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Enochian Vision Magick with Lon Milo Duquette

This week we chat once again to the amazing Lon Milo Duquette! In this weeks episode we discuss the interesting topic of John Dee and Edward Kelly's Enochian Magick, the controlled-schizophrenia of Magick, how angels give you Ferrari's and 'why Magick?'

Joining me in the co-host dungeon this week is our newest initiate in the mystery-school that is SittingNow, Adrian Dobbie, who you may remember has written some great articles and reviews for the site. Once again, Mort of the fabulous Media Underground returns to aid us in our endeavours.

Claire provides yet another great Weekly Weird News, in which she bemoans the loss of the worlds ugliest dog, and DaddyTank's amazing  'Myspace Heroes' returns for its second week, you can check the featured artists here:

Vicsid -  http://www.myspace.com/vicsid

Kramer V Kramer V Godzilla - http://www.myspace.com/kvkvg

Twiggy and the K-Mesons - http://www.myspace.com/twiggyandthekmesons

Next week we interview the Social Philosopher and Media Theorist Douglas Rushkoff, a personal hero of mine, about all things open-source, so keep em peeled for that!

Enjoy!

Hunting Monsters with Jonathan Downes!

This week we chat to the amazing Jonathan Downes, the director of the Centre of Fortean Zoology. Jonathan is a real-life monster hunter and has uncovered many mysteries surrounding bizarre and weird sightings of unknown and unidentified creatures. In this weeks episode we discuss The Owlman and the decline of education, The Chupacabra and tiny goats, Hitler's Koi Carp and many other weird and wonderful topics.

My new co-host is George Mortimer of the amazing Media Underground, who's been adding the great new 'Armchair Anarchy' feature to the site. As is usual, Claire brings us this weeks Weekly Weird news.

Our new music feature comes from DaddyTanks 'MySpace Heroes' music picks:

Pang - http://www.myspace.com/pangmusic

Disolved - http://www.myspace.com/dissolvedamberrooms

Raleigh St. Clair - http://www.myspace.com/raleighstclair

Background music comes courtesy of the amazing Martin Denny, and even Mark Snow (if you listen to the interview closely).

We'll be back next week with Lon Milo Duquette, who you'll remember from episode 5 of the show.

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Jonathan Downes is a cryptozoologist, author, film-maker, journalist, composer and singer-songwriter, with a background in radical politics and mental health care. His father, the explorer and Colonial Service Officer J. T. Downes, authored several books on wide range of subjects, such as African history, theology and Devonshire dialect. His mother Mary Downes was a broadcaster and author who published several collections of Nigerian folklore under the pen-name `Yar Kunama`.

He is currently the editor of Animals & Men; the journal of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, the editor of Exotic Pets - a magazine published by CFZ Press, and until August 2007 was and the Deputy Editor of Tropical World magazine, a tropical fish magazine published in the UK. He has also edited and contributed to several other publications over the years.

According to his autobiography and other writings, as a child he lived in Nigeria, and then Hong Kong (then a British Crown Colony), and returned to the UK in 1971, when his father was 'invalided out' of the Hong Kong government. He was educated at Bideford Grammar School, (1971-6) and later West Buckland School from which he was expelled. He worked as a psychiatric nurse between 1981-90 and between 1990 and 1994 ran the fan club for Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel.

Magick 101 with Austin Gandy

In this weeks show we chat with the fantastic Austin Gandy about the basics of Magick. Austin knows his subject and delivers the goods this week in another great interview. Fans of our friends Out There Radio will know Mr Gandy from his work on the 'Invisible College' episode of the show, as well as being their guest for some of the best episodes. In this episode we look at the real basics of magick, as if the listener was a would-be adept, walking through their local occult bookstore, pondering where to get stuck in!

Claire delivers once again with her awesome Weekly Weird News, and we make a desperate plea for attention from our fans! Next week we'll hopefully be heading back into the paranormal world with an interview about Crypto-Zoology!

Music this week comes in the shape of Kid606, you can download this track for free here, background music this week comes from Earth and Don Cab!

See you next time!

Uncovering Quackery with ‘The Amazing’ James Randi

In this weeks show we chat to everyones favourite magician and seeker of paranormal-proof, 'The Amazing' James Randi. James is well known throughout the United States for shedding light on con-men and women that claim to posses paranormal gifts. One of his most famous cases, of which he has written a book, is Uri Geller who, as you'll hear in the show, still manages to maintain a successful career even after numerous 'outings' by the likes of James.

In this interview we discuss James's million-dollar reward for proof of the paranormal, Oprah Winfrey's belief in 'The Secret' (or Magick for housewives, as it should be titled), rouge faith-healers, Johny Carson, the Large Hadron Collider and why people need to believe in quackery!

