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I'll Follow You
by Allison Felus
“I’ll Follow You” is a podcast about creative process and what really goes on behind the scenes in an artistic life. I love talking to musicians, writers, visual artists, and other brilliant thinkers about their working methods, obsessions, and pet projects. Visit queenofpeaches.com for show notes.
Episodes
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036 In Conversation with the Critical Thinking Witch Collective
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today I am delighted to be in conversation with two organizers from the Critical Thinking Witch Collective, Alex Wrekk and Maya Amatvult. Alex and Maya were kind enough to join me in my digital studio to talk about the work they’re doing with the...
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Third Season Finale!
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. I just wanted to pop in here quickly and let all you lovely listeners know that you’re not going to be seeing any fresh episodes in your feed for a short while so that I can turn my attention to some other creative projects that I’ve had simmering…
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035 On the Energy of Creativity with Film and TV Editor Jeanette Elaine Dubois
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today I am simply delighted to be in conversation with Jeanette Elaine Dubois. Jeanette is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and has 25 years of experience cutting a wide variety of projects for film and television. She’s worked on the…
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034 Chatting with Michael O'Donnell About His Debut Novel "Above the Fire"
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. This week I am absolutely thrilled to share my conversation with the writer Michael O’Donnell. Michael is the author of the novel Above the Fire. Published by Blackstone Publishing in December 2023, Above the Fire crystallizes the relationship…
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033 On Scent and Soap with Hayley J. Croom of Paintbox Soapworks
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. This week I am absolutely thrilled to be in conversation with Hayley J. Croom of Paintbox Soapworks. Queer, witchy, feminist, and leftist-owned since 2009, Paintbox Soapworks is devoted to making small batch soaps, skincare, and bath products in...
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032 A Chat with Hollywood Costume Supervisor Sara Walbridge
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. For this first episode of 2024, I’m really excited to share my conversation with Hollywood costume supervisor Sara Walbridge. Sara is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago and has been steadily working in Hollywood for…
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A Christmas Passage from Paul Weston's Book Atargatis
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Rather than release a normal interview episode today, I thought I’d just put a little audio trinket in your stocking, so to speak. I’d like to read a short selection from a book called "Atargatis," which is by the English writer, lecturer,...
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031 On the Intersection of Science and Spirituality with Allison Clark
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today I’m incredibly psyched to share with you my conversation with science writer and medical intuitive Allison Clark. Allison is a heart-centered, holistically-minded healer who takes into consideration all aspects of a person—not just their body...
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030 On Papercraft and Feminism with Sadie Teper
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. I’m delighted to be in conversation with visual artist and graphic designer Sadie Teper. Sadie is the founder and owner of Twentysome Design. Twentysome is a lady-powered feminist stationery and gift brand. Sadie’s design background enables her to...
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029 On Problem Solving and Process with Jerome Pohlen
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today on I'll Follow You, I am super excited to bring you my conversation with the author and editor Jerome Pohlen. Jerry has written 23 books for both adults and children, including Oddball Illinois (which is the flagship title of the larger…
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028 On Music and Healing with Marta Johnson
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today I am delighted to be in conversation with pianist and healer Marta Johnson. Marta’s first career was as a professional pianist, mostly working in the classical and musical theater worlds in Chicago. However, a crisis of performance anxiety...
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027 Behind the Scenes with Cemal Ozdemir
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. I am so excited to share with you my conversation with my very dear, very funny, and very brilliant friend Cemal Ozdemir. Cemal spent nearly 30 years with the firm Dauby O’Connor & Zaleski (DOZ), a leader in affordable housing and real estate...
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026 In Conversation with Ed Bialon and Don Graves of the Terry Felus Trio
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today on I’ll Follow You, I’m in conversation with two of the most influential people in my musical life, Ed Bialon and Don Graves. Ed and Don were members of my dad’s band, the Terry Felus Trio, for about ten years, from the early 1970s through the...
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025 A Chat with Author and Journalist Saga Briggs
Show notes are available at QueenofPeaches.com. Today on I’ll Follow You, I’m super excited to share my recent conversation with author and journalist Saga Briggs. If you’re listening to this on the day that the episode initially goes live, Saga’s first book will be officially published tomorrow,...
