Podcasts about Permanent Midnight

We're back with a discussion on a movie we have been meaning to talk about since we launched the podcast - The Cable Guy! This dark comedy stars Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick, and was directed by Ben Stiller. We spent the first half of the podcast doing a deep dive on Ben Stiller's early acting career and the movies he directed, including: Intro 00:00:00 Hot Pursuit (1987) 00:14:23 Reality Bites (1994) 00:17:12 Heavyweights (1995) 00:25:23 Flirting with Disaster (1996) 00:35:29 Zero Effect (1998) 00:41:16 Permanent Midnight (1998) 00:46:00 Zoolander (2001) 00:50:28  Tropic Thunder (2008) 00:56:43 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) 01:07:35 The Cable Guy (1996) 01:11:21 We kept the mics rolling for another hour and chatted about Jim Carrey, in particular the documentary Jim & Andy and the Ace Ventura movies. That bonus episode is available, along with dozens more, exclusively on our Patreon at: www.patreon.com/almostcultclassics.  You can also find us on X: Joe: https://twitter.com/joeramoni Ryan: https://twitter.com/ryanlancello And don't forget to check out our website and merch store: https://www.almostcultclassics.com

Episode 113: Tom, Evan & Marcus continue their "One Fucking Summer" 90s film series with Ben Stiller in PERMANENT MIDNIGHT (1998), the darkly comic true story of heroin addict TV writer Jerry Stahl (ALF, MOONLIGHTING). Sign up for the OFH Patreon for just $5 a month and gain instant access to our bonus episodes and audio commentaries: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/onefuckinghour⁠

In this episode of the show we are joined by two great guests, Hillary and Tony, to talk about Permanent Midnight, the first of four conversations about Ben Stiller movies from 1998. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about the way this movie handles the theme of addiction, how it could have leaned into one of its potentially interesting thematic ideas and how its brisk format perhaps undoes a lot of its power. We also talk about the movie's contentious framing device, the nuances of Ben Stiller's performances and whether this movie was ghost-directed by Bob Zemeckis. Tune in and enjoy! Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows Featuring: Hillary White & Tony Larder Intro: Infraction - Cassette Outro: Infraction - Daydream Head over to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠uncutgemspodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to find all of our archival episodes and more! Follow us on Twitter (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@UncutGemsPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), IG (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@UncutGemsPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) and Facebook (@UncutGemsPod) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy us a coffee over at Ko-Fi.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (ko-fi.com/uncutgemspod) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to our Patreon!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (patreon.com/uncutgemspod)

Sean talks to Lesley Arfin (Love, Girls, Dear Diary) about the movie Permanent Midnight. They discuss writer Jerry Stahl's portrayal of addiction and their journeys with sobriety.Every episode is available at Patreon.com/TheFlagrantOnes on The Bundle Tier with selected episode available for free here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 410."Eye In The Sky" Movie Composer: Paul Hepker.Paul Hepker is a talented composer whose "Eye In The Sky" remains one of my most favorite movie scores. It is also Alan Rickman's last movie. His other credits include Rendition, Tsotsi and so many more.Born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa, Paul Hepker trained as a concert pianist under Adolphe Hallis. He worked as a Musical Director at the National Theatres in Pretoria and Cape Town (The Rocky Horror Show, Joseph) and has performed or recorded with a number of prominent South African and international artists such as Shirley Bassey, Miriam Makeba, Ice Cube and Vusi Mahlasela. He wrote the voter education theme “Make Your Mark” for the first democratic elections in South Africa, which gave birth to a National TV gameshow of the same name. In the mid-1990's he toured the world as a member of Grammy-nominated band Johnny Clegg and Savuka (Juluka) before moving to Los Angeles in 1997 to pursue a career in composing for stage and screen.A long-time member of acclaimed Los Angeles theatre company Circle X, Hepker garnered an Ovation Award, two LA Weekly Awards, and numerous nominations for his work as composer or Musical Director on productions such as Grendel, Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog, and Romeo & Juliet: Antebellum, New Orleans, 1839.In 1999 Hepker was a Finalist in the inaugural John Lennon Songwriting Competition and has had songs featured in, and included on the soundtracks for Eye In The Sky, Tsotsi, Permanent Midnight, Soul Survivor, The Bird Can't Fly and Into The Light.Paul's latest project is Official Secrets (Starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith) – his fourth collaboration with director Gavin Hood. Paul also co-composed the music for Tsotsi (which won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film), Eye In The Sky (starring Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman) and Rendition (starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep). Along with fellow South African composer Mark Kilian, Paul scored The Bird Can't Fly (starring Barbara Hershey). His score for Into the Light – a documentary exploring the AIDS crisis in Tanzania, featured Kenyan singer Ayub Ogada.Paul was series composer on numerous Discovery, History and National Geographic Channel series, including Deadliest Catch, IRT Deadliest Roads,  Crash Files, Impact, America's Deadliest Season, Into the Firestorm, Raw Nature, Iditarod, Herrings – all for Original Productions – and Shark Taggers (NBC).Paul returned to South Africa in mid-2012, where he has been involved in music production (Ard Matthews), writing music for commercials (Nedbank Private Wealth, OUTSurance, Spar, Nissan, Serengeti Beer)  and film-scoring: he recently composed the music for Kite (starring Samuel L. Jackson) and Shepherds and Butchers (directed by Oliver Shmitz and starring Steve Coogan) both for visionary South African producer Anant Singh.Welcome the awesome, Paul Hepker.Monday Morning Critic: Instagram, TiKTok, YouTube and Facebook.www.imdb.com/title/tt12597724/www.mmcpodcast.com

A classic FIB episode from 4-18-22.Permanent Midnight author, Jerry Stahl and his drug addiction while writing for television...Alf star, Max Wright, and his descent into drugs and gay sex with homeless men...Is Magic Mike's Thandie Newton headed to rehab or a mental facility?...FIAB story about Kenny Rogers.

