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The StageCraft Interviews: Apollo 66

Pilot Waves

Release Date: 06/22/2024

Pilot Waves Presents Poetry - Our Mother's Earth (recorded poem by Charles Settles) show art Pilot Waves Presents Poetry - Our Mother's Earth (recorded poem by Charles Settles)

Pilot Waves

Good morning world. Today we all have choices, what shall we do with those choices? And if you know someone who doesn't have access to choices, let's start there.     

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Oh Me, Oh My - A 55 Second Story show art Oh Me, Oh My - A 55 Second Story

Pilot Waves

Every moment is an opportunity to connect. Every interaction with the world, be it an exchange of smiles, a quick glance, or a hello. Even the breath you take in from our beautiful mother earth and return to her carbon dioxide, an interaction that is perfect, simple, beautiful and so automatic. It is done without purposeful thinking, but the magical flip side of that is when we deeply think of this exchange with mindfulness, we are granted insight beyond our wildest dreams, provided we do it often and be respectful of the knowledge and wisdom bestowed on us. We choose love over fear because,...

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Pilot Waves Presents Poetry: “Outdoors Play” (recorded poem by Charles Settles) show art Pilot Waves Presents Poetry: “Outdoors Play” (recorded poem by Charles Settles)

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You can find more about Charles on Quora. His specialties include phenomenologically informed sociology of knowledge, pre-k to 12+ education, astrology, Tarot, dream analysis and more generally helping traumatized children and adults. His educational background includes doctoral credits in sociology from Brandeis University and a masters degree in elementary education from U/Mass, Boston, And everything he does is informed by a 6th sense which became active during his 12th year of life.

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Pilot Waves Presents Poetry: “We did not do drugs” (recorded poem by Debasery) show art Pilot Waves Presents Poetry: “We did not do drugs” (recorded poem by Debasery)

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Debasery is a very nice writer and multi-media artist from South Florida who recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Portland, OR (whoah). Their most recent poems and visual art can be found in Ethics, exquisites, SCAB, Moral Crema, and forthcoming in Lurch Zine and Post No Bills. Their first short film, “Wisdom in the Land of Fort Lauderdale,” is available on Vimeo. You can find them irl hosting a reading series called Intrusive Thoughts.  ig: @debasery 

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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Charles Settles: Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Charles Settles: "This Devout Servant"

Pilot Waves

You can find more about Charles on Quora.  His specialties include phenomenologically informed sociology of knowledge, pre-k to 12+ education, astrology, Tarot, dream analysis and more generally helping traumatized children and adults.  His educational background includes doctoral credits in sociology from Brandeis University and a masters degree in elementary education from U/Mass, Boston, And everything he does is informed by a 6th sense which became active during his 12th year of life.   This is a call to everyone:   Everyone works. Everyone. We would love to...

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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Debasery: Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Debasery: "Luxury Lobotomy"

Pilot Waves

Debasery is a very nice writer and multi-media artist from South Florida who recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Portland, OR (whoah). Their most recent poems and visual art can be found in Ethics, exquisites, SCAB, Moral Crema, and forthcoming in Lurch Zine and Post No Bills. Their first short film, “Wisdom in the Land of Fort Lauderdale,” is available on Vimeo. You can find them irl hosting a reading series called Intrusive Thoughts.  ig: @debasery 

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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Ivan Himanen: Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Ivan Himanen: "To Sysiphus"

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I wonder if you listen to these, wondering or longing? I wonder if you listen to these with even a glimmer of desire to participate?  Ivan Himanen: Born in Helsinki in 1987 to a Finnish father and Russian mother. Learned to draw before he learned to walk. Once spent an afternoon playing violin in the streets because he didn't have enough cash for an ice cream. Moved to New York City in 1993 and has dwelled there ever since. Studied fine arts at LaGuardia High School, architecture at The Cooper Union, and cities & technology at The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia....

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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Charles Settles: Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Charles Settles: "Getting Off His A**"

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Hello there, what are you waiting for? We NEED your poems for this to work. Work...get it? This is a podcast, that at this moment in time and space (right here, right now) is focused on poems, about work and labor. We are pleading with you to participate. . The stakes are high.    From Merriam-Webster, the etymology.  Old English werc, weorc "work, activity directed toward accomplishing something" Middle English, from Anglo-French labur, from Latin labor; perhaps akin to Latin labare to totter, labi to slip — more at SLEEP 

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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Lizz Straight: Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Lizz Straight: "Ingratuity"

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Listen up friends. We NEED your participation to save this world. Reach out and drop us a line, we would love to feature your poem about work on this podcast. [email protected]   Brief Bio | Lizz Straight Lizz, a native of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is a prominent figure in the national spoken word community. A 3-time winner and 9-time finalist at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, the largest active slam in the U.S., she is also the founder and former host of Poetry Is…, the world’s longest-running poetry radio show having aired weekly on on 88.5 FM  in Tampa and world...

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A poem about the meaning of work show art A poem about the meaning of work

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Another wonderful person who is willing to share a heartfelt poem about their work. Won't you join us on this mission? We are trying to better our situation. Words are magic. For example, the words purple monkey. Now where did that purple monkey you imagined just now come from? The magic of language.     

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Born of the local garage rock scene, they have released a number of bootleg style recordings of their live shows on Bandcamp and released their first self-titled 5-song EP in early 2021. While at their core, they remain a garage rock band, their song writing has evolved with influences ranging from the Beatles to the Cramps.

Apollo 66 hosts a monthly garage punk rock night with other local and touring bands in Silver Spring, MD. Their music has been featured on college, internet, and community radio stations in the Washington, DC area, New York, California, Massachusetts, and Florida, among other places. In April 2021 they performed and recorded a live 4-song set for The Rodent Hour sessions with Matt Attack on Radio Free Brooklyn (New York).

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