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This week, Travis is joined by Jo to talk about the 2000 black comedy and psychological thriller, American Psycho. Based on the novel by Brett Easton Ellis, starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. Travis saw this back in 2000, but hasn't seen it since. Jo just watched it for the first time. So, is it worthy of the cult classic status it has garnered over the past 25 years, or is it liked for all the wrong reasons? And how method should actors go? Let's find out...Find Jo at https://www.tiktok.com/@readinganimorphs or https://www.youtube.com/@readinganimorphsThanks go out to Audie Norman (@TheAudieNorman) for the album art. Outro music In Pursuit provided by Purple-Planet.comSupport the show by going to patreon.com/wyhsVisit tvstravis.com for more shows and projects from TVsTravis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Described by Mick Herron as ‘seductive, entrancing, and quite off the wall', Rachel Kushner's fourth novel Creation Lake (Cape) reaffirms her position as one of America's most exciting and accomplished writers of fiction. In a reimagining of the spy novel for an age of ecological crisis, Kushner leads us to a remote Neanderthal cave in rural France where the enigmatic Bruno Lacombe leads his followers in a radical project to reject and undermine the modern world. ‘I've never read anything like it', writes Brett Easton Ellis. Rachel Kushner was joined in conversation by the novelist and critic Adam Thirlwell.Find more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspodGet Creation Lake: https://lrb.me/creationlakepod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Gen Z slowly but surely unearths gems in film history, one of our beloved Gen X films, Less Than Zero, always seems to escape their discovery. This is because the film is not available anywhere- when it is streaming for a few months on MAX, my various text threads light up, but alas, it leaves as quickly as it comes. One of my top 10 gifts ever received was the Vinyl LP for my Birthday 5 years ago and they can pry my burned DVD of the film from my cold dead hands. It's one of my all-time favorites and I am not alone. Everyone knows that this is Robert Downy Jr.'s best performance, that fans of the Brett Easton Ellis novel hated it, that Jami Gertz' performance was widely criticized (not by me- I love it) and that Brad Pitt is famously in the movie as a random party guest, but let's look deeper into the design, the cinematography and the soundtrack. In this episode, we begin looking at the creative elements of this film that no one will discuss with me. No one. So here I am, crowd-sourcing for as much info as possible to put into one place. Kelli and I scoured what is out there and are parsing it into 2 episodes. If you are out there and worked on this film, please know I have reached out to find you and have heard back that you will not talk about the film or I haven't heard back at all and would absolutely love to. This Gorgeous Film was assembled by: Director: Marek Kanievska Starring: Robert Downey, Jr., Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, James Spader DP: Edward Lachman Production Designer: Barbara Ling Costume Designer: Richard Hornung HMU: Deborah Figuly, Adam Christopher, Barbara O'Neill, Angelo Di Biase 00:00:00 1987's Less Than Zero 00:03:20 Depicting Addiction in Film and Robert Downey Jr.'s unforgettable performance. 00:05:48 Robert Downey Jr. interview clip 00:09:16 Impresario Rick Rubin and his first soundtrack- Less Than Zero 00:11:37 Class Consciousness in Production Design For more insights and interviews, check the show notes and stay tuned for a follow-up episode as we continue to uncover the mysteries of Less Than Zero. LINKS:Less Than Zero on DVDLess Than Zero on VinylLess Than Zero BookSome IG gems Looking back on the gorgeous '80s excess in Less Than Zero - Interview Magazine Bret Easton Ellis - Interview Magazine Brat by Andrew McCarthy Excerpts on Less Than Zero Brat by Andrew McCarthy The BEST way to Support is to SUBSCRIBE INSTAGRAM Get full access to Look Behind The Look's Substack from Tiffany Bartok at lookbehindthelook.substack.com/subscribe

This conversation delves into the themes of Brett Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho', exploring its satirical horror elements, the critique of materialism and consumerism, and the psychological depth of its characters. The hosts discuss their differing opinions on the narrative style, the portrayal of wealth and privilege, and the implications of misogyny within the story. They also reflect on the ambiguity of reality versus imagination in the book, ultimately concluding with thoughts on the societal reflections presented in the narrative. In this conversation, Jarrod and Steve delve into the complexities of character development, particularly focusing on the protagonist's inner conflict and moral ambiguity. They explore the societal implications of wealth and detachment, drawing parallels to real-world figures and events. The discussion also touches on personal reactions to the disturbing nature of the book, the narrative's use of musical essays, and concludes with reflections on the overall reading experience and ratings.Send us a messageSupport the showFilm Chewing Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2235582/followLens Chewing on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lenschewingOn VERO: https://vero.co/lenschewingSpeculative Speculations: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/speculative-speculationsSupport the podcast: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/7EQ7XWFUP6K9EJoin Riverside.fm: https://riverside.fm/?via=steve-l

Hello classmates!Brett Easton Ellis is pissed again, Jason Blum turns to the dark side, and 4 upcoming movies that should be on your radar Visit the YouTube channel Saturdays @ 12:30 PM Pacific to get in on the live stream, or just watch this episode rather than just listen!Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@middleclassfilmclassThis Episode:https://youtu.be/4VVid2H7GkUhttp://www.MCFCpodcast.comhttps://www.twitch.tv/MCFCpodcasthttp://www.facebook.com/MCFCpodcasthttp://www.twitter.com/podcastMCFChttp://www.tiktok.com/middleclassfilmclasshttp://www.instagram.com/middleclassfilmclassEmail: MCFCpodcast@gmail.comLeave us a voicemail at (209) 730-6010Merch store - https://middle-class-film-class.creator-spring.com/Join the Patreon:www.patreon.con/middleclassfilmclassPatrons:JavierJoel ShinnemanLinda McCalisterHeather Sachs https://twitter.com/DorkOfAllDorksChris GeigerDylanMitch Burns Robert Stewart JasonAndrew Martin Dallas Terry Jack Fitzpatrick Mackenzie MinerBinge Daddy DanAngry Otter (Michael)The Maple Syrup Don: StephenJoseph Navarro     Pete Abeytaand Tyler NoeStreaming Picks:Poor Things - HuluMr Crockett - HuluHaunt - Prime Video, TubiStarsky & Hutch - NetflixBatman Forever - MaxOver the Garden Wall - HuluFantastic Mr Fox - Peacock, Disney+All Hallow's Eve 1&2 - Shudder, Roku, Tubi, VixTrick r' Treat - MaxThe Evil Dead - AMC+, TubiThe Belko Experiment - Paramount+, Roku, Tubi, PlutoTrap - $6 rental everywhereDaddy's Head - Shudder, AMC+Wolfs - Apple TVWoman of the Hour - NetflixCrippled Avengers - Prime Video, Mubi, Indie Flix, Arrow, Flix Fling

SynopsisThe movie centers on Patrick Bateman, a handsome, intelligent and successful young professional in 1980s New York that moonlights as a psychotic killer. Starring Christian Bale, directed by Mary Harron, and based on the book of the same name by Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho was released on April 14, 2000.Where to watch American Psycho.Scene  [17:10- 20:07]  - "Business Card Casualty”RecommendationsTim: The Pale Blue Eye (Cooper, 2022) —where to watchTay: Mr. Brooks (Bruce Evans, 2007) —where to watchFollow: SSC on Instagram Tim on Letterboxd

Arrancamos el magazine con una larga conversación que mantuvimos hace unas semanas en Denia con el escritor Manuel Vicent. La degustamos como si fuera un licor muy caro, a sorbitos. Hoy distinguimos entre la nostalgia y la melancolía, y aprendemos a percibir cómo los pequeños detalles de un recuerdo pueden convertir una evocación en gran literatura.Además, Adolfo García Ortega, Lucía Lijtmaer y los oyentes hablan de los libros y las películas que suelen volver a ver o a leer. Desfilan por la sección desde Derrida a "Tiburón", de Kazuo Ishiguro a "El Guateque", de Donald Sutherland al espíritu de los 90, de "El bosque infinito" de Annie Proulx a "Los detrozos" de Brett Easton Ellis. 

This week, we discuss the modern classic AMERICAN PSYCHO.  Based on the Brett Easton Ellis novel, this film was controversial when it came out in 2000 largely due to it's themes of misogyny and overall cynical point of view.  At the time, Christian Bale was a relatively unknown actor and was advised against taking the role because it may prove to be “carer suicide” but the actor believed in the vision of director Mary Harmon and delivered a performance that put him on the map and propelled his career forward.   Intro:    “Necromaniacs” – Mike Hill Outro:  “Hip to be Square” – Hughey Lewis and the News

