TbP 22: Get Paid for Being You (f/ Victor Cayro & Sarianna)

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TbP 21: Actually ... Love (f/ Joe Stremph)

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Sally Jane Black and I welcome that hero-legend of Regular Guy Style, Joe Stremph, to th studio to chat for two hours bout th consensus Most Important Topic o.A.T., though since this is 2016, we couldn't resist throwing some Trump in there, too

•    00:00  "Today I Met the Girl I'm Gonna Marry" performed by Nation of Ulysses
•    01:47  Hi, Joe Stremph 
•    04:11  What's the most fucked up thing you've done for love? | th Anime Girl 
•    19:24  The very first thing I said to my future wife | Jimmy Eat World 
•    30:47  Aspirational romantic comedies | not an alcoholic | day we first kissed : 10 Feb 1996                 | what Jews are like | bad maps | musicals 
•    58:00  If love stops existing, do you think there's something that could replace it ?  
• 1:08:00  Accurate cinema on love | Roseanne | Parenthood 
• 1:13:55  Tech difficulties | Victor Cayro cameo | adieu Sally | My Stupid Brother (Jesse                   Peretz 2011) 
• 1:21:55  Han versus Luke | more tech diff | th one-on-one version of you 
• 1:27:27  Th desire to be understood and to be psychic | "praise in public, critique in private"                     ethic | (off th record discussion) 
• 1:36:33  Winning & humility | a scenario that contains potential for mutual understanding                       | kneejerk liberals, kneejerk conservatives, Trump, risk, & accountability
• 1:49:07  Risk & love | Doblering | vulnerability & desire | weaponizing intimacy 
• 1:55:02  Engagement | more tech diff | devaluation of jokes, devaluation of engagement                           | cool Internet meetings | adult friends | and more tech diff | distance 
• 2:10:42  "Your Wonderful, Sweet, Sweet Love" performed by Th Supremes

 

TbP 20: Talking bout Music (f/ Paul G, Lauren M, & Phil B)

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Thank you for time- and space-travelling back to New Orleans of April 2015 to listen to this podcast live & in person, where Billy Ray Stupendous & I caught up w/ Phil B and Lauren M of el jay fame, & Paul G of two-sport fame (football/trombone), to marvel @ th chart success of Laurie Anderson, th cross-cultural transcendence of Anne Murray, and th unlikely history of Branson, MO

We tried something new and inserted songs right in th middle of th 'cast -- enjoy, use yr whole heart, control yr gun, spread wings, get loved, be good to yr ears 

Table of contents:

• 00:00:00  "Spasticus Autisticus" performed by Ian Dury
• 00:05:05  Texas, Missouri, & Toronto | favourite Canadian band | bad bands from America | John Tesh
• 00:13:24  New show format | earliest musical memories
• 00:22:04   "Fly Robin Fly" performed by Silver Convention
• 00:25:51  Hairless down there area | when disco was a thing 
• 00:27:16  What is music, anyhow ? | chopping time up | Time, mortality, & harmony | tribes again
• 00:31:16  Th insignificance of lyrics | What about hip-hop ? | rapgenius
• 00:41:07  Scientific fact:  singing along feels good
• 00:44:00  The Dusty Triangle 
• 00:45:52  "You're Dead" performed by Norma Tanega
• 00:48:12  "Walking My Cat Named Dog" | how to discover music | what we know bout Kate Bush
• 00:55:24   "Running Up That Hill" performed by Kate Bush
  