Also in this episode, Out There Radio and DisInfoCast host Raymond Wiley stops by to make an announcement, including some exciting news for some of the Sitting Now crew.

We finally get Claire on the show with her 'Weird Weekly News', and we discuss all the latest features and articles on the site.

Music this week comes courtesy of Kylesa and their amazing tune Hallow Severer from the album Time Will Fuse Its Worth, thanks to those guys for giving us permission to play the track and buy the album, it's great!

Enjoy!

Official James Randi Biography:

James Randi has an international reputation as a magician and escape artist, but today he is best known as the world's most tireless investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

Randi has pursued "psychic" spoonbenders, exposed the dirty tricks of faith healers, investigated homeopathic water "with a memory," and generally been a thorn in the sides of those who try to pull the wool over the public's eyes in the name of the supernatural.

He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including a Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1986.

On October 19, 1993, the PBS-TV "NOVA" program broadcast a one-hour special dealing with Randi's life work, particularly with his investigations of Uri Geller and various occult and healing claims being made by scientists in Russia.

He is the author of numerous books, including The Truth About Uri Geller, The Faith Healers, Flim-Flam!, and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural. His lectures and television appearances have delighted - and vexed - audiences around the world.
"We may disagree with Randi on certain points, but we ignore him at our peril."
-Carl Sagan

In 1996, the James Randi Education Foundation was established to further Randi's work. Randi's long-standing challenge to psychics now stands as a $1,000,000 prize administered by the Foundation. It remains unclaimed.

Days of the Dead with Bob Curran

Bob's back! One of our favourite guests, and knowledgable chap when it comes to global folklore! In this episode, we build on our discussion in last interview by analysing ZOMBIES! Bob has a new book coming out soon entitled Zombies: A Field guide to the Walking Dead, so make sure you get your hands on that! Bob has some great tales that he picked up on his travels to research this latest book, so join us as we take a journey into the world of Zozobra's, undead-monks and more!

This weeks featured music comes in the shape of The Melvins, with the track The Kicking Machine from the album 'Nude with Boots'. You can download the track in MP3 form from the Southern Records site here.

Background music comes in the form of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros (no really!) played in Orchestra form!

We have some great guests coming up in the coming weeks so stay tuned for more Sitting Now oddness!

Conspiracy 101

WE ARE BACK! After some hefty technical problems, a brief spell of sickness and some general booking of awesome new guests...and I mean awesome, we finally return!
This week me and our returning guest/co-host Raymond Wiley chat about The culture of Conspiracy belief! We decided the subject was so large that we would wax about some of our own experiences, some key theories and funny ones to boot!

There is no music this week, mainly because we have been rushing around to much to find anything in time.

Expect a total change of format in the coming weeks! We have sorted all the techy glitches and now we are adding a new audio version of the Weird Weekly News into the show. We've done a dummy run with Claire and it sounds cool, so that will start as of episode 15 next week!

Also, keep your eyes peeled to this site for a really cool announcement of a new show featuring some of Sitting Now's staff!

Experimental Magic with Taylor Ellwood

This week we cosy-up with our new pal, occult author Taylor Ellwood, to discuss the many and varied ways to approach magic/magick/chaos Magick...arrrrgh my head is exploding!! Taylor has authored many books on the subject of new and experimental approaches to magic, as well as being a professional life-coach...though, like us, he has still yet to figure out how to make fireballs come out of his hands!

Featured music this week is a cool live recording of the amazing Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz by Mr Bungle.

Taylor Ellwood Biog:

Taylor Ellwood lives in Portland with his beautiful mate Lupa, and two cats. He’s a co-author of Creating Magickal Entities (with David Cunninghman and Amanda Wagener), and Kink Magic (with Lupa. He is the author of Pop Culture Magick, Space/Time Magic, Inner Alchemy, Multi-Media Magic and the editor of the Magick on the Edge Anthology, Manifesting Prosperity Anthology, and the Pop Culture Grimoire. When Taylor isn’t editing Non-fiction books for Immanion Press, or working on his latest work, he can be found gaming, reading, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife. For more information about Taylor, please go to The Green Wolf or visit Magical Experiments.

Getting Paranormal with EERIE Radio

This week we chat about all things paranormal with Ben, Seth, and Rob, aka DK, Fizz and The Rob-father of Eerie Radio fame. Eagle-eared listeners will have heard us blasting the promo for this great show for many weeks now. We discuss the ups and downs of paranormal investigation, Oak-Island turf-wars, Ghost Hunting and the pit-falls of the 'scene'.

Featured song this week comes in the shape of Ennio Morricone's 'The Ecstasy of Gold', from the movie 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' (not a jab at our guests this week!). Background Music from Jagga Jazzist and Don Caballero.