This week on the blog, a podcast interview with Ari Kahan, who assembled and oversees the most complete compendium of on-line information on Brian DePalma's classic rock music horror classic, Phantom of the Paradise. LINKSA Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/The Swan Archives: https://www.swanarchives.org/Eli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcastINTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTDo you remember when you first saw it? What were the circumstances? How old are you? What was your reaction? ARI KAHAN: Sure. I first saw it when I was 12. It was double billed with Young Frankenstein. This would have been in early 1975, and my mom took me to see Young Frankenstein, which was okay. It was pretty good, but I was really enamored with the second feature on the bill, which was Phantom. And I've been in love with it ever since.Did you know anything about it before you went in? ARI KAHAN: Nothing. Nothing at all. So, what has been the attraction for you for that film, low those many, many years ago?ARI KAHAN: It may have just hit me at an impressionable time. But I think that, you know, being 12 and being kind of a nerd, I probably identified with Winslow and his fervent belief that if the world could only hear from his heart, and especially if all the girls in school could only hear from his heart, then they would love him and not the jerk that they always went out with.So, there's probably some of that. There was certainly, I do remember very, very clearly that the direction in some respect stood out to me. I had seen a lot of movies when I was 12, and I remember even today, thinking when I was 12, that there was a moment where the Phantom is rising up into the rafters in the foreground as Beef is descending in the background. And I looked at that and I thought, boy, that's complex. Anybody else would have done a shot of the Phantom starting to climb a rope, and then cut away, and then come back to him up in the rafters. This guy is trying to do things that are more interesting than he needs to and I thought that was really fun.After seeing Phantom I went back and saw Sisters.Which was no mean feat back then. ARI KAHAN: Yeah, I know and in fact, I had to see Sisters by buying a 16-millimeter print of it. That was the only way I could. I had fixed up a couple of—this is probably a year or two later—I had fixed up a couple of 16-millimeter projectors that my school was discarding, so I could even do changeovers in my bedroom. And I got a copy of Sisters just so I could see it because it was unseeable otherwise. Well, kudos to you for finding Sisters, because it took me a long time. I imagine it showed up at the Film society at the university or something finally. So getting to see William Findlay in a markedly different role and also seeing, oh, okay, this is a director who likes split screen. Although I probably would have gotten that from Carrie, because I'm sure I saw Carrie first. He's accused of doing stuff like that just for showing off. In fact, I think it's always for a cinematic or emotional reason. And Sisters is the best example of that. The suspense of getting rid of that dead body before they get to the door is enhanced by the fact that you're watching two things happen at the same time. ARI KAHAN: Yeah, I think in Sisters and Phantom both, it works really well. And I think, and I think even DePalma would agree that it didn't work as well in Carrie. Because the split screen calls for intellectualizing on the part of the audience. And it takes you out emotionally and wasn't really working that well. I understand why he did it, because it'd be boring to like, cut to Carrie's face, cut the things happening, cut back to Carrie's face, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I think both he and Paul Hirsch, the editor, feel it would have been better off to do something else.But anyway, after Phantom, you know, every new De Palma film to come out—all the way through Domino—has been a much anticipated event for me, you know, and I'm in the theater on the first day. And there have been a couple of disappointments along the way, but by and large, it's been awesome. Since you've seen Phantom so many times, were there any surprises that popped up over the years as you've watched again and again and things that you hadn't seen or hadn't realized?ARI KAHAN: It took me a really long time to notice that there was a frame or two of Jessica Harper being one of the backup singers on stage when Beef's performing life at last and only because I think it was unavoidable to use those frames. I think somebody figured out in editing that it didn't make any sense for her to be one of those backup singers and then in a white dress. So that took a while. It also was only within the past couple of years that I realized that a lot of the sort of classical, but silent movie sounding music that I had always thought was composed by the guy who did the incidental music was actually Beethoven. Oh, really?ARI KAHAN: Because Beethoven's not credited. So that little like a little violin thing that happens …ARI KAHAN: Or when Swan is going into phoenix's dressing room. When Winslow is escaping from prison. Well, it's Beethoven piano trios for the most part. So, you don't need to get permission from the Beethoven estate on that…ARI KAHAN: Well, I think that they would have had to pay the orchestra involved and I can easily imagine them omitting credit to avoid doing that. Hoping nobody would notice. And nobody did, obviously.Until you've just brought it up. ARI KAHAN: Yeah, sorry. That's okay. It's not, it's not our problem. One of the things that, that I found the Swan Archives to be so helpful on—well, lots of things, uh, when I discovered it years ago and I've returned to it as new things have popped up or I've dug a little deeper—was your explanation of the Swan Song debacle. As a frequent viewer of the movie. I wasn't noticing truncated shots. That I didn't notice until you showed us those shots. But obviously the mattes, particularly at the press conference, are really, really terrible. If I'm noticing them, they're bad. Can you just give us a brief history of why they had to do that? ARI KAHAN: Sure. So, it goes to Beef electrocution. In the early seventies, there was a band called Stone the Crows, whose guitarist was a guy named Les Harvey and Peter Grant, who would later manage Led Zeppelin, managed Stone The Crows. And Les Harvey was—in a freak accident—electrocuted on stage. I think his guitar was badly grounded or something along those lines, in 1971 or 72.And when Peter Grant learned that there was a film coming out in which a rock guitarist is electrocuted on stage, he assumed, that it was making fun of what had happened to his friend, Les Harvey. And by that time he was managing Led Zeppelin. I should say in De Palma's defense that Beef's electrocution shows up in early drafts of the script that were written before Les Harvey suffered his accident. So, this was life imitating art, imitating life, you know, rather than the other way around. De Palma clearly did not take that plot and probably didn't even know about what had happened to Les Harvey. But anyway, by the time Peter Grant got wind of this, Phantom had already been shot, but not yet released. This was in the summer of 1974. And by sheer absolute sheer coincidence, Peter Grant and Led Zeppelin had just gotten a trademark on Swan Song for their record label. And the first record to come out on the Swan Song label was Bad Company's first record, and that was in somewhere around June of 1974. So that's when their trademark was perfected, and Phantom was scheduled to be released a few months later at the end of October.And Peter Grant went to 20th Century Fox, which had just purchased Phantom from Ed Pressman and DePalma. You know, it's important for the story to know that Phantom was independently produced. It wasn't financed by Fox. Pressman and DePalma raised money to make this movie in the hopes that they would then sell it to some distributor for more than they had paid to make it.And it turned out that there was a, quite a bidding war among several studios, which Fox won. And Fox paid more for Phantom than anyone had ever paid for an independent film to that point in history. They had very high expectations for it. So that sale had just closed, but Pressman and De Palma and everyone else hadn't been paid yet by Fox.And of course, they had run out of money and owed everybody money, everyone who had worked on the film. So, they were in kind of a desperate situation. And Peter Grant went to Fox and said, “I'll sue you and prevent release of this film.” And the only thing that Fox could do was to tell Pressman and De Palma, you need to fix this.And the only way they could fix it was by removing all of the references to Swan Song, so that Peter Grant wouldn't have grounds for his claim, because he obviously can't claim you can't have a film with an electrocution of a rock star. Really, all he had was the Swan Song thing. And so that was done very, very hastily. They were still working on it in early October, even though the film was scheduled for release at the end of October. And so, basically, Fox signed a deal with Led Zeppelin saying we won't release the film with any of this Swan Song prominently shown. Which is a very stupid resolution really because Peter Grant in the end did not prevent distribution of a film with an electrocution of a rock star, which was his original concern.All he really managed to do was mangle somebody else's. And so the end result is that the film that we've all been watching for the last 50 years, there's a little bit cut out of it. There's some lovely crane shots that you missed because what the DePalma had done through the film was start on this Swan Song logo or the Swan name and then move away from it to whatever was going on. So that you have the impression that Swan was everywhere. And so that whole thing was lost and, you know, as you and everybody else noticed, some of it's very noticeable, particularly the bird at the airport. Which is too bad.I understand that you have a secret print of the film in which all those logos had been restored. In addition to fixing the crane shots and having shots that no longer have the terrible matte on them, is there anything else in that version that we wouldn't have seen before? ARI KAHAN: It's not a secret print, really. It was just reconstructing the film the way that it was intended to be, using footage that had been assumed to have been destroyed decades ago, but which I eventually found and digitized. And then with the help of a couple of other folks, put the movie back together. The most challenging part: there's a couple of challenging parts to that.You know, it's not just a matter of sticking things in. The footage was without sound. And so, if you're making a scene a few seconds longer, for example, and there's music underlying that scene, what are you going to do? Are you going to start the music a little bit later? Are you going to end it a little bit earlier?Are you going to play it a little bit slower so that it fills up these extra seconds? Are you going to loop it? Are you going to find some other piece of music that was probably intended to go there in the first place? So there's that problem. And then the podium scene, which is the worst offender—at the airport—the original, they actually worked on the negative to put the dead bird on. And so, the original footage for that podium didn't exist. But we knew what the podium was supposed to look like, because there's a photo that was used for the German promotional campaign—created obviously months before the film is released—and that still shows the podium the way that it's supposed to look. So, I got my friend, Steve Rosenbaum, who is a special effects supervisor. He won Oscars for Forrest Gump and Avatar, I think. And he's about to win an Emmy—I will bet you a box of donuts—he's about to win an Emmy for his work on Masters of the Air. I gave him this image and the footage that's shown, you know, in the theater normally, and he reconstructed the podium for me. So that's how we did the podium. But the other thing that was that if you go see the film now in the theater projected from DCP, the DCP master—which is the same master that we've used for the current blu rays—it was done by a company called Reliance Media Works in Burbank. And, I don't know what 17 year olds they had working on it, but they did the coloring and grading the way it's fashionable to do when they did it, you know, 10 years ago, which was a lot of orange, teal and the blacks are crushed so that anything that's really dark gray or dark brown, just black, so that the colors pop more, but you lose a lot of the detail, and to my eye it looks terrible.And so, I used an earlier master of the film that looks more like it looked in the 70s as the base for the reconstruction. And then color matched the replacement footage to that. It sounds beautiful. ARI KAHAN: It's gorgeous. The only other thing that I suppose we could have done, but didn't, is there's originally footage of Winslow's face coming out of the record press looking all mangled. And I have that footage, but I didn't put it back in because that footage that DePalma deemed not appropriate to the tone of the film that he was making. And so, since the object of this game was to restore the film to the way that he would have wanted it, I let that out. I think that was a wise choice. You know, I talked to Pete Gelderblom, who did the Raising Cainreconstruction. And it's a beautiful piece of work that he did. He was more constrained than you, because he was only allowed to use the footage which was there, and he just had to rearrange it. He repeats one shot, but he got it as close to the original shooting script as he could. I don't think Paul Hirsch was particularly thrilled with it, but De Palma was and has referred it as his director's cut. Did De Palma see your version and did he like it? ARI KAHAN: Yeah. I did a cast and crew sort of screening in Los Angeles and Paul Williams came to that and Archie Hahn and so on. Ed Pressman, the producer. And there was tremendous enthusiasm, because none of them had ever seen the film that they made the way that it was supposed to be.And I sent a copy to Paul Hirsch and I'm not sure whether DePalma heard about it from Pressman or from Paul Hirsch, but he asked to see it. And I sent it to him and I got a nice note from him saying, you know, that it was great, good job, la la la, it's great to see the film the way that it was, you know, the original cut.So. Yes, he is. Definitely. He's seen it. He's happy with it. And Ed Pressman, in particular, wanted to have that version released on home video or in some other way. And we went to Fox. This is before Disney. It was still Fox. And Fox said, well, you know, we could consider doing that under two conditions. First, Mr.DePalma approves. Well, yes, check box checked there. He does. And second, we made this deal with Led Zeppelin back in 1974, where we agreed not to do this. And if you can get them to waive their rights under that agreement, then yeah, sure. So, I worked with Ed Pressman and we put together a bunch of testimonials from people that we thought Led Zeppelin might respect, like Brett Easton Ellis and I think Guillermo del Toro and others, and sent a package off to Led Zeppelin through their lawyers. And God bless them, they got back to us in less than a week and said no. At least they didn't leave you hanging. ARI KAHAN: At least they didn't leave us hanging. That's right. So, your archive is amazing and is hour's worth of fun to go through it. ARI KAHAN: It's a rabbit warren. Yeah, I wish it were a little better organized.How did it get started? Well first, when did you start collecting memorabilia and then how did that grow into the archive? ARI KAHAN: I started collecting memorabilia right after I saw the film when I was 12. And that was obviously pre internet and pre-eBay. And it was a lot harder to get stuff. Bt I would frequent science fiction conventions and horror conventions and comic book shops.And there were a whole bunch of people who knew me as that kid who's always looking for Phantomstuff. And I was the kind of nerd who kept a log with the what everybody else was also looking for. And so, if I were at some convention and the guy who was collecting Olivia Newton, John's stuff, if I saw something interesting—not that there is anything interesting about it, but anyway—if I saw something interesting about Olivia Newton, John, I would run to the pay phone and call him and say, Hey, you want this? And I would pick it up for him. And so, there was a lot of returning of favorites where there would be people who were going to cons that I wasn't going to. And if they saw Phantom stuff, they would pick it up for me and that kind of thing. And so, you know, that became the way to get the posters from every country in the world that it was released in and the lobby cards and everything else and it started filling up, taking up more and more space over time and grew into, you know, trailers and magazines and everything else.And then when the site came out in around 2006, I put up the first version of the site. People who either had worked on the film or had something interesting would get in touch with me and say, “You know, I have this. I see you have a good home for it. Do you want it?” And of course, you know, eBay was a way to fill in some gap.Is there, within what your current collection holds, is there a prized possession that, you know, if there was a fire and you only grabbed one of those pieces, what would you take with you? ARI KAHAN: Yeah, absolutely. You know, in every dorm room and every apartment and every house I've ever lived in has hung John Alvin's art from the one sheet, and it's the same art that's on the cover of the soundtrack album. I just thought that was beautiful piece of art. And I think it was his second movie poster he painted. The first one would be for Blazing Saddles. And then he did Young Frankenstein, and if you look at the Young Frankenstein poster and the Phantom poster, you can see that there's a lot of stylistic similarities there.But he went on to do, you know, E. T. and, you know, 130 odd other posters. And at some point, he and I started corresponding and he finally said, “You know, I have something that I think you should have. Give me your mailing address.” And a few days later what showed up was his original painting, the comp painting for that poster, which he had had all this time. And so that would be the prize possession for sure. Well, that qualifies, I think. Is there a Holy Grail out there that you're still looking for? ARI KAHAN: The original art for the Corbin poster. Which is the “he's been maimed and framed, beaten, robbed, and mutilated.” That artwork would be a Holy Grail. As well as, well, the Phantom's original helmet. Now, it turns out there's a couple of them, at least. And one of them Guillermo del Toro now has. He just bought the Phantom's costume after it failed to sell at auction at Bonham's. And the other helmet the Pressmanfamily has, so those would be a grail. There's a lot of things that I'm sure no longer exist that would be the grail, like, you know, the Phantom's contract.Any number of props would be fun, but there's not very many known to still exist. I think Peter Elbling still has—or I think his son has it right now—the microphone that he used with a knife on it. And Garrett Graham still has his guitar strap, Beef's guitar strap. And I think he may still have the plunger.But not the antler belt? ARI KAHAN: No, not as far as I know. That'd be tough to ship. It would be. Yes. Dangerous to keep around the house. You could bump into it. On the site you kindly show all kinds of different memorabilia that you have or that exists around the world. And you also have a section called Inexplicable Crap. Is there one piece in there that just stands out for you as what in the world were they thinking? ARI KAHAN: Maybe the Death Records pillow. Like I can understand why they did. They made prototypes that never went out for sale. Why anybody would want it, you know, a dead bird, probably somebody wants a dead bird pillow, but the market would be limited.When the DVD for Phantom Palooza 2 came out, I bought that and then heard you talking somewhere about getting Jessica Harper to sing Old Souls, which is on the DVD. We just see the very end of her singing it. I'm guessing there were some technical problems or something with that. ARI KAHAN: It wasn't technical problems. It was the Paul Williams rider, which required that the show not be recorded. And I think that midway through Jessica singing, somebody might have said, or actually I think that's an audience--t might be an audience shot thing that we have. There's probably lots and lots of cell phone video out there of the show, but nobody related to who worked on Phantom Palooza—and I was one of the people who worked on Phantom Palooza—is going to be out there distributing anything that we agreed with Paul we would not even shoot. But, but yes, Jessica was absolutely a highlight of the show there. I was surprised that she went full force on the end of that song. ARI KAHAN: Well, there were no plans for her to perform. And the morning of the rehearsal, I said, “Hey, Jessica, you want to go down and watch Paul rehearse?” And I took her over to the auditorium and I was hoping that, you know, seeing that and being a performer at heart, she might be inspired to maybe, you know, participate. And she decided she would do Old Souls with Paul's band. And then she went back to the hotel and practiced the song, I think, all day in her hotel room and then, you know, knocked it out of the park that night. That's how I remember it. And then she came off stage and said, you know, now I know how Mick Jagger feels. It's a pretty stunning debut for her in that movie, to come from essentially nowhere—although she'd done things before that. And then the run that she had in the seventies, pretty unequaled when it comes to being the, um…ARI KAHAN: The queen of cult. Yeah. The queen of cult. And just the range, from Suspiria to My Favorite Year. You don't get a much broader range than that. ARI KAHAN: Pennies From Heaven. Yes, just phenomenal. Even just the wheat speech in Love and Death is worth the price of admission alone. ARI KAHAN: She played, uh, Gary Shandling's wife on The Gary Shandling show in the last season, named Phoebe, of all things. And in, I'm pretty sure it was the last episode of that show, she's held hostage by a phantom who lives under the set, who threatens to sabotage Gary's show, unless she will sing his song. And she ends up singing his song, which turns out to be YMCA. Wearing a dress that is very, very reminiscent of the one she wore to sing Old Souls in. And they even make a Pennies From Heaven joke. So, it's very inside baseball, I should say. Speaking of actors from that, I've always been blown away by William Finley's performance in the movie. I think it was Paul Williams who said something like, you know, he spends three quarters of the movie acting with one eye and metal teeth, and that's all he's got. And it's just flawless and so heartbreaking.And I'm just sorry we didn't get to see him in more movies. He's delightful in The Fury in a very small part. He's all over the early films. And I got the sense since I read somewhere that you did a eulogy for him, that you must have developed a friendship over the years. ARI KAHAN: Yeah. And, before we get to that, you say heartbreaking, right?And I think that that's one of the things about Phantom that was so ballsy. It's obviously a spoof of many things, but while being a spoof, it tries to get you to care about the characters. If, if you were not, you know, devastated at the end when Winslow dies just before Phoenix recognizes that it was him all along, you know, the film has failed.Whereas in other spoofs, you know, Rocky Horror doesn't ask you to care whether Brad and Janet will get back together after their experience or anything like that. Nobody asked you to care about the characters at all. And I think it's a huge risk that DePalma took in making a film like this: while simultaneously being a parody and a satire and a spoof and everything else, he wants you to care about the outcome. As far as Finley, I got to know Bill a little bit towards the end of his life after meeting him at Phantom Palooza. I went to New York and spent a little time with him and now I know his wife Susan pretty well and his son Dash a little bit. And when he died, Susan asked If I would put together some kind of a video montage for the funeral, which wasn't that—it's a celebration of life was what she was calling it. And I did that. And every time I had it finished—and, you know, I had like a day and a half to do this. And then I had to take the red eye to New York from California for this, for this event—every time I had it finished, she would send me a few more pictures and I'd have to, you know, redo it.And then she asked, could you set it to music? Could it be set to Faust? You know, okay. You know, you don't say no to a widow, right? And I was working at the time too. So, when I finally flew to New York, I was completely exhausted. And I got to the chapel I guess a couple of hours before the ceremony was supposed to start, so that we could make sure that this thing would play on their equipment and so on.And I'm taking a nap on one of the pews and Susan showed up with, you know, programs under her arm. And I picked up a program and saw that, right after Garrett Graham and Jessica Harper was supposed to speak, I'm supposed to speak. But I this was the first I was hearing about it. And so, I spent the first, unfortunately, the first part of the ceremony—where I really wanted to be paying full attention—kind of scrambling together what I was going to say.I have no idea what I said at this point. I hope it did Bill justice and didn't offend anybody, but I couldn't tell you now a single word of what I ended up saying there. And it's in front of, you know, various of the icons of my childhood, right, are in that chapel. So it's kind of like all of the nightmares of going to school and realizing that there's a test in the subject that you never took, and that you're not wearing pants, and all your ex-girlfriends are there laughing at you. Because I have my own podcast that has to do with my series of books, and like your site, I want to make it perpetual. But there's really no way to do that unless I set up a fund so that after I die they keep paying the site to keep running it. Because as soon as that site shuts down, the podcast goes away. And the same thing will happen to the archive. Whoever is hosting it, unless they're paid, it's gonna go away. I'm wondering, do you have a plan in place for all that information? ARI KAHAN: When I go, it goes.Oh, I feel like I set you up for that. Okay. Can I propose an alternate ending to that? ARI KAHAN: Sure. You essentially have a book there. You just have it in web form. You should put that together so that when it is done, when you are done, it can just be put into a book because it already reads like a book.ARI KAHAN: People have suggested that, and I've resisted doing a book because every now and then, some new fact comes to light that shows that something I had in there was wrong. And everything in there—virtually everything—is based on conversations that I've had with participants or material that came out at the time. None of it is taken from someone else's book or anything. So it's all fairly firsthand, but people have fallible memory. So, for example, the guy who made the phantom's helmet assured me that he had made only one. And it's crazy, because every production wants to have multiple copies of any key prop, because if something happens to the prop during shooting, shooting would have to, you know, it's an incredibly expensive problem to stop shooting waiting for another one.But as it turns out, he's, he's wrong. He made more than one. There is more than one. And so, every now and then, I have to correct something on the site. And if I put it out in book form, these books would be wrong. Potentially, something could come out in the future that that would make something with my name on it. Wrong. Imagine a book with a mistake. I can't imagine. ARI KAHAN: Exactly. And I can't abide that. So, it exists in electronic form so that I can edit it and improve it. Well, I would argue that you can do the ebooks, but that's, you know, that's your circus. It's not my circus. But you do raise an interesting question about misconceptions. I know that one of the biggest misconceptions is that it ran in Winnipeg forever and it didn't. I can—as someone who lived here in Minneapolis when Harold and Maude ran at the Westgate Theater for two and a half years—I can assure you it ran there for two and a half years, because I was there those two and a half years. So that was real. Is there another misconception out there about the movie that you just can't—like a whack a mole—get rid of? ARI KAHAN: So many. In fact, um, I think on my FAQ page, I list some of them. Is there an egregious one that just gets under your skin? ARI KAHAN: Yeah. The idea that it was only popular in Winnipeg and a couple other places is just completely wrong. It was big in Japan. It eventually became a big in Los Angeles. It never did anything in New York. Where it was actually biggest was not Winnipeg, it was El Salvador, where the songs hit number one on the radio. More than once. And it was brought back and revived many times. I get more mail from El Salvador than from anybody else.As we wrap up here, my favorite scene in the movie is the closing credits. I just love the music. I love what Paul Hirsch did with the assembly of that. And for years, I was living under the mistaken impression that in the credits, when it said Montage by Paul Hirsch, that that's what I was looking at was that montage. That's a montage. Then I was disabused of that in an interview with him—which I clarified with him. It was very nice to get back to me on Facebook when I said, “Am I correct in my understanding that the montage in the middle of the movie, the writing montage, you never saw that until the film was done? You had to put all the timing of that together, the animation of the writing, the placement of Phoenix's face on this part of the screen, and the Phantom and that, all the dissolves, all that timing?” And he said, “Yes it was a one-shot thing.” And I think for that he does deserve a special “Montage by Paul Hirsch,” because even today, with all the stuff we have, that would still be a challenging thing to do. And then not to be able to see the end result.But even with that, I just still love the closing credits. It's a combination of music, it allows me to revisit all my favorite scenes in the movie and a lot of my favorite shots. Do you have a favorite scene? ARI KAHAN: Well, I actually like those closing credits too, because most of the shots in those closing credits aren't actually in the film. Most of them are outtakes. And so, for example, in those closing credits, you have Swan splashing in the tub. There's Archie Han twirling around like this. And most of them, alternate takes. And they're clearly things that Paul Hirsch thought were charming and wanted to include that he couldn't put in the film.I suspect that you've held 35-millimeter film in your hands and cut shot A to shot B. I've only done that in 16mm. To keep a piece of film that short, hanging on a hook somewhere going, “I know I'm going to want to use that later.” Then finding that. I don't think people today understand what skill level was involved in, you know, that sort of thing, or the TIE Fighters in Star Wars that he did, or all that connection of little pieces, and tracking that and knowing that that's going to go there and that's going to go. It's so much easier today. And you had to make firmer decisions then earlier in the process than you do now, right? And fixing things was much more arduous. ARI KAHAN: You know, I think if they had to fix the Swan Song stuff out of Phantom and they were doing it using digital technology today, obviously, it'd be much faster and so on, but, uh, doing it on film. And having to send each change into the processing house, and then getting it back a few days later, and, uh, you know, it's a lot of work. It'd be horrible.But favorite scenes: The Goodbye Eddie number just remains a favorite. Do you know why? It's not fancy DePalma. It's a wide shot, two shot, a single. ARI KAHAN: That's right. It's the most conventionally shot thing in the film, but Archie Han is just so great in it. His delivery boy in My Favorite Year—when he does the punching—he just does the exact right thing at the right time. And I wish there'd been bigger movies with more Archie Han in them than what we got. ARI KAHAN: So does Archie. Okay, last question. If you take Phantom of the Paradise out of the mix, what would you say is your favorite De Palma movie?ARI KAHAN: Well, I'm not sure that Phantom of the Paradise is my favorite De Palma movie. It is a sentimental childhood favorite. But I go back and forth between Carlito's Way, Casualties of War, Femme Fatale, Carrie. And Raising Cain.I think that Femme Fatale is probably the one that came closest to his intention.It's the one that I think of as being, like, the most successfully realized, and I love it for that reason. Carlito's Way is just, by, I think, any objective standard, probably his best work. Then I love Blow Out. I'm not on the Blow Out train as much as everybody else. Maybe because it just, it goes so dark.ARI KAHAN: That's what I love about it is the devastating ending. I really love Peet Gelderboom's version of Raising Cain. Given all that, and given that you're 12 years old in 1974, 75, somewhere in there, and you're you're a movie freak at this point, which is a really good time in film history from that era. Is there a favorite? ARI KAHAN: So, I was really lucky that I was when I was 15 or 16, I was working at a theater called the UC theater in Berkeley, which was a repertory house that showed a different double bill every night. And any night that I wasn't working, I was there seeing movies.So, I saw lots and lots and lots of movies. And despite all that and all the weird stuff I saw, my favorites are probably the same things that every 70s kid's favorites were: Star Wars, Harold and Maude, The Godfather. I loved Harold and Maude so much that I bought an old hearse at one point.Okay, you win. ARI KAHAN: And I didn't keep it for long. It got like, I don't know how many gallons per mile. It was just not economical to have as a car, but it was fun for a while. I was very lucky when they hit the two-year mark here in Minneapolis, and I was a junior in high school, maybe. I happen to know the son of the local movie critic for the paper, and the critic knew that I was a big fan of Harold and Maude. And so he took me along on his press junkets. So, I had dinner with Bud Cort, got to chat with him. I got to hang out with Ruth Gordon for the day. ARI KAHAN: The only one I can propose to top that would be when I was in high school, I was writing for the school paper. Actually, I had stopped going to high school. I was the entertainment editor for the school paper, and I had stopped going to high school. I dropped out, but I kept submitting articles to the paper. And at some point, the newspaper staff changed my title from Entertainment Editor to Foreign Correspondent. And on the strength of that—when Tim Curry's first record, Read My Lips, came out, and he was coming to town to sign autographs at Tower Records—myself and a writer from the Berkeley Bar, which was a newspaper back then, had lunch with him around the corner from Tower Records just before he went off to do his autographing. And I was a huge Tim Curry fan. And I had to try to keep that under wraps and, you know, not ask any Rocky Horror related questions. And that was my claim to fame until all of the Phantom nonsense started.

