Talking bout Practice: a podcast

download on iTunes Our best ?  Prah'ly not.  Our drunkest ?  Mos def.  Sally Jane Black and I sit down w/ two artists of enormous appeal & imagination, Sarianna Senpai and Victor Cayro, to discuss ☀ day jobs ☀ -- i.e., what they do when they're not working.  Th conversation gets derailed early & continuously, as loves to happen when you been drinking out of cups of pure kindness    00:00  "Break Yr Heart" performed by Sarianna    02:52  Intro | first day job     05:42  Hijacked chemo drugs     08:42  Disgusting viral vids | what chemo drugs feel like | Gimme confessions    12:42  Dayjob joke | about jokes | FB is my dayjob     15:21  Deepest darkest confession | spacemen versus aliens      19:00  Th election | cowboys versus indians | Jason Statham | George Clooney | th exploding car scene | cinema    27:13  Victor's and Sarianna's night jobs | Bittersweet Romance | Sarianna's movie music | Sveener & the Shmiel (David B. Sharp 2009) | The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee 2001) | Tiptoes (Matthew Bright 2003)     36:49  My landlord listens to this podcast | our day jobs | suicidegirls.com | "person that cares about you"     43:42  Myspace | My day job was myspace | I used myspace as my Livejournal | shoutout to K. Thor Jensen again     50:03  Sarianna's day job | transgender controversy    54:42  Untranslatable visual scene | guns | bootstraps 1:00:04  Jane's day job | Top 40 hits assessed by Jane | Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper 1974) review by Jane | low-income housing app | Trump & bootstraps &  foodstamps | Th Rock 1:08:03  Asians | An unknown Asian artist on FB disses Victor | mixed-race peoples | "Fuck them all, it takes a village, break all the hymens" -- Sanders | Victor Cayro suicide hotline | a testament to honesty & practice | "Hit her in the hair"  1:22:06  David Bowie | cameo by Victor's 14-year-old bride Becca 1:26:02  Seal | about this podcast | special-order t-shirt | Victor's day job(s) | How'd you meet yr girlfriend ?   1:36:19  I'm not confident at all | booty & groceries | Jane's disavowal | children & germs  1:40:33  Life cycle of th pinworm | Good night, Sally Jane Black | pinworm strategy  1:45:27  Dysentery in Peru | Peruvian rotisserie chicken | race & class  1:56:33  "My Island" performed by Paulette Williams  

download on iTunes Sally Jane Black and I welcome that hero-legend of Regular Guy Style, Joe Stremph, to th studio to chat for two hours bout th consensus Most Important Topic o.A.T., though since this is 2016, we couldn't resist throwing some Trump in there, too    00:00  "Today I Met the Girl I'm Gonna Marry" performed by Nation of Ulysses    01:47  Hi, Joe Stremph     04:11  What's the most fucked up thing you've done for love? | th Anime Girl     19:24  The very first thing I said to my future wife | Jimmy Eat World     30:47  Aspirational romantic comedies | not an alcoholic | day we first kissed : 10 Feb 1996                 | what Jews are like | bad maps | musicals     58:00  If love stops existing, do you think there's something that could replace it ?   1:08:00  Accurate cinema on love | Roseanne | Parenthood  1:13:55  Tech difficulties | Victor Cayro cameo | adieu Sally | My Stupid Brother (Jesse                   Peretz 2011)  1:21:55  Han versus Luke | more tech diff | th one-on-one version of you  1:27:27  Th desire to be understood and to be psychic | "praise in public, critique in private"                     ethic | (off th record discussion)  1:36:33  Winning & humility | a scenario that contains potential for mutual understanding                       | kneejerk liberals, kneejerk conservatives, Trump, risk, & accountability 1:49:07  Risk & love | Doblering | vulnerability & desire | weaponizing intimacy  1:55:02  Engagement | more tech diff | devaluation of jokes, devaluation of engagement                           | cool Internet meetings | adult friends | and more tech diff | distance  2:10:42  "Your Wonderful, Sweet, Sweet Love" performed by Th Supremes  

