Psychic TV - on television in the 80s

A message...



 gen/sleazy



gen/paula

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.

William Burroughs interviewed by Kathy Acker

Alan Watts Interviews Bertrand Russell

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

Eno on Music...

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

Graham Hancock on personal freedom.

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.

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.

Richard D. Wolff on The Crisis of Capitalism

A general analysis of the capitalist system and it's failings. Sounds dry, but he's an engaging speaker and can be pretty entertaining... I'm in the middle of a few of his lectures on Marxian Economics right now and will probably be posting those in the future. until then; enjoy.





from Wikipedia: "Richard D. Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American economist, well known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City"

John Taylor Gatto on Education/Schooling/Control/Self Determination

I don't remember how I found out about John Taylor Gatto, but after initially seeing this series of videos I've ended up watching them all a few times over. There's an introduction to who the man is in the first 17 minutes of the first video; after that it's a long interview/lecture about the history of the school system, the founding of our society as we know it and a few strategies to break oneself or at least one's children out of this cycle of premeditated, conditioned self destruction. Heavy shit, yes- but worth listening to and understanding. enjoy.

Burroughs Called the Law

My basic life's religion is a mix of things I got from punk, acid, burroughs, tolkien, norse mythology and total basement hesher satanic death worship... and of all the manners of occult business I've looked into over the years in some kindof quest for context and power this magic is what makes the most sense to me... and it really is magic, dude. it turns the void in on itself, like a big mirror on the power structure... a spell against control and cosmic oppression... a celebration of not being beaten yet, you fuckers... we're on to you... William Burroughs had a way of venomously illustrating the worst and most destructive aspects of human nature and the dangers and excesses of control; both as a concept and as the reality and context we presently exist in. He was also really fucking funny. dude was way ahead of his time, which just becomes more and more evident as you delve further into his work... he was and is doing the good work for our species as a whole. of this I am sure. Anyway, I give this stuff a lot of lip service, and I do spend a good deal of my time listening to these recordings, so I figured it might be cool to share it with my friends or people who might not hear it through the floor late at night at 134 or hear me quoting from it all of the time for seemingly no good reason... For this, I've comprised a mix of some of my favorite bits of Burroughs' spoken voice. There's a lot from place of dead roads and the western lands, a few cut ups, some random stuff and a few nova express era spells and curses... there are a ton of great interviews and other pieces that are way longer and not so easily cut and put into a mixtape, but maybe I'll start in on those at some point... I dunno... I figured this would be a good starter at least, and while certainly not for everyone, I've gotten a lot out of it and I feel a kindof responsibility to pass it on in hope that you might gain from it or do something valuable with it as well.

enjoy.

Buckminster Fuller

These 3 videos were filmed for public television in 1963 and provide a nice introduction to the man and his way of thinking. Fuller was of thee true science for sure. More to come, but for now...







special bonus video!!!!


Bucky with Burroughs and Ginsberg.