This week it's the 2002 adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis's novel "Rules of Attraction". This one is one that Joe and Erik remember liking way back when it was new but it's a first watch for Ryan. Was this a good recommendation or is it a stinker? Rules of Attraction (2002) d. Roger Avary Sean Bateman is a freshman at Camden College, who's in love with Lauren Hyde. She's waiting for her wastrel boyfriend Victor Johnson to come back from a trip around Europe, while Paul Denton, who used to date Lauren, is exploring his bisexual side with a crush on Sean.

To make this show, our team listens through hours upon hours of audio. But sometimes, a few excellent shows will slip through the cracks.This week, Leah is joined by the Podcast Playlist crew to share some amazing podcasts that you may have missed.Like Once upon a time...at Bennington College. Our senior producer Kate Evans likes it because listening feels like, "a summer page turner, but for a podcast." The show shares the history of the unique Liberal arts college where authors Brett Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem and Donna Tartt all went to school together. Plus, producer Julian Uzielli shares a heartfelt podcast about a group of Armenian soliders who survived months of being trapped behind enemy lines.That and more, this week on Podcast Playlist.Featuring: Once Upon A Time...At Bennington College, Freeway Phantom, The Ballad of Billy Balls, Country Of DustFor more info, head to cbc.ca/podcastplaylist.

Grab your Raybans, stick on MTV and read a quick, stylish novel by a freakishly young author: it's time for Joel to break down the 80s rollercoaster that is Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yfirvöld hafa áhyggjur af sífellt óhollara hljóðumhverfi fyrir börn, í skólum, að leik og í frístundum. Ástæða er til að skoða stöðu mála og fræða börn, ungmenni, kennara og aðstandendur um mikilvægi góðrar hljóðvistar og heyrnarverndar. Í gær var alþjóðlegur dagur Heyrnar og í síðustu viku var undirritaður þríhliða samstarfssamningur um innleiðingu fjarnáms í heyrnarfræði fyrir íslenska háskólanema. Heyrnar- og talmeinastöð Íslands, Háskólinn í Örebro í Svíþjóð og Háskólinn á Akureyri hafa gert með sér samning sem gerir kleift að bjóða upp á háskólanám í heyrnarfræðum í fyrsta sinn hér á landi. Kristján Sverrisson forstöðumaður Heyrnar- og talmeinastöðvarinnar kom í þáttinn í dag. Við fengum svo vinkil í dag frá Guðjóni Helga Ólafssyni. Í þetta sinn lagði hann vinkilinn við áhugaverða vegagerð, til dæmis vegi og brýr á Skeiðarársandi og hinn stórmerkilega „Plankaveg" vestur í Kaliforníu. Guðjón minnti svo hlustendur á að fara að öllu með gát hvar sem þeir ferðast. Lesandi vikunnar í þetta sinn var Huldar Breiðfjörð, rithöfundur og handritshöfundur og greinarformaður í ritlist við Háskóla Íslands. Við forvitnuðumst um hvað hann er að gera þessa dagana og svo fengum við auðvitað að vita hvaða bækur hann hefur lesið undanfarið og hvaða bækur og höfundar hafa haft mest áhrif á hann í gegnum tíðina. Huldar sagði frá eftirfarandi bókum og höfundum: When We Cease to Understand the World e. Benjamin Lapatut Endurminningar Annie Ernaux GoatMan e. Thomas Thwaites og svo höfundunum, Þórbergi Þórðarsyni, Brett Easton Ellis og Douglas Coupland. Tónlist í þættinum: Ljósvíkingur / Egill Ólafsson (Gunnar Þórðarsson-Ólafur Haukur Símonarson) Ég heyri svo vel / Olga Guðrún Árnadóttir (Ólafur Haukur Símonarsson) In the year 2525 / Zager and Evans UMSJÓN: GUNNAR HANSSON OG GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIR

We have to return some videotapes...okay?! This week on the Podcast we are diving deep into Mary Harron's American Psycho with special guest Eva Lucy Alvarado! She's a mega fan of Mary's Brett Easton Ellis adaptation, so we're heading to the Yale room with her to write a followup to the 2000's cult classic. Will Christian Bale return as Patrick Bateman? Will his business card finally spell "Acquisition" correctly? Is Bill Sage able to sweat on queue like Christian did? How does Dimes Square tie into all of this? Why are we somehow discussing Saltburn a whole two weeks after that episode? Is this officially the start of our beef with Red Scare? How does the history of French Clown education tie into all of this? Find out on this week's episode of Podcast 2 The Sequel.Follow us on Twitter and InstagramTheme song by Charle WallaceSupport our Feature film, Inter-State, currently in Post-ProductionFind Eva Lucy on Twitter here

Brett Easton Ellis är äntligen tillbaka med ny roman, om sig själv som ung och kåt. Följ med hem till kultförfattaren. Hur mår Hamlets käresta Ofelia 2023? Skådespelaren Isabelle Kyed vet. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Våld, sex och känslomässig avtrubbning är sådant man tänker på när man hör författarnamnet Bret Easton Ellis. En del har kanske hängt med Ellis ända sedan han debuterade som 21-åring med ungdomsskildringen ”Noll att förlora”. Andra tänker mer just på satiren ”American psycho”, där åttiotalets yuppiekultur får psykopatiska drag. Ett tag såg det ut som Ellis övergivit litteraturen för pengarna i filmindustrin. Men nu är han tillbaka. Nästa vecka kommer romanen ”Skärvorna” ut på svenska. Den skrev han med Ultravox låt ”Vienna” som ledmotiv. Sveriges Radios USA-korrespondent Roger Wilson har träffat Bret Easton Ellis i hemmet i Los Angeles. HUR MÅR DAGENS OFELIA? ISABELLE KYED VET I helgen är det premiär för ”Hamlet”. Igen. Den här gången på Kulturhuset Stadsteatern i Stockholm med rapartisten Silvana Iman som den danske prinsen i Shakespeares kolsvarta tragedi. Hamlet så många gånger utsedd till världens mest kända pjäs. Numera ofta omtolkad, omkastad, moderniserad, uppochnervänd men också då och då spelad i sin helhet. Men en roll som allt oftare stryks är en av världsdramatikens knepigaste kvinnor, Ofelia! Skådespelaren Isabelle Kyed gästar studion och berättar om hur det är att spela plågade Hamlets runtboxade kärlekspartner.SÖK TILL ROMANPRISETS LYSSNARJURY!Vill du vara med och bestämma vilken författare som ska få Sveriges Radios Romanpris 2024? Nu söker vi nästa Lyssnarjury! Fyra svenska romaner från det gångna året kommer nomineras. De läsande lyssnare som väljs ut till Lyssnarjuryn läser de fyra romanerna och pratar sig fram till vilken som ska vinna. Lina Kalmteg berättar hur du gör för att söka till Lyssnarjuryn! VI SIMMAR I TEXT - VAD GÖR DET MED OSS SOM LÄSARE?Läser vi för mycket? I dagens essä från OBS driver en författare den tesen. Vi hör Torbjörn Elensky reflektera över hur och varför vi alla är dåliga läsare. Programledare: Jenny TelemanProducent: Anna Tullberg

To make this show, our team listens through hours upon hours of audio. But sometimes, a few excellent shows will slip through the cracks. This week, Leah is joined by the Podcast Playlist crew to share some amazing podcasts that you may have missed. Like Once upon a time...at Bennington College. Our senior producer Kate Evans likes it because listening feels like, "a summer page turner, but for a podcast." The show shares the history of the unique Liberal arts college where authors Brett Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem and Donna Tartt all went to school together.  Plus, Producer Julian Uzielli shares a heartfelt podcast about a group of Armenian soliders who survived months of being trapped behind enemy lines. That and more, this week on Podcast Playlist. Featuring: Once Upon a Time...at Bennington College (Kate's pick) -   "Bennington. Autumn, 1982. Donna, Jonathan and Bret arrive on the campus of the school nicknamed "The Little Red Whorehouse on the Hill." One of them comes with a steamer trunk. One of them comes with a Kangol cap. One of them comes with a "suitcase full of drugs." Freeway Phantom (Leah's pick) - "On April 25th, 1971, 13-year-old Carol Spinks mysteriously disappeared from her neighborhood in southeast Washington D.C. Six days later, her body was discovered off a nearby freeway. Investigators assumed this was a one-off murder. Little did they know, Carol was the first victim of D.C.'s first serial killer." The Ballad of Billy Balls (Kelsey's pick) - "It's 1982, and a man bursts into an East Village storefront apartment and shoots punk musician Billy Balls. Author and activist iO Tillett Wright and Crimetown Producer Austin Mitchell unravel a mystery of love and loss, the tender binds of family, and the stories we tell ourselves just to survive." Country of Dust (Julian's pick) - "This podcast from a multinational team of producers tells the stories of a changing Armenia. A lot has been happening here: revolution, war, immigration, a shifting economy and so much more. We capture what life is like here right now and explore the odd, inspiring and sometimes perplexing ways in which this country keeps going, despite the odds." For more visit: cbc.ca/podcastplaylist

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The Style Section is placed and the plastic draping is up as Steven and Mary navigate the psycho within themselves in this week's episode of From The Top! covering Brett Easton Ellis's novel, Christian Bale's Cult Classic, and a musical that may have been axed a little too early. That's right... Turn up Huey Lewis and the News, and enjoy going a little crazy with American Psycho: The Musical. Steven returns again to the booth with Mary and all that can be said is... They went a little Psycho... Steven quotes the author verbatim on how this story of yuppie culture came to fruition and wishes Duncan Sheik hadn't been able to book his reservation as composer, and Mary finds vindication in such our main, sinfully delicious, character, and attempts to understand what was going on in the minds of these insane 80's tropes. Hell... Even Elmo makes a cameo Tom Cruise would be proud of. So sit back and don't drink that glass of really great champagne, turn up your Walkman, and enjoy the honey almond body wash aroma as you dive into madness for a spell. Happy Listening! FOLLOW US! For all the latest content and fun things to come, subscribe, hit that like button, and follow. Share with your friends and castmates and remember to rate us where you are listening! Thank You :) Also, tap the button to get notified, so you never miss an episode. ⁠⁠Listen Anywhere You Enjoy Your Podcasts⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Goosebump Worthy Broadway Playlist⁠⁠⁠ - FTT Spotify Exclusive Playlist --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcastfromthetop/message

Before he protected Gotham City, Christian Bale was an American Psycho which is based on Brett Easton Ellis's novel of the same name and has gone on to become a cult classic! Richard and Jeff talk about this film from 2000 to see if it deserves to be held up high or be forgotten on wall street.   Sponsored By @southland_dungeon www.southlandbooksandcafe.com @nightofthenerdylaser on INSTAGRAM @notnlpod on the Twitter machine Email us @ nightofthenerdylaser@gmail.com Hosts: Richard & Jeff www.frankencontn.com @frankencontn on Instagram, Twitter, & Facebook    

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Hilde Slåtto og Ingrid Svennevig Hagen snakker om Los Angeles i litteraturen. Vi har lest svært forskjellige bøker hvor en kan si at L.A. er en av hovedkarakterene. Noen av bøkene er helt nye, andre er moderne klassikere. Hva er det med L.A., og hvorfor er vi så tiltrukket av den og hvorfor gjør denne byen seg spesielt godt i litteratur? Velkommen til Stolthet og fordom – en litteraturpodkast! I denne episoden snakker vi om: Skår av Brett Easton Ellis (oversatt av Henning Kolstad) The White Album av Joan Didion Late dagar, ville netter av Eve Babitz (oversatt av Anna Kleiva) Echo Mountain av Anna Kleiva

From the body horror of David Cronenberg and Brett-Easton Ellis to Jacque Lacan's 'jouissance' and J.G. Ballard's 'Super-Cannes', take a deep dive into wellness cults, toxic positivity, nepo baby discourse, and capitalism's parasitic dreams of fame. Hosted by Bram E. Gieben. Strange Exiles theme by Asthmatic Astronaut. Subscribe at strangeexiles.substack.com.

