Explore every episode of the podcast SFUltra
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| SFULTRA #32 - The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien | 26 Oct 2024 | 01:52:22 | |
"Cough up a pointless lecture | |||
| SFULTRA #31 - The Cipher - Kathe Koja | 10 Oct 2024 | 00:53:24 | |
"...okay, that's life, | |||
| SFULTRA #28 - The Third Eye - Lobsang Rampa | 04 May 2024 | 01:09:03 | |
"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. | |||
| Calling All Units - I Have No Blood On My Hands. I Have Blood On My Hands. | 28 Feb 2019 | 00:54:13 | |
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. | |||
| #46 - Author: Georges Simenon | 21 Feb 2019 | 00:39:44 | |
"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 | |||
| Calling All Units - Sure, Old Time Radio | 14 Feb 2019 | 00:42:14 | |
A moment of happiness leads me to talk about how old time radio detective stories have given me an embarrassing amount of solace. | |||
| #45 - Author: Maj Sjöwall And Per Wahlöö | 07 Feb 2019 | 00:38:38 | |
"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 | |||
| Calling All Units - Vine: Look at all these chickens. | 31 Jan 2019 | 00:34:28 | |
This is why mom doesn’t fucking love you. | |||
| #44 - Author: Ed McBain | 24 Jan 2019 | 00:40:39 | |
"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 | |||
| Calling All Units - At Times Inactivity Is Preferable To Mindless Functioning. | 17 Jan 2019 | 00:44:21 | |
"Is [pop star] a feminist? Is MasterCard a queer ally? Is this tv show my friend?" - Annelise Ogaard | |||
| #43 - Author: Jim Thompson | 10 Jan 2019 | 00:56:00 | |
“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 | |||
| Calling All Units - A Memory Is A Loaded Gun And I Remember Everyone (Dorohedoro Part 3 of 3) | 03 Jan 2019 | 02:02:03 | |
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. | |||
| #42 - Franchises: Sherlock Holmes | 27 Dec 2018 | 01:19:43 | |
“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 | |||
| SFULTRA #27 - Monarch - Candice Wuehle | 21 Apr 2024 | 01:36:09 | |
“...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 | |||
| Calling All Units - Art Resistant To Discussion (Dorohedoro Part 2 of 3) | 20 Dec 2018 | 01:52:56 | |
I am joined by excellent artist and wonderful podcaster Will Simpson to talk about the art, and much more, of Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro. | |||
| #41 - Franchises: Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion | 13 Dec 2018 | 02:13:44 | |
“I never knew how to be scared, just how to handle my infra-red. I am joined by writer, Bullet Points editor and hall-of-fame podcast guest Astrid Budgor to talk about the Female Prisoner Scorpion series. Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - Not Streaming But Drowning | 06 Dec 2018 | 00:46:41 | |
Abuse of power comes as no surprise. FilmStruck shut down. What does “just a website“ mean? | |||
| #40 - Franchises: Battles Without Honor and Humanity | 29 Nov 2018 | 00:35:28 | |
"But time passed, and my motivations evolved." - Christoper Kemp, Floating Gold | |||
| Calling All Units - Introducing Comics (Dorohedoro Part 1 of 3) | 22 Nov 2018 | 00:48:14 | |
Dorohedoro is what it feels like to read comics for 25 years. | |||
| #39 - Franchises: Penitentiary | 15 Nov 2018 | 00:38:29 | |
"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 | |||
| Calling All Units - Three Sex-Repulsed 80s Genre Films | 08 Nov 2018 | 01:41:21 | |
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 | |||
| #38 - Systems: Digital | 01 Nov 2018 | 00:44:05 | |
"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 Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - The Lost Commandments of the Internet | 25 Oct 2018 | 01:04:21 | |
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 | |||
| #37 Systems - Bureaucracy | 18 Oct 2018 | 01:12:29 | |
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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| SFULTRA #26 - Radiant Terminus - Antoine Volodine | 03 Apr 2024 | 01:04:32 | |
"You lie in the graveyard
- Graveyard , Butthole Surfers | |||
