The GSpot: Antero AlliJoseph Matheny in conversation with Antero Alli about all sorts of tasty subjects. Also, JM discusses the changes occurring at Alterati, et al.

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No homegrown music this week, just some blatantly ripped off Cheech and Chong.

Antero Alli was born November 11, 1952, in Finland. Alli currently resides in Berkeley, California, where he conducts workshops and stages theatrical productions, some of which have been released as films. Alli is also a professional astrologer and has authored books on experimental theatre, astrology and Timothy Leary’s 8-circuit model of consciousness.

Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antero_Alli
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0021334/
http://www.verticalpool.com/us.html

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Wow. Wrote to t. Winter Damon to see if he was close to publishing the new work he had told me about…how long ago? Wow, like a year. It’s been a busy year for sure, but I really need to slow down and smell the roses. His work email bounced, so I figured he’d been laid off, seems to be happening a lot…so I wrote his publisher and asked him to have Tim call me. I was surprised to receive an email back that he had died. This is happening far too much lately. Anyway, here’s an old GPod radio we did several years ago. I’ll miss ya man, we had some great conversations. For a taste of what Tim’s work was like, read this: To Stare Without Blinking

Show : Part 1 | Part 2 (may 15 2005)
t. Winter-Damon: Author of Duet for the Devil and The Forbidden Gospels of Man Cruel talks about the Zodiac Killer and Hannibal Lecter as a food critic.

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Joseph Matheny wraps up the myth series with some pithy comments on John  Titor, and introduces another episode of In Your Ear, kicks off the new series: A Concise Guide to Setting Yourself on Fire with Kara Rae Garland and christens the maiden voyage of Grindhouse Minute. Also: MORE METALLICA! Enjoy.

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Part two of the three part series Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Redux (Part one here)

GPod Radio host Joseph Matheny moderates a roundtable discussion on the subject of Myth on the Modern World, with guests: Wes Unruh, James Curcio, John Harrigan, Lucy Allin, P. Emerson Williams and Anna Young. (Note: When I recorded the intros to part one and two, I forgot to mention Wes as a participant in the roundtable. He is however introduced in the actual roundtable piece and is a major contributor to the conversation. My omission was simply due to being overworked with too little time. Hopefully he will not hate me for this oversight. )

Also, the first installment of In Your Ear, some tidbits about the Y project and some ranting and raging in response to the mailbag.

In part three we will introduce another regular segment to the GSpot, A Concise Guide To Setting Yourself On Fire
with Kara Rae Garland.

Part Three coming in about 2 weeks. Enjoy!

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In this first episode of a three part series, Nick Pell of  Black Sun Gazette and Grind House Land infamy turns the tables on Joseph Matheny and interviews him on his own show. They talk about 4p2, The Process Church of the Final Judegment, the John Titor Project is touched upon as well as the sad state of the LHP mileu today. Part 2 to follow in 2 weeks and part 3, 2 weeks later.

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SOME GODZ NEVER DIE

By TheeBradMiller

for The John Zewizz Appreciation Society

SLEEPCHAMBER.INFO

It’s 1997 - to the outside world the future couldn’t seem brighter for SLEEP CHAMBER… completing a successful German Tour, CD’s were now being distributed overseas and in the US by the Italian label Musica Maxima Magnetica and the German label FünfUndVierzig.  And, perhaps more promising, Cleopatra Records out of L.A had signed the band with the promise of even wider distribution.

However, things are not always what they seem…

The gods had begun to frown on John’s life a year earlier. On June 21^st of 1996 Swedish nanny Karina Holmer was found sawed in two in a dumpster down the street from John’s home.  Her torso was left in two separate bags… her lower portion has never been discovered.  Although no charges were ever brought against John, he was brought in as a suspect and questioned.  The fragile world of Sleep Chamber quickly began to splinter.

Also smoldering under the surface, out of public view, John was suffering from a 9 year hardcore addiction to Heroin.  The fabric of the band had already begun to disintegrate.  Friends of John even held a benefit concert to help him with his drug addiction in the early summer of 1997. It would be the second to last show of SLEEP CHAMBER.

Effectively SLEEP CHAMBER ceased recording in 95 just before the Nanny Murder.  A huge catalog of unreleased tracks managed to keep the band in existence by name till 2000.  A final Sleep Chamber show went down December 31, 2000.  It featured John, one musician and a dancer.

The final blow came on November 2 of 2001, when Zewizz girlfriend, and former band-mate, Laura Graff died from a Heroin overdose.  Heartbroken and addicted John went further into seclusion.

