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Q&A SHOW (deposit Qs here) (Patreon)

Published:
2024-12-24 16:36:43
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2024-12

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You asked, I eventually probably answered.

You recreants who can still medically enjoy liquor, cocaine, Percaduccios, oxys of any description (I can still enjoy oxys, but when you've IV-banged the hospital-grade avatar of sweet Sister Morphine, an oxy is ... still not bad), lo! even the simple Marihuana leaf – you may herein implant your Questions before you forget them in a blurry whirl of pennies-on-the-dollar bacchanale, and when I answer them, you'll be delighted anew & again.

The Sun is dead, hooroo. Hail ye false (?) Mysterium of schedule-Sun reborne.

Comments

agentmule

Any sci-fi books as guilty pleasure? The Culture Series perhaps

agentmule

Speaking of Irish Catholicism/Pop Culture, have you watched Say Nothing on FX?

jake

1) favorite Bob Dylan album? 2) what do you think of Philip K Dicks VALIS trilogy? 3) have any fun Christmas traditions?

amir hamad

@amjad iyad is my brother young Ur friends 📌🚨🚨I live in a tent because of the war in Gaza. The freezing cold affects my child, my wife, and my daughter,

amir hamad

Why don't you want to be my friend? My brother has told me a lot about you. You are a wonderful person and a friend full of humanity. His birthday was a while ago and I couldn't meet him because there is bombing, destruction and death close to me in Gaza.

amir hamad

💥For the sake of my child and the children of Gaza ⚜️Children are angels on earth, and here in Gaza they have become small pieces, lacking food and hygiene, and their health is on the verge of death. How much hope do you have? Participate, donate, and provide all the support you can for the sake of the angels on earth, and you will be rewarded by God. donation link: https://chuffed.org/project/support-amir-and-his-family

amir hamad

I hope you become my friend, just like you became my friend, my younger brother, whose name is Amjad.

amir hamad

Contact me on this link to talk more if you allow

Lars

Greetings, Michael. You’ve mentioned Hart Crane a lot, specifically his logic of metaphor. You’ve also read Pynchon and GR in light of Waldo Frank’s claim as regards to Crane as a poet of the New Jerusalem tradition. What’s your thoughts on The Bridge? And what other poems of Crane’s do you hold as worthwhile?

Menikmati

thoughts on expressive culture as opposed to art

Miles Rozatti

I remember you saying at some point there weren’t any good English translations of Dante, what are the existing translations missing?

Mortimer Clue

this/these question(s) is/are better than the previous one(s) i asked: you're a very funny person - do you consider yourself to be a comedian? or is comedy natural to the podcast form, and you're just good at podcasting and, therefore, funny? your sense of humor must also be in your novels and your music, but - is your music sadder than your books? is your fiction more comic than your talk show? vice versa and all that: is your music more talkative than your podcast? is your fiction more harmonious than your music? what do you notice yourself bringing to the one form rather than the other? some people barely do half a thing! i'm curious what you notice about doing several

YourBabysFather

Can you finish the Walter seance series please and thank you

Anthony

What are some movies from the past few decades that you enjoy? You mentioned growing up near where Jesse James lived I'm curious if you've read the Ron Hansen novel about his assassination, or the incredible film adaptation.

idiot.wisdom

Do you have any recommended reading for a deeper understanding of eikonography and mythology?

Ben Degnan

Hey Mike, hope yr well. I’ve been fascinated with yr Gnostic episodes and was wondering if you had any thoughts about Plotinus and Neoplatonism is contrast with the Gnostic view of the cosmos and reality for that matter. And thanks again for all you do with this show, it has helped me immeasurably over the years.

