of the people whose lives they threw into disarray, he said. They were liars, cheats, and frauds who refused to play fair. They saw good and evil as synonymous and they were dangerous. Like many other explorers of reality's uncharted waters, John Keel returned to port knowing less than he...
2020-07-221h 14
Martel's Movie Madness: The PodcastEpisode 58: Creepy CrawliesOn this episode come on in and hang out while we talk about 3 creepy crawly movies featuring monstrous insects or insect like creatures; We talk about Eight Legged Freaks(2002), Ticks(1993), and James Gunn's Slither(2006). We also talk briefly about The Nest and Slugs. And this week for my whatcha watchin I talk about Come To Daddy, Mommy, and Until The Light Takes Us.
So come and join us to talk about all things from real life bug horror to black metal and much much more.
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2020-07-091h 12
Martel's Movie Madness: The PodcastEpisode 57: Ice Cream Man, Becky, and PornoOn this episode we've got a treat for you, we watch the 1995 Clint Howard movie Ice Cream Man as well as Becky a sick little action packed revenge movie starring Lulu Wilson and Kevin James, and Porno a 90's set Horror Comedy that will have you laughing your ass off! We also talk about The Last Drive In's season finale and give a little progress report on MMM The Movie Part One The Beginning. Come on in and hang out with us and let's watch some fuckin movies!
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2020-07-031h 01
Weird StudiesBelow the Abyss: On Bergson's Metaphysics
According to the French philosopher Henri Bergson, there are two ways of knowing the world: through analysis or through intuition. Analysis is our normal mode of apprehension. It involves knowing what's out there through the accumulation and comparison of concepts. Intuition is a direct engagement with the absolute, with the world as it exists before we starting tinkering with it conceptually. Bergson believed that Western metaphysics erred from the get-go when it gave in to the all-too-human urge to take the concepts by which we know things for the things themselves. His entire oeuvre was an attempt to snap...
2020-06-241h 19
Weird StudiesCarl Jung and the Power of Art, Part One
This is the first of two conversations that Phil and JF are devoting to C. G. Jung's seminal essay, "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry," first delivered in a 1922 lecture. It was in this text that Jung most clearly distilled his thoughts on the power and function of art. In this first part, your hosts focus their energies on Jung's puralistic style, opposing it not just to Freud's monism (which Jung critiques in the paper) but also to the monism of those other two "masters of suspicion," Marx and Nietzsche. For Jung, art is not a branch...
2020-05-131h 04
Weird StudiesMasks All the Way Down, with James Curcio
James Curcio is an American multidisciplinary artist and nonfiction writer whose works include the novels Join My Cult, The Party at the World's End, and the upcoming Tales from When I Had a Face. Recently, Curcio edited Masks: Bowie and Artists of Artifice, an anthology of essays by various thinkers and artists on the complex interplay of fact and fiction, self and other, in the life of the modern creator of artistic works. David Bowie's career, from the early experimentations to the great working that was his final album Blackstar, provides the book's gravitational field. In his effort to...
2020-04-011h 17
Weird StudiesSpecial Episode: On Some Mental Effects of the Pandemic
What is there to say about the COVID-19 virus that hasn't already been said, over and over again, all around the world, in quaratined houses and on TV and social media and countless Zoom chats ... what can we say that you haven't heard? Well, probably nothing. But we are now at the point where we realize that the real importance of the things we say is not their content, but the mere fact of saying them. As Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message, and at a time when we have been driven into separate solitudes, we are...
2020-03-2559 min
Weird StudiesWeird Stories: "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake" by William James
In preparation for an upcoming special episode on living in the early days of the Covid-19 Pandemic, here's Phil Ford reading an essay William James wrote on his experience of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
REFERENCES
William James, "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake"
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2020-03-2322 min
Weird StudiesOn James Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'
In 1979, the American psychologist James Hillman published The Dream and the Underworld, a polemical meditation on the nature of dreams. Rejecting the orthodoxies of both Freud and Jung, Hillman argued that the the "nightworld" of dream should not play second fiddle to the "dayworld" of waking life, because in the soul as on earth, day and night are equally essential, and equally real. To reduce a dream to a message or interpretation is to fail the dream. In order for dreams to do their work on us, says Hillman, we must cease to regard them as hallucinations, mere metaphors...