Mimi Lieber has performed on Broadway, television and film! Her credits include: Indecent; also, Indecent at Vineyard Theater, NY, Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse; other Broadway: Act One, Brooklyn Boy, I'm Not Rappaport (revival). Off-Broadway: Distracted (Roundabout). Regional: Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner (Denver Center Theatre); Persephone, The Sisters Mimi Lieber has worked in theatre, TV, and film. Her credits include: Rosensweig (Huntington); We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! (Long Wharf); Taking Sides, The Greeks, Love Council, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Odyssey); Leon, Lena and Lenz (Guthrie); Figaro Gets a Divorce (La Jolla); Sirens (Humana Festival); Potestad (Stages); Much Ado About Nothing, Othello (L.A. Shakespeare Festival); U.S. Comedy Arts Festival w/E.S.T. (winner, Best of Fest); LATC; Taper, Too; Ford's Theater; Kennedy Center. Nat'l tour: The Heidi Chronicles. Film includes The Thing About My Folks; Arranged; Cold Souls; Permanent Midnight; Bulworth; Corrina, Corrina; Wilder Napalm; Just Another Story. Select TV: “The Good Fight,” ”The Sopranos," "Law & Order (recurring)” "Medium," "Friends," "The Practice," "Seinfeld," "ER," "X-Files," "NYPD Blue," "Judging Amy (recurring),” “Early Edition (recurring),” “L.A. Law,” 50 or so other episodes of television. Choreography: Broadway: Act One; The Snow Geese (MTC); Merchant of Venice.  For NYSF/ Delacorte: Cymbeline (Calloway Fin.),. Comedy of Errors, As You Like It (Callaway Fin.), The Merchant of Venice, All's Well That Ends Well, Twelfth Night. Info about Blue Card Holocaust Survivor Charity available at https://bluecardfund.org/For more info about her classes, visit https://www.facebook.com/MimiLieberAdvancedSceneStudyNow is a great time to act on your dreams! If this episode helped you, please share to a friend!https://www.instagram.com/HyphensHaven/http://www.dreamofdrea.com/Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/DreamofDréa

A bus trip to Auschwitz in the company of the writer Jerry Stahl, who in 2016 set off for Poland to confront one of the darkest chapters in human history. The resulting book, Nein Nein Nein, is fast-paced, darkly absurd, and mordantly funny without ever minimizing the horrors at its center. In that regard it has something in common with Stahl's best-selling memoir, Permanent Midnight, in which he mined both humor and pathos from his harrowing experience as a spiraling heroin addict trying to manage a high-flying script-writing career in 1980s Hollywood. That book was, was made into a 1998 movie starring Ben Stiller as Stahl, is also a brilliant satire of Hollywood, so it's not surprising that he cites Nathaniel West's classic Hollywood novel, Day of the Locust, as the book that inspired him to be a writer. 

Today's Song of the Day is "House of Strangers" from Justin Courtney Pierre's EP, Permanent Midnight, out now.

On today's episode, I talk to writer Jerry Stahl. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jerry won a Pushcart Prize early in his writing career before taking a detour into writing erotica and for magazines like Hustler. This led to another detour writing for TV and movies, although "detour" here might be incorrect, considering this has been a large chunk of his professional career. Jerry penned scripts for ALF, Thirtysomething, Moonlighting, Twin Peaks, CSI, Maron, Escape at Dannemora as well as films like Bad Boys II. As an author, Jerry has written a number of incredible books and memoirs including Perv: A Love Story, I, Fatty, Permanent Midnight and his latest Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Jerry Stahl, author of Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. JERRY STAHL has written ten books, including the best-selling memoir Permanent Midnight, made into a movie with Ben Stiller; the essay collection OG Dad; and the novels Pain Killers; I, Fatty; Perv; Plainclothes Naked; Happy Mutant Baby Pills; and Bad Sex on Speed. A Pushcart Prize-winning author, Stahl's work has appeared in Esquire, Vice, the Believer, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times, among other places. He has written extensively for film and television, including HBO's Hemingway & Gellhorn, which earned a Writers Guild Award nomination; Bad Boys II; and the cult classic Dr. Caligari; series credits include Maron, CSI, and Escape at Dannemora, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Stahl's writing has been widely translated, and he has taught with the InsideOUT Writers program for incarcerated youth, edited The Heroin Chronicles for Akashic Books, and participated in the documentary series, San Quentin Film School. He has two daughters, and lives with artist Zoe Hansen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today my guest is a prolific Author, Teacher, and Peer Recovery Counselor, Patrick O'Neil. I had so much fun talking to Patrick! He is a kind and generous soul with so much wisdom to share. He clearly has done a ton of recovery work and has dedicated his life to helping others to heal.    Patrick shares his recovery story today, along with his moment of clarity and the multiple programs he participated in to get and stay sober since 2001. I just know you're going to appreciate him as much as I do. So with that, please enjoy this episode with Patrick!   Connect with Patrick! Visit Website: https://patrick-oneil.com/ Follow on Instagram @patricksoneil   Watch on YouTube: ​​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNuRolkOZ7X8fCEFCDYd5tg Lightning Round Answers:  Book recommendation: Permanent Midnight, Jerry Stahl  Favorite Quote: Don't be an asshole Self Care Practice: 20 minutes meditation, read “upon awakening” big book pages 86-87 What I wish I knew: Not to take myself so seriously, and it's okay to make mistakes Subscribe So You Don't Miss New Episodes!   Listen On:   https://apple.co/30g6ALF   https://odaatchat.libsyn.com/spotify   https://bit.ly/3n0taNQ     Watch Full Episodes!   https://bit.ly/2UpR5Lo