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024 A Chat with Francesca Kritikos about Poetry
Please visit QueenofPeaches.com for full show notes. Francesca Kritikos is the author of the chapbooks It Felt Like Worship (published by Sad Spell Press in 2017) and Animals Don't Go to Hell (published by Bottlecap Press in 2021) as well as the forthcoming full-length collection Exercise in…
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023 I'll Follow You: A Chat with Pascuala Herrera about Self-Publishing
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for full show notes. Pascuala Herrera was a Professor and Accessibility Specialist at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, for almost 30 years and was selected as Distinguished Faculty, the highest honor given to a faculty member, in 2019 and is now faculty emeritus. She...
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022 My Writing Is How I Connect with People: A Chat with S. Elizabeth of Unquiet Things
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes. S. Elizabeth is a writer, curator, and frill-seeker. Her essays and interviews about esoteric art have appeared in Coilhouse, Dirge Magazine, Death & The Maiden, as well as on her own occulture blog Unquiet Things, which intersects music, fashion,...
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021 A Conversation with Tim Clarke, the Translator of IN MAY
Complete show notes are available on QueenofPeaches.com. Tim Clarke has performed throughout Europe, North America, and the UK, including close to 1,000 appearances on London’s West End stages. He’s had leading roles in productions including Jesus Christ Superstar, Blood Brothers, The Buddy Holly...
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020 Hilary Webb: We Breathe Together
Complete show notes are available on QueenofPeaches.com. Today, I’m in conversation with my very dear friend, singer Hilary Webb. Originally from Schererville, Indiana, Hilary began studying voice at the age of 13. She earned her bachelor’s from Ball State University, where she studied with Mary...
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Black Lives Matter
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019 “It’s Not About Where You Are That Makes You Safe, It’s About How You’re Connected to the Earth”–A Chat with Myan Binder
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes! Myan Binder is a healer, clairvoyant, animal communicator, and spiritual teacher. She has studied painting at the University of Wisconsin and art direction at the Miami Ad School and has taught everything from preschool to ESL to adult refugees....
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018 "My Path Was Just Sort of Chosen for Me"--A Chat with Brian Westfall of Rare Birds Musical Oddities
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes! Today I’m delighted to be in conversation with Brian Westfall. Brian is the proprietor of the shop Rare Birds Musical Oddities. Rare Birds is a shop dedicated to those elusive, beautiful, and lovingly weird pieces that will bring character and…
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017 “Traveling with the Ghost of Someone He Admires”--A Conversation About Music Books with Brian Cremins
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes! Today I’m welcoming back to the show my first repeat guest--who also happens to be the human I’m sheltering in place with--the writer, musician, and scholar Brian Cremins. Brian’s joining me today for a recorded version of an ongoing conversation...
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016 “I Have Something I’d Like to Say, But How Do I Best Say It?”–A Chat with Yuval Taylor
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for complete show notes! I’m delighted today to be in conversation with my very good friend and former colleague Yuval Taylor. Yuval is the coauthor of the books Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop and Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular...
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015 "Respect What It Is That's Going On Inside of You"--A Chat with Erin the Psychic Witch
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for show notes! In my attempt to bridge the gap between not wanting to add to the noise about the coronavirus situation, but then also not wanting to ignore its presence in our lives either, I thought that a conversation with my brilliant friend Erin the Psychic Witch…
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014 “No, But We’ve Seen It Done”--A Chat with Paul and Angie Lowe about Jesus Christ Superstar
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for show notes! Paul and Angie Lowe were teachers for many decades at Lake Central High School in St. John, Indiana. During the weekdays, Paul taught speech and Angie taught French, and then on afternoons and weekends, they were heads of the theater program, known as the...
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013 “A Nice Way to Think About One’s Relationship with Time and Objects”–A Chat About Perfume with Shiamin Kwa
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for show notes! Welcome to the perfume episode! Today I’m in conversation with my dear and brilliant friend Shiamin Kwa. Shiamin is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of three books,...
