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Joseph Matheny in conversation with Rachel Haywire about the good old BBS days, music, art and all sorts of goodies.  Since this is a special holiday show, they just talked and talked and talked, with no fascist concepts of clocks or calendars. Chaos Never Died! ========= Music this week by Rachel Haywire. Song 1: Dark Discordia Song 2: Mean Enough Hot Enough (Savage Ideal Dance Club Forsaken mix) Rachel Haywire is a reality terrorist from the metaphysical gutters of post-apocalyptic hell. She has an article out in the disinfo anthology Generation Hex entitled Eris is My Biatch. She also has two songs coming out on a compilation called Women Take Back the Noise. Besides annihilating reality and deconstructing sound, Rachel Haywire spends her time traveling from city to city and country to country. She likes long walks on the beach and lunatic street riots. link http://experimenthaywire.net/ Listen to or download show below Download The GSpot: Rachel Haywire Share This

The GSpot: Antero AlliJoseph Matheny in conversation with Antero Alli about all sorts of tasty subjects. Also, JM discusses the changes occurring at Alterati, et al. ========= No homegrown music this week, just some blatantly ripped off Cheech and Chong. Antero Alli was born November 11, 1952, in Finland. Alli currently resides in Berkeley, California, where he conducts workshops and stages theatrical productions, some of which have been released as films. Alli is also a professional astrologer and has authored books on experimental theatre, astrology and Timothy Leary s 8-circuit model of consciousness. Links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antero_Alli http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0021334/ http://www.verticalpool.com/us.html Download The GSpot: Antero Alli Share This

A tribute to the late Dave Szulborksi, a pioneering Alternate Reality Game developer, storyteller and puzzle writer. Credits: Music Dave Szulborksi Video production Michelle Senderhauf and Dee Cook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpb0xYB7YUU

Joseph Matheny talks to Nick Thacher and Linda Miller about Falcon Press and why there appears to be two Falcon’s selling virtually the same catalogs since the death of Dr. Hyatt. Also in this episode: A new In Your Ear with Psuke, and a special bonus track at the end: James Curcio presents the first installment of the Join My Cult audiobook, and releases Join My Cult as a Creative Commons PDF that you may download at Original Falcon. Also, as a side note, we were contacted after this show was recorded by an organization calling itself the New EII. Keep an eye open for an interview with them in the future.

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Chris Arkenberg about everything from the future to music and technology.All music provided by N8UR (Chris Arkenberg) Songs, in order: Babylon System Nude Dressed SmiteDemDub BIO: Chris Arkenberg is a strategic researcher and futurist watching for patterns at the intersection of human culture and technology. He’s currently working as a visiting researcher at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, Ca., where he’s researching the emergent field of Brain Computer Interface for the Institute’s 2009 Technology Horizons program. He did undergrad in psychobiology at UCSC, then worked a 2yr stint at Gateways metaphysical bookstore, followed by a 10-year stretch working 3D & management for Adobe Systems, Inc. On the side, he’s an electronic music producer under the moniker N8UR, while also enjoying and engaging his local community in Santa Cruz, Ca. His blog is URBEINGRECORDED .

In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind. All music provided by Veil of Thorns Songs, in order: And the Beast of the Vision Still Roams in Dream Intellectual Institutional Object Thought Pollution Evolution In Your Ear: Reviewing Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Eric Young of HipGnosis, talking about life as an independent musician and more. Also, an episode of In Your Ear, Reviewing The Leviathan Chronicles an Audio Adventure (http://www.leviathanchronicles.com/rss/podcasts.xml or http://www.theleviathanchronicles.com/ for high bandwidth lots of animation, etc. Includes cast of characters, episode summaries, blog and all that kind of stuff). Also, a blurb from FoolishPeople about The Abattoir Pages. Music in this episode provided by HipGnosis : Glitch 303 Rendered, Underground Loom High to Fly, DOC Links: http://glitch.fm http://thereisnotwo.tk http://hipgnosis.us

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Jon Lebkowsky about the beginnings of the public Internet, hacking, phreaking and the rise and fall of the “C” word (Cyber) , social media and a host of other remembrances of recent history. Also, remember to come out to Book Soup 9/9/9 for Random Obsessions and Strange Stories with Nick Belardes, and others, including Joseph Matheny for a reading and a GSpot taping.

Joseph Matheny interviews Danielle Hatfield (yes, one of THOSE Hatfields!) about Twitter, the Internet and life in general. A good casual conversation, not too stuffy or formal at all, just the way we like it, with a side of Louisiana hot sauce! Also another episode of In Your Ear-New Yorker Magazine archived short stories read aloud and discussed by current contributors. Danielle in here own words: http://daniellehatfield.com/about.html Also see: http://daniellehatfield.com/ & http://twitter.com/Dhatfield

Joseph Matheny interviews “another Joe”, AKA Bazooka Joe, from Solipsistic Nation and formerly of the smallWorld. They talk about music, podcasting and get into a weird Joe to Joe cross interview feedback loop. Also, another episode of In Your Ear, this week reviewing “Variant Frequencies” a podcast of (mostly) short fiction in the horror/subgenre sci-fi vein. From Puske: I pay special attention to the podcast novel which they debuted “The Failed Cities Monologues” http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/) link is to the podiobooks version.

