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#214: First Lavender Codicil (And Just an Invitation to the Blues)

🕑 Added 2024-05-10 12:56:30 +0000 UTC

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EGRESS

This episode is the apotheosis of this project, and I deeply cherish it, the content of it, and you.

snafujesus

Don’t know if you’ve read him, but parts of this ep were very reminiscent of Robert Stone’s work, who over his career put a major novel out every decade in which the drug that defined the era as he saw it was woven into the plots, which overlapped with various intelligence activities. He was great at what he did— left-wing existential literary thrillers— and I’m surprised he doesn’t get more shout-outs in this particular ecosystem of podcasts.

MW

I can appreciate irony, but I also—like Hellgate Steve— never liked SP. Please bring back G & Y to close all shows, I and Spirit Steve would rest easier. Thank you

Geoff Allen

There’s an old ep where Michael said something like “the miracle of the Beatles” and I’d love to hear an episode on this.

Travis Dunlap

Catatonia is beautiful this time of year.

Medard

Amazing ep. I love the irony of playing Smashing Pumpkins at the end when Steve Albini who famously despised them died like a week ago. RIP Albini though, he was a real hater and a real musical talent, not many can do both.

Venetia’s glue gun

Wtf was going on in the 70s? Because Network, Gravity’s Rainbow, and Hadda be playing on the jukebox all were published in the 70s and have the same themes around capitalism overwhelming anything in its way to become a “system of systems”

r b

Friendly reminder that Chemie Grunenthal of Thalidomide fame also invented Tramadol and prides themselves of being "World leaders in pain management."

Dwayne Reid

YOOOOO when that “Stand Inside Your Love” hit. Jesus Christ. Every nerve on my skin firing - The word made flesh, as you say.

NYCM&AHole

As to the accent, it’s good but my reference is I learned it in college and read/wrote/spoke it fluently enough to do a semester of law school in the language.

NYCM&AHole

Hey it’s got one more letter in a word than “pro co rat”

Dogface Reilly

I second that. If he’d been born in Java or Bali, he could have been a great Dhalang.

Dogface Reilly

Interesting mentions of Timothy, Leary and the Beatles and Philip K Dick did you know that according to one biography PK Dick, Leary and John Lennon call him from London wanting to buy the rights to “The Three stigmata of Palmer Eldridge”?

Fascists R. Soft

Hey Mike, I came across this song and couldn't help but think of Death Corner. I would say "enjoy", but I don't know how possible that is given the subject matter. https://open.spotify.com/track/5l7jwWsTDVt1qhDFyYShHl?si=L8OptZeaT_qIzZPk9Eb29A

Ernest Ambrus

It’s hard enough to pronounce “Big Muff”

Ernest Ambrus

Not to rain on anyone’s parade but this might be the single best DAC episode ever. Michael is Bizarro Leary, if he were a genuine human and trying to be helpful.

Tim

“The tectonic avalanche, the molten explosion of 1000 guitars” is such a spot-on description and one that can only be comprehended while NOT listening to the song because in that moment of hearing it’s too much like a hypnagogic, vertiginous drop for any words. Still one of the best headphone songs ever.

Watermane

I disagree man, but then again you might be Swabian

NYCM&AHole

No offense to Michael, it isn’t but it’s very good for a non-speaker. I appreciate the effort he puts into it. More than all the angloid guitar YouTubers I watch trying to pronounce “Lichtlaerm”.

Shadowplay

My doctor prescribed me Mirtazapine for insomnia, though that's not what the drug's normally for. It seems to work, though, it subdues the racing whirling thoughts that kept me from sleeping. I was slightly perturbed to learn it was one of the drugs film director Tony Scott was taking when he threw himself off a bridge, but I have not been tempted to copy him, either in suicidal impulses or the overuse of tobacco filters.

Madra na Móna

Dilutions w/d be more apposite but I was trying to be polite to the guy as he seemed a nice sort.

Watermane

I haven't been yet. To see with ones own eyes what poor Theodor must have seen. Reminds me of the photo of him and the naked protestor, and him just looking so insulted and disgusted lol

Michael S. Judge

If you ever have a chance to go (or have already been), a week in Los Angeles will make MINIMA MORALIA hit a whole lot harder

Michael S. Judge

Plus I studied a lot with a guy whose big thing was connections between 19th/20th-century German thought and the pre-Socratics, which is also where I learned to hate Hegel, and where I discovered that there are maybe 50 people on Earth qualified to talk about Nietzsche, and everybody else is full of shit

Watermane

Thanks for your reply! Btw you convinced me to give Minima Moralia and Dialektik der Aufklärung another go

Michael S. Judge

I liked the New York ones a long time ago. Never read his later work, but for certain people, I don't think repeating oneself is necessarily a problem, especially when the Oneself in question would be baffled by that assertion. William Burroughs really only wrote a couple "novels," and the rest of his work was one 40-year-long book

Michael S. Judge

OCD, honestly. I can't read a language in print and not know how to pronounce it. Drives me fucking crazy. I really only speak bits & pieces of about 5 languages, but I can read and pronounce dozens of them aloud. And you don't get far into either 20th-century Marxism or 20th-century music theory without, in my case, the terrible need to know how to say "Verfremdungsteknik" or, of course, Klar, Entluftung, Vorstufe, Zundung, Hauptstufe.

