Joseph Matheny's Blog, page 30

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

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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

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.

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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

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

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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

 

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.

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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

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!

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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

Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Ampersand Review and Books

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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.

Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Episode 1

In this inaugural episode, FaLotI host Joseph Matheny hangs out with Jack Grisham and Greg Kuehn of TSOL and The West Coast Dukes. They chat about Jack's new book, An American Demon, the West Coast Dukes and a bunch of other fun stuff.

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The Long And Winding Road

A rambling goodbye of sorts
Wow, has it been a long and winding road. Hard to believe it's been 6 years already since I was asked by Dr. Grey to join in his efforts to make Greylodge a cutting edge source for "unobtainium" on the Internet.
Since that time, we have achieved a lot and hosted a lot of traffic and downloads. I dare say we even helped to pioneer the concept of providing curated hard to find art as a public service. Read the rest over on Greylodge

Fear and Loathing on the Internet

Every two weeks, your host me brings you interviews, conversations, commentary and opinions on the world that we live in and a few that we don't.

Coming September 15th.

The GSpot is merging with Cup of TNB and changing it's name to Fear and Loathing on the Internet, beginning September 15th.

New Book Coming Out: Rebels and Devils

Rebels & Devils

The Psychology of Liberation

edited by Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D. introduced by S. Jason Black foreword by Nicholas Tharcher contributions by William S. Burroughs Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D. Timothy Leary Ph.D., Robert Anton Wilson, Austin Osman Spare, Genesis P-Orridge, Aleister Crowley, Joseph Matheny, Peter J. Carroll, Israel Regardie, Jack Parsons, Phil Hine, Osho, and many others.

The publisher has notified me that this will be out soon. I feel honored to be included in...