George Town Festival - Penang - Malaysia

Joe Sidek is this years George Town Festival Director in Penang, Malaysia. He's a good friend and super talented which means this years festival will have that youthful energy and optimism he brings to the arts as well as a great eye and ear for the hip and creative. If you've never been to Penang it's one of the gems of Asia to visit and I miss it just writing about it. July is a great time to visit.

Dr Karla Turner - Cattle Mutilations and Abductions

I am in the middle of transferring Dr Karla Turner's Google video presentations to my Youtube account to save them, and so this radio interview isn't either mine or the best presentation format I prefer but it is with the legendary Art Bell of Coast to Coast AM.

Karla Turner, like Cathy O'Brien are two stories I can't ignore since I learned of their horrific (and in both cases multi generational) ordeals that society would prefer to pretend didn't exist. 

It makes me angry that the government is complicit in both their accounts and I wont rest till their whistle blowing has been honoured. It's the least I can do.

As the Manics once wrote. 

If you tolerate this then your children will be next.

Terence McKenna - Tryptamines, Hallucinogens & Conciousness

Another early Terence McKenna from 1982 that I haven't heard before. New material is always a treat for me so if anybody has any please send them and I'll be happy to upload to Youtube and share with a wider world. Terence memorably says in this recording that the search for aliens through radio telescopes such as SETI is as culturally bound as looking for a good Italian restaurant elsewhere in the galaxy. 

He was ahead of this time but then he did have a hotline to the Logos so we'll share the praise on that one with the mushroom. Once again this early work is with smaller groups of listeners when being recorded and is somewhat more cerebral if that is possible.