Jerry Stahl is the author of the memoir Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust, available from Akashic Books. Stahl has written ten books, including the best-selling memoir Permanent Midnight, made into a movie with Ben Stiller; the essay collection OG Dad; and the novels Pain Killers; I, Fatty; Perv; Plainclothes Naked; Happy Mutant Baby Pills; and Bad Sex on Speed. A Pushcart Prize–winning author, Stahl's work has appeared in Esquire, Vice, the Believer, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Times, among other places. He has written extensively for film and television, including HBO's Hemingway & Gellhorn, which earned a Writers Guild Award nomination; Bad Boys II; and the cult classic Dr. Caligari; series credits include Maron, CSI, and Escape at Dannemora, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Stahl's writing has been widely translated, and he has taught with the InsideOUT Writers program for incarcerated youth, edited The Heroin Chronicles for Akashic Books, and participated in the documentary series, San Quentin Film School. He has two daughters, and lives with artist Zoe Hansen.  *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Dopey! After almost 7 years of trying to get him, acclaimed junky memoirist, screenwriter and all around great guy - Jerry Stahl calls in! We hear all about his supreme, best selling junky memoir - Permanent Midnight, and how he decended into horrible drug addiction. Jerry then tells us about his new book -Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. And how he copes with his depression. Plus Live from the Park City Song Summit with Bee Getz! Bee tells a teenage LSD story. PLUS even crazier, emails!  More about Dopey: Dopey Podcast is the world's greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy! 

Kevin and Jana take a hard look at this autobiographical drama, that is also their first fan request. Enjoy --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Year is 1998, an up and coming actor by the name of Ben Stiller is starring in a gritty dark comedy/drama about writer Jerry Stahl. Following his journey with drugs, working as a TV writer, and his green card marriage that leads to parenthood. Also featuring Elizabeth Hurly, Owen Wilson, Fred Willard, and Maria Bello is this biopic worth the trip down memory lane, or is it better left in the graveyard of old sitcoms? The gang dives deep in this episode of Hello From Obscurity.

Jerry Stahl is one of Marc's best friends. But sometimes you have no idea your best friend lived in a cave at one point. And that's why you sit down with him in the garage. Jerry talks with Marc about his years of troubled behavior which led to a life threatening illness and doctors telling him he only had a year to live. Marc also finds out more about Jerry's life as a writer, from his days working for porno magazines to his celebrated books like Permanent Midnight and his new book Nein, Nein, Nein! about self-discovery on a tour of concentration camps. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast.

Folks, we continue our trip through Artisan with PERMANENT MIDNIGHT (1998)! We discuss this little seen drug film, when comedic actors go serious and the best actress race of 2011. Twitter: @AlmostMajor Kevin: @kevbonesy on Twitter/Letterboxd Bryden: @BrydenDoyle on Twitter + @JDoyle on Letterboxd Charlie: @ctnash91 on Twitter/Letterboxd

We continue our coverage of America's latest mass shootings. Joe Biden asks Republicans to help him ban assault weapons because Joe Biden is clueless. Nancy Pelosi refuses to debate our returning guest Shahid Buttar who is running to unseat her. The California Primaries are this Tuesday, June 6th. Also, David de Jong author of "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" returns to talk about Germany's five richest families and the role they played in the rise of Hitler, and how Germany's wealthiest still haven't come to terms with their Nazi Past. Jerry Stahl is back! He's author of "Permanent Midnight" and his new book is "Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust." "Nein, Nein, Nein!" comes out July 5th, and on June 12th he'll be at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan with Ben Stiller who played him in the movie "Permanent Midnight." Guests with Time Codes (01:03) David asks for money. This is a pledgisode. Please support the show by donating: https://davidfeldmanshow.com/supporti... (50:46) "USA of Distraction" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel (56:35) David de Jong (author of "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties") David de Jong is a journalist, who has covered European banking and finance from Amsterdam and hidden wealth and billionaire fortunes from New York for Bloomberg News. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Dutch Financial Daily, and he's the author of the new book Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties. (1:40:07) Grace Jackson Explains How does Great Britain respond to mass shootings? Grace Jackson co-hosts "Literary Hangover." (1:59:53) Stump the Hump! w/ Quizmaster Dan F (2:15:20) The Herschenfelds: Dr. Philip Herschenfeld (Freudian psychoanalyst), and Ethan Herschenfeld (his new comedy special "Thug, Thug Jew" is streaming on YouTube) (2:29:21) Shahid Buttar (candidate in June 7th's primary for US House of Representatives CA-11, challenging Nancy Pelosi) Shahid Buttar is challenging American oligarch Nancy Pelosi in the June 7th primary for California's 11th Congressional district. Shahid has worked for decades as a legal advocate, a non-profit leader, a grassroots organizer, and a poet & musician. (2:59:25) Jerry Stahl (author of "Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust") Jerry Stahl has written extensively for film and television, and he's written ten books, including the best-selling memoir Permanent Midnight, essay collections, novels, and the new book Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust. Nein, Nein, Nein! comes out on July 5th, and on June 12th he'll be at the 92nd Street Y with Ben Still to discuss the book. Check the chat and the show description for more information on Jerry's book and the event. (4:08:56) The Professors And Mary Anne: Professors Mary Anne Cummings, Jonathan Bick, and Adnan Husain PLUS: ASMR for your eyeballs - Kitchen ASMR with Joe in Norway (5:13:40) Emil Guillermo (host of the PETA Podcast, and columnist for The Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund) (5:52:18) Liam McEneany (Comedian and Producer)

