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Pink Floyd's classic album has spent the equivalent of 18 years on the charts!

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Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce writer Ralph Ellison, born on March 1. The American novelist is best known for his novel Invisible Man, 1953 fiction winner of the National Book Award.

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What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection; an artist, album, or collection of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. Robert is usually forced to test his endurance, but this week is all about songs firmly in his big bang zone. Our hope is that we turn you on to something that was lost on your ears, even with this collection of great dance songs from one of the biggest selling rock acts of all time.

Songs this week include:

1. Solace – “In The Flesh (The Wall)” from The Wall Redux(2018)
2. Pearl Jam – “Interstellar Overdrive (Piper…)” from Seattle, WA 12/6/13 (2014) 
3. Voivod – “Astonomy Domine (Piper…)” from Nothing Face(1989)
4. Dan Reed Network – “Money (Dark Side Of The Moon)” from The Heat (1991)
5. Bobaflex – “Hey You (The Wall)” from Eloquent Demons (2017)
6. Forming The Void – “Fearless (Meddle)” from Best Of Pink Floyd Redux (2018)
7. Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade – “Pigs (Three Different Ones) (Animals)” from Live Frogs Set 2 (2001)
8. Chris Squire / Billy Sherwood / Alan White – “Comfortably Numb (The Wall)” from The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Tribute (2004)
9. RPWL – “The End Of The Beginning (Unreleased)” from Plays Pink Floyd’s ‘The Man And The Journey’ (2016)
10.  Voivod – “The Nile Song (More)” from The Outer Limits (1993)
11. Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets – “Atom Heart Mother (Atom Heart Mother)” from Live At The Roundhouse (2020)

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Episode 25 tackles the subject of the short story. What is it (yes, of course, it’s short)? But there’s more to it than that. In this episode Barry defines terms and gives us a crash course in some of the most important, twentieth-century, writers.

In Episode 26 we’ll take a deep dive into Barry’s introduction to The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson.

One more thing: if you missed the writers Barry talked about in this episode, here’s a guide:

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Katherine Ann Porter (1890-1980)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1949)

D. H. Lawrence (1880-1930)

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Richard Wright (1908-1960)

Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

Truman Capote (1924-1984)

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Growing up in Evanston, Illinois, the artist Rashid Johnson had a “mixed bag”—racially, at least—of close friends. There were, he says, “four black guys, two Asian guys, two Jewish guys, a white English guy.…” They still keep in touch today via a text chain. This perspective, combined with the one ingrained in him by his Ph.D. history professor mother, who introduced him from a young age to the works of 20th-century African American writers such as Amiri Baraka, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington, and his tinkerer father, who owned a Wicker Park electronics shop, led to a deep, contextualized curiosity about the human condition: who we are, how we got here, and where we’re going. 

This multicultural (and intellectual) background continues to feed Johnson—as water and light would a plant—growing his insatiable appetite for better understanding the richness, complications, and contradictions of being human, each of us with our own roots, carrying our own energies—no one necessarily a part of any “monolithic experience.” It has also naturally led him to explore the social, cultural, and political realities of being a black man in today’s world. His multidisciplinary practice, which spans painting, drawing, sculpture, filmmaking, and installation art, is both biographical and collective. Underlying much of Johnson’s work is the idea of escapism—that each of us, on some level, yearns for another reality. Such a narrative is at the core of his directorial debut, HBO’s Native Son, released earlier this year and based on the 1940 Richard Wright novel of the same name (the screenplay was written by the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks). It is also at the heart of “The Hikers,” a ballet film shot on the side of a mountain in Aspen, currently on view at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City (through Nov. 10) and opening on Nov. 12 (through Jan. 25, 2020) at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, where it will be shown alongside several other works by Johnson, including ceramic mosaics, paintings, and a large-scale sculpture.

On this episode of Time Sensitive, Johnson talks with Spencer Bailey about the steep challenge of turning Wright’s famed novel into a feature film; using materials such as shea butter, black soap, and plants in his artworks; why he remains somewhat ambivalent about the idea of “wokeness”; and his ongoing fascination with the complexity and diversity of not only blackness but also whiteness.

You can watch the review on YouTube at:

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One could call this the sequel to my unboxing video, but here it is, here i spill my brains on the new ultimate "Dark Side of the Moon" box set.

If you want to watch the unboxing video, you can see that by clicking here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J62Y2a3q4BM

To see my unboxing and review of the Wish You Were Here Immersion box set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjEEwVVnwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ9_A7Kezes

A Pink Floyd app for the iPad, iPod and Phone? Why yes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQqZnYuT5i0

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