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Ladies and gentleman, welcome to another episode of Stacey's Pop Culture Parlour! This month, Stacey is joined by the utterly lovely Brenda, of Geektress fame! Be prepared for tangents galore as Stace and Brenda get their talk on about all things pop culture.Expect ruminations on (and most likely massive spoilers for) the Dexter finale, Sleepy Hollow, Hunger Games (both books and movie), How I Met Your Mother, World's End and...bear epidemics?!So grab a slice of your favourite cake (I highly recommend Battenburg) and enjoy this installment of pop culture babbling!Episode Theme - 'Radioactive' by Imagine DragonsEnd Theme - 'Running If You Call My Name' by Haim
This month Stacey is joined in the cake-filled Pop Culture Parlour by the absolutely splendid geek-bird extraordinaire Laura from the Geektress podcast. For a hefty portion of this episode the girls get spoilery about the Avengers movie, discussing the all-round awesomeness, brilliant humour and plentiful totty found within! After finally getting off the Avengers topic, the ladies talk about their favourite comics, including Winter Soldier, Li'l Depressed Boy and more, as well as checking out some of the second wave of DC New 52 titles. (As I forgot to actually do this part in the episode; please do contact me at staceysparlour@gmail.com if you'd like to comment on the show or offer to join me on it. Alternatively, you can follow my inane ramblings on Twitter; I'm StacebobT there.) Hope y'all enjoy! Episode Theme - 'We Are Sex Bob-Omb' by Sex Bob-Omb Ending Theme - 'Outside' by Childish Gambino
2011 was a great year for music and this episode is packed with 2011 releases, including brand new music from The Dreaming, Garbage, Violet Winter, Oh So, Cellmod and VNV Nation. I talk a little about promo for No Fate Convention and plug some fantastic geek podcasts (Midwest Nerds, The Inside Outcast, Geektress). There's also a big announcement in store and a reminder about the holiday giveaway running through December 23. Full show notes and contact info at http://www.aztalanturf.com
This Week the dissecting duo are joined "across the pond" by Laura from the Geektress podcast to gaze into the abyss of the Horror genre. - Gasp! as we discuss the meaning of scantily clad women running down corridors!- Shiver! at the admission that Laura has never seen "The Wicker Man" and Kehaars admission of re-enactment on the Wirral!- Tremble! as Matt discuss the fears of early parenthood and Evil Children Movies!- Quake! as we flee from terror of Lovecraft, Alien(s), Tentacles, Horror-as-Date-Movies and snogging quarterbacks under the bleachers! - and much, much more. Feedback, as ever, appreciated to dissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk or twitter Matt @theGrampus or Kehaar @Clarkythecruel or use the new discussion boards at the Geeksyndicate facebook page http://www.facebook.com/#!/geeksyndicate Kehaar’s game related musings can be found here http://clarkythecruel.wordpress.com/ and his current RPG campaign here http://alfiesantics.wordpress.com/ Matt’s literary reviews are on the Geek Syndicate site (http://www.geeksyndicate.co.uk/) under the Tolkien Gestures column and he also keeps a personal blog at grampus.livejournal.com
Joined by the insightful Brenda from the Geektress podcast to take the middle class married men shine of a discussion of gender and sex the Nort nasties of Matt and the pseudo-scouse seagull Kehaar look at sex and gender in the miserable futures presented in the apocalypse, disaster and dystopia genres. On the way there's learning & laughter as such important matters are considered as: Sean Connery in a orange nappy in a future with only 2 bits of soft porn. The role of homosexuality, the ancient greeks and Battlestar Galactica. Does the ending of watchmen make any sense ? Is Children of Men the perfect companion piece to Bend it like Beckham. Dystopia prositution in the Handmaids Tale, Go-Go Girls of the apocalypse (http://www.amazon.com/Go-Go-Girls-Apocalypse-Victor-Gischler/dp/1416552251) and others. The bonky-bonky futures of Logan's Run and Brave New World compared with the control of 1984 or Farenheit 451. James Cameron's perfect woman. Why do the survival situations of jericho and Survivors feature such traditional female roles in contrast to some versions of Day of the Triffids. Soylent Green, I am Legend, Mad Max and Hunger Games (http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/) also get a look in alongside Duke Nuke'emism and the 'Two Ronnies 'classic' "The Worm that Turned" (readily available on youtube.) All this and we never discussed Y the Last Man & Paranoia (the game) - DOH! So let us have your thoughts - contact us atdissectingworlds@yahoo.co.uk or tweet @theGrampus (Matt), @Geektress (Brenda) or @Clarkythecruel (Kehaar) and we'll have a thread at the Geeksyndicate facebook group.