download on iTunes Thank you for time- and space-travelling back to New Orleans of April 2015 to listen to this podcast live & in person, where Billy Ray Stupendous & I caught up w/ Phil B and Lauren M of el jay fame, & Paul G of two-sport fame (football/trombone), to marvel @ th chart success of Laurie Anderson, th cross-cultural transcendence of Anne Murray, and th unlikely history of Branson, MO We tried something new and inserted songs right in th middle of th 'cast -- enjoy, use yr whole heart, control yr gun, spread wings, get loved, be good to yr ears  Table of contents: 00:00:00  "Spasticus Autisticus" performed by Ian Dury 00:05:05  Texas, Missouri, & Toronto | favourite Canadian band | bad bands from America | John Tesh 00:13:24  New show format | earliest musical memories 00:22:04   "Fly Robin Fly" performed by Silver Convention 00:25:51  Hairless down there area | when disco was a thing  00:27:16  What is music, anyhow ? | chopping time up | Time, mortality, & harmony | tribes again 00:31:16  Th insignificance of lyrics | What about hip-hop ? | rapgenius 00:41:07  Scientific fact:  singing along feels good 00:44:00  The Dusty Triangle  00:45:52  "You're Dead" performed by Norma Tanega 00:48:12  "Walking My Cat Named Dog" | how to discover music | what we know bout Kate Bush 00:55:24   "Running Up That Hill" performed by Kate Bush 01:00:16  MTV | Maxwell | Velvet Underground type of deal | "Why Should I Love U?" | "... all the friends I was girls with ..." | Sandman & The Dreaming 01:07:58  Gloomy Spectrum Disorder, Goonies Spectrum Disorder | baby on th podcast  01:12:44  Ginger Baker and ⚡ time ⚡  |  "Th sun is God" -- JMW Turner 01:15:42  Censorship for babbies | Nevermind | rock stars who namedrop bands 01:21:24  File-collecting vs social life | Austin Psych Fest 01:26:00  Music is Children's Music | gift from an adult | parental record collections  01:32:49  Country | Staunton VA | Branson MO | Bald Knobbers 01:39:49  "Old Aunt Dinah" performed by Butter Boy 01:41:11  Metal Machine Music | "O Superman" 01:44:33  Th race card 01:46:33  Culture as taking |  Kurt Cobain's problems | growing up in bumfuck | 120 Minutes 01:52:49  Trombone & American football 01:58:52  Nerds & th experience of music 02:03:07  Why do you think so many people are total assholes ...? | Grouper & Bob Dylan | free Belle & Sebastian image consultation 02:13:55  Hip-hop, St Louis, Ferguson, and involuntary political awareness 02:25:11  Bonus Track: "Ok Denn" performed by Pill

download on iTunes This one went off th rails pretty early on w/r/t its intended topic and never got back on, fully.  Billy Ray's original intention, I think, was to set up th parameters of what it means to be th Greatest Of All Time, and den debate various G.O.A.T. candidates over various fields of endeavour.  Instead we ended up talking bout Livejournal again 80% of th time, general Internet ethics (10%), Stevie Wonder (5%), and gay filmmakers (5%).  Idlewild, Ryan Jackson, Abbas Kiarostami, bell hooks, James Booker, Los Bros Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Akira Kurosawa, Sergei Parajanov, Persepolis, and Charlie bit me are namedropped in passing.  We are joined this week by Rena J of el jay fame, who was gracious enough to join us on v. short notice and ended up being our first ⚡solo⚡ guest in many moons after our other guest passed out drunk Listen close for th G.E.O.A.T. (greatest ending of all time) Table of contents: 00:00:00  "Sir Duke" performed by Stevie Wonder 00:03:52  Nominal attempt to stick to a topic | blah dee blah dee blahHH | etc etc etc 01:59:38  Bonus Track: a great way to start a mixtape or end a podcast

