HEY, VENUS! RADIO

IT'S OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!! And, since we cannot celebrate in person just yet, we hope you'll settle instead for an extended playlist, with over 3 hours of uninterrupted music from our archives.  Featuring tracks by Don Cherry, Marián Lapšanský, Amon Düül II, Kikagaku Moyo, Cocteau Twins, Neil Young, Tommy Guerrero, Throbbing Gristle, Eric Dolphy, The Cranberries, Lil Babs, Harold Bu...

We're delighted to share our post inauguration ramblings -join us as we dive into reflections on the first lockdown, and discuss in detail the striped cucumber beetle -a serious garden pest. We touch briefly on how-to kokedama, as well as the latest dirt on vaccine statistics. Announcements also include a list of the many radical black women who made big changes in 2020, and we reveal some un...

We welcome you to our first episode of the new year. Join us as we vent spleen on the current political climate, explore India’s phallic faiths, rummage through a Vogue sewing book from 1963, and read from A Short History of Sex Worship by H. Cutner.  Got the unemployment blues? Welcome abundance into your life. Are you eager for a new moon ritual, or interested in trying out the Tree Pose?  Sort...

For our very last episode of this very unusual year, we welcome you to surrender: to love, plant life, and discipline. Join us as we obsess with dicotyledons, and fight back against procrastination. We also explore multilingual recitations of the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and include a few audio excerpts of his translated works from the Librivox database. If you're curious about...

Whether your goal for this week is to pick an afternoon to snuggle with one of your favorite books, make love to your honey, or get back to work in the garden, HEY VENUS RADIO has your needs in mind. We give you permission to take it easy, rest your mind, and replenish the spirit. 2 become 1 only with effort. Instead of focusing on specific subject matter, for this episode we present you with an e...

What can we learn from shell-less terrestrial gastropods? Why does it take so long for rose seeds to germinate? Is solidified lynx urine truly a sacred stone? The mythologies and lore behind such precious elements have, for generations, allowed for humankind to garner access to cures for illnesses, and the aches and pains of the world around us.  For this episode we also welcome multidisciplinary...

Where is our semblance of steadiness? Who’s in your Pandemic Pod? We may not have all the answers, but we share our Obscure Vocabulary project, and revisit last weeks speech by Michelle Obama, at the DNC. Join us as we discuss ‘Monastery Goodies’ —a department in a convent of the Dominican Contemplative Tradition, which consists of Nuns who make an extraordinary pumpkin bread. We conduct readings...

For this episode we depart from sacraments of union and renewal, bad breath, readings (and recipes) from Dr. Vasant Lad's AYURVEDA: The Science of Self-Healing . A long forgotten history of moon worship, the phallus, as well as menstrual rites and myths are explored in M.Ester Harding's Woman's Mysteries: Ancient and Modern . We also include our unexpected visitation from a tiny bab...

We depart from this episode into a conversation on bad habits, routines, and also revisit a few episodes from our queer heroes, The Kids In The Hall. Perhaps these five radical Canadians have much more to teach us? To conclude this episode, we conduct a Tarot reading for the Taurus, regarding their journey during the month of July. Are you struggling to leave behind a traumatic past, my fellow Tau...

Join me for some readings on Borges, and Peter Bernhardt. Yet make way for Venus in retrograde. That's why we must make an offering...dictionary diving, home-school recollections, plant life -my savior. Take note of the unsuccessful sorting-through of a guide on alchemical traditions -is that a spider? No, it's a cricket, singing me to sleep. Lemme have a little more of this decaf. Inclu...

A riotous and charming conversation with the Iliad Bookshop’s infamous horror enthusiast — While reading up on dragonflies and biting mites, a very specific set of questions came to mind. What really happens during a séance? Should I have been a trash man? And, what does Lisa Morton have to say about it all? Join me as I welcome Lisa to read from one of her most recent projects on the macabre, whi...

Join me in a conversation during quarantine with Maggie Mackay, the Executive Director of the infamous VIDIOTS: an all-women-run cult video store which originally opened up in the mid 1980’s. Mackay shares a brief synopsis on how she first got involved with VIDIOTS founders Patty Polinger and Cathy Tauber; two women who changed the face of video stores over the past three decades. Maggie also anno...

One rainy evening I sat down out on my back patio to read some Fernando Pessoa and Baudelaire -the only two writers that I’ve gravitated toward during this time of quarantine. Suddenly my phone rings...it's my dear friend Seymour, who becomes my special guest; he reads some quotes relative to my studies for the episode (by Bataille and others), while touching on the emotional milestones which...

Join me for a phone chat with social historian and author, Sam Wasson (FOSSE, The Big Goodbye) -who speaks with us about the current pandemic, who he thinks should be our next president elect for 2020, and what he's currently reading. "This is all about emotional management now. The people have got to seize upon this opportunity..." Episode also features blatherings during my mornin...