Episode 3: MICHELLE LHOOQ
Counterculture journalist, psychonaut, party promoter and author Michelle Lhooq discusses rave utopias (and dystopias), new frontiers in drug culture, the Asian rave scene, Temporary Autonomous Zones and the intersection of protests and partying. Also, hear about the legendary Vapelandia rave behind a fried chicken place, glamorous weed mansion parties, the Cali Sober movement and that one time on DMT.
Things discussed in this episode:
- RAVE NEW WORLD – Michelle’s Substack newsletter with your weekly dose of rave & protest (mis)adventures and missives from the bleeding edge of counterculture.
- Weed: Everything You Always Wanted to Know - Buy Michelle’s book about weed smoking! A perfect inappropriate holiday gift for your younger siblings/nephews/nieces/cousins.
- Temporary Autonomous Zones - Hakim Bey is a deeply problematic pedophile but he had some cool anarchic cyberpunk ideas.
- K-holios - Michelle writes about the boom of COVID19 pandemic ketamine usage for VICE.
- Cat Marnell - An introduction to the life and times of NYC’s queen of cracked gonzo party journalism. (Still trying to find my archive of her “Art of Crack-Tracktiveness bible for Jane Mag)
- Jia Tolentino - Millennials, your voice has arrived. The archive of New Yorker writer, Trick Mirror author and first-person essay queen Jia Tolentino.
- Weed Rave - More about Michelle’s WeedRave420
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