Blood Sucking with Bob Curran

This week we talk with historian, author and all-round great guy Dr Bob Curran about Vampires! Yes, that's right...VAMPIRES! ...sorry, got a little excited there. Bob is the author of 'Vampires: A field guide to the Creatures that Stalk the Night', so who better to talk to about my favourite mythological beasties! We discuss the many and varied Vampires myths around the globe, as well as the origins of our favourite blood suckers.

Featured song this week is a clip from 'Act II' by the awesome Sontaran Experiment, which is to be released soon, Expect chaos! Background music from Four Tet

Dr Bob Curran Biog:

Dr. Bob Curran is a native of Northern Ireland, born and raised in the Mourne
Mountains area of County Down, a region steeped in folklore and legend.
Throughout a varied life, he has worked in many fields—as a gravedigger,
professional musician, journalist, and civil servant. He is now a history teacher
and well known throughout Ireland and beyond as a writer and broadcaster. He
has written extensively, in English and several other languages, on various
aspects of history and folklore and acted as advisor to the Cultural Committee of
the Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly. He currently lives in Coleraine,
County Derry, with his wife and family.

Enjoy!

Taming Woofy with Jon Ronson

This week we chat to one of our journalistic heroes, Jon Ronson, about: conspiracy theorists, 9/11 truthers, MI5 agents becoming the son of God and just why people believe silly things. We also witness Jon attempting to train his dog Woofy, which only furthers my belief that people really don't realise how much of a pain in the ass dogs actually are!...i'm a cat person.

Joining me this week to grill our guest is our re-occuring charecter, Raymond Wiley! For those studious listeners out there (no pun intended), Raymond appeared as our guest on episodes 1 and 6, and like me, is a big jon Ronson fan!

This weeks musical Interlude come courtesy of Mothboy's 'X in his Territory', background music from Amon Tobin!..sorry we didn't mention in the ep...our mistake.

Jon Ronson Biog:

Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary film maker. His books, Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare At Goats were international bestsellers. He's also the author of two collections, Out Of The Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness. For Channel 4, Jon has made a number of films including the acclaimed five part series the Secret Rulers of the World and the multi award-winning Tottenham Ayatollah. His most recent documentaries are Reverend Death (Channel 4) and Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side (Radio 4).

Conspiracy in Hollywood with Dean Haglund

This weeks guest, Dean Haglund, is probably best known for his character ‘Langly’ from the hit Fox show The X Files. He also starred in the spin-off show ‘The Lone Gunman’ which ended in mysterious circumstances. We ask Dean about this mystery, as well as chatting to him about crazy serial killer software, medical conspiracies, being an inventor, what he knows about the new X Files movie and a slew of other cool stuff!

I am joined this week by the latest edition to the Sittingnow staff, Jacob ‘JW’ Williams as we mourn the temporary loss of Paul as well as revealing JW’s previous experience with our last guest Nick Pope!

Music this week comes in the shape of Estradaphere and their brilliant track Mekapses Yitonisa from the album Quadropus available from our friends over at Mimicry Records

You can buy one of Dean’s excellent Lone Gunmen comics, as well as a Chill Pak from deanhaglund.com

 

The Government and UFOs with Nick Pope

This weeks guest, Nick Pope, used to run the British Government's UFO project at the Ministry of Defence. Initially sceptical, his research and investigation into the UFO phenomenon and access to formerly classified government files on the subject soon convinced him that the phenomenon raised important defence and national security issues, especially when the witnesses were military pilots or where UFOs were tracked on radar. Nick also looked into other mysteries such as alien abductions, crop circles and ghosts. He now continues his research in a private capacity and is recognised as a leading authority on UFOs and the unexplained. He does extensive media work, lectures all around the world and has acted as consultant on numerous television documentaries.

Background music this week comes in the shape of Four Tet.

Featured Song this week is 'No Tech!' by Unwound

Check out Nick Pope on the web here and the National Archives UFO documents here

Counterculture with R U Sirius

This weeks guest, R U Sirius, is a cyber-culture icon and former editor of the amazing Mondo 2000 magazine. He's has written regular columns for Wired Magazine and the San Francisco Examiner. Sirius is also a fellow podcaster, with his semi-regular shows 'The R U Sirius Show' and 'The Neo Files'. He has contributed to the public discourse of emerging cyber-cultures extensively as well as authoring several books on topics like Counterculture and Revolution. We talk to RU about Counterculture, virtual reality, Timothy leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Comic Books...and Paul takes AGES to, boringly, ask a pretty simple question...*sigh*...enjoy.

