David Foster Wallace on American life.

Some real shit from a German TV interview in 2003.
 

An evening with Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp was a very well mannered British queen who lived from 1908-1999. This is a video of a one man show he did in Los Angeles in 1980 where he shares a few of his viewpoints on style and being oneself before taking questions from the audience and giving a bit of advice. Enjoy.

Robert Anton Wilson and Karl Hess

Here's a weird little video I happened upon the other day... It's a discussion between Robert Anton Wilson and prominent libertarian anarchist Karl Hess (click that, it's interesting...). They talk about all sorts of things and detail their experiences in life, politics and philosophy. enjoy...

John Robb interviews Steve Ignorant.

Incubate DIY Conference #4: Steve Ignorant interviewed by John Robb from Incubate Festival on Vimeo.

Ordinary Madness

Charles Bukowski

William Burroughs interviewed by Kathy Acker

Alan Watts Interviews Bertrand Russell

Sun Ra on life, space and mythology as liberation...

Cornel West @ Dartmouth 4/13

I love this fucken guy...
Bookmark this it and watch it soon because they're going to take it down on august 31st...
enjoy...

Eno on Music...

Lecture: Brian Eno (New York, 2013) from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

Sex Pistols in Manchester 1976

audio only, unfortunately...
but yes, this is the famous one where all of the dudes we know and love had their minds blown by rock and fucking roll. awesome.

Bertrand Russell interviewed on the BBC in 1959

Robert Anton Wilson interviewed by Genesis P. Orridge and Richard Metzger

Zizek at Powell's in Portland...

Sun Ra and astral navigation...

Here's a BBC doc on Sun Ra.




And here's Space Is The Place. his movie from 1974.
enjoy.

An evening with Werner Herzog...

I fucking love this guy...

Grant Morrison on Magick and art.

Lecture at disinfo.con (which was the first I'd ever heard of him...)

"The Invisibles is a comic book series that was published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to 2000. It was created and scripted by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, and drawn by various artists throughout its publication.^[1]
The plot follows (more or less) a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence.^[2]
For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a Brazilian shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons of Outer Church, interdimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race without their knowledge."



A documentary about the man's life.

Aldous Huxley on life, freedom and control.

"Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism,^[1][2] in particular Vivekanda's Neo-Vedanta and Universalism.^[3] He is also well known for his advocacy and consumption of psychedelic drugs.
By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time."

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I know

This dude might blow your mind... A genius philosopher, engineer and inventor; Bucky Fuller sought to understand and teach as much as possible. In 1975 Bucky gave a lecture that lasted 42 hours. It was Called "Everything I know". In this lecture he discusses the origins of life on earth, geometry, religion, power and ultimately human evolution. It's a fascinating listen to be sure. At any rate, listen to the first one or two volumes at least. You will not be sorry. The videos of the first half of the lecture are embedded below and there are links to all of them on open culture as well as a link to the Buckminster Fuller Institute where you can get more information and transcripts of these talks and others. enjoy.
 

Billy Childish: Sunday Painter.

On the art of living...