download on iTunes Went ahead and annotated this one, since it's a Saturday a.m. & I'm ill & industrious, and idle hands are th devil's playthings.  My initial idea was to encourage discussion bout how beauty can be this world's most powerful idea -- that, Helen aside, human people are launching 1,000 ships every hour on behalf of their versions of beauty -- that, @ core, most fights can be reduced to incompatible visions of what beautiful means and what ugly means.  That discussion never happened in an explicit way here, though it is nestled incognito under th discussion that did happen.  Billy Ray Stupendous & I could not be more pleased w/ th results.  We are joined this week by two luminaries of th el gay planet -- Jinx Malone and Mister Eden -- whose imprints on my own consciousness are deep not due to in-yr-face proselytizing, sensory bombardment, or even daily familiarity -- both remain, to my mind, foreigners who vacation in whatever country mine is -- but rather through th consistent, insistent, sneaky internal logic(s) of their worldviews ⚡⚡⚡⚡ Table of contents: 00:00:00  "Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme)" composed & conducted by Riz Ortolani 00:02:55  Intro guests | vague outline of topic | Oscar Wilde quote re shooting piano players | personal aesthetics vs branding  00:10:21  A very horror childhood | "... goofy ... visceral excitement ..." | th devaluation of fandom 00:13:24  False memory | psychosexual childhood | th Hammer Films dynasty  00:19:00  Obsession | Blue Velvet (David Lynch 1986), dayface, & nightface 00:22:22  The Hidden Observer | neurosis or superpower | th writerly attitude | th universal fascinating inner life 00:27:33  Driven by unseen forces vs conspicuous curation | not-caring vs caring | ⚡millennials⚡, YOLO, FOMO, & Burning Man 00:34:51  Infinite, oceanic, & eternal | virtuous buzzkill | "You should feel the horror" | Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato 1980) | "disgusting hipster irony bullshit" | Inland Empire (Lynch 2006) 00:40:08  Billy's reclusive cinemania | MZA's risk advocacy | Jason X (Jim Isaac 2002) | black audiences | movies as sports 00:44:44  Fulci vs Romero | Burial Ground: the Nights of Terror (Andrea Bianchi 1981) | Blind Dead series | The Exorcist (William Friedkin 1973) vs Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski 1968)  00:51:24  Cinemaphobias | :poop: | rape | Mike Kitchell shoutout  00:58:39  Th end of sex & violence | economics of inoffense | Quentin Tarantino | Jackie Brown (Tarantino 1997) | talent in bad films  01:07:11  Talking bout practice in bad films | Jess Franco & visual passion | th virtue of knowing what you're getting into | unstoppable zoom on bush | Barbed Wire Dolls (Jesús Franco 1975) | God's Gun (Gianfranco Parolini 1975) 01:15:00 Patrick McGoohan | Scanners (David Cronenberg 1981) | Jinx's shrine to the Paddy | "destructive glee"  01:18:49  Regarding television | Columbo | Peter Falk, Hollywood rebel | Twin Peaks | "exasperated by the episodic nature of TV" | Breaking Bad etc | compactness of cinema vs cultural sprawl | British TV | Lost 01:30:33  Feature-length film's incompatibility w/ th novel | talking bout adaptations | novels vs short stories | writing for no audience | Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer 2009) 01:37:42  Return to Driven by Unseen Forces | anthology of el jay writing | honesty, unself-consciousness, Jess Franco, accidents, & el jay | ello.com | "zone of sincerity"  01:45:07  On being part of no movement | kommentude & th "accidental discovery of something unplanned" | "the sister I wish I had" | song discussion | farewell adieu 01:51:08  Bonus Track: "Giu' la Testa" composed & conducted by Ennio Morricone

download on iTunes This is th one you been waiting for.  By "you" I mean "Kathleen O" because she's on this one.  It's bout serial killers.  I play th curious novice; Kathleen & Billy Ray Stupendous play th seasoned veterans showing me th ropes.  Th ropes, th knives, th axes, th guns, th fire, and th bare veiny hands Kathleen took copious notes for this one.  Keep an ear out for some of history's most famous -- Jeff Dahmer, Ed Gein, Jack th Ripper, John Wayne Gacy -- as well as lesser-known pop anti-stars.  Billy and I share th same favourite killer, it turns out 👊✊✂💀🍀🔫👻 Table of contents: 00:00:00  "Red Right Hand" performed by Nick Cave & th Bad Seeds 00:06:06  wah-WAH wah-WAH wah-WAH wah-WAH [adults speaking]  01:08:24  I enjoy a moment of microsleep mid-podcast and den have to call for an ⚡⚡INTERMISSION⚡⚡ 02:04:24  Bonus Track: "Psycho" performed by Jack Kittel