Geoff Hylton joins me for this episode as we discuss drug addiction and the mechanisms that are involved, followed by a personal talk regarding addiction in our own lives and how it has played a role. We also cover Geoff's dating life, strange cultural practices of the Pacific Northwest, industry secrets behind "imitation crab", "wild-like fish" and other seafood conspiracies, sugar: the other white drug; the surprising benefits of prayer, and some of the dangers facing women today. The first half of this episode is more technical than the usual free episodes and we go deep into the processes that underly our biological and psychological functioning. You will hear some technical jargon, but it has plenty of comedic breaks and very genuine personal moments that make the science seem very palatable. This is a very personal episode and I like how it turned out. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please share it with a friend. The best way to help the show is to talk about it. Thank you for supporting Ramble by the River. Much love, Jeff Go to Ramblebytheriver.com and click the Subscribe link at the top of the page to sign up to get all of the Ramble on the Road episodes. Ramble by the River Links: ·      Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ramblebytheriver (Patreon.com/ramblebytheriver) ·      Website: http://ramblebytheriver.com/ (Ramblebytheriver.com) ·      Business: ramblebytheriver@gmail.com ·      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeff.nesbitt.9619/ (https://www.facebook.com/jeff.nesbitt.9619/) ·      Instagram: https://instagram.com/ramblebytheriver (https://instagram.com/ramblebytheriver) ·      Twitter: https://twitter.com/rambleriverpod (https://twitter.com/rambleriverpod) ·      Podcast host: Ramblebytheriver.captivate.fm Keywords: Addiction; recovery; drugs; alcohol; rehabilitation; Permanent Midnight (book); Permanent Midnight (1998 movie); Jerry Stahl; Ben Stiller; memoir; Addiction research; Addiction formation; Addiction treatment; clinical depression; mental illness; defense mechanisms; drug instrumentalization; healthy drug use; Dr. Carl Hart; Drug Use for Grown-ups; heroin; opiates; amphetamines; ADHD; medicating children; Adult ADHD; romance; food; fishing; industry; prayer; masculinity; protection the weak; parenthood. Music Credits: Supine, Peter Sandberg. Tango de la Muerte (instrumental), Blood Red Sun. As History Unfolds, Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen. Awake, Megan Wofford. Bungalo Bed, Moon Craters. Luv, Bomull. Soda's Interlude (instrumental), Pandaraps. My reverie, Bomull Still Fly, Revel Day. Copyright 2022 Ramble by the River LLC.

Permanent Midnight author, Jerry Stahl and his drug addiction while writing for television...Alf star, Max Wright, and his descent into drugs and gay sex with homeless men...Is Magic Mike's Thandie Newton headed to rehab or a mental facility?...FIAB story about Kenny Rogers.

Permanent Midnight author, Jerry Stahl and his drug addiction while writing for television...Alf star, Max Wright, and his descent into drugs and gay sex with homeless men...Is Magic Mike's Thandie Newton headed to rehab or a mental facility?...FIAB story about Kenny Rogers.

Phil, Jake and Jason are joined by Tiffa (Intermission podcast) to rank the classic sitcom The Golden Girls and anime on the List of Every Damn Thing.Keep up with Intermission on Instagram (@Intermission_podcast) & Twitter (@IntermissionPC). Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!If you have something to add to the list, email it to list@everydamnthing.net (or get at us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook).SHOW NOTES: Jake is in unceded Pomo territory while recording the episode. Sitcoms are comedies where the characters carry over from episode to episode but are put in different situations like "Jack makes a date with two girls for the same night" type shit. We talk about a lot of sitcoms including The Golden Palace, All In the Family, Maude, Seinfeld, Empty Nest, Benson, The Facts of Life, Frasier, Married With Children and Designing Women (sadly there will be NO reboot). Adrienne Barbeau has come up a couple times in the history of Every Damn Thing already. She played Bea Arthur's daughter on Maude and was the voice of Catwoman on Batman: The Animated Series. Also she was in Swamp Thing, and Escape from New York. She often has a look on her face like she's smelling something foul. Mama's Family was a spinoff of some recurring sketches on the The Carol Burnett Show. Phil only ever saw this on TV as a kid when he was waiting for something else to start. The cheapness of the sets & production really stood out to him. Here's the pic of Bea Arthur in a sexy feather boa that we promised. We get a bit sidetracked with Fatty Arbuckle. The book Phil mentioned about him was I, Fatty by Jerry Stahl who also wrote Permanent Midnight which is in part about being a junkie while being a writer on the sitcom Alf. Here's Buster Keaton looking all sexy. Hentai is, generally speaking, pornographic anime. Pokemon is maybe the most popular anime there is in the US. Phil's kid loves it. Kiki's Delivery Service is a fantastic movie about a young witch trying to make her way in life. The voice of the cat in the English dub of it is Phil Hartmann's last role. The Little Mermaid is a Disney movie that's very short and came out the same year as Kiki's Delivery Service and really suffers in comparison. Other anime discussed include Sailor Moon, Ninja Scroll, My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke. Hanna-Barbera is the animation studio that created Scooby-Doo and many other cartoons, now owned by Warner Brothers. Their work in the 60s and 70s was usually pretty dull. It seemed like it was made by people who had contempt for their audience and maybe themselves. Here's the Kewpie ad mentioned by Jason. Hatsune Miku, Jake's one-time employer, is a Vocaloid software voicebank developed by Crypton Future Media, represented by a hologram of a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise twintails. Jessica Rabbit is getting a Disneyland makeover.  Song of the South is buried deep in the Disney vault and it's impossible to imagine Disney ever releasing it, but here's a podcast detailing it's sordid past.  ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:Betty White * Rue McClanahan * Estelle Getty * The Star Wars Holiday Special * Lucille Ball * The Three Stooges * Shakira * anti-diarrhea medicine * Avatar: The Last Airbender * G.I. Joe 80s cartoon * the Sex and the City reboot * Star Wars * podcasts * Charmander * skortsBelow are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here).TOP TEN: Dolly Parton - person interspecies animal friends - idea sex - idea Clement Street in San Francisco - location Prince - person It's-It - food Cher - person Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character Donald Duck - fictional character Hank Williams - person BOTTOM TEN:193. Jenny McCarthy - person194. Jon Voight - person195. Hank Williams, Jr - person196. British Royal Family - institution197. Steven Seagal - person198. McRib - food199. war - idea200. cigarettes - drug201. QAnon - idea202. transphobia - ideaTheme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan, Phil Green & Jason Marmor.Our website is everydamnthing.net and we're also on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Email us at list@everydamnthing.net. 