(more…)

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Joseph Matheny  interviews Nick Belardes, talking about his Twitter novel Small Places and his on-line magic  realism piece Thick White Crust.

N.L. Belardes Fact Sheet:

Bio: N.L. Belardes is a journalist, blogger and videographer. He is the editor for a Bakersfield area news site start-up called Truxtun Avenue and is the former managing editor for an ABC news affiliate where he appeared on television twice daily to talk about the Internet. His work has appeared on the homepage of CNN.com and other news sites across America. He writes several media blogs, including Noveltown’s Paperback Writer and Nick 2.0.

His debut novel “Lords” is based on media and city corruption in the late 1970s. It was published by Noveltown in 2005. The Lords of Bakersfield are perhaps an even stronger urban myth in Bakersfield because of his book. He gets strangely related tales and hate mail even to this day.

He is currently serializing what he calls a Magic Realism Non-Fiction story titled “Thick White Crust” on L.A. Times Best-Selling Author Brad Listi’s TheNervousBreakdown.com

The story weaves dreams, ghosts and 9/11 predictions along with West Coast life before and in the months after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

“Though it’s non-fiction based, the story is one of reality and dreams mixed with the horrors of 9/11 and the Mexican Day of the Dead,” Belardes said.

Belardes, who is a dual ethnic Latino added, “Dia De Los Muertos is a huge part of my life. I celebrate it every year. In a way, the book also celebrates my dual ethnicity by diving right into the death of my white mother and Mexican father. It’s like a roman candle is going off the entire time your reading. You’re not sure whether to feel burned or keep beneath the sparks of the storyline.”

Readers will get a sense of history and place by reading the chapters posted each week in what Belardes calls a Chicano story of renewal.

He also has an anti-corporate comedy fiction novel being sent out piecemeal on Twitter.com. The story is called “Small Places.”

Twitter Novel Interview on Social Media World: http://socialmediaworld.com/?p=189

More on Paperback Writer site: http://www.nlbelardes.com/blogger/2008/04/discussion-of-my-twittercom-novel-small.html

Homepage with relevant links: www.nlbelardes.com

Links cited in this podcast:

• On the Media Piece about New Border Radio
• John R. Brinkely
• Charlatan

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Joseph Matheny speaks with Greg Kuehn, who was fresh back from Warped Tour with TSOL. They talk about Greg’s life in TSOL, life as a musician and the new media landscape, and more. Music: Darker My Love (TSOL) and This Town’s Nowhere (The West Coast Dukes).

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Greg Kuehn (composer)

An accomplished composer and musician, Greg’s career began in Orange County’s early punk scene, when he left his classical piano studies at Cal State Long Beach to join punk icons T.S.O.L. Together they made the groundbreaking Beneath The Shadows album, still a highly regarded and influential work. Following his tenure in T.S.O.L., he spent several years as a recording and touring musician working with artists including Bob Dylan, The Church, Berlin and Ian Astbury of The Cult.

Greg got his start in film working on the score for cult classic Repo Man, on which he arranged music and played keyboards. Since then, Greg has scored numerous films, including Bandwagon, winner of the Maverick award at the Newport Beach Film Festival 2005, and “Born to Lose”, Doug Cawker’s loser epic on Provisional Films.  Greg’s most recent film project is the acclaimed documentary, “Confessions of a Superhero”, produced by Morgan Spurlock. He is also set to begin composing on the feature  documentary “We Were Feared” about the punk Mecca, The Cuckoo’s Nest in Costa Mesa and directed by Jonathan Mills.

Greg has scored hundreds of television commercials, and recent campaigns include DirecTV, Netflix and Mini Cooper.  His company, Peligro Music and Sound Design continues to thrive as one of Los Angeles’ most sought after boutique music houses.
As musical director for singer / actress Megan Mullally, Greg has produced two critically acclaimed cd’s: The Sweetheart Break-In, and Big As A Berry. Their band, Supreme Music Program, continues to perform nationally, and is in preparation for the recording their third album.

Greg is currently writing and producing albums for punk icons Jack Grisham (TSOL), and Duane Peters (U.S. Bombs, The Huns).

Greg’s teenage sons, Elvis and Max are members of The Diffs, a great American rock band appearing at last year’s SXSW music festival.  Their debut record on SOS records received high praise from numerous national publications, and their sophomore album will be released this year.

www.peligromusic.com
www.suprememusicprogram.com
www.myspace/thekuehnandjonesporchestra.com
www.myspace/thediffs

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