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Stavvy's World
Dan Licata and Joe Pera

Stavvy's World

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2023 101:44


Dan Licata and Joe Pera join the pod to discuss their hometown of Buffalo, whether Guy Code or Jackass had a more adverse effect on a generation of young men, take a deep dive on Zeroville starring James Franco, and much more. Dan, Joe and Stav help callers including a guy who sold his uncle's beloved rare comic book after promising not to, and a guy who made his coworker cry after saying a joke with "Polack" in it.Subscribe at patreon.com/stavvysworld for exclusive, Patreon-only episodes.

Messed Up At Midnight
James Franco Gives James Franco a Shoutout - Zeroville, Messed Up at Midnight

Messed Up At Midnight

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 93:07


Have you ever thought to yourself, “I wish there was a movie that did nothing but stroke it's own ego”. If the answer is “What? No” Then boy do I have a movie for you. Join the boys as they delve into another passion project everyone forgot.

Quicksie Podcasts
VA-33 // Showtime

Quicksie Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2021 1:48


Opening in theaters today is “The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard”.   Also opening today is “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway”.   The latest Blu-rays and DVD's include “City of Lies”, “Assault on VA-33”, “Zeroville”, “Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirate's Cove”, “Macgyver: Season 4”, and “Fuller House: The 5th and Final Season”. Make it a good weekend!  

Netflix vs Cinema
102. The Expanse Season 1; Saint Frances; Zeroville

Netflix vs Cinema

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2021 50:28


Sharon catches up with one of those 'Everyone talks about but no one's seen' shows in the Expanse, Tosin sees Women's issues shown on screen in a way that he's not experienced often in Saint Frances, And Shaun realises that James Franco is someone he might like to have a drink with due to Zeroville. In our also ran section, Shaun discusses Antebellum (and Tosin talks about how he can't bring himself to watch it) Creation Stories Gattaca Is Netflix killing cinemas? Each week we weigh up what we've seen in cinemas with what we've watched online at home and figure out which provided the best time. At least, we did before COVID jumped in and declared Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney + and friends the winner. Listen and subscribe on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/netflix-vs-cinema/id1448277363 Listen and subscribe on Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9waW5lY2FzdC5jb20vZmVlZC9uZXRmbGl4dnNjaW5lbWE Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6beXVeSImcgHLsPB22BgE3?si=wdoNI6E0SNqNfoqg4qnw4Q Support Netflix vs Cinema by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/netflixvscinema Find out more at http://netflixvscinema.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Bewegtbildbanausen
Episode 64 - Freaky Dreiday

Bewegtbildbanausen

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 258:26


Rigatoni al Forno, Marcello Mastroianni, Amaretto, Eros Ramazotti, Raffaello, Francesco Totti, Grazie, Arrivederci! Und unseren Quoten-Italiener Alessandro von Cinema Volante haben wir auch noch zu uns eingeladen!

The Monday Movie Show
Monday movie show (18/11/2020)

The Monday Movie Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2020 99:16


on the show we have reviews of a Christmas gift from bob, Zeroville, Tremors Shriker Island, Train to Busan presents peninsula, skyfire, the craft legacy, spongbob Spnge on the run, his house and Jingle Jangle

Decorating Pages
Tracy Dishman - Production Designer -“Black Bear”, “Inherit the Viper”, “Music”

Decorating Pages

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 86:25


On this episode I speak with Production Designer / Set Decorator Tracy DIshman. I met Tracy on the NBC show Animal Practice, and unfortunately haven't been able to work with her again. Tracy is able to balance a career Production Designing independent films and still Set Decorating inbetween. Her recent credits include the Sundance film “Black Bear”, “Inherit the Viper”, James Franco's “Zeroville” and the upcoming “Music” directed by Sia. We chat about budgeting the design of a project, salaries of Set Decorators, independent film making and more.

Decorating Pages
Tracy Dishman - Would a Teamster do it?

Decorating Pages

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 86:25


On this episode I speak with Production Designer / Set Decorator Tracy DIshman. I met Tracy on the NBC show Animal Practice, and unfortunately haven't been able to work with her again. Tracy is able to balance a career Production Designing independent films and still Set Decorating inbetween. Her recent credits include the Sundance film “Black Bear”, “Inherit the Viper”, James Franco’s “Zeroville” and the upcoming “Music” directed by Sia. We chat about budgeting the design of a project, salaries of Set Decorators, independent film making and more.

