Episode 105: Fire Walk with Tamler Sommers
The Twin Peaks mythos has been with Weird Studies from the very beginning, and it is only fitting that it should have a return. In this episode, Phil and JF are joined by Tamler Sommers, co-host of th...
18 Aug 20211h 32min
Episode 104: We'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pepper' and the Beatles
It is said that for several days after the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the spring of 1967, you could have driven from one U.S. coast to the other without ever going out of rang...
4 Aug 20211h 23min
Episode 103: On the Tower, the Sixteenth Card of the Tarot
Continuing their series on the tarot, Phil and JF discuss the card nobody wants to see in a reading – The Tower. Featuring lightning bolts, plumes of ominous smoke, and figures plummeting from the win...
21 Juli 20211h 17min
Episode 102: On Pan, with Gyrus
"What was he doing, the great god Pan, down in the reeds by the river?" With this question, the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning opens her famous poem "A Musical Instrument," which explores n...
7 Juli 20211h 18min
Episode 101: Our Fear of the Dark: On Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'
In modern physics as in Western theology, darkness and shadows have a purely negative existence. They are merely the absence of light. In mythology and art, however, light and darkness are enjoy a kin...
23 Juni 20211h 1min
Episode 100: The Price of Beauty is Horror: On the Films of John Carpenter
Central to the tradition of cosmic horror is the suggestion that the ultimate truth about our universe is at once knowable and unthinkable, such that one learns it only at the cost of one's sanity and...
9 Juni 20211h 23min
Episode 99: Curing the Human Condition: On 'Wild Wild Country'
In this never-before-released episode recorded in 2019, Phil and JF travel to rural Oregon through the Netflix docu-series, Wild Wild Country. The series, which details the establishment of a spiritua...
26 Maj 20211h 31min
Episode 98: Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica
Exotica is a kind of music that was popular in the 1950s, when it was simply known as "mood music." Though somewhat obscure today, the sound of exotica remains immediately recognizable to contemporar...
12 Maj 20211h 21min
