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Sean McTiernan
Every two weeks Sean McTiernan creates a double bill in the hopes of exploring and understanding another aspect of thriller cinema.
Every other week, Calling All Units will answer questions from listeners, the host and, if necessary, the authorities.
If you keep a running list of movies you want to watch, prepare for it to get much, much longer.
"Volume's not really that important. It's the size of the room and the relationship of the sound to the enclosure it's in that makes a difference." - Neil Young
On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere After the Gold Rush Harvest Time Fades Away Tonight's the Night On the Beach Homegrown Zuma
and, somehow, more. Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin
"Never stopped to wonder why then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky" - Neil Young, Powerfinger
"Many are transforming in that glorious condition normally described as decay. Transforming through splinter and chemical imbalance. By fading and forgetfulness." - Brian Catling, Lantern Slides, Several Clouds Colliding
"So I think when I'm looking at you, I see you there. But I can't just explain what you are. I see you there and you could be photographed, but then after you'd been photographed, one still wouldn't know what your realism was. You'd have to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a realism of a person…
I'm talking bollocks…" - Francis Bacon, The Brutality Of Fact
Main works discussed: The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Courtyard - Alan Moore Neonomicon - Alan Moore Providence - Alan Moore
"So you think you know what terror is As it stares from the newspaper page Yeah of course you all know what horror is It's the rage of the age Well, intimidation doesn't have a focus It oozes from every pore Murder doesn't bother to whisper In this fucking town it roars" - The Badge Means You Suck, AK-47
"Old time, something come back again If you have a start, then you must have an end None of them ever could've test with the pen My pen's the equivalent to the leng" - Bad Like We, Wiley Featuring a guest appearance by non-euclidian, cacodaemoniacal podcast entity and academic Cameron Kunzleman, author of the recently published Everything Is Permitted and cohost of many podcasts on the Ranged Touch network including Just King Things and Shelved By Genre.
Interlude by the great Evil Sword.
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"Tell me what you know about a man's affliction PC plod talk pure science fiction" - Cowboy Dave, Happy Mondays
Works covered: And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks Junky: The Definitve Text Of Junk Queer Yage Redux
"The elementary unit of language — the statement — is the order-word. Rather than common sense, a faculty for the centralization of information, we must define an abominable faculty consisting in emitting, receiving, and transmitting order-words. Language is made not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience...Words are not tools, but we give children language, pens, and notebooks as we give workers shovels and pickaxes. A rule of grammar is a power marker before it is a syntactical marker. The order does not refer to prior significations or to a prior organization of distinctive units. Quite the opposite. Information is only the strict minimum necessary for the emission, transmission, and observation of orders as commands...Language is not life; it gives life orders. Life does not speak; it listens and waits." - A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari
I'm happy to welcome the Booktube's best critic and only tasteful video editor Matt Bookpilled back on the show. Matt's channel is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful approach to reading means his patreon is worth it and then some. Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bookpilled Matt's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bookpilled
To celebrate the release of his memoir The Black Pool on May 22nd, I spent 2 hours boring my close friend Tim MacGabhann into unconsciousness. Book launch details: 6pm, May 22nd in Hodges Figgis Dublin. Click here to read an extract that became the opening chapter: https://thedublinreview.com/article/the-black-pool/ Link to preorder or buy The Black Pool: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Black-Pool-by-Tim-MacGabhann/9781399728232
"You get under my skin I don't find it irritating, You always play to win but I won't need rehabilitating oh no" - Another Girl Another Planet, The Only Ones
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“Thank god skin-patch is nearly gone And the impress of fingers dead Have disappeared and left me alone
That one night I did not put jackboots on Don't want to end Reflection It's still there, though I am gone” - The Fall, Bremen Nacht
"My friends, you should not live like this." - Chekhov, when asked what his plays were supposed to convey.
"For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." - II Corinthians, 5:1 NKJV
‘Blake is always unexpected. If you think you know all the works, you’re wrong. There’s always something that comes up; if it’s not a new work, then an old work will appear in a different kind of way. There are certain works I’m completely obsessed by and I don’t know how he made them. I don’t know how he made them at that time because there’s nothing like them: they’re completely original. I think his thing was originality.’ - Brian Catling
“So many great books have drowned in respect” - Iain Sinclair, Crash
“Vaughn never been a duck-and-diver He spit on the mic, yuck, saliva Hold it like a truck driver hold a CB on a sharp turn Still clutchin' his chest from the heartburn…” - Viktor Vaughn, Saliva
"Into the thundering cannon and into the murdering gun" - William Blake, Jerusalem
"And in Hell beneath & a mighty & awful change threatend the Earth. The American War began. All its dark horrors passed before my face..."
