February 2012
9 posts
Claire L. Evans' Road to Science Fiction Expertise →
Shawn Conner: You seem to have a lot of diverse interests, and I wanted to know where they branch out from – where your initial interests lay?
Claire L. Evans: I’ve always been into sci-fi. When I was a little kid I read a lot of Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke.
I studied literature in university. I wasn’t into science at all, especially in school, I was always intimidated by science. It...
The Secret Teachings of the Mystery Lights EBook →
In 2009, YACHT released The Secret Teachings of the Mystery Lights: A Handbook on Overcoming Humanity and Becoming Your Own God, their first book. It was described as the text version of the philosophical ideas set forth in the album, See Mystery Lights. For years, the physical book was only available person-to-person at YACHT shows, so that YACHT could monitor each purchase. Now the book is...
January 2012
12 posts
“You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
December 2011
8 posts
YACHT on the Uselessness of Yelp and Defending...
Let’s talk about the places you like in Portland and L.A., the cities you’re most tied to.
Jona Bechtolt: We could talk about this stuff forever. We can talk about basically any major city in the world…
Claire: You go to a new city and find a vegetarian restaurant, and you’re kind of mainlining into whatever subculture is going on there.
An eater.com interview with YACHT
WatchIn which Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans are taken to Magic Jewelry in New York City to get their auras photographed and read, one light phenomenon they weren’t already familiar with.
November 2011
13 posts
3 tags
Willamette Week: I feel like we are coming out of...
Claire L. Evans: It depends on the “we” you are talking about. If you’re talking about America, I think there’s still a great deal of fear and paranoia about science and what that represents. But if you’re talking about artists and younger generations of people, I think there’s a moment now where people are really starting to embrace science and realize the fact...
“Friday’s YACHT show provided one of those moments of band-to-crowd...”
– Phil West reviews YACHT at Fun Fun Fun Fest for the Huffington Post.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
– Albert Einstein
October 2011
11 posts
“Regardless of its recent foray into the realm of all things cute, young, and...”
– The Tuned In on “YACHT’s Serious Side”
A beautiful and canny interpretation of one of YACHT’s core tenets, that the “labors of mankind” (art, music, philosophy, science) all strive to express a reaction to the same thing, that is, sheer, impossible awe at the...