2020-03-181h 15
Weird StudiesGoblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'
On the night before this episode of Weird Studies was released, a bunch of folks on the Internet performed a collective magickal working. Prompted by the paranormal investigator Greg Newkirk, they watched the final episode of the documentary series Hellier at the same time -- 10:48 PM EST -- in order to see what would happen. Listeners who are familiar with this series, of which Newkirk is both a protagonist and a producer, will recall that the last episode features an elaborate attempt at gate opening involving no less than Pan, the Ancient Greek god of nature. If we weren't...
2020-03-041h 23
Weird StudiesOn Diviner's Time
In the paper discussed in this episode, Phil Ford coins the term "diviner's time" to denote a particular feeling that will be familiar to anyone who has engaged in divinatory or magical practice, namely the feeling that it all means something, that the universe, with all its chaos and randomness, nevertheless contains -- or is itself -- a kind of music. This episode goes deep down the rabbit hole as Phil and JF try to wrap their heads around conceptions of time, causality, and meaning that are very different from our usual understanding of those terms.
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2020-02-191h 32
Weird StudiesTouched by that Fire: On Visionary Literature, with B. W. Powe
B. W. Powe is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and professor at York University, in Toronto. His work, though it covers an immense range of topics from politics and poetics to magic and technology, proceeds from a mystical apprehension of the universe as the locus of magical operations, the site of experiments in cosmic becoming. In his various books and essays, Powe continues a uniquely Canadian form of the visionary tradition whose luminaries include his former teachers Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. In this episode, he joins JF and Phil for an exploration of the meaning, potency, and danger...
2020-02-051h 20
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2019-08-2703 min
Weird StudiesOn Beauty
The idea that beauty might denote an actual quality of the world, something outside the human frame, is one of the great taboos of modern intellectual thought. Beauty, we are almost universally told, is a cultural contrivance rooted in politics and history, an illusion that exists only in human heads, for human reasons. On this view, a world without us would be a world without beauty. But in this episode Phil and JF explore two texts, by James Hillman and Peter Schjeldahl, that dare to challenge the modern orthodoxy. For Hillman and Schjeldahl, to experience the beautiful is precisely...
2019-07-311h 15
Weird StudiesBlind Seers: On Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood'
Through her fiction, Flannery O'Connor reenvisioned life as a supernatural war wherein each soul becomes the site of a clash of mysterious, almost incomprehensible forces. Her first novel, Wise Blood, tells the story of Hazel Motes, a young preacher with a new religion to sell: the Church Without Christ. In this episode, JF and Phil read Motes's misadventures in the "Jesus-haunted" city of Taulkinham, Tennessee, as a prophetic vision of the modern condition that is at once supremely tragic and funny as hell. As O'Connor herself wrote in her prefac to the book: "(Wise Blood) is a comic novel...
2019-07-171h 36
Weird StudiesDemogorgon: On 'Stranger Things'
The Duffer Brothers' hit series Stranger Things is many things: an exemplary piece of entertainment in the summer blockbuster mold, a fresh take on the "kids on bikes" subgenre of science fiction, a loving pastiche of 1980s Hollywood cinema. And as Phil and JF attempt to show in this episode, Stranger Things is also a deep investigation into the metaphysical assumptions of our times, and a bold statement on the ontology of the analog real. This, at least, was the thesis of JF's three-part essay "Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things," which appeared on Metapsychosis after the first...
2019-07-031h 36
Weird StudiesOut of Time: Nietzsche on History
In his essay "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life," Nietzsche attacks the notion that humans are totally determined by the historical forces that shape their physical and mental environment. Where other philosophers like Plato saw virtue in remembering eternal truths that earthly existence had wiped from our memories, Nietzsche extolled the virtues of forgetting, of becoming "untimely" and creating a zone where something new could arise. For Nietzsche, history was useful only if it served Life. Because we live in an age which constantly reifies history (through movies, news, social media, etc.) while also tricking us...
2019-06-191h 22
Weird StudiesWalking the Tightrope with Erik Davis
Journalist and historian of religion Erik Davis joins Phil and JF to talk about his latest magnum opus, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. In this masterwork of weird scholarship, Davis explores the simultaneously luminous and obscure worlds of three giants of Seventies counterculture: Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson, and Philip K. Dick. Their psychonautical legacy serve as fuel for a deep-delving conversation on Davis' own ontological leanings, yearnings, and hesitations. We touch on his philosophical development since the release of Techgnosis in 1998, the meaning of "weird naturalism," the primacy of the aesthetic, the uses...
