42 Minutes

23/06/2024

42 Minutes 392: Spring Book Club
Grail Quest: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
Listen Here: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=392

What troubles you, Uncle? Or so we try to find for this our Spring installment of the Seasonal Book Club with Wolfram von Eschenbach's 12th Century masterpiece, Parzival as our guide. Drop the reins and let it guide you!

Topics Include: Higher Meaning, Joseph Campbell, Jung Purpose, Myth, Teleology, Material Goal, Spiritual Quest, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Superheroes, Arthurian Literature, The Grail, The Matter of Britain, The History of the Kings of Britain, Hengist and Horsa, Angles & Saxons & Jutes, Mystery Religions, Jessie Weston, The Golden Bough, The Waste Land, Yesterday's Men, Lost in Translation, Duality, Labyrinth, The Whale, The Leviathan, Job, Chretien, The Black Rock.

23/03/2024

42 Minutes 391: Winter Book Club
Valis
Listen Here: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=391

Today, the secret, early Christians reassemble in plenary session to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Philip K Dick's 2-3-74 experiences by reconvening the Rhipidon Society at the Sombrero Bar to discuss Dick's 1981 Synchromystic Blueprint, Valis.

Topics Include: PKD, Synchromysticism, Vast Active Living Intelligence, Reality, Gnosticism, Truth, Path, Trash Stratum, Humor, Plasmate, 1991, Nag Hammadi, Black Iron Prison, Hyper-Links, Sync-Link, Communication, Friends of God, Blade Runner, Three-Eyed Fish People, Akhenaten, Hymn to Aten, Psalm 104, Exegesis, Jung, Flow My Tears, King Felix Cipher, Acts, Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Not a God, Oppenheimer.

23/03/2024

PKD, Synchromysticism, Vast Active Living Intelligence, Reality, Gnosticism, Truth, Path, Trash Stratum, Humor, Playmate, 1991, Nag Hammadi, Black Iron Prison, Hyper-Links, Sync-Link, Communication, Friends of God, Blade Runner, Three-Eyed Fish People, Akhenaten, Hymn to Aten, Psalm 104, Exegesis, J...

14/01/2024

42 Minutes 390: Fall Book Club
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Listen Here: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=390

“Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick—but it was not Moby Dick that took off thy leg?”

“Who told thee that?” cried Ahab; then pausing, “Aye, Starbuck; aye, my hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye,” he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose; “Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pe***ng lubber of me for ever and a day!”

Topics Include: Nantucket Whaling, Quaker, The Line, Shakespeare, Job, Order, Chaos, McCarthy, Civil War, 1840's, the Essex, Sync Journey, Theatrical, Industrialism, Metaphor, Blasphemy, Gnosticism, Leviathan, Demi Urge, Ishmael & Ahab, Dragon Perseus, Hero of Order, Force of Chaos, Town Ho! Sons of Abraham, Soul of Man, Vortex, Sea, Mind, Waves, Spiral, Coffin.

26/09/2023

42 Minutes 389: Summer Book Club
Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness In The West
Listen here: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=389

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove, and so did the book club as we hove toward Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian first published in 1985 and oft called his magnum opus.

Topics Include: The Kid, Moby Dick, The Judge, Captain White, Glanton Gang, Mason & Dixon, Slavery, Civil War, Fantasy, Carnival, Four of Cups, Ahab & The Whale, Sunset, Sunrise, Jacob Boehme, Senseless Violence, My Confession, Chamberlain, Thanos, Crowley, Will, War, Nietzsche, Chaos, Order.

26/09/2023

The Kid, Moby Dick, The Judge, Captain White, Glanton Gang, Mason & Dixon, Slavery, Civil War, Fantasy, Carnival, Four of Cups, Ahab & The Whale, Sunset, Sunrise, Jacob Boehme, Senseless Violence, My Confession, Chamberlain, Thanos, Crowley, Will, War, Nietzsche, Chaos, Order

25/06/2023

42 Minutes 388: Spring Book Club
Mason & Dixon
Listen Here: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=388

"Is it not the very Rhythm of the Engines, the Clamor of the Mills, the Rock of the Oceans, the Roll of the Drums in the Night, why if one wish'd to give it a Name?" Tonight, for 42 minutes, we’ve taken our Pynchon obsession back to the 60’s for some Surf Music in B Flat major by celebrating Mason & Dixon as our spring seasonal book club choice, first published in 1997.

Topics Include: Thomas Pynchon, Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon, 18th Century, Revolution, 1786, Mason-Dixon Line, Will Morgan, Synchronicity, Pynchonicity, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Ted Lasso, Geordie, Don Quixote, Melancholy, Transit of Venus, Carl Jung, 1882, Joyce, 2012.

25/06/2023

Thomas Pynchon, Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon, 18th Century, Revolution, 1786, Mason-Dixon Line, Will Morgan, Synchronicity, Pynchonicity, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Ted Lasso, Geordie, Don Quixote, Melancholy, Transit of Venus, Carl Jung, 1882, Joyce, 2012

25/03/2023

Baby it’s cold outside, BUT it’s about to hot up this afternoon at Hops & Bottles! Come on by to warm up with Ryan Peck at 3:00, Ponderay at 4:00, and The Plagiarists at 5:00. 1420 W. Grove Street

24/03/2023

Treefort Music Fest Day 2 Photos

23/03/2023

Alright Treefort Music Fest 2023! Check out Dusty & Stones this week!
Thu 3/23 10:10pm at Hannah's
Fri 3/24 3:20pm Dusty & Stones at The Hideout
Sat 3/25 8:00pm Dusty and Stones at Camp Modern

Dusty and Stones will be performing at Treefort Music Fest, Boise Idaho, March 22-26, 2023. Two rising stars of Africa\'s nascent country music scene, cousins Gazi

23/03/2023

Catch MYLO BYBEE at Treefort Music Fest 2023 tomorrow!
Fri 3/24 5:30pm at The Olympic Venue
--here is our convo with them from last year:
https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=377

MYLO BYBEE will be performing at Treefort Music Fest, Boise Idaho, March 22-26, 2023. MYLO BYBEE is an ode to the modern day pioneer and Idaho native who invented the finger steak.