- William Blake, Letter to John Flaxman September 12 1800 I'm joined on this episode by fellow Live At The Death Factory host and writer Astrid Rose, whose work you can find here: https://astridannerose.gumroad.com/
"...writing could provide me with the means of so radically outwitting myself that I could bring my hidden experiences, my unadmitted self into view." - Raymond Roussel
"The Stumbling Block is an ark of extinction. A bouillon hive of the murdered past, frozen dry to a mass. Something has warmed its corner, the oxoed grit bleeds a vein of contagion, virulent in its passion to embrace and swim in human tides" - Brian Catling, The Stumbling Block
"Cough up a pointless lecture Does it matter? Vomit me more conjecture Doesn't matter Argue till your left brain dies Does it matter? Presume to abuse my time Doesn't matter Let me paint a perfect picture Let it read like a holy scripture The words that leave my mouth Are just words you can live without Found community a struggle for me It's a collision: clash and grieve Nonsense screws and breeds Thoughts untethered went lost at sea" - Touché Amore, Circa 95
"...okay, that's life, that's what I was told anyway And picking your feet till they bleed may be the half of it If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle Maybe every fourth person is a dumb fuck Listen, listen carefully now: here's the answer It rhymes with axe Why it's those personal acts, of course Those personal acts Those suicide pacts Those carelessly stored razorblades in the hands of small children It's my face smeared on the pavement It's Everyday It's Everyday" - Everyday I Start To Ooze, Nomeansno
"There are no castles without ghosts And no spirits without hope But nobody passes the test of time I do not fear the buried sounds Of words that echo underground A memory is a loaded gun And I remember everyone I remember everyone I remember you" - Ghosts, Nomeansno
"For every detective novel, regardless of its story, is for every reader, above all, a novel about himself: about what happened to the reader as a human individual in general, as an individual developing from a child into an adult; as a living being who experiences continuous transitions there and back, from layer to layer of consciousness..." - On The Detective Story, Sergei Eisenstein
"Some roads are only seen at night Ghost roads, nothing but neon signs But some nights, the neon gas gets free And turns into walking dead like me
And I've been making promises I know I'll never keep One of these days, I'm gonna leave you in your sleep I'll have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name Baby, I was born on a train" - Born On A Train, Magnetic Fields
patreon.com/sfultra "...'For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices." - Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
"The fire of wild abandon burns so beautiful and bright The ashes fade away after consuming all the light The fire of wild abandon burns so beautiful and hot I used to know the way back home but somehow I forgot Through all the smoke I can’t see you What’s the thing you been turned into? Something fun, or someone new The fire of wild abandon Feel the lie becoming true Whose eyes are you seeing through? Teeth, turn in on yourselves and chew The parasite expanding Through all the heat waves you can’t see The thing you thought I used to be Distorted uncontrollably Beyond misunderstanding And in the wreckage, nothing there Only the cold spell in the air I cried for you like you were dead But it’s just that you’re something else instead And as I felt myself float away, way up there Up above all the houses and the people and the trees And I thought I’d go back, back down there, be like them But I can’t anymore, ‘cause I don’t know which one was me I don’t know which one was me" - Fire Of Wild Abandon, Evil Sword patreon.com/sfultra
“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music. It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, regardless.” - Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed patreon.com/sfultra
"I fire myself ten times a day I throw myself in a watery grave With fourteen horses on top of my head I hear the voice again and again" - I Fire Myself, Mary Timony
"eurt si em tuoba yas yeht gnihtyrevE" - Euphoria, Kendrick Lamar (intro sample from The Wiz)
I'm happy to welcome back Matt to tackle this terrible book. Matt's youtube channel Bookpilled is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful reviews make him official YouTube Book GOAT. His patreon is worth it and then some. Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bookpilled Matt's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bookpilled
“...Thank God you let me crash on your couch
Who's my God that I’m prayin' to now?
