Talking bout Practice, Ep 02: It's Like a Magick

download ¿Quién es más mágico -- Jesús Cristo o Harry Potter? ¿Quién es más mágico -- Sabrina la bruja adolescente o David Copperfield? ¿Quién es más mágico -- Alan Moore o Gandalf? ¿Quién es más mágico -- Sun Ra o el Mago de Oz? In this week's episode of Talking bout Practice, Billy Ray Stupendous and I posed th questions that few dare pose, in an attempt to discover th truth about magick. What happened next will either not astound you or astound you, depending on what sort of person you are, what kind of day you had, and what yr life in general is like. Table of contents: 00:00  "The Wizard" by Marc Bolan 01:42  Spelling lesson w/ Alan Moore 05:21  Worshipping th sun & connecting various dots 06:13  Sleight of hand 08:27  "What kind of magick do you do?" 11:02  Fiction & anonymity 12:47  Money & mundanity 16:39  Strangeness recaptured 22:16  Global tragedy 28:16  A different America (NOLA) & a loss for words 32:50  Embracing paradox 34:33  Wicca 37:33  Rolling dice & ceding control of th story 40:55  Wicca, prayer, & accountability 45:33  Th Dungeons-and-Dragons-ish-ness of Catholicism 47:30  Grant Morrison's sigils 48:50  Back to Alan Moore 53:24  Coincidence, interconnectedness, & magical thinking 59:48  Butterfly wings, complex systems, & invisible engines of causation 1:05:07  Take comfort in chaos 1:08:22  Billy accepts Alan Moore as personal Lord & Saviour 1:11:55  Batman will outlive us all 1:13:24  END SONG (portrait of Alan Moore by Dylan Horrocks)