Epic conversation with Sam Hyde on the poison art, Stanley Kubrick & Sam Peckinpah, writing Peckinpah script, getting script to Johnny Depp, meeting Peckinpah, Paul Seydor, hanging with Sam in Mexico, being weaned from mother by Sam, seeing Platoon at 10, a generation of drinkers, sticking to the script, Weddle’s bio, cleaning up Peckinpah’s image, Paul Kael & Peckinpah, loving Sam, the catharsis of The Wild Bunch, Sam’s front, the poet’s armor, Bring Me the Head of Sam Peckinpah, a beautiful self-destroying machine, motivated by “why not?”, a scorpion surrounded, the price of art, a vampire hive, an audience of one, a sentient virus & a cosmic wink, possessed by Peckinpah's spirit, soul rescue operation, ancestral resonance, giving Peckinpah the death he deserves, Sons of Lee Marvin, dog brothers, working with Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man, Tom Waits family connection, art as death, the dark side of Hollywood, writing with blood, a blood pact, a Faustian bargain, organized crime in LA & New York, sooky LA ceremonies, creepy acting classes, reality checking, Hollywood conspiracy culture, Black Dahlia killing, James Ellroy’s conspiracy fiction, intelligence services, organized crime, child trafficking, & the nature of the beast, a rare conversation, an invisible line between creative genius & self-destruction, the solace art provides, articulation & authenticity, art as communication, Seen & Not Seen, removing the glamor from art, Kurt Cobain & heroin promotion, the devil’s temptation, seduced by movies in childhood, the suspension of disbelief pact, reifying a dream, the Hollywood fantasy, fiction writing, the nature of money & power, divine intervention, what the soul wants, letting go of false meaning, good & bad patterns, self-consciousness & fear, Lucifer & Satan, the ego as huddle of thoughts, salvia divinorum, simulations of death, Cormac McCarthy, influences on Shooting the Ghost, crystallizing the unconscious.

Songs: “Knob Wobbler,” by Gib Strange; "Weary BLues" by Stephen Bartolomei; "Us Ones In Between Final," by Annelyse; “The Devil At My Side” by Paul Wild; “Till You Lay Down Your Heavy Load” by Eilen Jewell; “These Words Are Yours,” by Hazelwood Motel