…
Made her go home, felt the virus
Web of life is my weed, false dreams stripped by silence
…
Deals they had us sign, for years, it had mе blind
Think I had to hit rewind and think about why I do shine
…
My whole family cursed, now get the fuck out my ride
…
Nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin'
…
If a killer say shit, then get these motherfuckers
...
Get the fuck out” - Buzzcut Feat. Danny Brown - Brockhampton
"You lie in the graveyard Well you're rotting away When I talk to you daily You've got nothing to say
You lie in the graveyard Well you are down making plans Well you control all my thoughts Well you make dust fall"
- Graveyard , Butthole Surfers
"He looked round her drawing-room and marvelled how he, who prided himself on not being able to endure any-thing in bad taste, could tolerate this chamber of horrors. Everything, he mused, was beautified by his passion.." - Laughter In The Dark, Vladimir Nabokov One year anniversary blog: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sfultra-year-1-99301744
Who Do You Think You Are? I Am. is a Perfect Taste Forever series about memoir and biography. PFT is usually patreon exclusive but this episode is free for everyone. patreon.com/sfultra I'm joined on this episode by Jolene, the host of the podcast When A Guy Has. We talk about The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia.
"I'm living a fake, People say "You are entitled to and great" But I haven't wrote for 90 days, I'll get a good deal and I'll go away, Away from the empty brains that ask" - How I Wrote Elastic Man, The Fall
"I do not deny that, among an infinite number of acts of violence and folly, some good may have been done. They who destroy everything certainly will remove some grievance." - Edmund Burke
"He did not work for posterity, nor did he work for God, whose literary preferences were largely unknown to him." - The Secret Miracle, Jorge Louis Borges
"Delight dwindles. Blame stays the same." - Briggflatts: An Autobiography, Basil Bunting I'm happy to welcome Matt on this last episode of SFUltra for 2023. Matt's youtube channel Bookpilled is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful reviews of books exactly like the one we're covering this week are precisely what makes him the best book reviewer on YouTube. Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bookpilled Matt's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bookpilled
"At the top of the hill You watch the world below Writhing with life You have two heads You feel one pushing out Trying to see Seeds Are planted In your mouth Whеn they bloom They burst from you Face Yoursеlf Your new Self" - Fawn, Body Void
"Sometimes when I get up and emerge from the mists of slumber, my whole room hurts, my whole bedroom, the view from the window hurts, kids go to school, people go shopping, everybody knows where to go, only I don't know where I want to go..." - Bohumil Hrabal, Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka
"Death's meaning I cannot read. To me death is above all things a smell, a very bad smell, and that, like the skeletons which terrify children, is not death at all. If I had to smell it more often, if I had to work in the catacombs, I would think nothing of it. And a few years or decades from now, I will think nothing about everything." - William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
"The relation between God and human beings is often mediated by the sign of the weapon" - Elaine Scarry
"All alone at the '64 World's Fair Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl after all" Who was at the DuPont Pavilion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?" - They Might Be Giants, Ana Ng
"Being empty, not being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing to be constantly in female company, he sees nothing at all wrong in intruding himself on any woman's thoughts, even a total stranger's, anywhere at any time, but rather feels indignant and insulted when put down for doing so, as well as confused -- he can't, for the life of him, understand why anyone would prefer so much as one minute of solitude to the company of any creep around." - Valerie Solanas, The Scum Manifesto
There’s something they aren’t telling us. Something we don’t know about. There’s more to it. There’s always more to it. This is what history consists of. It’s the sum total of all the things they aren’t telling us. –David Ferrie in Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988)
I'm happy to welcome Astrid Rose on this fifth episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime. We talk about Gordon Burn's Happy Like Murderers, a book about Fred and Rose West. Annoyingly, Astrid is an amazing writer of both horror fiction and criticism. She is also the co-host of Live At The Death Factory, the only perfect podcast ever to exist. Most recently, she was one of the writers of this video game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/Roman_Sands_REBuild/ You can find her horror fiction here: https://astridannerose.gumroad.com/ Murder House Sold is Perfect Taste Forever miniseries, a show usually only available to SFUltra patrons. The other episodes are solo, like SFUltra itself, and cover the more esoteric end of long form, largely literary, cultural criticism.
