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| Right Where You Are Sitting Now #2 - Routine Excercise | 25 Jul 2025 | 06:27:22 | |
"You can't have feelings alone" - William Burroughs, Naked Lunch | |||
| Right Where You Are Sitting Now #1 - My Past, Like A Terrible River | 05 Jul 2025 | 03:43:46 | |
Works covered: | |||
| Deep Territory #4 - Passion Of New Eve - Angela Carter | 19 Dec 2024 | 03:01:42 | |
"And in Hell beneath & a mighty & awful change threatend the Earth. - William Blake, Letter to John Flaxman September 12 1800 | |||
| Epilogue: Cremation of Sam McGee | 30 May 2019 | 00:47:54 | |
"when you build a house make sure you can get a coffin out of it"
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| Calling All Units - BURN EVERYTHING TRUST NO ONE KILL YOURSELF: Lingua Ignota | 23 May 2019 | 01:04:32 | |
"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 | |||
| #52 - Author: Richard Stark | 16 May 2019 | 01:26:55 | |
“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 | |||
| Calling All Units - The Reason They Hate Me | 09 May 2019 | 00:50:33 | |
This is what they think about you. | |||
| #51 - Author: Charles Willeford | 02 May 2019 | 01:18:25 | |
“I want to be a vampire. I kind of want to be evil.” - Kim Kardashian | |||
| Calling All Units - Walt Flanagan's Dog | 25 Apr 2019 | 01:02:36 | |
I was a teenage Kevin Smith fan. | |||
| #50 - Author: Patricia Highsmith | 18 Apr 2019 | 01:00:11 | |
“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 Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca | |||
| Calling All Units - Nomeansno | 11 Apr 2019 | 01:24:06 | |
Nomeansno | |||
| #49 - Author: Kanae Minato | 04 Apr 2019 | 00:41:27 | |
"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. | |||
| Calling All Units - Personal Shopper | 28 Mar 2019 | 01:46:18 | |
"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 | |||
| Deep Territory #2 - The Vorrh - B Catling | 29 Nov 2024 | 02:34:44 | |
"...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 | |||
| #48 - Author: Chester Himes | 21 Mar 2019 | 00:42:58 | |
"If it’s drowning you’re after, don’t torment yourself with shallow water" - Proverb | |||
| Calling All Units - Frederick Wiseman And The Documentary | 14 Mar 2019 | 01:00:04 | |
I talk about some Frederick Wiseman and make some general observations about what the word and form documentary actually means. | |||
| #47 - Author: JG Ballard | 07 Mar 2019 | 00:41:26 | |
"They ain't tripping on me, they wanna fuck my car | |||
| 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 | |||
| SFULTRA #33 - UXA.GOV - Blake Butler | 14 Nov 2024 | 01:27:21 | |
"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 | |||
| #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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| SFULTRA #32 - The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien | 26 Oct 2024 | 01:52:22 | |
"Cough up a pointless lecture | |||
| #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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| 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. | |||
| SFULTRA #31 - The Cipher - Kathe Koja | 10 Oct 2024 | 00:53:24 | |
"...okay, that's life, | |||
| #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 | |||