Les voyeurs suivent Diane Lane de Rumble Fish à Streets of Fire, deux films de délinquants emboucannés de haut niveau. Avant de se rendre là, Alex pars sur une chire à propos du documentaire de Woodstock 99, Yannick nous parle de Wreck-It Ralph et on discute également de Jolt et Permanent Midnight. Un épisode mouvementé dans lequel il y a beaucoup d'interruptions grâce à la faune nocturne du parc.

As Casting Director, Richard has worked on Ken Loach's Bread and Roses, Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration and A Mighty Wind, Gravity, Zero Dark Thirty, On The Road, Hell or High Water, Reed Morano's Meadowland, and an upcoming live action version of Lady and the Tramp.  He was an Emmy winner for HBO's Game Change as well as a three-time Emmy nominee for Recount, Temple Grandin and the series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Other work for television includes Married, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, and Scream Queens. Richard has worked on a variety of independent projects over the years like Permanent Midnight, Charlie Bartlett, Citizen Gangster, Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Weightless, Alex Strangelove, O.G., and The Mustang. More recently, Richard casted The Stand In, starring Drew Barrymore for Jamie Babbit and, Together Together, for Nikole Beckwith, starring Patti Harrison and Ed Helms. 

Did you pack for rain? Things are getting very dark and turbulent in Twin Peaks for Season 2, Episode 4, “Laura's Secret Diary”! As always, spoilers for this ep, so watch before listening! This week, Jennifer sets us up for a discussion of the episode's epic opening scene; Jonathan gets down and dirty with lies, deceptions, and Hank Jennings; Damon looks to the skies and confronts a very portentous story; and Colin tries to pin down a master genre for Twin Peaks and conjures something called Gothic Absurdism. For the Twist we recommend our favorite Lynchian TV, film, and music! LISTEN: BuzzSprout | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS | and more!S2, E4 NOTES: Walter Olkewicz (1948-2021, Jacques Renault)Jerry Stahl (episode writer)Permanent Midnight (1998, film, directed by David Veloz)Todd Holland (episode director)Chris Mulkey (Hank Jennings)PalmPilot (1997, early PDA (personal digital assistant))Emery Battis (1915-2011, American actor known for his Shakespeare roles)Gothic fiction (literary genre)Absurdism (philosophical perspective)A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757, treatise on aesthetics by Irish philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke)The Castle of Otranto (1757, novel, by Horace Walpole)Dracula (1897, novel, by Bram Stoker) Waiting for Godot (1953, play, by Samuel Beckett)Bela Lugosi is Dead (1979, seminal post-punk single by UK band Bauhaus)Coen Brothers (b. 1954, filmmaking twins) Todd Haynes (b. 1961, director)Julianne Moore (b. 1960, actor) Atom Egoyan (b. 1960, director) David Byrne (b. 1952, musician)Cut-Up Technique (literary technique)Jonathan Demme (1944-2017, director)Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (b. 1952, actor)

Join us as we take a trip back to September 1998 and discuss four offbeat indie comedies released that month with Slums of Beverly Hills, Permanent Midnight, Pecker, and Clay Pigeons. 00:01:40 - Slums of Beverly Hills 00:13:59​ - Permanent Midnight 00:29:13​ - Pecker 00:44:53​ - Clay Pigeons Find Saved by the '90s on: Twitter: http://twitter.com/90spod Facebook: http://facebook.com/90spod Web: http://90spodcast.com E-mail: 90s@filmpulse.net

This week, good people, we talk ABOVE THE RIM and PERMANENT MIDNIGHT. Sarah calls herself out for own her comments on racism during our DJANGO UNCHAINED discussion (episode 6) and Ricky continues to holler about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. They also sing A LOT in this episode...  Here are some other dope ass movies, books and people we mention in this episode: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD WHITE FRAGILITY by ROBIN DiANGELO WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP THE WOLF OF WALL STREET THE LAST DANCE PHIL JACKSON DENNIS RODMAN LA BAMBA PUNCH DRUNK LOVE BOOMERANG METRO NEW JACK CITY BOOTY CALL ANY GIVEN SUNDAY CJ SULLIVAN SPACE JAM MEAN GIRLS

Episode 31. Our guests this week are Jerry Stahl and Zoe Hansen. Jerry is a novelist and screenwriter known for his 1995 memoir Permanent Midnight. And Zoe is an ASMRtist and author who contributed to the 2013 collection The Heroin Chronicles, edited by Jerry. Together they've got decades of bad behavior under their belt. Everything from shooting dope and running brothels in NYC to shooting speedballs and pitching scripts to studio execs in LA. Plus, we talk prison slang and politics, furries vs plushies, ghosts and paranoia, and the intersection of life and movies. Thanks for listening.

Hello and welcome to this weeks episode. Topics include: Alf (well more about the creator of Alf and the movie (Permanent Midnight) based on his heroin habit), the history of Genny Cream Ale (and all cream ales, which "spoiler alert" don’t contain any fucking cream) and we try to educate Joe on Japanese (pretty sure it’s pronounced Yapanese) culture (because he is visiting there in a few weeks to dominate them, not unlike Godzilla, and become the fucking icon that he was always destined to become). Also, the fucking computer stops at least 3 fucking times during the recording, so Curtis feels the need to reprimand Marty and Joe (even though they have nothing to do with it, and we have a fucking backup... WE HAVE A BACKUP!!!). Plus Curtis leaves in some of the "behind the scenes" shit (including a conversation about hosting dues... thrilling), just for the fuck of it. All that and so much more on this weeks episode 14, of season 6, of theDAMNcast!

