Right Where You Are Sitting Now

The guest this week is the filmmaker Andrew Fillipone. Andrew Filippone Jr. is the filmmaker in New York City made the short film ‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett. Some of Andrew’s other works include: The Status Films, an all-text, 4-part, 80-minute documentary film cycle made from real-time searches of public Facebook status updates; Happy Monday, a film-sculpture hybrid that he describes as a “documentary film object;” and The Auroras of Autumn, a silent, abstract short that screened at the 8th Berlin International Director’s Lounge, but in this episode we discuss two other films the first being his mock conspiracy film No! Gabba, Gabba and the other an experimental film entitled 999. In this episode there is a point where I explain the idea of a concrete abstraction, and I thought it would be worthwhile to explain that idea here at the outset. The other day I was asked to define the idea of a concrete abstraction and I said that this was the idea that reality is inexorably both conceptual and sensual. One can’t separate out the idea of what it is to be something from the sensual qualities one encounters upon meeting that something. An apple is both an idea and an experience. Once you’ve grasped this the question isn’t “What is a concrete abstraction?” but rather “What isn’t a concrete abstraction?” Couple of announcements. First, the Philosophy Workshop has been on hiatus over the summer I will be restarting that project in September and I want to encourage people to join up. Subscribing to the workshop is really a way to support the podcast and if you enjoy Diet Soap you should consider subscribing or making a one time donation. So, in September we’ll pick up with Hegel’s phenomenology, and I think I’ll try to use Google Plus to host the online conversations. Another announcement is that soon I’ll be launching a second, monthly, podcast called Pop the Left. C Derick Varn and I have been recording conversations for this and this coming podcast will be an examination and critique of the left from the left. Along those lines I recently received an email from TJ Clark accepting an invitation to come onto Diet Soap. Clark is an art historian and former member of the Situationist International and his latest essay “For a Left with No Future,” for all it’s flaws, is a valiant effort and really required reading.

This week: Greenland is melting, Naughty prevention, The Great Occupy Debate, CCN goes The Economist, US wiretapping, DeathCast (©2012): Robert Hughes, Celebrating Joseph Campbell...or are we?, A tip of the hat to the HOPE conference, and win some great great prizes. Personnel –   Joe Nolan, Douglas Lain, and Ken Eakins To enter the competition to win a copy of the great 'Night of The Living Trekkies', send your answer to the question 'which is the best George A. Romero Zombie film' here, or through the sittingnow.co.uk contact form. Links Greenland’s massive melt Link Medieval Anti-Wanking Device - Link The Last Occupy encampment due for eviction -link Will the UK leave the EU? Link  Europe’s economy is in a recession according to Bloomberg survey. -link -link illegal wiretapping now legal; problem solved. - Link Robert Hughes, dies at age 74. -link -link Celebrating Joseph Campbell Link Check out every talk from this years HOPE conference, fo freesies - Link Interludes Mr Gainsbourg

The guest this week is the author and environmentalist Jim Brumm. Jim Brumm was the staff writer at an environmental firm in Sebastopol, California and his new book is an in-depth study of the ills facing societies the need for long-term thinking. That book is titledLong-Term Thinking for a Short-Sighted World. As you listen to the conversation you'll probably hear a bit of a push and pull as I try to come to some understanding of how long term thinking might, on its own, be a solution for our problems. By the end of our talk I have to agree with Jim that thinking ahead and considering the ramifications of actions on the future is certainly necessary, but I still ultimately felt that something was missing from that conclusion. We have to have a reason or aim behind our thinking, whether its in the short or the long term. Changing the reasons behind our actions is, from my perspective, just as important as changing the range or complexity of our thought. If the reasons behind our actions are contradictory then no amount of complexity or thinking into the future will resolve the trouble. So, that's my critique of Jim's thesis in a nutshell, but despite this critique I think the conversation is one worth having and I fundamentally agree that long term thinking is necessary…it's just not enough. I want to thank everyone who is a regular subscriber and participant in the Philosophy Workshop. If you'd like to donate or subscribe to the podcast and Philosophy workshop the buttons are at dietsoap.podomatic.com and at douglaslain.com. Donors of $6 or more in the US or $15 internationally will receive a copy of my book "Pick Your Battle." Also, if you'd rather not receive a copy of "Pick Your Battle" you can get on the list for a copy of "The Doom that Came to LOLcats" which is a novella due out from Eraserhead press later this year.  I should tell you all to follow me on twitter and friend me on Facebook. Also you can send me email through my webpage. That's douglaslain.com. I've got some big news this week. It looks like the Diet Soap podcast will start being listed on the Right Where You Are Sitting Now website. RWYASN explores the weirder side of the world. Ken Eakins and Kim Monaghan are the editors and the other podcasts listed include the Coincidence Control Network, Behind Closed Doors, and Sitting Now Radio. I'm very pleased to be included.

