Lost Xplorers

168 - Chewing Nightfish

On today's episode we begin with an exorcism of distraction and nonsense while getting in motion with The Spheres. Then doing some down home divinity exams while learning to occupy vacancies during a deficit. From there it's on to reforming demoralized educators, going back to The Schoolhouse, and ironing out some spiritual deformities in The Educationists, Homoneurotic Honky Tonk, and moving within Subterranean Grammars.

 

Returning to The Swamp vs. Memory Palace and the notion of the music behind the meaning of language. Intimacy as a metric. Engaging with the Mysterious Meeting Grounds of Convergence. Rehaunting ourselves against the virtuality of the Soft Machine. The Gravity & Magnitude of intimacy. The Homeport and The Horizon. Being dispatched into exile. Improv with the Ancestors in the River of Bones. The execution and explorations of Sir Walter Raleigh. Mandatory heroism against mental health. Recognizing crisis. Corrosive distractions and attentive prisoners, and a few military responses to impotent individualism. 

 

David introduces us to a music based action game called "Unveil". We feel the ripples of ignorance within strange categories. Ghost categories. We're then challenged to research toward harmonic surprise. Living at The Heart and on The Edge within the thickets of curiosity. The Obese Archetypes and the inversion of intimacy. Wrapping up with a deep discussion into motifs and deja vu while Kris tries to figure out if the dream of the giant miniature golf course is a recurring nightmare or not.

167 - Swamp of the Unknown Category

Fortean verifications and odd news. Vanishing Bigfoot Hunters in the Outlands. Being energized through the counterintuitive. The Sick Passenger Dilemma. Yellow Bird Bait. The Stage vs. The Class (social bandwidth). Praising good intellect and having an assertive teaching ethic. After that The Raunchettes shock the Woke Nation in an inverted field of diluted spectra. 

 

Wading in the Swamp of the Unknown. Acres of Uncontrolled Psychic Ant Territory. Dynamic Memory Neighborhoods. Inhabiting archetypal holism. Preserving exploration, celebrating interrogation. Jungle Badlang fence hopping during a foggy night. Pursuing mysteries in Forbidden Zones. Sustained Curiosity. Retrieving a fly from the Frog Man. Developing foresight. Providing evidence without resources. Defensive Experts (Bruno's BBQ). Making things from scratch. Controversial pluralisms and infinite ignorance. The velocity of "slowing down". The Poetry of the Bog. Familiar Oddities. The musical scales of Language. 

 

JDO goes off for the challenge with "Malibu Dick", a surfer revenge style noir with a cult that controls the weather, drag queens performing the rites of Osiris, and a hollow moon. Moving on to Accessing the Big River through explicit experimentation and learning to drive "offtrack". The Gradual vs. Sudden emergence of homosapians and identifying major structural binaries. Scrutinizing "The Random" and "Spontaneous". Single Image Focus vs. Chaotic Noise Ceremonies. A premonition about Jimmy Buffett, and JDO builds a time machine in his garage.

 

Thanks to Nick Searfoss for the synopsis!

166 - Amphibious Pancake Wrestling

On this episode we begin with Peripheral People surviving a Live Event Exploration. Needing burly men to build stages. The "Missing" at Large. Unassuming students and augmented plagiarism. Deprogramming epileptic willpower. The Role of Ministers. Following the vibrational grooves. Resurging secret histories in the New Dark Age. The Serpent Jaguar Priests. Bypassing semantics with multi-media communications. Exercising Dream and Memory to change your life. Running into Ponderosa Pine lessons. Getting unstuck from the floor. Sharing an ensemble of strangeness. 

 

Then we move on to clear scenarios being the key to good communication. The Tempo of Psychic Metabolism. We go further into the Phonebooth to discuss the benefits and restrictions of fluidity and integrity. Judo Inversion Techniques. Feedback Belief Systems and Extrapolating Interiority. Leveraging the sentience of language. "The Ham Pounder Impersonators". Keeping personal records and studying your experiences. Deciphering dreams through emblem and ceremony (narrative). Pineneedle Complaints and Animal Statue Escapes. 

