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While Friday’s eighth part did kinda end the interview portion of the Podscript with Ray Padgett…
There is another series…
Yes, you guessed it, right, with eight more parts…
It will explore the night of the Dylan show, the deletion of this Substack, and other more ‘me’ focused aspects of the conversation with Ray…
Today in other Substackers to follow if you do get the app, we’re going with
who is the former New York Times now Washington Post Internet culture journalist who has done brilliant work bringing some of its bizarre avant-gardes to the mainstream and also has a hilarious meme account if you prefer that medium.She produces:
Which is important because, like a lot of journalists, she was just banned from Twitter by the mighty Muskrat:
I also am getting closer to just publishing on Substack the piece I mentioned here that I submitted to The New Yorker with Musk🐀 humor because it’s seeming less & less likely they will run it and it’s seeming more & more relevant and fun, to me at least.
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Part 8 is available here. Part 7 here. Part 6 here. Part 5 here. Part 4 here. Part 3 here. Part 2 here. Part 1 here. Preamble here.
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Part 9 of The Shuffle Synchronicities Podscript 🎙📇 with Ray Padgett
begins now!
Dave
So, um <laugh> another, kind of one of the things that happened, when I went back to doing the shuffle, you know, the first [new post of Volume 2] was last week [when we recorded]
Dave
I talked about how I deleted this, the Substack. And then I brought on Kiana Fitzgerald [on the podcast].
Dave
Who along with you, has been really, really supportive.
Dave
Right after I first posted, you wrote me an email, a really kind email, and you were like, Welcome back man. Like, we're like Substack brothers. You've been in the top 10. I've been the top 25. Of the paid [music] list.
Dave
We share, I feel like, we share a connection, too, because last year I calculated how many songs came up from each artist. And you were like, It's Dylan, right? And you just knew. And it was right.
Ray
Yeah.
Dave
Dylan was, like, head and shoulders above all the other artists, in terms of how many times he came up on the shuffle. And this is just shuffled-to too, not even just the times I mentioned him, which is even more.
Ray
Yeah, I’m sure.
Dave
But, so, the live concert was like, actually, and this is where I'm gonna kind of talk in a personal way. The live concert was the night that I deleted the Substack, actually.
Dave
So it's related to, what I said, I <laugh> invited you to come to LA, you couldn't do it.
Ray
<affirms>
Dave
I'm gonna try to tell the story in this, this new way of like what I'm calling post-memoir.
Dave Cowen 😎 may or may not be the first 🤣 to introduce the concept of Post-Memoir 🧼🗣
Dave
I mentioned this with Kiana, which is that you're just not gonna mention any of the details about other people unless you have their consent. I'm assuming I have your consent to say <laugh> that I invited you to the, uh, to the concert.
Ray
<laugh> Yeah, sure. Yes! <laugh>
Dave
But I will say that the person that I did take. Um, I'm just gonna use pronouns of they and, and not get into too much detail. But. They did not know Bob Dylan at all. You know, really did not know him. Had heard of them. But did not, did not know them.
Dave
It was in the context of, um, someone that I had met recently, and it was, not exactly dating, but just, you know, it was maybe just maybe that kind of potential energy. And um, they, they were in Santa Monica and the show was at the Pantages in Hollywood.
Dave
Which, um, is on Hollywood Boulevard, kind of <laugh> in middle of the whole thing, the whole mess of that whole Hollywood and Vine [area]. And, um, so I went to pick them up and we had dinner in Santa Monica and it was during a week where something was going on in my personal life that I'm gonna share at some point, where I was just kind of like ramping up into an episode by dealing with healing.
I think a lot of times, mania is related to healing. And if you're doing deep work, or something's coming up in your life, that sparks that healing, then you can kind of ramp up. And so in that state, it's very, it was very different than other times when I wanted to go to concerts.
And…I'm trying to articulate this…like, if I'm late for a concert in the past, like my old self, before I had all these changes, I would be so <laugh> irritated and anxious and like whoever's with me is like, it's a problem for them to be with me. Because I'm like, we gotta fucking get to this show. And so we were eating dinner and when I'm, when I'm in the manic state, it's like every moment is the same, perfectness, and it doesn't matter where you are. And I think that kind of speaks to like Enneagram 7, like the Be Here Now thing. Every moment is joyful.
Dave
And so it didn't really matter that we weren't going to the show. And the owner of the restaurant came over and was, like, Oh, you're going to Dylan? Like that's gonna be, that's like my favorite musician, that's the best show ever.
And the person was like, Okay, well do you wanna go right now because we're gonna be late? And I was like, You know what? What do you wanna do?
They were like, uh, uh, I wanna have dessert <laugh>
So we had dessert and I wasn't- really, I wasn't irritated.
Then we, you know, were driving, um, to the show and they were like, I have never heard any Dylan songs <laugh>
And it's like, <laugh> the [restauranteur] was laughing about that, too, the restauranteur was like, You've never heard Dylan? <laugh> Like, well, this is going to be the best night of your life!
You’re hearing Bob Dylan!
Dave
And so we're playing songs on the way, I'm playing songs on the way, shuffling, like, the catalogue of Dylan on the way to the show. And they're open to my interpretation of lyrics at that time, which is something that other people in my life hadn't been, you know? And people who read me [are]. But some people have like unsubscribed right away. They're like, I don't really understand this. I don't know why he's doing this personal, you know, mixture of personal and critical thing, and, and why it’s so, why it’s so <laugh> autobiographical?
Dave
And so one of the songs that came on was, Blood In My Eyes for You and-
Bob Dylan
Woke up this morning. Feeling blue. Seen a good-looking girl. Can I make love with you? Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you.
Dave
And the person was like, what is this a song about? And I was able to kind of explain it as, to me at that time it was, you know, how we treat people we are trying to date, you know, and people we’re in romantic or sexual relationships with, of like, I have blood in my eyes for you. And that can go in various directions. And that was part of the work I was doing and that I can get into, um, you know, when I'm writing. But it was about kind of thinking about how I had dated and been in relationships and how I wanted that to be different.
And I remember just kind of crying on the way to the show, uh, with, with that person because they, it was, I was, it was like what I wanted to be happening, even though they didn't want me to be romantic with them. That’s fine. It was like me knowing that was okay, that I was still feeling feelings, but like that it was respecting that person's boundaries, and I know it's a, that's a weird thing, this era, like with these, you know, consent and stuff like that. But I think there's just some micro issues of consent that men, men and other people, uh, deal with. And anyway, I'm kind of rambling, like usual another Kanye rant here but, uhhh-
Dave
But, um, so we're running really late. We get to the show really fucking late. Like, it is, it's so late that they almost don't let us in. Like, they're, they're like, Uh, I don't know, I guess we can let you in. So we, we put our phones, I don’t know if you know, you know, you went to one of the shows, they, they're locking up the phones. That takes a long time. To lock up our phones. The person's confused why they're locking up the phones. They don't seem to, you know, they're like, Okay, I guess we'll lock up our phones. They’re not so happy about that.
And so we, we walk into the show and people are like, Aghast in our, in our, in our aisle <laugh> Because it's like <laugh> kind of in the middle of, The Pantages is a very small theater, relatively, like, if you can imagine, it's mostly for Broadway plays. So you can really see everything pretty clearly.
But, you know, people are, like, how are these, there's been empty seats probably irritating these people <laugh> Like if I was in the older mindset, too, like, if I had just been sitting there and seeing like empty seats for the first, like, three-quarters of the show, I'd be, like, Who the fuck are these people?
And so we walk in and, um, the song that comes on, you know, and thank you for indulging me here, Ray, but, uh, it's…
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