Finally finding someone who is more obsessed with Twin Peaks and Under the Silver Lake that they are, Hine and Buckley enthusiastically welcome Phil Ristaino to Vayse. Phil has an intimidatingly impressive CV, as an actor, artist, singer and host of the joyful, thoughtful and perhaps a little insane Post Relevant Podcast, a podcast which analyses the meaning and symbolism of Under the Silver Lake and Twin Peaks the Return in minute, intelligent and perhaps a little insane detail.

The discussion galavants from Phil's special areas of obsession, Under the Silver Lake and Twin Peaks, to his wider thoughts on magic, the essential intrinsic delight of creativity, art as an expression of life... and then out of nowhere Phil recommends the moon... (Recorded 9 June 2025)

Thanks to Phil for his time and thanks, as always to Keith for the show notes - you can find him on Bluesky here: @peakflow.bsky.social

Phil Ristaino online
The Post Relevant Podcast website
Phil’s website
Agents of Venus - Bandcamp
Phil on Instagram

Intro
Under the Silver Lake - Wikipedia
Under the Silver Lake | Official Trailer HD - YouTube
Under The Silver Lake - Reddit
Twin Peaks Season 3 (The Return) - Wikipedia
Twin Peaks Season 3, Showtime teasers - YouTube

Vayse to Face with Phil Ristaino
David Lynch - Wikipedia
Rip Van Winkle - Wikipedia
Answer To The Ultimate Question - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - YouTube
The Simpsons - Save Me Jebus - YouTube
10 Reasons The Story Of Jesus Might Be An Allegory For The Sun - ListVerse
Cronus - Wikipedia
Catholic theology - Wikipedia
White Rabbit - Wikipedia
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Wikipedia
Monty Python - Wikipedia
2001: A Space Odyssey - The Star Gate - YouTube
VYS0003 | Welcome to Vayse, Population 2
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Official Trailer - YouTube
Back to the Future (1985) Offical Trailer - YouTube
Labyrinth (1986) Official Trailer - YouTube
Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds (full album playlist) - YouTube
Richard Burton - Wikipedia
Justin Hayward - Wikipedia
The Moody Blues - Wikipedia
Forever Autumn (song) - Wikipedia
Ulla - War Of The Worlds Wiki
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - Wikipedia
Going Live! - Wikipedia
Motormouth - Wikipedia
The 8:15 from Manchester - Wikipedia
Rushmore (1998) Trailer #1 - YouTube
Red Letter Media: Half in the Bag Episode 163: Under the Silver Lake - YouTube
Hero’s journey - Wikipedia
Mycelium - Wikipedia
Blind men and an elephant - Wikipedia
David Robert Mitchell - Wikipedia
What is Revelation of the Method? - Warfoo
A24 Films website
28. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 2 (incl. Pt 1 of interview with Buckley)
29. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 3 (incl. Pt 2 of interview with Buckley)
Cicada 3301 - Wikipedia
Cicada 3301 Mystery Finally Solved And It's Not Good - Quanta
Dark Web: Cicada 3301 - Official Trailer - YouTube
Millennials, baby boomers or Gen Z: Which one are you and what does it mean? - BBC
GTA1: Grand Theft Auto (video game) - Wikipedia
Will AI Kill Human Creativity? - Kellogg Insight
DUMBO, Brooklyn - Wikipedia
The Military Origins of Facebook - Unlimited Hangout
Capitalism - Wikipedia
Neoliberalism - Wikipedia
Mandelbrot set - Wikipedia
Fractal - Wikipedia
Fibonacci sequence - Wikipedia
Louis C.K. - God's Earth - YouTube
Atlanta | Official Series Trailer | FX - YouTube
Secret Cipher of the Ufonauts, by Allen Greenfield - Goodreads
VYS0010 | Amazing Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.1
VYS0011 | Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.2
Hellier (TV series) - Wikipedia
Hellier Seasons 1&2 - Planet Weird