 

Finally, we wrap up with dream resources being occluded by the near waking experience. Early Dreaming Moments. Tuning out the Waking Chatter. Being on orange alert to incoherent frameworks of consciousness. An interrupted pitch to Robert Redford on a bustling set.

Thanks to Nick Searfoss for the summary!

 

(The picture for this episode requires a bit of explanation...it is allegedly a photo of the mythical "Loveland Frogman" peeking out of a river. It is episode-relevant.)

165 - Immutable Rhythms in the Immolated Alexandria

In this episode we talk about Satan's honor and disheartened colleagues who retreat into the dark. Trading in the general malaise of critical thinking and flexibility of mind with strict psychic discipline and defense. The LX Mission Statement: "look to the fun". Triangulating problems, personalities, and proximity. The physicality of writing and performance. Erasing introversion. The Goal of Language. How your words sound through someone else's mouth. Grammar vs. Elocution. Having the courage to share. The Personal Dynamics of making noise with each other. Then we're back to bands with some genitally mutilated screech music. 

 

Being honored by equal magic. Confusing the library for the moon. Trusting bridges you've built. Kris introduces a big idea: the Allegory of The Phonebooth. Peculiar Architecture and Occult Practicality. Photographic Morphology and Expanding Physics. Newtonian Scale vs. Quantum Time. Being aware of Street Level Tempo. Sovereign Temporality (Intention and Timing). The surprise of stillness. Enjoying the navigation and movement through Time with others. Spontaneous Shapeshifting vs. Protean Durability. "Pudding & Water". Expeditions into Metaphor & Analogy (perception and performance). The Stage of Multitudes. Reestablishing Context and Recognizing Containers. Going in the box to get out. 

 

Philanthropic Panspermia Nuclear Intervention. Melting away metonymic icebergs. Shadow puppets in Dark Ages. Consistency & Surprise. Being alert to local metaphors. Idleness vs. Laziness (Jalan-Jalan). Volcanic Fruitions. Dimensionalizing Dream Maps. Cave Drawings and Greek Drama. Image, Ceremony, and the social dilemmas of Dream Time.

164 - The Rigged Game of Humanity

What is the value of The Tunnel?

 

In this episode we talk about strange summer winds steering us back to shore. The Osborne Curriculum (always have something to do). Learning to trust what you Herd. Stage managing the depths of downtime prep. The confidence of Method (performing to standard). Wincing at flaming pedagogies. A game where you learn as you flee. Working through Decisiveness and Decision. 

 

Barbie vs. Oppenheimer (The Barbenheimer Phenomena). Having poor taste toward atrocities. Celebrated Brutality. Vibing with the Sirens. The facade of the Nuclear Dolls. Sifting through the Emblematic Rubble. The plastic significance of Mattel Omens. The Sinister Joylessness of Cartoon Idolons. The inherent hauntedness of bad cinematic magic. The intelligence of context, timing, and precise delivery. Rhetorically numb religiosity. Dignified responses to advanced weaponry (Atomic Insanity). Sacrificial rites of Destruction and Exploration. Anesthetic Luxury Curses and Idiot Compassion. The necessity for tough magic. The Jargonized Victim-Agent. The resurgence of Lost Psychologies (Do Good to Be Good). 

 

The Obsession with Potentiality in a Limited Space. Pragmatic instrumentation and the Myth of Life. The Vibrancy of a Constricted Path. The sunk cost of eternal infancy in the face of commitment. Psychopathic Poltergeists of Potential vs. The Practicality of Regret. The Linguistic Ecology Sweepstakes. Courageous Re-Evaluations. Giving yourself a well deserved reward. Erotic Lucid Escape Dreams. "Now entering Sunken City, CA" and the delusion of abiding by Dream Logic.

 

Thanks to Nick Searfoss for the summary!

163 - The Brain Condom Conundrum

Mirage = Message / Noise = Signal

 

In this episode we talk about disappointing thunderstorms and dog-men transformations. Self-righteous conundrums. Archonic Co-Option. "Becoming Animal" vs. Artificial Furry Movements. William James recording at the Lyceum of the 21st Century. Grammar Warriors. The Totemic Attraction of Evil Antlers. Instead of a band, Kris provides us with his own Roguelike game. 