Decorating Pages
Tracy Dishman - Would a Teamster do it? - “Black Bear”, “Inherit the Viper”, “Music”

Decorating Pages

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 86:25


On this episode I speak with Production Designer / Set Decorator Tracy DIshman. I met Tracy on the NBC show Animal Practice, and unfortunately haven't been able to work with her again. Tracy is able to balance a career Production Designing independent films and still Set Decorating inbetween. Her recent credits include the Sundance film “Black Bear”, “Inherit the Viper”, James Franco’s “Zeroville” and the upcoming “Music” directed by Sia. We chat about budgeting the design of a project, salaries of Set Decorators, independent film making and more.

Sales vs. Marketing
Kevin Makely, Actor & Producer | Producing a Netflix Top 3 Nationwide Blockbuster | SSP Interview

Sales vs. Marketing

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2020 55:03


Kevin is an actor and producer, known for Badland (2019), Zeroville (2019) and Big Legend (2018). Recent original motion pictures which did not receive a long enough brick & mortar release are finding massive new audiences. Such is the case with Kevin’s indie Western, Badland, in which he produced and stars alongside Mira Sorvino, Bruce Dern, Wes Studi, Trace Adkins, James Russo, Tony Todd and more. Hitting Netflix two Fridays ago, the Papa Octopus Prods. presentation started out at #3 on Netflix's movie chart and #7 overall amongst Netflix's massive library of offerings appealing to their 167 million subscribers. This astounding massive audience with exceptional word-of-mouth has given new synergy to the labor of love project Kevin Makely developed, fueled and actualized.

Binge Media
BingeCast: BombShell, LetterKenny, Servant, Zeroville, and more

Binge Media

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2020 163:33


Falvey and Law catch up over a dozen movies, plenty of TV, voicemails, games, and Globes talk. Sounder wars are back and the VurpFart is now a thing. Deal with it. CLICK ABOVE TO LISTEN NOW!Subscribe to Binge Cast on iTunes

Mayfair Theatre
240: Wait! What Are We Talking About?

Mayfair Theatre

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2019 31:46


This week, Eric and Josh chat about: a false Josh Groban appearance, The Polar Express, people critiquing movies they haven't seen, Scosese's comic book dismissal, Ebert's video games hatred, Transformers, Superman Lives, alternate casting universes, The Last Jedi love, Frankenstein pinball, and more! Plus they mention a whole bunch of movies screening from Friday October 11th - Thursday October 18th: Lucky Day, Britt-Marie Was Here, Buddy, Mister America, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Zeroville, The Room, Black Christmas, The Curse Of Buckout Road, and the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!

The Daily Zeitgeist
WAGyu Beef, Laws = LOLs 10.10.19

The Daily Zeitgeist

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2019 78:37


In episode 492, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Private Parts Unknown co-host Sofiya Alexandra to discuss activists helming ICE agents quit and find new jobs, the existential threat we are currently in with the Trump impeachment inquiry, income inequality being at record levels, some footy drama, more Menghazi allegations against Matt Lauer and James Franco, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Activists Entice ICE Agents to Quit by Finding Them New Jobs 2. White House says it will not cooperate with House impeachment inquiry; Democrats subpoena State Dept. official 3. America’s greedy and unpatriotic millionaires and billionaires 4. Extreme poverty in America: read the UN special monitor's report 5. Historical Highest Marginal Income Tax Rates 6. Coleen Rooney accuses Rebekah Vardy of leaking stories to Sun 7. Ronan Farrow Book Alleges Matt Lauer Raped NBC News Colleague 8. 2 Women Say James Franco’s Acting School Sexually Exploited Them 9. Zero stars: is James Franco's starry Zeroville the worst film of 2019? 10. WATCH: Skatt Bros ~ Walk The Night 1979 Disco Purrfection Version Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Groucho
SSIFF 67 | Patria, Zeroville, Das Vorspiel (e diversi fili rossi)

Groucho

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2019 10:47


Rita - inviata al San Sebastiàn Film Festival - ci regala altre pillole di critica militante.Dove per militante si intende chi lotta per rimanere sveglio in sala, riuscendo così a commentare la qualità delle pellicole e non la comodità delle poltrone.Si parla in questa puntata di fili rossi - quei fili rossi che attraversano ogni festival -, di serie TV, di brave attrici e dei passi falsi di James Franco.

