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Journey of an Aesthete Podcast https://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com/

By Mitch Hampton

In our fifth season we continue our comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, across all art forms & how creativity connects us to what it means to be human. Through the intimate lens of the creative process of different artists, makers and creators, we deep dive into all things arts & humanities. Your host, Mitch Hampton, is a journalist, world renown pianist & composer for films who is neurodivergent. We explore the rich stories of these artists, what inspired them to become creators as we also witness Mitch's own creative journey as he connects to the world through his podcast.
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Season 5: “The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre”

Season 5: “The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre”

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“The Will Dodson Episode: Wes Craven, Horror Film & Popular Genre” Inside this Episode with Mitch Hampton “Among the many film influences upon my consciousness, the two early films of Wes Craven, Last House On The Left and The Hills Have Eyes have to be included as important. Given that I think the "auteur" theory is partly correct I followed all the pictures he made subsequently in the 1980s and 90s. Will Dodson is among those scholars and intellectuals who takes popular culture most seriously and it was a joy to talk with about some of our common interests and loves.” Will’s Bio and Links: Will Dodson is the Residential College Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA, where he teaches rhetoric, literature, film and media studies. He is the co-editor of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema and American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper. His work has been published in Film International, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, and elsewhere. His most recent essays are "'Why are You Doing This!?!' Having Flashbacks in The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2," included in ReFocus: The Films of Wes Craven (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), and "Welcome to Prime Time: Wes Craven's Television Films," included in A Critical Companion to Wes Craven (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Links to Will’s Social Media and works: https://unity.edu/faculty/dr-will-dodson/ https://twitter.com/wdodson52?lang=en https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B093BKCSVP https://www.instagram.com/wdodson52/ Links to Will’s Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Will-Dodson/author/ B093BKCSVP? isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ref=ap_rdr&is DramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true anthempress.com Link to Will’s Amazon author page https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B093BKCSVP/ allbooks? ingress=0&visitId=a9dc8a7d-5468-4ec6-8722- bf894b059594 About the author Dr. Dodson is the Ashby and Strong Residential College Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Studies at UNC Greensboro. He teaches courses on rhetoric, literature, and film, with a focus on exploitation and marginalized literature and cinema. He has published essays on Tod Browning, Jess Franco, Hugo Haas and Shirley Jackson, and various film genres in edited collections and journals including Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film International, and MONSTRUM. He is the co-editor, with David A. Cook, of The Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in Global Cinema, a book series on exploitation films and filmmakers and the various ways in which they have subsidized mainstream cinema and culture and have represented marginalized identities. He is the co-editor with Kristopher Woofter of American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper (University of Texas Press, 2021). Most recently, Dodson and Woofter recorded an audio commentary for the Kino-Lorber Blu-ray release of Tobe Hooper's "I'm Dangerous Tonight," for release in July, 2022. Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema - Series - Humanities, Literature and Arts #film #mediastudies #horror #carolclover #genre #bmovies #grindhouse #erotica #susanlucci #nevecampbell #johncarpenter #gothic #drewbarrymore #courteneycox #lindablair #leepurcell #frandrescher #tvmovie #television #wescraven #scream #davidhess #itsonlyamovie #davidarquette #kevinwilliamson #dawsonscreek #michellewilliams #jamesvanderbeek #katieholmes #joshuajackson #paulacole #1970s #1980s #1990s #nightmareonelmstreet #robertenglund #freddiekreuger #johnnydepp #ytk #2000s

Mar 21, 202401:02:36
Season 5: "All about Aesthetics Part 6"
Mar 12, 202446:41
Season 5: "Book Lunch" Hannah Arendt "A Life of the Mind" Part 2

Season 5: "Book Lunch" Hannah Arendt "A Life of the Mind" Part 2

In this, our second episode of the series on Hannah Arendt's Life Of The Mind, we dig deep into the first chapter of the first volume; Thinking. More on this ongoing series, here: Book Lunch: Series: Hannah Arendt's “The Life Of The Mind” Hannah Arendt's The Life Of The Mind is the last published work from Arendt. It is unfinished as it was to be in three volumes titled according to what were for her the three parts of all human mental activity: Thinking, Willing and Judging. We only have Thinking and Willing, finally published in 1977. Mary McCarthy, one of Arendt's closest friends (and author of the famous The Group) was the editor of this unfinished masterpiece. Accordingly, I will not only discuss Arendt'a text but the work of McCarthy as well, the meaning and significance of their friendship. (I might even discuss Nora Ephron and read from McCarthy's fiction. We shall see) I will have some help from a discussion of Margarethe von Trotta's biopic Hannah Arendt, (starring Barbara Sukowa and Janet McTeer) including judicious clips throughout the series. (One of the precious few excellent biopics in a by now overcrowded genre) This will be a series with many episodes; I will try my best to grapple with the complexity of Arendt's text and include, where appropriate. other work by her and others. Although I have been reading and studying Hannah Arendt for close to forty years, as I have changed over the decades in both my political and other views, so has my relationship with her as an author. Throughout all of this my estimation of her has never been without a great deal of love. The method I will use will be a variation of the "close reading" one in which I was trained and I have actually used to discuss practically everything I have covered on this podcast. Joan Didion was trained in this same method and she claimed it made her both a better writer as well as politically savvy even though it is primarily an aesthetic method. My interest in this series will be less in trying to evaluate Arendt in terms of whether she is ultimately "correct" or not but in terms of what it means for her to have written and thought in the way that she did. As will hopefully be clear, I see The Life Of The Mind an aesthetic work of imaginative prose that happens to be non-fiction, with the language and terminology of philosophical and theological traditions. #hannaharendtcenter #bardcollege #germany #shoah #holocaust #democracy #totalitarianism #ww2 #nyc #judaism #plato #philosophy #kant #christianity #psychology #newschool #columbia #augustine #socrates #plato #fascism #communism #marxism #politics #rogerberkowitz #samantharosehill #marymccarthy #edmundwilson #brooksbrothers #sidneylumet #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s #candicebergen #thegroup #lillianhellman #dickcavett #noraephron #janetmcteer #barbarasukowa #hansmorgenthau #newyorker #newyorktimes #margarethevontrotta #newgermancinema

Mar 05, 202401:02:60
Season 5: "All About Aesthetics Part 5" The art of album covers and more!

Season 5: "All About Aesthetics Part 5" The art of album covers and more!

Enjoy our recent livestream, "All About Aesthetics, Part 5" exploring the art of album covers and much more !

#design #commercials #advertising #television #celebrity #stardom #starpower #1970s #sculpture #popart #painting #1980s #2000s #2010s #popmusic #entertainment #recordalbum #vinyl #media #albumart 

Feb 22, 202459:58
Season 5: Bonus Content, Mitch Hampton Trio Jazz Concert!
Feb 20, 202401:58:03
Season 5: "The Marc Antony Episode", Part 2

Season 5: "The Marc Antony Episode", Part 2

"The addition of our episode with Marc Antony Mendez makes him the third guest we have had who identifies as autistic, alongside Stephanie Persephone and Eddie Abreu. Marc is a young enthusiast of menswear, a budding writer and much more, and he spoke at length on this his and mine shared interest.

One of the unique features of his episode is that he prepared answers to specific questions beforehand and, given the depth and beauty of his responses, I feel that his decision might have been the ideal one for this episode. I certainly hope you feel the same watching our episode."

Marc’s Bio ( Visit our show Facebook page for full bio.)

Marc Anthony Mendez recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an Associates degree in Human Services Mental Health. The reason why he majored in this field was because he was diagnosed at the age of 18 months with Autism. Marc was bullied for many years, but decided he would use that experience to help other people on the spectrum. Being on the Autism Spectrum has allowed Marc Anthony the ability to do public speaking, work as an advocate, and share his journey with Autism, while helping clinicians, parents. He spoke at the United Nations with delegates from Japan about an educational program named, “The District 75 Inclusion Program.” 

