The Liminalist: The Podcast Between

First of a two-part conversation with Keyhole Factory-author William Gillespie, on the idea of capitalism as a virus, end of the world media, being trained as a novelist, the world as a story, anecdotes in place of history, the extinction event, ascribing agency to the ecosystem, the meaning of weather, Patricia Highsmith’s idea of comforting, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 40: Original Syntax (with William Gillespie)

An intimate conversation with couple’s therapist (and cousin) Natasha Horsley, on the Horsley Wikipedia links, what is a conspiracy theorist, Nick Horsley’s BBC work,  the emphasis on research, a hole in the past/psyche, secret family history and secret British history, Alec’s aspirations, the Horsley ambition, elitism and narcissism, seeking love itself, the need for validation, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 39: Ancestral Patterns (with Natasha Horsley)

Special Day of the Dead conversation with Mark Lawn, on a swimming pool of regret, the grieving process, the inexorability of death, death as the stakes, the difficulty of self-expression, experiencing the transmission, regret on the other side, the legacy of the ancestors, when love turns to regret, desensitization, 1000 opportunities, enclosed in disinformation, losing ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 38.5: Lawn of the Dead (with Mark Lawn)

Epic Halloween conversation with Forrest Borie of Rodney Ascher’s The Nightmare, on Room 237, meeting Rodney, The Scooby Doo model of secularism, on the set of The Nightmare, the reenactments, watching the recreations, growing up with malevolence, a numinous trauma, developing a frame of understanding for sleep paralysis, Crucial Fictions, Dark Intrusions, dissociation/enlightenment, a lifetime ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 38: Diving into the Nightmare (with Forrest Borie)

Part two of conversation with liminal literary agent Gary Heidt, on morphing taboos, money as control, a de-meritocracy, money and immorality, an aristocratic shell, the exteriorization of the rich, organic robots & transhumanism, the Plutocracy, poison containers, the discomfort of interiority, when the medium and the message become one, seeking subjectivity, art as delivery device for propaganda, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 37.5: Culture Cracking (with Gary Heidt)

Part one of conversation with musician, conceptual artist, and literary agent Gary Heidt, on the authority of the cat, agents as necessary evil, an anomaly among agents, reaching an impasse, CIA controlling interests in publishing, setting the tone among the literati, changing editors, the single controlling node of Sessalee Hensley, pushing a bourgeoisie sensibility, domestic realism, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 37: Controlling Interests (with Gary Heidt)

Talk with comedian and activist against child abuse Barry Crimmins, of Call Me Lucky, who is Barry Crimmins? progressive comedy in the Reagan era, channeling anger into comedy, the process of remembering childhood abuse, breaking silence, speaking up for children, finding the context for craziness, explicating the “inexplicable,” 9/11 & US foreign policy, Hollywood revenge ... Read moreThe Liminalist #36: Breaking Silence (with Barry Crimmins)

Part two of conversation with Bill Morrison, on the dark life of Bill’s dreams, Freud on daytime dreaming, Freud’s fiction-writing, the angles of ourselves, the mathematical quotient of the universe, the supreme power of Is, the Great Beyond, Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” Bill’s Christianity of horseshit, Moses & Mohammed, update on Jasun’s search, why everything is metaphor, ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 35.5: I’m Here & I’m Going (with Bill Morrison)

First part of free-wheeling conversation with “Balloonman” Bill Morrison, on balloons and singing, free-association & pre-verbal expression, educational backgrounds, Bill’s early memories, in the sandbox & boxing ring, Victorian week at UK school, Bill living in Laurel Canyon, door-to-door salesman, vowing to be a comedian, improvisation & liminality, doing without an act, operating in survival ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 35: Am I a Fool? (with Bill Morrison)

Second part of conversation with Random Dude, on schools for the gifted, progressive schooling and natural education, the internet and audience cults, free-form psychic experimentation, harnessing the psyche, child sexuality, York University, counterculture-as-psyop, reservation schools, MKULTRA expendables, Kevin Annett, pending transhumanist atrocities, thought-policing, a cultural cut-off from memory, CIA & Moscow show trials, Orwell, Gene ... Read moreThe Liminalist # 34.5: Forbidden Domains (with Random Dude)