Xtinction Agenda
by Cameron Hodge
Xtinction Agenda isn't for everyone. It's a book club and a movie club and a place for people to talk TV and comic books. But nothing too new. It's a rough place where tired old dads tackle pop culture artifacts of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s (mostly). Not a lot of hand-holding as a consequence. These are not introductions to pop culture but discussions about it. As such, we expect the audience to have some degree of experience.Basically then, if you're a hotdog and you're looking for a mustache ride, you came to the right place. Otherwise, enjoy your sock hops and your malt shakes. We wish you well.Medicine delivered weekly.Email us at [email protected]. Like and subscribe. Rate us. Etc.
Episodes
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Jim Woodring - One Beautiful Spring Day / Aliens: Labryinth
Ink. Slippery dripping swollen sprayed. Wavering like hot driveway air. World of catastrophe, love, and despair, place we awaken, prison of care. This hell slowly spreading the nameless nightmare.
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Steven Seagal - Under Siege
The sun came upon the horizon white threatening void between heaven and earth. This was the empire, rising hopeful, destined for sky. Doomed to fall. Never to fade.
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Christopher Nolan - Inception
The mind will always detect the origin of an idea. In order to remain real, the idea must be father. Or secret dollhouse safe. A real idea, in the right hands, is an intravenous anti-kick and life is but a dream.
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Junji Ito - Gyo
Jointed legs scramble like metal spiders Through streets and lanes as pneumatic ocean flows, These dark monstrous belching farting riders Reek a methane miasma circus show. Their black asphalt roads were paved long ago.
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Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch - The Ultimates #1-13
The weight of jagged towering broken lattice, of glass torn from sky, birthed a billowing grey man made petty and small.
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
This is an episode about Resident Evil: Apocalypse. As far as movies go, it was fine. For some strange reason, the internet thinks this is the best installment of the franchise. If you are one such person, please drop us a line at [email protected]. We would like to understand.
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Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta - Absolute Batman #1-6
It is common now to place the essence of life into that of another . Numerous times, this has been done. New question: can a soul descend into its own material self and somehow speak? Time to find out.
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Katsuhiro Ôtomo - Akira
Buncha do nothings, deadend bored at the bar, desperate to keep away the night, riding sleek, red single-rider beasts into the maw of the city, slipping between teeth and nearly swallowed by the belly of it all. Sometimes the future comes to us from places that we didn't expect.
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Brian K Vaughan - Y: The Last Man #1-10
Man, the strait waistcoat that folds over struggling breast, weighs tightly. Heavy, coarse-haired, inescapable, old when history was young, he binds wrists and spreads legs. He is a charnel house. What will remain from his passing? "So, uh...How much do I owe you for the clean underpants?"
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Kenji Tanigaki - The Furious
The peen of a hammer unsheathed crunches the unsuspecting sternum of child trafficker baddies. He climbs their bodies, bludgeoning bone. Somewhere in all this violence, innocence huddles, waiting. "Looks like a Chinese mute looking for his daughter."
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Hayao Miyazaki - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Red volcanic screams sought peace, blooming fire and sucking dust. To no avail. Peace instead inched its way into the world through a firm foot slid backwards into sand, through piteous burning whimpers, and through thin filaments of care. "My heart's pounding."
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Alan Moore - Watchmen #12
O Seymour, Crank file keeper, Reach through those thin missives. O Seymour, Green shirt avatar, Grasp the leather-bound truth. O Seymour, You are A stomach Ready to burst. "You have two more pages to fill before you eat, thanks to that goddammed ass-kissing accord!"
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Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing / Point Break
Whether on green, unbroken crests Or across the barreled boneyard, Love fetches and lifts. Keep your ear close to the face of the wave, Let its thunderous static surround you. "Two bricks coming up."
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Peter Cullen - The Return of Optimus Prime Pt. 1-2
Faced with the threat of burning, crawling, infectious hatred, Of mothers clutching babies, popping thin skulls on cobblestone, Of last days in the third Cybertronian war, The second king quested and beguiled Ripped wisdom from the heart of his son, And in a sacrifice of souls proclaimed, "Now...
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Bryan Fuller - Hannibal
He asks you to ask questions about yourself, All the while imagining a scalpel-sharp blade Severing your horizontal fissure, Soft pink cubes soon soaked in vinegar For ten minutes or more, Before washed, salted and spiced, Cooked and finally fried, A thin sliver of smile across his face. "You…
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Eric Larsen - Savage Dragon
The pressure of sex Bends mirrored love Like stone on spandex; It shatters it into thin sharp fragments, And then mends it, fitting glass madly, Until time and choice collapse. "Time to win some hearts and minds!"
