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This Day in Legal History: Fair Housing ActOn this day in legal history, April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law, a pivotal expansion of civil rights protections in the United States. Commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act, the legislation was enacted just days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose legacy of nonviolent activism heavily influenced its passage. The law made it illegal to discriminate in the sale, rental, financing, or advertising of housing based on race, color, religion, or national origin.It aimed to dismantle the systemic barriers that had long segregated American cities and suburbs, including redlining, racially restrictive covenants, and other discriminatory practices. Title VIII of the Act directly addressed these inequities and empowered the federal government to enforce fair housing standards for the first time. Though political resistance to housing integration had stalled similar legislation for years, the national mourning following Dr. King's death shifted public and congressional sentiment.Johnson, in a nationally televised address, described the signing as a tribute to Dr. King's life and a necessary step toward realizing the full promise of civil rights in America. Subsequent amendments expanded protections to include sex, disability, and familial status, making the Fair Housing Act one of the most comprehensive civil rights laws on the books. Enforcement mechanisms, however, remained a challenge, and litigation over housing discrimination has continued into the present day.The law has been central to major legal battles over zoning laws, gentrification, and access to affordable housing. It also laid the groundwork for subsequent legislation aimed at combating economic and racial segregation. While the Act did not instantly eliminate housing discrimination, it marked a legal turning point that recognized the home as a critical site of equality and opportunity.A small team from the Department of Government Efficiency (DGE), created under Elon Musk's initiative to reduce government spending and staffing, has arrived at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), according to an internal email from the agency. While the team is working with FDIC leadership to identify internal efficiencies, it does not have access to sensitive or confidential bank data, including resolution plans, deposit insurance records, or examination materials. The FDIC emphasized that the DGE operatives are full-time federal employees working under formal interagency agreements and have not sought access to confidential information.DGE has previously drawn concern from industry participants during its visit to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau due to fears over data exposure. The FDIC oversees highly sensitive information about major U.S. banks and their failure plans, which regulators rely on during crises. The number and identity of DGE team members at the FDIC have not been disclosed, and the agency declined to comment further.The agency is also preparing for staff reductions, following the Trump administration's deferred resignation program that has already led to the loss of 500 FDIC employees. Additional buyouts and formal layoffs are expected soon. The timing of DGE's involvement comes as global markets react to new tariffs announced by President Trump, prompting concerns from former officials about weakening regulators' ability to respond to potential financial instability.DOGE Arrives at FDIC but Doesn't Have Access to Bank Data (2)At least three major law firms—Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett—are in talks with the Trump administration to reach a joint agreement that would commit over $300 million in pro bono services to causes favored by the White House. The potential deal is also intended to resolve federal investigations into the firms' diversity programs, which the administration has scrutinized for alleged discriminatory practices. If finalized, the arrangement would bring the total pledged in pro bono services from various firms to at least $640 million.President Trump, speaking at a Cabinet meeting, hinted that a handful of firms remain in negotiations, emphasizing that many firms have already paid significant sums or made concessions. He stated that he expects lawyers from participating firms to assist with policy efforts such as implementing tariffs and expanding coal mining.The administration has previously targeted several firms with executive orders for representing causes or clients viewed as oppositional to Trump's agenda. These orders have included punitive measures such as revoking security clearances and restricting federal access. Some firms—like Perkins Coie and Jenner & Block—have successfully blocked these actions in court, while others like Paul Weiss settled by agreeing to pro bono contributions. Firms such as Skadden and Milbank preemptively negotiated similar deals.Trump Talks Deal With Three Massive Law Firms as Others FightA U.S. immigration judge is set to rule today on whether Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist at Columbia University, can be deported. Khalil, who holds Algerian citizenship and became a lawful U.S. permanent resident last year, was arrested last month at his New York City apartment and transferred to an immigration jail in rural Louisiana. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for Khalil's removal under the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, arguing that his presence in the U.S. poses foreign policy risks due to his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests.Rubio's letter to the court claims Khalil was involved in “antisemitic protests and disruptive activities” but does not accuse him of any crimes. Instead, Rubio argues the government can revoke legal status based solely on speech or associations if deemed harmful to U.S. interests. Khalil's attorneys say the case is an attempt to punish constitutionally protected speech and have called the letter politically motivated and authoritarian in tone.They are requesting to subpoena and depose Rubio as part of their defense. The immigration court hearing the case operates under the Department of Justice and is separate from the federal judiciary. Khalil is also suing in a New Jersey federal court, alleging that his arrest, detention, and transfer far from his legal team and family were unconstitutional.US immigration judge to decide whether Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported | ReutersPresident Trump signed a bill nullifying a revised IRS rule that would have broadened the definition of a “broker” to include decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, or DeFi platforms. The rule, finalized in the final weeks of the Biden administration, was part of a broader IRS effort to tighten crypto tax enforcement and was rooted in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It would have required DeFi platforms to report user transactions to both the IRS and the users themselves.The crypto industry strongly opposed the rule, arguing that DeFi platforms do not function like traditional brokers and lack access to user identities, making compliance impossible. Centralized exchanges like Coinbase and Kraken, by contrast, already meet these reporting requirements as intermediaries. Both the House and Senate voted in March to repeal the IRS rule through the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overturn recent federal regulations with a majority vote.Trump, who has positioned himself as a pro-crypto candidate, had campaigned on promises to support digital asset innovation. Since taking office, he has formed a federal cryptocurrency working group and signed an executive order to establish a national bitcoin reserve.Trump signs bill to nullify expanded IRS crypto broker rule | ReutersThis week's closing theme takes us back to April 13, 1850, when Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premiered in Weimar under the baton of his friend and supporter, Franz Liszt. Wagner, one of the most influential and controversial figures in classical music, was then in political exile, and unable to attend the debut of what would become one of his most iconic works. Known for his revolutionary approach to opera—melding music, drama, and mythology—Wagner crafted Lohengrin as a sweeping, mystical tale of a knight of the Holy Grail who arrives in a swan-drawn boat to defend the innocent Elsa of Brabant. The opera's shimmering textures, leitmotif-driven score, and spiritual overtones would set the stage for his later monumental works like Tristan und Isolde and the Ring Cycle.Lohengrin remains best known for its third-act bridal chorus—“Here Comes the Bride”—but the opera's deeper themes of identity, trust, and the cost of forbidden questions give it lasting emotional and philosophical weight. Set in a quasi-medieval world laced with mystery, the opera tells of a hero who must depart the moment his name is asked, leaving love suspended in silence. Wagner's orchestration in Lohengrin is luminous and patient, often evoking shimmering water and distant prophecy, with long-breathed phrases that seem to float above time.As a closing theme for this week, Lohengrin invites reflection—on belief, on leadership, and on how history so often pivots on names, silence, and the tension between loyalty and doubt. Its premiere on April 13th marks not only a moment in Wagner's evolution as a composer but also a cultural point of departure, where German Romanticism began leaning toward something darker and more transcendental. We end the week, then, with the slow unfurling of Lohengrin's prelude: a gentle, ascending shimmer that begins almost imperceptibly, and rises—like the swan on the river—toward the unknown.This week, we close with the prelude to Lohengrin by Richard Wagner—music of undeniable beauty from a composer whose legacy includes both brilliance and deeply troubling beliefs. We share it for its artistry, not its ideology. Without further ado, Richard Wagner's Lohengrin, the prelude. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

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. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies). Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack, volumes 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2), on Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com) page. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Robert Eggers (dir.), Nosferatu (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012/) F. W. Murnau (dir.), Nosferatu (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/) Mel Brooks (dir.), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112896/) Francis Ford Coppola (dir.), Bram Stoker's Dracula (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103874/) Bram Stoker, Dracula (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780141439846) Richard Wagner, [Tristan und Isolde](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TristanundIsolde) David James Smith, “The Archaeologist Couple who Unearthed a Field Full of Vampires” (https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/vampires-poland-field-archaeology-secrets-svm5mt26v) Robert Eggers, The Witch (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4263482/) Richard Strauss, Salome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(opera)) Weird Studies, Episode 156 on “The Secret History” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/156) Rudolf Steiner, “Lucifer and Ahriman” (https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/LucAhr_index.html) Richard Wagner, Ring Cycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen)