Marc is a public speaker, has spoken about the negative treatment some children with Autism face on an everyday basis. Marc was a keynote speaker at Scholastic Bookstore, the Hilton Hotel, Parents for Inclusive Education, Young Adults Institute for people with disabilities, the Arise Coalition, and local public schools in New York City. He enjoys acting and had the opportunity to work for Tony Danza (the actor and sitcom star). Marc is currently writing an autobiographical novel, to guide other members of the Autism Spectrum on how to adapt with Autism and to gain their own sense of empowerment. January of 2020, Marc earned a job with YAI, and was a co- facilitator helping individuals on the spectrum to live independently. He recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an associate’s degree in Human Services: Mental Health. "Despite it all, I was the most improved student and received many awards due to my progress. My mother had to fight the department of education to open a classroom thanks to the Law of “FAPE” which is, Free And Appropriate public Education. By opening those classes I was able to attend Russell Sage Jr. High School. I enjoy the self investment that I do, whether it be cooking, reading, writing, clothing combinating, discovering new neighborhoods, editing my first novel, “Autisymbiosis”. 

There have been many teachers in my life that influence me to be who I am, what I am. There is more than one influential person that empowered me, and those people are my God, my visions, both good dream and bad dream, my Mother, my Father, my Sister, my older cousin, my sister’s boyfriend, my high school paras, my high school drama teacher, my acting mentor, my college statistic’s tutor, every friend that I have ever had, my school crushes, every bully I have ever had, every rival I have ever had, and my Jr High School Inclusion teacher. I wish to personally thank you all and thank you to all advocates, special education teachers, guidance counselors, psychotherapists, and even all members of the disability and/ or learning difference community for your devotion to the better tomorrow.I want to continue to deliver hope, peace, and love. 

You! Yes, you are my humanity and the sole reason why I fight for justice and fairness for all! Therefore, It does not matter what deck of cards you have been dealt, there is always a way to win ♠.”

Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ eccentric.mendez3696 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majestic_mendez/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ecentric_Mendez

Feb 15, 202403:51
Season 5: "The Marc Antony Episode" Part 1

Season 5: "The Marc Antony Episode" Part 1

"The addition of our episode with Marc Antony Mendez makes him the third guest we have had who identifies as autistic, alongside Stephanie Persephone and Eddie Abreu. Marc is a young enthusiast of menswear, a budding writer and much more, and he spoke at length on this his and mine shared interest.

One of the unique features of his episode is that he prepared answers to specific questions beforehand and, given the depth and beauty of his responses, I feel that his decision might have been the ideal one for this episode. I certainly hope you feel the same watching our episode."

Marc’s Bio ( Visit our show Facebook page for full bio.)

Marc Anthony Mendez recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an Associates degree in Human Services Mental Health. The reason why he majored in this field was because he was diagnosed at the age of 18 months with Autism. Marc was bullied for many years, but decided he would use that experience to help other people on the spectrum. Being on the Autism Spectrum has allowed Marc Anthony the ability to do public speaking, work as an advocate, and share his journey with Autism, while helping clinicians, parents. He spoke at the United Nations with delegates from Japan about an educational program named, “The District 75 Inclusion Program.” 

Marc is a public speaker, has spoken about the negative treatment some children with Autism face on an everyday basis. Marc was a keynote speaker at Scholastic Bookstore, the Hilton Hotel, Parents for Inclusive Education, Young Adults Institute for people with disabilities, the Arise Coalition, and local public schools in New York City. He enjoys acting and had the opportunity to work for Tony Danza (the actor and sitcom star). Marc is currently writing an autobiographical novel, to guide other members of the Autism Spectrum on how to adapt with Autism and to gain their own sense of empowerment. January of 2020, Marc earned a job with YAI, and was a co- facilitator helping individuals on the spectrum to live independently. He recently graduated from Laguardia Community College with an associate’s degree in Human Services: Mental Health. "Despite it all, I was the most improved student and received many awards due to my progress. My mother had to fight the department of education to open a classroom thanks to the Law of “FAPE” which is, Free And Appropriate public Education. By opening those classes I was able to attend Russell Sage Jr. High School. I enjoy the self investment that I do, whether it be cooking, reading, writing, clothing combinating, discovering new neighborhoods, editing my first novel, “Autisymbiosis”. 

There have been many teachers in my life that influence me to be who I am, what I am. There is more than one influential person that empowered me, and those people are my God, my visions, both good dream and bad dream, my Mother, my Father, my Sister, my older cousin, my sister’s boyfriend, my high school paras, my high school drama teacher, my acting mentor, my college statistic’s tutor, every friend that I have ever had, my school crushes, every bully I have ever had, every rival I have ever had, and my Jr High School Inclusion teacher. I wish to personally thank you all and thank you to all advocates, special education teachers, guidance counselors, psychotherapists, and even all members of the disability and/ or learning difference community for your devotion to the better tomorrow.I want to continue to deliver hope, peace, and love. 

You! Yes, you are my humanity and the sole reason why I fight for justice and fairness for all! Therefore, It does not matter what deck of cards you have been dealt, there is always a way to win ♠.”

Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ eccentric.mendez3696 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majestic_mendez/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ecentric_Mendez

Feb 15, 202450:40
Season 5: Special Jane LeCroy Valentine's Pop Up Episode!

Season 5: Special Jane LeCroy Valentine's Pop Up Episode!

Listeners, enjoy a spicy Valentine’s Day pop up stream with returning guest and poetess, author, performer, Jane LeCroy!! Poetry, music and muses! You might recall Jane as a guest in our first season and here is a link to learn more about her work, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvfIRjIn-AM Inside this Episode with Mitch: “One of my dreams has always been to perform with poet and poetry teacher, improviser and performer Jane LeCroy at Carnegie Hall, or Weill Recital Hall, but until then, a special Valentine's Show will have to do. I hope you enjoy this as much as did we.”

Link's to Jane's beautiful work: :https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/contributor/jane-lecroyhttps://www.instagram.com/janelecroy/https://threeroomspress.com/authors/jane-lecroy-2/

Feb 15, 202401:10:37
Season 5: "Funky Friday at Five: "All about Aesthetics, Part 3"

Season 5: "Funky Friday at Five: "All about Aesthetics, Part 3"

In this, the third episode of our ongoing aesthetics series, I am leaving the "content" up to the spirit of this Friday, while dealing with the themes of prose, prose styles and written texts in general.

#aesthetics #SusanSontag #FunkyFridayatFive

Jan 23, 202401:20:56
Season 5: Pop Up Music and Discussion

Season 5: Pop Up Music and Discussion

I popup and talk about music matters, live composing.


#music #composing #NECA #MitchHamptonMusic #musiceducation

Jan 22, 202449:17
Season 5: "Book Lunch" Part 3 of Irving Singer's "The Nature of Love"

Season 5: "Book Lunch" Part 3 of Irving Singer's "The Nature of Love"

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 this very special series, here: Inside this new book series with your host, Mitch Hampton: “The Nature Of Love”, by Irving Singer. Both the books and the discussion will be a little different than most discussions of the subject. Singer was a brilliant philosopher and scholar of the arts and humanities and, though the subject is Love, the approach is intellectual history: rather than psychology episodes or the equivalent the aim is not to forever once and for all define what Love is or how to love but rather, how different eras have actually viewed and practiced the subject. Singer’s work is most wide ranging, including rather deep discussions of Shakespeare, Martin Luther, Plotinus, Proust and more. Instead of an episode a volume I will use a non-linear approach to help Singer’s pluralistic overview both of what commonalities humans have evidenced over many years, but, more clearly, what great differences. And above all, Singer makes artists and thinkers the main characters in his story. #mit #philosophy #romance #love #sex #religion #plato #martinluther #plotinus #shakespeare #socrates #france #proust #freud #psychoanalysis #literature #art #poetry #dhlawrence #georgebernardshaw #antiquity #democracy #monarchy #england #france #greece #christianity #judaism #buddhism #islam #feminism Wordsworth #keats #milton#BookLunch #author #TheNatureOfLove #IrvingSinger #MitchHampton#BookLunch #IrvingSinger #podcast #TheNatureOfLove #books#authorsoffacebook

Jan 22, 202457:23
Season 5: The Long Seventies Episode with Alex and Matt

Season 5: The Long Seventies Episode with Alex and Matt

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 somewhere", but most importantly it is the way they discuss their subject that make for a great podcast: they approach every topic with an attempt at full comprehension and best of all always have what I would call  a philosophic approach. 