Færsla á Facebook síðasta föstudag vakti athygli okkar, en þar rekur Helga Maren Pálsdóttir atburðarás frá því 4ra gömul dóttir hennar vaknar með hálsbólgu laugardaginn 14.janúar. Það sem gerðist í kjölfarið er martöð allra foreldra; sjúkrahúsvist, gjörgæsla, öndunarvél, bakslag, aftur gjörgæsla og sem betur fer bati eftir þrjár langar vikur. Helga Maren rakti söguna og þessa erfiðu reynslu fyrir okkur í þættinum í dag. Við fengum vinkil frá Guðjóni Helga Ólafssyni í dag. Í dag bar hann vinkilinn að Skotlandi, Orkneyjum, Hjaltlandseyjum og Íslandi. Lesandi vikunnar í þetta sinn er Fríða Kolbrún Þorkelsdóttir bóksali og nemi í almennri bókmenntafræði. Hún ætlar að segja okkur frá því hvaða bækur hún hefur verið að lesa undanfarið og hvaða bækur og höfundar hafa haft mest áhrif á hana í gegnum tíðina. Hún talaði um eftirfarandi bækur: Lungu e. Pedro Gunnlaugur Garcia, American Psycho e. Brett Easton Ellis, Dracula e. Bram Stoker, svo nefndi hún höfundana Milan Kundera og Andri Snær Magnason og Kristínu Eiriksdóttir. Tónlist í þættinum í dag Við saman / Hljómar (Gunnar Þórðarson og Þorsteinn Eggertsson) Desafinado / Stan Getz (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Ferreira de Menonca) Smooth Operator / Sade (Sade Adu & R. St. John) UMSJÓN: GUNNAR HANSSON OG GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIR

Færsla á Facebook síðasta föstudag vakti athygli okkar, en þar rekur Helga Maren Pálsdóttir atburðarás frá því 4ra gömul dóttir hennar vaknar með hálsbólgu laugardaginn 14.janúar. Það sem gerðist í kjölfarið er martöð allra foreldra; sjúkrahúsvist, gjörgæsla, öndunarvél, bakslag, aftur gjörgæsla og sem betur fer bati eftir þrjár langar vikur. Helga Maren rakti söguna og þessa erfiðu reynslu fyrir okkur í þættinum í dag. Við fengum vinkil frá Guðjóni Helga Ólafssyni í dag. Í dag bar hann vinkilinn að Skotlandi, Orkneyjum, Hjaltlandseyjum og Íslandi. Lesandi vikunnar í þetta sinn er Fríða Kolbrún Þorkelsdóttir bóksali og nemi í almennri bókmenntafræði. Hún ætlar að segja okkur frá því hvaða bækur hún hefur verið að lesa undanfarið og hvaða bækur og höfundar hafa haft mest áhrif á hana í gegnum tíðina. Hún talaði um eftirfarandi bækur: Lungu e. Pedro Gunnlaugur Garcia, American Psycho e. Brett Easton Ellis, Dracula e. Bram Stoker, svo nefndi hún höfundana Milan Kundera og Andri Snær Magnason og Kristínu Eiriksdóttir. Tónlist í þættinum í dag Við saman / Hljómar (Gunnar Þórðarson og Þorsteinn Eggertsson) Desafinado / Stan Getz (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Ferreira de Menonca) Smooth Operator / Sade (Sade Adu & R. St. John) UMSJÓN: GUNNAR HANSSON OG GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIR

In Spooky Time, our weekly roundup of horror musings from the world of film, TV, Books and games, this weeks topics are: Eric talks about a really scary PC Video Game. Robert found a collection of overseas Lovecraft graphic novels. Mike recommends two movies with the word "DEATH" in the title. Liz reviews Brett Easton Ellis's (American Psycho) new book The Shards. And as a bonus talks about a movie she had to bail on.

Hans en Chrétien bespreken de oneigenlijke discussie over aimabele en niet-aimabele personages. En stellen de vraag of boekenredacties nu wel of niet woke zijn. Verder besprekingen van ‘Scherven', de nieuwe roman van Brett Easton Ellis, van het pamflet ‘Mannen, ik haat ze' (Pauline Harmange) en een close read uit de bundel ‘Het komende leven' van Renée van Riessen. Luister, like en abonneer.

This week our ghouls discuss 2000's adaptation of the novel by Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho. From wiki: "American Psycho is a 2000 slasher, horror film directed by Mary Harron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner. Based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis, it stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a New York City investment banker who leads a double life as a serial killer. Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, and Reese Witherspoon appear in supporting roles. The film blends horror and black comedy to satirize 1980s yuppie culture and consumerism, exemplified by Bateman."Glass Onion escape room, dog surgery, streaming services hanky code, Fleishman is in Trouble, Josh has never seen a Woody Allen film, The Menu, Banshees of Inisherin, Colin Farrell supremacy, Mary Harron, Promising Young Woman, Go Fish, Watermelon Woman, I Shot Andy Warhol, Basquiat, Little Nell, Larry Clark's Kids NEXT WEEK: Lair of the White Worm Website: http://www.bloodhauspod.com  Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com   Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/ Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/ Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/   Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/ Joshua's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshuaConkel  Joshua's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/ Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkelal   

Smiley Face Killers, Native American Earthworks, mounds, effigy sites, Wisconsin, La Crosse, La Crosse's earthworks & many bars, the mystical Catholicism of La Crosse, Cathedral of St. Joseph the Work Man, Franciscan Order, Riverside Park, Mississippi River, Wisconsin River, Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin, gifted program, high number of gifted kids among Smiley victims, "Chinatown," "Chinatown" depicting a Smiley murder, Menomonie, Eau Claire, Neil Gaiman, "American Gods," David Lynch, Madison, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, William S. Burroughs, DC Sniper, University of Wisconsin system, Luke Helder, Hartland, Smiley victims who attended the same high school, Lake Geneva, industrial metal scene, Elkhorn, Whitewater, Michigan dogmen, Beast of Bray Road, Smiley in Ohio, US Route 23, Cincinnati, Covington, Piep Piper clock tower in Covington, John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Brett Easton EllisMusic by: Keith Allen Dennishttps://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're continuing our series on slashers and covering the cult classic from 2000, American Psycho. We talk about the inspiration for the character of Patrick Bateman and the controversy around Brett Easton Ellis' novel and the production of this movie starring Christian Bale.

Before he was backing up Lil Nas X and before he was MIley or Hannah's dad, America fell in love with a bright eyed mullet-headed Billy Ray Cyrus and his song Achy Breaky Heart. We listened to it for a week and have some thoughts. Also in this prepisode music news of the weird, listener emails and we announce next week's album. In this episode we discuss film production, Brett Easton Ellis, Neil Diamond, attempting divorce, drawings, knuckleless gloves, cultural rituals, electric slide, pool accidents and so much more! Hatepod.com | TW: @AlbumHatePod | IG: @hatePod | hatePodMail@gmail.com Episode Outline: Quick update on the goings on at the world headquarters Discuss our history with the song/band Song discussion - lyrics and music Music Video How the song did worldwide Amazon reviews Listener email (just 2) Music news of the weird Announce next week's album

Lovely Guest... Horrible film......This week on the podcast Casey and Dave are joined by the lovley "Moisty Mate" Rosie and the mistake has been made of letting Rosie choose the film. The trio are going off-brand and covering a gritty teen drama from 2002; The Rules of Attraction.Yes that film you don't remember with James Van Der Beek and the beautiful Shannyn Sossamon.Dave talks about his hatred for Dawson, Rosie talks her love of Brett Easton Ellis and Casey talks her hate for this film but channels that hatred into creating a new marital aid.Listen to us on itunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.or direct download the mp3 from the link below:https://www.buzzsprout.com/186739/10106598-the-rules-of-attraction-aka-the-last-time-we-let-a-guest-pick-the-film.mp3?download=trueCatch Rosie here:https://www.instagram.com/hyfrosie/#davesvideograveyard #therulesofattraction #bretteastonellis  #filmpodcast #moviepodcast

I meet Amanda Milius — director of the bestselling documentary The Plot Against The President — at the cradle of rock n' roll, of Hollywood love and loathing, and the unpredictable sources of rebel-warrior conservatism.   Location: Sunset Marquis Hotel - West Hollywood, CA   Liner notes: College Republicans, Bill Maher, gay warehouse parties, Brietbart, Matt Drudge, Columbo, Tarantino, smoking bans, making movies beyond Hollywood, Bob Dylan's triumph over emotion, Oriana Fallaci, Elizabeth Taylor's Iranian affair, Lawrence of Arabianism, Somerset Maugham, Dasha Nekrasova, Brett Easton Ellis.   If you like what you hear, subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/filthyarmenian for premium and bonus episodes.   Follow Amanda Millius on Twitter at twitter.com/amandamilius Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/filthyarmenian

Get "American Psycho" by clicking the link below and support local book stores.https://bookshop.org/a/57229/9780679735779In this episode we ‘dissect' American Psycho, a divisive novel from one of America's most transgressive authors - Brett Easton Ellis. Set in the era of 80's excess, Psycho follows Patrick Bateman - a young high-powered business man who also happens to be a deranged serial murderer. This novel ignores plot and narrative structure in favor of aesthetics and social commentary. But does it rise above its own desire to shock and deliver something worthwhile? The answer will depend on your capacity for abyss staring.If you liked or didn't like this episode, let us know.Leave us a review and subscribe to this podcast!0:00 - Intro2:20 - Plot3:15 - Who is Patrick Bateman 4:30 - Why it's banned6:50 - The importance of Phil Collins/music in the novel 9:50 - American Consumerism11:25 - Why this is a great satire 14:05 - What is this book trying to warn us about?21:08 - Did the book earn its violence?31:15 - Mid roll31:30 - Did the murders actually happen?34:40 - Jean & Evelyn 36:55 - is the novel misogynistic?38:52 - Cynicism/Nihilism in the novel 44:00 - Idolizing Psychos 46:36 - Final thoughts*GEAR* (affiliate links)Cameras: https://amzn.to/3bvmrIoRodecaster Pro: https://amzn.to/2XJcdR9Microphones: https://amzn.to/3kpkZLMHeadphones: https://amzn.to/2Wj3hBmBannedBookClubPodcast.comFollow us on Instagram: @bannedbookclubpodFollow us on Facebook: @bannedbookclubpodEmail us at info@bannedbookclubpodcast.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bannedbookclub)

Subscribe on Spotify ∙ Stitcher ∙ Apple ∙ Pocket Casts ∙ Google ∙ TuneIn ∙ RSSInterviews and Elaborate Explanations. In this short interview, BEE sets out a brief outline of his stump speech.Filmography I've put a MTV video here because the movie is an MTV video…The Bateman brother discuss finances in this unused outtake……and Patrick talks music.Do we really want to go this far? Tom: YES. After all, “design” worship is everywhere. Apple. This guy is awesome. YouTube explainers are so fucked up.“The last frames of Control, but not in black and white…”L.A. and other noir fascinations…I couldn't resist it…https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/Since we were talking about Whitney Houston, here's Material and Archie SheppOMG, I LOVE this!!!!…and finally, VIBRATO IS A VARIATION IN INTENSITY; NOT IN PITCH!!!!!!(1) I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Remastered) - YouTubeSubscribe to Gas GiantsRSS https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/311033.rss This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gasgiants.substack.com

"American Psycho" with Christian Bale as iconic serial killer Patrick Bateman was released in 2000. It's based on a novel by Brett Easton Ellis. Most people are familiar with the movie due to it's over the top violence (which was pared down to get the movie an R rating instead of NC-17). Bateman is an unlikeable character (and possibly an unreliable narrator). The movie is a great depiction of the narcissistic, greed fueled 1980's. But did you know there is a second "American Psycho" movie? It's the direct to video "American Psycho 2: All American Girl" starring Mila Kunis (from "That 70's Show"). Feel free to skip this studio cash grab. It's a sequel in name only and has been denounced by everyone involved.  In honor of the original film, I've included a link to 25 classic 80's foods from EatThis.com here Does anyone remember Funny Feet Ice Cream? How about Dixie's Snack Crackers or Dr Pepper Gum? And I'm still eating some items on this list including Lunchables, Lean Cuisines, and my favorite Tostino Pizza Rolls.  Photo Credit: here

Page One, produced by Booxby, celebrates the craft that goes into writing the first sentence, first paragraph and first page of your favorite books. The first page is often the most rewritten page of any book because it has to work so hard to do so much—hook the reader. We interview master storytellers on the struggles and stories behind the first page of their books.In Episode 5, we interview bestselling author Tom Barbash about all the decisions that went into the first page of his novel, The Dakota Winters, about a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassination. It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter, is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy's stalled career, and ends up on a perilous journey that takes him out to sea with John Lennon. Barbash shares some secrets of the craft and approaching the first page as a promise to the reader. If you're aspiring to write a modern historic novel, Tom discusses wise approaches to the painstaking research he did for The Dakota Winters and staying in a '1979' frame of mind.  About the author:Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic. He is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House, Story magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.A well-regarded speaker, panelist, and interviewer, Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan Foundation, and his interview subjects have included Kazuo Ishiguro, Brett Easton Ellis, Jonathan Franzen, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, James Ellroy, Ann Packer, Mary Gaitskill, and Chuck Palahniuk.[1]He taught at Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow, and now teaches novel writing, short fiction, and nonfiction, at the California College of the Arts. Barbash has held fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The James Michener Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.[2] He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.About the host:Holly Lynn Payne is the CEO and founder of Booxby , a startup helping authors succeed. Holly is also an internationally published novelist in eleven countries whose work has been translated into nine languages. In 2008, she founded Skywriter Books, an award-winning small press, publishing consultancy and writing coaching service. To learn more about her writing coaching services, please visit hollylynnpayne.com.  

Join me for the first themed Tart Words podcast week. It begins Monday with an encore presentation of Emilya Naymark's episode.  Wednesday's Tart Thoughts are about Trial Run, Dick Francis's novel set mainly in Moscow. End the week on Friday with a recipe for Pryaniki, Russian spice cookies, which are easy and delicious.Emilya Naymark's debut novel is “Hide In Place” from Crooked Lane Books. Her short stories appear in the Harper Collins anthology A Stranger Comes to Town,  Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017, and 1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY.She has a degree in fine art, and her artworks have been published in numerous magazines and books. When not writing, Emilya works as a visual artist and reads massive quantities of psychological thrillers, suspense, and crime fiction. She lives in the New York Hudson Valley with her family.Visit her website at EmilyaNaymark.com/Author/Sign up for Emilya's newsletter: EmilyaNaymark.com/author/newsletter/Facebook: facebook.com/ENaymarkTwitter: twitter.com/emilyanaymarkGet to know Emilya - The Tart Words Baker's Dozen:1.   Plotter or Pantser? Combo? Plotter!2.   Tea or Coffee? Tea, rabidly3.   Beer, Wine, or Cocktails? Beer with an occasional Cocktail. Allergic to wine. 4.   Snacks: Sweet or Savory? Sweet tooth (alas)5.   Indie Published, Traditionally Published, or Hybrid? Traditionally6.   Strict Writing Schedule: Yes or No Yes7.    Strictly Computer or Mix It Up? Mix it up8.    Daily Goal: Yes or No Yes9.    Formal Track Progress: Yes or no Yes, but only for first draft10.  Special Writing Spot? Nope11.   Writer's Block? Not really. 12.   File of Ideas: Yes or No No, but that's a good idea13.   Favorite Author(s)? Neil Gaiman; Susanna Clarke; Brett Easton Ellis; Donna Tartt; Tana French; Mikhail Bulgakov; Vladimir Nabokov; J.K. Rowling

So, what have you been reading lately? A novel that made you laugh? A biography that made you cry? maybe you read something that comforted you? Or that changed the way you feel about the world, or reasserted something you've always felt. Or perhaps you've read something that made you furious! I have a friend who once threw the Brett Easton Ellis novel she was reading out the window, she couldn't bear to have it in her home for one second longer. Or maybe all this Covid trauma has you unable to read anything longer than the back of a cereal box.

