VYS0045 | This Is Not The End Times; This Is A Rescue Mission - Vayse to Face with Bob Cluness

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12/11/24 • 113 min

VYS0045 | This Is Not The End Times; This Is A Rescue Mission - Vayse to Face with Bob Cluness - Show Notes

Even more bewildered than usual, Hine and Buckley welcome writer, researcher, academic and DJ, Bob Cluness to Vayse. Bob's areas of interest include cultural studies, aesthetics, phenomenology, film studies, the weird and the eerie. Hine and Buckley nod along and try to keep up as Bob showers them in interconnecting concepts and fascinating insights with torrential force: What is hyperstition? Who were the CCRU? How does accelerationism work? Was Chaos Magick a revolutionary movement or an emanation of the emerging neoliberal capitalist system of the time? And exactly what is Nick Land's problem... (Recorded 29 July 2024)

Thanks to Bob for patiently explaining everything and thanks to Keith for the mammoth effort in show noting this one! He deserves a follow for that alone: @peakflow.bsky.social

Bob Cluness Online

Bob’s Academia profile
Bob on Bluesky
Bob on Facebook
Bob (as Reykjavik Sex Farm) on Repeater Radio

Hine’s Intro

Slender Man - Wikipedia
Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds - BBC

Vayse to Face with Bob Cluness

From Hyperborean Darkness to Transcendental Light: On Challenging Masculinity, and the Immanence of Black Metal through the Esoteric Christianity of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix and Liturgy, by Bob Cluness - Academia
RR Spotlight Dr. Tara Smith: Warhammer 40K and Spirituality
RR Pod E28 P1 Bob Cluness - An Esoteric Menagerie: The Weird & Eerie, Slenderman, CCRU, Accelerationism, Chaos Magic(k) and Digital Technology
RR Pod E28 P2 Bob Cluness - An Esoteric Menagerie: The Weird & Eerie, Slenderman, CCRU, Accelerationism, Chaos Magic(k) and Digital Technology
Occulture - Art and Popular Culture
Ginger Snaps (2000) Trailer - YouTube
The Weird and the Eerie, by Mark Fisher - Goodreads
Mark Fisher - Wikipedia
J. G. Ballard - Wikipedia
Accelerationism - Wikipedia
Chaos magic - Wikipedia
Forward? A Short History of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit - Medium
John Constantine - Wikipedia
Hellblazer (comic book series) - Wikipedia
Discordianism - Wikipedia
The KLF - Wikipedia
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth - Wikipedia

VYS0045 | This Is Not The End Times; This Is A Rescue Mission - Vayse to Face with Bob Cluness - Show Notes

Thanks to Bob for patiently explaining everything and thanks to Keith for the mammoth effort in show noting this one! He deserves a follow for that alone: @peakflow.bsky.social

Bob Cluness Online

Bob’s Academia profile
Bob on Bluesky
Bob on Facebook
Bob (as Reykjavik Sex Farm) on Repeater Radio

Hine’s Intro

Slender Man - Wikipedia
Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds - BBC

Vayse to Face with Bob Cluness

Previous Episode

VYS0044 | For Fear of Little Men - Vayse to Face with Jo Hickey-Hall

VYS0044 | For Fear of Little Men - Vayse to Face with Jo Hickey-Hall - Show notes

They've talked of night-time scaries,
they've talked of shadow men,
but they daren't talk of fairies,
for fear of meeting them...

