Bonus Birthday Blast From the Past
Life is a Festival #61: Behind the Mynd with David Colón
If you’ve discovered my work through this show and you want to know more about the Life is a Festival philosophy and how I met so many fascinating people to interview (or if you just want to hear some silly stories on my birthday) this is the podcast for you!My dear friend David Colón used to have the most delightful weekly radio program on FCC Free Radio called Behind The Mynd. It was a celebration of San Francisco’s local musicians, artists, and creative humans. Every November I would come on the show to review my year. On this episode I had just returned from my biggest festival run as Creative Director of Fest300, Chip Conley’s guide to the world’s best festivals. This was truly the peak of that special chapter in my life and I’m so happy to share it with you now.I’ve offered a lot of my perspectives on the podcast lately, including my morning ritual and my musings on whether life is still a festival in this time of crisis, so why share this now? Well, it’s my good god dang birthday! And I wanted to offer a whiff of nostalgia for a more playful time, a time when we still gathered and when our bungler-in-chief had yet to squeak his way into office.On the program we talk about surrendering to psytrance at Boom Festival Official in Portugal, how to stop showing off at Rainbow Serpent Festival in Australia, why you shouldn’t try iboga in an Airbnb in suburban Cape Town, and finally, how to be “dearmored.” The show is filled with jokes, adventure, songs, surprise callers, and the foundational ideas of Life is a Festival. Enjoy!
LINKS
Behind the Mynd with David Colón: http://www.behindthemynd.com/
Original Unedited Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vNJAzcYmfm6RlNKNxOv31
FCC Free Radio: https://www.facebook.com/fccfreeradio/
Boom Festival: https://boomfestival.org/
Android Jones: https://androidjones.com/
Daniel Popper: http://www.danielpopper.com/
Chinn Chinese Medicine: https://www.chinnchinesemedicine.com/
The Borderland, Scandinavian Regional Burn: https://talk.theborderland.se/main/
Lake of Stars: https://lakeofstars.org/
Rocking the Daisies: http://rockingthedaisies.com/
Rainbow Serpent Festival: https://rainbowserpent.net/
The Zendo Project: https://zendoproject.org/
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TIMESTAMPS
:08 Why I look at life as a blossoming
:12 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Surrender to Psytrance
:24 How I got my start in the festival game
:29 Anal dearmorment at the Borderland in Denmark
:38 We get a caller on the show!
:43 Lake of Stars Festival in Malawi
:48 Iboga in an Airbnb in Suburban Cape Town
:56 Who do I want to be when I’m 73?
1:01 Trying to be cool at Rainbow Serpent
1:07 Psychedelics permeating the mainstream
Graphics Designed by Andy McErlean
Theme song ““Peculiar Colors” [Manjumasi]“ by dj atish