2019-06-051h 25
Weird StudiesThomas Ligotti's Angel
In his short story "Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel," contemporary horror author Thomas Ligotti contrasts the chaotic monstrosity of dreams with the cold, indifferent, and no less monstrous purity of angels. It is the story of a boy whose vivid dream life is sapping his vital force, and who resorts to esoteric measures to rectify the situation. In this episode, Phil and JF discuss the beauty and horror of dreams, the metaphysical signifiance of angels and demons, and the potential dangers of seeking the peace of absolute "purity" in the wondrous flux of lived experience.
REFERENCES
Thomas...
2019-05-081h 29
Weird StudiesDoomed to Enchantment: The Psychical Research of William James
The great American thinker William James knew well that no intellectual pursuit is purely intellectual. His interest in the "supernormal," whether it take the form of spiritual apparition or extrasensory perception, was rooted in a personal desire to uncover the miraculous in the mundane. Indeed, the early members of the British Society for Psychical Research and its American counterpart (which James co-founded in 1884) were united in this conviction that certain phenomena which most scientists of their day considered unworthy of their attention were in fact the frontier of a new world, an avenue for humanity's deepest aspirations. In this...
2019-04-091h 33
Weird StudiesOn Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's stories and novels rank among the greatest weird works produced in America during the 20th century. However, unlike authors such as Philip K. Dick and H.P. Lovecraft, Jackson didn't cut her teeth in the pulps but among the slick pages of such illustrious publications as The New Yorker. On the other hand, whether because her most famous novel uses the traditional ghost story form or because she was a woman, Jackson only rarely appears in the litanies of weird literature, where she most definitely belongs. In this episode, Phil and JF discuss two of Jackson's short...
2019-03-271h 16
Weird StudiesOn Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin
Neil Gaiman wrote, "If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are twin cities, divided by a river of black water." Flame Tree Publishing underwrites this claim with their recent publication, The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy and Horror. The book is a veritable gazetteer of these two cities in the heartland of the imaginal world. Writer and scholar Matt Cardin, founding editor of the marvellous [Teeming Brain](www.teemingbrain.com), wrote a chapter for the book focusing on the books and films of the Sixties and Seventies. In this episode, he joins JF and Phil to discuss...
2019-02-271h 00
Weird StudiesOrbis Tertius: Borges on Magic, Conspiracy and Idealism
Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a metaphysical detective story, an armchair conspiracy thriller, and a masterpiece of weird fiction. In this tale penned by a true literary magician, Phil and JF see an opportunity to talk about magic, hyperstition, non-linear time, and the power of metaphysics to reshape the world. When Phil questions his co-host's animus against idealist doctrines, the discussion turns to dreams, cybernetics, and information theory, before reaching common ground with the dumbfound appreciation of radical mystery.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" in Ficciones
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2018-10-311h 11
Weird StudiesOn Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'
No dream is ever just a dream. Or so Tom Cruises tells Nicole Kidman at the end of Eyes Wide Shut. In this episode, Phil and JF expound some of the key themes of Kubrick's film, a masterpiece of cinematic chamber music that demonstrates, with painstaking attention to detail, Zen Master Dōgen's utterance that when one side of the world is illuminated, the other side is dark. Treading a winding path between wakefulness and dream, love and sex, life and art, your paranoid hosts make boldly for that secret spot where the rainbow ends, and the masks come o...
2018-10-141h 06
Weird StudiesThe Trash Stratum - Part 2
The writings of underground filmmaker Jack Smith serve as a starting point for Phil and JF's second tour of the trash stratum. In their wanderings, they will uncover such moldy jewels as the 1944 film Cobra Woman, the exploitation flick She-Devils on Wheels, and (wonder of wonders) Hitchcock's Vertigo. The emergent focus of the conversation is the dichotomy of passionate commitment and ironic perspective, attitudes that largely determine whether a given object will turn out to appear as a negligible piece of garbage... or the Holy Grail. By the end, our hosts realize that even their own personal trash strata...
2018-07-131h 06
Martel & FriendsEpisode 12 - Self-Managing in Cleveland with James HuntIn this episode, I sit down with James Hunt who is a real estate investor in Cleveland who currently has one rental and a couple wholesales under his belt. We talk about the Cleveland market and where it is headed. As well as dive into self-managing properties and the different between making money and building relationships.