They never condescend to their subjects and their episodes find an all too rare balance between an average person's lay curiosity and an expert's knowledge. 

You might notice that this might be the longest running times thus far of any of our episodes. 

This is simply what happens you see when the subject of the 70s comes up with any seriousness or devotion: there is simply too much there for any easy and condensed summaries. 


More about the Long Seventies:

We’re Matt & Alex

We love the 70s. We love the 70s so much that for us they last an extra six years, from about August 1968 (the DNC Convention debacle) to 1984 (Reagan’s re-election landslide). 

This is a concept called the long seventies, and we first came across it in Bruce J. Schulman’s book The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. Schulman’s book offers some compelling arguments as to why this is a coherent concept, including demographic shifts, political alienation, and the rebirth of conservatism. 

In this podcast we won’t rehash these arguments. 

We aim to look at the myriad of other events and trends, large and small, that are worth delving into and investigating, It turns out the 1970s might be the most important decade of the 20th century for coming to an understanding of our current society. 

Links to the Long Seventies Socials:

Website: https://www.thelongseventiespodcast.com/about

Twitter: https://twitter.com/longseventies

#cyramcfadden #serial #talesofthecity #armisteadmaupin  #differentstrokes #gordonjump #garycoleman #toddbridges #marytylermoore #evangelicalism #catholicism #protestantism #christianity #marincounty #california #starskyandhutch #newreligiousmovement #cult #steveallen #thelovefamily #brianallen #thefamilyinternational #childrenofgod #mosesberg #oshon #oregon #rajneesh #charlesmanson #tomo'neill #chaos #cia #fbi #sexuality #polyamory #polygamy #quentintarantino #bradpitt #margotrobbie #leonarddicaprio #1969 #1970s #fondue #disco #anarchism #occupywallstreet #adbusters #marxism #socialism #conservatism #liberalism #capitalism #haroldramis #ghostbusters #billmurray #danackroyd #normanlear #television #wernererhard #landmark #est #doriswishman #42ndstreet #grindhouse #halashby #johncassavetes #genarowlands #romanpolanski #dustinhoffman #straighttime #janefonda #cominghome #bh90210 #beverlyhills90210 #torispelling #lukeperry #aaronspelling #darrenstar #buffythevampireslayer #sarahmichellegellar  #donaldsutherland #alvinsargent #edwardbunker #davidshire #ulugrosbard #garybusey bruceschulman #newyork #vietnam #protest #daysofrage #sds #weathermen #underground #bernadinedohrn #baadermeinhof #redarmyfaction #westgermany #eastgermany #germany #berlinwall #italy #redbrigades #bobavakian #revolutionarycommunistparty #progressivelaborparty #onceuponatimeinhollywood #joandidion #thewhitealbum #slouchingtowardsbethlehem #funk #soul #r&b #jazz #punk #rock


Jan 18, 202402:20:39
Season 5: New Year's Episode discuss the unique style of Nic Roeg's filmmaking with a focus on his 1973 "Don't Look Now".
Jan 08, 202457:49
Season 5: Special Holiday Concert Featuring the Mitch Hampton Trio!
Dec 25, 202301:42:55
Season 5: “On Art, Prose and the Sea: A Conversation with James Sturz”

Season 5: “On Art, Prose and the Sea: A Conversation with James Sturz”


“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 truly merits the adjective of original, Underjungle , he hashed a long career both as a reporter and journalist as well as deep sea diver and passionate environmentalist and activist. I found his combination of a commitment to literature as an art form with his concern for the ocean in particular and the wider ecology to express best one of the things our podcast is about. More about James and his wonderful work: Website: https://jamessturz.com/ Underjungle: https://jamessturz.com/underjungle Social and book links: https://www.facebook.com/james.sturz/ https://www.instagram.com/jamessturz/ https://twitter.com/jamessturz https://www.threads.net/@jamessturz https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-sturz-a936954/ https://www.amazon.com/Underjungle-James-Sturz/dp/1951213750/ref=sr_1_3?crid=14DPU1QFPI9KJ&keywords=underjungle&qid=1698426559&sprefix=underju,aps,1473&sr=8-3 https://www.unnamedpress.com/books/book?title=Underjungle


@JamesSturz @underjunglenovel #podcast #author #environment #amwriting #MitchHampton

Dec 21, 202345:27
Season 5: "Funky Friday@5 All About Aesthetics, Ep 2"

Season 5: "Funky Friday@5 All About Aesthetics, Ep 2"


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 on a series of Funky Friday episodes delaying with the aesthetic nature of life, culture, and art. In this first installation I inaugurate the series with the work of Susan Sontag, in particular her “Against Interpretation” and “On Style” from 1964, and relate these seminal texts on aesthetics with my own personal journey with all of the arts - with some emphasis on the visual art work in this first episode. As the series I will continue with many kinds of examples of human made things, from fine art to commercial design, prose and text, performance and much more some of which may surprise your host as the viewers as we go forward. #music #painting #illustration #poetry #philosophy #religion #spirituality #dance #ballet #susansontag #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990 #romantic #classical #modern #postmodern #pop #design #history #politics #literature #television #theatre

Dec 18, 202355:51
Season 5: "Book Lunch" Irving Singer's "The Nature of Love"

Season 5: "Book Lunch" Irving Singer's "The Nature of Love"


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 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 discussions of the subject.

Singer was a brilliant philosopher and scholar of the arts and humanities and, though the subject is Love, the approach is intellectual history: rather than psychology episodes or the equivalent the aim is not to forever once and for all define what Love is or how to love but rather, how different eras have actually viewed and practiced the subject.

Singer’s work is most wide ranging, including rather deep discussions of ShakespeareMartin Luther, PlotinusProust and more.

Instead of an episode a volume I will use a non-linear approach to help Singer’s pluralistic overview both of what commonalities humans have evidenced over many years, but, more clearly, what great differences.

And above all, Singer makes artists and thinkers the main characters in his story.

#mit #philosophy #romance #love #sex #religion #plato #martinluther #plotinus #shakespeare #socrates #france #proust #freud #psychoanalysis #literature #art #poetry #dhlawrence #georgebernardshaw #antiquity #democracy #monarchy #england #france #greece #christianity #judaism #buddhism #islam #feminism Wordsworth #keats #milton #BookLunch #author #TheNatureOfLove #IrvingSinger Mitch Hampton

Dec 11, 202301:18:43
Season 5: “The Laine Nooney Episode”

Season 5: “The Laine Nooney Episode”


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't think there is a better guest for our podcast than Nooney, nor a more appropriate book than his. 

Although their work is both intellectual and social history of a kind, aesthetic issues are equally at play, both in the sense of their being an era of tech prior to the present one, as well as the creativity of individual tech people, some of whom are wonderfully portrayed by Nooney

I hope you find this episode as interesting to hear as it was for us to record.

Laine’s Bio and links to their work:

Laine Nooney is an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University, specializing in historical, cultural, and economic analysis of the video game and computer industries. Their book, The Apple II Age: How The Computer Became Personal, is out now.


Their research has been featured in popular venues such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Motherboard, and NPR, as well as academic journals such as Game StudiesThe American Journal of Play, and Journal of Visual Culture.



Recent Events + Goings on

How Computers Took Over Our Lives  @ Factually!

Listen in on this fact-and-fun-filled conversation with Adam Conover on Factually!, as we leave no stone unturned on the origins of personal computing.


THE APPLE II AGE Reviewed @ The New Yorker


Kyle Chayka explores "the story of how computers became irrevocably personal" in his coverage of THE APPLE II AGE in The New Yorker.