 

Effective education and curiosity as the cure for ignorance. Flawed Xplanations. Conversational speech to convey information. Trusting your ear to suss out content vs. music. Strange neighbor desert aphorisms. Cultural balance between traditionalism and wokism. The Superficial Intelligence Conundrum. Image as Substance. Oblique Troubleshooting. The Compromise of Self-Knowledge vs. The Flux of Self-Exploration. Embracing the fundamental dualism of the mind for inspired living. Spooky Thinking and Quantum Magnetism. Generating prophecy. Hidden metaphysics. Impending Future Derailment Disorder. The Oklahoma-Cthulhu Connection. Sleeper Detergent. Underground Maps. Private interests vs. Public functions. Good people make good teachers. Escaping the mundanity of machine memory.

 

Unprotected homeless time travelers. Dirty Laundry Anthropology. Being frugal through routine and planning ahead. Barbecues and block parties in a Fortified Neighborhood. The complexity of sociality. Exaggerated communities in the Virtual Villages. Coded Obedience. The Elders of Dynamic Compromise. The nurtured macrocosm and the emblem of social reason. Conflict Moderator Representative. The race to wrangle the moon. Complexifying tropes for Middle America. Instilling ideas instead of implanting them. 

 

Inversion Revisited; more antonym and synonym therapy. Having fun with the morphology of language (Cave Grunts). The confrontation of the non-verbal. Associative harmonic ripples from complex holograms. Emblematic Interactions to stimulate memory. Cliched Apocrypha (Fading Mythologies). Integrated consistencies without explanation. Representing a preternaturally honest country singer. The Honesty-Anxiety Dilemma.

 

Thanks to Nick Searfoss for the description!

162 - Magnetic Textures

We have a bit of an ayahuasca purge on this episode. The past three years left a bad taste in JDO's mouth, and he articulates what exactly bothered him so much about people's response to global crisis. Next time, we get fun and positive as a palate cleanser, but this one felt necessary at the time to get all the poison out. We can move on from here.

 

In this episode, we talk:

 

What are you manipulating? What are you manipulated by?

 

We talk about High Strangeness in high temperatures. Unexpected pest control community service. Automated negligence. Survival of the Sanest. "Humanity always pokes through". Rehabilitated expectations / Integrated ethics. A sanitarium in the woods. Textured storytelling and the Emblematic. Applying principals over value judgements. 

 

Exploring the lust for facets and fixation. Augmented Backmasking Game. The Graveyard of Failed Pitches. Rejigging the Formula (trusting hidden rivers). Performative syntax. The Trafficking of Image Currency. The pathogen of self-hypnotic photography. Microlabs of Cryptogenic Time Control. Transitory masks of initiation. Mini epics of manipulation. Edward T. Hall's "Human Extensions''. Doomed mimetics (pat apocalypses). The Selfie vs. The Mask. 

 

Nightmare callback. Secular Disguises vs. Sacred Costumes. Self-less faces concealing themselves. Obscured recognition. The psychotic detritus of vintage crisis management. Beautiful psyops. All-purpose Manichaeism. The disturbance of rapid social change. Large scale ritual sacrifice (David goes to church). Pop culture survivor's guilt in Big Sur. The fungal classism of unquestioned hypocrisy. The Infallible Panel of Experts. 

 

Conspiracy Theory as Category. Pynchon's COVID novel. "Everything's going to plan". Allegorical distance. Scrappy points of view and amending opinions. Suspicious explosive change. Nonplayer Roleplayer (Collision vs. Integration). Giving attention to what's interesting. Inexplicable bafflement. The courage of curiosity as virtue. Grumpy satisfaction. RnD as practice and discipline. Hiders and Seekers (who's stepping in the river?"). All live events matter. "Nothing simple in the Doing''. The Non Agency of the Woke Junky. 

 

Recurring dream settings. Landlord Anxiety at Sting's Luxury Apartments and a schism in the Small Town soap opera.

