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, Ep 05: What makes a good film good?

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This episode on Talking bout Practice : Billy Ray Stupendous and I watch a gross movie while recording th show; I say "@ any rate" @ least 100 times; Billy says "in that regard" perhaps 6 or 7 times; teenage memories are unearthed; rich people and poor people are vilified or speculated upon; people who use their phones @ th movies are sentenced to hard labour; if you've got bionic ears you can hear wine being poured and bacon being fried; we disagree on 2 movies and agree on @ least 3; I assume (wrongly) that McLintock! preceded The Searchers; you are invited to e-mail me if you want to watch a retarded Canadian comedy w/ a heart of gold; and we begin to formulate th answer to a question you have already answered in yr head.

Table of contents:

00:00  "Leaning" performed by Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish
01:38  "If I seem distracted ..." / Andrzej Żuławski
03:51  Recap: Billy's cinema therapy
05:03  "What's your favorite way to experience a film?"
07:11  "You hate rich people"
10:11  Disgusting thing on screen
11:33  "They don't need that money"
13:49  Metropolitan (Whit Stillman 1990)
20:42  Web 1.0 / flickyoucrew
23:24  Downloading a canon / record stores / nostalgia
31:53  McLintock! (Andrew V. McLaglen 1963) vs The Searchers (John Ford 1956)
38:33  Cinema as communal experience / idiots on their phones / Shotgun Cinema (New Orleans)
49:16  Crime Wave (John Paizs 1985)
57:13  How many e-mail addresses we've got
58:40  "What makes a film good?"
1:03:16  Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn 2014)
1:05:21  Unfamiliar world, failed film? / The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang 2005)
1:11:04  Loveable films nobody has seen
1:14:56  "Opening" performed by Bruce Langhorne