Aesthetic Arrest Podcast: Stevie Wonder, Salvador Dalí, Padma Lakshmi, Hannah Gadsby & Federico García Lorca!

Please check out our new crowdfunding campaign! We have big plans for Season 2 of our podcast and many exciting new gifts for our donors. Your support is crucial to the future of The Epicurean Vagabonds.

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“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph Campbell

Aesthetic Arrest is our weekly dip into the Epicurean pleasures we’ve been enjoying lately. Cheers to that!

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Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations:

Reading: Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Federico García Lorca (edited by Christopher Maurer) 

Purchase here.

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Listening: The Sky is the Same Color Everywhere by Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté

Purchase via Bandcamp

For a lot more global string fusion music (including playlists!), check out Ryan Elston’s article: String Theory: The New Music of Global Fusion!

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Looking: Salvador Dalí Theatre and Museum (Figueres, Spain)

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Viewing: Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality - documentary directed by David Pujol

Salvador Dalí – In Search of Immortality [via Pannonia Entertainment]

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Tasting: Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi: Season 2 (Hulu)

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Ryan Elston’s Recommendations:

Reading: The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston

Purchase here.

Author Maxine Hong Kingston on Working With Veterans (via BillMoyers.com)

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Listening: Innervisions by Stevie Wonder

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Looking: The Art of Ursula von Rydingsvard

Von Rydingsvard standing in front of Dumna in her studio in Bushwick, 2015. [© Itinerant Pictures LLC, All Rights Reserved.]

Ona, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, 2013. [© Itinerant Pictures LLC, All Rights Reserved.]

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• Official Site of Ursula von Rydingsvard

• Watch Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own - directed by Daniel Traub (via Vimeo):

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Viewing: Hannah Gadsby: Something Special (Netflix)

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Tasting: Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi: Season 2 (Hulu)

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That’s it for this week! But we want the dinner party to continue! So here is this week's question for the table:

This week was the one year anniversary of our Substack, and next month will be the one year anniversary of our podcast! So here's our question for the table: What do YOU want to hear on Season 2 of our podcast? Tell us in the comments what you enjoyed about Season 1 and anything in particular you'd like us to discuss or implement for Season 2!

And please don't forget to donate to our crowdfunding campaign! We need your help to make Season 2 a reality!

Cheers to that!