 

Thank you to Nick Spinnett for his amazing summary.

161 - Night Vision Moments (The Superfice)

How you spend your time is how you live your life. 

 

Today we talk administrative nonsense during system collapse. Rediscovering an old cache of photos. Hometown house hunting (the seller-buyer synchronicity). Reading between the signs. Lawn care character assessments. A reverse car chase leading to a door that does not open.

 

Phantom story arcs. Anticipating "The Moment." The sacredness of sniffing out Dog Fear. Gus projects a new mom.

 

"Don't listen to the worried." Life stage segues. "The Gods only listen to the horns."

 

Dark Rave Doppler Music. Bloated tomes. Post-Ballardian speculative fiction. Bleeding for your words. Being alert to paranoid alleys. Doing good to feel good in spite of sagging optimism. The Decoder Ring of Innocence. Tiger Beat Girl Magic. Time shifts and evading madness (the fun of complexity / the utility of simplicity). The Movement towards The "Superfice."

 

The Disappearing Darkrooms. Fast forwarding evolution. Getting crude with morse code. Static Billboards and Closed Casinos. Invisible Grammars vs. Transparent Jargon. The Abomination of Abbreviations. Hungry for Vision.

 

The joys of the feeding frenzy. Vibing with the room. Ralph Eugene Meatyard revisited. Social Physics. Losing the Process along the way. Democratizing miracles. Visual Analogies for Asymmetric Chasms. Imagery interrogation. Primitive Visualization ("in the box" thinking). Symbols vs. Emblems.

 

Performance as human origin. An epistemology predicated on denial and division. Uniqueness vs. repetition (the rhythms of good living). The Eye of the Sincere Tourist. Setting up Forbidden Spaces. Reverse Education (Learning to Forget). Memory as related to Character. Category-Inference. Going where the energy is. Private internal research / personal algorithms. Don't go out with a whimper.

 

(Thanks to Nick Spinnett for the summary)

 

160 - The Thin Wire

A sequence of photographs suggests all the photographs missing from the sequence.

What does it mean when one person in a relationship takes all the photos?

When is a key not a key?

 

On this episode, we talk:

Surviving the heat, big horn sheep, snake invasion, roadrunners, Tim Powers novels, the Tarantella, the Theatre Royale of Castlemaine, the Radical Nudist Psychedelic Jug Band Band, public nudity, nude Starbucks, codpieces, Eldridge Cleaver, cognitive dissonance, the autonomous instinctive animal network within humans, mowing the lawn late at night, documenting subjectivity objectively, phantom forms, reverse pareidolia, Tom Waits, garage bands, believing in characters, the most photographed person of all time, sticking to an image, late-night TV show hosts, “real comes before important,” compulsively photographing things, the need to document, beck and call, trunks full of old photographs, intent, pictures of the moon, the end of photography as a fine art, just seeing the image, the musicality of language vs. the concrete rules of plot, holograms, simple principles, skirting around elitism, Round Table imaginative challenge, The Last Room, creating riddles, DIY instruments, translating the avant garde into pop culture, and cold tundra.

159 - Lasers on the Prairie

Laser on the Prairie

Is a life made up of a series of images? Which images do we choose? Do you begin to fade if there are no images of you?

Heat wave, 4th of July weekend recap, doing things when you want to, Dogs Per Minute, bonelessness, the word “sploot,” hauntological music, modern rock music, the Gorillaz, the confusion and sorrow of the times, men and women, leaving your keys in your car, basing your life on the best possible outcomes, Zeno of Elea, Parmenides, the slaving meat wheel, memory’s dependence on images, photographic evidence as stability, the authority of the photograph, our dependence on photographs, Kodak albums, the speeding up of time, memory as experiential molasses, James Ellroy vs. David Foster Wallace, database animals, cities as live performance theater, White Jazz, content and context, the opposite of “inhabit,” containerism, getting results without work, you can’t have a ghost without being killed, an analysis of chaos magic, Universal Studios, return to the water, pool communication, talking to a wall, checking in on rhythms, self-care, dangerous women, and practical and tactical avoidance.