Lost Xplorers

A little grumpy luminosity at the dermatologist. Some Lake Mead diving magic. Nominal Strangers and the Agents of Synchronicity. The Doppelzüngig. The sanctity of Good Shelter. Making sense with mondegreens and celebrating ghost stories. A billionaire manufactures thought contagion music with "Spanky Hanky". Seeding culture; paving paths. Crotch Level Wisdom (Romance & Lust). Famous Ghosts and...

On today's episode we're getting attention while gaining traction and forming a humble rapport between audiences in a dead age. Having 3500 years of material to sift through. Absorbing news tangentially. Nostalgic lyric-memory messages. Maintaining a harmonic congruence with reality. Being hyped on ambient anxiety. The perverse side of heroism. Surfing waves of momentum. The Raw (sacred) vs. The C...

From Kris's notes: I wonder if an analogy for what lies between the private consciousness-structuring agencies we’ve presented as the Memory Palace and the Swamp (the wilderness of All the Things Someone Doesn’t Know) can be found in the Tent Cities and Homeless Camps we see today in almost every American metropolis? -Memory as species of Hallucination. I don’t see how this position can be entirel...

Getting in tandem with psychomagnetic rapports and poignant quietudes. A bit of Freudian-Quaalude lounge music with the band HypnoLiquid Motion. Tonal give-aways. Cleopatra Denial Syndrome vs. Resonant Harems. The admission of denial and denial as admission. Being the steward of your inverted Memory Palace. Being in charge of your psychic constructs and heralding your unknown terrain. Balancing In...

This week, a review of the terrain the Lost Xplorers have crossed and the expedition ahead. Exploring the multiple angles of motifs. Hunting butterflies in strange lands. The decompositions of The Machine Elves. Taper erections. The Unspatialized vs. The Intangible. The prism of masculinity and the hidden melancholy behind behinds. The Alienated Experts. The inescapable reflection of the human sha...

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 with...

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 U...

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 commu...

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 Lang...

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 Decis...

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...

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 manip...

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 snif...

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 nud...

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, b...

Are aesthetics a kind of philosophy? What is the most important photo of all time? Kris’s birthday celebration, shoutout to Jay Springett, starting the day off right, The Miracle Morning, Gus encounters a passed-out junkie, Pat Murphy’s Points of Departure, (JDO incorrectly states that Tea with the Black Dragon won the 1984 PKD award; it was actually The Anubis Gates; TWTBD was the runner-up), Tho...

“Emblematic congruence” refers to how well a person represents the culture from which they grow. This leads to some interesting questions: is your culture strong enough to weight you with this cargo? What creates squalor in a neighborhood? Can architecture be embellished and still squalid? On this episode, we talk: UFOs when the sun goes down, 4am wake-up time, informal meditation, not waking up i...

On this episode, Kris and I develop ideas as to how to break down prepositional distance, and how to frame an approach to writing and life. What does the term “structural” even mean? What is structure? Art exhibit retrospective, coming home, spaceship homes, how much money it would take to get Kris to live in Seattle, running away from home, returning to family, moving all the time, Aphex Twin’s h...

Kris and I begin this conversation by talking about the simulation of photography, the predictive nature of it, and move into a talk about appreciation for sentence- or paragraph-level writing, and how to perhaps sell that love to lure readers in. We talk: Seattle masks, Eternal Jing, the connection between Zanesville and Altered Carbon, double binds, Bateson’s Pyramid, melody smother, goodbye cou...

On this episode, Kris and David talk about the out of control homeless problem in America. Notes: Reporting live from a closet, museums and graveyards, different kinds of benches, crow attack, holding onto losses in the past, catfish girlfriends, radical agreement, living cliches, everything wants to be found, learning how to speak extemporaneously, sore necks, giant pimps, the unsexiness of Seatt...

  On this episode, Kris and David debrief each other on Kris’s art show and David’s three-day trip to Las Vegas. Stick to the end of the show to hear David fall down a rabbit hole over where his thoughts are coming from. Dad fitness, devouring sound, Radiohead at 800% slower, art as a mode, being too real to live, plague masks, time shamans, the size of Kris’s mind, cosmic vs. astronomical, ferret...

On this episode, we talk about the nature of time, and the repeating nature of certain types of people throughout history. Other topics discussed: Taking a handsaw to branches, feeling good after exercise, to-do lists, following through on tasks, Heavy Prowl Area, hot car music, having faith in the essential strangeness of life, objects in the mirror, thought generator, JDO recounts his family tre...

Kris and I have an in-depth discussion about run-down American towns. Notes: Kris gives a recap of his installation setup, how to run a self-publishing business, where the time goes when you’re parenting, anthills, what you can measure is what you can’t measure, inscape and instress, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Thin, Gently Scorched Metal, leaving a part of yourself behind in hotel rooms, a reason for...

This begins our discussion on the introduction of photography, and how it changed the world. On this episode, we talk: Our reflections on the Lost Xplorers journey, doing what energizes you, expressions of gratitude, unknown callers, the difficulty of procrastination, beds of nails, never leaving well enough alone, Robert Loewy, one person having a huge effect, iron horses, the beginning of modern...

On this episode, Kris and David close out their architecture series. We talk: Making documentaries, three years of Lost Xplorers, almost good at podcasts after 400 episodes, beginner’s mind, areas unexplored due to ants, constructing unknown areas in the mind, defense mechanisms against derangement, a go master vs. a computer, doing everything wrong, practicing thinking together, a sea change of s...