"Art is creation in response to lack. Quite different from a stand-in for the archetype, which must be there, somewhere, the art object is a kind of fetish, a replacement for some real thing that is missing." - Mike Kelley
"Rattled by and by As if someone was right Drawn and downed Indifference stands But a light from deep It glows They must have seen it too Rattled" - Scald Scar of Water, Altar of Plagues
I'm happy to welcome Mark O'Connell on this second episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime, to talk about his new book A Thread Of Violence. Mark's a fantastic author and journalist whose previous books To Be a Machine and Notes From The Apocalypse are both remarkable examinations of grim insistence entropy can be defied.
Ultimately along the same lines, his new work A Thread Of Violence is recounts extended conversations Mark had with one of Ireland's most famous living murders in order to write a book about him that doubles as a meditation on what it means to write true crime. It's one of the best true crime books I've ever read, though I think neither author nor subject would be totally comfortable that description.
I know Mark so decided to ask him loads of annoying questions, and even a few "more of a comment than a question"s, about it. He kindly agreed.
Murder House Sold is Perfect Taste Forever miniseries, a show usually only available to SF Ultra patrons. The other episodes are solo, like SFUltra itself, and cover the more esoteric end of long form, largely literary, cultural criticism.
"I know that. The difference between male and female perversion. The action of the man is directed toward a symbol, not himself. The woman acts against herself." - In the Cut, Susanne Moore
"Ok, that's life, that's what I was told anyway And picking your feet till they bleed may only be the half of it If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle Perhaps every fourth person is a dumb fuck Listen, listen carefully now here's the answer It rhymes with 'axe' Why...it's those personal acts of course Those personal acts Those suicide pacts Those carelessly stored razorblades in the hands of small children... It's my face smeared on the pavement" - Every Day I Start To Ooze, Nomeansno
"Well, they called me a little so and so and so Yeah? Now they're hummin' a different tune Oh, this is a job for a stupid man
Smoke it down to the filter and put it out on your hand"
- Glamorous, Jesus Lizard
"The streets were empty as I drove home, the air was cool and the sky was dark Streetlamps cast their mockery of light over ghostly shapes in an empty night Should I believe in the things I see? Am I in you, are you in me? What should I believe? Tell me, what should I believe? At home, on the porch, the wind in the trees murmured a background for my waking dream Where I drive through a city with labyrinth streets, where no one walks, where no voices speak Where empty towers above me rise toward an empty, starless sky Like a cold wind washing over me, I saw the meaning of this dream I felt that I was finally free, I felt that I was finally free But you know what they say The world wasn't built in a day You know what they say The world wasn't built in a day (no way) You lie before me sleeping, your eyes flutter in a dream Am I in you? Are you in me? What should I believe? Tell me What should I believe?" - The World Wasn't Built In A Day, Nomeansno
"Besides myself, the basement is totally empty. It is dark and musty. It serves no purpose. And yet the entire world is down here, the whole universe" - Down Here, Bosse-De-Nage
"If I'm the talker, here's the thing Just who the hell is listening? And if I am not tongue but ears Then whose voice is it that I hear? I swallow, choke, and clear my throat Here comes another anecdote A narrative of restlessness Of what's been done and what is next Does it love me, does it not? Will this seduction never stop? Hear the clacking parrot's beak That speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks Speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks Speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks Speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks Speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks" - Nomeansno, Can't Stop Talking
"Well, is it true what they say about it? You oughta do what I do and doubt it He won and now he's gonna do something about it Ain't it sad? And if you don't wanna feel like a putz Collect the clues and connect the dots You'll see the pattern that is bursting your bubble And it's bad See the idiot walk See the idiot talk See the idiot chalk up his name on the blackboard They say, "this is all i need to get by" The truth is, baby, it's a lie It's a... It's a lie (This is what it boils down to) If you review the winning combination Body at work and a mind on vacation Who had the brain where it started to sink in? It was you" - Walk Idiot Walk, The Hives
"A group of us, just strangers, got together and we formed a committee to discuss the problem, We talked about things like assured mutual destruction and emotional responsibility, I couldn't remember my name, so I called myself Bob, It's weird being a Bob, but i'll get used to it, I guess I'll fucking have to" - The Day Everything Became Nothing, Nomeansno
"And I keep on losing count, I'm the dumbest girl alive And I'm picking up the pacе, I'm so happy, I could die Put emojis on my grave, I'm thе dumbest girl alive And I feel so dangerous, but you say I'm doin' fine now Guess that's how it goes, I'm the dumbest girl alive" - Dumbest Girl Alive, 100 Gecs
“The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absent by destroying it.” - Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
"Blood essence Order in the world now Possessions, a bow tied around the hair You let me cut, you let me cut Delusions, black out Arrogance, black out Delusions, watercolor Arrogance, blue skin" - Inner Controller (Lucid Running Home), Cloud Rat
"Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research. " - Industrial Society And Its Future, Ted Kaczynski
I've got a new show with Alex Degen! It's basically Calling All Units with another, funnier guy there who knows more. It's about everything! It's just 45 minutes! We've got jokes!