Nathan

Also, apologies for piling on more topic ideas for shows, but an in-depth episode on Walter Benjamin or Marshall McLuhan would be awesome. Always enjoy your thoughts when their names come up. Do you have any thoughts in particular as to how they’ve changed your perception as an artist in a positive way? I’ve always felt that the writings of Benjamin and (to a slightly lesser extent) McLuhan have helped with understanding an artistic medium on a visceral sensory level, in a way that helps you work yourself inside of it and operate at its resonant frequency

Jeff Grey

For someone who got into your show for the parapolitics, history, and philosophy but does not know shit about shit when it comes to music other than that some things have nice beats and you can dance to them or some rock songs have really sick guitar riffs. Is there a way or resource that you would recommend for staring to understand music and what the hell you're talking about when you go off about it, or is my philistinism here just more proof that I am not ensouled and will disappear like an animal when I die while others get to see Heaven?

N

Hey are you a fan of Jason Molina? What’s your perspective on the erasure of Covid/long covid?

Lawn Mall

How do you integrate eccentrics (or better, ecstatics) like Saint Hildegard into your assessment on Catholicism? The red of blood and all verdant greening are complementary.

Samwell Ganges

Admittedly too broke to be a subscriber right now but what was your favorite psychedelic back in the day?

Roberto Andrés Lantadilla

Ohh I just thought of a fun one: if you had to choose a Pynchon themed tattoo, what would you do?

Capital Knockers

Hi Michael, to what degree do you think kafka's work and the kafkaesque meme was pushed by the cia during the cold War against communism? Not sure if you'll read all the comments but your show means a lot. I lost my partner two years ago and some of the insights into the nature of memory and memory of events ( it was sudden, traumatic) and the nature of language are really profound. You average these one or two an episode, which sounds low but you could read through an authors entire work just to get one. Keep going and really looking forward to your music stuff.

Nathan

Something thats stuck with me from your Paganism & Logic of Metaphor series, particularly episode 3, was how you couched it by expressing your concern with getting it exactly right (which, by my estimation, you got it as damn close as you can get). I’ve long held a similar neuroticism toward the precision required by language, and how challenging it is to conjure up the right words (especially when spoken) to convey exactly what you mean. How do you personally grapple with the ever nebulous and protean tool of language? And how does it change when recorded, whether written or spoken? Any mental metaphors or frameworks that help guide your writing process? In the words of the dear ol’ bloke David - “..cause you can never really tell when somebody wants something you want too..”

R

Not really a question, but I get a thrill out of your imitation skills, be it of dialects, accents or people, so would love more of that in any shape or form.

Dan Z

Also please have Paul on the show more

Bugga

Unrelated to any show content but just curious if you have any tales of mystical, supernatural or otherwise unexplainable phenomena you’ve experienced? Imagine with some of your health experiences the mind wanders into a more surreal place. So, whether you think its tricks of the mind or not, I’d still be curious to hear!

Kimya Ness

Hey Michael, been listening since 2020, and somewhere in your back catalogue you mentioned the slaughtering of the god of magic, and its soul being split into a good and evil part in which the good part is art and the evil part is media. Was wondering where this comes from. Best wishes !

justdave

Are you now, or have you ever been associated with the C.I.A, F.B.I, Israeli/Saudi/Argentinian governments, or the gay mafia?

Ben

When do we get the seance episode?

This is Pharmacist

Is it inevitable that the us is due sooner than later for a large scale foreign attack or is it more likely we should tear ourselves apart civil war style? Is massive death tolls of Americans out of the question as long as our military continues to hold the entire earth in violent suspension or is that the best recipe to ensure nuclear attacks on Boise?