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012 "The Guiding Light Is Surprise"--A Chat with Tony Trigilio
Visit queenofpeaches.com for show notes! Today, I’m incredibly pleased to be speaking with my friend, neighbor, and former bandmate, the poet Tony Trigilio. Tony is the author and editor of 13 books, including, most recently, Ghosts of the Upper Floor (published by BlazeVOX [books] in 2019)…
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011 "I Don't Want to Be an Expert"–A Chat with Keiler Roberts
Visit queenofpeaches.com for show notes! Keiler Roberts has been writing autobiographical comics for ten years. Her six books include Sunburning, Chlorine Gardens, and, most recently, Rat Time, all three of which were published by Koyama Press. Her self-published autobiographical comic series...
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010 “I Would Always Say Yes to a Spiritual Experience”–A Chat with Angie Yingst
Visit QueenofPeaches.com for show notes! Today on the show I’m incredibly pleased to be in conversation with Angie Yingst. Angie is a published writer, a sacred artist, a Usui Reiki Master Teacher, and an Earth Medicine Practitioner specializing in shamanic and crystal healing techniques. Angie…
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009 "Luckily Theater Saved Me"--A Chat with Paul Storiale
Click here for show notes! This week on the show, I’m delighted to be speaking with a very dear friend, the theatrical impresario and President of NoHo himself, Mr. Paul Storiale. Paul is the Artistic Director for the Defiance Theatre Company, the President and Founder of the Valley Theatre…
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008 "Everything Is Interdisciplinary"--A Chat with David Higgins
Click here for show notes! Today I’m pleased to have on the show one of my all-time favorite humans, David Higgins. David teaches English at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in 20th-century American literature and culture, and his research explores transformations in...
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007 Learning How to Meet People Where They're At with Michael Sherron
Go to QueenofPeaches.com for show notes. Michael Sherron is currently an apprentice docent from the class of 2018 at the Phoenix Art Museum and now leads tours there for adults and school groups. In his day job, he's an engineering manager building large scale cloud hosting solutions for the...
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006 Writing and Recording American Romantic Music with Brian Cremins
Click here for show notes! Just this past week, my band, the Felus Cremins Band, released our latest album. It’s called American Romantic Music, and you can stream or download it on Bandcamp. To mark the occasion, I asked my bandmate and partner Brian Cremins to join me to chat specifically about...
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005 Creating an Underground Awards Show with the Nick Movie Awards
If you were on Twitter the day that the 2019 Oscar nominations were announced, you may have noticed a little viral excitement about an alternate set of awards called the Elsie’s. However, to a select handful of people, this whole idea of the Elsie’s sounded strangely familiar. See, there’s…
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004 Going from Point A to Point B By Way of Q and Pi with Gene Kannenberg Jr.
Click here for additional podcast notes! Gene Kannenberg Jr. is a cartoonist living in Evanston, Illinois. His comics, mostly abstract with asemic writing, include Qodèxx, Space Year 2015, and The Abstract Circus. His work was included in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts' 2017 exhibit "Asemic...
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003 Storytelling through Resonant Material with Lewis Lain
Lewis Lain's work focuses on storytelling, simple aesthetics, and recycled "resonant" material. He favors re-claimed windows and found-glass as canvas, which he combines with cardboard and acrylic to create multi-dimensional paintings punctuated by saturated color and bold linework. Notable work...
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002 Considering Reinvention with Kate Merena
New year's resolutions have become pretty stale to me over the past several years. They've just started to seem so joyless, so totally focused on self-improvement in a way that, at least speaking for myself, was starting to feel synonymous with self-punishment. But Reinvention, though. Ahh,...
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001 Best Movies of the Decade with Casey Andrews
To inaugurate the show, I'm going to be chatting today with Casey Andrews. Casey is Professor of English at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. He is the author of the book Writing Against War: Literature, Activism, and the British Peace Movement, which was published by Northwestern...
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“I’ll Follow You” is a podcast about creative process and what really goes on behind the scenes in an artistic life. I love talking to musicians, writers, visual artists, and other brilliant thinkers about their working methods, obsessions, and pet projects. Visit queenofpeaches.com for show notes.
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“I’ll Follow You” is a podcast about creative process and what really goes on behind the scenes in an artistic life. I love talking to musicians, writers, visual artists, and other brilliant thinkers about their working methods, obsessions, and pet projects. Visit queenofpeaches.com for show notes.
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