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A daily podcast about found footage for the month of October 2020.
Good friend and inspirational critic Jog joins me on the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you. This week we look at Dragnet auteur Jack Webb's career and play an episode of Pat Novak, For Hire
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you.
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you.
LOTS OF TWIN PEAKS AND FIRE WALK WITH ME SPOILERS (none for season 3, really). A re-recording and slight expansion of an introduction I was invited to do of the 3 hour fan edit of fire walk with me for this great reading/screening series/
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you.
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you.
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you.
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you.
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you.
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you.
Welcome to the show where I talk a little bit about an episode of old time suspense radio that I like and then play it for you. Hope you're doing okay.
"It was crushing my head and they were using sonic pressure continually. Then when I had three meetings with Ms. Philicorda on it, every meeting I had she increased the pressure, of the volume of the calm, increased the harassment on the floor, increased the trays being inedible, just increased every bit of my complaints and trashed all grievances. They are trying to make it look like I was crazy at all times. Rig-up the room with torture, if I said anything about – their whole, I think their whole plan was to try to make it look like I was totally crazy. And so, nobody would believe anything I have to say about anything, and then drive me there if they could" - Aileen Wuornos
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“In [America], nothing is greater or more brilliant than commerce; it attracts the attention of the public and fills the imagination of the multitude: all energetic passions are directed towards it. “ - Alexis De Tocqueville
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Outfit - 1972 - John Flynn
Point Blank - 1967 - John Boorman
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This is what they think about you.
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“I want to be a vampire. I kind of want to be evil.” - Kim Kardashian
Miami Blues - 1990 - George Armitage
Cockfighter - 1974 - Monte Hellman
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I was a teenage Kevin Smith fan.
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“But these musings, far from emboldening the mask, had the effect of demonstrating the treacherous impassibility of the deep channel that separated me from it.” - Kobo Abe, The Face Of Another
The American Friend - 1977 - Wim Wenders
The Glass Cell - 1978 - Hans W. Geißendörfer
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"There is no syllable one can speak that is not filled with tenderness and terror, that is not, in one of those languages, the mighty name of a god." - Jorge Luis Borges.
Confessions - 2010 - Tetsuya Nakashima
Penance - 2012 - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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"You realize that to experience the projected figures on the movie theater screen as life-size involves the reduction of your own body to the size of a doll, while with television, conversely, you must mentally blow yourself up to the size of a giant to account for the minuscule scale of the figures on the small screen" - Mike Kelley
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"If it’s drowning you’re after, don’t torment yourself with shallow water" - Proverb
Cotton Comes to Harlem - 1970 - Ossie Davis
A Rage In Harlem - 1991 - Bill Duke
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I talk about some Frederick Wiseman and make some general observations about what the word and form documentary actually means.
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"They ain't tripping on me, they wanna fuck my car
When you look at my chrome and you lick your lips
It's just like I'm rubbing my dick between your hips" - Pimp C, Fuck My Car
Crash! - 1972 - Harley Cokelis
Crash - 1994 - David Cronenberg
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A man on Youtube exposed a paedophilia ring operating on the platform on a large scale, right out in the open. Youtubers have spent the last week openly calling him a scumbag. This is a logical progression.
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"Therefore let us make the best of a bad matter; and, as it is impossible to hammer anything out of it for moral purpose, let us treat it aesthetically, and see if it will turn to account in that way." - Tomas De Quincy, On Murder Considered As One Of The Fine Arts
The Clockmaker of St. Paul - 1974 - Bertrand Tavernier
Panique - 1946 - Julien Duvivier
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A moment of happiness leads me to talk about how old time radio detective stories have given me an embarrassing amount of solace.