Originally aired on December 21, 2024. Dan attends Wagner's Götterdämmerung by TUNDI Production in Brattleboro, Vermont. It was a riveting experience. James Chamberlain, who starred as Sigfried, talks about his role on stage and off. Does he memorize all of the lines? What happens if he forgets a line? And how does a modern-day opera singer make any money? James shares the triumphs and struggles of being a dramatic tenor. Tundi Productions Ring Cycle 2025 in Bratteboro, Vermont: https://tundiproductions.org/

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Many months ago now, I had the chance to go to the WNDR Museum in Boston. If you google that, it will come categorized as a “tourist attraction.” but it is a lot more than that, especially considering that I wouldn't classify myself as a “tourist” since I live outside of Boston. More specifically, and even importantly, WNDR is an interactive art museum with immersive art installations. And it was very interactive and immersive. There were a lot of great exhibits that invited you to engage and become surrounded by the creations that were provided there. Whether you are a tourist or not, it is definitely worth a visit.So it was a very pleasant surprise to find that my guest today actually had an installation at the WNDR Museum. It was this very cool outdoor-type of building where you could be with others and experience an audio and visual immersion of rain and lightning. One of the fun things about it was that you were there with strangers, basically arranged in a way that you were experiencing it together. I didn't know that when I first met Leigh Sachwitz to discuss being on the show. But it was one of the, dare I say, “wonderful” things I found out about Leigh and her work with her Berlin-based company flora&faunavisions (FFV). I got to learn about their award-winning work on projects like the Ring Cycle, a digital opera that creates an immersive experience of the work by Richard Wagner. I also learned about her work on the Utopian Garden, described as a story-based immersive, interactive show where participants can tour the world. She described their Flying Up Sparrows event in China, where Buddhist paintings were brought to life.Finally, she explains their work behind the Genius DaVinci Show that just opened up in Florida this past November. “This exhibition invites you to step into Renaissance Italy to explore Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces and inventions up close.” And the great thing about this is the way that educational and entertainment come together to form what Hip Hop artist KRS-One described as “Educatinment.” Or, in Leigh's words, how do you create experiences that draw people into the moment and produce, empathy, emotional connection, and curiosity. We covered a lot of other ground, including the science of immersive experiences, how we can co-create our futures together using these kinds of experiences as a prompt, how we can inspire our imaginations to unlock the possibilities of ourselves, and the intersection of Detroit and Berlin as hubs of techno music.  Leigh Sachwitz - http://leighsachwitz.com/flora&faunavisions - https://www.florafaunavisions.de/

John is BACK from his European vacation where he gets revenge on Katie and Emily making fun of him by actually meeting Limp Bizkit's lead singer Fred Durst, and having a lovely time seeing them in Belfast. We go super long on this one as the week has so much to offer, from the end of Adriana Harmeyer's run to a potential new streak as Drew Basile stacks up three wins. One of those wins? It's in a TIEBREAKER, folks. What a week! Plus, John finds some commonality with one of Drew's anecdotes, Emily finds some more J! fans FUMING over the use of new slang, and we go deep on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Please follow the show on Instagram at @whatisajeopardypodcast and on Twitter at @jeopardypodcast. SOURCE: Music History Monday: "The Miracle at Bayreuth" by Robert Greenberg. Special thank you to The Jeopardy! Fan and the J-Archive. This episode is produced by Rob Pera. Music by Nate Heller. Art by Max Wittert.

[@ 2 min] The second ever World Opera Forum is set to kick off early next month in Los Angeles. To preview this global gathering, (this United Nations of Opera, if you will), we go ‘Inside the Huddle' with an American delegate, Houston Grand Opera general director and CEO Khori Dastoor... [@ 37 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill'… the Royal news continues, and only two boos for a new Ring Cycle: the crowd loved it...! GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

The Gould Standard welcomes Robert Lepage, the 10th Laureate of the Glenn Gould Prize, for a provocative and illuminating dialogue on his trailblazing career as an actor, director, playwright, and stage director. Drawing from his Québecois roots, Lepage reflects on how his background has shaped his artistic sensibility, from grand productions like Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the intimate exploration of memory in his stage work "887." His dedication to pushing his art to the limit of the possible and beyond, while maintaining a deep connection to both personal and universal themes, underscores his belief in art as a transformative experience that transcends conventional boundaries.

In this week's episode of The Rabbit Hole Detectives, Cat, Richard, and Charles are back to uncover more killer facts and ephemera, in the hopes of convincing the Disembodied Voice to award them the win.  In this episode, Charles is in his element as he discusses Tyburn, Richard is taking his time as he covers the Ring Cycle, and Cat is delving into the mysterious Prester John.  Don't forget, if you'd like to put forward a topic then you can email us at: rabbitholedetectives@gmail.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today we're going deep in the music of Wagner - and specifically The Ring cycle, his collection of 4 monumental operas: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung Even if you haven't seen these live, you're probably aware that these are absolute behemoths of the opera house - with heroism, love, death, gigantic orchestras and big tunes that need big voices. Bass Brindley Sherratt is tackling the role of Hagen in Götterdämmerung, and he explains how memory, text and costume are just some of the challenges he grapples with.Wagner wrote some stunning brass parts, and trombonist Dave Whitehouse explains the novelty of playing the bass trumpet in Götterdämmerung, and violinist Fiona Higham explains how to crack the string player's code when tackling Wagner's music. Plus, how lifting weights can be a great training programme for a 6 hour opera.Produced by Tandem Productions for the London Philharmonic Orchestra. #OffstagePodX: @LPOrchestraInstagram: @londonphilharmonicorchestraFacebook: @londonphilharmonicorchestra Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this immersive exploration, we're not just delving into two of opera's most iconic symbols, but we're unravelling the profound narratives they weave - narratives that speak not only to the heart of opera but to the essence of our human experience. As we traverse the enchanted realms of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and Wagner's "Ring Cycle," we find ourselves entangled in the mysteries of the magical flute and the cursed ring.

✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you!Merry Christmas, Future Fossils!  This is Michael Garfield welcoming you to episode 214 of the podcast that explores our place in time — and as demonstrated in the Dr. Who and Aliens franchises, Blade Runner 2049, and Batman Returns, Christmas is a fruitful backdrop for the pondering of big ideas — a moment in which we can see with greater clarity than usual the unity of everyday mundane humanity and transcendental cosmic matters.  In other words, perfect timing for this episode's conversation about cybernetics and the philosophy of the weird with Megan Phipps, Phil Ford, and J.F. Martel.  Megan studies new media at the University of Amsterdam and writes immensely trippy and insightful papers on topics like Brian Eno, circuit bending, and surveillance capitalism.  Phil is an author and musician who teaches musicology at IU Bloomington and infuses his curricula with the profundity he has polished through years of committed Zen practice.  J.F. is an author, film-maker, and para-academic online course instructor in media studies and magick, who runs Dungeon and Dragons campaigns on the side.  Together, J.F. and Phil host the delicious Weird Studies Podcast, every episode of which triggers in me the Holy Grail of podcast affective listener programming: namely, that I wish I were in the room and part of these discussions.  Luckily, I've had that opportunity before, to talk about my writing on the material agency of glass in our scientific era…and both of them have been on Future Fossils also, both alone and together.  But getting all four of us on one call is a rare and precious thing — and now's the perfect moment to rap about the emergence of the cybernetic era as a kind of numinous event in human history, a divine invasion that transfigures us and forces us to think about which boundaries *should* melt away and which should stay where evolution learned to put them.  You see, we live in an age of multilayer networks — and when our view of humankind transmogrifies from the static image of divine forms to a fluid wash of interweaving processes, the self becomes a metamorphic fugitive and  a work of art. When everything's connected, politics is an aesthetic act and art acquires moral force. Advanced   technologies have granted us godlike powers to reshape the world in our image…but “life finds a way” and there are always gremlins, aliens, dinosaurs, and elves lurking latent in the tidy systems diagrams. The beauty of progress necessarily conceals the ugly externalities, the entropy exported in our efforts to arrange wild nature into an image of our lost garden. So what does cybernetics as a way of seeing change for us in terms of how we live?  What does it mean to be human in an age of very lively, seemingly intelligent machines?    But before we dive headlong into this recording of a conversation so good our first attempt was erased by trickster intervention, let me express my thanks to everyone who has helped me and Future Fossils through a year of (what I hope remains) extraordinary challenge. This show is weird and obstinate in its refusal of clear definition. I follow my muses where they lead me and leave these discussions and soliloquys as fossils of a process of discovery and creativity…and staying true to this defies the logic of the market, which would have us classify ourselves as tidily as possible so we are pre-chewed for the algorithms that determine whether what we make is ever noticed by those over the horizon of organic peer-to-peer suggestion networks. If you're listening, chances are a friend told you about this show — I'd be surprised if you just found it randomly, and definitely not because a sponsor amplified it. I started Future Fossils under pressure from my friends but keep it going as a kind of Benedictine prayer.  However it might seem, it's lonely work — but every now and then I find I've reached somebody where it counts, that I've inspired a major life change or just helped you orient yourselves amidst the wider movements of a transformation that once seemed chaotic and now seems symphonic.  That's why I keep this going.  Every single time I check my email to discover someone else finds value in my work and shows appreciation with a Patreon, Substack, or Bandcamp sub, it makes my day and takes a little of the sting away from my ongoing balancing of kids and unemployment.  I'd like to make this work sustainable in 2024 but I'm still very far from that…so thank you, each and all, for everything you do to help me run this ultramarathon.New patrons I would like to thank include Ian Benouis, EGH2128, Lynn Amores, Robert Cummings, Katie Teague, Slow Dancing Fool, and Brian Mapes.Thank you!  And thank you to EVERYONE who chips in every month, or who has left or will ever leave a good review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or who shares this show with your friends…and a special thanks to Suzy Lanza of Ahara Rasa Ghee for shipping me a sweet little care package with her delicious ghee as a gesture of appreciation for this show — she's not a sponsor but I do endorse her work and recommend you check out iloveghee.com. Lastly, thanks to Noonautics.org for inviting me to join their advisory board and for their continued support of efforts to explore and map and understand the realms beyond.And now onto the main course!  Let's start somewhere else: in the “trash stratum” of a dirty manger, in the mess of our kinship and identity with the nonhuman (animal, vegetable, AND mineral). In the revelation of our contiguous, nested, and modular interbeing — we begin our conversation…guided here by visitations from a higher realm in which communication and control are aspects of some secret third thing that transcends duality. The information age is one in which we cannot separate the bomb from the computer from the drug and in this way, in spite of all the grimy cyberpunk and body horror of our media environment, the trillion-eyed panopticon the Web became appears to us like the archangel Gabriel: “Be not afraid,” dear listeners. 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Is Weird. Here's Why That Matters.”Richard Brautigan – “All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace”Megan Phipps interviews Erik Davis — “New Cybernetic Psychedelia”Brian Eno – “The Studio As A Compositional Tool”Michael Garfield's “Reader's Rig” pedalboard teardown feature at Guitar ModerneMichael Garfield – “Advertisement is Psychedelic Art is Advertisement”Phil Ford waxes poetic about Wagner's Ring Cycle on the Brute Norse PodcastDror Poleg on the future of a highly automated economy on Infinite Loops PodcastErik Wargo – “The Passion of The Space Jockey”Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI)Man of Steel (2013)Digibarn.com Jeffrey KripalMichael LevinDadaSam Arbesman on Coding As Magic and The Magic of CodeThank you for listening and for your support! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

David presents part 4 of 4 short episodes on the Ring of Power. A Jungian interpretation of Wagner's 4 part Opera inspired by the high German version of Saga of the Volsungs (Nibelungenlied - Song of the Nibelung).This episode has been a long one in the making and it is a long short. It begins with a summary of the final portion of Siegfried's journey, which parallel's Sigurd's journey at the end of Saga of the Volsungs.David includes his interpretations on the archetypes in the story and the underlying meaning of betrayals, curses, and love potions.Jean Shinoda Bolen gave a family system interpretation of Brunhilde's betrayal of the all father, and subsequent betrayal by the hero, as a perspective on patriarchy and the need for love, rather than a drive for power. My interpretation is similar, but rather focused on the archetypes of insecure, immature masculinity that drive the tragic story of Siegfried, and what mature masculinity, that includes the Lover and Warrior archetype could mean.My interpretation particularly focuses on the role of Acceptance, a form of love, as a necessary component to overcome the curse and poison of resentment. In the end, fate happens as it does, and the death of the gods and downfall of the hero is a necessary step for rebirth, growth, true transformation, and individuation.Acknowledgement to Jean Shinoda Bolen's book 'Ring of Power' as the inspiration for this 4 part series.Don Miguel Ruiz's story "The Man Who Didn't Believe In Love" inspired part of my interpretation. It is from his book "The Mastery of Love."Ways to support us:If you have been enjoying our show, please write a 5 star review on itunes to help spread our podcast to a wider audience: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-two-ravens-a-norse-mythology-podcast/id1604263830Follow us or leave a message on Instagram:Instagram: (@BetweenTwoRavens): https://www.instagram.com/betweentworavens/Check out David's writing:Prosoche Project (www.prosocheproject.com).Walled Garden (https://thewalledgarden.com/davidalexander)Our podcast is part of The Walled Garden Podcast Network. The Walled Garden is committed to the pursuit of Truth, Wisdom, Virtue, and the Divine, wherever it might be found.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5910787/advertisementThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5910787/advertisement

Opera Australia is staging a new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Queensland Performing Arts Center in Brisbane from December 1 to 21. A 15-hour epic performed over four evenings. Over eighty musicians will be heard in the orchestra, as well as over a hundred voices. One special voice is that of the German tenor Andreas Conrad. His repertoire is impressive and he is a well-known face and voice in the world's great opera houses. - Opera Australia bringt vom 1. bis 21. Dezember eine Neuinszenierung von Wagners Ring des Nibelungen im Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane auf die Bühne. Ein 15-stündiges Epos, das an vier Abenden aufgeführt wird. Ein 15-stündiges Spektakel, in dem Menschen, Göttern, Riesen, Zwergen und Drachen in einem Wirrwarr von Gier und Gewalt der endgültige Untergang droht. Über achtzig Musiker werden im Orchester zu hören sein, sowie über einhundert Stimmen. Eine besondere Stimme daraus ist die des deutschen Tenors Andreas Conrad. Sein Repertoire ist beachtlich und er ist ein bekanntes Gesicht, beziehungsweise eine bekannte Stimme in den grossen Opernhäuser der Welt.

Opera Australia is staging a new production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen at the Queensland Performing Arts Center in Brisbane from December 1st to 21st. Over eighty musicians will be heard in the orchestra, as well as over a hundred voices. “Powerful and soulful stage presence” – “Magnificent, lush voice” – “Exciting high notes” – “An enormously talented, young dramatic soprano”. These are just a few reviews of the rich biography of Anna-Louise Cole. She was born in Melbourne. Her musical talent earned her many prizes and took her to the Vienna State Opera, among other places. Anna-Louise Cole will be heard as Brünnhilde in Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen. - Opera Australia bringt vom 1. bis zum 21. Dezember eine Neuinszenierung von Wagners Ring des Nibelungen im Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane auf die Bühne. Über achtzig Musiker werden im Orchester zu hören sein, sowie über einhundert Stimmen. “Kraftvolle und gefühlvolle Bühnenpräsenz“ – „Herrliche, üppige Stimme“ – „Spannende hohe Töne“ – „Eine enorm talentierte, junge dramatische Sopranistin“. Das sind nur ein paar auserlesene Rosinen aus der reichen Biografie von Anna-Louise Cole. Sie ist in Melbourne geboren. Ihr musikalisches Talent brachte ihr viele Preise ein und führte sie unter anderem auch nach Wien in die Staatsoper. Anna-Louise Cole wird als Brünnhilde in Richard Wagners Ring des Nibelungen zu hören sein.

The Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner consists of four parts: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. All four operas will be seen in a new production by Opera Australia at the Queensland Performing Arts Center in Brisbane from December 1st to December 21st. Back then, Wagner not only wrote the text, but also composed the music and gave detailed scenic instructions. Nevertheless, this "Gesamtkunstwerk" still leaves a lot of room for interpretation. The current production is a world first because the stage design consists entirely of digital projections. Behind it is the founder and creative director of the design studio flora&faunavisions in Berlin, Leigh Sachwitz. - Der Ring des Nibelungen ist ein aus vier Teilen bestehender Opernzyklus von Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried und Götterdämmerung. Alle vier Opern werden ab dem ersten Dezember bis zum 21. Dezember im Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane in eier Neu-Inszenierung der Opera Australia zu sehen sein. Wagner hatte damals nicht nur den Text geschrieben, sondern auch die Musik komponiert und detaillierte szenische Anweisungen vorgegeben. Trotzdem lässt dieses Gesamtkunstwerk noch viel Raum für Interpretationen. Die derzeitige Produktion ist eine Weltneuheit, denn das Bühnenbild besteht ausschliesslich aus digitalen Projektionen. Dahinter steckt die Gründerin und Kreativ-Chefin des Design-Studios flora&faunavisions in Berlin, Leigh Sachwitz.

In the thirty-fifth year of his career, Daniel Sumegi has sung over one hundred operatic roles on many of the world's major stages – including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, as well as at Opera Australia.  He has also appeared in the opera houses of Bonn, Cologne, Frankfurt and Hamburg, as well as Paris, Barcelona, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Houston among many others. Regarded also for his dynamic acting, his broad repertoire encompasses all periods of music – from Monteverdi and Mozart to Britten, Tippett and Puts.  Equally comfortable as Strauss' Baron Ochs, Mozart's Sarastro and Commendatore, Verdi's Grand Inquisitor and Sparafucile, Offenbach's Four Villains or Puccini's Scarpia, he has participated in Ring Cycles in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Strasbourg, Cologne, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Seattle, Melbourne and Adelaide, most notably as Hagen.  He has additionally performed Hunding in concert for the Hong Kong, Atlanta, Stuttgart and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. Daniel's 2021/2022 engagements included Die Walküre (Singapore), Salome (Victorian Opera), Fidelio (Dublin) and Bluebeard's Castle, Aida and Lohengrin (Opera Australia). Among other roles, he has sung Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Pogner) for Opera Australia, Salome (Jochanaan) for New Israeli Opera, Der fliegende Holländer (title role) for Malmö Opera in Sweden and Carmen (Zuniga) for Seattle Opera.  He also undertook his music theatre debut, as Judge Turpin in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, seen in Sydney and Melbourne.   Past highlights include Don Carlo and Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera), Der Rosenkavalier (Scottish and Welsh National Opera), Luisa Miller (San Francisco), Billy Budd and Rigoletto (Los Angeles), Parsifal (Hamburg, Barcelona, Adelaide), Salome (Washington, Hamburg, Leeds, Hong Kong), Der fliegende Holländer, Aida, Beatrice and Benedict and Barbiere (Seattle), Manchurian Candidate (Minnesota, Austin), and more than 25 principal roles for Opera Australia. He has collaborated with noted conductors such as James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Dan Ettinger, Asher Fisch, Valery Gergiev, Nicola Luisotti, Sir Charles Mackerras, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Renato Palumbo, Sir Simon Rattle, Carlo Rizzi, Donald Runnicles, Nello Santi, Sir Jeffrey Tate, Edo de Waart, Sebastian Weigle, and Simone Young. Daniel Sumegi appears on CD in Beatrice di Tenda and Seattle Opera's acclaimed Ring Cycle, and on DVD in the San Francisco Opera Production of Capriccio, Opera Australia's Don Giovanni, and the historic condensed Ring Cycle from Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. In December, he makes his role début as Wotan/The Wanderer in OA's new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen. The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

Rencontre avec Philippe Auguin qui va diriger le Ring Cycle de Wagner pour Opera Australia. Le Ring Cycle comprend plus de 15 heures de musique réparties sur quatre productions et est donc rarement interprété comme un cycle complet. Opera Australia en interprète trois cycles cette saison. Philippe Auguin dirigera le Queensland Symphony Orchestra pour ces oeuvres de Wagner du 1er au 21 décembre.

Debra and Bruce work together to get the story back on track Chandler and Lena embark on an impromptu road trip. Detective Burdette shares a revealing childhood story.Tune into Fear, A Love Story—a spine-tingling take on serialized audio fiction.Cast:Bruce……………………Justin Hurtt-Dunkley Detective Burdette…….Evander DuckLena…………...……….Angelic ZambranaDebra…………...Brenda Meaney Chandler………………..Leighton Samuels Written and created by: Deborah GoodwinAudio production by: Ginni Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A fainting spell puts a damper on Bruce's intended proposal. Outside the safe house, Wendel and Detective Burdette are interrupted by a guest at their campfire. Chandler and Lena make emergency getaway plans. Tune into Fear, A Love Story—a spine-tingling take on serialized audio fiction.Cast:Bruce……………………Justin Hurtt-Dunkley Detective Burdette…….Evander DuckLena…………...……….Angelic ZambranaDebra/Tracy…………...Brenda Meaney Chandler………………..Leighton Samuels Wendel……...………….Galen Ryan Kane Written and created by: Deborah GoodwinAudio production by: Ginni Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land is without a doubt one of the weirdest entries in the annals of weird fiction. Set in the earth's distant future, after the sun has gone out and the planet has been cleaved in two by an unspecified disaster, a telepathic scientist dons his armour and weapons to brave the monster-haunted yet strangely monotonous wastes that engirdle the massive pyramid in which the last humans took refuge, hundreds of thousands of years earlier. If Samuel Beckett tripped hard on ayahuasca, he might have come up with something like Hodgson's genre-defying novel, which reads more like a report to committee of 17th-century heretics than a piece of speculative fiction from the early twentieth century. MIT Press recently released a (blessedly) abridged edition of The Night Land as part of their Radium Series. Journalist, scholar, and lecturer Erik Davis, who penned a brilliant foreword for the new edition, was kind enough to join Phil and JF to discuss this underrated masterpiece. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! SHOW NOTES William Hope Hodgeson, The Night Land (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780262546423) Weird Studies, Episode 37 with Stuart Davis (https://www.weirdstudies.com/37) Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780415538381) Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780674986916) William Hope Hodgeson, House on the Borderland (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781492699774) Samuel Beckett, Molloy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780802144478) Sumptuary Laws (https://refashioningrenaissance.eu/archival-work/sumptuary-laws/) Arcosanti (https://www.arcosanti.org/), arcology Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781618950468) Pierre Schaeffer, “Traité des objets musicaux” Schitzophonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophonia) H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780141439976)