Groucho
SSIFF 67 | Patria, Zeroville, Das Vorspiel (e diversi fili rossi)

Groucho

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2019 10:47


Rita - inviata al San Sebastiàn Film Festival - ci regala altre pillole di critica militante.Dove per militante si intende chi lotta per rimanere sveglio in sala, riuscendo così a commentare la qualità delle pellicole e non la comodità delle poltrone.Si parla in questa puntata di fili rossi - quei fili rossi che attraversano ogni festival -, di serie TV, di brave attrici e dei passi falsi di James Franco.

FEIOS, PORCOS E MAUS
#1 Especial San Sebastian

FEIOS, PORCOS E MAUS

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2019 50:36


Nesta primera edição Fernando Vasquez e Jorge Pereira falam sobre alguns dos filmes mais badalados do Festival de San Sebastian 2019, incluindo:"Patrick" de Gonçalo Waddington (Portugal)"La Trinchera Infinita" de Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga (Espanha)"Zeroville" de James Franco (EUA)"Pacificado" de Paxton Winters (Brasil)"La Vérité" de Hirokazu Koreeda (França)e as recomendações:"La Hija de un Ladrón" de Belén Funes (Espanha)"Il Pleuvait des Oiseaux" de Louise Archambault (Canada)"Monos" de Alejandro Landes (colombia)"Le Milieu de L´Horizon" de Delphine Lehericey (Suíça)"Sorry We Missed You" de Ken Loach (Reino Unido)"Laudromat" de Steven Soderbergh (EUA)"First Love" de Takashi Miike (Japão)

Filmikägu Uncut
Filmikägu Uncut 2019-09-27

Filmikägu Uncut

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2019


FK122❗️ Külas on “vanamehed” Mikk Mägi ja Oskar Lehemaa, sest "Vanamehe Multikas” on lõpuks kinos. ▶️Uudisterubriigi täidavad telemaailma ihaldatuimad auhinnad Emmy'd. ▶️Uusi filme peaks jaguma igale maitsele. “Lammas Shaun. Film. Farmigeddon” (Shaun the Sheep) , “Informaator”, “Kellel poleks saladusi?” (Can You Keep a Secret?) , “Zeroville”, “Britt-Marie oli siin”, “Mary needus” ja “Draakoni pitseri saladus”.

Fresh Tomatoes: The Movie Podcast
Minisode: Rollercoaster of Emotions, Going up and Down

Fresh Tomatoes: The Movie Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2019 15:01


This week, Chad and Simone cover their feelings on Little Women, Dolemite is my Name, and Zeroville. Simone discusses the mixed-bag of feelings which is Aladdin (2019) and Chad talks about Annabelle Comes Home (2019), a film both members of the Dynamic Duo have been exited for for months! Footnotes: Little Women Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kUTUCg6_R0 Dolemite is my Name Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws1YIKsuTjQ Zeroville Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fw72WrOrlA Aladdin Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcMtWwiyzpU Annabelle Comes Home Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxm7cTpBAs

Thenutgallery.com Movie Review Podcast

Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Movie Releases: It Chapter 2, Zeroville, The Fanatic, The Goldfinch, Running with the Devil, Rambo Last Blood, Downton Abbey, Abominable, Judy, 21 Bridges. DVD and Bluray Releases: MIB International, Booksmart, Aladdin, John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum, Armstrong, Dark Phoenix, Wild Rose, Yesterday, Childsplay, Shaft, A Score to Settle. Video Game Releases: Catherine Fully Body, Warsaw, River City Girls, Creature in the Well, NBA 2K20, PES 2020, Gears of War 5, Greedfall, Borderlands 3, Daemon X Machina, NASCAR Heat 4, NHL 20, AI The Somnium Files, The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening, Contra Rogue Corps, The Surge 2, Code Vein, Dragon Quest XI S, Fifa 20. Movie Classic: Young Frakenstein. What have we been up to lately.

Thenutgallery.com Movie Review Podcast

Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Movie Releases: It Chapter 2, Zeroville, The Fanatic, The Goldfinch, Running with the Devil, Rambo Last Blood, Downton Abbey, Abominable, Judy, 21 Bridges. DVD and Bluray Releases: MIB International, Booksmart, Aladdin, John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum, Armstrong, Dark Phoenix, Wild Rose, Yesterday, Childsplay, Shaft, A Score to Settle. Video Game Releases: Catherine Fully Body, Warsaw, River City Girls, Creature in the Well, NBA 2K20, PES 2020, Gears of War 5, Greedfall, Borderlands 3, Daemon X Machina, NASCAR Heat 4, NHL 20, AI The Somnium Files, The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening, Contra Rogue Corps, The Surge 2, Code Vein, Dragon Quest XI S, Fifa 20. Movie Classic: Young Frakenstein. What have we been up to lately.