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia
The Book of the Law - Wikipedia
The Secret History of Twin Peaks, by Mark Frost - Goodreads
Cave painting - Wikipedia
Albert Hofmann - Wikipedia
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Promethea - Wikipedia
Blue moon - Wikipedia
John Constantine From Fiction to Reality - YouTube
Grant Morrison - Wikipedia
The Invisibles - Wikipedia
Doom Patrol - Wikipedia
Grant Morrison on Chaos Magic, the occult & Sigil creation (from DisInfoCon 2000) - YouTube
Disinformation (TV series) - Wikipedia
Disinfo YouTube channel
Counterculture - Wikipedia
Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult, by Richard Metzger (Editor), GrantMorrison (Introduction) - Goodreads
Chaos magic - Wikipedia
Sigil - Wikipedia
Invocation - Wikipedia
VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
Ong’s Hat website
Conspiracy theory - Wikipedia
Alternate reality game (ARG) - Wikipedia
Ong’s Hat Compleat (audiobook), by Joseph Matheny, Sequoyah Kennedy (narrator), Stephen James Buckley (music) - Goodreads
Joseph Matheny’s substack
Aidan Wachter’s website
VYS0042 | Grinding Out Some Low-End - Vayse to Face with Aidan Wachter
Reality tunnel - Wikipedia
VYS0033 | Battle-Owl vs Sci-fi Centipede - Vayse to Face with Loren Fetterman
Is the moon a planet? - Live Science
VYS0039 | Try Not To Be A Dick Shall Be The Whole Of The Law - Vayse to Face with Duncan Barford
The Baptist's Head Compendium: Magick as a Path to Enlightenment, by Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford - Goodreads
Liber Samekh: The Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel - Open Magick
The Going Down: An Esoteric Novel, by Duncan Barford - Goodreads
Occult Experiments in the Home: Personal Explorations of Magick and the Paranormal, by Duncan Barford - Goodreads
The Moon (tarot card) - Wikipedia
Triple Goddess (Neopaganism) - Wikipedia
Diana (mythology) - Wikipedia
Three Witches (Macbeth) - Wikipedia
Psychedelics and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece - Greek Reporter
Stoned ape theory - Wikipedia
Manna From Heaven: Psilocybe Mushrooms? - Deoxy.org
Crrow777: The first Lunar Wave from Sept 2012 - YouTube
Pleroma - Wikipedia
I Saw The TV Glow | Official Trailer HD | A24 - YouTube
Mr. Melancholy - Villains Wiki
Georges Méliès - A Trip To The Moon (1902) - YouTube
Teletubbies Baby Sun - YouTube
The Mighty Boosh: The Moon - YouTube
27. PRP3: Twin Peaks: the Return: the DECODE episode 1
David Lynch explains the symbolism of electricity in his movies - Far Out
Twin Perfect: Twin Peaks ACTUALLY EXPLAINED (No, Really) - YouTube
The evolution of the Arm (Twin Peaks - Season 3) - YouTube
Kyle MacLachlan - Wikipedia
Twin Peaks: Ed and Norma - YouTube
Big Ed Gets a Little Loopy - YouTube - Note: The glitch in Ed’s reflection can be seen from 0:13, just above the oil drum in the centre.
30. PRP3: Twin Peaks: The Return: The DECODE episode 4
Bob (Twin Peaks): Conceptual history - Wikipedia
Nick Cave - Wikipedia
30. PRP3: Twin Peaks: The Return: The DECODE episode 4
Sonny Jim Jones (TWIN PEAKS Character Series #59) - Lost in the Movies
Sonny Jim's gymset scene (fan edited) - YouTube
The X-Files - Wikipedia
We live inside a dream - YouTube

Phil’s recommendations
XTC - Wikipedia
What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast
The Phoenician Scheme - Official Trailer - YouTube
The Doom Patrol Omnibus, by Grant Morrison, Richard Case (Illustrator) - Goodreads
Lint, by Steve Aylett - Goodreads

Buckley’s closing question
Mr C (Dale Cooper doppelganger) - Twin Peaks Wiki
Phillip Jeffries - Twin Peaks Wiki
Garland Briggs - Twin Peaks Wiki
Gordon Cole - Twin Peaks Wiki

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