Background music this week comes in the shape of Mothboy and Ennio Morricone

Featured song this week is Chop Shop by Craw

Check R U Sirius on the web here and buy back issues (trust me it's worth it!) here

Occult 101 with Raymond Wiley

In this weeks episode we go deep into the roots of the Western Esoteric Tradition with our returning guest Raymond Wiley. Raymond is the former host of the amazing Out There Radio, and has recently graduated University with a BA in History where he specialised in the scholarly study of the Western Occultism. Raymond has a wealth of knowledge in the area we are discussing today, and presents it in his usual fun and highly interesting way.

There is no me and Paul banter this week due to me having an infected tooth, which has made me not only look...but sound like The Godfather! We will be back, I hope, as normal next week with another great guest. Enjoy the show.

Music this week comes from the amazing Secret Chiefs 3 in the shape of a cover of John Carpenters 'Halloween' score. It is a live recording, and i'm unsure as to it's source, but it's great!

Magick, Crowley and The Goetia w/ Lon Milo Duquette

Our guest this week, Lon Milo DuQuette, has authored numerous magical texts including The Magick of Aleister Crowley, Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, and Gods of the New Millennium, but without question his most popular work is the story of his own life as a practicing ceremonial magician, My Life with the Spirits.

My Life with the Spirits has been optioned for a feature film and is a required text for classes at DePaul University, Chicago. He is often called upon to appear on radio and television to comment authoritatively on matters pertaining to the Western Mystery traditions and matters of the occult. He travels extensively worldwide and speaks on a broad range of esoteric topics including Qabalah and the Tarot. He is on the faculty of the OMEGA INSTITUTE in Rhinebeck, New York where he teaches ‘The Western Magical Tradition.’

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Lon has just authored a new book entitled Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and practical guide to the Magick of Dr John Dee and Edward Kelley

Background music this week comes in the shape of Plaid.

Featured song is Assassins Blade by R. D. Burman

Praise BOB, Praise Ivan Stang

This week we talk to the most holy Rev. Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius! Many topics are covered including, of course, J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, selling souls, Yeti, X-Day, Flying saucer men from planet X! and how to save YOUR soul for just $30!

We have changed the format a little bit as well; from now we'll be advertising other podcasts and playing some cool underground music, but not enough to dilute the message of the priestly and sage-like Ivan Stang!

Background music in this episode comes in the shape of John Zorn and R. D. Burman. We also play the amazing 'I'm not your friend, buddy (feat. Terrance and Phillip) by Self_X, as well as podcast ad's from Eerie Radio and Podcast Pickle!

Trey Spruance Part 02

 

We return with the second part of our interview with Trey Spruance of the Secret Chiefs 3 and ASVA. This week we discuss running Mimicry Records, Mysticism, Internet Piracy and Weird Little Boy. Massive thanks again to Trey for doing the interview!

Background songs taken from Book M and Book of Horizons.

Included songs - Secret Chiefs - Hypostasis of the Archons - Book of Horizons (Mimicry Records), Secret Chiefs 3 - Emir of the Bees - First Grand Constitution and Bylaws (Mimicry Records)

Trey Spruance Part 01

In this weeks episode we talk to amazing musician and composer Trey Spruance. Trey has been part of some of the most diverse and influential musical projects of the last 2 decades (in our opinion), including Secret Chiefs 3, Mr Bungle, ASVA, Faith No More and Faxed Head. in this, the first part of two, we talk with Trey about recording Xaphan the new Secret Chiefs 3 recording, working with John Zorn, Secret Chiefs tour plans and bieng a part of ASVA. Enjoi! Background songs taken from Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws – Secret Chiefs 3 (Mimicry Records) Included songs – Clips from Secret Chiefs 3: Xaphan – Book of Angels Volume 9 (Tzadik Records), Secret Chiefs 3: Owl in Daylight – Book of Horizons (Mimicry Records), ASVA: Kill the Dog, Tie them up, Then take the Money – Futurists Against the Ocean (Mimicry Records)

Out There Radio, GeekShow.us

 

AT LAST!! The pilot episode of RWYASN is here! In this weeks episode, I am joined by Paul Banica as we take a look at the crazy world of podcasting. First up we talk to the mighty Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall of Out There Radio, these guys are the kings of the strange in podcasting-land, and provide a really cool interview for your enjoyment! We then point our microphones to Texas and Florida for a really cool chat with John Pavlich and Scott Carrelli from Geek Show.us, and discuss the many and varied projects they are involved in, and talk about how podcasting has changed their lives.

Background music this week comes in the shape of Amon Tobin, Fourtet and John Zorn.

I hope you enjoy the show, subscribe through iTunes or whichever podcatcher floats your boat… there's a load more to come…stay ‘tuned’