So, what have you been reading lately? A novel that made you laugh? A biography that made you cry? maybe you read something that comforted you? Or that changed the way you feel about the world, or reasserted something you've always felt. Or perhaps you've read something that made you furious! I have a friend who once threw the Brett Easton Ellis novel she was reading out the window, she couldn't bear to have it in her home for one second longer. Or maybe all this Covid trauma has you unable to read anything longer than the back of a cereal box.

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American Psycho is a cult horror film that gave us one of the most legendary acting performances of all time. Mary Harron adapted Brett Easton Ellis' book brilliantly, creating one of the most iconic black comedies ever.

In this episode, Linda Hengerer talks with Emilya Naymark.Emilya Naymark's debut novel is “Hide In Place” from Crooked Lane Books. Her short stories appear in the Harper Collins anthology A Stranger Comes to Town,  Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017, and 1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY. She has a degree in fine art, and her artworks have been published in numerous magazines and books. When not writing, Emilya works as a visual artist and reads massive quantities of psychological thrillers, suspense, and crime fiction. She lives in the New York Hudson Valley with her family.Visit her website at EmilyaNaymark.com/Author/Sign up for Emilya's newsletter: EmilyaNaymark.com/author/newsletter/Facebook: facebook.com/ENaymarkTwitter: twitter.com/emilyanaymarkGet to know Emilya - The Tart Words Baker's Dozen:1.   Plotter or Pantser? Combo? Plotter!2.   Tea or Coffee? Tea, rabidly3.   Beer, Wine, or Cocktails? Beer with an occasional Cocktail. Allergic to wine. 4.   Snacks: Sweet or Savory? Sweet tooth (alas)5.   Indie Published, Traditionally Published, or Hybrid? Traditionally6.   Strict Writing Schedule: Yes or No Yes7.    Strictly Computer or Mix It Up? Mix it up8.    Daily Goal: Yes or No Yes9.    Formal Track Progress: Yes or no Yes, but only for first draft10.  Special Writing Spot? Nope11.   Writer's Block? Not really. 12.   File of Ideas: Yes or No No, but that's a good idea13.   Favorite Author(s)? Neil Gaiman; Susanna Clarke; Brett Easton Ellis; Donna Tartt; Tana French; Mikhail Bulgakov; Vladimir Nabokov; J.K. Rowling

Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? We watched American Psycho (2000) with MTMUG superstar Mike Toscano and we have to return some videotapes. We try to get decide if the Uber-80’s tale of Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) and his descent into madness is a horror movie, a psychological thriller or a dark comedy.  Ultimately its up to the viewer.  What we can agree on is that gays across the land owe director Mary Harron a debt of gratitude for delivering on those gratuitous body shots of Bale as Bateman working out, tanning and inventing Onlyfans. Was it all in Bateman’s head?  Maybe.  Do we still love author Brett Easton Ellis even though he’s a stone cold weirdo? Sure.  Do we still pause the movie like giddy middle schoolers at just the right moment.  You bet.  It’s episode 102 of Movies That Made Us Gay! Thanks for listening and don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! www.patreon.com/moviesthatmadeusgay Facebook/Instagram: @moviesthatmadeusgay Twitter: @MTMUGPod Scott Youngbauer: Twitter @oscarscott / Instagram @scottyoungballer Peter Lozano: Twitter/Instagram @peterlasagna

In the final episode of The Thing From Another Medium, Adam and Maeve discuss Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner’s American Psycho, the 2000 adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis' controversial (and awful) 1991 novel of the same name. Follow your hosts on Twitter: @AdamBumas @iamasomething Discover more fabulously spooky Anatomy of a Scream Pod Squad shows at anatomyofascream.com and follow the network on Twitter and Instagram @aoas_xx

On this weeks Book(ish) I sit down with a hedge fund manager to chat American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. Our conversation includes whats involved working in a hedge fund, the joy of judging the bougie culture, and emotions in the workplace.Books discussedAmerican Psycho by Brett Easton EllisThe Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan BelfortThe Satanic Verses by Salman RushdieFollow Book(ish) and give your thoughts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.Sign up to our newsletter here. Join our facebook group here.You can now physically send us stuff to PO BOX 7127, Reservoir East, Victoria, 3073.Want to help support the show?Sanspants+ | Podkeep | USB Tapes | MerchWant to get in contact with us?Email | Twitter | Website | Facebook | Reddit See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

4/1/2021 Microphone Therapy On this episode of Microphone Therapy we talk about 3000 Miles to Graceland, Dasiy McCracken, Keanu Reeves, The Matrix, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Anne Rice, Queen of the Damned, Servant of the Bones, Lestat, Memnoch the Devil, Chevy Chase, Coming 2 America, Tracy Morgan, Bernie Wrightson, Ken Barr We also talk about Heather Graham, License to Drive, Very Bad Things, James Avery, Christian Bale, Christian Slater, American Psycho, American Psycho 2, Brett Easton Ellis, Vampire's Kiss, Nicolas Cage, Less Than Zero, Mila Kunis, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sam Rockwell, TMNT, Chuck Barris, Deadpool 2, Matt Damon, The Gong Show, Johnny Depp, RDJR, Seth Rogen, Preacher, The Boys, Danny McBride, Walton Goggins, Barry,Bill Hader, Vice Principals, Vinyl, Danny Collins, A Star is Born, Jazz Singer, Point Break, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation, The Prophecy, Christopher Walken, Eric Stolz, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America 2, Louie Anderson, Bradford Exchange, collectors dinner plates, Michael Jordan

4/1/2021 Microphone Therapy On this episode of Microphone Therapy we talk about 3000 Miles to Graceland, Dasiy McCracken, Keanu Reeves, The Matrix, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Anne Rice, Queen of the Damned, Servant of the Bones, Lestat, Memnoch the Devil, Chevy Chase, Coming 2 America, Tracy Morgan, Bernie Wrightson, Ken Barr We also talk about Heather Graham, License to Drive, Very Bad Things, James Avery, Christian Bale, Christian Slater, American Psycho, American Psycho 2, Brett Easton Ellis, Vampire's Kiss, Nicolas Cage, Less Than Zero, Mila Kunis, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sam Rockwell, TMNT, Chuck Barris, Deadpool 2, Matt Damon, The Gong Show, Johnny Depp, RDJR, Seth Rogen, Preacher, The Boys, Danny McBride, Walton Goggins, Barry,Bill Hader, Vice Principals, Vinyl, Danny Collins, A Star is Born, Jazz Singer, Point Break, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation, The Prophecy, Christopher Walken, Eric Stolz, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America 2, Louie Anderson, Bradford Exchange, collectors dinner plates, Michael Jordan

4/1/2021 Microphone Therapy On this episode of Microphone Therapy we talk about 3000 Miles to Graceland, Dasiy McCracken, Keanu Reeves, The Matrix, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Anne Rice, Queen of the Damned, Servant of the Bones, Lestat, Memnoch the Devil, Chevy Chase, Coming 2 America, Tracy Morgan, Bernie Wrightson, Ken Barr We also talk about Heather Graham, License to Drive, Very Bad Things, James Avery, Christian Bale, Christian Slater, American Psycho, American Psycho 2, Brett Easton Ellis, Vampire's Kiss, Nicolas Cage, Less Than Zero, Mila Kunis, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sam Rockwell, TMNT, Chuck Barris, Deadpool 2, Matt Damon, The Gong Show, Johnny Depp, RDJR, Seth Rogen, Preacher, The Boys, Danny McBride, Walton Goggins, Barry,Bill Hader, Vice Principals, Vinyl, Danny Collins, A Star is Born, Jazz Singer, Point Break, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation, The Prophecy, Christopher Walken, Eric Stolz, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America 2, Louie Anderson, Bradford Exchange, collectors dinner plates, Michael Jordan

Special thanks to Anile for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon. This month we stretch our muscles by getting into some ~literary fiction~! More precisely, the work of Dennis Cooper, a big name in queer outsider art who influenced previous DBC alumni Billy Martin (aka Poppy Z Brite) and Chuck Palahniuk and whose published alongside inevitable future subject Brett Easton Ellis. FRISK, the story of a dude who has a lot of sex and even more fantasies about violently murdering his partners, is considered his most intimidating work so....let's plunge right into that deep end! Pack a bag, because we did a LOT of extra reading for this one. Also, all the content warnings. My God, all of them. CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, pedophilia, coprophagia, water sports, snuff, necrophilia, graphic descriptions of gore/dismemberment, racism, queerphobia, transphobia, grooming, ageism, and misogyny. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm The JT Leroy Scam: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2006/04/jtleroy200604 William S Burroughs' Nike Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6LjfxSBqwM Cooper's Formalism and "The Sluts": https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/is-this-for-real-is-that-a-stupid-question-a-review-of-dennis-coopers-the-sluts/ Interview w/ Cooper's Biographer: https://minorliteratures.com/2020/07/16/the-dangerous-art-of-dennis-cooper-an-interview-with-diarmuid-hester-author-of-wrong-a-critical-biography-of-dennis-cooper-by-paul-jonathan/ Article BY Cooper's Biographer: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/dennis-cooper-the-last-literary-outlaw-in-mainstream-us-fiction-1.4274856 Personal Relationships in Cooper's Writing (Salon): https://www.salon.com/2000/05/04/cooper/ Cooper's Mother (LA Times): https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-29-ca-cooper29-story.html BOMB Magazine Interview: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/dennis-cooper/ Not Like Other Gays (Honcho Magazine): https://slavamogutin.com/dennis-cooper/ 1:00 Content Warnings 4:00 Drinks 9:00 A Helpful Timeline 14:00 OH Shit, it’s the Frankfurt School 26:00 Sexual, Not Erotic 30:00 The Sad But Not Ballad of Dennis Cooper 42:00 “In Your Lane” vs “Blinkers On” 57:00 Interview Diving Say hi to Dorothy and Vrai on Twitter @writervrai and @dorothynotgale Our icon was designed by Allison Shabet. Get bonus episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/trashandtreasures Join us every two weeks on Soundcloud, iTunes or Stitcher – and if you’d leave a rating and review, so that more people can find their way to us, we’d appreciate it!

Bandaríski rithöfundurinn Bret Easton Ellis er meðal áhrifamestu rithöfunda seinni tíma í Bandaríkjunum en hann er hvað þekktastur fyrir bókina Americvan Psycho sem var síðar gerð að kvikmyndinni. Á Íslandi er rekinn bókaklúbbur á fjarskiptaforritinu Zoom þar sem verk Ellis eru krufin til mergjar en við ræðum við mennina á bak við klúbbinn, York Underwood sem búsettur er hér á landi og Todd Michael Schultz, sem er kærasti og samstarfsmaður Ellis. Í Lestinni í þessari viku ætlum við að kynnast nokkrum íslenskum tik-tokkurum, fólki sem hefur vakið athygli og náð vinsældum á samfélagsmiðlinum TikTok. Í dag fáum við tik-tok grínistann Lil Curly í heimsókn. Og við kynnum okkur algóryþmatrap en Nökkvi Gíslason, tónlistarforritari, sem hefur forritað algrím sem býr til trapptónlist frá grunni án nokkurrar aðstoðar frá mannlegum tónlistarmanni.

Bandaríski rithöfundurinn Bret Easton Ellis er meðal áhrifamestu rithöfunda seinni tíma í Bandaríkjunum en hann er hvað þekktastur fyrir bókina Americvan Psycho sem var síðar gerð að kvikmyndinni. Á Íslandi er rekinn bókaklúbbur á fjarskiptaforritinu Zoom þar sem verk Ellis eru krufin til mergjar en við ræðum við mennina á bak við klúbbinn, York Underwood sem búsettur er hér á landi og Todd Michael Schultz, sem er kærasti og samstarfsmaður Ellis. Í Lestinni í þessari viku ætlum við að kynnast nokkrum íslenskum tik-tokkurum, fólki sem hefur vakið athygli og náð vinsældum á samfélagsmiðlinum TikTok. Í dag fáum við tik-tok grínistann Lil Curly í heimsókn. Og við kynnum okkur algóryþmatrap en Nökkvi Gíslason, tónlistarforritari, sem hefur forritað algrím sem býr til trapptónlist frá grunni án nokkurrar aðstoðar frá mannlegum tónlistarmanni.

Fear not, dear listeners, we have returned once again to ring in the new year with a brand new episode! We know you missed us, just as we missed our Christmas episode. However, we get back in the swing of things with our annual gift exchange, plus so much Horror Business that you'll puke. In Real World Horror, we take a look at a psychotic, deranged, maybe even possessed - who knows? - killer, man-eating... squirrel? YES! We also examine the upcoming Are You Afraid of the Dark? limited series, a potential crossover between Freaky and Happy Death Day, and a new movie starring horror icon Barbara Crampton. We also tell you where to see some classic horror films for free this month and check out a casting call for Jordan Peele's next flick. For our reviews, we discuss the new remake of the Full Moon classic Castle Freak, as well as Brett Easton Ellis's Smiley Face Killers. Both feature sex, gore, and rock & roll, but are they any good? You'll have to listen to find out. So join us, won't you, on a brand new adventure that is The Grave Plot Podcast.

In this episode we discuss 'less than zero' the debut novel from one of americas most controversial authors, Brett Easton Ellis. Join us as we stare into the abyss of the 80s L.A. party scene.If you liked or didn't like this episode, let us know.Leave us a review and subscribe to this podcast!BannedBookClubPodcast.comFollow us on Instagram: @bannedbookclubpodFollow us on Facebook: @bannedbookclubpodEmail us at info@bannedbookclubpodcast.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bannedbookclub)

Cuando a finales de los noventa se empezó a hablar de la adaptación al cine de la violenta sátira literaria de Brett Easton Ellis, la idea generalizada -y a la que yo me adscribía- era "esto es imposible", pero por suerte estábamos totalmente equivocados. Christian Bale demostró ser la elección idónea para interpretar al terrorífico Patrick Bateman, el asqueroso yuppie obsesionado con conseguir una reserva en el Dorsia y que imagina (o no) una vida paralela de asesino en serie en mundo lleno de trajes clónicos y superficialidad.

American Psycho & Strangeland discussed

Bea y Arturo hablan de archivos Lossless, Brett Easton Ellis, britpop, Hbomberguy, Folding Ideas y más.

