This Is My Favourite Thing: Recent Episodes
Jack McDonald
The thirteenth episode of TIMFT explores the fetid ecstasy of Danny Boyle's film Trainspotting (1996) with Nicholas Castro looking at empathetic cinema, the black hole of addiction, and the idea of "found family".
Trainspotting (1996) https://boxd.it/29XY
Trainspotting: The Choice of a Generation https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Danny_Boyle/HEhKWfOyQLcC
This bumper double episode of TIMFT with Static Vision's Conor Bateman and Felix Hubble looks at the oddly familiar in two new media works: the idiosyncratic YouTube artefact 'Competitive eating icon, a Staten Islander, retires', and the extravagant pop deconstruction of easyFun's easyMix.
Competitive eating icon, a Staten Islander, retires (2008) https://youtu.be/nnl9rRw-Qgc
easyMix - easyFun (2015) https://soundcloud.com/easyfun/easymix
Embalming the obscure: The rise of B-movie cinephilia https://www.academia.edu/35802985/
Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBryTebK2Og
Perfect Film (1986) dir. Ken Jacobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_qJoqvzA4
Hollow Jungle (2019) dir. Conor Bateman http://norbateman.co/hollow-jungle/
Ian Barr tweet https://twitter.com/ianbarr/status/747995667461603332
Static Vision https://linktr.ee/staticvision
The beautiful rural microcosms of Cate Kennedy's award-winning poetry collection, The Taste of River Water, are explored with James Perkins in THIS, the ELEVENTH episode of This Is My Favourite Thing!
The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy (1962) https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-taste-of-river-water
Joy flight - Cate Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieBFToPv4xA
Writing The 'Ow' Factor: Cate Kennedy discusses the craft of writing fiction https://overland.org.au/feature-cate-kennedy/
Jennifer Byrne Presents: Words Aloud http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s3429626.htm
Episode TEN of This Is My Favourite Thing travels to the cozy English countryside in Edgar Wright's 2007 cop-comedy Hot Fuzz, with Fiona Gillman.
Hot Fuzz (2007) Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayTnvVpj9t4
Hot Fuzz commentary with Edgar Wright & Quentin Tarantino https://youtu.be/FxWfWgOAg-A
Hey dude, where’s my doughnut? by Brian Johnson https://archive.macleans.ca/article/2007/4/23/hey-dude-wheres-my-doughnut
Episode NINE of This Is My Favourite Thing with Charlie Walsh investigates the mystery of Vladimir Nabokov's infinitely layered mystery-box of a novel, the 999-line poem Pale Fire.
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962) https://www.penguin.com.au/books/pale-fire-9780141185262
Pale Fire: poem https://genius.com/John-francis-shade-pale-fire-a-poem-in-four-cantos-annotated
Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t9zq
Episode EIGHT of This Is My Favourite Thing looks at the revolutionary ideas behind Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power, with Emily Trueman. "It's a piece of feminist science fiction - or speculative fiction, or fiction about a fictional thing rather than a real thing (curious concept). In the novel, very suddenly almost all the women in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. Anything from a tiny tingle all the way to full electro-death. And then everything is different."
The Power by Naomi Alderman https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Power/xS_eDQAAQBAJ
‘The Power’ author Naomi Alderman answers your questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Haxmediwv0g
Feminism: in conversation with Camille Paglia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3-KIesYRE
Episode SEVEN of This Is My Favourite Thing with Andi May discussing the beautiful track Distance off Emily King's second album, The Switch (2015).
Distance by Emily King (2015) https://youtu.be/4DbeYbcZAJE
Emily King's Minimalist R&B Album 'Scenery' Puts Feelings First http://exclaim.ca/music/article/emily_kings_minimalist_r_and_b_album_scenery_puts_feelings_first
Soul Music by Portia K. Maultsby https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1983.1702_51.x
Episode SIX of This Is My Favourite Thing with Jack James, where we take a dive into Lorde's critically acclaimed sophomore album Melodrama (2017).
Melodrama (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJuygTp7ydE&list=PLvm6B0LWgqu9pWrYmmC-6ETs7yDcfHyl9
Lorde Talks 'Melodrama' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1IlwgxCF8
Lorde Writing 'Melodrama' with Jack Antonoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm5LO1yXGic
Melodrama by James L. Smith https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Melodrama.html?id=ikcrDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM
Episode FIVE of This Is My Favourite Thing with Brooke Pritchard, discussing Dreamworks' 2016 film Trolls.
Trolls (2016) trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyjm5VQ11TQ
Anxiety and Fear in Children’s Films by Rıdvan Şentürk https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ936301.pdf
Trolls: Dreamworks' Trash Can of Ideology by Big Joel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWyWSwq6fVc
Episode FOUR of This Is My Favourite Thing with Brandon Taylor, discussing the soundtrack to Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin (2004), created by Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie.
Mysterious Skin (Music from the Film) - Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd https://youtu.be/dUzyIrVbj0w
Mysterious Skin (2004) trailer https://youtu.be/5Lp5v4oQZRw
Major Briggs' Vision https://youtu.be/tc74zZmn2m8
Gregg Araki Interview with Filmmaker Magazine (2005) https://filmmakermagazine.com/archives/issues/spring2005/features/wonder_years.php
Musical Cachet in The Living End and the New Queer Cinema by Jack Dubowsky https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137454218_3
Episode THREE of This Is My Favourite Thing with Daniele Mendoza, where we talk about Mike Nichols' The Graduate, growing up, and finding the meaning in life.
The Graduate trailer (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKafIqhEvk
"It's too late…Not for me": The Graduate (1967) and the History of Women by Sherri Cash https://muse.jhu.edu/article/732485/pdf
Episode TWO of This Is My Favourite Thing with James, discussing all things Resident Evil, and specifically Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.
Resident Evil trailer (2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWUT4CXWcwQ
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Sd4GtOXuI
Woman as Evolution: The Feminist Promise of the Resident Evil Film Series by Andrea Harris https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-137-49331-6_8
"I could kiss you, you bitch": race, gender, and sexuality in Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse by Stephen Harper https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc49.2007/HarperResEvil/
Lara’s Lethal and Loaded Mission: Transposing Reproduction and Destruction by Claudia Herbst https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9781403981240_2
Resident Evil: Dog Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHbOc5ii3w
Arklay: Proof of Concept https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM2XKHJb4Ho
Cube (1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2-C16mQVLo
Episode ONE of This Is My Favourite Thing with Geoff [REDACTED], discussing The Beatles' Let It Be and the "Naked" re-release from 2013.
Let It Be (Remastered 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYfEBY9NM4
Let It Be (Naked Version / Remastered 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcA-qlMP11s
Paul McCartney Carpool Karaoke (clip from 04:55) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjvzCTqkBDQ
The Beatles' Let It Be By Steve Matteo https://books.google.com.au/books?id=npNnaPuKcCkC
Phantom Thread - I Miss You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFn_O2EEYXI