On Friday's "Stay or Go" segment of KLOS' (95.5 FM)The Heidi and Frank Show, there was a big surprise when power duo and twin sisters Dianthvs (dianthvsmusic.net, pronounced /die-ann-tuss/) broke out with a mash of grindcore and Evanescence vocals. One sister plays the guitar, the other is a drum impresario, and both sing. It's hard to believe so much sound and noise are coming from two dainty gals from Riverside. They will be playing at Revelry Brewing in Temecula on Aug. 1, 2026.
Dianthvs is a Southern California progressive metalcore band led by twin sisters Jessica and Jackie Parry. They fuse classical piano roots, moody atmospherics, and crushing heaviness (drums and metal guitar) into a sound that blurs beauty and brutality. Jackie is on lead vocals and guitar, while percussionist Jessica holds down the backing vocals and drumming duties.
"Buddhist Radio" is Wisdom Quarterly's name for KPFK's Something's Happening with Roy of Hollywood, which airs Sunday mornings at 8:00 am and Thursday nights at midnight. Alan Watts is featured as are other notable Buddhist names. With the recent passing of radio innovator Roy Tuckman, Pacific Free Speech Radio, Los Angeles, is continuing the series.
Don't forget to not take anything too seriously. Happy listening!
Some great quotes from The Works of Alan Watts
"A ready wit goes with the Tao" (WQ).
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do, you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float."
"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky; you look in you."
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."
"I owe my solitude to other people."
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
Delaney and her boyfriend had a good time at Burning Man (delaneyeva/Daily Star.co.uk)
Hi, we're Kenny and Johnny, conservative pals.
John & Ken Show Hour 1 (Sept. 5, 2023)
Burning Man flooded and stranded a bunch [64,000] festival goers.
Reading the Daily Star, a British tabloid/rag, the inseparable pair pores over the details of sex and release at this year's Burning Man 9-day festival.
Los Angeles area employees at an El Monte jewelry store beat up a super obese attempted smash and grab robber.
If Ken were a doll and John were his John
Dr. Anthony Fauci resurfaces on CNN, talking about masks. [He hasn't figured out that he said they wouldn't work, would work, and now science shows they didn't work?]
A plane had to turn around because a male passenger dropped explosive diarrhea all up and down the cabin. More
‘I joined mile high club on Burning Man s*x plane: Everyone gets to reach altitude'
Delaney and her boyfriend were given a mile high ride over Burning Man's Black Rock City.
A randy festival-goer has told how she joined the mile high club by b*nking on a special "s*x plane" at Burning Man. And Delaney Eva has described the saucy experience in detail, explaining how: "The plane stays up until everyone finishes their ride."
It's the latest crazy story to come out of the annual Nevada Black Rock Desert event dubbed the "wildest festival of the year.
From painful injuries in the orgy dome tent to getting raunchy in huge communal showers, there's always plenty of b*nkers moments at the free-spirited arts event – but Delaney's experience might have topped them all.
The online model, who lives in Hawaii, revealed she and her boyfriend had the time of their lives at Burning Man last year when they hitched a plane ride with a fellow burner. More
Dr. Walsh, KFI 640 AM, Los Angeles; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
@DrWendyWalsh (Nov. 13, 2022) Hour 1: Dr. Wendy is answering relationship questions of all kinds: intimacy, sexual dysfunction, dating, relationships, molestation, sexual trauma, falling in love, does he like me? What's the psychology behind narcissism? That's old. What's new? The psychology behind co-dependency, and what are the most common co-dependent relationships? Dr. Wendy breaks it down.
We experience powerful emotions all of the time, but what are they? Where do they come from? For this hour, TED speakers invoke history, language, science, and music to help us think about the way we feel.
The "feelings" (vedana) associated with formations -- whether pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral bodily (physical) and mental (psychic) sensations.
These feeling tones are focused on and become the subject of SatipatthanaMindfulness Meditation to discover that their essential nature is marked by three universal characteristics.
Emotions color our world and allow us to have preferences and make decisions. The sources of many of our emotions are now unconscious, and feelings are automatic from inattention.
Buddhist meditation (serenity and insight) can help free us from being slaves to emotions. Incisive attention can reveal the source of our traumas while releasing us from the irresistible pull of pleasure and revulsion to everything unpleasant.
Unhappiness will overtake me. I'm helpless.
Most people today, however, may prefer the tumult of emotions clinging to them as I, me, and mine UNTIL the pain (dukkha) becomes too great. What does modern science have to say or add to the Buddha's liberating insight about the best way to approach and decode these mysteries?
Adam Corolla called into the "Kevin & Bean Show" Thursday morning, April 28: PODCAST
KROQ's massive post-Coachella concert. Tickets on pre-sale (and selling out) at noon, April 29. Featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lukas Graham, Lumineers, Garbage, Fitz and the Tantrums, Panic! At the Disco,Cold War Kids, Empire of the Sun, Strumbellas, Weezer, and others.
Wisdom Quarterly; Los Angeles Theatre Works (latw.org)
"Major Barbara" Heir to the Undershaft arms dealing fortune? No, that is only fit for a foundling not a family member. George Bernard Shaw created a classic masterpiece surpassing "Pygmalion" ("My Fair Lady").