S4E8 The Ring Cycle: Siegfried (3 of 4) - David presents part 3 of 4 short episodes on the Ring of Power. A Jungian interpretation of Wagner's 4 part Opera inspired by the high German version of Saga of the Volsungs (Nibelungenlied - Song of the Nibelung).Apologies for the delay. Shawn and I have a lot going on in our personal lives. But we hope to get back to recording regular episodes soon.Opera 3, Siegfried presents the hero's journey. The Jungian interpretation of a hero's journey is the development from to true adulthood. From boy to man or the "hero as adult child", as The Ring of Power puts it.David gives his take on "adult children" and personal responsibility and gives an extended summary of Siegfried's hero's journey, including his dwarven foster parent Mime, interference of his grandfather Wotan, and Siegfried's romantic connection to the Valkyrie Brunhilde.This episode is a short summary of the journey of Siegfried, but I believe will give helpful context as Shawn and I return to our deep dive on the Saga of the Volsungs and explore in depth the images and symbols related to the journey of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer.Acknowledgement to Jean Shinoda Bolen's book 'Ring of Power' as the inspiration for this 4 part series.Ways to support us:If you have been enjoying our show, please write a 5 star review on itunes to help spread our podcast to a wider audience: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-two-ravens-a-norse-mythology-podcast/id1604263830Follow us or leave a message on Twitter or Instagram:Instagram: (@BetweenTwoRavens): https://www.instagram.com/betweentworavens/Check out David's writing:Prosoche Project (www.prosocheproject.com).Walled Garden (https://thewalledgarden.com/davidalexander)Our podcast is part of The Walled Garden Podcast Network. The Walled Garden is committed to the pursuit of Truth, Wisdom, Virtue, and the Divine, wherever it might be found.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5910787/advertisementThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5910787/advertisement

When the artist Charlie Mackesy, best-known for his book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, heard Paul Simon's most recent album, the acclaimed Seven Psalms, he was inspired to create a sketch for each ‘psalm'. They both join us on Front Row. In the last of our interviews with all the authors shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award we talk to Kamila Shamsie about her story Churail. Gabrielle Chanel opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Das Rheingold, the first part of Wagner's Ring Cycle opens at the Royal Opera House in London. Head of Fashion at the Telegraph, Lisa Armstrong and writer Philip Hensher join us to review them both. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Olivia Skinner

Even learned commentators on the tarot are likely to point out at the fourteenth major arcana, Temperance, is a bit of a boring card. At least, it comes off as dull until you look at it closely, as JF and Phil do in this episode. What they find is that the Temperance card is actually a diagram, a kind of blueprint for a celestial machine that underlies human technology, beckoning us to restore even the most mechanical contraption to the raw weirdness at the source of everything. Header image by Rolf Dietrich Brecher via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olive_Oil_on_Water_%2847993245783%29.jpg) It's not too late to join JF's Nura Learning course, "Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." (www.nuralearning.com) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! SHOW NOTES Anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619) Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877282686) Adrien Lyne, Jacob's Ladder (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/) Weeping Angels (https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Weeping_Angel), Dr. Who creatures Joel Schumacher, Flatliners (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099582/) Lawrence Halprin, [The RSVP Cycles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSVPcycles)_ Gregory Bateson, Steps To an Ecology of Mind (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226039053) Hesychasm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychasm), monastic practice Yoav Ben-Dov, Tarot: the Open Reading (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781492248996) The Gnostic Tarot (https://chrisleech.wixsite.com/mysite) Jeffrey Kripal, Authors of the Impossible (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226453873) Nagarjuna, Verses of the Middle Way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%ABlamadhyamakak%C4%81rik%C4%81)

S4E4 The Ring Cycle: Die Walkure (2 of 4)David presents part 2 of 4 short episodes on the Ring of Power. A Jungian interpretation of Wagner's 4 part Opera inspired by the high German version of Saga of the Volsungs (Nibelungenlied - Song of the Nibelung).Opera 2, Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) presents the interplay of how the gods influence the lives of mortals. Odin wants to create a hero with free will who can obtain the ring of power for him. But if he influenced the lives of mortals, do they really have free will?The Valkyrie Brunhilde is introduced as the archetype of "the female warrior with love." She counters Odin's lust for power as she is inspired by Sigmund's love.But to betray the gods she must pay the ultimate sacrifice. Which is necessary for the birth of our hero…Acknowledgement to Jean Shinoda Bolen's book 'Ring of Power' as the inspiration for this 4 part series.Ways to support us:If you have been enjoying our show, please write a 5 star review on itunes to help spread our podcast to a wider audience: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-two-ravens-a-norse-mythology-podcast/id1604263830Follow us or leave a message on Twitter or Instagram:Twitter: (@TwoRavenPodcast): https://twitter.com/TwoRavenPodcastInstagram: (@BetweenTwoRavens): https://www.instagram.com/betweentworavens/Check out David's writing:Prosoche Project (www.prosocheproject.com). Walled Garden (https://thewalledgarden.com/davidalexander)Our podcast is part of The Walled Garden Podcast Network. The Walled Garden is committed to the pursuit of Truth, Wisdom, Virtue, and the Divine, wherever it might be found.Visit thewalledgarden.com to learn more about weekly meet-ups and the other Walled Garden contributors.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5910787/advertisement

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 years after the author's death. Myers was one of the original members of the Society for Psychical Research in England. A poet and classicist, he remained committed to the scientific promise of paranormal investigation until the end of his life. His book Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, also published posthumously, argues that psychical studies have confirmed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that death is just the beginning. In this talk, JF and Phil discuss Myers' relevance to 21st-century thinking on the Weird. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES The Science of Things Spiritual Symposium (https://www.lilydaleassembly.org/copy-of-what-s-happening): July 27-29, 2023 Frederic Myers, Fragments of Inner Life (https://www.esalen.org/ctr/fragments-of-inner-life) Alan Bennett, [History Boys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheHistoryBoys) Arthur Machen, A Fragment of Life (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781731557421) Alan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780367182878) Donna Tartt, The Secret History (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780367182878) Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781644398913) Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780393357837) Daniel Dennett, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett) American cognitive scientist Frederic Myers, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781544632636) Gabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781015410480) Phil Ford, Dig (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780199939916) William James, Principles of Psychology (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781420973396) Akashic Record (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records), Theosophical idea Jeff Kripal, Authors of the Impossible (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226453873)

David presents a short episode series reviewing the book "The Ring of Power". A Jungian feminist perspective on Wagner's 4 part Opera based on the High German version of Saga of the Volsungs (Nibelungenlied).David gives a brief synopsis of Opera 1, Das Rheingold, some of Jean Shinoda Bolen's interpretation on the significance of the story, and David's take on how the story fits into our larger arc on the archetypes of the Norse Gods and the transition into the Hero's Journey.Bolen's book was one of the two books that inspired the psychological perspective of the podcast and now Shawn and David are preparing to dive into the original sources of this saga in greater depth.Ways to support us:If you have been enjoying our show, please write a 5 star review on itunes to help spread our podcast to a wider audience: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-two-ravens-a-norse-mythology-podcast/id1604263830Follow us or leave a message on Twitter or Instagram:Twitter: (@TwoRavenPodcast): https://twitter.com/TwoRavenPodcastInstagram: (@BetweenTwoRavens): https://www.instagram.com/betweentworavens/Check out David's writing:Prosoche Project (www.prosocheproject.com). Walled Garden (https://thewalledgarden.com/davidalexander)Our podcast is part of The Walled Garden Podcast Network. The Walled Garden is committed to the pursuit of Truth, Wisdom, Virtue, and the Divine, wherever it might be found.Visit thewalledgarden.com to learn more about weekly meet-ups and the other Walled Garden contributors.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5910787/advertisement