22/03/2023

Jonathan Evison will be appearing at Treefort Music Fest this week! Thu 3/23 1:00pm: Ban This, A Reading and Dialogue at Ochos.
Here is a collection of conversations with him from over the years: https://thesyncbook.com/search-machine/?search=evison&dropdown=allc&Submit=Submit

Jonathan Evison will be presenting/performing at Storyfort, part of Treefort Music Fest, Boise Idaho, March 22-26, 2023. Jonathan Evison is the New York Times Bestselling author of All About Lulu, West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, Lawn Boy, Leg...

22/03/2023

Smokey Brights play Treefort Music Fest 11 this week!
Fri 3/24 2:30pm at Main Stage
Here is our chat with them from last year!
https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=375

Smokey Brights will be performing at Treefort Music Fest, Boise Idaho, March 22-26, 2023. Fronted by married songwriting duo Kim West and Ryan Devlin, Smokey Brights exude intimacy.

21/03/2023

Hey Treefort Music Fest 11! Motherhood plays a couple times this week! Check them out . . .
Thu 3/23 10:00pm at Hound Garage (Bus Station)
Fri 3/24 4:00pm at Camp Modern
--here is a 42 Minutes with them from 2018
http://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=304

Motherhood will be performing at Treefort Music Fest, Boise Idaho, March 22-26, 2023. A trio of deep-thinkin’ rippers, New Brunswick’s Motherhood achieve one very rare and uncomplicated feat: they sound EXCITING on record and stage alike.

21/03/2023

New 42 Minutes on Treefort Music Fest!

42 Minutes 386: Jessica Harned
Classical Queen
Listen Here: https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=386

Today, on the eve of Treefort, we catch up with a "Classical Queen", Jessica Harned who performs at Treefort Music Fest 2023 with the bands WEND & JÜN. Wend performs Wed 3/22 9:50pm at The Egyptian Theatre & Fri 3/24 11:10pm at Old School School. JÜN performs LATE Thu 3/23 12:50am at Reef Boise.

Topics Include: Treefort, Wend, JÜN, Mariachi Sol De Acapulco, Conservatory, Philharmonic, Tár, Love, Compassion, Connection, Competition, Ensemble, High Brow, Project Flux, Meld, Noise, Fuzz, Looping, Emily Wells, 208 ensemble, Highway45, JOSHY SOUL, Women of Color in Classical Music, Jazz, Cultures, Japanese Breakfast, Bibliography

21/03/2023

Yay Treefort!

Treefort, Wend, JÜN, Mariachi Sol de Acapulco, Conservatory, Philharmonic, Tár, Love, Compassion, Connection, Competition, Ensemble, High Brow, Project Flux, Meld, Noise, Fuzz, Looping, Emily Wells, 208 Ensemble, Highway 45, Joshy Soul, Women of Color in Classical Music, Jazz, Cultures, Japanese B...

20/03/2023

Hey Treefort Music Fest 2023! Check out Angel Abaya this week!
Wed 3/22 6:00pm: Angel Abaya at Treefort Music Hall
Fri 3/24 9:50pm: Angel Abaya + Selby Jenkins at The Egyptian Theatre
--here is a 42 Minutes with her back from 2018

42 Minutes 301: Angel Abaya
Treefort Music Fest Preview
Listen Here: http://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=301

Today for our Treefort Music Fest 2018 Preview Show, we meet Angel Abaya who works for Treefort as the content creator and PR assistant, but also performs in the bands Electric Coconut and LED.

Topics Include: Treefort, Purring Mantis, Bijouxx, Fiona Apple, Alanis, MostlyMuff, Led Zeppelin, Butt Rock, PR, Communications, LED, Hot Ticket, Electric Coconut, Lost Summer, Xenia Rubinos, Boise Rock School, Edmond Dantès, Thunderpussy, PussyRioty, Andrew W.K., Zipline, Connan Mockasin, SXSW, Bob Boilen, Mac DeMarco, Princess Nokia.

20/03/2023

Treefort Music Fest 2023! Check out Disco Doom this week!
Sat 3/25 5:40pm: Disco Doom at Neurolux
Sun 3/26 7:30pm: Disco Doom at El Korah Shriners
--here is a 42 Minutes w/ them back from 2014

http://thesyncbook.com/42minutes
42 Minutes 127: Disco Doom
http://www.discodoom.net
Topics: Sister Crayon, Perfect From Now On, Built to Spill, Disco Doom, SXSW, Circus, Austin, Zurich, New York, Seattle, Jim Roth & Scott Plouf, Boise, Treefort Music Fest, Carl Jung & die Schweiz.

20/03/2023

Check them out twice at Treefort!
https://treefortmusicfest.com/performer/the-plagiarists/
and here is their recent 42 Minutes:
https://thesyncbook.com/42minutes/?ep=385

Happy Treefort week y’all! So excited to announce a Second Chance Show at Hops & Bottles at 1420 W. Grove Street on Saturday at 5:00. Come on by early and catch our friends Ryan Peck at 3:00 and Ponderay at 4:00. Yup, The Plagiarists, Ponderay, and Peck: just like three peas in a pod!