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Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez - Batman #1-12
How cool is this comic? We didn't even talk about the costume re-design. The costume re-design was literally the least interesting thing about this comic. And that's not a slight. It's a cool re-design. A cool re-design in a cool comic. For cool people. Like you.
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Patrick Swayze - Steel Dawn
Blue womb in barren sand, an endless supply of civilization. Soon the city will return to the nuclear wastes, born of nuclear love. All that now remains is a man.
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Alan Moore - Watchmen #11
Brain hemorrhaging cadaverine cephalopod stares, unblinking. Fearing crosshairs of world's grim end, it is released.
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Steven Seagal - On Deadly Ground
Like grease on your beard, greed flavours the rich man's every bite. He sniffs and snorts and rummages in greed, the rich man. Crawling, he seeks just one more thing to swallow and shit. Better to burn such a creature and leave its bones for the dogs. "Is this the one who's got you all concerned...
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Geoff Johns - Batman: Earth One Vol. 1
Within the predator, prey, survivor types fallen into the trash-strewn streets, guilt blossoms, a black flower with leather petals, seeding some simulacrum of restored hope and the promise of brutal revenge.
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Matt Fraction and David Aja - Hawkeye #1-11
Bro is just like us, bro. Sure he's an Avenger, and an adventurer and a ladies man, but--bro--underneath all of that, bro is actually a Zen slacker screw up. So it's okay for bro to like him. I mean, look at bro's relationship with his sidekick. That's a good dude, bro. The creators definitely...
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Stefano Sollima - Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Smirking mini-van mother, self-aware, symbol of a fallen world, pockets the cash. Its getting so you can't even tell who the gangbangers are anymore. School yard bullies turn out to be lost, wounded princesses, needing saving. And soldiers know sign language.
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Peter and Bobby Farrelly - Kingpin
Stubborn rubber ring bearing hand strokes the veiny shaft, milking the bull, oblivious as hot cream pulses neighing into grey bucket. He is reminded of her yellow teeth. And yet he drinks.
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Alan Moore - Watchmen #10
You know how sometimes people do that thing where they come at The Odyssey or whatever from an oblique angle? Like that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern shit? What I want to know is: what if we did that with Archie in Watchmen? That rugged and loyal companion abandoned like truth in the snow. What…
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Paul Thomas Anderson - Inherent Vice
Hunkered down in cathode glow, cutting grass, dirty hippy hunter, "Doc" Sportello, Ponders the mystery before him, the tarot, And scrawls his prayer, a steadfast arrow. "Honey, make it quick. I got a live one tonight and I totally fucked up my face."
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Frank Miller - The Dark Knight Returns
What to wear at the end of the world? A cloak of night beyond walls. Ancient wings and something with a name as long as your arm. Something that makes them afraid. Because better to be feared than loved. Better to find modes and orders at the sharp edge of a razor blade hurled or with bulb burst...
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Joel and Ethan Coen - The Big Lebowski
Goaded in the hall of thunder by the horn-mad giant, the lumbering, clever tongued dude seeks audience with his other, an indignant man on a false throne. Chastised yet triumphant, the dude takes his prize. But alas, hell and all its demons now have for him a quest. "It's all a god damn fake…
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Mike Grell - Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
Government spooks and tunnel rat slashers. Crack strikes again. The city has gone crooked, rained out, lost. It needs something true. Straight. Something spine light, with eagle feathers fletching. Strong enough to kill.
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Alan Moore - Watchmen #9
We are all marionettes, our lives upset, dancing over desert red, a fog of memory lost, the dead giving clues through what was said to where we began and where we are led, so alchemy wed, we find ourselves, shattered golden maidenhead, returned by strings to innocence shed.
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Alex Garland - Annihilation
Firing side knee supporting firing side shoulder, the rounds flame outward, evaporating into the air's thin film interference, a sickly rainbow of annihilation. Her cruel heart destroys reptile plate and horn, shocking even herself, leaving yet another slumped cadaver in her wake.
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Andrzej Żuławski - Possession
Sharp edged mirror divided, a soul savaged by the hysteric rage of addicted loss, pushes and cuts as soul screams moaning, and under crown of thorns births whimpering faith, spilling forth like a vein of blood in milk.
