Joseph Matheny's Blog, page 29
March 18, 2011
Everything on hiatus
Fear and Loathing, Hukilau and all other public projects are on hold for me for a while. I will be back with more shows and more public work with Hukilau (more on that later) but for now I am working on some stealth projects which will eventually tie into my public projects. Meanwhile, be well and try to go out side once in a while. Going outside and texting on your phone doesn't count. 
February 18, 2011
Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Antero Alli
Joseph Matheny has a virtual cup of coffee with Antero Alli and they talk about his great new film, To Dream of Falling Upwards.
Music by Dali's Car.
THE TORRID TALE…
The elder Magus of the Thelemic Temple of Horus (Arden Schaeffer) just passed away. Jack Mason (James Wagner), a promising young sex magickian cultivated to advance the lineage, loses it all when the elder Magus' biological son (Duncan Cook) unexpectedly inherits everything with plans to commercialize the Temple. Jack plots deadly revenge and falls into a dizzying maze of underworld encounters with professional psychopaths (Elijah Parizhsky, Nick Walker, Russ DeGregory), desert brujas (Nancy Leatzow, Erif Anduin), and a twist of fate he never saw coming. Meanwhile, Jack Mason's hot-headed apprentices (Jasper Patterson and Brian Livingston) offer cryptic narrative via their hilarious performances of the classic fairy tale, Jack and The Beanstalk.
February 4, 2011
Fear and Loathing: Mckenna/Bowie Break
Host Joseph Matheny stops talking for a while and just listens. He advises you do the same.
December 24, 2010
Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Wikispeaks
Joseph Matheny talks to Chris Arkenberg, Wade A. Inganamort, and Nick Pell in a roundtable discussion about Wikileaks.
Music: Rolling Stones
Listen or download here
LINKS:
http://twitter.com/swadeshine
http://twitter.com/chris23
http://nicholaspell.com/
December 10, 2010
Fear and Loathing on the Internet:Nathan Neuharth
Joseph Matheny talks to Nathan Neuharth about his new book: Confessions of a Black Magician.
Music: David Sylvian, Brilliant Trees
Listen to or download show here
Nathan Neuharth is a writer and artist. He is currently the editor of kult ov kaos magazine. He has eight years experience in the mental health field and is a former chemical dependency counselor with degrees in Liberal Arts and Human Services. Nathan has been experimenting with shamanism and ritual magick since 1989.
He has everything he should want in life. A good job. A nice home. A nice car. A beautiful wife and family. A retirement plan. An active social life. A prestigious reputation. Envious neighbors. A pet dog. There remains an emptiness inside.
In a search for meaning he begins a journey he cannot return from.
Grasping at everything he can, experiments in ritual magick lead him into the realms of sex, drugs, organized crime, aliens and angels as his life spirals further and further up and down the paths of initiation and illumination while grappling with insanity, annihilation and transformation.
LINKS
http://www.originalfalcon.com/b-confessions_black.php
http://www.originalfalcon.com/authors.php?lookup=nathan_neuharth
http://www.saintnatas.com/kok-publishing.php
November 26, 2010
Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Rodney McGlothlin
Joseph Matheny talks to Rodney McGlothlin of Extreme Vocals, also known as DJ Hare Krushna from Metal Meditation on Metal Assault Radio.
Music: Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack and Peter Murphy.
Listen to or download show here
Extreme Vocals began in Los Angeles as a place for vocalists to receive professional vocal instruction with the most modern and cutting edge vocal techniques.
Due to a growing need for specialized vocal training, Extreme Vocals was founded by Rodney McGlothlin in Los Angeles, to serve the Metal, Rock, Thrash and Hardcore vocal communities.
Also, check him out as DJ Hare Krushna, "Metal Meditation" on Metal Assult Radio.
http://extremevocals.com/
http://www.metalassaultradio.com
November 12, 2010
Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Rusty Eye
Joseph Matheny talks to the band Rusty Eye from Los Angeles. JM and the band talk about the music industry realities, on being a independent band today and possible solutions to the current music industry malaise.