In The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, the cultural historian William Irwin Thompson predicted the rise of a new form of knowledge building, a direly needed alternative to the Wissenshaft of standard science and scholarship. He called it Wissenskunst, "the play of knowledge in a world of serious data processors." Wissenskunst is pretty much what JF and Phil have been aspiring to do on Weird Studies since 2018, but in this episode they are joined by a master of the craft, the computational sociologist and physicist Jacob G. Foster of UCLA. Jacob is the co-founder of the Diverse Intelligence Summer Institute (DISI (https://disi.org)), a gathering of scholars, scientists, and students that takes place each year at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. It was there that this conversation was recorded. The topic was the Possible, that dream-blurred vanishing point where art, philosophy, and science converge as imaginative and creative practices. Click here (https://www.lilydaleassembly.org/copy-of-what-s-happening) or here (https://www.shannontaggart.com/events) for more information on Shannon Taggart's Science of Things Spiritual Symposium at Lily Dale NY, July 27-29 2023. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (https://disi.org) "Deconstructing the Barrier of Meaning," (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxZHcjovIrQ) a talk by Jacob G. Foster at the Santa Fe Institute William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780312160623) Frederic Rzewski, “Little Bangs: A Nihilist Theory of Improvisation” (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354991795_Little_Bangs_A_Nihilist_Theory_of_Improvisation) Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies) The accident of Bob in Twin Peaks (https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/actors/my-friend-killer-bob-frank-silva/) Carl Jung, “On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry (http://www.studiocleo.com/librarie/jung/essay.html) August Kekule, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kekul%C3%A9), German chemist Robert Dijkgraaf, “Contemplating the End of Physics” (https://www.quantamagazine.org/contemplating-the-end-of-physics-20201124/) Richard Baker, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Baker_(Zen_teacher)) American zen teacher Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780817647803) William Shakespeare, Macbeth (https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/macbeth/read/) Shoggoth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth), Lovecraftian entity Special Guest: Jacob G. Foster.

"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 and JF discuss, this writing style intentionally draws attention to the absurdity of modern, materialist life, creating a striking contrast with the mysterious other world that Mr. and Mrs. Darnell eventually begin to pursue. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Arthur Machen, A Fragment of Life (http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700361h.html) Weird Studies, Episode 3 on “The White People (https://www.weirdstudies.com/3) and Episode 87 on “Heiroglyphics” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/87) Karl Marx, Capital (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781453716540) James Machin, Weird Fiction in Britain (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9783030080365) Thomas Ligotti, “The Order of Illusion” in Noctuary (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219597.Noctuary) Weird Studies, Episode 20 on the Trash Stratum (https://www.weirdstudies.com/20) Artur Schnitzler, Traumnovelle (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rhapsody/Yn1JAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover) Weird Studies, Episode 59 on Walking (https://www.weirdstudies.com/59) Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780679723950)

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 time that captures, in jagged shards and signal bursts, the events of the day on which Wilco's album was scheduled to drop: September 11, 2001. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Judee Sill, [“The Kiss”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0feFedDWiQ&abchannel=donmussell12) James Elkins, Pictures and Tears (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780415970532) Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, “Surf's Up” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rur92ArNZKg&ab_channel=TheBeachBoys-Topic) Weird Studies, Episode 148 on “Twin Peaks” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/148) Wilco, “Jesus Etc.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efq95Pfqt5U&ab_channel=DaltonRay) Jeff Buckley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley), singer-songwriter William Gibson, Forward to Dhalgren (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780375706684) L. E. J. Brouwer, Concept of “two-ity” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionism) Dogen, Genjokoan (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780992112912) David Bowie, “Heroes” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI) Philip K. Dick, Valis (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780547572413) Weird Studies, Episode 147 “You Must Change Your Life” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/147) Theodore Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780816618002) James Longley, Iraq in Fragments (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492466/) Sam Jones, I am Trying to Break your Heart (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327920/) Number Stations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station)

Did Ben enjoy Father's Day?Can Ione remember Howie Mandel's name?Will Joanna Sternberg perform an indie-rock version of Wagner's Ring Cycle at our house tonight????Listen to the Jason Woliner episode herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weirder-together-with-ben-lee-and-ione-skye/id1623436896?i=1000597408210 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 (https://www.nuralearning.com) 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. Last change to sign up for The Twin Peaks Mythos (https://www.nuralearning.com/twin-peaks-mythos), a 4-week Weird Studies view-along starting June 8th, 2023. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Symposium at Lily Dale (https://www.shannontaggart.com/events/lily-dale-2023), July 27-29, 2023 David Lynch and Mark Frost (creators), [Twin Peaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwinPeaks)_ David Lynch (dir.), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105665/) Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy? (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780231079891) Chris Carter (creator), [The X-Files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheX-Files)_ Erik Davis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Davis), American scholar, lecturer, and journalist Thomas Ligotti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti), American writer Stephen King (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King), American writer Joshua Brand and John Falsey (creators), [Northern Exposure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorthernExposure)_ James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings (https://bookshop.org/p/books/pictures-tears-a-history-of-people-who-have-cried-in-front-of-paintings-james-elkins/9056115?ean=9780415970532) David Lynch (dir.), Mulholland Drive (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/) Robert Aickman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aickman), English writer of "strange stories" Manuel DeLanda on signification vs significance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnoKUKax9sw) Weird Studies, episode 105 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/105): Fire Walk With Tamler Sommers Kyle McLachlan interview (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/twin-peaks-diner-scene-kyle-maclachlan) in Vanity Fair

Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" ends on a note that has puzzled and inspired readers for more than a century: "For there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life." In this episode, JF and Phil search for the meaning of this ethico-aesthetic imperative that Rilke heard resounding from a fragment of Greek statuary. This episode is special because the hosts were able to record it in person while on a writing retreat in Western Quebec. Enroll in THE TWIN PEAKS MYTHOS (https://www.nuralearning.com/twin-peaks-mythos), a 4-week Weird Studies view-along starting June 8th. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo” (https://poets.org/poem/archaic-torso-apollo) Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780745649221) Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780679753353) He Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man), superhero Munich Terrorist Photo (https://www.npr.org/2022/09/04/1116641214/munich-olympics-massacre-hostage-terrorism-israel-germany) Albert Camus, The Rebel (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780679733843) Franz Kafka, "The Trial" (https://www.kafka-online.info/the-trial.html) and “In the Penal Colony" (https://www.kafka-online.info/in-the-penal-colony.html) Auguste Rodin, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin) French sculptor

Of the twenty-two figures that make up the major arcana of the tarot, the Chariot is probably the most commonplace. While the tenth arcanum is a wheel, it's The Wheel of Fortune, not just any old wagon wheel. But arcanum VII is neither the Chariot of Fire or the Chariot of the Gods – just the plain old chariot. Usually, it is interpreted as a symbol of the will in its lower and higher aspects. In this episode, Phil notes that the Chariot can also symbolize something as ordinary as new car. Of course, here on Weird Studies, no car is just a car, and we like to think that Youngblood Priest, the protagonist of the 1972 film Super Fly, would agree. A car also a tool, a medium, a token of mastery, an atmospheric disturbance, a means of manifestation, a spaceship... Enroll in THE TWIN PEAKS MYTHOS (https://www.nuralearning.com/twin-peaks-mythos), a 4-week Weird Studies view-along starting June 8th. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Rachel Pollack, Tarot Wisdom (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780738713090) Jordan Parks Jr., Super Fly (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069332/) Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619) Weird Studies, Episode 144 on “Hellraiser” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/144) Plato, Phaedrus (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780140449747) Vanessa Onwuemezi, Dark Neighborhood (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781913097707) J. G. Ballard, Crash (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781250171511) Paul Virilio, War and Cinema (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/979442) Karl Marx, Grundrisse (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/) Weird Studies, Episode 26 with Michael Garfield (https://www.weirdstudies.com/26)

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 anything we've covered on the show, "Dark Neighbourhood" is a chilling and moving story that elicits interpretation as elegantly as it resists it. Pierre-Yves Martel's album Mer bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue) drops on May 1st, 2023! Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES Show Notes.docx Vanessa Omwuemezi, Dark Neighbourhood (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781913097707) Peter Breugel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/landscape-with-the-fall-of-icarus) Weird Studies, Episode 140 on “Spirited Away” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/140) Karl Marx, Capital (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781453716540) Phil Ford, Dig (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780199939916) Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book) Weird Studies, Episode 98 on “Taboo” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/98 https://www.weirdstudies.com/98) Michael Wadleigh (dir.), Woodstock (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/) Samuel R. Delaney, Dahlgren (https://bookshop.org/p/books/dhalgren-samuel-r-delany/8507517?ean=9780375706684) Leonard Cohen, “Waiting for the Miracle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXvG0SMP7tw) Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781400075232) One red paperclip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip), story of guy who traded a paper clip for a house Weird Studies, Episode 101 on Tanizaki (https://www.weirdstudies.com/101) James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780060906825) George Steiner, Real Presences (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226772349) H. P. Lovecraft, “Nyarlothotep” (https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/n.aspx) Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, “Sovereignty and the UFO” (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0090591708317902) Weird Studies, Episode 144 on Hellraiser (https://www.weirdstudies.com/144) Weird Studies, Episode 29 on Lovecraft (https://www.weirdstudies.com/29)

Join Tomer Zvulun, the Artistic and General Director of The Atlanta Opera, as he speaks with opera singers Greer Grimsley and Nicholas Brownlee about their experiences singing the role of Wotan in Wagner's The Ring Cycle. 

