Years ago when I lived in this building, my friend Koi and I celebrated what we dubbed “The Church of the Unmade Bed” every Sunday. This was back in the days when Joe Frank did his radio show on KCRW called “The Other Side”. We would hit the farmer’s market for breakfast, come home, get stoned, kick back and absorb the genius. For those of you who have never heard this show, or of Joe Frank, you are missing out on one of the great minds of our time.

Mr. Joe Frank is a magician with his words, taking sound bites and seemingly disconnected ideas yet somehow weaving a tapestry of brilliance with them. His dark, cynical monologues (the voice in my head), contrasting the calm words of Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield (the voice in my heart) laid the groundwork for the PHETASY PHILOSOPHY. Sarcasm, despair, hilarity and spirituality can all exist together. In fact, not only can they, they MUST.

At the end of every hour with Joe I felt enlightened, disturbed, uncomfortable…any number of complex feelings would usually be occurring simultaneously. No matter what the feelings were, I felt that my soul had been rearranged during the course of the broadcast and I was somehow different.

It is in the spirit of Joe Frank and “The Other Side” that The Church of the Unmade Bed (CHUB) has been revived here on Phetasy. I am not even attempting to come CLOSE to being Joe Frank, but I am going to try to post nuggets of wisdom every Sunday. Hopefully these thoughts from the Masters bring you that much closer to, for lack of a better word, The Source. All from the comfort of your own bed.