This Is Your Afterlife – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This is a preview of a premium episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month.

I love year-end list season! Whether you're as gung ho as I am or view these lists with skepticism (or both), I've decided to share my enthusiasm by reading a bunch and then very UNSCIENTIFICALLY telling you which albums on them are truly the best. I sorted through hundreds of albums to arrive at these 11, unranked but sorted into six groupings. Plus three Unlisted Faves that didn't make the lists I perused but that I liked enough to share. You can read the full list on Patreon, but here are...

The Groupings: Rap Faves From Earlier in the Year, Other Faves With Good New Albums, Previously Familiar With a STATEMENT, Discovery (Ambient), Album of the Year?, Discoveries, Unlisted Faves

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All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary:

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https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/

Artwork by Matt Sage:

https://www.instagram.com/matthewjsage/

Keir Neuringer is my kind of artist. The saxophonist, improviser, writer, and composer of Irreversible Entanglements and DROMEDARIES faces down the horrors of our world and plays AT them. He's not making easy-to-compartmentalize "political art." He's grappling with how to be an artist, father, bandmate, and human being during collapse. Like we all are.

We talk about: being radicalized during the Iraq War, incorporating politics into music, depression, divorce, playing saxophone after a car accident, hospicing both of his parents when they died of cancer, literally arming the audience, No Mas Lagrimas in Ithaca.

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Follow Keir, and get the new DROMEDARIES album, The Burning Bright Light:

https://www.keirneuringer.com/

https://www.instagram.com/keirseye/

https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-burning-bright-light

Follow/contact This Is Your Afterlife:

https://thisisyourafterlife.com/

https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/

thisisyourafterlifepodcast@gmail.com

All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary:

https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/

Artwork by Matt Sage:

https://www.instagram.com/matthewjsage/

SNL writer, stand-up comedy comrade of mine, and O.G. observer of my coma, Steven Castillo joins me to brag about the memory of his second Saturday Night Live audition. Actually, this is a very sweet and warm chat between old friends, and I was so grateful to have it (on my 40th birthday! I don't mention this on the main feed, but it's in the full convo on the Patreon). Now it's yours.

Content warning: YouTube comments, therapy, failure, convoluted reincarnation, a healthy amount of "fuck you," vape soul.

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Listen to Steven's new podcast, Mind of Castillo, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and/or watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MindOfCastillo/

Visit his website: stevencastillohasawebsite.com

And follow him on social media.

IG: @steezus_castillo

Twitter: @STEEEZUSCHRIST

TikTok: @steeezuschrist

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All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.

Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.

Sean Morrow (Senior Writer, More Perfect Union) wrote the Eli Lilly tweet. You know, "We are excited to announce insulin is free now"? As a type 1 diabetic grateful for his service, I wanted to learn more about the man behind the mischief.

Content warning: depression, Nothing, Pete Campbell, not introspective enough, is "SNL" the New York Times of comedy?

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Follow Sean on Twitter: @snmrrw

Check out his work at More Perfect Union too!

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

"If you're not having fun, you're the asshole," is a Susan Messing joint. It's a zen koan of a piece of comedy, art, and life advice that I took issue with back in my improv days. The hella influential improviser and teacher shares why she said it, her own issues with it, and ideas about death, learning what you actually want, a motorcycle ride with her dad, Neptune Society, and being choke fucked with love by a redwood tree.

Content warning: cancer, stroke, improv comedy.

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Susan is teaching a 5-day improv intensive with Rachael Mason at iO Chicago December 12-16, which you can sign up for here.

Follow Susan on Instagram: @susanalicemessing

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

We need good comedy criticism, and Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book, Comedy Against Work, assesses comedy not just as an art form but as a way of envisioning utopia. She examines our relationship to work and the kinds of futures we imagine through the lens of comedy on stage and TV.

In this episode, she shares herself as well as her ideas. She also tells me what to do for my next show.

Content warning: suicide, childbirth, constipation, the opposite of constipation, childhood abuse, misogyny, Blob.

Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher.

Buy Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times, and read more of Madeline's work in Blind Field Journal.

Follow Madeline on Twitter: @la_louve_rouge_

Leave me a voicemail to play on the show: (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Franco Danger is a superb standup I met when he opened for Chris Gethard, and we immediately hit it off. That energy—and a jaw-dropping Relive 1 Memory segment—translates into one of the funniest conversations ever on the podcast.

Content warning: anxiety, Catholic guilt, Edinburgh Fringe, food poisoning, God is a single dad, multiverse reincarnation.

R.I.P. Mimi Parker of Low. Revisit my conversation with Mimi and her husband/bandmate Alan Sparhawk here.

Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher.

Follow Franco on Instagram: @franco_danger

Check him out on Twitch and YouTube at @francodanger

Leave me a voicemail to play on the show: (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Tiffany Topol's debut album, Sophomore Effort, is a bubbly, swooning, nostalgic pop record years in the making. I'm so happy she came on this show to share her anxieties about death and have a full-on psychological epiphany.

Content warning: seeing NSYNC live as a 14-year-old, sensory deprivation chamber, friend's death, crying to Beyonce's Lemonade, how reliable is your memory?

Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher.

Listen to Tiffany's album, Sophomore Effort!

Follow her on Instagram and TikTok at @tifftopol.

On/after November 11 (I say November 4 in the intro, don't crucify me!), check out the new Youth in a Roman Field album Tiffany plays on, Get Caught Trying.

Catch her live with Youth in a Roman Field at Mercury Lounge in New York City on December 1.

Leave me a voicemail to play on the show: (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Cannibalism? Addiction? Colonialism, patriotism, capitalism? What is the Windigo?! Abolitionist organizer and previous guest Bettina Johnson and I get to the bottom of Ravenous (1999) on this edition of This Is Your SLASHERLIFE.

Content warning: blood, guts, skeletons, eating people, tricksterism, telling time by the moon, overblown queer readings of this movie, did Dave condescend to the Indigenous painting?

Show your love for This Is Your Afterlife at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get extended episodes, aftershows and Afterlife Movie Club episodes, and shoutouts in future episodes.

Read Braiding Sweetgrass, and check out Liberation Library, an organization Bettina co-founded that provides books to incarcerated youth.

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Leave me a voicemail to play on the show: (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

Thanks to Associate Producer Sam Welbel!

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

All that shimmers is... whatever The Shimmer is. I'm talking Annihilation (2018) on this edition of This Is Your SLASHERLIFE with previous guest Oui Ennui, the brilliant and thought-provoking experimental musician.

Content warning: bad words, magic, the gimp, is it COVID?, Isaac Mizrahi & Lena Dunham.

Show your love for This Is Your Afterlife at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get extended episodes, aftershows and Afterlife Movie Club episodes, and shoutouts in future episodes.

Listen to Oui Ennui's music!

Thanks to Associate Producer Sam Welbel!

Subscribe to my newsletter, Definitive Answers, for weekly personal and culture essays, plus music recs! And follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

Leave me a voicemail to play on the show: (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

Thanks to Associate Producer Sam Welbel!

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"