Charlie Jane Anders’ The City in the Middle of the Night (Tor Books, 2019) is a coming of age story about Sophie, a young woman trying to forge her identity on a planet of rigid social classes, harsh climate and frightening aliens. Feeling hopelessly out of place, Sophie ventures where no human has gone before: into the half of the planet that's shrouded in perpetual night. There she befriends the native inhabitants, the Gelet; they’re fearsome tentacled creatures whom humans fear and hunt but who turn out to be sensitive, sentient, and able to communicate with Sophie through touch. Ultimately, Sophie comes to recognize that the Gelet “belong on this planet … in a way that humans don't,” Anders says. Anders, whose previous work has earned Hugo, Nebula, William H. Crawford, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus and Lambda Literary awards, is an advocate for the power of science fiction to help humans prepare for the future. “You can explore a lot of scenarios in science fiction that help people develop flexibility and hope and resilience and an awareness of the value of cooperation,” Anders says. Anders wrote The City in the Middle of the Night the old-fashioned way: in journals longhand. “I find it freeing in some ways because you can't go back and edit as much, and you just have to get stuff down. When you type it all up, that's the time when you start thinking about changing it, moving stuff around.” Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. Follow him on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Casting Director, Richard has worked on Ken Loach's Bread and Roses, Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration and A Mighty Wind, Gravity, Zero Dark Thirty, On The Road, Hell or High Water, Reed Morano's Meadowland, and an upcoming live action version of Lady and the Tramp.  He was an Emmy winner for HBO's Game Change as well as a three-time Emmy nominee for Recount, Temple Grandin and the series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Other work for television includes Married, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, and Scream Queens. Richard has worked on a variety of independent projects over the years like Permanent Midnight, Charlie Bartlett, Citizen Gangster, Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Weightless, Alex Strangelove, O.G., and The Mustang.

We discuss not watching basketball any more vs watching more basketball, and why. PLUS are we chumps? What is this product and what is its energy strategy?

(or: “So, in summation: who cares?”)

Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When he's not swindling lonely widows, he tries to turn nickels into dimes at the poker table. One snowy night, he crosses paths with a sweet-talking hooker who's tired of the streets, and sparks fly. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and the hooker head south, and straight into trouble. A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head. Praise for Richard Lange "Lange writes of the disaffections and bewilderments of ordinary lives with as keen an anger and searing lyricism as anybody out there today. He is Raymond Carver reborn in a hard cityscape. Read him and be amazed." -- T.C. Boyle, author of The Harder They Come "When you find yourself rooting for the killer in a grisly crime novel, you know you're in the hands of a real writer. Every character feels like flesh and bone."-- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "Lange is incapable of creating a character that isn't memorable. Even the most minor are indelibly sketched.... The zone where literary fiction meets genre fiction is a crowded borderland these days. Lange proves himself comfortable on both sides of the line."-- Antoine Wilson, Los Angeles Times "Richard Lange is a natural-born storyteller."-- Ron Rash, author of Above the Waterfall "Make all the comparisons you like-Cormac McCarthy, Dennis Lehane, Martin Scorsese-but Richard Lange is a force of his own, the high standard for crime fiction." -- Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon, The Wilding, andRefresh, Refresh "Lange stands out as the greatest young crime writer of his generation, precisely because he doesn't write crime - he writes literature." -- Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight and Bad Sex on Speed "The Smack just might be Mr. Lange's best yet, and that's saying something. His Los Angeles tableau of concrete and graffiti and neon is as sharp as razor wire. The characters are authentic down to the bone, the dialogue pitch-perfect believable, the desperation palpable, the situation urgent, the story riveting. Simply put, The Smack wallops you upside the head with its bad-ass-ness."-- Tom Cooper, author of The Marauders "If Elmore Leonard and Dennis Cooper collaborated on a novel, they might produce something as exciting, harrowing and emotionally powerful as The Smack. Call it a literary thriller or call it thrilling literature--Richard Lange is emerging as the master of a new kind of novel: One that delivers breathless, gripping action while anchored in the authentic troubles of the real world. The Smack arrives like a genuine miracle--that rare thriller that will jack your pulse even as it breaks your heart."-- Adam Sternbergh, author of Shovel Ready "The Smack is much more than a crime novel. It is a novel about life itself. The secret to great writing isn't just to observe. It's to create a world that readers understand at least as well as they do their own. Richard Lange has accomplished this, and more. His sensitivity and pacing are reminiscent of Raymond Carver, Charles Willeford, and Jim Thompson." -- Gerald Petievich, author of To Live and Die in L.A. and The Sentinel "It's hard to imagine Richard Lange wasn't, in some previous life, a hustler from Reno with a girlfriend named Tinafey he met on a professional date who goes to LA to steal a fortune from a one-legged soldier home from Afghanistan and a host of other terrifying individuals. The characters are real and satisfying, the relationships will warm your heart and break it at the same time. The Smack is convincing, hectic and terrific fun."-- Joe Ide, author of IQ Event date:  Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 7:30pm

This week Kyle, Matthew and Producer Natalie sit down with writer/director Terry Miles (from the TANIS and Black Tapes podcasts) to talk about his love of science fiction. Terry talks about getting introduced to the genre through Dune, and from there the gang is off to the races, sharing their favorite sci-fi properties across books, movies and TV. Other topics include whether any of them will ever finish Gravity's Rainbow, a rousing chat about The Planet of the Apes (the movie franchise, not the planet) and Burnside's defense of Bubble Boy. Weekly Rads: Burnside finally saw Radiohead!, Bad Santa 2 trailer, Rocksmith Raddendums: Dune, The Characters on Netflix, Battlestar Galactica, Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Moorcock, Neil Stephenson & Snowcrash, Ready Player One, Isaac Asimov, Cormac McCarthy, Our Lady Peace, Kurt Vonnegut & Slaughterhouse, Thomas Pynchon & Slow Learner & Gravity's Rainbow, Alien & Aliens, Spaceballs, Terminator, Soylent Green, Children of Men, Planet of the Apes, Black Hole, Black Science, Tarkovsky & Solaris, Ex Machina, The Coma by Alex Garland, James Cameron & The Abyss, Event Horizon, The Thing, It's Alive, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Alf, Permanent Midnight, Minority Report, Every Frame a Painting web series, Under the Skin, "When Life Was Good," Grant Morrison & Doom Patrol, Bioshock, No Man's Sky, Westworld, Jurassic Park, Gattaca, The Island, Moon, Code 46, A Boy and His Dog, Death Comes to Frogtown, 12 Monkeys or La Jetée, Donnie Darko, Bubble Boy