Heath Iverson

Couple unrelated ones: 1. Do you think Ezra Pound was deliberately fucking with the young James Jesus Angleton when the latter solicited a submission to his poetry journal and Pound sent him some half-cocked essay on monetary policy? 2. Do you fuck with W.G. Sebald? 3. I recall you mentioning on a show way back that you had some theosophists in your family tree. What’s your take on that movement and its offspring as it relates to the constellation of esoteric/occulted practices of America’s entrenched power elite? In live in rural upstate New York (Rockefeller country) where there’s a nexus of Anthroposophist (to my understanding theosophy fused with early 20th century German green fascism that was too stupid even for Hitler) that seems to appeal to not only literal Rockefellers, but a whole gamut of wealthy crunchy liberals. They run schools, farms, and own a shit load of the real estate. Superficially, they are all about gnomes and shitty water color paintings, but talk to any of them for a while and stuff about magic potions and aryan reincarnation starts to come up. When you begin to penetrate the concentric circles of power in the Northeast, these guys start popping up all over the place. I wonder if it’s the same out in your part of the Midwest. 4. Would you ever do a deep dive on Stan Brakhage? Feel free to answer some or none. Thanks!

Oliver Cooke

1. you’ve mentioned wyndham lewis on the show before, would you ever do a show or series covering him (or further discuss your opinions of him anywhere)? 2. also wondering if you have any views on lezek kolakowskis writing on marx ?

recovering.slothrop

I believe you've talked about the bit in GR on Dodecatonic, Diatonic and the (Rejected) Locrian Mode. Think it was in the context of you retelling how you got to read some correspondence of Pynchon's. I find that bit very interesting. It would be awesome if you expanded how this metaphor lights up the book. All the best for the holidays!

Matthew Krueger

Is it finally time for that Djuna Barnes episode? My favorite ep of yours is New Gods Funeral part 3 (the one that ends with House of Jade by Wayne Shorter). As someone who loves music but cannot make it, I'm fascinated by the way that music isn't anything like the abstraction that language is, and the way you use that relentless lexical musicality of yours to get between points and illuminate the infinite space (which is always between them) has a way of helping to keep my brain from gnawing on itself - it lets some of the grimness of currently being alive condense down the old retort and away... I think a lot of us would enjoy you picking a favorite piece of music and just having at it. So, an Eric Dolphy ep? Sun Ra? The last Beatles song you listened to?

Heath Iverson

Do you listen to podcasts from outside the chapo/dirtbag ecosystem? Any recommendations that might surprise us?

ten

Hello Michael, I'm interested in hearing more about aspects of fascism that may be inherent in film as a medium and/or in the development of film language in the early 20th century. Discussions concerning The Frankfurt School, Bowie, and Lynch come to mind as well as your brother's fantastic Kubrick series of podcasts. Thank you for all that you do. -KF

Scott

Ok, I asked about Rathenau, but let me ask something better. Maybe better. Pynchon is my favorite author and he’s what led me to you. I also discovered Roberto Bolano and Djuna Barnes because of you. Other than these folks (and Burroughs), who else is on your top shelf?

Andrew Rassling

I don't know where else to put this, but I figured that it's relevant if you have more thoughts on the subject. You spoke about Mormonism in the past as the ultimate American religion, as has our boy Cushbomb. And I've realized that a relative's "spiritual revelation" could be seen as a syncretic form of Mormonism with a bunch of occultism and new age spirituality and the myopia of the psychonauts thrown in the mix. I can see a shape myself of how this works, but I wonder if you have thoughts on these American "spiritual movements" and the most American Christianity, if there's connecting tissue. Also want to second the theosophy question, and wish you well.

AL2

Three Melville Questions: I know you’ve mentioned before that Hart Crane’s work is an extended working-out of Melville's poetics—could you expand on this? Could you go more into the relationship between Charles Olson and Melville you said in one episode that Moby Dick reads completely differently after you’ve read Olson. Thoughts on Paul Metcalf's Genoa?

Margarita Calderon

How often do you listen to The Beatles in your more recent past?

Bismarck von Dangerous

In case there's a pt 2 I wanted to ask: you mentioned on the Wayne Shorter episode that you devoured as much info from jazz critics/experts as possible to try to find out just how it all actually works, only to realize that most of them did not know what they were talking about once you knew enough--what are some books and resources you came across that DO get it right?