Strange Angels No.96 - Nash Editions - Graham Nash and Mac Holbert. A trip to Nash Editions in Manhattan Beach, CA and a conversation with the rock star and his former tour manager who have spent the last two decades at the forefront of fine art digital imaging. Lost negatives. Ink jet print? Magic. War crimes. Body bags. Vietnam and Iraq. Beams of energy. Synaesthesia. Playing rock, getting girls. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 3-5pm Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.95 - Lisa Sette Gallery - On the occasion of Photo LA in Santa Monica we drop into the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for a conversation with Scottsdale, Arizona gallerist Lisa Sette. Crossing a continent because of a book you read. Photography in the 19th century. Photography in the 21st century. The children of art collectors. Tactileness. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 3-5pm Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.85 - The Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia. From center-stage at The Orpheum in Los Angeles, a door not many steps away leads to an alley and a small parking lot where Amanda Palmer and Brian Vigliones favorite driver somehow managed to park their endlessly long tour-bus. We set up in the kitchen - living room and recorded this interview a few hours before their LA concert. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 3-5pm Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.78a - The Quest for Consciousness - A trip to the 9th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, ASSC9, and a conversation with neurobiologists Christof Koch and Constanze Hofstoetter. Big computers and big magnets, materialism and dualism, the phenomenal realm and the causally closed universe, Macintosh and Windows, rock climbing and being a bum. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.77 - Le Fil - On the occasion of the U.S. release of her record Le Fil, and a performance at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, we visit with French vocal sensation Camille. Lines, colors, minimalism, pointillism, multitracking, love songs, drones, beatboxing, ballet, farting - these are a few of her favorite things. Camille has released 3 records in Europe, Le Sac des Filles, 2002, Le Fil, 2005, and Live at Trianon, 2006. Le Fil was recently released in the U.S. Winner of the 2005 Constantin Prize and two 2006 Victorie Awards, the UKs Daily Telegraph has called Camille A Sonic Joan of Arc. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.76 - Corporeal Reality - Introducing Strange Angels cross-arts Los Angeles salon The Lagrange Lounge. In this salon we travel to the Museum of Jurassic Technology Tea Room for a conversation with MJT founder David Wilson and author Aimee Bender. Today the curator and the author talk about wakefulness, deep investigation as a way of life, inspiration, email withdrawal, truth, their favorite centuries, how to visit a museum, and sneaking pencils out of the bathtub. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.75a - Karen Finley - A visit to the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with performance artist Karen Finley. Having your art denounced on the floor of the United States senate, being declared the artist of the decade, the virgin Mary is pro-choice. Capitalism, Capitalism, Capitalism. Copyright and feminism in the 21st century. Flesh cell phones. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.75b - Meghan Daum - A visit to the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with author Meghan Daum. Barren aunts, breeders, childless by choice. Creating creative non-fiction. On-line dating not as postmodern detachment, but as a Victorian experience. Trying to be an outside insider. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.73 - Finding Your Inner Me - A full house at KBCH hanging out with industrial-trance-gothic-metal-electronica band Spanking Machine, wearable art designers Kasey McMahon & Vanessa Bonet of Psycho Girlfriend, and French maids & Mexican wrestlers Fifi & Bibi Poubelle. Live performances by Spanking Machine and Bibi Poubelle of Suki Tawdry. The answer to why black, bathtubs, bananas, and so much more! Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.72 - Altered States of Artmaking - a visit with art critic Christopher Miles and a conversation on Altered States of artmaking. The Mind of the Artist vis-a-vis The Mind of the Audience. van Gogh, Dali, El Greco, Close, Monet, de Kooning, Pollock, and Basquiat. Maybe even a little Vision Questers of Lascaux, Oracle at Delphi, and Stephen Hawking for good measure. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.69c - Xtreme Fashion - Maggie Orth & Elise Co. Fashion in the 21st century. Maggie Orth of International Fashion Machines and Elise Co of Minty Monkey explore computation as an artform, textile dimmers, emissive raincoats, and embedded technology. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.69a - Xtreme Fashion - Bethany Shorb. Fashion in the 21st century. Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptix takes us on a midnight raid of a condemned building in search of fabric for her latest fashion collection. This particular caper yielded her Detroit Hose garment. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.65 - Not A Cornfield. A rainy Friday trip to artist Lauren Bon's, Not A Cornfield, 32-acre art installation in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. A fireside visit in the yurt at the edge of the cornfield and a conversation with Lauren Bon and live music from Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Mara. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.59a - Aimee Bender. A trip to the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, and Willful Creatures. Beautiful gestures that harden into compulsions. Superstitions, numbers, religion, knocking. Ritualistic behavior. Contemporary fairy tales. Flannery O'Connor. Strange rituals. Noble gases. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.59b - Rachel Resnick. A trip to the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA and a conversation with Rachel Resnick, author of Go West Young F-cked-Up Chick. Jerusalem, Alabama, Yale, Los Angeles, India. Beauty pageants and being choked unconscious, bullfighting and boxing. Flannery O'Connor - George Plimpton - Nikki S. Lee. The shadow of death, triumph in despair. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.56 - Photo LA! A visit to Photo LA and a conversation with Photographer Mona Kuhn. Also featuring and interview and performances by Singer-Songwriter Tracy Spuehler. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.54 - Fashion LA! An exploration of Fashion in Los Angeles in the 21st century with designers Jose Angel and Uriel Saenz and singer-songwriters Gayle Day and Rich Jacques. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.53 - The Quest for Consciousness. A conversation on consciousness with neurobiologist Francis Crick of the Salk institute and neurobiologist Christof Koch from Caltech. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.50a - Nina Hartley - A trip to Erotica L.A. and a conversation with adult film actor Nina Hartley. 20 years. 500 videos. Pornography and feminism and culture. Religious ecstasy and sexual ecstasy. Spirituality and belonging. Pair bonding and monogamy. Joy. Friction. The deep deep deep unspoken unknown shame and pain about sexuality. Jocelyn Elders was right. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.49 - Truth - A conversation with actor, author, artist, and eyewitness to four decades of the American cultural zeitgeist, Mary Woronov. From her time in Andy Warhol's Factory and her performances in films including Chelsea Girls to west coast filmmaking with Paul Bartel for Roger Corman including films such as Eating Raoul to her current life as the author of five books, as well as screenplays and teleplays. Born the same day as Jim Morrison, Mary Woronov has lived at the avante garde edge for over four decades. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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A conversation with David Wilson, founder and director of The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City California. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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A conversation with Iris Chang, author of The Chinese in America, The Rape of Nanking and The Silkworm. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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Strange Angels No.44y Yet Another Monica. Strange Angels production of Another Monica. With the distance of time we look back at the infamous Linda Tripp recordings of her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. Yes, the definition of sex is in there, but so are amazing conversations about hair, shoes, food, the gym, diet, and beyond. A rare dramatic glimpse into the banality of ordinary conversation at it's finest. Performed by Melissa Lawson and Kara Revel.

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Strange Angels No.43 - Matmos. A conversation with Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt of the Electronica Instrumental Pop duo Matmos. The conversation ranges from protohuman yodeling in the void to the postmodern elements of Britney Spears latest record. From the conceptual art ideas of Sol LeWitt to trying pursue punk as adult musicians. From teaching art and music to touring the world with Bjork. Strange Angels is a continuing conversation with visual, performing and literary artists about their life and work and contemporary culture. We broadcast weekly from 9-11am Pacific Time on Wednesdays.

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