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Steven Spielberg - Lost World: Jurrasic Park
What was once a family entertainment turned encounter with the monstrous feminine is now tamed, taped over and enclosed, shipped safely back to shore, leaving the family unit intact. No more angry mommies. No more rebellious women. Now only sleeping harmony on the couch and a child in front of…
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Jonathan Hickman - Aliens vs Avengers
Shatter the fucking stars and bring the world to ruin. Leave it all yellow and grey, illuminated by unknown suns, soon to die. Release the dark horde, come what may, and sail the ships from nebula to rim, ready for harm. Our enemy: life.
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David Fincher - The Social Network
Objection. Whatever one might think of my client, he's never fed an animal its own siblings or whined to the principal about broken rules. And whatever he may have done to his friend, I ask the court to see what he has been and always will be: a sad sad love struck boy who created a pond…
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Alan Moore - Watchmen #8
Behind the locked door, a punctured neck resembles a spear wound geyser, an eye that waits to be opened. It won't be long now. We are mere moments from midnight.
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Garth Ennis - The Punisher MAX #50-60
The scars of the wound resembled a map, burned white-hot into flesh, a colonizing fire outlining the lost lands, where tendrils beneath the earth wait and wait and erupt into storm.
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Mary Harron - American Psycho
Les Misérables hollow man stare, an impotent confession, a waking nightmare. An empty shell, qlippothic grace, a pool for man to see his face. Cool, this face. Buried it will be, without a trace. "Why don't you get a job, Al?"
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Gerry Conway - Justice League of America #250-254
In paradise of hate, feelings shift and mutate, leaving wandering sons hurtling through space, earth shot flames dissipate, revealing child's rage, who yearns to take from noble hearts their very fate.
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Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
The fire, negative orange in the black desert night, burns its spite, a promise. Freedom from constraint, it whispers. Freedom from these people. And a paradise of hatred.
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Barry Windsor-Smith - Weapon X
The Code must be maintained. Deploy bubbles. Feed. Angles. Steady. Power boxes. Feed. Cables. Steady. Feed. Now snow. Walk him away. Suffusion enacting.
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Alan Moore - Watchmen #7
Wisdom, whether owl or sphinx, a shadow tomb, pulls black flesh to void. He kisses her hand and descends, silent, naked, alone.
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Denis Villeneuve - Sicario
Demon of the air, shadow casting, slide over land, a bane to the sun. See the warm white cold flesh enter the cave, see it, truth sweating. Watch it turn yellow in this land of wolves. "Okay, it's a fuck up, what're we going to do now?"
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Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
"I believe I was spared so I could finish the job."
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Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
To prick the human conscience itself, to make it bleed the shape of hopeless loss, and want to die but know that conscience denies, even as the gravity of nothing leaves it laughing and alone.
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Clint Eastwood - American Sniper
Savages. Kill the savages. Repress criticism. Be sad about duty. Neglect family, lost. Be your father. Do it. Do it again.
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Peter Milligan - Human Target #1-10
"You're everyone!" she screamed, facing the faceless ghost, saviour scapegoat, the fabricated truth which, teaching you how to impersonate yourself, teaches you how to believe. "Who... who the hell are you?" "You'd be surprised how often i get asked that."
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Alan Moore - Watchmen #6
Void floating black boat, an abyss upon the sea or a face that seems, warbling shifting, never mixing, cooking fat screams, you have it all wrong: you are in here with me.
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Yorgos Lanthimos - The Lobster
Listen folks, we were feeling chatty at the beginning of this episode. It happens. If you don't want to listen to three guys shoot the shit about current events, our conversation about everyone's favourite Kafka-esque dark romance, The Lobster, begins at about the 10 minute mark. Don't say we...
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Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch-Drunk Love
Why do you believe something? Ask yourself. Ask yourself about light. Ask yourself about light asking about light. Why do you believe? What is it, that underlying certainty? Is that love?
About this show
Xtinction Agenda isn't for everyone. It's a book club and a movie club and a place for people to talk TV and comic books. But nothing too new. It's a rough place where tired old dads tackle pop culture artifacts of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s (mostly). Not a lot of hand-holding as a consequence. These are not introductions to pop culture but discussions about it. As such, we expect the audience to have some degree of experience.Basically then, if you're a hotdog and you're looking for a mustache ride, you came to the right place. Otherwise, enjoy your sock hops and your malt shakes. We wish you well.Medicine delivered weekly.Email us at [email protected]. Like and subscribe. Rate us. Etc.
Hosted by
Cameron Hodge