download on iTunes Look, you're into Livejournal or you're not, and it's not anyone's job to sell it to you or defend it from its detractors. What Billy Ray Stupendous and I wanted to allow ourselves w/ this episode was a bit of navel-gazing, a bit of choir-preaching, and a bit of self-back-patting, in accordance w/ El Jay's charter as set forth by th one true god Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999. Not sure if that stuff happened. Not sure what's on this podcast. We were joined by last-minute surprise guests Asphalteden, Herrdoktor, Horty_pie, and Koala_infestation. Clocking in @ something like two hours and a quarter, this one's for th frenz & fagues Table of contents: 00:00:00  "Th Anthem of Fuck You Crew" performed by David Fox 00:02:24  ??????CONTENT OF SOME SORT 02:04:24  Bonus Track: "Clouds across th Moon" performed by RAH Band

download on iTunes It is my fault that our podcast disappeared, and now it is my fault again that it is back, and it is especially my fault that I have little recollection about what is in this episode of the podcast nor enough desire to rediscover what is in it before posting. What is known: Billy Ray Stupendous and I were joined by our roommate and lifelong New Orleans resident Kathleen O and th world-famous-in-New-Orleans DJ Pompeii (to whom you can tune in every Monday from noon to 2:00p Central on WTUL), to discuss the profound differences between being local and being a carpetbagger in America's greatest city Table of contents: 00:00:00  "Here Come the Girls" performed by Ernie K Doe 00:02:58  ??????GOD ONLY KNOWS 01:09:58  Bonus Track: America's greatest American

download on iTunes There were times  in this podcast when th dead air stretched out before us like a highway cutting through th Canadian wilderness. Billy Ray Stupendous and I were cool w/ it as we emulated th chillness of our esteemed Canadian guests, Toronto's Phil B and Winnipeg's Michael Dwilow, who hold court on th greatness, th bashfulness, th emotional weirdness, and th relative invisibility of th land known to people in my neighbourhood as "Canadia". Listen as Billy and I indulge in a nostalgic callback to our shared coming-of-age to Allan Moyle's Pump Up th Volume (1990). (Yes, Moyle is Canadian.) Learn th fate of th Loyalists from th American Revolution. Slap yr own head in astonishment as one of th world's most beloved superheroes is outed. Picture Chester Brown's m-bation technique. Surrender to th feeling that something's off about a famous person you admire -- that's right, it's because they're from Canadia Table of contents: 00:00  "Everybody Knows" performed by Leonard Cohen 05:29  A pair of killer Canadians | What the fuck is going on in Ottawa!? | serious Canadian terrorism 09:24  Upsetting our thesis | size comparison: Toronto vs NOLA | surfing/Slurpee capital of th world 13:06  The feet in Vancouver | Twin Peaks/Canada crossover 16:16  What are the signifiers of Canadian culture? | long stretches of non-civilization | default: hockey 20:58  Michael gets frozen in time | burger culture 24:08  Canadian Thanksgiving vs Canadian Halloween | Canada's Mexico | northern superiority | Canadian jail 29:33  MZA's Canadian gaydar | gun control & diversity | the Memphis of Canada 35:19  Canada's treatment of its aborigines 36:55  How do you feel bout Québécois separatism? | How do you feel bout the Queen of England? 39:55  Th Canadian/American crossover | dual credibility | unassumingness/bashfulness/humility | wet split beaver 43:11  Th Canadian reputation for comedy | shoutout to Crime Wave (John Paizs 1985) | speculations on killer Canadians 46:27  Th Lowest of th Low | Barenaked Ladies 49:01  calibrating yr Canadian gaydar: Jim Jarmusch | Twin Peaks | Canadian selfhood eludes me | Jodie Foster 54:33  Famous Canadian authors 56:19  Rob Ford 57:42  MZA, what is it that you find weird bout Canada? | Coen Bros & Minnesota | th cinematic Canadian spectrum | Guy Maddin 1:04:07  Michael Dwilow's historical theory re Loyalists from th American Revolution migrating to Canada | Phil's Canadian body language | th 'Nuck/flippy crossover 1:06:55  What to do for fun in Winnipeg | invitations to our respective cities 1:08:49  America: guns & diabetes | Phil visits America | Torontonians vs Winnipeggers 1:12:11  Who is yr favourite Canadian ? | David Cronenberg | little Canadian in-jokes | Chester Brown | Cronenberg again 1:21:49  Canadian rebels who have gotten adopted/co-opted by official culture: Leonard Cohen & Louis Riel | how Chester Brown m-bates 1:27:00  List of famous Canadians: hot or not | Superman is half-Canadian (!?) | Clifford Olson | James Randi | Pierre Trudeau | Big Bear | Michael's dad was a fish pathologist 1:38:58  Billy issues an apology 1:39:16  Famous Canadian actors | th shape of Pamela Anderson's pussy 1:41:55  Good-bye to our Canadians | Roger Ebert | Canadian selfhood still eludes me | Rough Trade's "High School Confidential" etc 1:46:39  Bonus Track: male feminist Canadian anthem

