Larry Harvey returns and we talk about the need for the sacred, counterculture, how rich people are OK, and his personal life.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Sakura Michi” by Junko Yanagida | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Trademark G. from the Evolution Control Committee is back and we learn about his pants and the terrible saga of the Napster bombs.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Sherry Miller | Featured Song: “Grand Theft Audio” by DJ Pantshead | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Literary hotshot and all-around good guy Dave Eggers joins us. J.T. Leroy is mentioned, but mostly we talk about “Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, ” which Eggers co-edited. And Bucky Sinister tells us how Bruce Wayne is doing in the universe next door.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Burn Your Radio” by Instamatic | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Dave Eggers’ McSweeneys Internet Tendencies | Surviving Justice | Bucky Sinister
Remember the time we got a frog and put it down Mrs. Beasley’s dress?
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Two Chatterers: RU Sirius & Jeff Diehl | Opening Song: “DJ Riko, “Merry Mixmas” | Closing Song: Some Assembly Required, “XMAS special MIX” | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Join us as we give a rave review to the recent video by members of the SF Police Department and as we try to talk to author/punk legend Richard Hell over a faulty phone connection. Ain’t that nothin’?
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Two Chatterers: RU Sirius & Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “The Plan” by Richard Hell and the Voidoids | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
We interview Arthur editor, Jay Babcock. Arthur, if you don’t know, is the coolest, smartest underground newsprint rag on earth.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Jeff Diehl & Sherry Miller | Featured Song: “Rise in the Springtime” by Lavender Diamond | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Comedian Will Franken returns and slices up poetry slams, burners, feminist burlesque performance art and whatever else you’ve got.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured song: “Do You Wanna Cuz It’s Tricky My Sharona” from Thriftshopxl.net | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Tim Cavanaugh from Reason magazine returns to praise inauthenticity, contemplate teen sex, and dispense seasonal libertarian cheer.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured song: “Never Feel Good” mashup by Party Ben | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Rob Brezny, our favorite optimist and magic man, returns to talk more about his book, Pronoia Is The Antidote to Paranoia and about his Free Will Astrology
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Sherry Miller, and Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Lovemakers on Video” by Matt Hite (THE LOVEMAKERS vs. TRANS-X vs. EMINEM vs. BEASTIE BOYS) | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
San Francisco, Guns, & O’Reilly | Pronoia is the Antidote to Paranoia | Free Will Astrology | World Entertainment War
V. Vale is an alternative publishing hero. He’s published dozens of awesome books and periodicals through his ReSearch imprint. Here he talks to us mostly about his recent books with J.G. Ballard — J.G. Ballard Conversations (edited by V. Vale) and J.G. Ballard Quotations (Quotations Selected by V. Vale & Mike Ryan).
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Producer: Jeff Diehl |Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, & Jeff Diehl | Featured Songs: “Circus of Life” by Jean Jacques Perrey | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
ReSearch Publications | J.G. Ballard