The gang gets gentrified this week, as they review The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) streaming right now on Amazon Prime. This A24 produced slice of West Cost life in The City follow Jimmy Fails playing version of himself, trying to relive the days of his past, in the home he was raised in. With his best friend Montgomery, they restore, rehabitate, and relive the life Jimmy once has in that house. Was the message too heavy-handed, or did it go down smooth? Follow along as Peter, Tyler, and Joseph go in deep.In news, American History X, African History Y, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Kaye, Toni Collette, American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis, Edward Norton, Gary Oldman, David Fincher, Mank, Orson Wells, Citizen Cane, Enola Holmes, Netflix, Millie Bobby Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Downey Jr, RDJ, Guy Ritchie, Saturday Night Live movies, It's Pat, Blue Brothers 2000, Superstar, Night at the Roxbury's, The Ladies Man, Mr, Saturday Night, Stewart Saves his Family, Coneheads, Wayne's World 2, Gilda Live, Gilda Radner, Office Space, Mike Judge, Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Lorne Michaels, Waynes World, MacGruber, Blues Brothers, James Cameron, Alien, Aliens, Leviathan, The Abyss, Avatar 2, Borat 2, Mike Pence, Sacha Baron Cohen, This is America, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Michael Jordan, Michael B Jordan, Fruitvale Station, Black Panther, Creed, Bong Joon Ho, Tilda Swinton, Wayne Gretzky, Jeff Foxworthy, Plot twists, The Departed, Holes, Marky Mark, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Briuna, Jack Nicholson, Keyser Soze, The Usual Suspects, Kevin Pollack, Kevin Spacey, Arrival, The Prestige, Memento, Interstellar, Parasite, Mother, Old Boy, Sleepaway Camp, Friday the 13th, Jason X, Jason in Space, Identity, John Cusack, Shutter Island, Elijah Woods, Seinfeld, Criss Angel: Mindfreak, Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, Spiderman, Oldsmobile Delta 88, Evil Dead, Crime Wave, Dark man, The Quick and the Dead, For love of the Game, Drag me to Hell. Email us at MCFCpodcast@gmail.com Joseph Navarro Pete Abeyta and Tyler Noe Streaming Picks:Maniac - Amazon PrimeVampire vs. the Bronx - NetflixBlade - HuluEvil Dead 2 - HuluHard Eight - Amazon Prime

The gang returns some video tapes this week as they review American Psycho (2000) featuring Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux, and Chloë Sevigny. The dark comedy showcases Bale's first body transformation for a role, as well as his amazing acting chops. Through his murderous tendencies, and obsession to fit in and be the best, Patrick Bateman shows us the worst part of the "civilized" world.In news, we talk about Twitter, Tom Hanks, Ed Asner, Will Forte, Pinocchio, Tenet, international releases, The Man from Nowhere, Star Trek, Quinten Tarantino, Tribbles, Critters, Noah Holley, Fargo, Ben Affleck, Chinatown, Twilight, Cosmopolis, The Rover, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Damsel, The King, Timothée Chalamet, Good Time, The Lighthouse, Rehashed movies, Disney, Al Pacino, Stanley Tucci, Peter Faulk, Tyler’s Rage, Cruela, Emma Stone, Avatar 2, Conjuring 3, Fast and The Furious 9, The Batman, Godzilla vs. Kong, Halloween Kills, Fantastic Beasts, Black Adam, Forever Purge, Morbius, Sing 2, Suicide Squad, Spider-Man, Venom, Carnage, Mortal Kombat, Minions, Uncharted, Ghostbusters, Space Jam 2, Monster Hunter, Jungle Cruise, The Rock, Emily Blunt, Paranormal Activity, Spiral, Saw, Chris Rock, Tomb Raider 2, Tom and Jerry, Watchmen, Inglorious Basterds, Nymphomercial, Children of Men, Clive Owen, Zack Snyder, Dawn of the Dead, Donnie Darko, 28 days later, 28 weeks later, Alex Garland, Raiders of the Lost Art, Indiana Jones,Plus Bruce Purkey from Find Your Film Podcast calls in to give us some insight on movies of the 70's, punk rock, and opening night viewingsAs always get your weekly movie recommendations in our streaming picks, and catch up the movie news breaking this week. What movie will we watch next week? The wheel of destiny will tell.Email us at MCFCpodcast@gmail.com Joseph NavarroPete Abeytaand Tyler NoeStreaming Picks:Ice Cream Man (YouTube)An American PicklePalm SpringsHellboyLogan

In 1991, Brett Easton Ellis epitomized corporate greed and the pursuit of materialism in his satirical novel, American Psycho. In 2000, director Mary Harron brought Ellis' symbolic psychopath, Patrick Bateman, to the silver screen. Is it a good adaptation? Are Ellis' messages maintained and is Bateman still a complete and utter monster? Join The Dark Mark, South Jersey Shogun & The Philly Trench to discover if Patrick's confession truly has meant nothing. Follow us into the dark.@darkmarkspodcast@darksatellitemediaMusic by Joey Violin The Third Scar.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGf6...#americanpsycho #christianbale #patrickbateman #thedarkknight #batman #equilibrium #thefighter #theprestige #thedarkknightrises #outofthefurnace #toyuma #terminatorsalvation #reignoffire #batmanbegins #brucewayne #fordvferrari #fordvsferrari #hostiles #heathledger #exodusgodsandkings #sibibale #harshtimes #themachinist #knightofcups #christianbalefanart #mowgli #vicemovie #batmanbale #lemans #bhfyp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In this episode of The Rotten Horror Picture Show, we’re back on track with another movie from the Rotten Tomatoes 200 Best Horror Movies of All Time list, number 197, 2000’s American Psycho. Directed by Mary Harron and written by Harron and Guinevere Turner, this adaption of the Brett Easton Ellis novel of the same... Find all of our content at The Pensky File Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Episode 28 of Clash of the Titles is here! The podcast that pits two films with something in common against each other in a brutal fight to the death. Well, not death. We just decide which one is better. Murderously insane banker or troublingly disaffected student, united by blood and SO MUCH inner monologuing? Brett Easton Ellis wants you to take a long hard look at yourself, as in the red corner we’re carving up Wall Street in American Psycho, and in the blue corner we’re bunking class and scowling in The Rules of Attraction. Qu'est-ce que c'est?Let us know your thoughts about this week’s films on Twitter: we’re @clashpod or email us show@clashpod.com ***Please rate and review us on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!*** See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jag pratar med populärkulturvetaren Fredrik Af Trampe om slacker-fenomenet som var populärt kanske framförallt på 90-talet. Vi pratar om Richard Linklater, Claes Holmström, Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Per Hagman, Brett Easton Ellis och många fler.Man kan donera pengar till podden på www.patreon.com/arkivsamtalSwish: 0760724728Twitter: @gardenfors#arkivsamtalInstagram: @gardenforsFacebook: Arkiv Samtal - eftersnackgruppen See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bob and clint talk about the passing of time, how all our dreams are destroyed and our kids dreams are still alive and kicking, health care in other countries vs. American health care, CAPITALISM!, David Chapelle’s new special, Brett Easton Ellis’ new book, CANCEL CULTURE and IOKYOK podcast, Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Bob’s ‘Oh Yeah’ podcast, being terrified on stage vs. being terrified the rest of the time, answer email from the ladies and Clint explains why he ate his bandmates food.

In this episode Chris and Christin discuss the 2000 movie American Psycho. They also discuss the controversial Brett Easton Ellis book of the same name published in 1991 (that for some reason Christin decided to read on vacation). They discuss the hilarity of Christian Bale’s wonderful performance as the titular psycho, dinner reservations, Chloe Sevigny and the thought of psychopaths walking among us.  Then Christin terrifies Chris with the true story of the murderer (and real life Patrick Bateman) Luka Magnotta and his victim Jun Lin.  What they have been watching: Midsommar director’s cut, Christine (2016) What are they drinking: J&B scotch whiskey with Diet Pepsi Midsommar spoilers from 7:51 to 12:25 Movie/book discussion officially starts at: 15:11 True crime discussion starts at: 1:05:47 CW: murder, violence against women, violence against animals Theme song by Gabbie Watts follow her on Instagram @gabbierotts and @gabbie_watts Follow us! Join our Facebook group Sometimes Groups are Better Instagram @sometimesdeadpodcast Twitter: @sometimesdead4 Music: Carnival of Tears 2: Into the Light by Matt Oakly http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Matt_Oakley/Horror_Soundtrack_1/Carnival_of_Tears_2_-_Into_The_Light Parade by Nctrnm http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nctrnm/Parade_-_Single/NctrnmParade66Em Sources:  https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/magnotta-luka/ True Crime Garage podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/true-crime-garage/e/50749847 http://truecrimegarage.podbean.com/e/luka-magnotta-part-2-123/?fbclid=IwAR2xp1NnqHaAA9jbnCkLRka1X1b8biTDNYoBqbUyqeYzwXukv-Nyioq42N0

If JCU appeals to a higher court, should the Commonwealth cover Peter Ridd's legal costs? (03:50-20:50)  Is George Calombaris really the whipping boy for ‘wage theft', and what does that phrase actually mean?  (20:50-31:50)  And is BoJo as UK PM really the ‘new Trump'?  (31:55-43:45)  Dr Chris Berg and Scott Hargreaves are joined by Evan Mulholland and Gideon Rozner to discuss these questions and share their culture picks, including Memoirs of Roman Emperor Hadrian, a collection of essays on free speech, Trump etc from American Psycho author Brett Easton Ellis, the actual book of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (which doesn't follow the left's narrative), and ‘The Loudest Voice' miniseries on Stan about Fox News founder Roger Ailes, played by Russell Crowe subtly subverting the caricature. (43:45-1:04). SHOW NOTES Christian Porter: Commonwealth could fund Peter Ridd's fight against James Cook University, Joe Kelly, The Australian https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/christian-porter-commonwealth-could-fund-peter-ridds-fight-against-james-cook-uni/news-story/fcf614cf33ec9b088ea2fcf9e6949455 Against Public Broadcasting: Why and how we should privatise the ABC, Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Against-Public-Broadcasting-Why-and-how-we-should-privatise-the-ABC--Chris-Berg-and-Sinclair-Davidson_p_177.html Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar https://www.bookdepository.com/Memoirs-Hadrian-Marguerite-Yourcenar/9780141184968 White, Brett Easton Ellis http://breteastonellis.com/books/ The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood http://margaretatwood.ca/shop/ The Loudest Voice https://www.sho.com/the-loudest-voice The Loudest Voice in the Room, Gabriel Sherman https://www.gabrielsherman.com/

For this extended interview Paddy Butler talks to author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis - they discuss some of the more surprising and hidden influences across Ellis's work, including that of Joan Didion and Terence Malick

The cultural anarchists have gathered for another edition of the notorious books and arts podcast that keeps threatening to make sense while at the same time keeps sliding down the slippery slope of art-house podcasting (you know, five minutes of silence, someone repeating the word peanut for ten seconds, a random Wilhelm scream, a comment about the state of the world told through the sounds of interpretive dance, etc). Kicking things off this week is our usual Game-Of-Thrones-watch before we take a look at the Republic of Consciousness Awards, the connection between James Joyce and US politics, a new addition to the American Library Association's list of most banned or challenged books, Catholic book-burning in Poland (see The Geek Show S16E06 - Schrödinger's Black Hole), political commentary versus Brett Easton Ellis, and some bizarre advice from the Harvard Business Review on how to read more books in a year.  If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow (http://www.twitter.com/TGS_thegeekshow) , or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show. If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop (http://www.thegeekshow.co.uk) and partake in some of our lovely wares. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #TheArts #Theatre #News #Reviews #Podcasts #CulturalAnarchy #Culture #BrettEastonEllis #JohnOliver #ADayInTheLifeOfMarlonBundo #BannedBooks #BookBurning #HelloKitty #HarvardBusinessReview #Reading #RepublicOfConsciousnessAward #GameOfThrones #GeorgeRRMartin #JamesJoyce #AmericanLibraryAssociation

In a very brief time, Alex Berlage has confirmed himself as a practitioner of tremendous skill, imagination and originality. As a highly accomplished and multi- awarded Lighting Designer and Theatre Director, he has navigated an impressive trajectory seeing him shape classical works, new Australian repertoire, self-devised creation and the musical!He is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Production, returning three years later to complete his Masters in Direction. Delivering a focused and creative flair since childhood, it would seem that his career was always assured.His production of the musical ‘Cry Baby’ at the Hayes in 2018, garnered a swag of Sydney Theatre Awards. He returns there shortly, breathing life into the musical version of Brett Easton Ellis’s macabre and sardonic tale of a New York investment banker - ‘American Psycho’. Berlage’s production is bound to captivate, challenge and enthral.He has guided the new Australian works ‘Home Invasion’, ‘The Van De Marr Papers’ and ‘There Will Be a Climax’ to the stage, embracing the collaborative experience and finding the nuance of each.As a Lighting Designer he has worked on stages main and fringe - the next being a production of ‘The Lord of the Flies’ at The Sydney Theatre Company.His productions command easy engagement and seduce with a vibrant and quirky aesthetic - guaranteeing audiences, delight and reward.He is passionate. He is original. He is an intelligent theatre-maker. He is Alex Berlage.

This week, Dan and Eric have a wide-ranging conversation.  They discuss their respective Passover weekends, Dan's spend in DC, Eric's on Long Island; David Remnick's piece on the osmotic relationship between Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu; Ben Taub's remarkable piece on a relationship formed in Guantanamo Bay (plus a lot more.)  The two also revisit last week's conversation about Isaac Chotiner's New Yorker Interview with Brett Easton Ellis; discuss Catherine Lacey's Gogolian new short story and the New Yorker's history of eschewing 'writer-consciousness'; and Eric recaps D.T. Max's profile of playwright Lucas Hnath.  That's a lot for one episode!

A lot of the time we have too much to talk about and we don't get the chance to discuss all of the book news topics that come our way. Well, not anymore! This week we bring you a digest of the hottest recent book world news from fake news about Kurt Vonnegut, to the latest in dunking on Brett Easton Ellis, we've got all of the details and opinions you can handle in under an hour. Next week we will be discussing and reviewing Heaven by VC Andrews. Find it at your local bookstore or library and shake your head along with us.

Ze groeide op in Los Angeles en zag in haar omgeving al op vroege leeftijd de invloed van roem en rijkdom. Fotograaf Lauren Greenfield documenteerde de afgelopen 25 jaar de rich and famous, en degenen die ernaar hunkeren dat te zijn. In deze eerste aflevering van De Klik praat Annette van Soest met haar over geld, roem, narcisme, verslaving, schoonheidsidealen en het verval van de Amerikaanse droom.

Jack Heath is the author of more than 20 novels, with his most recent thriller "Hangman" an international success. Featuring a cannibal working for the FBI, Jack explains the fine line between anti-hero and deplorable. In conversation, we explore his publishing career writing for children; what he learned from Brett Easton Ellis; a date at the morgue; and the many influences driving him to break with tradition wherever he reads it. You can find Jack on Twitter: @jackheathwriter

Phil and JF discuss Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool," an essay on the postmodern humanities and its allergy to essences -- especially that personal essence we call soul. Maybe the soul is a heap of miscellaneous notions and influences that I paint a face onto and then call "me." Or maybe there is something under that painted effigy of the self. If so, what? And if there's nothing under there, could it be a nothing that delivers? WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE Lisa Ruddick, "When Nothing is Cool" (https://thepointmag.com/2015/criticism/when-nothing-is-cool) Elizabeth Gilbert, "Your Elusive Creative Genius" (https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius) Judith Halberstam, "Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs" (https://read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscura/article-abstract/9/3%20(27)/36/31508/Skinflick-Posthuman-Gender-in-Jonathan-Demme-s-The?redirectedFrom=fulltext) Daniel Chua (http://www.music.hku.hk/daniel_chua.html#books) (the musicologist whose name Phil couldn't remember) Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho (https://www.amazon.com/American-Psycho-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0679735771) Mary Harron, American Psycho (film) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_(film)) David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return (http://www.sho.com/twin-peaks)

Author Liska Jacobs joins co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher to discuss her heralded first novel Catalina, narrated in vibrant prose by a young woman destined for a fall during an outing with friends to the eponymous island off the coast from LA. Echoes of Gatsby and Brett Easton Ellis abound – decadence is a blast, but can't slay demons – but this is very much a tale of our time; as we encounter a woman stranded, her career and identity collapsing following a failed affair with a powerful boss. Liska, Eric, and Medaya reflect on the many insights Catalina provides for our post-Weinstein Crisis moment. Also, Liska recommends Chris Kraus' Video Green, reflections on LA and the art world in the early ‘90s.