Special Radio Series: L.A. Theatre Works is proud to present the Relativity Series,
an ongoing series featuring science-themed plays. The series currently
includes 20 plays on topics from astronomy, physics, and cosmology to
the mathematics of code-breaking, the ethics of scientific research, and
the invention of television. Generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology, the Relativity Series
presents science as a thoroughly human endeavor, bringing to life the
people and stories behind the research and invention which shapes and
changes our world.
The Santa Monica mountains are burning in Camarillo Springs (LATimes.com)
Embers left to smolder reignite
ADDING FUEL TO THE FIRE (May 3, 2013): The National Rifle Association (NRA) wants hot women to join its
ranks. Why only have one gender armed to the teeth when women can enjoy
killing things as much as men now do?
Jimmy Dore Show
Comedians Jimmy Dore, Bill Burr (Comedy
Central, Breaking Bad, Letterman, Conan, The Monday Morning Podcast), and
political analyst Ben Mankiewicz (Host, Turner Classic Movies) break it down. God, Bill O'Reilly, Barry Obama, Tuesday Moron, and other leading lights from FOX News, DC, and the right regularly call in.
(JDC) Originating from Pacifica's free speech radio outlet in Los Angeles (KPFK, 90.7 FM), The Jimmy Dore Show
is an irreverent and comedic take on today’s headlines and hypocrites.
The weekly show skewers politicians and the corporate mouthpieces
who make up today’s mainstream “news media.” Each and every week, The Jimmy Dore Show provides the unvarnished truth with a twist of funny from co-host comedians: Frank Conniff, Paul Kozlowski, Stefe Zamorano, Jim Earl, Steve Rosenfield, Ron Babcock,andRobert Yasumura.
Alan Watts demonstrates amazing scholarship and a broad view of spirituality East and West. Much of what we find offensive about fundamentalist Christianity is actually the latter Western conception of St. Issa's ministry. In the East -- or the non-Catholic, non-Protestant older Eastern Orthodox tradition -- a great deal more of what Jesus Christ (Issa) says is an echo of Buddhism, Hinduism (Vedic Brahmanism), and Sufism. As all of these traditions drifted West, they lost some of their essence. It was not replaced wholesale but rather subtly misinterpreted. Protestantism in particular made a Trojan (sparse, ascetic) exercise of a more liberal Athenian (relaxed, spiritual) tradition.
Eastern Orthodox scholars view Western Christianity and its grand papacy as a continuation of Romanism and the worst aspects of the Roman Empire Christianity is alleged to have conquered. This would go a long way toward explaining the offensive feel of most American and European forms of Christianity today. One notable connection made by Watts is seeing Hotei (Budai, "the Laughing Buddha") as an "Ivan of God" character, a spiritual fool of great wisdom; St. Peter takes the role of Sakka, King of the Devas, and intervenes.(Wisdom Quarterly has identified Buddhism's Sakka as archangel Michael, who Protestants understand to be Jesus himself). While Eastern Orthodoxy did not escape corruption, examining both -- particularly in the light of a Buddhist understanding of the world -- goes a long way to resurrecting spirituality as it exists, at least nominally, in the West today. This is not coming from an Eastern monk but from Alan Watts, a former Episcopalian priest turned Zen Buddhist master.
Lovelineis on the radio weeknights (Sunday-Thursday, 10:00-11:59 PM PST) live from Los Angeles (KROQ.com). It is co-hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, DJ Mike Catherwood, and sex therapist Simone Bienne.
It's a call-in question-and-answer show featuring any interesting person who can get through. (Start dialing before the show comes begins). What's the point? The primary goal is helping youth and young adults with relationship, sexuality, and drug addiction issues.
Dr. Drew has gone from radio to TV fame
As a practicing internist and addiction specialist with training in psychology, Dr. Drew answers with medical authority. Comedian Psycho Mike adds humor and insight as a result of his own past dealings with drug abuse and ongoing recovery. Simone provides a woman's point of view and relationship and sex counseling expertise. Where else were we supposed to turn to find out everything we ever wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask our friends about?
From the genius series by Douglas Adams, envisioning a conversation with "God," the ruler of the universe and solopsist (solipsism). It is the last scene in the first BBC radio series of the science fiction comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The principal characters pay a visit to the ruler of the universe. The original 12 episode radio series, the trilogy of books, subsequent books, and even the low-budget British TV series are all far superior to the poorly done movie most people are familiar with. Here are three very short videos on the notion of questioning even sacred and sacrosanct topics such as God and religious beliefs.
Invited by Richard Dawkins, a satirical reading by Douglas Adams on the topic of future cows, bred to want to be eaten and capable of clearly saying so (Korean subtitles): God, the universe, and everything is brought into question in a spirit of free inquiry as the Buddha invited in the KalamaSutra.
Douglas Adams on the anachronistic role of novels and the new use of science books. The world is a thing of utter and extraordinary complexity and mystery. It is wonderful to explore, to investigate, to question, and admire it. Writing satirical science fiction comedy allows him to do that, making perhaps the most significant author of the 20th Century. Now deceased, his influence remains -- as an author, skeptic, environmentalist, and above all a genius and wit.
Free thinker, atheist, and author Richard Dawkins speaking at UC Berkeley on the topic of religion and questioning the sacrosanct, quoting Douglas Adams in the process: "Religion...has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is an idea or notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? - because you're not!' "
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