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EPISODE #235: HILLS ARE FILLED WITH FIRE

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Another wild and windy night in these first strange days and nights of our new year. We are monitoring the infernos & catastrophes, but also celebrating the creation of Chuckwalla National Monument in the vast weird desert east of Coachella, all the way to the Colorado River. Plus: A phone call from our High Desert pal Herbie Benham, and soundscapes RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen now on the podcast, or Friday nights at 10 PM on Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree. This is EPISODE #235: HILLS ARE FILLED WITH FIRE.

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EPISODE #171: DESOLATION PEAK

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Desolation Peak fire lookout cabin

We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation Peak. That’s the old U.S. Forest Service fire-lookout cabin atop Desolation Peak, in the photograph above.

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Our audiobook is out now, read by Ken Layne and with chapter-title sounds by RedBlueBlackSilver.

#104 MESSAGE DELETED

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ARIEL SCHOOL encounter

How are we doing out there? Pretty bad? Well nobody likes to hear “the ultraterrestrial entities told you so,” but, the ultraterrestrial entities told you so. It’s Episode #104, “MESSAGE DELETED.”

It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange, wise entities appeared in their bizarre vessel at the edge of the playground, hovering over the brush the way the White Goddess and the Queen of the Universe and the Virgin of Guadalupe always appear, so often to the relatively pure eyes and hearts of the children.

And they had a message. We did not heed the message.

Strange new soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, a fitting musical environment for tonight’s tales of environmental terror.

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#042: OF FIRE AND MONSTERS

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Yucca Man
Night has fallen on the desert, and that’s when we like to tell monster stories. Weird tales.

When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well here we encounter fierce things both natural and supernatural.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, and a visit from our Phoenix friend Jason P. Woodbury.

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EPISODE #017: THE FIRE STORM, AND HOW TO KIDNAP YOURSELF

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KATE MCCABE
Is the entirety of California a desert now? Bone-dry air, howling Santa Ana winds, brutal fire-storms. People go mad in this kind of weather, even without a wildfire bearing down upon them. Also: We pay a visit to Hi-Desert artist & filmmaker Kate McCabe at her Kidnap Yourself HQ on Yucca Mesa. (You can see new artworks by Kate McCabe & hear her spin records at the Querma de Joshua Tree event on Saturday night at the JT Retreat Center.)

Sounds you’ll hear tonight include field recordings of desert critters & barking dogs, our theme music by Pierre Langer, and three new pieces by Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver: “Three Ghosts At the Apple Valley Inn,” “Ursa Major,” and “Cassini.” Also: “Heaven & Hell” by Donnie Drost (c) copyright 2010 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Gurdonark.

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