Episode 85: On 'The Wicker Man'
Since its release in 1973, Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man has exerted a profound influence on the development of horror cinema, a rich vein of folk music, and the modern pagan revival more generally. A...
28 Okt 20201h 17min
Episode 84: Mona Lisa Smile: On the Empress, the Third Card in the Tarot
This second instalment in our series on the major trumps of the traditional tarot deck features the Empress. As Aleister Crowley writes in The Book of Thoth, this card is probably the most difficult t...
14 Okt 20201h 19min
Episode 83: On David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'
David Lynch's Lost Highway was released in 1997, five years after Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me elicited a fusillade of boos and hisses at Cannes. The Twin Peaks prequel's poor reception allegedly sen...
30 Sep 20201h 19min
Episode 82: On The I Ching
The Book of Changes, or I Ching, is more than an ancient text. It's a metaphysical guide, a fun game, and -- to your hosts at least -- a lifelong, steadfast friend. The I Ching has come up more than o...
16 Sep 20201h 30min
Episode 81: Gnostic Lit: On M. John Harrison's 'The Course of the Heart'
The British writer M. John Harrison is responsible for some of the most significant incursions of the Weird into the literary imagination of the last several decades. His 1992 novel The Course of the ...
2 Sep 20201h 17min
Episode 80: The Pit and the Pyramid, or, How to Beat the Philosopher's Blues
Your hosts' exploration of mysticism and vision in pop music continues with two powerful pieces of popular music: Radiohead's "Pyramid Song" from the 2001 album Amnesiac, and Fran Landesman and Tommy ...
19 Aug 20201h 18min
Episode 79: Love, Death, and the Dream Life
In this episode of Weird Studies, an improvised analysis of two pop songs -- Nina Simone's version of James Shelton's "Lilac Wine" and Ghostface Killah's visionary "Underwater" -- becomes the occasi...
5 Aug 20201h 5min
Episode 78: On John Keel's 'The Mothman Prophecies'
At the time The Mothman Prophecies' was released in 1975, and again when he penned an afterword for the 2001 edition, John Keel appeared to have made up his mind about the "ultraterrestrials" that he ...
22 Jul 20201h 14min
