Hitchhiking on the Hermetic Highway

Chase and Eric sit down with SHRED LORD and SCHOLAR IAN FOWLES. Ian is a guitarist in the Superhero rock band The Aquabats! He also founded the band Death by Stereo and worked with Gerard Way on his solo project, Hesitant Alien. Ian is a student of religion, the occult, and all things weird. Our kind of dude. Author of A Sound Salvation: Rock N' Roll as a Religion. ENJOY! 

Music: The Legend is True! by The Aquabats! (2011)

Eric and Chase's Gene Kelly Hollywood tour de force takes a detour to Gene Kelly’s unconscious underworld initiatory dream state.

Movies/TV: Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Eric and Chase realize they’ve been transported to an opium den underneath the pleasure dome in Kubla Khan’s Xanadu. About what you’d expect after a night of partying with Hollywood’s most recent fallen star Lucius who’s still passed out. They shake themselves off and remember they have a wedding to catch an alchemical, sacred, Royal wedding between film and sound officiated by none other than Gene mother f*cking Kelly... Gotta dance!

Movies/TV: Xanadu (1980); Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Books: Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Chase and Eric finally get invited to the Emmys where our boy Lucius makes a golden ass of himself on the red carpet casting his Pythagorean pearls before swine. Their limo driver “accidentally” runs over a pine tree to avoid a paparazzo on their way out opening a portal to the Dog Star for yet another encounter with the transmutative purifying good vibe check from the Queen herself.

Books: Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) by Apuleius
Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius

Film/TV: Avengers Infinity War (2018); LEGO Movie (2014); John Wick 3 (2019); Beetlejuice (1988); Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989); Back to the Future Trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990); 1941 (1979)

Let’s be real people—like really real—like starting now, we are one, as in the One, as in the One and Only. Only Fate under the guise of being could stop us now, but not really due to the eternal fateful question of who let the dogs out? Confused? Neither are we. Like and subscribe people... like and subscribe.