No Way Out but Through
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMonologues + Music. No interviews! No instruction! No heartwarming stories about personal growth! Scott Taylor is your unreliable narrator.
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After Long Winter
March 07, 2022 23:00 - 2 minutes - 1.51 MBAfter long winter, giving each other nothing, we collide with blossoms in our hands. by Chiyo Chiyo (1703-1775) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period, a Buddhist nun, and widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku). After Long Winter is one of the best haiku ever written. Period. Translated by David Ray. This piece originally appeared in The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters episode. Featuring: Susan Kay Anderson, Glen Stohr, Curt Hopkins, Richard La Ro...
5. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
June 24, 2021 21:00 - 12 minutes - 8.87 MBThe Playlist: Thanks Gratefulness puts the pedal to the metal and crashes into the void in W.S. Merwin's poem Thanks. Once Once I was in love with my future. It was lit like a Japanese city. My life was charmed. I got into fistfights. I turned on a dime. I was fiercely optimistic. I was the luckiest man alive. Self Portrait It doesn't interest David Whyte if there is one god or many gods, he wants to know if you belong — or feel abandoned. The Sleep of Reason We collaborated acr...
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
June 24, 2021 21:00 - 12 minutes - 8.87 MBThe Playlist: Thanks Gratefulness puts the pedal to the metal and crashes into the void in W.S. Merwin's poem Thanks. Once Once I was in love with my future. It was lit like a Japanese city. My life was charmed. I got into fistfights. I turned on a dime. I was fiercely optimistic. I was the luckiest man alive. Self Portrait It doesn't interest David Whyte if there is one god or many gods, he wants to know if you belong — or feel abandoned. The Sleep of Reason We collaborated acr...
Kindness
June 09, 2021 22:00 - 2 minutes - 1.54 MBKindness is the second single from my upcoming podcast episode, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, and an amazing poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. The Transcript can be found here
Once
June 02, 2021 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.47 MBOnce is the first single from my podcast episode, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Once Once I was in love with my future. It was lit like a Japanese city. My life was charmed. I got into fistfights I turned on a dime. I was fiercely optimistic. I was the luckiest man alive. Once, I was shot out of a canon, I landed on the moon, I killed seven with one blow, I balanced ten torpedoes on the tip of my tongue like a sailor. The future was up for grabs, The past was simply a benig...
October 20th
September 22, 2020 21:00 - 55 seconds - 701 KBExcerpted from Separation Energy It is also included in my upcoming book, October. October 20th The temperature has dropped, the constructs have vanished, and the woman the lab assistant’s been seeing will not return his calls. He shakes his head, saying, The tensile strength of the bridge cables will not hold if the vibration continues at these unprecedented levels. How will it continue to function, he wonders, if the party in power channels her resources towards some c...
Sweet Darkness
August 08, 2020 23:00 - 1 minute - 978 KBThis is excerpted from Episode 4: Separation Energy Sweet Darkness by David Whyte When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your home tonight. The night will give you a horizon further than you can see. You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the o...
When Death Comes
June 26, 2020 12:00 - 1 minute - 1.26 MBThis is excerpted from Episode 4: Separation Energy When Death Comes By Mary Oliver When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And therefore I look upon everything as ...
Lines to a Poet
June 01, 2020 18:00 - 1 minute - 962 KBLines to a Poet by Josephine Jacobsen Be careful what you say to us now. The street-lamp is smashed, the window is jagged, There is a man dead in his blood by the base of the fountain. If you speak, You cannot be delicate or sad or clever. Some other hour, in a moist April, We will consider similes for the budding larches. You can teach our wits and our fancy then; By a green-lit midnight in your study We will delve into your sparkling rock. But now at dreadful high noon You may speak only...
I am Waiting
May 22, 2020 14:00 - 4 minutes - 2.95 MBA performance of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's great poem I am Waiting—excerpted from episode 4: Separation Energy. Music and performance by Scott Taylor ©2020. Listen to the whole show here: Separation Energy
4. Separation Energy
May 05, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes - 8.06 MBStories, poems, and monologues with music for that special sheltering-at-home time of your life. 1. Messages (Taylor): A woman sends messengers into the afterworld 2. Sweet Darkness (David Whyte): Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. 3. Cosmodemonic (Taylor): If you want to speak to a human being who will sympathize and empathize, someone who will actually listen to you and help you to solve your problems,...