If you have a question that you want to be answered on the next episode, tweet me or DM me @martelantoine. Or you can ask questions here - martelturnkey.com/podcast-questions/
2018-07-0950 min
Weird StudiesDoes 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part Two
JF and Phil finally get down to brass tacks with William James's essay "Does Consciousness Exist?" At the heart of this essay is the concept of what James calls "pure experience," the basic stuff of everything, only it isn't a stuff, but an irreducible multiplicity of everything that exists -- thoughts as well as things. We're used to thinking that thoughts and things belong to fundamentally different orders of being, but what if thoughts are things, too? For one thing, psychical phenomena (a great interest of James's) suddenly become a good deal more plausible. And the imaginal realm, where...
2018-06-131h 01
Weird StudiesDoes 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part One
In this first part of their discussion of William James' classic essay in radical empiricism, "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?", Phil and JF talk about the various ways we use the slippery C-word in contemporary culture. The episode touches on the political charge of the concept of consciousness, the unholy marriage of materialism and idealism ("Kant is the ultimate hipster"), the role of consciousness in the workings of the weird -- basically, anything but the essay in question. That will come in part two.
Header image by Miguel Bolacha, Wikimedia Commons
REFERENCES
William James, "Does...
2018-06-0648 minMartel & FriendsEpisode 8 - Investing Out of State With a Full-Time JobOn this episode, I speak with James Allen who is a millennial real estate investor. He invests out to state and has a couple of deals with little capital. Learn how he invests out of state in a few markets across the United States.
If you have a question that you want to be answered on the next episode, tweet me or DM me @martelantoine. Or you can ask questions here - martelturnkey.com/podcast-questions/
2018-06-0452 min
Weird StudiesOn Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part One
Journey into the Zone to uncover some of the strange artifacts buried in Tarkovsky's cinematic masterpiece, Stalker (1979). In this first of a two-part conversation, Phil and JF discuss a poem by Tarkovsky's dad, compare the film with the sci-fi novel that inspired it, explore the ideological underpinnings of formulaic genre, delve into the meaning and affordances of the concept of zone, and affirm that in a sufficiently weird mindset, even a casual stroll in your hometown can become an excursion into a Zone of your own.
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Andrei Tarkovsky (dir.), Stalker
Arkady and Boris...
2018-05-1641 min
Weird StudiesThe Obscure: On the Philosophy of Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus was one of the great pre-Socratic thinkers. Called the Obscure and the Weeping Philosopher, he left behind a collection of fragments so mysterious and pregnant with meaning that they continue to puzzle scholars to this day. In this episode, Phil and JF use a random number generator to select a number of fragments and speculate about their content. By the end, they will also have disclosed the bizarre contents of JF's tenth-grade "hippie bag," outed Oscar Wilde as a Zen Buddhist, and taken a walking tour of a city that exists only in Phil's dreams.
2018-05-091h 21
Weird StudiesThe Dark Eye: On the Films of Rodney Ascher
American filmmaker Rodney Ascher is a master of the weird documentary. Whether he be exploring wild interpretations of a classic horror film in Room 237, bracketing the phenomenon of sleep paralysis in The Nightmare, studying the uncanny power of the moving image in "Primal Screen," or considering the sinister power of a kitschy logo in "The S from Hell," Ascher confronts his viewers with realities that resist final explanations and facile reduction. In this episode, Phil and JF follow Ascher's films into the living labyrinth of a strange universe that isn't just unknown, but radically unknowable.
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2018-05-021h 28
Weird StudiesArt is a Haunting Spirit
M. R. James' "The Mezzotint" is one of the most fascinating, and most chilling, examples of the classic ghost story. In this episode, Phil and JF discover what this tale of haunted images and buried secrets tells us about the reality of ideas, the singularity of events, the virtual power of the symbol, and the enduring magic of the art object in the age of mechanical reproduction.
To accompany this episode, Phil recorded a full reading of the story. Listen to it here.
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M.R. James, "The Mezzotint"
Robert Aickman, English...
2018-04-251h 16
Weird StudiesWeird Stories: M. R. James' "The Mezzotint"
M. R. James has been hailed as the unrivalled maser of the classic ghost tale, and his powers are at their zenith in "The Mezzotint," a story that first appeared in his 1904 collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. In it, James reimagines the Gothic trope of the haunted picture in a weird new light. The text, read here by co-host Phil Ford, serves as a springboard for Weird Studies episode 11, where we discuss the enduring power of the art object in the age of mechanical reproduction.
