Curating thought-provoking content, inspired by the greatest movies in history.
The Thousand Movie Project podcast is an enriching and thought-provoking journey that offers a unique perspective on various topics. Hosted by the talented and insightful Alex, this podcast provides substance and entertainment that slowly dissipates existentialism in a very good way. With its layers of depth, it is well worth the time to listen.
One of the best aspects of this podcast is Alex's captivating storytelling and his ability to offer wonderful insights. His thoughtful and unpretentious approach allows for a genuine connection with his audience. The podcast covers a wide array of topics, from movies and books to personal anecdotes, all delivered with astute wit and sincere curiosity. Listening to this podcast feels like following your own meandering stream of consciousness but with much better audio production.
Another great aspect of The Thousand Movie Project is how it stimulates, entertains, and educates its listeners. Through Alex's humorous commentary and revealing insights, one can expect to be engaged and learn something new in each episode. Many listeners have found themselves discovering new movies or books based on recommendations from the podcast, highlighting its influence in expanding one's cultural horizons.
However, like any podcast, there may be a few drawbacks. Some listeners might find themselves wanting more focus on specific movie analysis or deeper dives into certain topics instead of meandering storytelling. Additionally, while Alex's humor adds charm to the podcast, some jokes might not resonate with everyone.
In conclusion, The Thousand Movie Project is a hidden gem that offers an enriching listening experience. Alex's talent as a host shines through his captivating storytelling and insightful commentary. Whether you are a cinephile or simply enjoy thought-provoking content, this podcast provides both entertainment and enlightenment. Despite minor flaws in staying focused on specific topics, it remains highly recommended for those seeking substance in their podcasts.
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tinkered with this disaster for 4 days, thinking there was something to salvage, but ad a gesture of peacemaking and personal release I surrender it out and on we go... support the show, check out the ebook, it's free*! ~~~~~ *unless you wanna pay for it* ~~~ talk at me!: email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod
The (partial) eBook is here! Download free or pay what you want at https://ko-fi.com/s/4f4999c591 It's my 33rd birthday and what was supposed to be an easy-peasy recording, with just a quick intro and then a brief reading from the ebook, turned into this long, searching, semi-confessional thing that came somewhat out of nowhere--but is also reflective of the sorts of changes implied. Birthday Tradition: One of the few times I feel comfortable asking but, if you want to do me ~birthday kindness~ this week, it would mean a lot if you could review the show, on your podcast platform of choice, and share it with friends. Thanks for listening! Support the show at https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod ~~~ chat me up GOOD: email: thousandmovieproject at gmail IG: @thousandmoviepod
The TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi -- but, until then, you can support the show by dropping in a tip! https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tip jar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod
The TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi -- but, until then, you can support the show by dropping in a tip! https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tip jar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod
The TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi. https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tipjar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod
The Key to Prioritizing (How My Manager Nearly Died) by Alexander Sorondo
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Everyone's Angry About the Eclipse by Alexander Sorondo
My Neighbor Killed His Wife by Alexander Sorondo
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Nigel Hamilton on Clinton's Sexcapades by Alexander Sorondo
Training a new hire shed slight on a trend I've noticed in every retail/hospitality job I've ever had. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail instagram: @thousandmoviepod
April is PEOPRIL! A month of reading about life-writing: memoir, biography, autobiography. The narrator describes his plans, shares some news, and eeks his way back onto the rhythm here.
Beginninig with avid praise for Rose Glass's new crime movie, LOVE LIES BLEEDING, and transitioning into a conversation about how she and I apparently spring from the "peak millennial" camp, of people born between 1990 and 1992, before dissolving in talk about this new memoir by Bev Stol, Noam Chomsky's 24-year assistant/manager/coordinator, and this weird phenomenon of Noam Chomsky producing three or four books a year, despite being 93 years old, and ultimately the most important question: would he beat Henry Kissinger in a fight? email: thousandmovieproject at gmail instagram: @thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator talks, among other things, about a new appreciation for Doja Cat, his favorite new artist on Instagram, and the how the Spice Girls nearly shattered the He-Man Woman Haters Club. check out @brianhuntress on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianhuntresss/ email: thousandmoviepod at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator talks about recent reading, including some negotiation tactics from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and a quick anecdote about one of the most unbearable people he's ever met. instagram: @thousandmoviepod email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com
George Saunders joins for a conversation about Michael Silverblatt, the former host of BOOKWORM. Silverblatt had to retire in 2022 for medical reasons, ending BOOKWORM's 33-year run. Saunders, one of the most venerated writers in America (TENTH OF DECEMBER, LIBERATION DAY, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO), was a regular guest on BOOKWORM starting in 1997 - and one of its most distinct. He and Silverblatt had a special relationship, chronicled across four hours of conversation you can listen to in the KCRW archive. Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his novel LINCOLN IN THE BARDO: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-lincoln-in-the-bardo-part-i Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his collection TENTH OF DECEMBER: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-tenth-of-december-part-one Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his most recent collection of stories and essays, A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-russians-reading-writing-part-1 ---------- instagram: @thousandmoviepod email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com
