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Guest Julian (MeOnAPicnicTable) joins Saath for a dramatic reading of a piece that was rejected for having "no action." Saath disagrees.Some supplemental readingERCOLINO, S. (2012). The Maximalist Novel. Comparative Literature, 64(3), 241–256. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23252885The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThe Station Agent, dir Tom McCarthyMoonlight, dir Barry JenkinsBaraka, dir Ron FrickeKoyaanisqatsi, dr Godfrey ReggioMadsen, Borge Gedso. Strindberg’s Naturalistic Theatre. Russell & Russell.1962. ISBN 0-8462-1729-5Walker, John. (1992) "Kitchen Sink School". Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Retrieved 20 January 2012.Zen Koans: http://www.thezensite.com/MainPages/koan_studies.htmlHairston, M. (2008). A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kikō. Mechademia 3, 256-258. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0036.Friends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

The thrilling conclusions! Still working on the audio but it's better than before!Supplemental materials:https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/infographic-what-makes-film-noirFilm Noir: An Introduction Noir and Neonoir | The Criterion CollectionGrossman, Julie (2009). Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Ready for Her Close-Up.Keaney, Michael F. (2003). Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940–1959."Film Gris": Crime, Critique and Cold War Culture in 1951 (JSTOR)Films mentioned:The Lost WeekendBrickWho Framed Roger Rabbit?Dead Men Don't Wear PlaidBugsy Malone (the one Saath couldn't remember)Blues In The NightBlue VelvetDouble IndemnityLittle CaesarWhite HeatA Touch of EvilLauraThe Maltese FalconFriends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

Friend of the Indelicate, Orbific (James B), joins to talk about one of his favorite art pieces of all time. Another crispy crunchy episode because Saath was screwing around with the audio inputs. Notes and supplemental material:High quality image of the art https://www.moma.org/collection/works/114939Thomas Friedman: https://www.tomfriedmanartist.comTehching Hsieh: https://www.tehchinghsieh.netPainting with White exhibit at Tate Museum https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/in-the-studio/painting-whiteOrbific: https://orbific.comMycelium Parish News: https://hermetic.com/serapeion/mycelium-parish-news-2023Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51161/51161-h/51161-h.htmDegenerate Art from A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust https://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/artDegen.htmFriends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

Xel (XelBleedsGlitter on Tumblr) comes back to talk more about fandom and some of the strange ways one can become a micro-celebrity whether they want to or not.

Guest Xel (XelBleedsGlitter on Tumblr) joins us to discuss how fandom has changed in our lifetimes. Wrev is cooking with gas on this one too. Some additional reading--Memorial Blog to Dee AKA @spockslashMatt Baume's work on queerness on All In The FamilyBronte Sisters and GondalQueer and Now by Eve SedgewickLawrence v Texas

Friend of The Indelicates, Mayer, comes to hang out and talk about "outsider art" and the origins of the term itself. Sadly, Wrev could not join us. Spoiler: We think that term sucks! Supplemental Reading:Benedetto Croce, The Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and of the Linguistic in GeneralMinturn, Kent. "Dubuffet, Levi-Strauss, and the Idea of Art Brut". Anthropology and AestheticsOutsider Art FairKoenig, Raphael (2018), "Art Beyond the Norms: Art of the Insane, Art Brut, and the Avant-Garde from Prinzhorn to Dubuffet" (PDF), Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences"Jerry Saltz on the Outsider Art Fair — and Why There's No Such Thing As 'Outsider' Art"."Curator, Tear Down These Walls"."Monkey Christ fresco boosts tourism""Botched restoration has visitors flooding to sleepy Spanish village"

We get back previous guest Teucer to explain why Jimmy Buffett is a musician worth your time.Supplemental reading:Following the Equator (sometimes titled "More Tramps Abroad") (1897) - Mark TwainDon't Stop the Carnival (1965) - Herman WoukTales from MargaritavilleWhere is Jon Merchant? Friends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

A double-stuffed episode!Supplemental Work:Click and Clack The Tap-it Brothers - NPRDavid Cronenberg and JG Ballard in Conversation at CannesAnd of course. Simulacra and Simulation by Jean BaudrillardFriends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

We have been excited for this for too long.Supplemental Work:Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader, 1965https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highwayshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/29/could-the-us-highways-that-split-communities-on-racial-lines-finally-fallhttps://dirt.asla.org/Friends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

A real crispy crunchy episode where Saath rambles, starting with Alexander Siddig and ending with world politics. And yes, of course. It would be incredibly cool of him or his family to reach out, even to just say hello. Supplemental reading:The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam by Mirza Ghulam AhmadAhmadiyya Arguments in Support of the Book of Allah - the Qur'an, and the Prophethood of Muhammad by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad“Muḥammad Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Faḥl b. ʿAbd al-Walī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Dunqulāwī”, in: Arabic Literature of Africa Online, General Editor John O. Hunwick, R.S. O’Fahey.Friends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