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2018-04-2328 min
Weird StudiesOn Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick
The plan was to discuss the introduction to Aleister Crowley's classic work, Magick in Theory and Practice (1924), a powerful text on the nature and purpose of magical practice. JF and Phil stick to the plan for the first part of the show, and then veer off into a dialogue on the basic idea of magic. Along the way, they share some of the intriguing results of their own occult experiments.
REFERENCES
Photo of JF's "large sum" cheque
Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice
The Gospel According to Thomas
James George Frazer...
2018-04-111h 16
Weird StudiesOn Graham Harman's "The Third Table"
JF and Phil discuss Graham Harman's "The Third Table," a short and accessible introduction to "object-oriented ontology." Phil takes us on a tour of his closet, we discover that JF's kids are better at this weird studies stuff than their old man, and the conversation veers through Harman's Lovecraftian "weird realism," Zen's "just sit" meditation, panpsychism, Martin Buber's I and Thou, experimental filmmaking, and more.
WORKS AND IDEAS CITED IN THIS EPISODE
Graham Harman, "The Third Table"
Graham Harman, Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects
Martin Heidegger, Being in Time
J...
2018-04-041h 12
Weird StudiesThe Unspeakable Mystery at the Heart of Boxing
For as long as they've been pounding the crap out of each other for good reasons, humans have also been pounding the crap out of each other for fun. Everywhere, in ever age, elaborate systems, rituals, and traditions have arisen to ring in the practice of violence and thereby offer the rough beast that lurks in every soul a chance to come out for a stretch in the sun. In this episode, Phil and JF delve into one of the most scandalous affairs of all: the illicit dalliance of Aphrodite and Ares, beauty and violence.
WORKS & IDEAS...
2018-03-281h 06
Weird StudiesGarmonbozia
Phil and JF use a word from the Twin Peaks mythos, "garmonbozia," to try to understand what it was that the detonation of atomic bomb brought into the world. We use the fictional world of Twin Peaks as a map to the (so-called) real world and take Philip K. Dick, Krzysztof Penderecki, Norman Mailer, William S. Burroughs, Theodor Adorno, and H.P. Lovecraft as our landmarks.
Warning: some spoilers of Twin Peaks season 3.
Works Cited or Discussed:
Phil Ford, "The Cold War Never Ended", Dial M for Musicology (1) (2) (3) (4)
Twin Peaks: The...
2018-02-011h 26
Listening to Riding the Movies#44 - Listening To Riding The MoviesIn this episode Alex, David, and John spent a surprising amount of time talking about James Cagney
2017-07-2900 min
MARTEL JAMES90zDad Theme#OhHeckYa!! Scotty Parker is back for Season 2 of what the Pacoima Post called “easily the worst reality show on TV” the Red Bluff Record said “AWFULly hilarious” The Northridge Dispatch said “How the hell does this idiot have a show?” The Chico Enterprise record said “Is this a joke?”, The Dixon Tribune asked “why?” Justin Towery said “this makes me sad” the people have spoken!! 90z Dad is back for Season 2: Resort on the Ridge! Hear the full theme song at www.soundcloud.com/saymartel and catch every episode at Snapchat: MartelJames !!!
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MARTEL JAMESBusy Lovin' YouOn the new episode of MARTEL. Martel has tried everything but it's still not working....you ask me where I been??
2016-02-1103 min
MARTEL JAMESLast ChristmasAn ode to the WHAM classic!! Enjoy this with your egg nog you little naughty little helper!!
2013-12-2004 min
MARTEL JAMESCrack The CombinationGet in your Pulsar, hop on the 101 North and just coast baby! She figured you out....
2013-04-2503 min
MARTEL JAMESThe Old YouMARTEL really wants to make it work but lately, she's just not being herself. That's messed up!
2013-04-2504 min
MARTEL JAMESFool's GoldOn the episode of MARTEL...the bright lights of Hollywood take it's toll on some. Will MARTEL fall into the trappings of the fast life?
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MARTEL JAMESRicocheton the pilot episode of MARTEL...Summer is hot in the San Fernando Valley but not nearly as hot as the burning love MARTEL can't let go of. One problem....will she still be there?
2012-06-0503 min