Music: Mr.Cannibal by Rusty Eye, The Serial Kind- Live at the Rainbow by Rusty Eye
Download or listen to show here
Rusty Eye is a Mexican/American heavy metal band that was formed in Mexico City in 1995. In 2004 Rusty Eye relocated to Hollywood, CA.
- Mr. Rust. Bass & Vocals (1995–present)
- Miss Randall. Drums & Vocals (2002–present)
- Baron Murtland. Guitars (2006–present)
Links:
http://www.rustyeye.com/
http://www.myspace.com/rustyeye
http://twitter.com/RUSTYEYE
http://www.facebook.com/rustyeye
October 29, 2010
Fear and Loathing: D.R. Haney
Joseph Matheny talks to actor, screenwriter, novelist, and essayist, D.R. Haney about his new collection of stories, Subversia.
Music by The Gun Club.
Listen to or download show here
D. R. HANEY was born and raised in Virginia, the son of an Angus beef farmer. In his teens, he moved to New York City, where he studied acting and supported himself through the usual odd jobs, from Wall Street waiter to parcel-wrapper to telephone pitchman.
Relocating to Los Angeles to headline a film for legendary producer Roger Corman, Haney soon found himself with a second, unsought career as a screenwriter. He also began to contribute to zines and alt-weeklies, reflecting his growing participation in the underground music scene. His interest in music, coupled with the consequences of a life-altering car accident, resulted in Banned for Life, a novel about punk rock that was published in May 2009 by And/Or Press. Subversia, a collection of Haney's early essays for The Nervous Breakdown, was published by TNB Books in October 2010.
Haney continues to act on occasion, meanwhile working whenever time allows on a novel tentatively entitled A Perfect Example. Friends know him as Duke, short for Iron Duke, a nickname he acquired after the aforementioned accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Haney
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/drhaney/
http://twitter.com/subversia
October 15, 2010
Fear and Loathing: Brad Laner
Joseph Matheny talks to musician, podcaster, and blogger Brad Laner about his newest release, Natural Selections.
Bonus: Download a free track from natural selections below!
Listen to the show and free track here
Links
http://vimeo.com/13470805
http://bradlaner.tumblr.com/
http://www.myspace.com/bradlaner
From Pitchfork:
"Take a look at Brad Laner's musical career. It goes back to the early 1980s, when he was a teenager playing in bands around L.A. He played in Savage Republic, a highly influential group that anticipated a lot of ideas later explored in post-rock, his early 90s band Medicine was about as close as the U.S. got to answering My Bloody Valentine with its mix of surging noise and soft vocals, and he's done tons of other stuff, with a recorded output that amounts to appearances on around 300 albums. So he's already accomplished a lot, and that may be why, in 2007, when he finally issued his first album under his own name, it was such a casually assured-sounding work. He's earned his way to a place where he can make whatever music he wants at whatever pace he wishes.
The same holds true on Natural Selections, which Laner himself has described as "a simulacrum of what the band of my dreams sounds like." He took his time making it, laying down tracks in between his responsibilities as a father and laboring over the details– the work shows in the album's many intricately layered songs. Two central threads of Laner's long career have been juxtaposition and electronic exploration, and both are prominent compositional tools here. Laner loves to layer his voice over and over, creating big, pillowy textures out of it, which he then sets against all manner of contrasting and complementary sounds, from sharply buzzing synthesizer and crackling drums to fuzzed-out psychedelic riffs and loopy dabs of keyboard."
Read the rest of the review on Pitchfork
October 1, 2010
Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Ampersand Review and Books
Listen to or download the show here
Joseph Matheny has an informal roundtable discussion with members of Ampersand Review and Books. The participants are:
Jason Cook, cheif mucky-muck at Ampersand.
Jonathan Reynolds nom de plume for student of the Maya (Ph.D., Yale '99). Writings (under another name) in: American Dialog, Antigonish Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, California Quarterly, Texas Review, others.
Nora Offen is from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and currently attends Bard College, in New York, as a fledgling creative writing major. Her work has appeared in Lux and To The Bone Literary Journal. She would love to talk to you, and can be reached at caelicolae@gmail.com. The piece she reads on the show is featured on the website at: http://ampersand-books.com/ampersand-review/
Music by The Moonrays and Marvin Pontiac.