BOOK EXCERPT @ Motherboard


Check out an excerpt of THE APPLE II AGE @ Motherboard: "Don't Copy that Floppy": The Untold History of Apple II Software Piracy. The article tells the story of one of the earliest copy protection battles of the personal computer era.


Social Media

Laine has public accounts on Twitter [@sierra_offline], Mastodon [@LaineNooney@mastodon.social], Bluesky [@lainenooney.bsky.social], and Threads [@sierra_offline]




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Nov 16, 202301:00:52
Season 5, November "Book Lunch" : Episode 1 of a Series on Irving Singer's The Nature Of Love

Season 5, November "Book Lunch" : Episode 1 of a Series on Irving Singer's The Nature Of Love


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 discussions of the subject. Singer was a brilliant philosopher and scholar of the arts and humanities and, though the subject is Love, the approach is intellectual history: rather than psychology episodes or the equivalent the aim is not to forever once and for all define what Love is or how to love but rather, how different eras have actually viewed and practiced the subject. Singer’s work is most wide ranging, including rather deep discussions of Shakespeare, Martin Luther, Plotinus, Proust and more.

Instead of an episode a volume I will use a non-linear approach to help Singer’s pluralistic overview both of what commonalities humans have evidenced over many years, but, more clearly, what great differences. And above all, Singer makes artists and thinkers the main characters in his story. #mit #philosophy #romance #love #sex #religion #plato #martinluther #plotinus #shakespeare #socrates #france #proust #freud #psychoanalysis #literature #art #poetry #dhlawrence #georgebernardshaw #antiquity #democracy #monarchy #england #france #greece #christianity #judaism #buddhism #islam #feminism Wordsworth #keats #milton

Nov 16, 202301:08:59
Season 5: November "Funky Friday at Five, All about Aesthetics Part 1"

Season 5: November "Funky Friday at Five, All about Aesthetics Part 1"

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 us Extended episode notes, Mitch Hampton, here: "In reflecting on the theme and indeed the very name of our podcast, I embark on a series of Funky Friday episodes delaying with the aesthetic nature of life, culture, and art. In this first installation I inaugurate the series with the work of Susan Sontag, in particular her “Against Interpretation” and “On Style” from 1964, and relate these seminal texts on aesthetics with my own personal journey with all of the arts - with some emphasis on the visual art work in this first episode. As the series I will continue with many kinds of examples of human made things, from fine art to commercial design, prose and text, performance and much more some of which may surprise your host as the viewers as we go forward." #music #painting #illustration #poetry #philosophy #religion #spirituality #dance #ballet #susansontag #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990 #romantic #classical #modern #postmodern #pop #design #history #politics #literature #television #theatrelife

Nov 15, 202350:14
Season 5: Funky Friday 70s Film & Television, Part 7: “A Potpourri"!

Season 5: Funky Friday 70s Film & Television, Part 7: “A Potpourri"!

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 Funky Friday 70s Part 7: “A Potpourri", I return to my medium sized tv screen which might be the most appropriate setting thus far as I am featuring excerpts from television of the era of all kinds with a fulfillment of my earlier promise to show the John Ritter/Robin Williams improvisation from the Roxy in 1978 - made for HBO in its earliest years.”

Oct 23, 202354:43
Season 5 :Bonus Album Release Music Talk with Sanifu Al Hall about is new album, "PROJECT 43" !

Season 5 :Bonus Album Release Music Talk with Sanifu Al Hall about is new album, "PROJECT 43" !


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--just email us at aljonimusic@gmail.com ; subject "I Want My Project 43" for additional order information.


“I was so enthusiastic about Sanifu Hall's newest Project 43, most of all his decision to release it on vinyl, that I decided he should return to say hi to us if he could for a mini- episode on his wonderful album.

The music on it is very composition and diverse as well as featuring plenty of solos from some great improvisers.”

Link to purchase this beautiful album:
Copies via mail order are available from us at AljoniMusiCo--just email us at aljonimusic@gmail.com ; subject "I Want My Project 43" for additional order information.


#trombone #jazz #florida #jacksonville #music #dougcarn #henryskipperfranklin #superdiscoedits #raycharles #sanifualhalljr #jonahpierre #juancarlosrollan #stevestrawley #bryantpatterson #stevenklein #jamondium #r&b #soul #disco #ron'coz'hall #sanifualhalljr #horacetapscott #panafricanpeoplesarkestra #aljonimusicorp #cosmosdwellerz #Jacksonville #Florida #SaintAugustine #Florida


Oct 17, 202322:31
Season 5: September "Book Lunch" Eelco Runia's "Moved By The Past"

Season 5: September "Book Lunch" Eelco Runia's "Moved By The Past"

"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 Eelco Runia. In this text Runia develops a sophisticated and contrarian theory of History that argues against the prevailing conventions of narrative oriented and deterministic History that are so popular. Instead Runia says that discontinuity is more common than the cause and effect structure of continuity. All too commonly this takes the form of individuals and collective groups of people such as whole nations being willfully destructive, "burning their bridges behind them" and embarking upon the unknown just for the hell of it - without this behavior being either inevitable or necessarily "caused" by preceding history. Runia is a practicing psychologist, an historian and a novelist and accordingly, "Moved By The Past" is a deeply humanistic work. Instead of dry, statistical and mathematical graphs and proofs, he deals with arts and letters: the novels of Sebald and Tolstoy, the poetry of Wordsworth, the writing of Giambattista Vico , the nature of moments and memorialization, as well as psychological theories of selfhood and behavior. In this book lunch I hope to do justice to this unique and imaginative book. #haydenwhite #foucault #history #wordsworth #romanticism #frenchrevolution #copenhagen #townsendceunterforthehumanities #ucberkeley #revolution #iraq #democracy #psychology #trauma #goethe #schiller #tolstoy #isaiahberlin #memory #holocaust #germany #europe #EU #911 #BookLunch Mitch Hampton #eelcorunia #movedbythepast #booktalk #bookreview #bookcommentary

Oct 02, 202340:33
Season 5, August “Funky Friday at Five with painter Alexandra Carter and the 2018 film, “Suspiria”

Season 5, August “Funky Friday at Five with painter Alexandra Carter and the 2018 film, “Suspiria”


“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 1977 classic.

We could both agree that his film is a totally unique creature all of its own and, as always, I enjoyed doing the deepest dive with her.”


Links to Alexandra's beautiful works:

https://www.alexandra-carter.com/view/55405/1/0/7315772


#matriarchy #matrilineal #wicca #religion #ballet #dance #cult #witch #bodyhorror #italy #germany #socialism #redarmy #terrorism #tildaswinton #darianicolodi #darioargento #dakotajohnson #chloegracemoretz #jessicaharper #Lucaguadagnino #davidcronenberg #rabid #thebrood #oliverreed #samnthaeggar #1970s #2018 #baadermeinhof #eastgermany #westgermany #berlinwall #mercecunnungham #yvonnerainer #thomyorke #radiohead #jonnygreenwood #ptanderson #margotadler #choreography 




Sep 22, 202301:14:24
Season 5: The Michael Newton Show

Season 5: The Michael Newton Show

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 interesting commonality.

Michael Newton, the guest of this episode is a wizard or engineer par excellence the virtues of which aids our show tremendously.

Yet like my late father, he is from Indiana and I have always felt myself to be an honorary "hoosier".

Also as one of his fields of expertise is audio and sound, I found his account of the intricacies of these matters in this episode most interesting. I throughly enjoyed this episode and I do hope that our audience perhaps gains some increased interest in all matters audiophile as well.


More about Michael: 

Michael Newton was born and raised in the small Central Indiana town of Rushville. 


He attended school there until moving to Muncie to attend Ball State University, and would go on to acquire a bachelor's degree in Digital Audio Production in 2014


During college and ever since, Michael has been involved in studio recording, post production, and live sound in and around Indiana. 


Most recently Michael has been recording and producing his own podcast, Michael's Mixdown, where he discusses and breaks down recorded songs, and interviews musicians and audio professionals. 


He is also the audio editor and mixer of the Journey of and Aesthete podcast. 


