We continue our discussion with Mel Gordon, author of several books including the classic “Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin” and the recent release, “The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber.” This is the second of a two-part interview.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Slutgarden” by Marilyn Manson | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
The Seven Addictions & Five Professions of Anita Berber | Voluptuous Panic
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We’ve got Mel Gordon, author of several books including the classic “Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin” and the recent release, “The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber.” And Bijou Barnett reads an Anita Berber poem. This is the first of a two-part interview.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Anita Berber” by Death In Vegas | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
The Seven Addictions & Five Professions of Anita Berber | Voluptuous Panic
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Robert Greenfield, author of Timothy Leary: A Biography arm wrestles with R.U. Sirius over Leary’s legacy.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, Michael Stebbins | Featured Mashup: “Tune In Turn Out” by Psychic TV | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Timothy Leary, A Biography | The Great Judeo-Christian Sin, Outlaw, Guilt, Crime & Punishment T.V. Show by Timothy Leary
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Our guest is Michael Stebbins, author of “Sex, Drugs & DNA: Sciences Taboos Confronted. Besides droppin’ science, Stebbins — a Washington D.C. insider who used to work for Democratic Senator Harry Reid — drops some upcoming political news about Republican Senators Bill Frist and John McCain. And he joins us in our never-ending learned discourse regarding monkeys.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, Michael Stebbins | Featured Mashup: “”Say Yes to Schooly” by DJ Riko | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Sex, Drugs & DNA
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Writer and alternative realities explorer Daniel Pinchbeck joins us to talk about his new book “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl.”
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Mashup: “Rock the Monkey” by Voicedude | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl | evolver
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Co-host Diana Brown talks with Director Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World, Bad Santa) and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes (Eightball) about their fab new film, Art School Confidential.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Mashup: “Push It Slut” by Instamatic | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Thanks to Dan Wilson — Cassandra Calls Productions for production assistance.
Art School Confidential
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After magick and discordianism and neopaganism and chaos magic, what’s up with “Generation Hex?”
“Generation Hex” is a cool new Disinformation book by Jason Louv. He joined us on the phone from NYC. Contributor Chris Arkenberg joined us in the studio where he raised our spirits, if not raising spirits themselves.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Six Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, Sherry Miller, Chris Arkenberg | Featured Song: “Mr. Crowley” by Cradle of Filth | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Generation Hex | lvx.23
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Kate Braverman, the author of Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles, joined us in the studio.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song/Reading by Kate Braverman | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Kate Braverman
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Blag Dhalia of the Dwarves joined us in the studio for some hilarity and some music.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Songs: “Are You Ready For It” by The Holograms, “Demented” by The Dwarves, “Bitch I Love You” by The Dwarves | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
The Dwarves
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Our guest, Brian Flemming, announces his WAR AGAINST EASTER!!! Flemming is the director of the breakout hit documentary film, The God Who Wasn’t There, which makes the case that Jesus never lived. So RISE UP, RU Sirius Show listeners… but not from the grave.
btw, Blag Dhalia of the Dwarves helped us to conduct the interview. He’ll be our guest next week…
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, Blag Dhalia | Song: Public Image Limited v. Marilyn Manson | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Brian Flemming’s Weblog | The God Who Wasn’t There
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Hey you decadent bourgeois numbskulls… meet our Maoist friend, d’Andre Teeter! He’s here to talk about the Revolutionary Communist Party and the biography of their maximum leader, Bob Avakian.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Six Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl, Sherry Miller, d’Andre Teeter | Featured Song: “SLH” MIA vs. The Ramones | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Revolutionary Communist Party | From Ike to Mao and Beyond
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Violet Blue, writer and famed podcast host of “Open Source Sex”, joined us in the studio today for a good time.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Four Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Steve Robles, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Stairway to Bootleg Heaven” by DJ Earworm | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Violet Blue
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Author and psychedelic drug historian Michael Horowitz, and Robert Forte, editor of several books about “entheogens” join us to talk about Albert Hofmann’s 100th birthday bash and the current state of psychedelia.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Adam Weiss, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Fences” by Sync_Synthetic | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Michael Horowitz’ Flashback Books | Robert Forte
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Awesome mashup artist Party Ben joins us in the studio today. We also talk to Reverend Ivan Stang of the Church of the SubGenius about Rachel Bevilacqua, who allegedly lost child custody for participating in a SubGenius “X-Day” Event
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl, Party Ben, Sherry Miller | Featured Songs: “Novocain Rhapsody� and “Hung Up On Soul� by Party Ben | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Party Ben | Church of the SubGenius | REV. MAGDALEN NEED$ HELP
Photographer Timothy Archibald joins us and we talk about his wonderful book of photogaphs and interviews, Sex Machines. And we talk to Adam Parfrey about Extreme Islam.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Mash It Funky by James Brown” by DJ BC | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Sex Machines | Adam Parfrey’s Feral House
SF Chronicle writer and long-time hipster Neva Chonin joins us to discuss the difficulties of aging hip and Jack Boulware tells a tall tale about a hipster who collects weird stuff.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Trash” by New York Dolls | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Neva Chonin column | Jack Boulware
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V. Vale, from ReSearch Publications, talks to us about getting an interior life.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “The Panasonic Incident” by DJ Pantshead | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
ReSearch Publications
We’re joined by Charlie Anders and Annalee Newitz from Other Magazine — subtitled Pop Culture and Politics for New Outcasts. We talk about the freakiness of everybody, Rae Dawn Chong, and how gender confusion inevitably resolves into chase scenes and parades.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Five Chatterers: RU Sirius, Jeff Diehl, Charlie Anders, Annalee Newitz, Sherry Miller | Featured Song: “Rae Dawn Chong” by Stephen Lynch | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Other Magazine
Larry Harvey returns and we talk about the need for the sacred, counterculture, how rich people are OK, and his personal life.
Producer: Jeff Diehl | Host: RU Sirius | Gang of Three Chatterers: RU Sirius, Diana Brown, Jeff Diehl | Featured Song: “Sakura Michi” by Junko Yanagida | Intro & Outro: Scrappi DuChamp and Mondo Vanilli (and others)
Burning Man
