Sparks superfan, publisher and writer Tosh Berman hosted a public access show in 1986 and ‘87, and he recently stuck all 20 episodes on YouTube. His guests on Tea with Tosh were of unusually high quality for a talk show on local cable: Tom Recchion of LAFMS, Philip Glass, Phranc, Peter Case, and Russ Tamblyn are among his interlocutors, or analysands. I’m particularly fond of the interview with Bruce Conner, who was an associate of Berman père.

True, I am partial to Conner’s art, as who is not. But mainly it is just so refreshing to hear a couple of regular guys talking plain sense:

Tosh Berman: Did you somehow work your exhibit and the meteor shower at the same time, or was this by chance?

Bruce Conner: Everything was coordinated on seven mystic levels.

Berman: Huh. Hmm. And you have an interest in mystical levels, don’t you?

Conner: Yeah.

Berman: What’s your interest, exactly, in, uh, in mystics?

Conner: Usually, getting on the elevator and never getting off again.

Berman: Oh, gosh, don’t say that. That’s another one of my things, elevators.

Conner: Elevators that go so high, they become transparent, become pure light?

Berman: Yes. Yes.

Conner: Crystal elevators.

Ascend into the astral light with Bruce and Tosh:

Just for jolly, here’s Bruce Conner’s video for DEVO’s “Mongoloid”:

H/T Penny-Ante