Michael has also been the live sound engineer for the Gabriel Harley Band since 2018. 


In his free time, Michael enjoys video games and board games, listening to progressive rock music, and spending time with his two dogs, Skipper and Ryder.

Link to his podcast: https://anchor.fm/michaelsmixdown


#Indiana #radio #audiophile #progrock #paulharvey #1970s #1980s #1990s #breakingaway #hoosier #pauldooley #dennischristopher #rocknroll #compactdisc #burtreynolds #catherinedeneuve #bonnieriatt #ericclapton #gunsnroses #fleetwoodmac #timelife #dj #ballstateuniversity #sounddesign #muncie #avgeeks #broadcasting #narrowcasting #Q95 #bob&tomshow #television #flatscreentv #rearprojection #lcd #led 



Sep 14, 202353:37
Season 5 August "Book Lunch": Marcel Gauchet's The Disenchantment of the World, A Political History of Religion

Season 5 August "Book Lunch": Marcel Gauchet's The Disenchantment of the World, A Political History of Religion

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 Gauchetsays 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 continuing existence of a relation to the world, a relation previously the basis of religious sentiment. The capacity for emotion art the sight of things arises from a basic mode of inscription in being, which connects us with what used to be the meaning of the sacred for thousands of years."

Of course I read that passage when first I discovered this remarkable book, partly due to a now famous review of it in the New Republic by the late, great Jean Bethke Elshtain.

It is not every host of a podcast who was reading The New Republic in the 1990s - and then going out and buying an obscure text on the recommendation of one The New Republic's writers.

Of course the name Gauchet is far from the celebration and fame of the more familiar and famous writers on religion Elaine Pagels and Karen Armstrong. But I have always felt that his book is among the most important ones on the subject and, as one of the aims of our podcast is to introduce to a wide audience intellectual matters that might be more unfamiliar, I was only too happy about my conversation with Michael Behrent.


Dr. Behrent’s Bio

My recent scholarship has sought to historicize the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.

An initial set of essays evaluated the political significance of his reflections on free-market economics by situating his work in the shifting ideological landscape of France in the 1970s. My current project seeks to show how Foucault’s thought was (to a significant

degree) rooted in his upbringing in Poitiers (France) from the 1920s to the 1940s. A subsequent project seeks to reconstruct the thought of the “young Foucault” (spanning 1949 through to the mid-1960s).

I have also written on nineteenth-century French political thought (particularly the relationship between religion and republicanism), the history of liberal and democratic thought, and contemporary French political philosophy.

Finally, I write about American politics and culture for several French publications, notably Esprit.

I also write about French politics and culture for several American and British venues (such as, Dissent, Foreign Policyand Oxford University Press blog).

Links to Professor Behrent’s Work

https://www.pennpress.org/ 9781512825145/becoming- foucault/

For a more comprehensive list of his works, visit his website, here: https:// appstate.academia.edu/ MichaelBehrent

     

#democracy #humanrights #sociology #individualism #multiculturalism #identity #raymondaron #France #socialismorbarbarism   #claudelefort #corneliuscastoriadis #mauricemerleau-ponty  #may68 #anthropology #christianity #islam #judaism #buddhism #politics #gladysswain #michelfoucault #alainbadoi #marxism #capitalism #neoliberalism #postmodernism #emmanuelemacron #robespierre #globalisation #francoismiterrand #jacqueschirac #spirituality #law #constitution 



Aug 30, 202356:22
Season 5: August, Funky Friday @ 5, 70s Cinema Part 6 "Uniqueness Of Vision"

Season 5: August, Funky Friday @ 5, 70s Cinema Part 6 "Uniqueness Of Vision"

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 utterly unique in representation, tone and visual language. With possibly further surprises as well.


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Aug 28, 202301:39:02
Season 5 The James Stephenson Episode: The Life of a Composer Today

Season 5 The James Stephenson Episode: The Life of a Composer Today

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 Stephenson's prodigious production. 

As always my reasoning is many layered. 

I want to introduce Stephenson’s music to the widest possible audience of course but I also wanted to hear in his own words how he sees music, for example how deeply it is rooted in his many years as a working and professional trumpeter, and how what he composes is unafraid to connect with and touch the listener. 

Luckily for me he is a most articulate guest on where contemporary classical music is today as well as its history. 

I hope you enjoy this one as much as we enjoyed being able to take the time to get inside the music.

Links to Jim’s Beautiful Music 

Website: https://composerjim.com/composer/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/composerjim/?hl=en

Works: https://composerjim.com/works/

https://www.cedillerecords.org/artists/james-m-stephenson/

Media, Reviews : https://composerjim.com/about/media-kit/

More about Jim

Leading American orchestras, instrumentalists, and wind ensembles around the world have performed the music of Chicago based composer James M. Stephenson, both to critical acclaim and the delight of audiences. 

The Boston Herald raved about “straightforward, unabashedly beautiful sounds,” suggesting “Stephenson deserves to be heard again and again!” A formal sense of melody and tonality characterize his works, each embedded in a contemporary soundscape. These qualities, coupled with the composer’s keen ability to write to each occasion, have led to a steady stream of commissions and ongoing projects.

James M. Stephenson came late to his full-time composing career, having first earned a degree from the New England Conservatory in trumpet performance, and then going on to perform for 17 seasons in the Naples Philharmonic in Florida. The composer is largely self-taught and presents a musical voice that is truly individual. Colleagues and friends encouraged his earliest efforts and enthusiasm followed from all directions. As his catalog grew, so did his reputation. That catalog now boasts concertos and sonatas for nearly every instrument, earning him the moniker “The Concerto King” from Chicago Symphony clarinetist John Yeh.

With such prolific output, Stephenson’s music is well represented in recordings. Nearly all of his solo brass works (over 50) have been professionally recorded, and in total, his extensive catalog for all instruments can be heard on over 30 CDs.

James Stephenson is also a highly sought-after arranger and conductor, rounding out his constantly busy schedule. His arrangements have been  performed/recorded/broadcast by virtually every major orchestra in the country, including the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, New York Pops, and more.

Jim originally hails from the Greater Chicago area, as does his wife Sally. In 2007 the couple, along with their four children, returned to the region to pursue the life they now share.be heard on over 30 CDs.

James Stephenson is also a highly sought-after arranger and conductor, rounding out his constantly busy schedule.

Jim originally hails from the Greater Chicago area, as does his wife Sally. In 2007 the couple, along with their four children, returned to the region to pursue the life they now share.




Aug 17, 202347:43
Season 5: Jill Nadine of Nadina's Cremes

Season 5: Jill Nadine of Nadina's Cremes

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 literally carrying on that tradition however; her emphasis is on creams and lotions as well as her unusually fabulous designs and "packaging." It is one of the precious few businesses of its kind that upholds the ecological, health and cosmetic integrity that we started at Aubrey so very long ago. It was also great to see her on video since it has been the far too long twelve years since we have been in contact! I do hope that this episode inspires folks to purchase some of her products and I actually learned some things during it which I did not know. I certainly hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did our reunion. Links to Nadina’s Cremes:

Shop her cremes: https://nadinascremes.com/collections/all Website: https://nadinascremes.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NadinasCremes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadinas.cre... More About Nadina: For the full version, visit her website (https://nadinascremes.com/pages/about...) In Hawaii there is a term: " talking Story" (it’s not lies, it’s your Life and the wonders that have happened). After 30 years of Nadina's Cremes and 1,000's of stores that have carried Nadina's... another dream come true: of moving to Hawaii and making Nadina's Cremes both East Coast and Hawaii.

First I'd like to tell of the joy and honor of the famous people who have shared appreciation for Nadina's Cremes. Every person's Love of the product matters to me, but what fun to have the memories of these special talents. I started Nadina's Cremes while traveling in the Renaissance Faires being an apprentice Potter. After three years doing the Renaissance Faires I had the pleasure and adventure of crossing Africa with a best friend from college volunteering In The Peace Corp. We traveled all the way from West to East Africa! It was on the island of Lamu where lovely Muslim women took me into their homes to make cremes their way... I then returned home in mid 1989 with only 5 accounts, Whole Foods being the first when they had only 2 stores.... I moved into my Grandmother's kitchen end of '89 and by '92, Nadina's Cremes had become a million dollar business in over a 1,000 stores.