Bravely, valiantly, courageously, boldly confronting a topic that they have avoided delving into for the past two years, Hine and Buckley take a trip into the terrifying world of fairies with their guide, researcher podcaster and author, Jo Hickey-Hall, creator and host of the hugely successful Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast. Jo talks beautifully on the subject and the conversation flits magically around the topic on gossamer wings and a cloud of enchanted dust: what exactly are fairies? Where did the common "Tinkerbell" trope come from? Do fairy sightings herald a transitional period in the life of the observer? Are some humans part fae? Can anyone see fairies? Just how frightened should we be of the fae?... and what do Pukwudgies, puppets, pork-pie hats and the Monster Munch monsters have in common? (Recorded 11 November 2024)

Thanks to Jo for her time and patience and thanks, as always, to Keith for the show notes - give the man a follow: @peakflow.bsky.social

Jo Hickey-Hall Online

Scarlett of the Fae - Jo’s website
The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast episodes
The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast YouTube channel
The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast on Patreon
The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast on Buy Me a Coffee
The Modern Fairy Sightings Podcast on Facebook
Jo on Instagram
Jo’s email: [email protected]

Hine’s Intro

Fairy ring - Wikipedia
Preston, Lancashire - Wikipedia
Gratitude, Thanks, and Fairy Etiquette - Writing in Margins
How to Spot a Fairy: Clothes - British Fairies

Vayse to Face with Jo Hickey-Hall

Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies - 500 AD to the Present, by Simon Young and Ceri Houlbrook - Goodreads
Anima Mundi (Soul of the World) - Wikipedia
Fairy - Wikipedia
The superstitions and mysteries around Ireland's 'fairy forts' - RTE
The power of smells and bells - Catholic.com
What is Reiki? - Reiki.com
Cottingley Fairies - Wikipedia
Tinker Bell (Disney character) - Wikipedia
Fairies weren’t always cute - The Conversation
Flower Fairies website
Fairies and the Folklore Society: 1878-1945 - Folklore Thursday
Brian Froud ...

Next Episode

VYS0046 | Ding Dong Merrily On High Strangeness - Vayse to Face to Face with Stephanie Quick and AP Strange: Christmas 2024

VYS0046 | Ding Dong Merrily On High Strangeness - Vayse to Face to Face with Stephanie Quick and AP Strange: Christmas 2024 - Show Notes

Ho, ho, holy shit that's another year gone and Christmas is here again! To mark the ever-increasing speed at which the years fly past in a blur of spiralling anxiety and gathering doom, Hine and Buckley invite two of the nicest, wisest and funniest people in Weirdosphere, Stephanie Quick and AP Strange, to help them celebrate away the winter blues.

Drawing on the British tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas, Hine, Buckley, Strange and Quick (also the title of the upcoming Vayse autobiography) work their way around the cardinal points, each telling a ghost story from the place in which they were born: the North and South of England and the East Coast and West Coast of the US. There are tales of a murderous jester who stalks the corridors of a Cumbrian castle to this day; a red haired woman who haunting a pirate-built cottage in New England; a missing bride at a Christmas wedding in a very haunted stately home in Hampshire; and a revolutionary Californian abolitionist who still throws nuts from trees over 120 years after her death... and they discuss three lesser known British winter traditions: Raymond Briggs' Snowman, ignoring Thanksgiving and moaning about the weather... (recorded 8 December 2024)

Thanks to AP and Steph for preparing the stories and thanks to Keith for another year of show notes - follow the man on Blue Sky: @peakflow.bsky.social.

Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for listening!

Steph Quick online

Ghost Dog is a Mystery Box (Steph’s blog)
Steph on YouTube
Steph on Instagram
Steph on Facebook
Steph on Bluesky

AP Strange online

AP Strange's Weird Writings
The AP Strange Show podcast
AP on YouTube
AP on Instagram
AP on Bluesky

Hine’s intro

A Visit from St. Nicholas - All Poetry
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A short history of the Christmas ghost story

Yule - Wikipedia
A Christmas Carol - Wikipedia
The Pickwick Papers
The Story Of The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton (BBC Radio Drama) - Archive.org
A Ghost Story for Christmas (BBC anthology series) - Wikipedia
M.R. James - Wikipedia
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad - Wikipedia
Whistle And I'll Come To You - Dream Sequence (BBC Omnibus 1968) - YouTube