In the 1980s, Clive Barker burst onto the cultural scene with The Books of Blood, collections of unforgettable tales of horror, depravity, and decadence the likes of which had been seldom seen since the days of Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror and Huysmans' Là-Bas. In the decades that followed, he went on to create an astounding body of work in fantasy and horror as a writer, artist, and film director. In this episode, author, lecturer, and podcaster Conner Habib joins JF and Phil to discuss what is arguably Barker's best-known work, the 1987 horror classic Hellraiser, as well as the novella that inspired it, "The Hellbound Heart." Preorder Pierre-Yves Martel's album Mer bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) References Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hellbound-heart-clive-barker/8956965?ean=9780061452888) Clive Barker (dir.), Hellraiser (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093177/) Tod Browning (dir.), Freaks (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/) Clive Barker, “In the Hills, The Cities” in Books of Blood (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780425165584) Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087800/) Angela Carter, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Carter) English writer Susan Sontag, “Happenings: An Art of Radical Juxtaposition” (https://www.robertspahr.com/teaching/hnm/susan_sontag_an_art_of_radical_juxtaposition.pdf) Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy? (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780231079891) Sturm und Drang, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm_und_Drang) 18th-century artistic movement Gayle Rubin, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_Rubin) American cultural anthropologist Stephen King, It (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781501142970) Robert Wise (dir.), The Sound of Music (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/) Slavoj Zizek, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828154/) Robert Wise (dir.), The Haunting (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/) David Mamet, On Directing Film (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780140127225) Mark Hedsel and David Ovason, [The Zealotor](https://www.google.com/books/edition/TheZelator/1UEAAAAACAAJ?hl=en)_ David Lynch (dir.), Mulholland Drive (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/) Stanley Kubrick, The Shining (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/) Coil, Hellraiser Themes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZS7eM_-jEA) Bela Bartok, [Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicforStrings,PercussionandCelesta)_ Golden Section, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio) mathematical ratio Kevin Williamson, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Williamson_(screenwriter)), American screenwriter Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780312280864) Special Guest: Conner Habib.

[@ 4 min] In an act of true sportsmanship, we introduce you to a rival podcaster: Daniel Gundlach, host and producer of Countermelody. He may be our foe, but he deserves your compassion, all Ted Lasso-like… [@ 29 min] And then… PJ checks in from NYC, having taken his son to “Lohengrin”. Man, that guy has guts… [@ 37 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill'… The Ring Cycle is going down under. Find out if Fasolt and Fafner will find gold inside their bloomin' onion… We're back with an all-new show next week when we go ‘Inside the Huddle' with Matthew Principe, Director of Livestreams at Boston Baroque... SHOW NOTES http://countermelodypodcast.com/ https://www.metopera.org/season/2022-23-season/lohengrin/ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/30/an-epic-opera-in-bendigo-wagners-monumental-ring-cycle-takes-over-a-regional-town https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-forgotten-history-of-tsianina-redfeather-the-beloved-american-indian-opera-singer-180981902/ GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

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. Learn more about the Ohio UFO Heritage Conference (https://ufoheritage.com) on May 5-6, 2023. Preorder Pierre-Yves Martel's album Mer bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES Patrik Harpur, [Daimonic Reality](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/920181.DaimonicReality)_ John Keel The Mothman Prophecies (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780765334985) Jaques Vallee Passport to Magonia (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780987422484) William Shakespeare, Macbeth (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780743477109) UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast (https://uforabbithole.com/) Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780415278379) Weird Studies, Episode 141 on SSOTBME (https://www.weirdstudies.com/141) Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781420937800) Weird Studies, Episodes 73 and 74 on Jung (https://www.weirdstudies.com/74) Weird Studies, Episode 44 on William James's Psychical Research (https://www.weirdstudies.com/44) Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi, Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781667113647) Jacques Vallée, "Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples" (https://www.academia.edu/8412505/Physical_Analyses_in_Ten_Cases_of_Unexplained_Aerial_Objects_with_Material_Samples) Shepard tone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzNzgsAE4F0) Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781803414300) Twin Peaks Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781780992525) Weird Studies, Episode 59 on Walking (https://www.weirdstudies.com/59) Weird Studies, Episode 142 on “Last and First Men” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/142)

Jóhann Jóhannsson was one of contemporary cinema's greatest score composers when he passed away in 2018 at the young age of 48. Last and First Men, his enigmatic directorial debut, was released shortly after in 2020. Based on a novel by the same name by the British science fiction writer Olaf Stapleton, the film offers a sustained meditation on the prospect of extinction, the eventuality of humanity's disappearance from the comos. In this episode, JF and Phil discuss the images and sounds of the film as they flicker and swell against the backdrop of nonbeing that envelops us all. The conversation touches on the idea of beauty, Brutalist architecture, modernism, and futurity. Preorder Pierre-Yves Martel's album Mer bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES Jóhann Jóhannsson, Last and First Men (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8015444/) Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfrozen_Caveman_Lawyer), SNL character Spomeniks (https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/what-are-spomeniks), Yugoslavian monuments Olaf Stapleton, The Last and First Men (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781604443578) Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091167/) The Last of Us (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581920/), television show Ray Brassier, [Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction](https://books.google.com/books/about/NihilUnbound.html?id=zN7WAAAAMAAJ&source=kpbookdescription)_ Weird Studies, Episode 2 on Garmonbozia (https://www.weirdstudies.com/2) Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize Speech (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1970/solzhenitsyn/lecture/) Weird Studies Episode 139 on Art Power (https://www.weirdstudies.com/139) Numenius (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/numenius/), Platonist philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy? (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780231079891) Jia Tolentino, “The Overwhelming Emotion of Hearing Toto's “Africa” (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-overwhelming-emotion-of-hearing-totos-africa-remixed-to-sound-like-its-playing-in-an-empty-mall) Weird Studies, Episode 110 on “The Glass Bead Game” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/110) D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780141192482)

Ramsey Dukes, also known by his real name of Lionel Snell, may be one of the most important thinkers on magic since Aleister Crowley. In the impishly-titled Sex Secrets of the Black Magicians Exposed (or SSOTBME for short), Dukes accomplishes something few writers on the topic have been able to do: he gives us magic without asking us to sacrifice anything that makes us sensible modern people. He makes magic seem like the most obvious thing in the world, and he does it without taking away any of its, well, magic. How he does it and what it means are questions that would take several episodes to unpack. In this one, Phil and JF begin the work by discussing how Dukes situates magic in an epistemic compass that also includes science, art, and religion. This set of tools is as essential to a holistic view of reality as the four suits in a deck of cards are essential to a proper poker game. In other words, when we lose magic, we lose a way of dealing with reality. Sign up for JF's upcoming course on Macbeth (https://www.nuralearning.com/weird-macbeth) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES David Lynch (dir.), Mulholland Drive (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/) Ramsey Dukes, SSOTBME (https://bookshop.org/p/books/ssotbme-revised-an-essay-on-magic-ramsey-dukes/8438809) Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828154/) C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781107606142) Weird Studies, Episode 139 on Art Power (https://www.weirdstudies.com/139) Marshall McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781442612693) “Virtual” and “Actual” (https://epochemagazine.org/36/on-virtuality-deleuze-bergson-simondon/#:~:text=To%20Deleuze%2C%20the%20virtual%20and,virtual%20which%20coexists%20alongside%20it.), as developed by Bergson and Deleuze Pragmatism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism), philosophical school Jack Parsons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons), American rocket scientist Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/97806The Myth of the Eternal Return91182971) William Shakespeare, Macbeth (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780743477109)

