Episode 143: On UFOs
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 extre...
29 Mars 20231h 30min
Episode 142: The Music of the Spheres: On Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Last and First Men"
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 shortl...
15 Mars 20231h 22min
Episode 141: Actual Magic: On Ramsey Dukes' SSOTBME
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 ...
28 Feb 20231h 24min
Episode 140: That Ain't Plot: On Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away,' with Meredith Michael
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 outstand...
15 Feb 20231h 21min
Episode 139: Sex, Money, and Power are YOURS with our SECRET Art-Power Formula!
"YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE!" Tired of failure and self-loathing? Want to be rich and famous while having a good time all the time? Wondering how to turn your banal opinions into Transcendent Truths?...
1 Feb 20231h 34min
Episode 138: Yours and Yours Alone: On the Death Card in the Tarot
What better way to ring in the New Year than with a freeranging discussion of the dreaded thirteenth arcanum of the tarot? Of all topics, surely death needs the least introduction. Or does it? To thos...
18 Jan 20231h 15min
The Weird Studies Christmas Special
We recorded this episode in early December for our Patreon subscribers, but as it's the closest thing to a Christmas special we're ever likely to make, we thought we'd slip it into everyone's stocking...
25 Dec 202238min
Episode 137: Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal'
What Evil Dead 2 is to the Baroque, Sunn O))) is to Brutalism. Or more like: if the likening of Evil Dead 2 to the Baroque felt like a stretch in episode 136, the brutalist bona fides of Sunn O)))'s d...
14 Dec 20221h 15min