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"Q: Serial murders have become more prevalent in American Society. Are you very interested in them? Dennis Cooper: To a degree. I don't think that they're interesting people, but I'm interested in … the material you can get from their exploits. They're not real smart people" - Altx interview with Dennis Cooper
The Laughing Policeman - 1973 - Stuart Rosenberg
Mannen på taket - 1976 - Bo Widerberg
This is why mom doesn’t fucking love you.
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"The abilities of a humble scholar, seeking only knowledge Are crushed by the tyranny of a fool, bent under the weight of his wealth. The proper hierarchy has been reversed; How sad that the lion is made servant to the dog" - Gendun Choephel
Cop Hater - 1958 - William Berke
Kofuku - 1981 - Kon Ichikawa
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"Is [pop star] a feminist? Is MasterCard a queer ally? Is this tv show my friend?" - Annelise Ogaard
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“When you bond yourself to suffering you can’t live without causing suffering—this way of life can’t survive without torture, murder, terror, war and what that gets you is just TV time and candidacy for the torture chamber too. We stopped in this phoney California town and there was nobody here.” - Michael Cisco, Animal Money
Serie Noire - 1979 - Alain Corneau
After Dark, My Sweet - 1990 - James Foley
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I am joined by cultural critic and writer Tara Hillegeist to tackle the enormity of her experience with Dorohedoro and through the lens of her own experiences and the larger sense of how identity works online.
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“We also knew that a knife was not found at the scene. We don’t know where the knife came from or where it went, so whoever did this took the knife away with him or her. We knew that.” - The Profiler, Pat Brown
With genre fiction aficionado, architecture writer and craft blogger Lisa Cassidy.
Law And Order: Criminal Intent
Elementary
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four - 1987 - Peter Hammond
They Might Be Giants - 1971 - Anthony Harvey
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I am joined by excellent artist and wonderful podcaster Will Simpson to talk about the art, and much more, of Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro.
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“I never knew how to be scared, just how to handle my infra-red.
I love nothing: made my barber write a "Fuck You" in my head."
- Z-Ro
I am joined by writer, Bullet Points editor and hall-of-fame podcast guest Astrid Budgor to talk about the Female Prisoner Scorpion series.
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Abuse of power comes as no surprise. FilmStruck shut down. What does “just a website“ mean?
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"But time passed, and my motivations evolved." - Christoper Kemp, Floating Gold
Battles Without Honor and Humanity - 1973 - Kinji Fukasaku
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima - 1973 - Kinji Fukasaku
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War - 1973 - Kinji Fukasaku
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics - 1974 - Kinji Fukasaku
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode - 1974 - Kinji Fukasaku
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Dorohedoro is what it feels like to read comics for 25 years.
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"Just as the examples of necessary violence are innumerable, so are acts of brutality; since brutality always steps in to oppose violence-by which I mean, again, an uninterrupted dynamic that is life itself." - The Declared Enemy, Jean Genet
Penitentiary - 1979 - Jamaa Fanaka
Penitentiary II - 1982 - Jamaa Fanaka
Penitentiary III - 1987 -Jamaa Fanaka
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I’m joined by Astrid Budgor to talk about three genre films from the early 80s that thrum with deep-seated disgust and fear of sex. This kind of thing often goes unaddressed in genre fiction criticism, aside from a “woah, weird!“, so I'm delighted we had this discussion. The three films are Scream For Help, Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker and Incubus
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I’m joined by Astrid Budgor to talk about three genre films from the early 80s that thrum with deep-seated disgust and fear of sex. This kind of thing often goes unaddressed in genre fiction criticism, aside from a “woah, weird!“, so I'm delighted we had this discussion. The three films are Scream For Help, Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker and Incubus
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"It is reasonable to suppose that a society thoroughly committed to making artificial realities would have given a great deal of thought to the nature of that commitment" - Langdon Winner, The Whale And The Reactor
In Order Not To Be Here - 2003 - Deborah Stratman
World On A Wire - 1973 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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I am joined by Frank Lantz to discuss his wonderful article The Lost Commandments Of The Internet and mourn the kind of communication fostered by message boards
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With guest Mairead
"The proper hierarchy has been reversed; How sad that the lion is made servant to the dog" - George N. Roerich, The Blue Annals
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"No doubt, leave a rapper in a body cast
And wonder what he was doing while we was in a karate class
Snotty ass, it's really like he was a white-belt
Right before he "night-night" ask him how the light felt" - Viktor Vaughn, Vaudeville Villain
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With guest Lucy Brady from Wyrd Signal
”it's my means of survival” - Bata Motel, Crass
Fata Morgana - 1966 - Vincente Aranda
Invisible Adversaries - 1976 - Valie Export
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I am joined by Astrid Budgor to talk about Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy and the many adjectives it seems to attract.
