One year ago in June 2025 wearing combat boots in bed I watch Man on the Moon. A mad genius performs as a mad genius. Mozart dies writing death music in the director's cut of Amadeus. Two films by one director doing studies of artistic madness. A mad genius of radio tells me about the Tibetan Book of the Dead and I reflect on heaven and hell, after returning from a festival in Ireland hosted by another mad genius. 

For all of you so inclined (who, like me, can't help it but waste a lot of effort trying to):

LET THIS BE THE WEEK OF MADNESS. (And please g-o-d: let genius be the result.) 

<a href="https://homebrave.com/">Listen to Scott Carrier talking to people in Beirut (May 2026). </a>

<a href="https://hearsayfestival.ie/">Thank you g-o-d for the genius and the madness of Diarmuid MacIntyre and the welcoming hearts of Kilfinane. </a>

<a href="https://mermaidpalace.org/Donate-Mermaid-Palace">Donate to the unemployed philosophers guild here!</a>

Suburban Paradise | The Yellow Line, and the Rabbit Hole

Since 2014 this longstanding podcast favourite has been creating hard-hitting cinematic stories about love, bodies and all of the things between humans that we don’t know how to name. Creator Kaitlin Prest works with her friends, idols and all kinds of loved ones to bring you into an expansive sonic universe that challenges what we think we know about love.