What could be so hard about getting DC Films version of the Flash to the big screen? With two directors down what could possibly be going on? The guys weigh in on that this week. Plus, a new Wonder Woman Trailer, Star Wars Episode 8 wardrobe changes, The Predator's in suburbia, and what the hell is Brett Easton Ellis saying about The Batman. Scary if true. All this and more this week on The House of Gozer Podcast.

As of the night on which this podcast was recorded, Greg had not yet played Cards Against Humanity (CAH).  This recording was supposed to usher in a new era for Greg.  However, as of the end of the podcast Greg had STILL not played CAH.  This goes to prove the following, the combination of Greg plus Christopher plus Heather plus Jeff plus copious spirits equals a night of circuitous, tangential, humorous, improvisational-jazz-like circumlocution.  Do not worry, D2Dreeps, in the upcoming weeks you will have a front row seat to Greg’s inaugural CAH shenanigans.  For tonight?  We ask and discuss the following questions: Have you seen Deadpool? (You should.) Arrested Development?  (I haven’t. Should I? Jeff seems to think so.) What’s your favorite Ben and Jerry’s flavor?  (Mine is Chocolate Therapy.) Have you read The Walking Dead? Preacher?  Sandman?  Anything by Alan Moore? (Again, you should.) Do you love Jared Leto or hate Jared Leto, or do you even give a shite?  (Also, is it Lee-toh? Or Leh-toh?) Have you been excited or worried, or both (…or neither…) about the prospect of AMC, Seth Rogan, and Evan Goldberg bringing “Preacher” to television?  (As of the night on which this recording occurred, it had not been released.  As of the release of this recording, there have been two episodes.  I think it’s brilliant.  It seems to honor the canon.) Speaking of, do you agree with Jeff that, in bringing any graphic novel or comic to screen, you must follow this golden rule: Don’t fuck with the canon? (Do you also agree that one should not fuck a cannon?) Have you read Brett Easton Ellis (…and Lunar Park in particular, ‘cause it’s quite good…), Italo Calvino, Etgar Keret, and/or the short stories of Stephen King?  (Short stories, people…we like ‘em!) Are you claustrophobic?  (If so, don’t visit the aforementioned Etgar Keret’s home, and don’t take the elevator up the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.) Next week, Cards Against Humanity, I promise. But for now, we present to you, “Breaking Deadpool (Chirdonathon, pt 3)” P.S. Oh, and hey, if you shop on amazon and you want to support Driven 2 Drink just a little bit more, do us this favor…at the end of the URL of any item you purchase, just tag this on: /?tag=dritodri-20 When you add that tag, amazon knows we sent you and that you love us, and they give us a small percentage of whatever you spend on the dollar.  (It’s like 5%, but that adds up!)  So thanks again! P.P.S. The music!  We’re giving you two gorgeous pieces of music by Ben Harper, the first, “You Found Another Lover (I Lost Another Friend),” with the incomparable Charlie Musselwhite, and the second, “In the Lord’s Arms,” which makes a man cry every time. P.P.P.S. A man has no name.   (source)

In this special edition of the show, two writers joined me to opine the death of one of the most influential forms in the history of the written word. I posed the question that many great writers have pondered stretching across the last two centuries … Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today! Is the novel dead? And maybe a more up-to-date version of that question is, did the Internet kill books? Of course these are famous — almost cliche — theoretical discussions that writers often chew on over stiff drinks, and they raise hackles for those of us who adore them. What you won’t find here is a highbrow literary dissertation, or even a very strict definition as to what the novel is or isn’t. But you will find a lively discussion between friends who care about the writing life and its future. Robert Bruce is a writer, voice actor, and copywriter, as well as the Vice President of Rainmaker Digital and the guy who runs the Rainmaker.FM podcast network. Adam Skolnick is an award-winning journalist, author, and a returning guest on the show. His first book, One Breath, was published by Crown last January, and his work has appeared in publications including Playboy, The New York Times, and many others. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews as soon as they’re published. In Part One of the file Robert, Adam, and I discuss: How Longer Works of Writing Have Been Forced to Compete with Disposable Culture Why Herman Melville Died Penniless How the Novel has Stood the Test of Time The Role of Podcasting for Modern Writers Author Hugh Howey’s ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ Model of Book Retail Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Audible is Offering a Free Audiobook Download with a 30-day Trial: Grab Your Free Audiobook Here – audibletrial.com/rainmaker Is the Novel Dead? Part Two Get More from Robert Bruce at RobertBruce.com Find more from Adam Skolnick at AdamSkolnick.com How Andy Weir (Bestselling Author of ‘The Martian’) Writes: Part One How Bestselling Author Jay McInerney Writes: Part One The Passive Voice – After Months of Strong Sales, Bookstores See Drop in July Hugh Howey – Rock, Paper, Scissors Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript Is the Novel Dead? Part One Voiceover: Rainmaker FM Kelton Reid: Welcome back to The Writer Files. I’m still your host, Kelton Reid, here to take you on another tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of renowned writers to learn their secrets. But in this edition of the show, two writers joined me to opine the death of one of the most influential forms in the history of the written word. I posed the question that many great writers have pondered stretching across the last two centuries, Is the novel dead? Maybe a more up to date version of that question is, Did the internet kill books? Of course, these are famous almost cliché theoretical discussions that writers often chew on over stiff drinks and they raise the hackles for those of us who adore them. What you won’t find here is a highbrow literary dissertation, or even a very strict definition as to what the novel is or isn’t but you will find a lively discussion between friends who care about the writing life and it’s future. Robert Bruce is a renowned voice actor, poet, fiction author, and copywriter, as well as the vice president of Rainmaker Digital and the guy who runs the Rainmaker FM network. Adam Skolnick is an award-winning journalist, author, and returning guest on this show. His first book One Breath was published by Crown last January and his work has appeared in publications including Playboy, The New York Times, and many others. In part one of this file Robert, Adam, and I discuss how longer works of writing have been forced to compete with disposable culture, why Herman Melville died penniless, how the novel has stood the test of time, the role of podcasting for modern writers, and author Hugh Howey’s Rock, Paper, Scissors model of book retail. If you are a fan of The Writer Files, please click “subscribe” to automatically see new interviews as soon as they’re published. This episode of The Writer Files is brought to you by Audible. I’ll have more on their special offer later in the show but if you love audio books or you’ve always wanted to give them a try, you can check out over 180 thousand titles right now at Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. This episode of The Writer Files is also brought to you by Digital Commerce Summit. We’ll have more about that unique event for digital entrepreneurs later in the show but you can check out Rainmaker.FM/Summit for all the details on an amazing, educational, and networking event. And we are rolling today with some very special guests. I have more than one guest today, which is unusual for this show, but I think what we have is a special edition of The Writer Files. We usually call these Writer Porn when I get return guests, but I do have a new guest, Robert Bruce is joining us today. Welcome, Robert. Robert Bruce: Hey, Kelton, thanks for having me. Kelton Reid: If you don’t know Robert and his famous voice, he actually runs Rainmaker FM, and by night he files stories to the internet from an undisclosed location near you. Does that mean you’re actually writing stuff somewhere here in my neighborhood, Robert? Robert Bruce: It could be. It could mean that, Kelton. Kelton Reid: You’re very mysterious. Robert Bruce: The fact that you don’t know makes it so much better. Kelton Reid: We can find your writing and more of your very, very interesting voice over at RobertBruce.com. Robert is a poet, fictionist, copywriter, and a VP of Rainmaker Digital and a close confidant who has nurtured The Writer Files kind of since it’s inception, so welcome to the show. Robert Bruce: Thanks, man. Kelton Reid: And Adam Skolnick is back. The award-winning journalist, author, swimmer, I call him a backgammon hound. He’s actually a shark, so don’t play him for money, but he recently walked the marathon length of Sunset Boulevard for a story, is that right? Adam Skolnick: Yes. Kelton Reid: Tell us a little bit about that adventure. Robert Bruce: Where is that story, by the way? Where can we find that? Adam Skolnick: That story is still in mid-birth. I should be writing it instead of talking to you jokers right now. Kelton Reid: Sorry. Robert Bruce: Watch it, man, I might be in an undisclosed location near you. Kelton Reid: Robert’s also in L.A. Adam Skolnick: Oh nice, good, you could be in my house right now. Robert Bruce: Hey, you never know. Adam Skolnick: No, it’s going to be for Lonely Planet Traveller Magazine which is obviously a big travel guide publishing brand and they’ve got kind of a big magazine in the UK and it’s growing here in the US, and so it will be for both of those editions. I walked Sunset from Union Station in downtown L.A. to the beach seventeen years ago with a friend, right when I was first trying to become a writer. It was the first thing I did. It was the first story I wrote. Before that, I was kind of just like hiding in dark corners and scribbling down like stream of consciousness rants and occasionally foist them on unsuspecting people at open mic nights. Mostly it was kind of keeping it to myself. Then I started to really take it seriously, trying to write stories and travel stories in particular. A friend of mine said he was going to walk Wilshire, Santa Monica, and Sunset Boulevards from beginning to end and asked me if I was interested and so I tagged along. Then fast forward to a couple of weeks ago and an editor from the magazine said that they had a photographer on location, shooting Sunset for a feature, and they wondered if I wanted to write the text. And I told them what I did seventeen years ago and how I was thinking about doing it again, because so much has changed here in L.A., especially on the eastern stretch of that street. They went for it and that meant that I had the death march ahead of me and it was cool. It was fun to do it again, this time, I did it with a filmmaker named Tchaiko Omawale, a friend of mine, and she was with me for the first twenty miles and the last six miles I was trudging alone. Robert Bruce: Wow, so it literally is a marathon, yeah? Adam Skolnick: Yeah, yeah. It’s just under twenty-six miles and it was like, yeah, and it rained again. The first time around it rained for like the first few miles, or maybe even the first couple of hours straight, and then it was nice. This time, like out of nowhere it rained when we were in East Hollywood. It was great, you know, it’s always interesting to see things at that level, street level. See how much has changed, how the Sunset strip is kind of decaying while Eastside L.A. is booming and, you know, just to be able to think about all of that, what that means. And it’s just a privilege to be able to do it, and to do this for a living, to write stories. It’s always fun when I find one that I resonate with because that’s why we do this. It certainly is not the paycheck. Kelton Reid: You can see snippets of that story, actually if you pop onto Adam’s Instagram. I think it’s just Adam Skolnick on Instagram. Yeah, I just wanted to mention also that in addition to being a journalist, Adam recently published his first book, One Breath, last January. Published by Crown and he has written for some really big name marquee publications including Playboy, The New York Times and many others. He’s over at AdamSkolnick.com if you want to check out more of his stuff and see some of those great pictures too. How Longer Works of Writing Have Been Forced to Compete with Disposable Culture Kelton Reid: You may be wondering why the three of us are chatting today. As we often do, Robert and I, and Adam and I separately gnash our teeth about certain elements of the writer’s life and I thought I’d bring them on together today to do the Is the novel dead? edition of Writer Porn. To start out I think maybe we could talk about what this question actually means because it’s something that famous writers have written about and kvetched about, you know, throughout the ages. Famous writers, Philip Roth and many others have written some great pieces about it. But I think what we’re going to talk about today is maybe a little bit different as opposed to say like the highbrow, literary version of that argument. We’re going to talk maybe more about, well Robert, do you want to help me out on how we’re going to tackle this one? Robert Bruce: I have no idea how we’re going to tackle this, other than, yeah, I think this is a really interesting question. I think it’s … and it goes into a lot of, maybe a bigger subterranean question of, you know, How do you … what does it mean to get out into the world what you want to get out into the world in 2016 and 2017 rapidly coming up on us? You know, I mean ****, so maybe the novel, we could say, we’re going to talk specifically about the death of the novel, in my opinion. Maybe that, the idea of the novel can be a stand in for, you know, in a lot of ways whatever it is you are doing. Here’s the deal, here’s my short take on it. The novel is so last century, right? This beautiful form, whether literary or even genre pretty much for, I don’t know, at least a hundred years has stood alone as a piece of, to put it crassly, media, that had very few, for many of those hundred years, very few competitors. Now you come into a world where we’re still writing these novels which I think is a good thing and obviously there’s many great novels out there and many great novel readers of novels but all of a sudden it’s competing with, you know, the Kardashian’s, and it’s competing with Hillary’s thirty thousand deleted emails, and it’s competing with Adam Skolnick’s stroll down Sunset Boulevard. Not only that, but the entire history of art and media that is now available to us online, you know, the Beatles entire catalog, so on and so forth. It’s this really, to me, interesting problem that I actually don’t think that there’s an answer to it, but I think there are ways, you know, maybe one of the better questions is, How should a writer be thinking today, in the age of the Kardashians? Kelton Reid: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah, that’s a good point. You know, we kind of open it up. It’s not that kind of bleak … Robert Bruce: Oh, I think it is, Kelton. Kelton Reid: Sure, but when we’re asking the question, Is the novel dead? I think what we’re … you know, defining the novel as a little bit broader piece, you know, a longer fiction, obviously, including popular fiction, right? Literary fiction. Adam Skolnick: That’s what I was wondering if you were talking about the form of what a traditional novel is and like a reinvention of a form, or if you are talking about just the idea of releasing books in general, because you could make that same argument for any book, then. If you are saying that. Robert Bruce: Or any file. Adam Skolnick: I mean from the beginning of … I think there’s always been intense competition for readers, you know. In the days where there wasn’t the internet and social media, or even movies and TV, there were a million newspapers. There was a newspaper for almost every block of every city, so there’s always been kind of this democratized media. We just don’t really see it because we are so focused on, we’re so myopic with the present, nobody can really analyze it against anything else, especially now because everyone is so obsessed. I think social media is probably the greatest threat to people’s attention. I think that the Beatles example is really interesting, obviously, yes you can listen to as much music as you want to, so there’s so much media saturating but I think it’s social media that is a big drain on people’s attention spans. That’s a real issue, but there’s always been that issue and before there was the issue of, Is there enough literate people out there to buy the books? I mean, listen, Herman Melville had to get a job at the customs office after he wrote Moby Dick. Robert Bruce: That’s right, he died broke, penniless. Adam Skolnick: That is a little bit disconcerting. But I don’t think it’s ever been easy to make your living this way, ever. I think that these are interesting questions but I don’t think they prove the death of any form. I just think that it’s up to publishers and authors to figure out their way around it and to make their book relevant. A lot of that’s just like this having gone through the marketing process of a book in January through til, really, all the way almost til June and to see how it’s such a mystery. There’s really no formula that you can follow that will be 100% foolproof. It’s a real mystery and it takes the audience kind of finding the book in an organic way as much as it takes a publishing house putting all their ammo behind something. God, it’s kind of a mind bender, you know, for me, it’s interesting being invited to this. I’ve written a novel that didn’t sell and I wrote a nonfiction book that did sell and so what I do know is that it’s harder to sell fiction. That might be because of the shrinking audience or the competing media. That could have something to do with that. I don’t know for a fact, but that could have something to do with it. Or it could just be that, you know, people, publishers rather, make bets on true stories that they know there’s an audience for. Either way, it’s harder to sell fiction. That’s a fact. But, you know, according to my friends at HarperCollins their fiction sales are up. Hardcover fiction sales are up. Kelton Reid: We will be right back after a very short break. Thanks so much for listening to The Writer Files. This episode of The Writer Files is brought to you by Audible, offering over 180 thousand audiobook titles to choose from. Audible seamlessly delivers the worlds of both fiction and nonfiction to your iPhone, Android, Kindle, or computer. For Rainmaker FM listeners, Audible is offering a free audiobook download with a thirty-day trial to give you the opportunity to check them out. Grab your free audiobook right now by visiting Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. I just hopped over there to grab Stephen King’s epic novel 11/22/63 about an English teacher who goes back in time to prevent the assassination of JFK. You can download your pick or any other audio book free by heading over to Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. To download your free audio book today, go to Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. Jerod Morris: Hey, Jerod Morris here. If you know anything about Rainmaker Digital and Copyblogger, you may know that we produce incredible live events. Well, some would say that we produce incredible live events as an excuse to throw great parties, but that’s another story. We’ve got another one coming up this October in Denver. It’s called Digital Commerce Summit and it is entirely focused on giving you the smartest ways to create and sell digital products and services. To get all the details and the very best deal on tickets head over to Rainmaker.FM/Summit. That’s Rainmaker.FM/Summit. How the Novel has Stood the Test of Time Robert Bruce: Right, harder to sell, but as you well know, as I think all of us do, and many people listening, it’s like, when fiction hits there’s nothing better, because it’s also then … it’ll last a hundred years, you know, if it’s really great of course. Adam Skolnick: Yeah. Robert Bruce: That’s rare, but we point to … and this whole eBook conversation now with Amazon and all these independent publishers going on and self-publishing and making, you know, you hear these grand stories of these people making all this money. I mean, Kelton, you interviewed Andy Weir and an incredible story of the self-publication of The Martian and then it got picked up and the movie and everybody knows that story. Those, we also know, are the rare stories. I think, what’s his name? Hugh Howey, he talks about he hit with a massive, massive fiction hit. But he makes a really interesting statement that people point to him and say, “Oh yeah, this is the new reality. We can all be like Hugh Howey.” He says, “Of course you can’t, but the thing to remember is, at least in the self-publishing arm of this conversation, is you can make life changing money, which is, to some people $200 a month is going to be life changing.” The Role of Podcasting for Modern Writers Robert Bruce: I mean, back to Harper Collins, I totally agree with you, Adam. I would like to talk for at least a minute about this idea of the form itself and its relevance in the culture. This, to me, is endlessly fascinating. Kelton, you and I talked about, well, it came up originally I think we were talking about Bret Easton Ellis. Here is arguably, of our generation, Bret Easton Ellis is maybe one of the last great novelists, you know, Less Than Zero, American Psycho, Glamorama, on and on. Here is, of the last waning glory days of the twentieth century, he pretty much, along with a smaller group of folks, owned the culture, the literary culture we’ll say. But today he’s running one of the greatest podcasts available on the face of the Earth. Kelton Reid: That’s right. Robert Bruce: He goes from culture shifting novelist to podcaster and interviewing, you know, incredible people in the culture and it’s this natural thing and he’s incredibly compelling. I’m not arguing that this is the way things should be it just it is what it is, right? Kelton Reid: Yeah. Robert Bruce: But here is one of our greats, who is now in this new medium and it’s the same with who you just interviewed … Kelton Reid: Jay McInerney, yeah, another Brat Packer. Robert Bruce: Bright Lights, Big City and now he’s a wine writer which I think is ****ing great and hilarious. I don’t think it’s like a loss, this great loss to art. I think these are two, you know, anecdotal stories. I think it’s interesting that, What does the audience want, right? That whole idea. And what do they want from them? McInerney just wrote another novel. It’ll hopefully do really well for him. But, I mean, he was talking pretty excitedly and I mean he’s interested in what he’s doing now, the podcast and the writing the wine stories. Kelton Reid: For sure. Robert Bruce: Which is, of course, Adam, right up your alley as well with the non-fiction stuff. Adam Skolnick: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah, but there’s still, you know, there’s younger novelists that come out and wow. I don’t know, I mean, I loved Less Than Zero as much as everybody else. I loved Bret Easton Ellis’ work. I don’t consider him the last great novelist, though. I just don’t … I think that we are putting parameters on things that don’t … See, to me, as a writer, it doesn’t help. So I’m just not one of those people that’s over analytical, I think, in general, in terms of the work and how I do it and also where I put it. I’m just not that guy. I think I follow the story. I do the best I can with the story, find a home for the story, and then that’s it. You know, I could probably be more analytical than I am, but I’m just not that person. But at the same time, I think it’s dangerous to put parameters on things that we don’t fully understand. Just because someone’s podcasting now, I mean a lot of publishers are telling authors to podcast because they think, I mean, I get stuff from my publisher all the time saying, How to podcast, or How to sell your book. One way is to start a podcast, which is, you know, funny because it’s not like you can start a podcast and get listeners overnight. But that’s why a lot of people are doing that because they are trying to creatively sell it. That doesn’t mean the novel form itself is dead. It just means now, like everything else, radio is democratized. Now they can just go and get their voice out there, it doesn’t mean they re not writing and if Bret Easton Ellis isn’t writing, I don’t think it’s because he has a podcast. Robert Bruce: Yeah, no, I’d agree with you there. I think we’re, like in the case of Brett Easton Ellis, what’s interesting to me is that he’s not … I don’t know, obviously, I don’t know him. It appears to me that he’s not doing this to sell books or as a request in a marketing business kind of sense. He’s using it as a medium, an artistic medium in and of itself. I think that’s where a lot of people get offended at the idea. I’m not some huge, I mean, I am an advocate for podcasting, but in this case, I’m not like Everybody should have one and it’s this great, and you’re right, it’s just a logical extension from the days of radio. But to me, it’s interesting that, and maybe it’s just because I’m old and you know out of the culture in a lot of ways, it’s interesting that his podcast and certain moments of it, him in that medium, is almost more interesting to me and to many others, than any of his work in novels. I don’t know what that means. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. It’s just a fascinating thing to think about. Kelton Reid: Do you think that’s the Marc Maron effect on podcasting? Just to kind of take a little detour? Robert Bruce: It probably has to be, I mean, and again, there’s nothing new here. It’s just the way we do it and the way it’s distributed, but it probably has to be. We know that however many billions are online and however many more billions in the next ten, twenty years, you know, I don’t know exactly if you are wanting to go somewhere specific with that, but … Kelton Reid: I don’t know, I mean, I think kind of just to compare Marc Maron for instance, who is not a novelist, he was like a washed up comedian who started a podcast interviewing his comedian friends in his garage and then a few years later he’s interviewing President Obama. You know, I don’t know, but I think Bret Easton Ellis may have been kind of on the skids and fearing the death of the novel saw a kind of an example of, as Adam puts it, this democratization of getting your voice out there and he probably kind of resurrected his career, both Maron, and Ellis. Robert Bruce: I think he’s been pretty straightforward in saying that it saved his, you know, career-wise at least, saved him. Adam Skolnick: Wow. I better start listening to it. Kelton Reid: To Maron? Adam Skolnick: No, I listen to Maron every once and awhile. Kelton Reid: Oh, okay. Adam Skolnick: To Ellis. Robert Bruce: Oh no, yeah, I was talking about Maron there, sorry. Adam Skolnick: Oh, you were? Okay, sorry. Kelton Reid: I mean I think both guys are … Robert Bruce: Ellis is definitely worth listening to, for the record, though, Adam. Kelton Reid: I think they are both fascinating characters. They are both like, kind of like the most interesting man in the room wherever they are. To listen to Ellis talk, you know, he is clearly a genius and I think Maron is too, and I think you know having a place to kind of put your energies that isn’t locked into a paper book is probably pretty good for a writer these days. Adam Skolnick: Yeah, I mean, I guess it depends on what you are looking for, you know? What I really liked about your interview with Jay McInerney, Kelton, was this idea of talking about writing into the dark, like you had said, and his idea that you know he doesn’t plan it he just shows up and then sees where it goes. Even, I’m someone that does outline but even when I’m writing something that I’ve outlined there’s moments like that where you kind of connect and it’s starting to make sense and all these ideas that have been rattling around in your head come out. I just don’t know that magic exists in podcast and that magic exists, definitely for a writer, and probably actors on stage as well, those are the kind of those magic moments that people … that’s what hooks us, you know? I think that’s also what comes across in a great novel to a reader and that’s the magic, you know? Everything else, to me, is noise and the rest of it is magic. Can you sell enough to sustain the medium so that, you know, can publishers sell enough to sustain the medium and the machinery so that those magic moments can come through to readers? I hope so, because I think there’s nothing better than quality fiction and even non-fiction and stories like that. As to other writers that are finding success in the podcast arena, I think Malcolm Gladwell’s recent podcast is amazing. I don’t think that mean’s he’s not a writer, he’s not in any way going to give up writing. I don’t see how he would. In fact, his podcast is not an interview podcast. It’s a scripted podcast. So it’s another way for him to write and it’s just as intriguing as his books. Yeah, so I don’t know, I don’t think the emergence of one form necessarily means the demise of the other. I don’t think TV killed radio, I don’t think film killed TV, I don’t think now this rise of kind of new distribution models for TV and movies which is Netflix and other, Amazon, and all these other ways to watch, Hulu, watch media on your computer, I don’t think that is destroying anything. I just see it as shifting and I think it will always be there. Author Hugh Howey s Rock, Paper, Scissors Model of Book Retail Kelton Reid: Absolutely. Okay, well to just kind of throw some fuel on the fire from Publisher’s Weekly, actually via your friend The Passive Voice blog. Robert turned me onto this great blog, Passive Voice. It’s a lawyer? Is that right? Robert Bruce: Yeah, I think he is a practicing attorney, but yeah, I don’t know where he finds the time to post like he does, but yep. Kelton Reid: Yeah, well, he posts a lot about publishing and the publishing industry. Anyway, this morning he posted a piece from Publisher’s Weekly. Just a blurb here, bookstore sales in July fell by under 1% compared to last year so according to preliminary estimates, the US census bureau, the decline marks the first month in 2016 of bookstore sales fell compared with last year. But, this is kind of a weird factoid, the drop reflects the fact July 2016 did not have a strong, as strong a selling title as Go Set a Watchmen which was released last July but as we know is not a book from this century, is it? Adam Skolnick: No, but then why is Amazon setting up showrooms and bookstores if they, you know what I mean, like why are they doing that? They don’t have to do that … Kelton Reid: I’ll tell you why. Adam Skolnick: Why? Kelton Reid: Well, Barnes and Noble is failing and this is something that Hugh Howey talks about. And actually to quickly segue into his Rock, Paper, Scissors theory about kind of the industry, he noted that the big five publishers are declining overall and Barnes and Noble sales are down 6% over the same period last year, also. So they are changing CEOs once again. What he’s saying, in a nutshell, Hugh Howey, on his great blog which you should check out I think he’s calling it Wayfinder … but HughHowey.com. He’s saying that Barnes and Noble will never be able to compete with Amazon on price or selection, right? So basically, Amazon killed Barnes and Noble and that’s why we’re seeing the rise, again, of these indie bookstores, right? Basically, the move of avid readers to digital, you know, less clutter, easier to carry around books like Ulysses, or David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, right? He’s saying physical books will never go away just like vinyl records will never go away. But there’s a problem of growth, so there’s not going to be any growth in that industry, is what he’s saying, at least in physical books. He’s saying that the future is going to be a mix of these indie bookshops that kind of keep the culture alive and foster community, and then Amazon. If Amazon wants a piece of that community then they are going to have to emulate the indie bookstore to get a piece of that homegrown feel. Adam Skolnick: Interesting. Kelton Reid: You know, but Barnes and Noble, essentially what he’s saying, is doomed. Thanks so much for tuning into this special edition of The Writer Files. For more episodes of the show, or to simply leave us a comment or a question, you can drop by WriterFiles.FM and please subscribe to the show to help other writers find us. You can always chat with me on Twitter @KeltonReid. Cheers, see you out there.