In an effort to make cosmic sense of the #1 movie* of all time, the Doctors plunge into a black hole only to find:  JJ Abrams, Alias, Lost, Lawrence Kasdan, Mission Impossible III, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Star Trek (franchise/reboot), Super 8, Steven Spielberg, Cloverfield, Matt Reeves, Tom Hanks, Daisy Ridley, Mark Hamill, John Boyega, The Jeffersons, A New Hope, Alien, Sigourney Weaver, Ghostbusters (2016), Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, Oscar Isaac, Ex Machina, Inside Llewyn Davis, X-Men: Apocalypse, Gwendoline Christie, Game of Thrones,  Neil deGrassi Tyson, Downton Abbey, Andy Serkis, Adam Driver, Dracula, Domhnall Gleesan,  Gattaca, Andrew Niccol, Truman Show, Girls, This is Where I Leave You, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, While We Were Young, Ben Stiller, Noah Baumbach, Permanent Midnight, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Brooklyn, Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch, Patrick Bristow, Seinfeld, Showgirls, Robocop, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Last Man Standing, The Middle, Max Von Sydow, Peter Cushing, Greg Grunberg, Super 8, Laverne & Shirley, Penny Marshall, Gary Marshall, Albert Brooks, Lost in America, Hector Elizondo, Carrie Fisher, Winona Ryder, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Hustler, Color of Money, Paul Newman, Mark Hamill, Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Black, JT Walsh, THX 1138, the Wilhelm Scream, The Coen Brothers, Hail, Caesar!, Scarlet Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, David Krumholtz, Tilda Swinton, Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Dolph Lungren, Francis McDormand, Fisher Stevens, Clancy Brown, Christopher Lambert, Robert Picardo, Star Trek: Next Generation, Hudsucker Proxy, Raising Arizona, Secret Life of Pets, Batman v. Superman, Avengers: Civil War, Henry Cavlll, Ben Affleck, Chris Nolan, Christian Bale and Facepage. (recorded 12/31/15)   Questions or comments? Contact Adam & Gregor at: show@hollywoodrx.net. Review us on iTunes...Today! *Okay, Okay, Domestic Box Office only... Read more at http://hollywoodrx.libsyn.com/#1ZFDKW2BlBlDQwKz.99

The Pushcart Prize-winning writer (Permanent Midnight, I Fatty) shares about the loss of his father to suicide, his mother's belittling of his manhood, his recovery from heroin addiction and always feeling like an ashamed outsider. This episode is sponsored by www.GoodTherapy.org Follow Jerry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/somejerrystahl

Pushcart Prize-winning author Jerry Stahl is a legend: of comedy, of writing and of sobriety. He’s written many amazing books, most recently “OG Dad” and is perhaps best known for penning “Permanent Midnight” (made into a movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson). Also, he’s a writer for “Maron” on IFC and used to do heroin while writing “Alf” back in the day so dude knows his shit. RiotCast.com

We're discussing Stephen Sayadian's 1989 film, Dr. Caligari. Co-written by Jerry Stahl, the film tells the tale of a patient at an asylum run by the granddaughter of the infamous German doctor.

Koz, Ed and Maria had a spectacular two hours with two of America's most distinctive and successful humor writers: Jerry Stahl, the darkly funny writer of the memoir "Permanent Midnight," about his battle with heroin addiction while writing for TV shows like "ALF," and now the writer of the hilarious essay book "OG Dad" about his misadventures as a dad in his 60s. Dealing with twisted tales from his days of addiction, followed by Koz admitting his own lowest moment with alcohol, plus crazed tales from his career with "CSI" and much more, this is an amazing interview!  Then Fred Wolf "SNL"s head writer through much of the '90s, came to discuss his new movie with David Spade, "Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser." He talked about Chris Farley, Spade, "SNL" and his own incredible life before comedy writing. You wont' want to miss this!!!  

Ep. 1502 Recover, Rewind, Review Clean and Sober In which Jeff, Matt and I discuss the 1988 Michael Keaton rehab/12 Step classic then finish with an extended discussion that covers the 12th Step, the 11th tradition and anonymity in recovery. Referenced: Atuk. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atuk) The screenwriter, Tod Carroll’s unfilmed, and supposedly cursed, script. It’s taken the lives of at least three well-known substance-abusing actors. Jerry Stahl. Writer of both screwball, illegal alien sitcom, Alf (http://youtu.be/Eo5tBDXyQno)and his autobiographical story of his heroin addiction—and Ben Stiller tragicomic vehicle—Permanent Midnight. (http://youtu.be/LF5I7Tcrgq0) All clips from the film Clean and Sober / 1988 / Warner Bros. With the exception of “My name is John…” clip from Dear John (TV) / 1988 / CBS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_John_(U.S._TV_series))