download on iTunes Th good news  is that th ASMR-esque aspects of our podcast are undiminished (or augmented, possibly) by crappy audio quality. Th bad news is that it is hard to hear what our guests are saying, @ times. Consider listening on headphones as Billy Ray Stupendous and I bring together two giants of th troll community, Doc Carnage and Hooper X, for an informal (and barely audible, @ times) chat about th evolution of yr favourite addiction: social media. Play that game where you eavesdrop on somebody's call and try to guess what th person on th other end of th line is saying. You'll be rewarded w/ @ least 6 or 7 minutes of penis talk, and th birth of perhaps th strangest presidential ticket in history Table of contents: 00:00  "Hangin' on th Telephone" performed by Th Nerves 02:01  Welcome back, Doc | technical difficulties harbinger | godforsaken Shockwave | This podcast is the Cullman Nation of social media 06:28  Portal of Evil forum | Usenet illiteracy 10:00  Penis talk 13:29  I once got beat up for making fun of a guy's metaphorical penis 15:49  People aren't used to being criticized in person | on private thoughts becoming public record | on interpreting personality on th Internet | homeless friend(s)  19:55  Listen to my typing on th Internet | th rise and fall of ello | th collapse of FB 22:08  Myspace 24:08  Welcome, Hooper X | Time To Cock (TTC): 30 seconds 26:07  Phone phreaking & Captain Crunch 29:07  Taking pictures of Hooper | G+ 30:19  Youtube komments: "the DMV of the Internet" | "I tore down and rebuilt my dryer from a Youtube video" 32:42  On running for office w/ a checkered Internet past 35:13  [email protected] 37:07  Have you guys ever met in person ? | I'm really worried about th audio this time | turning th cameras off | Hooper meets Doc, continued | when rock bands reunite 43:42  Age & social media | Hooper met his wife on Friendster 45:57  Zuckerberg's wishes | FB stalking as a traffic driver | th autistic network 47:55  Generational segregation | what old people use Facebook for | Death comes to FB 54:49  Th Livejournal and Hotmail accounts of Gordon Meuse 56:22  The information superhighway | Anna Paquin ? | iPhone vs Batman's utility belt 59:49  Owning vs renting | worst podcast o.a.t. | shoutout to NOLA Hopitoulas 1:03:04  How have social media changed yr life ? | on growing up in the middle of nowhere and the escape from place | Cullman, Alabama 1:08:19  Th disintegration of local selfhood & th rise of all other kinds of selfhood, including th Brony : correlation or causation ? | American punk infrastructure 1:12:02  On how childhood/adolescent experiences shape attitude toward Internet community | how trolls are born 1:15:03  On demonizing various categories & gradations of Other | th diversification of Internet users | Eternal September | a black lesbian trapped in a man's body 1:18:49  You can't out-weird the Internet | Florida hate | crime stats & th eternal drug-addled murder capital of th world | Roe v Wade's theoretical effect on th crime rate 1:25:55  Ken Baumann tweet re "I don't like what that person's doing" vs "That person is trying to destroy me" | the echo chamber and the great Tea Party/Tumblr emotional crossover (fear) | FEMA concentration camps & FEMA guillotines 1:33:00  Mental illness & social media | ridiculous tribalism 1:36:33  Where do we go next ? | geographical segregation based on political/identity-based fragmentation | sexual barter system 1:41:13  Future political candidates' Internet accountability | Doc Carnage + Hooper X: the weirdest presidential ticket o.a.t. | coitus interruptus 1:45:45  Bonus Track: errbody do a Rosie Perez dance