Michael S. Judge

it's a drawing by Stanley Donwood, the guy who's done most of Radiohead & Thom Yorke's art – I think it's called "See No Evil"

ectoslavia

I'm also curious. Thought it was one of Bowie's minotaurs but it's not homoerotic enough?

John Waaben

What's the episode image from + great ep

Phil Hostak

Brilliant writer, poet, translator of modern French poetry. I think he peaked early with The New York Trilogy, but any of his novels would stand out from the crowd, esp. at the time, with said crowd consisting of the likes of Jay McInerney, Brett Easton Ellis, and T.C. Boyle (although TBF World's End was a damn good novel).

Kamran Husain

as an ivy league dropout, one of the reasons for said name i have had explained to me suppose that the original ivy league is 4 schools or IV in roman numerals

MW

***Also, keep it up Mike, your loved.

Watermane

brother, why is your german pronunciation so on point?

ggmacd

Thank you for the last couple eps. I was listening to the last one after midnight in an airport waiting for a delayed connecting flight home from a conference on pain medicine. I took a good deal of psychic damage at that conference to confirm that: a) (to lightly paraphrase the keynote address) we need to bring big pharma back into the fold (we're past oxycontin now - a few bad apples etc) so we can get down to business of turning pain into currency in the legitimate market. This time we'll focus on non-opioids (any guesses what those will be?) b) watching the frontier open up for turning pain into money, money into pain (the sound of a Gaza genocide protest came through the walls at one point), and the truly pathetic not-at-all-worth-it accrual of rewards and accolades to the people who are able to compartmentalize all of this into some realm of technical operation and compromise with necessity... I can also confirm the technocrats will absolutely split their brains in half not so much to avoid guilt (they're already incapable of this) but to stop the dull sensation of whatever cosmic, newtonian, karmic force is bearing down on them making them feel "imposter syndrome." tldr; i was feeling like matthewmcconaugheysmoking.jpg sketching V2 rockets in the margins of my notebook, thinking of my parasocial pal MSJ

ggmacd

i remember early in my journey as a musician taking notes on that specific part of 'Stand inside your love' and trying to replicate something like it in my own composing/producing, thank you for the beautiful description of it. Been revisiting that album a lot since you brought it up ~a year ago.

Gaz

Shot K. thx 4 that.

S

Speaking of solar wind, the aurora borealis will be visible in almost the whole us all weekend

Madra na Móna

Think you've mentioned the late Paul Auster before. You have any of his books you liked much? Man was a great talent who unfortunately repeated himself a lot but will be missed. His early poems are like American Celan imo.

K

"Stand Inside Your Love" by The Smashing Pumpkins 🔥

MW

I would argue podcasts have become part of the lavender field. For better and often worse. I know i am so how linked psychologically with this “pod” and a couple others. Like, I have eerily similar thoughts and personal struggles then—wam bam!listen to this and its like im listening to myself from a week or few days prior. Maybe im stuck in the server farm already, or maybe we all are…

MW

Strange.

Gaz

what's the name of the song in the outro?

Joe

Christ I listened to that song like 8 times today and every time he says "dreams" it's still louder than I expect and makes me jump.

Adam Holley

Thought you might wanna chew on something. Philadelphia Police department in less than 24 hours swept an encampment of houseless and addicts, and then the U. Penn. encampment for Gaza. I’ve been looking for more direct through lines between this current siege on Gaza and the narco state, but this is about as fucking short a thread as it gets

GolfBaller

Machina is so slept on. Thanks for the insight. Be well, brother.

Rohmer Simpson

The comment about PKD that his best books aren't particularly his best-written is dead on. And I'm crazy about his work. You might say I can't get enough Dick. (Had to do it.)

Michael S. Judge

If there's a big used bookstore that looks like something abandoned in an estate sale, then yes

Nathan Voelker

North-south on the east side of town, But yeah its all strip malls and parking lots and sheer dread

Michael S. Judge

Is that the one that runs east-west at the northern edge of town, out in the stripmall zone? Boy a lot of bad things happened in my brain in Indiana

Nathan Voelker

Was said schizophrenic break on i65? Fuck that highway and fuck that place lol

Parahomie

Always good to remind people that the most frightening right wingers come from socal (Whittier in this case), just the craziest white boyz G-d ever smiled on. Banger ep, man. Scanner Darkly might be his best read, and its the one that sold me on PKD as prophet.