Author of Permanent Midnight, I, Fatty & Happy Mutant Baby Pills Jerry Stahl joins CWMD in what may be the funniest episode to date. Jerry and Matt explore their similar lives of dead dads, being the town outsider and the huge god sized mommy hole in the center of their beings. They also get into writing, bitterness, skin problems and life with stalky ex's See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ham on Rye, Post Office, and The Women (new editions from Ecco)  To celebrate what would have been the 94th birthday of literary legend Charles Bukowski (born August 16, 1920), we're throwing a party featuring Jerry Stahl, Richard Lange, and Dan Fante, reading excerpts of their favorite Bukowski works.  A birthday cake and tasty beverages will also be served, thanks to our sponsor, Ecco, who just published new editions of three of Bukowski's most popular novels. Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.  Jerry Stahl is the author of the narcotic memoir Permanent Midnight and Perv—a Love Story, both Los Angeles Times bestsellers, as well as the acclaimed novels Pain Killers, Plainclothes Naked, and I, Fatty. He has written extensively for film and television. Richard Lange is the author of the story collection Dead Boys, which received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the novels This Wicked World and Angel Baby. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2004 and 2011. He lives in Los Angeles.  Dan Fante is the author of the memoir Fante, the novels 86'd, Chump Change, Mooch, and Spitting Off Tall Buildings, and several books of poetry, short stories, and plays. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

Happy Mutant Baby Pills (Harper Perennial) About Happy Mutant Baby Pills: Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is "to recite and minimize"—sometimes by just saying them really fast and other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The results are ingenious. The methods diabolical. Lloyd has a habit, too. He cops smack during coffee breaks at his new job writing copy for Christian Swingles, an online dating service for the faithful. He finds a precarious balance between hackwork and heroin until he encounters Nora, a mysterious and troubled young woman, a Sylvia Plath with tattoos and implants, who asks for his help. Lloyd falls swiftly in love, but Nora bestows her affections at a cost. Before Lloyd clears his head from the fog of romance, he finds himself complicit in Nora's grand scheme to horrify the world and exact revenge on those who poison the populace in order to sell them the cure. Jerry Stahl is the author of Permanent Midnight; I, Fatty; Perv—a Love Story; and Plainclothes Naked. He has written extensively for film and television, and his work has appeared in Esquire, Details, Playboy, and other publications. He lives in Los Angeles. Richard Lange was born in Oakland, CA and grew up in California's San Joaquin Valley. He's the author of the novels Angel Baby and This Wicked World and the short story collection  Dead Boys. His short stories have appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review and Best American Mystery Stories, and as part of the Atlantic Monthly's Fiction for Kindle series. He received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. 

Steve Cooper talks with writer Jerry Stahl. Jerry is best known for his memoir about addiction Permanent Midnight which a film adaption was made starring Ben Stiller. He has also written seven novels including I, Fatty, Love Without, Perv - A Love Story, Plainclothed Naked and the recently published Happy Mutant Baby Pills. His TV writing credits include ALF, Thirtysomething, Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks and CSI. He has also written the HBO movie Hemingway & Gellhorn and the hit Bad Boys 2. 

Permanent Midnight author Jerry Stahl is, bar none, this generation's king of junkie lit. Dark and hilarious, Permanent Midnight was an insta-classic that was made into a movie with Ben Stiller as the lead and Stahl has followed it with a succession of other nihilistic novels—including his latest, Happy Mutant Baby Pills. He and TheAfterPartyGroup's Anna David have known each other since Stahl blurbed her first book in 2005. Here they discuss heroin, sobriety, swearing, life coaches, meditation, yoga, writing and so much more.

Bad Sex on Speed (Barnacle Book/Rare Bird Books) and The Heroin Chronicles (Akashic Drug Chronicles) Bad Sex On Speed is a savage, careening, hyper-real nightmare of a novel, taking us to the depths of Amphetamine America. Told with no concession to traditional narrative, in the voices of those in the grips and on the fringes, the stories that emerge are at once devastating, hysterical, and--perhaps most terrifying of all--going on all around you, all the time. Stahl digs deep into the psyche of the most demented and dispossessed among us, returning with a vision so unsparing that those not prepared to experience the screaming depths of speed psychosis up close and on the page should back slowly away and return to their lives unscathed. In The Heroin Chronicles, Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch, and others join Stahl in mining the hazards of this deadly narcotic via original short fiction. Jerry Stahl is the author of six books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight, (made into a movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson) and the novels I, Fatty and Pain Killers. Formerly "Culture" columnist for Details, Stahl's fiction and journalism have appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, and the Believer, among other places. He has worked extensively in film and television and, most recently, wrote Hemingway & Gellhorn, starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, for HBO. COPIES OF THE BOOK FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE PURCHASED HERE: http://tinyurl.com/ajbyy8l THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 7, 2013.

Jerry Stahl is today's guest.  He's the author of several books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight, which was adapted into a film starring Ben Stiller.  Other titles include novels like I, Fatty and Pain Killers.  And most recently, he co-authored ... Continue reading → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We finally freed Cory! At least for the first 30 seconds of the show. After that, we talk about mom seduction techniques,  tree pervs and all of the people that apparently have sexual fantasies about us. We also talk about… Stuff You Should Know, another favorite podcast Permanent Midnight, a crazy memoir by Jerry Stahl […]

The black president. Dolphins. Martians. Space. Lobsters. Primate rights. Russians. Snatch. Screech owls. Contact. Conspiracy theories. Tiny raptors. Spacequest. Martian-backed securities. Michael Bay. Permanent Midnight. Snails. Steve...

Attempting to quit heroin by using crack is a messy business. Jerry Stahl's books include “Permanent Midnight” and “Pain Killers”. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jerry Stahl is the writer of Bad Boys 2 and the book Permanent Midnight (adapted into the film starring Ben Stiller). He's written over 10 episodes of CSI, and has also written episodes of Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, ALF, Moonlighting, thirtysomething and You Again? His other novels include Perv-A Love Story, Plainclothes Naked, Love Without and I, Fatty. Stahl was a featured guest at the "Conversations With ..." speaker series, hosted by the Writing Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. An episode in the USC School of Cinematic Arts podcast series.