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Sitting by the side of the highway, it is a nicely hidden place with some good shade. We have a 160 degree view of the Pacific Ocean. Mole and I have a good conversation about life on the coast, travel, surfing, odd jobs, growing up on the Monterey Peninsula. Please join us.

Mole mentions his abiding friendship with Terry Hide Prince. This is several years prior to us having lost Terry. Terry is, and will be, missed for a very long time...

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Remember to also listen to your other neighbors:
Peter Rosen
Steve Beck
Peggy Horan
and more...

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Together, Jake, Katie, Tristan and Magnus, at the Henry Miller Library, talking about music, the beauty of music, and how it can make community thrive. We speak about the newly reborn OPEN MIC at MILLER'S! 

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Music clips from recent Open mic's include:

Tristan Petersen
Jake Padorr
Katie Rose
Sarah Cheung
Roman Moffatt
Nick Leahy
Tracy Chesebrough
Dave Hoover
Magnus Toren
Joe Mann


Henry Miller on Music!

My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can-opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.

To be is music, which is a profanation of silence in the interests of silence, and therefore beyond good and evil. Music is the manifestation of action without activity. It is the pure act of creation swimming on its own bosom. Music neither goads nor defends, neither seeks nor explains. Music is the noiseless sound made by the swimmer in the ocean of consciousness. It is a reward which can only be given by oneself. It is the gift of the god which one is because he has ceased thinking about god. It is an augur of the God which every one will become in due time, when all that is will be beyond imagination.

All music is still governed by the old astronomy, is the product of the hothouse, a panacea for Weltschmerz. Music is still the antidote for the nameless, but this is not yet music. Music is planetary fire, an irreducible which is all-sufficient; it is the slate-writing of the gods, the abracadabra which the learned and the ignorant alike muff because the axle has been unhooked.

Henry Miller

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The Emile Norman Arts Foundation is a beautiful gift to Big Sur.
Heather Lanier, Kim Stemler and Heather Rose Engen are responsible for nurturing and managing the Foundation.

We have a wide ranging conversation about the history and vision of the Foundation.

To stay up on their work please visit:
THE EMILE NORMAN ARTS FOUNDATION

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I believe in whatever I’m working on…it’s a love affair. The idea consumes me. Once the piece is finished, it no longer possesses me nor does it satisfy me. I have to go ahead to the next inspiration. What I have learned from the last piece I have completed, I apply to the next creation.        — Emile Norman

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A conversation with Tom Lis. Tom is well known in Big Sur as a main player for the loud PHRAT Boys and for tending bar at Fernwood Tavern with grace & style.  

He now lives in Krakow, less than 200 miles west of the Ukrainian border...

It is good to hear from a neighbor and friend at at a time like this.

Thank you Tom!

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Episode # 20
We have a wide ranging conversation about David's life. Family, Acting, Music, Big Sur, Poland and, of course, his very intimate relationship to Esalen Institute.

HERE IS DAVID ON MARCH 8, 2022 talking about the situation in Poland as it relates to Ukraine.

A few links below for more on what and who we were mentioning.
Rick Doblin 
Babatunde Olatunji
Aurobindo Ashram
Esalen Institute
Essential Killing
Jerzy Skolimowski

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Nuclear Arms, Tactical Nuclear Arms, Biological and Chemical Warfare - we discuss it.  Thank you to Jeffrey Lewis for talking with us.

Recent podcast also pertaining to the tragedy in the Ukraine:
David Price
Anna Vassilieva

Books we talk about: (you can stop by the Henry Miller Library to buy a copy!😊)
Command And Control by Eric Schlosser
The Plague by Albert Camus
The 2020 Commission by Jeffrey Lewis
On The Beach by Neville Shute

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Episode 17:   (note also Episode #20 Interview with David published 03/15/22)

David Price, dear friend and former neighbor needs no introduction in Big Sur. David is a well known musician, promotor, Father, actor, producer and much else. He now lives in Legnica, Poland.  We talk about how things are for him personally and how he perceives the situation in his neighborhood, both near and further away.

I asked David if he had any music, poetry and/or literature to recommend at this time and he sent us this link of a Ukrainian Military Band:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqeCZMy5GUE

From David in just now: I hope to have some video tomorrow - I'm going to the top of a castle tower in the center of the city with probably the best trumpet player in Poland and he's going to play the Ukrainian hymn.

We will post link here!

The discussion with Anna Vassilieva HERE!

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Some links:

Buy The Unknown Henry Miller by Arthur Hoyle

Buy Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain by Arthur Hoyle

Joseph Strick's Tropic of  Cancer

Blaise Cendrars

New Directions

Barney Rosset

Mary Dearborn's Biography

Jay Martin's Biography

Robert Ferguson's Biography

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Listen also to:
Nuclear Arms with Jeffrey Lewis
David Price tells us about situation in Poland
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This episode is a conversation with Anna Vassilieva about the war in Ukraine. A perspective from a woman with deep knowledge and engagement.

Anna Vassilieva is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), head of its Russian Studies Program, and founding director of the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies. Professor Vassilieva’s research interests include contemporary Russian politics, U.S.-Russia relations, new formats of graduate education in international relations.

Links to some of what is mentioned in the conversation.

The Ambassadorial Series at MIIS

Osip Mandelstam

Joseph Brodsky

Alexander Pushkin

Yevgeny Yevtushenko 

The End of Eurasia by Dmitri Trenin

Decembrists

Сказка сказок - Tale of Tales

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We sit in a bar, at Benny Andersson's Rival, on Söder in Stockholm! I am speaking with Swedish author and journalist Sanna Björling. (Far from Big Sur, but as we have said, A Big Sur Podcast is free to roam!)
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Sanna recently worked as foreign correspondent  in Washington DC for Dagens Nyheter, the largest Swedish daily newspaper. We talk of both her personal and professional life as a foreign correspondent, the changing media landscape, immigration, politics, having three young children in the USA and more.

Sanna has authored two books that are mentioned in our discussion (neither of which yet has been translated) are ALLT VI HAR GEMENSAMT, which translated would be All That We Have in Common, and, coauthored with Frida Stranne, SUPERMAKTEN .

Sanna is married to my second cousin Olof Torén.
Sanna often hosts a podcast HERE! (sometimes in English).

The book, Bad News, by Batya Ungar-Sargon we mention.
Title music by John Holm. Other music clips by Frédéric Chopin.

I hope you will enjoy joining us for part of our conversation. / Magnus

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