• 01:00:16  MTV | Maxwell | Velvet Underground type of deal | "Why Should I Love U?" | "... all the friends I was girls with ..." | Sandman & The Dreaming
• 01:07:58  Gloomy Spectrum Disorder, Goonies Spectrum Disorder | baby on th podcast 
• 01:12:44  Ginger Baker and ⚡ time ⚡  |  "Th sun is God" -- JMW Turner
• 01:15:42  Censorship for babbies | Nevermind | rock stars who namedrop bands
• 01:21:24  File-collecting vs social life | Austin Psych Fest
• 01:26:00  Music is Children's Music | gift from an adult | parental record collections 
• 01:32:49  Country | Staunton VA | Branson MO | Bald Knobbers
• 01:39:49  "Old Aunt Dinah" performed by Butter Boy
• 01:41:11  Metal Machine Music | "O Superman"
• 01:44:33  Th race card
• 01:46:33  Culture as taking |  Kurt Cobain's problems | growing up in bumfuck | 120 Minutes
• 01:52:49  Trombone & American football
• 01:58:52  Nerds & th experience of music
• 02:03:07  Why do you think so many people are total assholes ...? | Grouper & Bob Dylan | free Belle & Sebastian image consultation
• 02:13:55  Hip-hop, St Louis, Ferguson, and involuntary political awareness
• 02:25:11  Bonus Track: "Ok Denn" performed by Pill
  

TbP 19: G.O.A.T.

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This one went off th rails pretty early on w/r/t its intended topic and never got back on, fully.  Billy Ray's original intention, I think, was to set up th parameters of what it means to be th Greatest Of All Time, and den debate various G.O.A.T. candidates over various fields of endeavour.  Instead we ended up talking bout Livejournal again 80% of th time, general Internet ethics (10%), Stevie Wonder (5%), and gay filmmakers (5%).  Idlewild, Ryan Jackson, Abbas Kiarostami, bell hooks, James Booker, Los Bros Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Akira Kurosawa, Sergei Parajanov, Persepolis, and Charlie bit me are namedropped in passing.  We are joined this week by Rena J of el jay fame, who was gracious enough to join us on v. short notice and ended up being our first ⚡solo⚡ guest in many moons after our other guest passed out drunk

Listen close for th G.E.O.A.T. (greatest ending of all time)

Table of contents:

• 00:00:00  "Sir Duke" performed by Stevie Wonder
• 00:03:52  Nominal attempt to stick to a topic | blah dee blah dee blahHH | etc etc etc
• 01:59:38  Bonus Track: a great way to start a mixtape or end a podcast
  

TbP 18: Aesthetes

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Went ahead and annotated this one, since it's a Saturday a.m. & I'm ill & industrious, and idle hands are th devil's playthings.  My initial idea was to encourage discussion bout how beauty can be this world's most powerful idea -- that, Helen aside, human people are launching 1,000 ships every hour on behalf of their versions of beauty -- that, @ core, most fights can be reduced to incompatible visions of what beautiful means and what ugly means.  That discussion never happened in an explicit way here, though it is nestled incognito under th discussion that did happen.  Billy Ray Stupendous & I could not be more pleased w/ th results.  We are joined this week by two luminaries of th el gay planet -- Jinx Malone and Mister Eden -- whose imprints on my own consciousness are deep not due to in-yr-face proselytizing, sensory bombardment, or even daily familiarity -- both remain, to my mind, foreigners who vacation in whatever country mine is -- but rather through th consistent, insistent, sneaky internal logic(s) of their worldviews ⚡⚡⚡⚡

Table of contents:

• 00:00:00  "Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme)" composed & conducted by Riz Ortolani
• 00:02:55  Intro guests | vague outline of topic | Oscar Wilde quote re shooting piano players | personal aesthetics vs branding 
• 00:10:21  A very horror childhood | "... goofy ... visceral excitement ..." | th devaluation of fandom
• 00:13:24  False memory | psychosexual childhood | th Hammer Films dynasty 
• 00:19:00  Obsession | Blue Velvet (David Lynch 1986), dayface, & nightface
• 00:22:22  The Hidden Observer | neurosis or superpower | th writerly attitude | th universal fascinating inner life
• 00:27:33  Driven by unseen forces vs conspicuous curation | not-caring vs caring | ⚡millennials⚡, YOLO, FOMO, & Burning Man
• 00:34:51  Infinite, oceanic, & eternal | virtuous buzzkill | "You should feel the horror" | Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato 1980) | "disgusting hipster irony bullshit" | Inland Empire (Lynch 2006)
• 00:40:08  Billy's reclusive cinemania | MZA's risk advocacy | Jason X (Jim Isaac 2002) | black audiences | movies as sports
• 00:44:44  Fulci vs Romero | Burial Ground: the Nights of Terror (Andrea Bianchi 1981) | Blind Dead series | The Exorcist (William Friedkin 1973) vs Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski 1968) 
• 00:51:24  Cinemaphobias | :poop: | rape | Mike Kitchell shoutout 
• 00:58:39  Th end of sex & violence | economics of inoffense | Quentin Tarantino | Jackie Brown (Tarantino 1997) | talent in bad films 
• 01:07:11  Talking bout practice in bad films | Jess Franco & visual passion | th virtue of knowing what you're getting into | unstoppable zoom on bush | Barbed Wire Dolls (Jesús Franco 1975) | God's Gun (Gianfranco Parolini 1975)
• 01:15:00 Patrick McGoohan | Scanners (David Cronenberg 1981) | Jinx's shrine to the Paddy | "destructive glee" 
• 01:18:49  Regarding television | Columbo | Peter Falk, Hollywood rebel | Twin Peaks | "exasperated by the episodic nature of TV" | Breaking Bad etc | compactness of cinema vs cultural sprawl | British TV | Lost
• 01:30:33  Feature-length film's incompatibility w/ th novel | talking bout adaptations | novels vs short stories | writing for no audience | Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer 2009)
• 01:37:42  Return to Driven by Unseen Forces | anthology of el jay writing | honesty, unself-consciousness, Jess Franco, accidents, & el jay | ello.com | "zone of sincerity" 
• 01:45:07  On being part of no movement | kommentude & th "accidental discovery of something unplanned" | "the sister I wish I had" | song discussion | farewell adieu
• 01:51:08  Bonus Track: "Giu' la Testa" composed & conducted by Ennio Morricone

TbP 17: Serial

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This is th one you been waiting for.  By "you" I mean "Kathleen O" because she's on this one.  It's bout serial killers.  I play th curious novice; Kathleen & Billy Ray Stupendous play th seasoned veterans showing me th ropes.  Th ropes, th knives, th axes, th guns, th fire, and th bare veiny hands

Kathleen took copious notes for this one.  Keep an ear out for some of history's most famous -- Jeff Dahmer, Ed Gein, Jack th Ripper, John Wayne Gacy -- as well as lesser-known pop anti-stars.  Billy and I share th same favourite killer, it turns out 👊✊✂💀🍀🔫👻



Table of contents:

• 00:00:00  "Red Right Hand" performed by Nick Cave & th Bad Seeds
• 00:06:06  wah-WAH wah-WAH wah-WAH wah-WAH [adults speaking] 
• 01:08:24  I enjoy a moment of microsleep mid-podcast and den have to call for an ⚡⚡INTERMISSION⚡⚡
• 02:04:24  Bonus Track: "Psycho" performed by Jack Kittel

TbP 16: Livejournals of Future Past

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Look, you're into Livejournal or you're not, and it's not anyone's job to sell it to you or defend it from its detractors. What Billy Ray Stupendous and I wanted to allow ourselves w/ this episode was a bit of navel-gazing, a bit of choir-preaching, and a bit of self-back-patting, in accordance w/ El Jay's charter as set forth by th one true god Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999. Not sure if that stuff happened. Not sure what's on this podcast. We were joined by last-minute surprise guests Asphalteden, Herrdoktor, Horty_pie, and Koala_infestation. Clocking in @ something like two hours and a quarter, this one's for th frenz & fagues

Table of contents:

• 00:00:00  "Th Anthem of Fuck You Crew" performed by David Fox
• 00:02:24  ??????CONTENT OF SOME SORT
• 02:04:24  Bonus Track: "Clouds across th Moon" performed by RAH Band