Most people believe in ghosts. Always have. Always will.

EJAE, the lead vocalist from K-Pop Demon Hunters, told a ghost story on Jimmy Fallon and nobody questioned her sanity, because it turns out people who DON’T believe in ghosts are the minority.

Tom recorded in one of the most haunted studios in New Orleans in the ‘90s. And boy does he have stories. A distorted face in a window. A badly burned little girl pleading for help. A late night tryst with an apparition…

Do artists see ghosts more often? Or does making art make you more sensitive to what’s already there?

Regardless, when you make the effort to really say something—to write, to record, to create—there’s magic in it. Maybe you’re more that thing than you are the relentless cyclone of anxious thoughts you live with the rest of the time.

Ars longa, vita brevis. Art is long, life is short.

We’re here to play the long game.

IMPORTANT UPDATE

We promised to have our first virtual hang this week, but then we made a scheduling mistake, and so now it will officially be NEXT WEEK.

Monday, February 2

1pm PST / 4pm EST.

Do you see that? That’s an actual date, and an actual time. Which means it will be WAY MORE EMBARRASSING if we have to reschedule again, which we will not.

All paid Substack and Patreon supporters can expect to get the link within the next couple of days.

(And a quick reminder that the 1st 100 people get Founder status for $4/month for life — and not all those spots have been taken yet.)

Okay, enough of all that.

On to the highlights:

The vocalists from K-Pop Demon Hunters saw a ghost and told Jimmy Fallon about it

People who don’t believe in ghosts are in the minority—always have been, always will be

Mal always asks people if they believe in ghosts at parties

We love people who say “I don’t believe in ghosts, but I saw a ghost”

Tom’s was in a swing band in the 90s and has lots of other recording studio ghost stories

King’s Way Studio in New Orleans was (is?) famously haunted by Germaine Cazanave Wells, Queen of Mardi Gras, total party girl from the 1950s/60s who fell, hit her head, died, never left

Tom’s friend saw a distorted, glaring face appear in the window

Tom made deals with Jermaine in the clawfoot tub: “Listen, don’t show up now—I don’t want to slip and fall while naked”

Another band’s bass player (an EMT) was awakened by a young woman badly burned, pleading for help—turned out to be Jermaine’s daughter who died in a fire

And, uh, another story, which you’ll have to go ahead and just listen to Tom tell it

Creative people seem to encounter ghosts more often—artists, musicians, people in heightened emotional/creative states

Are ghosts attracted to creativity, or does creativity make people more sensitive to what’s already there?

What it’s like to re-read own old writing

Maybe we’re more than the stuff that constantly spins in our brains

The more you create, the more you pin down and make substantial, the more that you ARE

There’s a magic to making the effort to really express yourself in some tangible way, going on the record, so to speak, even if you’re wrong, even if you’re full of crap

Tom loves himself and his friends as individuated people, even while recognizing we’re expressions of Brahman

He also talks to his peach trees, so

And in the epilogue…

What it’s like to prank a prankster

That one time Mal got kicked out of girl’s camp

A truly horrific story about fried chicken

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