This week: RIP Chris Marker, Vertigo Whups Mr Cane, Delicious Police State Pr0n, Scientology's 'Hole', Loch Ness Magick, Oily behaviour, Octomom...who care really?, NASA actually lands something, and why Morrissey is a predictable asshat. Personnel –   Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell, and Ken Eakins Links RIP Chris Marker (Nolan Does Death ©2012) - Link Yummy Police State Porn - Link Scientology’s Concentration Camps - Link New Photo of Loch Ness Monster Scientology’s Concentration Camps - Link Chevron Refinery Explodes: How Many Laws Are Being Broke Here, Gents? - Link Octomom wants your money - Link Mars Curiosity Landing Moz is an ass hole - Link Brian Butler's Loch Ness Magick: Interludes The music of Herbalizer.

This week: The skinny on UFOs, Mit Romney offends...everyone, Two cool crowd-sourced films you should certainly support, The Great Bill Murray Party Hoax of '12, Films that will suck, Jim Wasserman's memoirs, and Spiritual Reinvention of Snoop Dogg. Personnel –   Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell, and Ken Eakins Want us to discuss a story, send us links, loathing, and love here. Links Tony Blair was briefed on UFOs - Link An Idiot Abroad - Link Jodorowsky and Schrader go Crowd-sourcing - Link Bill Murray Party Crashing Hoax - Link No, they’ll suck - Link Wasserman Book - Link Snoop Lion - Link Interludes The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny

This week: Happy Birthday Ray Harryhausen, Death of Alexander Cockburn, Batman Shooting Conspiracy, Curiosity’s 7 Minutes of Terror, and more.

The network begins! SittingNow is proud to welcome the awesome Diet Soap podcast into the fold. You my remember Douglas Lain from a recent - and the next - episode of CCN. We will be adding new shows to our roster over the coming weeks, so get your iTunes subscriptions fired up! Jason Horsley is probably most well known for his podcast Stormy Weather a show that focused on the subjects of "paranoid awareness" the concept of a second Matrix, and a striving after enlightenment . Jason released "Stormy Weather" under the pseudonym Aeolus Kephas. Now, according to wikipedia Aeolus is a name shared by three characters from Greek mythology. An Aeolus was the son of Poseidon (the god of the sea), the son of Hellen who himself was the son of Zeus and as such the progenitor of the Hellenic or Greek people, and also the son of King Hippotes. This Aeolus was known as the keeper of the winds and he gives Odysseus a bag of wind so the King could be sure to get back to Ithaca on a gentle West Wind. In contrast, on Horsley's podcast Stormy Weather the winds were stronger and there was a sense that the listener might never get home again. Jason Horsley is the son of Northern Food's chairman Nicholas Horsley and the brother of the late Sebastian Horsley, an artist and writer whose most well known for having staged his own crucifixion in the year 2000, but unlike his brother, Horsley disinherited his family's fortune in 1991 and traveled to Morocco where he roamed the streets and scrounged. Aiming at becoming a late 20th century Buddha, Horsley followed the prescription or recipe for sainthood available to him at the time. He imbedded in psychedelic drugs, participated in shamanic rituals of various sorts, and wrote about the cinema. His first book, the Blood Poets, was published in 1999. Since then he's written, various books including a book written under the pseudonym Aeolus Kephas entitled the Lucid View. Since Horsley's first visit to the Diet Soap podcast he and I have been opposed allies. That is, whether we're discussing Osho Rajneesh, the movie Close Encounters, William Blake, or debating epistemology we managed to find common ground to squabble over. This week we discuss his dream of enlightenment and what it might take for him to get there.

  01. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Knock By the Stairs 02.  Dj Q - Swing 03. Carbon Based Life-forms - Abiogenesis 04. Randomform - Polyconaire 05.  Miasma and the Carousal of Headless Horses - Garp Gadriel 06. Fighting Kites - Butterbean 07. ASVA - Birds 08. Lorn - Weigh Me Down 09. Obake - The Omega Point 10. Storm And Stress - It Takes A Million Years To Become Diamonds So Lets Just Burn Till The Sky Turns Black 11. Biosphere - Ōi-1 12. Incoming Cerebral Overdrive - Bellatrix 13. Origami Arktika - Kvaen If you want us to play your band/noise/whatever, drop us a line here. Peace. ***Signal Ends***

This week: Those sneaky Swiss, A bleak future for your ears?, Katie vs. The Scilons, Andy Griffith RIP, Uruweedsmoker, Kimtum Mechanics, Julian Assange afk, LIBOR games the system,  The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, and what are those payloads? Personnel –  Joe Nolan, Douglas Lain, Kim Monaghan, and Ken Eakins Links Swiss plan to clean up space  - Link The bleak future for your ears.  - Link Katie Holmes leaves Tom Cruise. Let the drama begin! - Link Andy Griffith Dies  - LinkLink2Link3 Uruguay government to start selling weed- Link Kimtum Mechanics - Link Julian Assange served with extradition ‘notice’. - Link LIBOR Scandal and Gaming the System - LinkLink2 Movie Time - Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles - Link Return of the secret space plane - Link Interludes Desde Rusia - Matias Aguayo AY AY AY - Matias Aguayo #antisec - ytcracker