Podgodz 180 Recorded 17 November 2015 Been work busy, travel, tired     Top 5 shows of the Week – LAX Up for contention but not making the list this week Hello Internet #51: Appropriately Thinking It Roadwork #12: Intellectual Languages   Top 5 5) Eureka Podcast #139: Box Office Showdown 4) Dune Reads Goosebumps: The Haunted School Parts 1 & 2 3) Defocused #71: That’s the Mall Rats Line 2) The Incomparable #272: Laid a Lot of Foundations 1)  Roderick on the Line #179: A Good Box   GIO TOP 5 5. How did this get made 123 life force with Lennon Parham 4. OG Kings 2x 3. The 40 Year Old Boy Twenty Five, Six and Seven, Year Eight 2. Brett Easton Ellis 11/16 Eli Roth/ Dr. Drew Read More →

Podgodz 180 Recorded 17 November 2015 Been work busy, travel, tired     Top 5 shows of the Week – LAX Up for contention but not making the list this week Hello Internet #51: Appropriately Thinking It Roadwork #12: Intellectual Languages   Top 5 5) Eureka Podcast #139: Box Office Showdown 4) Dune Reads Goosebumps: The Haunted School Parts 1 & 2 3) Defocused #71: That's the Mall Rats Line 2) The Incomparable #272: Laid a Lot of Foundations 1)  Roderick on the Line #179: A Good Box   GIO TOP 5 5. How did this get made 123 life force with Lennon Parham 4. OG Kings 2x 3. The 40 Year Old Boy Twenty Five, Six and Seven, Year Eight 2. Brett Easton Ellis 11/16 Eli Roth/ Dr. Drew Read More →

We’ve got almost too much to talk about in Episode 16, as comedian Caitlin Durante fills us in on Holes, Matt Donaher talks about What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and Brock Wilbur takes us back to the 80’s with Less Than Zero. What starts off on a tangent about Burning Man turns into a fun conversation about a really fun book and movie for the whole family, Holes by Louis Sachar. There’s a lot to like in this story, and Caitlin shares her enthusiasm for this YA classic about kids at a camp that turns out to be much more than it appears. Next up, Matt Donaher brings us a non-fiction account of the life and craft of Japanese fiction master Haruki Murakami, who’s latest book, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, tells of his love of running and how it relates to his life’s work, writing. Finally, we’ve saved the juicy stuff for last, as we dive into the depraved indifference of the decadent and indelible, Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis. Don’t judge Brock Wilbur for loving this book, please, and you shouldn’t because it is, in many ways, an incredible book, and has always been one of my favorites as well. It’s one of those books that never fails to shock and amaze. It’s a book that so good, even the story behind the writing of the book is a great story. And, after all that, we leave you, dear listeners, with a few tantalizing cliff hangers. You know, just to keep people coming back and listening for more… Enjoy! BOOKS: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami: Knopf - ISBN - 0-307-26919-1 Holes by Louis Sachar: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - ISBN 978-0-786-22186-8 Less Than Zero - by Brett Easton Ellis: Simon and Schuster - ISBN 978-0-14-008894-6

Brett Easton Ellis,    Mike's Blockage,    Best Show Question: The Angry Email,    Kevin Smith,     Prince Bandar,     Who Killed JFK? (Contains some misinformation)     Vietnam.     

Robbie Coleman went from sport to writing at 20, and has gone from that to become the sort of writer who crashed beautifully through an interview with Brett Easton Ellis and dished the dirt on the bohemian life in Berlin for the New York Times. He also makes fiction, films and music, and is currently the Editorial Director at Right Angle Studios, who create things online like culture guide The Thousands. Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/2014-01-30/

4/1/2021 Microphone Therapy On this episode of Microphone Therapy we talk about 3000 Miles to Graceland, Dasiy McCracken, Keanu Reeves, The Matrix, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Anne Rice, Queen of the Damned, Servant of the Bones, Lestat, Memnoch the Devil, Chevy Chase, Coming 2 America, Tracy Morgan, Bernie Wrightson, Ken Barr We also talk about Heather Graham, License to Drive, Very Bad Things, James Avery, Christian Bale, Christian Slater, American Psycho, American Psycho 2, Brett Easton Ellis, Vampire's Kiss, Nicolas Cage, Less Than Zero, Mila Kunis, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sam Rockwell, TMNT, Chuck Barris, Deadpool 2, Matt Damon, The Gong Show, Johnny Depp, RDJR, Seth Rogen, Preacher, The Boys, Danny McBride, Walton Goggins, Barry,Bill Hader, Vice Principals, Vinyl, Danny Collins, A Star is Born, Jazz Singer, Point Break, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation, The Prophecy, Christopher Walken, Eric Stolz, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America 2, Louie Anderson, Bradford Exchange, collectors dinner plates, Michael Jordan