| Calling All Units - Some Instances Of Physical Pain I Have Experienced | 11 Oct 2018 | 00:28:24 | |
"No doubt, leave a rapper in a body cast Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca | |||
| #36 Systems - Patriarchy | 04 Oct 2018 | 01:45:50 | |
With guest Lucy Brady from Wyrd Signal | |||
| Calling All Units - Mandy | 27 Sep 2018 | 01:35:16 | |
I am joined by Astrid Budgor to talk about Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy and the many adjectives it seems to attract. | |||
| #35 - Systems: Mutually Assured Destruction | 20 Sep 2018 | 00:46:15 | |
“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
Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - All God's Children Will Get Burned | 13 Sep 2018 | 01:23:20 | |
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. | |||
| #34 - Verbs: Haunt | 06 Sep 2018 | 01:11:14 | |
With guest Rosie (from The Shadow Trap podcast) | |||
| Calling All Units - Parasocial Relationships | 30 Aug 2018 | 01:23:51 | |
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. | |||
| #33 - Verbs: Recreate | 23 Aug 2018 | 01:04:43 | |
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 Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - They Are Sitting In A Room | 16 Aug 2018 | 00:45:56 | |
Similar to the one I am sitting in now.
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| #32 - Verbs: Investigate | 09 Aug 2018 | 00:41:42 | |
"To be an alien, to be in exile, is the mark of Christian suffering" - Soren Kierkegaard I As In Icarus - 1979 - Henri Verneuil Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| SFULTRA #25 - Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed | 16 Mar 2024 | 01:47:54 | |
"Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)" - Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo | |||
| Calling All Units - Our Playlist Could Be Your Life | 02 Aug 2018 | 00:37:15 | |
Lofi hip hop mix - Beats to Relax/Study to Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| #31 - Verbs: Murder | 26 Jul 2018 | 00:49:28 | |
"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 Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - The Day Everything Became Nothing | 19 Jul 2018 | 00:35:08 | |
Zero. Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| #30 - Verbs: Avenge | 12 Jul 2018 | 00:33:33 | |
"It was autumn, and we could smell the wine of apples rotting into the ground." - Joshua Weiner Emma Mae- 1976 - Jamaa Fanaka Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - Found out. A nothing player. | 05 Jul 2018 | 00:43:21 | |
Jonathan Pie is an inside job. Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| #29 - Verbs: Pursue | 28 Jun 2018 | 00:31:48 | |
“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 Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - IF THIS KNOWLEDGE SCARES YOU THE EQUATION IS WORKING | 21 Jun 2018 | 00:34:51 | |
RAMMΣLLZΣΣ Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| #28 - Performances: Sheryl Lee | 14 Jun 2018 | 00:33:52 | |
"We know these painted coffins from the engravings of Posada. Our movie screen knows something similar. " - Sergei eisenstein, Memuary Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - But Why | 07 Jun 2018 | 00:29:54 | |
What are you trying to organise yourself around? Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| #27 - Performances: Nigel Patrick | 31 May 2018 | 00:42:53 | |
"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is, Curiosity. By curiosity, Informers - 1963 - Ken Annakin Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| SFULTRA #24 - Blue Lard - Vladimir Sorokin | 02 Mar 2024 | 02:12:40 | |
"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 | |||
| Calling All Units - Eat Around It | 24 May 2018 | 00:43:28 | |
Ugly delicious. Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| #26 - Performances: Sissy Spacek | 17 May 2018 | 00:38:56 | |
"All knowledge, as issuing from reflection, is experimental" - John Dewey Badlands - 1973 - Terrence Malick Sponsor: subnormality.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - Never Trust Anyone Who Makes Up Their Own Nickname | 10 May 2018 | 00:39:27 | |
Alliteration is not a political stance. | |||