Matt Singer @superpulse joins me for today's episode of the pod, the first after a two-week break, to discuss his wonderful biography of film critics Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, and the show that changed TV, film, criticism and media. email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail instagram: thousandmoviepod
YouTube's Daniel Greene, who makes content revolving almost exclusively around things that don't interest the narrator at all, happens to've lured the narrator into several years of regular viewing. mentioned along the way: Mark Z. Danielewski's grocery war stories, SISKEL & EBERT, Slavoj Zizek's sitcom theory. email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail instagram: @thousandmoviepod
David Remnick, editor-in-chief of THE NEW YORKER, has a new book out, called HOLDING THE NOTE, a collection of essays on older musicians in the latter parts of their careers -- it's an absolute delight, and reveals some unintentional goods about the author. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail instagram: thousandmoviepod
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A Healthier Way of Talking by Alexander Sorondo
Why You Should Never Feel Bad for Calling Out by Alexander Sorondo
Matt, from the YouTube channel "Thrift a Life," and Furious Pete from his own self-titled channel were already practiced vloggers when a lifechange came along, and with the skills and habits in tow, they brought their audience along for it. email: thousandmovieproject at gmaildotcom instagram: @thousandmoviepod
William T. Vollmann Talks About His 3,400-page Novel, A TABLE FOR FORTUNE by Alexander Sorondo
Walking a new route to The Abbey, his favorite bar on the beach, the narrator walks into a robbery. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod
People Who Live in Condemned Places by Alexander Sorondo
A colleague leaves town following an attempted murder. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod
PornHub released its annual infographic storm of data and reporting about the world's porn-watching habits. In today's episode we look at four of their "top" insights, and certain states' most-searched pornography. Feel free to say hey! email: thousandmovieproject at gmaildotcom instagram (new): thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator riffs about a couple of true-crime/horrorish YouTube channels on which he spends a whole lotta time despite how consistently and completely they ruin his day. Feel free to reach out below! email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram (new): @thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator riffs about not *minding* when someone's a billionaire, so long as he knows it, but also for some reason gets really pissed when he learns that someone's *been* a billionaire this whole time and he didn't know it. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram (new): @thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator riffs about a kid who just broke a world record from his bedroom, and its resonance with something total strangers tell him three to five times a day at work. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator riffs about the retail/hospitality “season” being over, at least on Miami Beach, and about what the season entails, the ups and the downs, and contending with his own penchant for looking at the bad little things inside the better large ones. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com ig: thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator riffs about John Dillinger's death (execution?) at the hands of federal agents in 1933 and goes from there into talking all about Wikileaks and the Mueller report--but not in a conspiratorial or educated way, just kinda muuusing. Yknow? email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail ig: @thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator riffs about Boxing Day, the weird symmetry of big fires in Kurt Vonnegut's life, and the "necessary" bummer of looking at something like Nobel laureate Saul Bellow's sad, late, Alzheimer's-induced fascination with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator talks about New Years Eve at a rooftop bar, watching people work while everyone around them celebrates; Andre the Giant, Samuel Beckett, and the paltry school buses of the French; new year resolutions and a double-order in the produce section. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod
Earbuds, Ghost Temper, Sontag Sex and Leonard's Exit by Alexander Sorondo
Wherein the narrator riffs about his old acquaintance Peter popping up in the news, Dean Koontz, neurodiversity and deathbed wishes.
Wherein the narrator riffs about: - Jill Lepore's new essay collection - People's grocery-shopping faces - God(?) - George Saunders - Finding a new place email: thousandmovieproject at gmail ig: thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator talks about taking the dog for pre-dawn walks, to avoid certain social obstacles, but how the whole pre-dawn thing is apparently laden with its own unexpected set of social obstacles. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail ig: thousandmoviepod
Wherein the narrator, wrapping up some thoughts on Nonfiction November, riffs on some realizations about John Updike and writing in general. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail
Wherein the narrator speaks with Tess Gerritsen about her new novel, THE SPY COAST, and tries to examine some themes from her blockbuster crime series, RIZZOLI & ISLES. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail
Wherein the narrator, tasked with giving out samples of wine at the grocery store, makes a mistake. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail dot com
Wherein the narrator carries on with Nonfiction November, reading an essay by Nietzsche about the New Testament in which he reveals some pretty striking things about himself--then some digressions into Shakespeare and Chaplin and personal blinders. email: thousandmoveiproject[at]gmail[dot]com
Wherein the narrator, jumping on a trend to focus on nonfiction for the month of November, recounts some recent reading: John Berger's strangely interesting essay about the biggest meal of the day, and the Synoptic Gospels from the Norton Critical Edition of the King James Version of The New Testament. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com
Wherein the narrator explains a recent hiatus, explains how two consecutive episodes got bundled into one before getting deleted, and then riffs (cuz why not?) about the thing, at work, that they fix on your chest when you forget your nametag. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com
Wherein the narrator riffs about a recent music discovery, cites two interesting passages from a George Bush biography, and tells a long story about the time he almost got a show with a podcast network. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail
Wherein the narrator goes thrifting, has some success, gets a little high on it, and then gets brought back to earth by a friendly bartender; also tries to decipher what Barbara said about her haircut. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com
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