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Thanks to everyone who was there Saturday for this last episode ( Part 3) of our multi part "Book Lunch" series on Irving Singer's beautiful and deep, "The Nature of Love". We had a great crowd and such a blast and if you missed it, enjoy it anytime here! This is the Last episode of my Series on Irving Singer's three volume book "The Nature Of Love". More on t...

Inside this episode with Mitch Hampton: When first I became interested and finally, obsessed with the 1970s it was but a few years away, in the 1980s. Had you told me that I would one day be involved with an entire show devoted to the subject I would never have know what you would have been talking about. Alex and Matt not only have a podcast where they remind is that "it is always the 70s so...

Listeners, thank you so much for joining us for our recent, annual, solo New Year's episode where your host, Mitch Hampton explored the 1973 film, "Don't Look Now" and the thoughtful work of director Nicolas Roeg . Mitch discusses the unique style of Nic Roeg's filmmaking with a focus on his 1973 "Don't Look Now". #nicolasroeg #Don 'tLookNow #marilynmonroe #...

Happy Holidays Everyone! Thanks to all who joined us last week for our special holiday concert and in case you missed it, enjoy some music of the season, from us to you! We so appreciate you all listening and subscribing! More on this very special event, here: Mitch Hampton ( your podcast host) returns on piano with his trio featuring Zack Page on the bass and Justin Watt on the drums for a specia...

“On Art, Prose and the Sea: A Conversation with James Sturz” Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton : I was introduced to the work of James Sturz through another guest, Jill Clemens of our Nadina’s Cremes episode with whom is shared a love for Hawaii as well as nature. Little did I know at the time what a standout voice in prose James Sturz is. Not only is he the author of a novel that...

On this, our second episode in a series on aesthetics, I continue using Susan Sontag as our guide - as I will in all the episodes - but discuss disparate and diverse examples from design, to fine art and from art cinema to popular t.v. and much more, plus some surprises. More on this series from your host, Mitch Hampton: In reflecting on the theme and indeed the very name of our podcast, I embark...

Enjoy Part 2 in our multi part "Book Lunch" series focused around Irving Singer's three volume work, The Nature Of Love ! We had a blast with you all and more episodes of this rich text to come soon! More on this "Book Lunch" series from your host, Mitch Hampton : New multi part “Book Lunch Series” featuring Irving Singer’s “The Nature of Love” November’s “Book Lunch”  will...

Inside this Episode with your host, Mitch Hampton: At first screen glance Laine Nooney's   The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal might be perhaps a less likely subject for an episode.  Yet, given my steadfast interest in unconventional treatments of normally conventional subject matters as well as my overall interest in the period of time encompassing the 1970s into the 80s I don&...

Enjoy our new multi part “Book Lunch Series” featuring Irving Singer’s “The Nature of Love” . Inside this new book series with your host, Mitch Hampton : November’s “Book Lunch” will be something a little different: a new three part/episode series on a single three volume work: “The Nature Of Love”, by Irving Singer. Both the books and the discussion will be a little different than most discussion...

In this initial installation of my first aesthetics series I talked about what the concept means to me, beginning with Susan Sontag's 1966 texts Against Interpretation, On Style an early, young adult experience at the 1987 Red Grooms show at the Whitney and much more. This is a new, ongoing series for us on aesthettics so stay tuned and watch this space! Please enjoy and share this stream with...

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Friday for our recent "Funky Friday at Five"!!!! We had a blast sharing 7th installment in our deep dive 70's film series focused on some interesting examples of television from the era: featuring a special with Robin Williams and John Ritter from the earliest years of HBO. Please enjoy and share this with us! More on this episode, here: On this...

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our recent livestream event. This "minisode" is a celebration of show favorite, Sanifu Al Hall's new album PROJECT 43, with a guest appearance by Hall! More on this stream and where to purchase Sanifu Hall's album, from your host, Mitch Hampton Link to purchase this beautiful album: Copies via mail order are available from us at AljoniMusiCo--jus...