I kept working hard, endless shows... grateful to have the tags of the jars be an avenue to educating about how important the Rain Forest is for our planet. Through the purchase of Nadina's Cremes we donated $1,000 to different environmental organizations; one being Rain Forest Action Network. The tags would fold out in color and show the canopy, slash and burn, logging then desertification. Plus, the address for RFAN at the end, they sent a testimonial that the tags helped. A few more years go by and by luck Sarah Mac Lachlan purchased our Cremes in the special town of Captain Cook on the Big Island of Hawaii, and in 1997 calls our company asking us to join her concert and craft vendor in the outdoor venues. WOW again... Mac Lachlan to be sold with her CD's and her artwork and t-shirts at her booth... I have always cared to educate through our brochues to help our environment. #hawaii #cosmetics #herbalism #aubreyorganics #nadinascremes #rainforest #maryland #organic #natural #healthfood #Florida Paulsimon #sarahmachlachlan #ylangylang #swahili #africa #hope #nadina #peacecorps #aubreyhampton #nasa #marylandrenaissancefestival #anitaroddick #baltimore #bodyshop #breadandcircus #johnwaters #california #wholefoods #crueltyfree #texasam #cameroon #crescenthotel #dallas #carolinerosehunt #essentialoil #ireland #organic

Aug 03, 202343:31
Season 5 Bonus Content: Mitch Hampton Trio's Summer Concert
Jul 31, 202301:31:29
Season 5 "Book Lunch": Thomas Moore and his new book, "The Eloquence of Silence"

Season 5 "Book Lunch": Thomas Moore and his new book, "The Eloquence of Silence"


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 in 2023 on the occasion his newest book #TheEloquenceOfSilence.

Thomas Moore was one of our earlier guests on the show but this will be the first time for us to see one another! (link to that interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ditfProyS8)

Moore is, amazingly, 82 years of age as of our meeting, and as I savored his text.

It is organized around so many and diverse stories: Oscar Wilde's cucumber sandwiches in his celebrated play, Jesus Christ's sermons on the Kingdom, Nicholas Of Cusa's teachings on Christ, Dietrich Boenhoffer's fight against Nazism, Shunryu Suzuki's talks on Zazen, a chapter on the Heart Sutra, teachings from Sufi, and much more.

I very much look forward to seeing what he has to say on some of this.

Discussion of Emptiness and Silence is perhaps most suited to our current moment where we happen to find ourselves.


ABOUT THOMAS

Thomas Moore is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul.

He has written twenty-four other books about bringing soul to personal life and culture, deepening spirituality, humanizing medicine, finding meaningful work, imagining sexuality with soul and doing religion in a fresh way.

In his youth he was a Catholic monk and studied music composition. He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University and was a university professor for a number of years. He is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman.

In his work he brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination. He often travels and lectures, hoping to help create a more soulful society.

His family members are also deeply involved in spiritual approaches to the arts: His wife, Hari Kirin, is an accomplished painter and teaches a course she has created on Yoga and Art; his daughter Ajeet is a musician and recording artist and spiritual teacher; his stepson Abraham is an architect focusing on design related to the social aspects of building.

Thomas also writes fiction, arranges music and plays golf in New Hampshire, where he has lived for twenty years.

#sufi #Buddhism #Christianity #Islam #Jung #jameshillman #zazen #oscarwilde #heartsutra #prayer #meditation #spirituality #religion #soul #spirit #body #history #time #beginnersmind #kenosis #samuelbeckett #daimon #TheEloquenceofSilence

Jul 26, 202301:16:17
Season 5, July 2023 "Funky Friday at Five": "1970s Cinema Part 5: Documenting the Underrepresented"
Jul 24, 202301:00:10
The Two Hundred A Day Plus Expenses Rockfish Show with Eppy And Nathan

The Two Hundred A Day Plus Expenses Rockfish Show with Eppy And Nathan


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 be inspiring and meaningful enough to have its own podcast and come to think of it I never knew there would be anything like a podcast.  

One of the many things I appreciate about hosts Eppy ( Epidiah Ravachol) and Nathan’s ( Nathan D. Paoletta ) show, "Two Hundred A Day, A Rockford Files Podcast" is that they essentially do a "close reading" of the show and as audiences of my podcast might know I hold that approach above practically everything. 

They also represent two different generational takes on the show. 

I very much enjoyed this episode. 

It inaugurates the first time on our podcast we have had more than two people in a single episode I can only hope there are many more like this one in the future. 

(Note: for those not in the know Rockfish was the name Rockford Files character Gandy Finch, as played by the great Isaac Hayes, called Rockford.)


About the show
Two Hundred a Day is a podcast by Nathan D. Paoletta and Epidiah Ravachol

We are exploring the intensely weird and interesting world of the 70s TV detective show The Rockford Files

Both celebration and analysis, we break down episodes of the show and go deep into how they work as well-constructed narratives.

In each episode of Two Hundred a Day, we watch an episode, recap and review it as fans of the show, and tease out specific elements that hold lessons for writers, gamers and anyone else interested in making better stories.


Links to Two Hundred a Day Podcast

Podcast: https://twohundredaday.fireside.fm/

Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/twohundredaday/posts

Twitter: Two Hundred a Day

Epidiah Ravachol: is a game designer from New York City who wholly-owns and operates the publishing company Dig 1,000 Holes. He has been the creator of the Dread role-playing game and an Imagination Playstorm participant.

Nathan D. Paoletta: is a graphic artist, game designer and independent publisher hailing from Coupeville, WA. He publishes his own games, including the award-winning World Wide Wrestling RPG, in addition to helping other creators make their visions a reality. 

He posts pictures of his dog to instagram @ndpaoletta and obsesses over The Rockford Files on the Two Hundred a Day  Podcast. 

Find out more at ndpdesign.com.


**We are delighted to be highlighting and giving a shoutout to Gigi Garner's JGARF (James Garner Animal Rescue Fund) - we talked about it in the interview, and also it's a good associated cause! https://www.jgarf.org


Jul 13, 202301:49:21
Season 5 Kickoff with your host Mitch Hampton featuring Mitch at the piano!

Season 5 Kickoff with your host Mitch Hampton featuring Mitch at the piano!

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 comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, across all art forms, the art of living life and the humanities as well as how creativity connects us to what it means to be human. 
Through the lens of the intimate creative process of different artists, makers and creators, we deep dive into all things arts and humanities.
Your neurodivergent host, Mitch Hampton, is a journalist, world renown pianist and composer for films. 
Together we explore the rich stories of these artists, what inspired them to become artists, to create as well as Mitch's own personal journey as an artist on the autistic spectrum. We learn how his music and podcast connect him to others.
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Jul 10, 202301:03:48
Season 5 Kickoff and Thank You All!!

Season 5 Kickoff and Thank You All!!

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 and thanks for listening and watching!

Reach out anytime if you have suggestions for guests and shows!


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Jul 10, 202300:22
Season 4: June "Funky Friday at Five" : 1970s Cinema, part 4, "Free Associations & Public Spectacles"

Season 4: June "Funky Friday at Five" : 1970s Cinema, part 4, "Free Associations & Public Spectacles"


Enjoy our recent "Funky Friday at Five" which is the 4th part in a series that focuses in on the beauty of 70s cinema.

Your host, Mitch Hampton, a 70s scholar, explores how Filmmakers in the 70s seemed keen to document the wild, outrageous, garish or simply unusual aesthetics of the decade, particularly in filmed locations and public spaces. More on this special livestream film series, here:

1970s movies were inordinately interested in the sociology of America, in examining how people associated with one

another, and in contests, sports, public spectacles, political rallies and so on.


Many times this took on an outrageous or satiric tone, as filmmakers at the time were aware of the strangeness or oddity of aesthetics.