Everything's as if we never recorded a podcast.Alright, the audio on this was crunchier than we like, so hopefully the edits around it are fun. Supplemental materials:Swanson on Swanson (1980)Ready for My Close-Up: The Making of Sunset Boulevard and the Dark Side of the Hollywood Dream by David Lubin (2024)Heller, Karen (December 30, 2022). "The newly relevant relationship between Trump and 'Sunset Blvd.'". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 30, 2022 (retrieved from Wikipedia)Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise | McMansion HellFriends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

Art, Philosophy, and Religion? WRONG. BRATZ DOLLSSupplemental Materials:Bratz Was Ahead Of Its Time. Culture Finally Caught Up. https://www.nylon.com/life/bratz-dolls-evolution-history-creatorsLookin Bratz https://www.lookinbratz.com/guidesBrown V. Board: The Significance of the "doll test" https://www.naacpldf.org/brown-vs-board/significance-doll-test/Gordon Parks, the photographer who captured Dr Kenneth Clark's work in photographs https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/gordon-parks/biography70 Years After Brown v. Board, Dolls Research Still Sheds Light on Black Children’s Well-beinghttps://www.childtrends.org/publications/70-years-brown-v-board-dolls-research-black-childrensFriends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

That's right: 10 episodes in, and now we decide to explain the whole point of this thing. Some reading: A Note On The Ongoing Processes of Commodification: From The Audience Commodity To The Social Factory by Jernej Prodnik. Samizdat and Political Dissent in the Soviet Union by M. F. Feldbrugge, Viewing: Sifl and Olly. The Illusion of Independent Radio. Friends are always welcomed. If you're famous or otherwise notable, yeah you can come play in our sandbox too._____On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

We are taking advantage of the medium and the lack of monetization to talk about sex in a very blunt way. CW for discussion of rape and sexual assault. Some additional topics include nudity, tentacle porn, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (but in a good way)This one was a bit off-the-cuff but we will touch on this again, and we will try to compile a reading list On Tumblr: @echologorrheaEmail: [email protected]: 336-477-3425

Part of the impetus for this whole experiment. Saath was so excited to talk about this that they forgot some of their notes. Some additional reading: Silence (2016 film) - WikipediaEndō Shūsaku: a literature of reconciliation by Mark Williams.The Life of Francis Xavier in JapanShogun by James Clavell and the subsequent miniseries, Richard Chamberlain (1980) and Cosmo Jarvis (2024). Kamen Rider Android Kikaider

Our first "lost" episode! A first pass at the topic of wrestling that led up to the more cohesive discussion. Saath hadn't seen the Fundie Fridays video at that time.Some things to check out: Fundie Fridays on Hulk Hogan, anything by Dave "Tuna" Meltzer, and probably more things. We had a lot going on in our lives when we recorded this and were a bit scattered. ++++Find us on Tumblr @echologorrheaEmail us via [email protected], give us a call at 336-477-3425

THERE ARE NO HULKAMANIACS HERE! Consider a supplementary piece to the wonderful video on wrestling that Fundie Fridays put out. Further reading: The Death of WCW by Bryan Alvarez, Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, The Order of Things by Michael Foucault, Simulation and Dissimulation by Francis Bacon, and these two essays Jean Baudrillard- Two Essays ("Simulacra and Science Fiction" and "Ballard's Crash")++++Find us on Tumblr @echologorrheaEmail us via [email protected], give us a call at 336-477-3425

It's time to talk about a movie that deserves a second look from everyone who has whimsey in their heart. ++++Find us on Tumblr @echologorrheaEmail us via [email protected], give us a call at 336-477-3425

A hopefully cathartic conclusion. A note: Saath's comment on Marx is helpfully rebutted by Ryan Moore in "Marx Goes To Texas", published in Protean Magazine: https://proteanmag.com/2024/08/11/marx-goes-to-texas/Other additional resources:Oil! by Upton Sinclair (basis for There Will Be Blood)Brookings Institute on the Teapot Dome scandal (basis for Oil!) https://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/teapotdome.htmIs making fun of Nazis always cool? Depends on who you ask. The best exploration of this: Look Who's Back--novel by Timur Vermes, film directed by David Wnendt++++Find us on Tumblr @echologorrheaEmail us via [email protected], give us a call at 336-477-3425

We really wished this one had been less relevant. Some resources referenced in the episode:Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies: https://www.humiliationstudies.org/Vinogradovs, V. Kant’s Phenomenology of Humiliation. J Value Inquiry 53, 193–211 (2019).Laing, James. The harm of humiliation. European Journal of Philosophy. 32, 532-547 (2024)Kaufman, Paulus ed. Humiliation, degradation, dehumanization : human dignity violated. (2011)++++Find us on Tumblr @echologorrheaEmail us via [email protected], give us a call at 336-477-3425

The thrilling followup! Note: In the moment, Saath couldn't remember that name of the franchise for Skyrim and Oblivion is The Elder Scrolls series. We forgot that other podcasts give ways to contact people. So, here's how to contact us:Find us on Tumblr @echologorrheaEmail us via [email protected], give us a call at 336-477-3425

Everyone's favorite post-nuclear franchise that is also obsessed with retrofuturism! We cover the Fallout games from the perspective of the diegetic music. And of course, this is a part 1. Stay tuned for Part 2