Separation Energy
May 05, 2020 11:00 - 11 minutes - 8.06 MBStories, poems, and monologues with music for that special sheltering-at-home time of your life. 1. Messages (Taylor): A woman sends messengers into the afterworld 2. Sweet Darkness (David Whyte): Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. 3. Cosmodemonic (Taylor): If you want to speak to a human being who will sympathize and empathize, someone who will actually listen to you and help you to solve your problems,...
The Race is On
January 29, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 3.68 MBAn excerpt from Episode3: Matter The Race is On (after George Jones, with inspiration from Tom Durkin and Larry Collmus) ...Now on the back stretch, Happily Married is leading along the rail followed by Is This All There Is Stuck in the Middle with You is three lengths back it’s still Happily Married, Is This All There Is, and here comes Late Night at Work, now Attractive Secretary is making her move, is This All There Is has moved in front of Happily Married, Attractive Secretary ...
The Race is On
January 29, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 3.68 MBAn excerpt from Episode3: Matter The Race is On (after George Jones, with inspiration from Tom Durkin and Larry Collmus) ...Now on the back stretch, Happily Married is leading along the rail followed by Is This All There Is Stuck in the Middle with You is three lengths back it’s still Happily Married, Is This All There Is, and here comes Late Night at Work, now Attractive Secretary is making her move, is This All There Is has moved in front of Happily Married, Attractive Secretary ...
The Past Comes Calling
January 09, 2020 20:00 - 3 minutes - 2.62 MBAn excerpt from Episode 1: Past Tense The Past Comes Calling The past is the pitcher who does not bother backing you off the plate with high heat but simply throws at your unhelmeted head. The past is the catcher who kicks you in the nuts while you’re sprawled out on the ground. The past is the umpire who laughs, and calls you out. Words and music © 2020 by Scott Taylor Transcript at Scott Taylor's cover is blown
Matter
December 13, 2019 16:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBImagine yourself in the middle of a world-destroying catastrophe. Now imagine that we have a short quiz for you. It won’t take but a minute. The world is a dusty, dark chaos, and the trap our unreliable narrator finds himself in, gets more dire as the story goes on. Agents Angstrom and Kinski find themselves in a different kind of trap—and due to a lack of budget, and thus, vocal talent, poor Kinski doesn’t even get a speaking part. An announcement that the hit show Arena is returning to the...
3. Matter
December 13, 2019 16:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBImagine yourself in the middle of a world-destroying catastrophe. Now imagine that we have a short quiz for you. It won’t take but a minute. The world is a dusty, dark chaos, and the trap our unreliable narrator finds himself in, gets more dire as the story goes on. Agents Angstrom and Kinski find themselves in a different kind of trap—and due to a lack of budget, and thus, vocal talent, poor Kinski doesn’t even get a speaking part. An announcement that the hit show Arena is returning to the...
Afterimage
September 24, 2019 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7.5 MBA chance meeting at the airport, a serious case of misplaced empathy, and an obsession that destroys everything. This show is actually Episode 0. It was originally recorded in November 2018, and released on my YouTube channel. Because of the feedback I received—and the fact that I had a great time making it—I decided to change gears and develop No Way Out but Through. Words and music © 2019 by Scott Taylor Transcript at Scott Taylor's cover is blown
2. Afterimage
September 24, 2019 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7.45 MBA chance meeting at the airport, a serious case of misplaced empathy, and an obsession that destroys everything. This show is actually Episode 0. It was originally recorded in November 2018, and released on my YouTube channel. Because of the feedback I received—and the fact that I had a great time making it—I decided to change gears and develop No Way Out but Through. Words and music © 2019 by Scott Taylor Transcript at Scott Taylor's cover is blown
Past Tense
August 11, 2019 23:00 - 13 minutes - 9.62 MBA psychic finds a strange piece of metal with a map brought back from her dreams. Scott draws some questionable conclusions about the present, based on serial misreadings of his own past. A town reacts to long-awaited infernal signs. The Past is your permanent crazy ex who knows all your passwords—and secrets—by heart. From the radio desk, Scott suggests a weekend activity for the kids at the Armory, involving art and knives. He then gives a quick update about last week's freak eclipse. And ...
1. Past Tense
August 11, 2019 23:00 - 13 minutes - 9.56 MBA psychic finds a strange piece of metal with a map brought back from her dreams. Scott draws some questionable conclusions about the present, based on serial misreadings of his own past. A town reacts to long-awaited infernal signs. The Past is your permanent crazy ex who knows all your passwords—and secrets—by heart. From the radio desk, Scott suggests a weekend activity for the kids at the Armory, involving art and knives. He then gives a quick update about last week's freak eclipse. And ...