Even when the scene is ostensibly utilitarian as to introduce setting or "background", 70s pictures had lots of attitudes about daily public - and private - life.


Examples will include Mother, Jugs And Speed, Used Cars,

LookingForMrGoodbar, Semi-Tough, StayHungry, and more!

Jun 26, 202301:02:21
Season 4: June "Book Lunch" Featuring Jean Baudrillard's⁠ masterpiece , "America"

Season 4: June "Book Lunch" Featuring Jean Baudrillard's⁠ masterpiece , "America"


Notes on this "Book Lunch" from your host, Mitch Hampton:

"For this book lunch I revisit a contemporary classic - Jean Baudrillard's poetic, impressionistic, polemical book , "America" , from the early 80s.It is most interesting to reread the book now as the United States and the world is so very different than then, and yet in many ways, as his text reveals, the same.

I place Baudrillard's book in the tradition of French meditative and speculative writing like Camus, De Beauvoir, de Tocqueville, Montaigne, Montesquieu - far different in meaning and intent from the moralistic and prescriptive non-fiction writing that dominates today."


**Note on Jean Baudrillard's America: I will be using the first and original edition of the text, most notable for the photography throughout by the great Chris Richardson.

#BookLunch #America #JeanBaudrillard #author #France ##philosophy #artsandculture #humanity #podcast

Jun 20, 202332:27
Season 4, The Michel Foucault Episode - with Michael Behrent

Season 4, The Michel Foucault Episode - with Michael Behrent


Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton

One of my goals and themes in this podcast is the presentation and exposure of very difficult yet valuable and important human works of culture to a wide audience rather than assuming that their difficulty means that anybody who wants to be exposed to them doesn't have the right or ability to do so. 

My reasons for this are really twofold: firstly, that such works are good and thus very influential in human affairs, and secondly. that I was exposed to these and through hard work was able to grow evolve and improve through the experience. 

Also, I think, if I may risk overgeneralizing, that we tend to have internalized that such and such a topic is too intellectually hard, or irrelevant or, worst of all, too boring, and these prejudices only serve to make what was avoidable into the inevitable. I'd like to challenge that a bit. 

Michel Foucault is one of the most brilliant and divisive figures in Western thought. 

I was fortunate to encounter his work as a nineteen year old in the 1980s, under the supervision of some really smart people. 

Most recently, I have been reading his latest work at the end of his life, also having been produced in the 80s, the erudition of which is so vast and fascinating that, I sometimes lament both the divisiveness over his work as well as the misuse of his work for very specific and partisan goals. 

Some of these Michael and I get into in this episode even I feel we but scratched the surface.

Michael Behrent is one of the leading scholars of Foucault around today and seemed the perfect person to introduce ⁠Foucault's⁠ work to a wide audience. 

His emphasis is on the opposite end of Focualt's career form which I discussed above; the very early work, coming out of the struggles of early twentieth century French and European life. 

I also find Behrent to be a wonderful communicator and most generous in his enthusiasm for his subject. 

Although this episode is a specific one on a particular thinker I like to think it could serve as one possible model to discuss practically anything.


Professor Behrent’s Bio

My recent scholarship has sought to historicize the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. 

An initial set of essays evaluated the political significance of his reflections on free-market economics by situating his work in the shifting ideological landscape of France in the 1970s. My current project seeks to show how Foucault’s thought was (to a significant degree) rooted in his upbringing in Poitiers (France) from the 1920s to the 1940s. A subsequent project seeks to reconstruct the thought of the “young Foucault” (spanning 1949 through to the mid-1960s).

I have also written on nineteenth-century French political thought (particularly the relationship between religion and republicanism), the history of liberal and democratic thought, and contemporary French political philosophy.

Finally, I write about American politics and culture for several French publications, notably Esprit. 

I also write about French politics and culture for several American and British venues (such as, ⁠Dissent⁠, Foreign Policy⁠, and Oxford University Press blog⁠).

Links to Professor Behrent’s Work 

https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825145/becoming-foucault/

For a more comprehensive list of his works, visit his website, here: https://appstate.academia.edu/MichaelBehrent

Links to Michele Foucault's talks at Berkeley, here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkRjp29sQbKZsyhzgWrh5j--2BUlMNynh


Jun 15, 202301:16:45
Season 4: May "Book Lunch" “Technopoly” by Neil Postman

Season 4: May "Book Lunch" “Technopoly” by Neil Postman


Thanks to all who joined us for our recent Book Lunch" livestream featuring a book from 1992 by the late Neil Postman called “Technopoly”. We loved your insightful thoughts and questions.


I took the deep dive into one of the last great polemical works on culture and technology - Neil Postman's Technopoly. I situate Postman as one of the greatest examples of New York Jewish intellectual life of the twentieth century more generally, as well as possessing totally unique perspective on what technology can and can't do in particular.


More on this recent livestream event, here:

This “Book Lunch” will feature a book from 1992 by the late Neil Postman called “Technopoly”.

At once a humanities and liberal arts based and informed historical survey of attitudes towards technology in the United States as well as a cultural polemic, rereading it in our current moment makes it is some ways a book that could have been written his

very month even - as its examples are incredibly "dated" in a technical sense.

I will do the deep dive into Technopoly, the title word being Postman's neologism for a new kind of totalitarianism, one where machines rather than we humans would be in charge.

I situate the author's attitudes and perspectives within the context of the legacy of Marshall McLuhan in particular and the liberal arts
and humanities in general, the latter being in many respects the foundation of our very podcast.



#booklunch #techopoly #NeilPostman #author #amwriting #mitchhampton #podcasts

May 31, 202351:18
 The Sam Wasson Show

The Sam Wasson Show


Inside this Episode with host, Mitch Hampton

When it comes to nonfiction prose, surely the work and accomplishments of biographers and cultural and social historians might be at the forefront of meaningful documents of a given society.

When you being to consider what is involved in narrating the life story of a well known and public figure in the arts it becomes clear that this too is an art in itself.

The guest of this episode, Sam Wasson is one of the leading figures in such writing, not only is he a comprehensive and indefatigable chronicler of the history of Hollywood cinema, he is most unusual in his ability to understand equally both the classical Hollywood of the 1920s through the fifties as well as the New Hollywood of the 1960s and 70s.

Wasson is also a consummate journalist who has been able to speak with many of the most important figures and players in both periods and has been crafting surveys of the periods and their creators.

Interestingly I first became familiar with Wasson for his biography of Bob Fosse, only later reading his work on Hollywood.

I see Wasson as somebody on whom future academic historians and fans alike will rely to get a real feelings for the qualities of popular art over the past sixty odd years.

Sam Wasson's Bio

L.A. native Sam Wasson studied Film at Wesleyan University and at the USC School of Cinematic Arts before publishing his first book, A Splurch in the Kisser: The Movies of Blake Edwards, “the critical resurrection of Blake Edwards" (Andrew Sarris). The subsequent publication of Paul on Mazursky, Wasson’s book of conversations with the legendary writer-director of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, occasioned Quentin Tarantino to declare Mazursky "one of the great writer-directors of cinema.”

Published in 2010, Wasson's Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman became a New York and Los Angeles Times Best Seller and a New York Times and Publishers' Weekly best book of the year. Winner of the Cinémathèque française’s Meilleur livre étranger sur le cinéma, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. has been translated into over a dozen languages and was named by Entertainment Weekly one of the best pop-culture books of all time. 

For his full bio visit:https://www.samwasson.com/about

Links to Mr. Wasson’s works: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Sam-Wasson/s? rh=n:283155,p_27:Sam+Wasson

May 18, 202301:02:55
Season 4: May "Funky Friday at Five" Part 4 of our 70s Cinema Series, "Getting in Touch with your Feelings"

Season 4: May "Funky Friday at Five" Part 4 of our 70s Cinema Series, "Getting in Touch with your Feelings"

In this the third part of an ongoing 70s cinema series I discuss the treatment of emotions -from detached humor, to intimate domesticity.


