Erik Davis' Expanding Mind on the Progressive Radio Network is three years old
August 17, 2012 9:44 AM Subscribe
Erik and his co-host Maja D'Aoust have a weekly internet radio interview show which might be described as psychedelically eclectic covering a variety of fringe subculture topics including drugs, mysticism, music, literature, Burning Man, comic books. Amongst their more recognizable guests have been: Alan Moore (on his ties to America's founding fathers), Christof Koch (on consciousness, neuroscience, and paramecium sex), Elliot Wolfson (on dreams and Kabbalah), Lee Gilmore (on his Burning Man book Theater in a Crowded Fire), and Gary Lachman (on mystic Jung, playing in Blondie, and getting thrown out of David Bowie's apartment).
Steven Macknick and Susan Martinez-Conde (on their work on neuroscience and stage magic) and Jeffrey Kripal (on the connection between UFO's, superhero comic books, and mysticism) are two of the many other shows which are almost completely (back to January 2010) here.
Erik is probably best known for his book TechGnosis. He has written a number of other books as well as numerous contributions to Wired and boingboing. The top googled are his piece for Robert Anton Wilson week on boingboing and his interview of Terence McKenna for Wired magazine which was one of McKenna's last interviews.
Little known bits about Erik even his close friends and relatives may not know about:
John Crow interviewing him about his book on Led Zeppelin IV on the Thelema Coast to Coast podcast, where Erik describes Stairway to Heaven as the fourth track on the fourth album by the quartet who are therein invoking their Rock Godhood.
Metafilter user Roach describing Davis as the "next Robert Anton Wilson" in this ask.metafilter answer.
(The Expanding Mind radio shows and the Thelema Coast to Coast podcast are all an hour long, and previously on metafilter.)
Steven Macknick and Susan Martinez-Conde (on their work on neuroscience and stage magic) and Jeffrey Kripal (on the connection between UFO's, superhero comic books, and mysticism) are two of the many other shows which are almost completely (back to January 2010) here.
Erik is probably best known for his book TechGnosis. He has written a number of other books as well as numerous contributions to Wired and boingboing. The top googled are his piece for Robert Anton Wilson week on boingboing and his interview of Terence McKenna for Wired magazine which was one of McKenna's last interviews.
Little known bits about Erik even his close friends and relatives may not know about:
John Crow interviewing him about his book on Led Zeppelin IV on the Thelema Coast to Coast podcast, where Erik describes Stairway to Heaven as the fourth track on the fourth album by the quartet who are therein invoking their Rock Godhood.
Metafilter user Roach describing Davis as the "next Robert Anton Wilson" in this ask.metafilter answer.
(The Expanding Mind radio shows and the Thelema Coast to Coast podcast are all an hour long, and previously on metafilter.)
I enjoyed TechGnosis a great deal - covers the flakiest subjects with sympathy, and without being flaky itself.
posted by not_that_epiphanius at 10:31 AM on August 17, 2012
posted by not_that_epiphanius at 10:31 AM on August 17, 2012
Jesus, this post is a perfect storm of Things I Was Going to Waste My Time On Anyway.
Bastard!
posted by waxbanks at 11:34 AM on August 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Bastard!
posted by waxbanks at 11:34 AM on August 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
Good post. Finding the feed for the podcast was a mystic journey of its own.
Right here http://expandingmind.podbean.com/feed/
posted by merocet at 1:35 PM on August 17, 2012
Right here http://expandingmind.podbean.com/feed/
posted by merocet at 1:35 PM on August 17, 2012
Ha! I went to high school with Maja, we were both on the debate team, though she was a couple years older than me. Cool to see her here unexpectedly.
Looks like she does some other eclectic stuff, too.
posted by lkc at 3:45 PM on August 17, 2012
Looks like she does some other eclectic stuff, too.
posted by lkc at 3:45 PM on August 17, 2012
Oops my bad. I haven't listened to these since they were first put out there so I made a couple mistakes.
1.) Lee Gilmore is a woman, not a man.
2.) Gary Lachman being in Blondie and thrown out of David Bowie's apartment is not in that radio show; I confusedly injected that information.
3.) Professor Kripal's thing on superhero comic books is in a different radio show.
I hope this didn't mess up anybody's experience of any of these shows.
posted by bukvich at 6:00 PM on August 17, 2012
1.) Lee Gilmore is a woman, not a man.
2.) Gary Lachman being in Blondie and thrown out of David Bowie's apartment is not in that radio show; I confusedly injected that information.
3.) Professor Kripal's thing on superhero comic books is in a different radio show.
I hope this didn't mess up anybody's experience of any of these shows.
posted by bukvich at 6:00 PM on August 17, 2012
Speaking of Burning Man: Burning Man sues to halt fee increase by Pershing County
posted by homunculus at 11:05 AM on August 18, 2012
posted by homunculus at 11:05 AM on August 18, 2012
fucking Watchmen
Well, that's another way for DC to use the Intellectual Property, I suppose.
posted by Grangousier at 11:14 AM on August 18, 2012
Well, that's another way for DC to use the Intellectual Property, I suppose.
posted by Grangousier at 11:14 AM on August 18, 2012
Sorry I missed this initially. Erik also wrote the libretto for a very respectable rock opera about/set at/messing with Burning Man, the CD is available now, and this remains my favorite song. Most recently in LA in a short version being staged by the composer and co-creator Mark Nichols. Very fun stuff.
PS. I believe some of the original production will be staging a singalong at the Cafe on the Playa... tomorrow evening? If you want to get all dusty and stuff.
posted by emmet at 8:00 PM on August 27, 2012
PS. I believe some of the original production will be staging a singalong at the Cafe on the Playa... tomorrow evening? If you want to get all dusty and stuff.
posted by emmet at 8:00 PM on August 27, 2012
PPS. That's actually Erik in the bunny suit with the bullhorn at the end of the song with the immortal line: "Very rousing. Very carnivalesque."
posted by emmet at 8:02 PM on August 27, 2012
posted by emmet at 8:02 PM on August 27, 2012
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