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“There’s nothing that people rebel more against, I told jacques, than being forced to acknowledge the secret and immediate power their fellow human beings have over them. There’s maybe nothing more common, routines. A savage power, as indifferent as a thunderbolt, where intellect, merit beauty, language are nothing but animal electricity, a polarity that suddenly develops. Falling under the spell. Forever. We never talk about it - it’s taboo. ” - A dark Stranger, Julien Gracq
Seven Days To Noon - 1950 - Roy Boulting, John Boulting
The Man Who Stole The Sun - 1979 - Kazuhiko Hasegawa
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I am joined by Chris to talk about the kind of fan sites that existed before social media websites blended everything into a grey paste.
Read the post this podcast is based on here: http://funkyassdicegame.tumblr.com/post/177258211489/dicegameproductions-since-the-mid-2000s-or-so
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With guest Rosie (from The Shadow Trap podcast)
"Just heard "Orinoco Flow" in the supermarket, which reminded me of one of my favorite things anyone has ever said to me in an interview: Enya explaining why some people find her music to be spiritual — 'It's the amount of reverb we use.'..." - Michael Azerrad
Symptoms - 1974 - José Ramón Larraz
Headless Woman - 2008 - Lucrecia Martel
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I am joined by video essayist Shannon Strucci to discuss the mammoth second entry in her Fake Friends series: FAKE FRIENDS EPISODE TWO: parasocial hell.
This episode was recorded under the assumption you have probably watched part one and part two of this series. It's around 2.5 hours of high-level insight, fantastic editing and in-depth research. It is well worth it if you have any interest at all in the internet.
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With guest Lisa Cassidy
"Maps have three basic attributes: scale, projection, and symbolization. Each element is a source of distortion. As a group, they describe the essence of the map's possibilities and limitations." - Mark Monmonier
Boston Strangler - 1961 - Richard Fleischer
Star 80 - 1983 - Bob Fosse
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Similar to the one I am sitting in now.
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"To be an alien, to be in exile, is the mark of Christian suffering" - Soren Kierkegaard
I As In Icarus - 1979 - Henri Verneuil
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On - 1987 - Kazuo Hara
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Lofi hip hop mix - Beats to Relax/Study to
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"The cinema was not employed to flee reality, but to transform one’s encounter with it through its radical juxtaposition with the cinematic." - Andrew V. Uroskie
Golgo 13: The Professional - 1983 - Osamu Dezaki
Elephant - 1989 - Alan Clarke
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Zero.
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"It was autumn, and we could smell the wine of apples rotting into the ground." - Joshua Weiner
Emma Mae- 1976 - Jamaa Fanaka
Deadbeat At Dawn - 1988 - Jim VanBebber
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"It was autumn, and we could smell the wine of apples rotting into the ground." - Joshua Weiner
Emma Mae- 1976 - Jamaa Fanaka
Deadbeat At Dawn - 1988 - Jim VanBebber
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Jonathan Pie is an inside job.
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“I have said the map was the most of the plot. I might almost say it was the whole.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
Vice Squad - 1982 - Gary Sherman
Nowhere To Hide - 1999 - Lee Myung-se
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RAMMΣLLZΣΣ
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"We know these painted coffins from the engravings of Posada. Our movie screen knows something similar. " - Sergei eisenstein, Memuary
Love, Lies, Murder - 1991 - Robert Markowitz
Fire Walk With Me - 1993 - David Lynch
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What are you trying to organise yourself around?
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"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is, Curiosity. By curiosity,
I mean whatever desire for or whatever pleasure we take in, novelty."
Edmund Burke, The Sublime and the Beautiful
Informers - 1963 - Ken Annakin
Sapphire - 1959 - Basil Dearden
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Ugly delicious.
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"All knowledge, as issuing from reflection, is experimental" - John Dewey
Badlands - 1973 - Terrence Malick Missing - 1982 - Costa-Gavras
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