Neil Gaiman did the Sandman comics, wrote the best sellers American Gods and Anansi Boys. We were lucky enough to get him into our studio while he was on tour supporting his great new collection, Fragile Things: Short Fiction and Wonders. Oh how we talked: about his new book; about tricksters; about Alan Moore’s sudden spiritual conversion, and so much more.
Neil Gaiman is a charming fellow!
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Paul McEnery, Jeff Diehl | Featured Songs: “Apparition No. 12″ by Thea Gilmore | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Neil Gaiman | Text interview
UPDATE (10/7/2006): Switched from Variable Bit Rate to standard so that iTunes wouldn’t get grumpy and completely fuck up the file! If you had issues with it, please re-download.
We talk to Producer/Writer Steve Blush and Director Paul Rachman about their film, American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Featured Songs: “Nervous Breakdown” by Black Flag, “Red Tape” by Circle Jerks | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
American Hardcore | American Hardcore (book) | Paul Rachman
What should be the age of sexual consent? We build on our interview with Reason editor Tim Cavanaugh to discuss this… errr… touchy topic.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Erik Davis returns to discuss his phenomenal new book (with photographs by Michael Rauner), “The Visionary State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual Landscape.” Do you think that the weird cults and trippy esoteric philosophies that California is famous for all started in the sixties? Erik Davis is here to tell you otherwise.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Pharmaceutical Dreams” by Turn Me On Dead Man | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Visionary State | Erik Davis’ Writings | Visionary State Photos |
Michael Rauner Photography
In our first live panel discussion, Fred Burks and Joel Schalit join with hosts RU Sirius and Jeff Diehl to discuss whether 9/11 was “an inside job”, and the impact of the movement that insists that it was.
Burks publishes the Want To Know website and is a former foreign language interpreter who worked with Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Schalit is a Managing Editor at Tikkun.
The panel discussion took place at the Off-Market Theater in San Francisco before approximately 40 audience members (near capacity).
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Co-Hosts: Jeff Diehl, Diana Brown | Photo: Marshall Photography | Video: Hal Phillips | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others) | Sponsors: Laughing Squid, Life Enhancement Products
Special thanks to Matthew Quinn, Combined Art Form Entertainment and Lila Theatre Company at the Off-Market Theaters.
This episode of the Weekend Edition builds on a brief clip from a conversation with comedian Will Franken about living with some “burners.”
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
9/11: Considering All the Claims
The producers of The RU Sirius Show bring you 9/11: Considering All the Claims. During this rare, FREE public presentation, you will be able to examine all the issues at one event on Sunday, September 10th, 2006.
The backers of the “shadow government� camp have many issues that they believe were not addressed by the authorities in investigating the attacks; the backers of the “Bin Laden-did-it� camp have questions of their own. Both sides have accused the other of perpetrating wild conspiracy theories and hoaxes upon the public, so we thought we’d provide an open examination and critique of the major points, especially given recent polls that show 42% of Americans suspect the government had a hand in causing the destruction of the Twin Towers.
Joel Schalit, a Managing Editor for Tikkun Magazine, will be representing those who are skeptical about the “conspiracy theories.� Fred Burks, who served as a foreign language interpreter for top officials in many countries, including Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, will be representing the “pro-conspiracy� view.
RU Sirius will host the panel along with RU Sirius Show co-host Jeff Diehl.