This episode shows that anyone can change. A warlord can turn into one of the good guys. A valkyrie can turn into a tree monster. Another valkyrie can turn into a fire. Amid these lessons, Ally learns about the MILF hunter, and Neil Gaiman returns to explain the true meaning of Beowulf. With Xena making the ultimate sacrifice and Gabby in the Gabbysleep, are our heroes burning an eternal flame, or did someone just put on a magical ring of power? Find out in today's episode: THE THE RING CYCLE CYCLE We talk about Xena Warrior Princess Season 6 Episode 8: The Ring Follow us on twitter: @XenaWarriorBiz This podcast is the spinoff/sister podcast of SAILOR BUSINESS. Art by @barelysushi. Podcast edited by @allyspock. Support us on patreon at www.patreon.com/sailorbusiness

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is one of those rare films that is both super popular and super weird. Rife with cinematic non sequiturs, unforgettable imagery, and moments of horror, it is an outstanding example of a story form that goes all the way back to the myth of Psyche and Eros from Apuleius's Golden Ass, if not earlier. In this type of story, a girl on the cusp of maturity steps into a magical realm where people and things from waking life reappear, draped in the gossamer of dream and nightmare. Musicologist and WS assistant Meredith Michael joins JF and Phil to discuss a strange jewel of Japanese animated cinema. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and get early access to Phil Ford's new podcast series on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Sign up for JF's upcoming online course (https://www.nuralearning.com/weird-macbeth) on Shakespeare's Macbeth on Nura Learning. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/) Kyle Gann, Robert Ashley (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780252078873) Robert Ashely, [Perfect Lives](https://ubu.com/film/ashleyperfect.html)_ Apuleius, “Psyche and Eros” from The Golden Ass (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780199540556) Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780486417677) Kentucky Route Zero (http://kentuckyroutezero.com/), video game Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (https://www.zelda.com/breath-of-the-wild/), video game Jean Sibelius, 5th Symphony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcjvvBbZhn4&ab_channel=hr-Sinfonieorchester%E2%80%93FrankfurtRadioSymphony) Quentin Tarantino (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/), film maker Mark Rothko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko), American painter Giles Deleuze, “What is the Creative Act?” (https://www.kit.ntnu.no/sites/www.kit.ntnu.no/files/what_is_the_creative_act.pdf) GK Chesterton, Orthdoxy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781952410482) Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780553208849) Andrew Osmond, BFI Guide to Spirited Away (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781838719524) Special Guest: Meredith Michael.

P. Craig Russell deserves all the awards. Even with a more than a handful of Harveys, Eisners, and Inkpots to his name, he probably could be nominated every year and no one would blink an eye. From his very first Amazing Adventures run to the Killraven graphic novel; from inking Batman over Michael Golden and Jim Starlin pencils to the sword and sorcery Elric stories; from his acclaimed Night Music adaptations to his Sandman work; Craig never fails to delight and impress. If you know anything about opera, you know how impossible it seems to adapt Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. But Craig did it with an award-winning a 14-issue comic series. He's one of the best, folks, so kick back, listen up, and enjoy the tales! _____________________________________________Check out a video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/dollarbinbandits.If you liked this podcast, please rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And tell your friends!Looking for more ways to express your undying DBB love and devotion? Email us at dollarbinbandits@gmail.com. Follow us @dollarbinbandits on Facebook and Instagram, and @DBBandits on Twitter.

Professor Kozlowski tackles the first half of Tolstoy's aesthetic masterwork (?) What is Art? to isolate and examine (1) Tolstoy's grievances with art in the late nineteenth century (and (1b) how much of that applies to contemporary artistic criticism), (2) the failings in other aesthetic systems at the time, (3) Tolstoy's own (admittedly-ambiguous and problematic) principles of artistic merit, and (4) how Tolstoy's targets (including Baudelaire, Impressionism, Shakespeare, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony) fare under his criticism. There's a lot to unpack and a lot to talk about, so strap in and get ready for another convoluted discussion about art! Suggested supplementary readings include: Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Mallarme (translations included in Tolstoy's Appendices) Wagner's Ring Cycle (we'll talk about it more next week) Turgenev's The Hunting Sketches (for an example of peasant-oriented Russian literature) Genesis from the Bible (one of the few artworks Tolstoy frequently holds up as exemplary) Revisit some 19th century art movements like Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism. To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/ And please consider contributing to Professor Kozlowski's Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/ProfessorKozlowski - where you'll also be able to vote for and suggest new topics for future lectures.

Before you listen to this episode, you NEED to listen to Episode 43: It's Not COVID'S Fault Once you have listened to that episode then you are welcome to come back to this one. If you ignore me here, you are just going to hear Sid tell you to do the same thing.    Now that has been taken care of on to our show notes.    Guess who's back? Back again. Nope, not Slim Shady ... our boys Sid and Keith don't have that kind of clout, but we do have one of the all-time greatest guests in Overlap Podcast history returning to remind us why he is the GOAT at Getting Business Done. That's right - it's the Monarch of Manpower, the Emperor of Employee Development, the Lord of Labor himself - Dr. Josh DuPlantis (roaring crowd noises and applause in background).   On this week's episode, Dr. Josh schools our boys on bringing the best of the best to your business and continuing to build on that greatness through professional development and career advancement. We're pulling out all the stops this week and bringing you the deepest of deep cut tips and tricks to make your talent pool truly transcendent - like looking beyond the traditional talent-seeking sources and engaging the full powers of social media and them worldwide Internet tubes to find the cream of the crop. And like Wagner's Ring Cycle, it's only going to get stronger, better and only vaguely more Teutonic.    Per our status as founding members of #TeamNoSpoilers, that's all you're getting this week from us because you truly must listen to this episode to gather every bit, bauble and bite of the wisdom and knowledge we're serving up on this week's Overlap Podcast.   LinkedIn  

Synopsis The fact that a new opera might debut at the Salzburg Festival in Austria is not in itself an unusual occurrence. But in August of the year 2000, the new opera in question was "L'Amour de Loin" or "Distant Love" by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho – making it the first opera by a female composer ever to be staged at the prestigious international Festival, and one that opened to rave reviews. Born in Helsinki in 1952, Saariaho now lives with her husband and children in Paris. She has said that though she loves Helsinki, she's more comfortable in a city where she is not a celebrity. "I'm too well recognized in Finland," says Saariaho. "When I say this to colleagues in America, they think it's fantastic that there is a country where contemporary music composers can be esteemed public personalities." Speaking of summer-time opera premieres, Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre" had its first performance as part of his "Ring Cycle" on today's date in 1876, at Wagner's own theater in Bayreuth, a small town in Southern Germany. Some early critics thought building a big theater in such an out-of-the-way place was a monumental act of folly, but Wagnerites have been making the midsummer pilgrimage there for over 125 years – despite the lack of air-conditioning in Wagner's theater. Appropriately, it's some of the warmest music from "Die Walküre" – the "Magic Fire" scene that brings the opera to its close. Music Played in Today's Program Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) –…à la fumée (Petri Alanko, f; Anssi Karttunen, vcl; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond.) Ondine 804 Richard Wagner (1813-1883) –Magic Fire Music, fr Die Walküre (Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, cond.) CBS/Sony 46286

The first complete performance of Wagner's Ring cycle took place in the Bavarian town of ...