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Summertime preparations for over-thinkers begin in the trunk of one's car, or while seated in a squeeky chair...as smoke rings sing love songs to the fire trucks at dawn. I choked on a counterfeit raspberry. Ach ach Liebling, ich mag alles was du machst! Our featured playlist has been curated to help ease your heat rash, and expand your third eye -including interludes by Voy Ho, Sinn Sisamout...

ep #44//...drinking your storm while tying our alphabet shoelaces gets delicious, and boy was I was thirsty…a drowsy arm reaching  -thoughts shaken into a jar. Tide-pools at the crest of the sun, exhaling ruby discs at the shallow (the chapstick in my pocket is warm). Viola puttering in the chamber: I swallowed three stars while you were on the toilet. Dnes, zitra…" Hallelujah! " cried L...

salutations dear venusians —tales ov june's arrival: an enormous everyywhere ov the first full-flame. as a clumsy world vanishes we mumble sunbeams at the daisies -neni vsechno plato, co se trpiti? fluffy snowflake-snorting (reminiscing on sally + maggie) all throughout the movie theatre. fragmented poetry by margarite stanley.  EPISODE #43 features musical interludes by karel lamač, ali hass...

—and the wintry harbinger has been eclipsed, but only softly does the equinox consume her; ad interim, ephemeral. this simultaneously entails that our programme has just turned 4 years old! join us for our latest episode, as we reminisce on hunting the ceiba speciosa, play catch-up on our german vocabulary + confess further ethnobotanical updates to our shop.  this is our special anniversary episo...

We hope you’ve enjoyed the surrender, to the end of this year!!  Mészáros, Genet & Other Sudden Fevers - A New Years Eve Special If identifying non-follicular organisms (i.e. exanthematous), Jean Genet’s burial site, shit jobs, and a box of wigs sounds like the evening you’ve been dreaming of —we’re excited you've chosen to situate yourself right alongside us.  Our episode departs from a...

Welcome to the departure of our 4th season. We hope you brought along your stethoscope. We have one hanging in the laboratory, in case you weren't prepared. ep#40//In den Wind reden (to speak to the wind) is the wind lonely? and on the seventh day petals fell in petaluma . Our latest episode also explores Lyall Watson’s essential nonfiction release, Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the W...

“Man, incontestably the most advanced creature, has only to observe the flight of birds to realize the weight of the earth’s imprisonment.” For our end of the summer episode, we feature the filmic epilogue of a brooding ornithologist via 1970 -did the butterfly evolve from the rhinoceros? Most likely, she did indeed. We also read from Errol Fuller’s Extinct Birds: The Revised Edition ; 398 pages o...

Superlative superstitions: develop variations of stellar bells/spells. Heads or tails? The termites eat away at my Latin Lexicon, as the Aleph sneezes just in time for breakfast. Did you remember to drink your nucleotides? For our latest episode we offer unpredictable & detailed reminiscing on recent (and previous) psilocybin trips, and get a little carried away with recitations of some very u...

In the dawn of the silvery day, She brings the rain. Join us for episode #37, as we read an excerpt from the written works of Bruno Schulz during a mighty deluge.  A deplorable complex...impotent bellies, traffic through the mountains, Chalong Pakdeevijit, and other stories.  Our extended rainy-day playlist features the sound works of Peter Igelhoff, Stenia Kozlowska, Red House Painters, Sopwith C...

Dear Listeners —as you contemplate the residuum from 2022, we hope your epiphanies grow wild and your nightmares stimulate movement, rather than a bothersome tremble.  ep # 36//Our latest episode for February is ready for your ears -Join us as we prepare our seed bank specimens, pulpy & thorned + How-To Ashwagandha. Oh! our greenhouse is hungry and we mustn’t make her wait too much longer. We...

For our last episode of 2022 we offer capricious articulations via obscure vocabularies, and explore a brief history of spore bearers. Has humankind reached its evolutionary plateau? And, what is a Thunder Stone exactly? Whichever way you decide to celebrate the arrival of the new year, we're excited you've chosen to situate yourself right alongside us.  Our extended playlist includes To...

Dearest Venusian - We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus, and appreciate you sticking around during our relocation! Amidst the madness of schlepping our library + other necessities over to our new spot, we managed to piece together a reading in Czech from an excerpt of Bohumil Hrabal's Mĕstečko, kde se zastavil čas , plus a conversation on memory, as well as morphogenetic memory, featured in the wr...

