Episode 125: Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live at Illuminated Brew Works

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

On May 23, 2022, Meredith Michael joined JF and Phil for a live recording at Illuminated Brew Works, a craft brewery in Chicago, Illinois.The occasion was the launch of Weird Studies Black IPA, the fruit of a collaboration with IBW brewmaster Brian Buckman and his team of beer alchemists. The game plan was to talk about potions, but the final conversation ranges over a number of topics including singularity and repetition, time and eternity, alchemy and ritual, Okakura Kakuzō's The Book of Tea, cooking and pickling, and the cultural phenomenon Phil calls "weedhead sh*t." Purchase the Weird Studies Black IPA from Beer on the Wall or visit the Illuminated Brew Works website. Buy volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel Support us on Patreon Find us on Discord Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop SHOW NOTES Okakura Kakuzō, The Book of Tea Oscar Wilde on absinthe Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History Toni Morrison. Song of Solomon The Suzuki Method Robert Fink, Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice David Cronenberg (dir.), Scanners (1981) Lars von Trier (dir.), Dancer in the Dark (2000) Alan Watts, Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen William Shakespeare, Macbeth Special Guest: Meredith Michael. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectrevision Radio
0:03.3	Welcome to Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.
0:23.3	For more episodes or to support the podcast, go to weird Studies. This is Phil. This week's show is a recording of our first ever
0:57.0	live event, which went down on the 23rd of May, 2022 at Illuminated Brew Works in Chicago.
1:04.7	It was a conversation between myself, show assistant Meredith Michael, and J.F., who joined us via Zoom from his home in Vanier.
1:13.1	We've been plugging this event relentlessly in the intros to our most recent shows,
1:17.8	so I'm sure this is all very familiar to most of you.
1:20.9	But if you're just joining us, this event marked the launch of Weird Studies Black IPA,
1:25.7	a collaboration between ourselves and Brian Buckman,
1:29.1	the Brewmaster at Illuminated Brew Works.
1:32.0	Though, calling it a collaboration might be giving JF and myself too much credit.
1:37.0	Mostly, we just told Brian about our favorite beers, and from our vague and contradictory
1:41.0	indications, he somehow intuited the soul of the podcast and caused this
1:45.7	rarefied substance to coalesce into sudsy matter. No average feat of alchemy, I can assure you.
1:52.8	Much like the show itself, the beer is dark, malty, and effervescent, and if you live in the
1:58.3	United States, you can order it online at the Beer on the Wall
2:01.3	Store. We'll put a link in the show notes. I won't say much about the conversation itself.
2:07.3	Strap in and enjoy the ride. Maybe it was the beer, or maybe it was the presence of an audience,
2:13.1	or maybe it was the occult ambiance of the IBW tap room, but there was a special vibe that night,
2:19.0	and this recording conveys something of it, even though, as we discuss in what follows,
2:23.9	recordings can never fully capture the ineffable moment.
2:27.6	But as the spiritualist photographs of Shannon Taggart demonstrate, a recording of a paranormal
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