As promised, we come to Programmed to Kill, an earlier, and equally important book from Dave McGowan, of Weird Scenes Inside Laurel Canyon fame.  I summarize his thesis and in the full talk give my...

 Today I review Dave McGowan’s classic book again and do a boil down and review. I highlight Scorpions & the Cold War, Jim Morrison’s odd background, Frank Zappa & the Arsenal, the “27 club,”...

 Tristan at Primal Edge invited me back to do a film review of two similar films – Krorine’s Spring Breakers and Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake. Both films are incisive commentaries on post-modern hipster...

 Download the free audio half here.  Join host Greg Carlwood of The Higherside Chats podcast as he talks esoteric Hollywood and movie magic with returning guest Jay Dyer. We all know the many mediums...

Shawn Helton 21st Century Wire The 1994 cult film Natural Born Killers, is an examination of media manipulation, archetypal psychology and the violence embedded within American pop culture. Although it’s been more than two decades since Natural Born...

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Ed Opperman of the Opperman Report invited me on to discuss Hollywood magic and the art of deciphering film.  In this conversation we cover new ground with Baron Samedhi and Live and Let Die, voodoo and...

“The earliest gods were invoked by ritual act (dromenon = the thing done) such as a sacrificial dance, commemorating the fact that our life begins and ends when they call upon us.  Subsequently the thing...