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Kenneth Anger’s final on-camera interview was conducted for Magick Show.

Picking up where I left off yesterday when I was discussing the various difficulties I had in trying to book interviewees for Magick Show.

Whenever you are inviting people to be a part of something… occulty, the first question one is always asked is “Who else will be participating?” 

And it would be best if you came prepared with a good answer to that because no one wants to be associated with you know, people they don’t want to be associated with. If there’s one thing I learned over the years about those in the occult community, they tend to have strong opinions… especially about other occultists.  

My strategy was to see if it was possible to book Kenneth Anger (it was) and once Ken’s participation was locked down, then I felt more comfortable emailing Bri Luna out of the blue to see if she might be interested, knowing from reading The Hoodwitch that she was a big Kenneth Anger fan. Of course I made sure to casually mention Ken’s name in my opening salvo. You can’t very well knock on the door of the queen of the witches with an empty hand, now can you?

So now, I could drop both Kenneth’s and Bri Luna’s names. In the occult world, they are a formidable duo, I think the reader will agree! And Douglas Rushkoff came for free. I didn’t even have to ask him because he is one of Magick Show‘s executive producers. Mitch Horowitz happily agreed to be interviewed. Drop all four of those names and you’re really sayin’ something.

As I wrote yesterday, although a lot of the people who were interviewed for the show took their sweet time getting back to me, almost every single person I asked, save for four people, said yes. I was also assisted by Lisa Derrick in LA, by Dr. Christina Oakley Harrington in London and by Melissa Jayne Madara in NYC, who all three made suggestions of some great people to invite to participate and then contacted these people on my behalf and vouched for me. 

Things started falling into place…