This week: Assange makes a weird choice?, Eat this film!, Terrance McKenna's daughter goes butterflies, The NWO is coming for your Les Paul, Bath Salts comes to Cali, Kim's anal adventures pt.2, the end of Fox News?, and will Ron Paul be the Vice President? Personnel –  Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell, Kim Monaghan, Raymond Wiley Links Assange/Ecuador - Link  Eat this film - Link  Terence McKenna remembered in daughter’s book project  - Link   NWO’s coming for your Gibson guitars - Link New bath salts story - Link Fucking Yourself in the Ass - Link Newscorp might split? How much trouble is Fox in? Link Ron Paul VP - Link Interludes  Apache - Tommy Sebach Aktion 13F14 - Tomahawk  Log Bomb - Bob Log III

This week: Nick needs to get his ass to the cinema, Flying cars!, Why you should be angry about The Watchmen prequels, Cops need to chill out, Fuck the Golden Dawn, The double-headed dildo deceit, Support the Henry Miller library, Democrats got it all wrong, The lost art of Jack Smith, and why religion may have a new excuse to bash science. Personnel –  Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell, and Ken Eakins. The Stories Let’s talk Prometheus...bitches! Flying fucking cars! - Link Why you should be angry about The Watchmen  - Link Putting a gun to an 11 year old’s head is not OK - link Let’s talk Fascism - Wiki - Video Sex toy fools Chinese village  - link Glass and Newsome continue rock n roll tradition - Link Democrats desperately trying to co opt Occupy... still - link Jack Smith documentary - Link Scientists new findings show flaws in standard model link Total Recall Posters Watch Fascism in action The Interludes GOULET!

This week: So much for progress, Peter Lamborn Wilson Endorses #abandon movement, Alex Jones and the gold-leaf dead babies, Kim goes Waterworld, Mozza is a Ferry ripoff? Christianity the death cult, Japanese Women go nuclear, Occupy money,  Gitmo prisoners tortured by Muppets, and Zombie face excuses. Personnel –  Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell,  Kim Monaghan, and Ken Eakins. Links So much for progress - link Peter Lamborn Wilson endorses the #abandon movement - Link Alex Jones believes Bilderbergers are eating golden roasted babies - Link 1, Link 2 It can only be built in Heaven - Link Mozza rips off Ferry - Link New book claims Christianity is a rehash of a pagan death cult - Link Effective ? Yes. Empathetic ? No. - Link Occupy money - Link Gitmo prisoners tortured by Muppets - Link Miami 'zombie face eating' attack - Link Musical Interludes Rollerskate - Matias Aguayo The Argument - Fugazi

This week: Jail for vets, Fake sandstorms, Stay calm - believe the government, Iron Why?, Last flow of the River, Joe's grateful for the dead, Tell premiere, Kim Monaghan: feminist, Space X, and the greatest drinking game...ever. Personnel –  Joe Nolan, Nicholas Pell,  Kim Monaghan, and Ken Eakins. Links sans stink The First U.S. Jail Devoted to Veterans - Link Romanian News Reporter Fakes a sandstorm - link Congressmen seek to lift propaganda ban - Link IronSky: A poor decision - Link River Phoenix’s last film headed to screen - Link New 60’s Psychedelic Music Doc “The Dawn of the Dead” - Link ‘Tell’ is finally released - Link Kim supports this - Link Nick Pell’s maiden Space News - Link Possum: The Drinking Game - Link Musical Interludes The Melvins - Pearl Bomb Robert Goulet - Summertime Dissolved - USB Spiders For Rechargeable Grave

This week: Putin's got pussy issues, Occupy Fatigue, Daughter Disintegration, bye bye 2012ers, and much more.

Tracklist 1.Temporal Fragments - 6.9 Hz 2. Deadbeat Echoes - Surge of youth 3. a.P.A.t.T - My Nuns Door Theme 4. shhh... - Slow Room 5. Corleone (w/ Mike Patton) - Tutto diveNterà Rosso 6. Brad - 20th Century 7. Murkage - Paperweight 8. Raised on Replicas - OMG 9. Stanley Odd - Broken Has Morning 10. Yppah - Film Burn feat. Anomie Belle 11. Beestung Lips - Sick History 12. Hidden Highways - My Rifle, My Pony and Me 13. Phelios and False Mirror -Entropy Reversed If you want us to play your band/noise/whatever, drop us a line here. Peace. ***Signal Ends***