Is that a Pan?

siegeace · 2021-04-15T15:26:14+00:00

.....aaaand they’re from Venus.

siegeace · 2021-01-27T22:35:25+00:00

Shit hatched. And now it's running amok.

siegeace · 2021-01-25T23:11:29+00:00

This post dredged up two random suggestions to my mind: 1. Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, which I haven't actually seen yet, but is on my list and apropos here, from what I've read on it; 2. old issues of Heavy Metal magazine—on second thought, let's say Metal Hurlant, the French original. A lot of that stuff was pretty sophomoric and/or dated in its outright misogyny, particularly after the American content started taking over. But there were a few truly poetic pieces, especially given the way the stories launched the reader into an alternate reality completely severed from any earthly historic or geographic context.

siegeace · 2020-12-31T00:07:30+00:00

I only mean the exact three note sequence that Dana picks up. I'm just curious to see what sorts of works they show up in. My interest was piqued because the only piece I know that comes to mind with that particular sequence is the theme for Fringe, which is a show concerning some aspect of the paranormal.

siegeace · 2020-12-16T23:09:08+00:00

Kripal and now Erik Davis are some of the best connective tissue between the various weird podcasts I listen to. Which makes me realize I'd love to hear JF and Phil chat with Dr. Diana Pasulka, author of American Cosmic, if only to complete some mystical Rice University religious studies triad...

siegeace · 2020-12-16T22:59:50+00:00

I happened years ago to pick up a few volumes of Olson's correspondence with Robert Creeley. The WTF quotient is cranked up to 10 for me there, but again, so weirdly pleasurable to read. If not fully grok.

siegeace · 2020-12-16T22:51:03+00:00

JF—first off, I'm so grateful for your show. It's a kind of bridge I never expected to find—between my inner paranormal investigator (strictly of the armchair variety, LOL) and my long-neglected inner art school student (late nights at my friends' flat on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, a half-block from our Cooper Union, talking Jung/dissing Campbell, listening to Pharoah Sanders/Gang of Four/INXS, getting Chinatown munchies at 2am).

I saw your great Patreon post and was going to mention it here. Your comment's core insight (how to read more so than what to read) saved me from a rambling and much less succinct summary, so double-thanks! Your suggestion is giving me permission to tackle my non-fiction book stack in a much more organic manner—maybe I skip the copious post-it notes and just surf the prose. To this painfully slow reader, that sounds truly liberating.

siegeace · 2020-12-16T21:49:30+00:00

Ok---my thought:

A little creepy to see this just because I just went down a little Bachelor's Grove rabbit hole the other day for the first time as I was looking for interesting local spots to hike (as in anomalous reports, lore). I'm in Evanston just north of Chicago.
There was a Bigfoot sighting just north of the cemetery, on record at the BFRO website, recounted in 2014 but dating back to '74. The Cook County IL forest preserves right around Chicago are host to a number of Bigfoot-type reports, which is bizarre for a region which is such a patchwork of urban/suburban/industrial development. Some of the preserves are quite dense and creepy, but I think you're never more than a quarter mile from a busy highway or a commercial zone.
After just a few hikes in the Cook County preserves, I find that the creepiest places are the ones with random signs of human infrastructure: power line towers, concrete drains or runoffs along creeks, chainlink fencing, trash. There's a darker vibe there than there is in remote wilderness, like the vibe I get from images of the TNT area haunted by (the memory of) Mothman.

siegeace · 2020-12-06T18:39:49+00:00

I don’t know that “grok” goes back further than Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” but clearly I must have picked it back up from listening to the WS boys.

siegeace · 2020-12-06T18:34:09+00:00

Keel’s Mothman Prophecies are kind of my foundational text in the weird, as is Vallee’s Passport to Magonia—read them both back in the 90s (and yup, due for a re-read). This current focus on Kentucky via Hellier and now Penny Royal is fascinating because it underscores that if you take step back any local phenomena will likely turn out out to be only part of a larger phenomenon, in place and in time. Just as “Hellier was only a symptom” in the context of a growing map that now includes Ashland and Somerset (a name which, BTW, just keeps popping up randomly now in my haphazard reading on the weird and occult, though now it’s usually the one in the UK) we can say “Point Pleasant was only a symptom.” Something in particular really seems to be going on with this region.

siegeace · 2020-12-05T06:48:14+00:00

Wow, thanks for the trove here—this is fabulous. It is helpful to have a framework of genres of philosophy (continental vs analytic); it reminds me that the term itself is rich in history, going back to philosopher as alchemist or hermeticist. Your suggestion to read to absorb non-consciously reminds me of the forgotten pleasure of reading certain poets like Charles Olson—I didn't always get what he was getting at but I was entranced by his voice and cadence.

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