Tune-in for our latest episode, as we read through an excerpt of Alfred Jarry's Pataphysical works. Stay until the end as we reveal updates on some of our recent findings on wild tigers in Nepal, DPSS blunders, and more about our summer-line of medicinal tea, for those sleepless nights. We also include our usual extended playlist, featuring works by Sława Przybylska, Natasza Zylska, Venus Gan...

We wish you well + invite you to take a listen to our latest episode, SEVEN DAY FOOL - a dance mix for a restless summer indeed —available to stream or download at your very fingertips…we hope you brought along a comfortable pair of slacks and a clean pair of panties. Our extended playlist includes over two hours of music by some of our favorite artists from around the globe, such as Azizah Mohame...

Surrender to the encroaching summer + listen to our NEW EPISODE! What does Chicago-based Lithuanian artist Vyto Beleska have in common with the Belgian Avant Garde, and a lost tape of voicemails amidst day-old decaf? You'll have to listen to our latest episode to find out. For this episode we're showcasing some of our rarest tracks from the archive (as well as a few classics, of course)...

We are officially 2 years old today —we just can't believe it, and hope you'll join us for our special 30th episode, which kicks off our new season. Fabric Follies! The rings of Saturn! Allegory as a proposition in the faculty of 'seeing'? Why not? We also dive into Todorov's 'The Accidental Marvelous', reveal our top Telepathy experiments, dissect the number 30,...

Let us be your companion for the new year, as we share our latest discoveries: unusual words from the archive -and we talk a little about that dreaded thing they call, Time; years ago we based our lives on the diurnal rhythms of animal and plant life -abandoned primal sensations. Let's explore these fragile molecular organisms that make up the biochemistry of our internal clocks. We also have...

Now that we're moving into a new season, autumn whispers sweet nothings of  what's to come. And beneath the pale moonlight we'll ascend into 2022. As the end of the end of year approaches, we all tend to get a little anxious. But why not instead be curious as to what big changes will take place? Why not have an excuse to dream a little?  Our review on The Flora and Fauna of Atlantis...

There's a dreamer in each and every one of us, but even so we still have questions unanswered. Is loneliness better than surrounding oneself with assholes? And, how is courage obtained through regret? We also talk about shitty jobs + why they matter, and read a segment from Louise Lavelle's DILEMMA OF NARCISSUS , circa 1939. Includes over two hours of music from our archive, featuring Be...

Get your fill on labiodental articulations via obscure vocabularies, as well as evacuation resources for the Dixie fire, and upcoming dates for our new outdoor film screening symposium -which departs on September 19th. Grab your tickets today, as seating is limited! Episode #25 features a brief history of  Amon Düül II; underground revolutionaries; once upon a time these feral masters of Krautrock...

Had Venus been ejected from the gas body of the giant planet Jupiter? Do the curative powers of honey lie in the direction of the sun? Which plant has been recently removed from the US Fish & Wildlife Services’ endangered list? Join us for our next episode as we answer these questions, and more…like sublime honey bee strategies, and other stories from our notebooks + excerpts from Louise Riott...

Achoo! Ooo. Excuse me. The gods of summer have made themselves clear, it's gonna be hot, and it's here to stay; a sweaty sneezy splendor comes our way. Which makes me think a lot about...hot air -in a very different sorta way though. Ballooning. An aerial extravaganza that once took the world by surprise. Join me as we explore the history of a balloon of strangely eccentric shape (circa...

Summer has arrived, and we're embracing this next stage of life on earth as we know it. What will happen to the oldest cave art in Indonesia? Are we ready for the next phase of life after the pandemic? We may not have all of the answers, but we look forward to sharing our recent epiphanies & obsessions with you by our side. We revisit some of our favorite fiction off our bookshelves —such...

Dieses eine besondere folge!  Here we are, in the middle of spring  —we is vaxxed and ready for the world to swallow us back up. That’s why we got on our hands and knees to archive some of our favorite tracks by the cosmic godmother of punk, Nina Hagen, and Zambia’s infamous AMANAZ...prepare yourself to be taken hostage by two of our most adored and quintessential funk/punk influences.  Episode al...

[When] dusk throws her veil over the sun!   -your mind becomes wary of what the following day might demand of you…we hope instead of sulking you’ll join us for episode # 19, "In Pursuit of Ostensibly Confident Habits & Other Stories”  -as we sit amidst a spring storm and recite a poem about crocodile dung, and then just maybe…we reveal secret details about our upcoming guest, and catch yo...