WHAT: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Debate
WHO: The RU Sirius Show
WHERE: Off-Market Theater, 965 Mission Street (at 5th), San Francisco
WHEN: Sunday, September 10, 2PM
COST: FREE
Sponsors include Laughing Squid
“A lysergic-drenched sugarcube of sugar sweet rock magic” is how one reviewer described Turn Me On Dead Man’s first CD, “God Bless The Electric Freak.” TMODM’s drummer, Chris, and there manager, Anthony, joined us in the studio to talk about their just released second album, “Technicolour Mother.” And if you listen carefully, you can also hear our pal, Blag Dhalia, of the Dwarves piping in with a comment. He appeared and then disappeared, abruptly.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Featured Songs: “Children in the Sunburst Pyramid”, “67 Dreams”, and “La Creature D’Amour” by Turn Me On Dead Man | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Turn Me On Dead Man | Alice Cooper’s “Love It To Death”
Part 2 of the GettingIt.com reunion features Steve Robles, Patrick Hughes, Annalee Newitz and Thomas Roche. They talk about dot com junkies, speed seducers, San Francisco politics, insane editorial meetings, and oh so much more.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Cognoscenti v. Intelligentsia” by Cuban Boys | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
GettingIt.com | They Wrecked My Genitals | Steve Robles | Annalee Newitz | Thomas Roche
RU Sirius, Jeff Diehl and Steve Robles first got together in San Francisco to work on a webzine financed by a porn company in Florida. The zine was called GettingIt. We ran articles like “The Semen Warriors of New Guinea” and “They Wrecked My Genitals.” We had regular weekly columns from Lydia Lunch, Andrei Codrescu, and Robert Anton Wilson, and we had real, on-the-spot (not fake!) news coverage from the East Timor revolution and The Battle of Seattle. We covered the weird, the extreme, the erotic, and… always… the ludicrously funny. One of our reporters even tasted his own sperm and urine to bring us the story. It was heaven on earth.
In this first of a two-part program, we get together and reminisce. The members of the GettingIt staff who were interviewed for this show were Mat Honan, Andy Baio, Allyson Quibell and David Cassel. Next week, we’ll talk to Patrick Hughes, Steve Robles, Annalee Newitz and Thomas Roche
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Run to the Hills” by Anton Maiden | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
GettingIt | Mat Honan | Andy Baio | David Cassel | Semen Warriors of New Guinea | Peter Braunstein
This episode of the weekend edition builds on a conversation we had with Anarchist Ben Blue about John Zerzan. Anarchist philosopher Zerzan thinks we took a wrong turn way back when we took up agriculture.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Brilliant comedian and performer Heather Gold joined us in the studio today to talk about her upcoming “Open Source Comedy” with Mark Routhier, the dolls of American Girl, and hitting the trifecta of outsiderness.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Didn’t I Just Say That?” by Heather Gold | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Heather Gold’s Subvert | Heather Gold: Upcoming Shows
Our gang of three contemplates Virtual Reality legend Jaron Lanier’s critique of Wikipedia as “Digital Maoism.” And how does all this relate to Kurzweil’s Singularity? And when did “Mama Weer All Crazee Now” by Slade come out?
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Scott J. Thompson, who is editing an english translation of the german book, “Nazis on Speed” joins us today to talk about Hitler’s tweaker army; and about defining fascism. Thompson is also the Director of Research at the Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate and he’s also translated many classic books including “Tales of Transformation” by Goethe.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Die Eier Von Satan (The Balls of Satan)” by Tool | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
The show is now publishing twice-weekly. This episode centers around a clip from our first guest, Fred Burks, who appeared on our first and fifth shows. In our conversation, we cover Indonesia, 9-11, terrorism, psychedelics, and the coming global war between fundamentalists and libertines.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
At the end of the nineties, the legendary Joe Firmage left his post as the CEO of the highly successful USWeb and released a statement called “The Truth,” claiming that extraterrestrials have visited earth and stimulated technological development. He’s currently CEO of Digital Universe and they are creating an online encycleopedia that distinguishes itself from Wikipedia in interesting ways.
We probed him deeply… about his beliefs.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Terra Nullius” by DJ Spooky | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Joe Firmage | Digital Universe
Paul Krassner started the irreverent underground magazine, The Realist, in 1958. He’s collaborated with Lenny Bruce, started the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman, and took acid with the (Charlie) Manson girls and Groucho Marx (although not at the same time). We’ve got him on the show today.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Will Block, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Bike” by Pink Floyd | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Paul Krassner
Chicano cyberpunk performer Guillermo Gomez-Pena hypnotizes us, riffing on the inevitable multi-racial culture that politicians are trying to stop.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Dada” by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra
We go nuts for Dick (Philip K., that is) with the director of “A Scanner Darkly”: Richard Linklater. He explains the nuance of adapting the Dick vision to film and the struggle of dealing with Hollywood.
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Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Guest Co-host: Brian Malow | Featured Song: “Flash Runner” by Doppelbanger | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
A Scanner Darkly
Sheldon Norberg, author of Confessions of a Dope Dealer and “drug education” performer, joins us today.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “FEFU” by The Dwarves | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Sheldon Norberg
