Friday, July 28. 2006
'Paul Krassner started the irreverent underground magazine, The Realist, in 1958. He’s collaborated with Lenny Bruce, started the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman, and took acid with the (Charlie) Manson girls and Groucho Marx (although not at the same time).' (R.U. Sirius Show podcast). media-underground.net
Monday, July 17. 2006
Alexandra Bruce knows how to keep her life interesting. As a real life Dana Scully she spends much of her time researching such diverse subjects as quantum physics, metaphysics, subcultures and urban legends.
Known mostly for her research into the Montauk Project and Ong’s Hat legend, Chica (as she prefers to be called) has recently written an unauthorised guide to the unlikeliest cult movie of 2004: What The Bleep Do We Know!? - a part documentary, part motion picture about a woman going through an existential crisis, who discovers the uncertain world of the quantum field which hides behind reality.
Chica is also the author of The Philadelphia Experiment Murder: Parallel Universes & The Physics Of Insanity and has written articles for Paranoia Magazine, Steamshovel Press, Borderland Sciences and Disinfo.com.
She currently lives in Rio de Janeiro and has recently translated a book on the Mystery of Fátima.
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Doug Stanhope is the most recent prodigy to emerge from an historic succession of American outlaw comics. Armed with the same kind of brutal honesty that has been espoused by the likes of Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison and the late Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope’s performance is quite simply a one man riot where no prisoners are ever taken.
Justly earning himself the Strathmore Press Award at his first ever appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002, Doug is back in the capital this year to drink and chain-smoke his way through a full week of harsh and hard-hitting comedy.
Contrary to the wild “Comedy Rock Star” persona that seems to follow him wherever he ventures, Stanhope is in fact a rather composed individual who is clearly just as honest in real life as his comedy is ruthless. “I do good things with my life too,” he once remarked during a performance, “it’s just that none of them are funny.”
This year I caught up with Doug, several months prior to his Edinburgh Festival appearance, to find out what else makes this man tick.
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Sunday, July 16. 2006
James Inman is an angry man. 1997 winner of the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, Inman has been described as being like “the spawn of an unnatural union between Henry Rollins and Don Rickles.”
A rural punk-comic Generation-X anti-hero, James Inman comfortably blows away political correctness in favour of a freeform brutal frankness that so few comics dare even attempt.
Originating from Kansas and currently based in Seattle, Inman has been a three time headliner at the Seattle Lenny Bruce Festival and has wrote and produced his one man show The Greyhound Diary - a tale of a brutal journey into the heart of fear that is the life of a stand-up comic on the road.
This year will be Inman’s first ever appearance at the Edinburgh Festival and one can be almost certain that he is destined to be a huge success in the capital as well as a very exciting and entertaining act to go see.
I caught up with James just prior to his arrival in the UK to get his thoughts on his forthcoming Edinburgh appearance.
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Tuesday, July 11. 2006
'Gary McKinnon has been accused of committing the "biggest military computer hack of all time", and if extradited to the US faces up to 70 years in jail. So how did this techno geek from north London end up cracking open the Pentagon and NASA's systems? He talks exclusively to Jon Ronson as he awaits his fate.' (Guardian article). media-underground.net
Monday, June 26. 2006
'Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror, but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means. It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.' (Common Dreams article). media-underground.net
Tuesday, February 14. 2006
CWNN (Controversial World News Network) interviews Dr. Steven M. Greer M.D. - a man widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence and founder and international director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence. (CWNN audio stream). media-underground.net
Tuesday, February 7. 2006
'While an older generation of Christian parents knows relatively little about magical initiation and activity, the upcoming generation of internet savvy youth can easily become saturated in magical activity if this catches their fancy.' (Spero News article). media-underground.net
Tuesday, January 31. 2006
Boing Boing interview Douglas Rushkoff about his new comic book, Testament. The story is set in the near future, where U.S citizens are required under law to have an RFID tracking chip implanted in their arms. Rushkoff simultaneously retells stories from the Old Testament that parallel with the book’s plot. (Boing Boing audio stream). media-underground.net
Sunday, January 29. 2006
Larry Harvey talks to R.U. Sirius, Diana Brown and Jeff Diehl about the need for the sacred, counterculture, how rich people are okay, and his personal life. (R.U. Sirius Show podcast). media-underground.net
'This week the Viking Youth talk to documentary film maker Wayne Ewing about his films and friendship with the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Wayne has made two feature length films about the good doctor, Breakfast With Hunter -an award winning piece of verite which chronicled Thompson in many of his exploits of the last twenty years of his life - and more recently, When I Die - an hour long journaling of the memorialization of Dr. Thompson, from conception to the infamous send off of last century's most influential American writer.' (Viking Youth Power Hour podcast). media-underground.net
Sunday, January 22. 2006
R.U. Sirius talks with Erik Davis, author of a new book about Led Zeppelin’s nameless fourth album. He gives an enlightened stoner’s analysis of the band and its work, noting the extreme mystery forged out of heavy rock and some serious attitude. Davis considers Led Zeppelin IV to be an occult masterwork, an aural spell conducted in full view of an audience of millions. (R.U. Sirius Show podcast). media-underground.net
Friday, January 20. 2006
'For over 40 years, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has been one of the world's leading intellectual critics of U.S. foreign policy. Today, with America's latest imperial adventure in trouble both politically and militarily, Chomsky - who turned 77 last month - vows not to slow down "as long as I'm ambulatory."' (AlterNet article). media-underground.net
Viking Youth Power Hour talk to Jason Louv, editor of Generation Hex (a new anthology from the Disinformation Company on magick and initiatory experiences). Jason discusses his book, his new website Ultraculture, what happened in the 90's, what didn't happen in the 90's, how magick and the development of magick has changed in a post-9/11 world, and where we might be carried by the currents of the new magical renaissance taking seed world wide. (Viking Youth Power Hour podcast). media-underground.net
Thursday, January 19. 2006
'Fear Factor and Man Show host Joe Rogan rants about dimethyl tryptamine, and the neurological neccesity of dreams.' (MP3 audio). media-underground.net
Wednesday, January 18. 2006
'Martin Bengtsson has been, among other things, a smuggler - of guns, diamonds and booze - a spy, a bodyguard, a stuntman and an art forger. He now lives on a mountain in Cork with 27 dogs, 15 cats and a couple of tarantulas. His autobiography - If You're Not In Bed By 10, Come Home - is out now.' (Metro interview). media-underground.net
Douglas Rushkoff joins R.U. Sirius and Sherry Miller to talk about his new book, Get Back In The Box: Innovation From The Inside Out. (NeoFiles podcast). media-underground.net
Saturday, January 7. 2006
Mark Ramsey of Radio Marketing Nexus talks with Douglas Rushkoff about his new book Get Back In The Box: Innovation From The Inside Out.
'What do you mean by getting "Back in the Box"?
'I get all these phone calls from business people who ask me to come and help get them out of the box? But what do you mean get ‘out of the box’? Well, they want me to come up with new ads or a new image or a new sense of purpose. And I ask them what they do, do they make shoes? If they make shoes why don’t they just figure out how to make better shoes? Rather than trying to think of how to repackage or re-brand your shoes, why don’t you make better shoes? Isn’t your product itself a better communications medium for the quality of that product than some ad or some marketing scheme or some brand image?' (Radio Marketing Nexus audio download and transcript). media-underground.net
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