Joseph Matheny reunites with an old friend from Chicago, Steve “Diet” Goedde. They talk about old times and Steve’s new release: Goedde Concerto with Robert Waechter. Also, an episode of In Your Ear. —– Steve Diet Goedde was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and learned the basics of darkroom work and photography from his father, who was an amateur photographer. By the age of 13, Steve was obsessed with taking photographs and started educating himself about photographers that inspired him, most notably Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, and Diane Arbus. He moved to Chicago in 1985 to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied filmmaking and painting. He refused to study photography stating that he had already acquired his aesthetic and visual style. In 1998, photography publisher Edition Stemmle published a collection of Steve’s Chicago work entitled “The Beauty of Fetish” detailing his fascination with such fetishistic fashion elements as latex, leather, and PVC. Later that same year, he moved to Los Angeles where he started a series of photographs which would later become “The Beauty of Fetish: Volume II” (2001), also from Edition Stemmle. Slish Pix in 2005 released a career retrospective of his work on DVD entitled “Living Through Steve Diet Goedde”. In addition to the numerous animated photo galleries, the DVD featured interviews, commentary, and behind the scenes footage. Steve Diet Goedde currently lives in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles.

In keeping with the shows new theme of DIY art, Joseph Matheny talks to Richard Carbonneau, author of the comic story of the life of Jack Parsons, called: The Marvel as well as other great web comics. Also, a new episode of A Concise Guide to Setting Yourself on Fire with Kara Rae Garland.

In this episode of the GSpot: Wes Unruh brings us reflections on the movie Synecdoche, New York, Joseph Matheny talks to Jeremy Kasten about why this is a perfect time to make an independent film, with poetry breaks provided by Jim Morrison from the great beyond. Coming in the near future: Joseph Matheny talks to R.S. Carbonneau about The Marvel and other works, Altertube/GSpot video segments makes a comeback this summer with JM covering the red carpet scene at one of the more “indie” of the major film festivals, the LAFF and more. Stay tuned.

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Chris Arkenberg about everything from the future to music and technology.All music provided by N8UR (Chris Arkenberg) Songs, in order: Babylon System Nude Dressed SmiteDemDub BIO: Chris Arkenberg is a strategic researcher and futurist watching for patterns at the intersection of human culture and technology. He s currently working as a visiting researcher at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, Ca., where he s researching the emergent field of Brain Computer Interface for the Institute s 2009 Technology Horizons program. He did undergrad in psychobiology at UCSC, then worked a 2yr stint at Gateways metaphysical bookstore, followed by a 10-year stretch working 3D s an electronic music producer under the moniker N8UR, while also enjoying and engaging his local community in Santa Cruz, Ca. His blog is URBEINGRECORDED .

In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind. All music provided by Veil of Thorns Songs, in order: And the Beast of the Vision Still Roams in Dream Intellectual Institutional Object Thought Pollution Evolution In Your Ear: Reviewing Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, a terrifying immersive Halloween experience, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London s largest abattoirs. The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style activity to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles. This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story The Forest . The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival. Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir. http://www.apocryphon.org/

Joseph Matheny in coversation with Klint and Jillian from Esozone, talking about the new open source and unconference model being used this year. ========= After EsoZone Portland 2009, we will release the EsoZone Protocol, a set of guidelines similar to an open source software license that will enable organizers to host an EsoZone in their own city as long as they are free and follow the unconference model. Portland s weirdest event just got weirder This year EsoZone an annual Portland conference dedicated to the occult, fringe science, and other offbeat topics is forgoing a pre-planned schedule in favor of letting attendees create their own agenda. On October 9th, participants will arrive at Watershed PDX and collaboratively create the schedule. The event will be free and open to the public, and anyone will be able to propose a session, lead a workshop, or suggest a group activity. The approach is called unconferencing, a technique pioneered by tech-industry events. Portland has played host to a number of unconferences in the past few years, including BarCamp, WordCamp, and CyborgCamp. Event organizers Klint Finley and Jillian Ordes-Finley were inspired to transform EsoZone into an unconference after attending CyborgCamp in December of 2008. I was amazed at how quickly the schedule was put together at CyborgCamp, and how smoothly the event ran. We d agonized over the EsoZone schedule for months and were still changing things at the last minute. I was really impressed by how the whole unconference model worked, Finley says. The pair hope this new approach will help EsoZone better reach is goal: fostering connections between its eclectic and oftentimes outsider audience. Finley says This should be a better platform for getting people to interact each other, and making sure the event centers around the subject matter the attendees really want to discuss. EsoZone will use the same scheduling system used by CyborgCamp and BarCamp. Participants will propose sessions on 8.5 x 11 pieces of sticky paper and place them on a large schedule grid on the wall. The sessions can then be rearranged as necessary as attendees negotiate times and spaces for each session. New sessions can be added to empty slots at any time during the event. In order to give people an idea of what to expect, the organizers are encouraging likely participants to propose subjects on their online forum in advance of the event. However, nothing will be decided until the actual event. EsoZone will also be exhibiting esoteric art by a variety of artists. Watershed is such a cavernous space, we have room for a staggering amount of artwork, Ordes-Finley says. Although artists will be allowed to hang art the day of the event, they are encouraged to check in ahead of time if they have questions or could have any logistical issues. More information, and contact details, are available at esozone.com