More on this Funky Friday, Here:

Seventies cinema is, above all else, about the undiluted, raw and immediate expression of human feelings in all of their authenticity.

The emotions I have in mind are not only those of the characters in the films but the attitudes too of the filmmakers.

The films see this expression as far more important than any solution or conclusion about what to do with any of these feelings.

This feature of 70s cinema is not for everybody, of course, but gives them their distinctiveness, across differences of genres and budgets.

Interestingly, humor and comedy is one of the ways they accomplish this - in addition to unsparing episodes of intense melodrama.

Rather than seeing these two modes as mere opposites I will show how they interact with one another, through the powers given to actors and radical tonal shifts within given films and, most unusually inside of single scenes.

Examples I discuss include Taxi Driver, A Woman Under The Influence, Nashville, Between The Lines , The Conversation and more to be announced.

 

#1970s #cassavetes #boston #cinema #francisfordcoppola #lindsaycrouse #jeffgoldblum #jilleikenberry #mariluhenner #gwenwelles #johnheard #scorsese #robertdeniro #paulschrader #genehackman #allengarfield #genarowlands #peterfalk #joanmicklinsilver #robertaltman #michaelmurphy #nyc #johncazale 

May 16, 202301:23:40
Season 4: April "Book Lunch" Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me By The Fountain"

Season 4: April "Book Lunch" Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me By The Fountain"

Inside this special livestream with your host, Mitch Hampton, here:

Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me At The Fountain", the first major book on the history of the mall a phenomenon that had an outsized influence for the past sixty years and, a Lange, makes clear in her book is often misunderstood and a force for as much positive as negative.

Lange's advantages as a writer are that she wears both the hats of a cultural or social historian and in her professional life is a design critic so she is equally as knowledgeable about aesthetics in the history of design and architecture.

I learned more from reading this book than I ever thought possible and will share Lange's prose and ideas with the audience, including some additional discussion of such classics as Robert Venturi's "Learning From Las Vegas"Martha Coolidge's movie Valley Girl Charles Jenck's What Is Post-Modernism and some surprises revealed on the lunch.

    

May 01, 202338:03
Season 4, Bonus Content: Spring LiveStream Concert Featuring Original Music by host, Mitch Hampton!
Apr 24, 202301:53:43
The Rob Chalfen Interview: Boston's Counterculture Performing Arts History

The Rob Chalfen Interview: Boston's Counterculture Performing Arts History


Rob Chalfen is one of the living connections to the history of Boston and Cambridge's countercultural performing arts scene.

I have had the opportunity to perform in at least two of his iconic venues over the decades but did not know in those years just how knowledgeable he was about the political economy of the arts, though I did know him as a serious jazz historian and scholar and recording collector.

Rob Chalfen is what at one time would be identified as a hippie from the 60s and 70s, or as he would more accurately categorize it. "freak."

One of the things I have always appreciated about greater Boston is its attempt to combine political aspirations with aesthetics and Rob Chalfen has been in the thick of that over many decades.

I certainly learned a lot in this episode about Boston past and present.

Links to Rob’s beautiful work:

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https://thecambridgeroom.wordpress.com/tag/rob-chalfen/

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Apr 13, 202347:25
Season 4, April 2023, "Funky Friday at Five" Part 2 of our 1970s Movies Series: The Art of Editing"

Season 4, April 2023, "Funky Friday at Five" Part 2 of our 1970s Movies Series: The Art of Editing"


In this 2nd part of our ongoing series exploring the beauty and pathos of 1970's films, with your host Mitch Hampton! More on this series, here: In this, the second part of a 70s movie series, I will explore the most unusual editing style of 70s cinema. Many people think that 70s movies are unique for their slowness or long takes and the enormous attention paid to the actors on screen and, while all this is true, the uniqueness of 70s movies is that they use long takes in combination with very short, abrupt and jagged editing - often purposefully in violation of classical editing practice and without the usual preparations to prepare audiences for scene transitions. It is all these working together that give the films their visual and narrative style. One of the effects of this stylistic strategy is to create overall mystery in the films and an uncertainty in the viewer - qualities of mind that are actually closer to our daily lives, including our interior thoughts and feelings, than we often are often ready to admit. In psychological jargon, 70s movies are opposed to "closure". And unlike in films after the 1980s. the goal is not to show associational connection between one image and the next as in montage, nor to establish rhythm, but conversely, to create a cubistic and pluralistic vision of reality. Editors and films discussed will include Dede Allen, Suzanne Pettit and films like Night Moves, Girlfriends, Klute, some to be announced, and those of Nicholas Roeg. #films #Cinema #aesthetics #funkyfridayatfive

Apr 10, 202344:05
Season 4, March 2023 "Book Lunch" featuring Douglas Coupland's masterpiece, "Generation X"

Season 4, March 2023 "Book Lunch" featuring Douglas Coupland's masterpiece, "Generation X"


Enjoy our recent "Book Lunch" livestream featuring Douglas Coupland's iconic "Generation X" ! More on this special event from your host, Mitch Hampton:

"In this book lunch I go back to the novel that helped start the Gen X category, discuss Coupland's prose style and what it is like being in the generation that bears the name.

On this book lunch proud (but never flag waving) Gen X'er Mitch Hampton returns to the novel that started it all: Douglas Coupland's Generation X

While mainly discussing Coupland's invention with language and the overall "hangout" quality of I'd characters, he will also discuss more generally the often misunderstood and overlooked nature of the generation of which he is part."

Apr 03, 202332:19
On Performance on and across the Borders: A Conversation with Rosalie Purvis

On Performance on and across the Borders: A Conversation with Rosalie Purvis

When first I was introduced to our guest it was courtesy of our producer.

At that time I was not acquainted with her work and career. Purvis is interesting in the theatre for a number of reasons, not the least of which is her equal proficiency in performance and direction as well as serious theoretical work, a breadth that is less common.

Her work in the theatre takes diversity most seriously as much more than a buzzword and some of her work consists in the translations and movements between and among different cultures from around the world, one example of which is the Chaepani intercultural performance project.

I found that we had an enormous amount in common intellectually and artistically and it was good to have conviviality with her on this episode.

Rosalie’s Bio

Rosalie Purvis holds a BA in Literature and Dance from Bard College and an MFA in Theatre Directing from Brooklyn College and a Phd in Performing and Media Arts from Cornell University where her dissertation “Intimate Acts of Translation” focused on intercultural performance methods and translation and border studies in performance.

Since 2000, she has worked as a freelance director/performer in New York City where work has been featured at, among others, the Atlantic Theatre’s Second Stage, Theatre for the New City, the Brick Theatre, Dixon Place, the Estrogenius Festival, Teatro la Teo, the Culture Project, Teatro Circulo, 59 East 59, the Puerto Rican Traveling Company, Dance New Amsterdam, 78th Street Theatre Lab and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She also creates site specific works, globally.

Most recently, she joined a Kolkata-based performing arts collective and together they have performed at various national borders.

She has taught courses in performance, literature and writing most recently at Cornell University, Ithaca College, Presidency College (Kolkata) Jadavpur University (Kolkata), the City University of New York, Mercy College in the Bronx, Pace University, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Marlboro College.

She is currently serving as Libra Assistant Professor of Theatre and English at the University of Maine.

Links to Rosalie’s beautiful work

https://www.rosalietpurvis.com/

Mar 16, 202301:22:16
Season 4, March Funky Friday at Five: "70s Cinema, Arts & Culture Part 1, A New Concept of Beauty"
Mar 13, 202339:35
Season 4, "Book Lunch" featuring Judy Blume's classic novel, "Forever"

Season 4, "Book Lunch" featuring Judy Blume's classic novel, "Forever"

In this book lunch I discuss Judy Blume's classic popular novel "Forever" with special attention focused on her special style of her prose and how this is in fact is what has most contributed to its popularity over so many years, more so than even the innately attractive subjects of love and sex.

Mar 07, 202328:45
Season 4, February 2023 Funky Friday at Five, "The Films of Yasujirō Ozu "
Feb 26, 202353:18