"On this Book Lunch I try and do some justice to Runia's book, whose subtitle Discontinuity and Historical Mutation, gives you a fairly decent idea of his intellectual project, as well as his highly original theory of history." Extended Look: In this book lunch I will discuss one of the more original and profound works of history to come along in many years: Moved By The Past by Eelc...

“One of the most persistent and embraced phenomenons in filmmaking in our current era is the love for resisting or rebooting many older popular genre films for contemporary purposes. In this episode I was most happy to revisit painter   Alexandra Carter   and discuss a film she picked:  Luca Guadagnino's 2018 “Suspiria”   possessing the same title and some influence from the  Dario Argento   1...

Listeners, This one is extra special for us as Micheal is our very own sound designer and editor! What an honor to have him on and share his work and journey with you all! Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton: "One of the things I appreciate most about our show, and it is deliberatively by design, is how different spans of geography and culture can nevertheless contain interestin...

Near the end of the extraordinary book that is the subject of this book lunch,  The Disenchantment of the World, A Political History of Religion , the author,  Marcel Gauchet ,  says the following about aesthetics, the very topic of our podcast: "The aesthetic experience seems to me amenable to a similar analysis, insofar as it can be related to a primordial source, which in turn attests the...

Hi listeners! This is part 6 of our ongoing 1970's cinema series. More on this livestream event, here: I discuss three different films and their filmmakers: Fred Wiseman and his Welfare (1975) , Robert Kramer's Milestones (1975) , and Chick Strand's Soft Fiction (1979) . Even by the independent standards of the era, these filmmakers were most original in style, doing things on screen u...

It is exciting to speak to another musician with whom I have more in common that usual. not only are we both alumni of both Interlochen Arts Academy and New England Conservatory of Music but I find in his music a similar attraction to musical language and style.  This episode is one that I crafted out of our initial audio discussion, trying to incorporate into the episode many examples of Jim Step...

Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton I first met our guest Jill Nadine Clements through my late father, probably about thirty odd years ago. My father, Aubrey Hampton, was the founder, of course, of Aubrey Organics, a completely unique natural cosmetics company that was the first of its kind when it debuted in 1967. That business closed in January of last year after a fifty year run. Jill is lit...

If you didn't make it to our Summer concert, you can enjoy it here, as our gift of thanks to you for being a great audience!!!   Mitch Hampton at the piano, Zack Page on the big bass and Justin Watt on the drums for a concert of seasonal jazz in July #jazz   #jazzmusic   #concert   #mitchhampton #mitchhamptontrio   #livestreaming #sineadoconnor   #live   #music Link to concert on You Tube: htt...

We are so very delighted to share our first "Book Lunch" of Season 5 featuring the incandescent author, spiritual teacher and great human, Thomas Moore as we celebrate his new book, The Eloquence of Silence . It is extraordinary to me that since I first read Moore's groundbreaking Care Of The Soul way back in the golden year of 1992 . I am now going to speak with Moore face to face i...

In this fifth installment of my 70s film series I focus on the emerging interest in the decade in representing human beings outside the ,mainstream of typical Hollywood entertainment, as well as films that play with the intersection of fiction and documentary. More on this livestream featuring your podcast host and cinema scholar, Mitch Hampton, here: "1970s cinema part 5: Documenting the Und...

Inside this Episode with your host, Mitch Hampton   What is in one television show from the wayback machine of fifty years ago?  Particular as we are deluged with so much to watch today?  Well, you could say, a lot.  I guess you might also say that I have been a fan of The Rockford Files and its star James Garner for as long as I have been conscious I never thought that one television show would b...

On this episode inaugurating our Season 5 I sit at my piano - and maybe in my chair - and discuss how I compose music and use my many inspirations for projects. Sharing with you my own very intimate creative process at the keys. Link to watch and share with us, here:  https://youtu.be/PG4Ia1rBS8 More on this livestream and our Season 5 of the show: Now in our fifth season, we continue our comprehe...

It's our Season 5 kickoff! Thank each and everyone of you who have listened, shared and commented. With each episode, guest and story, we explore what it means to be human - together- by celebraign the power of creativity across all art forms. Here's to Season 5: more stories, more artists, more art forms, more livestreams, more art talks and much more! We are so grateful for all of you an...