Paul Levinson interviews Dan Abella about his upcoming Psychedelic Festival

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 355, in which I interview Dan Abella about the upcoming Psychedelic Film and Music Festival he is organizing.  The Festival will take place October 20-22, 2023 in New York City, and there will both live and remote events and access.

Among the topics we discuss: Hegel's spirit of an age ... Impressionism ... Matthew Modine ... Dennis McKenna ... Les Bicyclettes de Belsize ... Lewis Carroll ... John Lennon ... popular culture labels ... Philip K. Dick ... psychedelics and science fiction ... reading backwards ... Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy ... The Man Who Fell to Earth and its sequel ... Strawberry Alarm Clock ... The Moody Blues

Links to some of what we discuss in the podcast:

• more about The Psychedelic Film Festival, October 20-22, 2023, Producers Club Theaters (358 W 44th St, New York, NY)
• video of this podcast interview
• more about Matthew Modine's I Am What You Are
• more about Dennis McKenna
• "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" (Engelbert Humperdinck) ... And here's a beautiful cover I just discovered by Kelly Ann Cosentino
• "I Am the Walrus"
• my interview with Rufus Sewell about his role in the TV adapation of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle
• "Incense and Peppermints"
• "Tuesday Afternoon"
• my 2021 interview with Dan Abella about his book, The Theater of the Mind