The Saturn Studs Podcast
Saturn Studs Podcast | Episode 172 | Playing with the boys

The Saturn Studs Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2019 96:27


Episode 172There are a bunch of trailers this week on trae watch as Kurt and Peter battle illness to bring you your Saturn Studs. Jake the healthy member of the trio is bullish on Eddie murphy's newe picture dolomite and down on a bunch of romcoms. The trio is intrigued by Zeroville and wonder if it'll fair better at the box office than it's Hollywood twin. Gaming news covers a bunch of pokemon news as well as improvements to the Epic game store. This week on the show our boys expand on Peter's review of The boys and come in with so divided opinions.Visit Saturnstuds.com for links to all of your Saturn Studs side projects,social media, and more. Join the Saturn Studs discord server at https://discord.gg/kgdnhJd. Follow @StudsSaturn on twitter or visit facebook.com/saturnstuds to stay up to date on the latest news episode releases and the quote of the week from each show. 

The Movie guy
Zeroville movie trailer analysis

The Movie guy

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2019 3:29


Please listen to my latest audio podcast movie trailer analysis for the film Zeroville. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nigel-foote/message

Book Spider
S1 Ep13: On Steve Erickson's Zeroville

Book Spider

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2019 69:48


In this episode, Hans, Chris, and I discuss the fantastic Zeroville. This novel follows autistic protagonist Vikar as he becomes a film editor in 70s-era Hollywood. It's hilarious, moving, and tragic.

Following Films Podcast
DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON Interview w/ Bruce Thierry Cheung

Following Films Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2019 22:00


Fathers in a small California desert town abandon their children one by one leaving behind a wake of anger and crime as their sons and daughters come of age. Today's guest on the show is Bruce Thierry Cheung, a cinematographer, writer, and director known for Zeroville and This Close. I had Bruce on the show to talk about his latest film DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON. This episode is sponsored by Reklist. To help support the show sign up for free movie and show recommendations at reklist.com/followingfilms.

The Jimmy Star Show w/Ron Russell
Diva Jackie Dupree/ Thomas Ian Nicholas

The Jimmy Star Show w/Ron Russell

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2018 110:33


NYC Superstar Drag Queen Jackie Dupree and Actor, Producer, Director, Writer Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie Series, Stealing Sinatra, Rookie Of The Year, Zeroville, Living Among Us)join us on this episode of The Jimmy Star Show with Ron Russell broadcast live from the W4CY studios on Wednesday January 24th, 2017.

The Jimmy Star Show With Ron Russell
Diva Jackie Dupree/ Thomas Ian Nicholas

The Jimmy Star Show With Ron Russell

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2018 110:32


NYC Superstar Drag Queen Jackie Dupree and Actor, Producer, Director, Writer Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie Series, Stealing Sinatra, Rookie Of The Year, Zeroville, Living Among Us)join us on this episode of The Jimmy Star Show with Ron Russell broadcast live from the W4CY studios on Wednesday January 24th, 2017. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-jimmy-star-show-with-ron-russell9600/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
Steve Erickson Saw Trumpism Coming

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2017 31:09


American Weimar, novelist Steve Erickson’s 1995 essay on threats to American democracy, has always been among Alec Baldwin’s favorite pieces of writing.  But last year, when all of the chickens Erickson identified came home to roost, it became clear that the piece, and its author, deserved even closer study.  Erickson warned, “Democracy cannot long navigate a sea of national rage. Untempered by rationale and open-mindedness, fury eventually consumes democracy rather than nourishes it.”  Today, Americans look back on the 90s as a relatively happy time, but Erickson saw our increasing polarization and our unwillingness to make tough policy choices, and he saw where those failures could lead.  Erickson’s updated observations are just as fascinating, and troubling, as the original essay.  His latest novel, Shadowbahn, riffs on the same American themes.  In funny and moving prose, it captures a fractured people, unable to overcome our troubled past but stubbornly holding out for redemption... as one reviewer put it, “a country with hellhounds on its trail but better angels just over the horizon.”     Steve Erickson is a lot of novelists’ favorite novelist.  Pynchon says he has a “rare and luminous gift;” Rick Moody says he’s in a league with Pynchon.  Murakami’s a fan.  David Foster Wallace (in a presumably rare lapse into cliché) deemed Erickson “the cream of the crop.” Erickson’s own novels employ a wild range of genres and narrative devices -- from the Hollywood farce Zeroville, currently being turned into a movie featuring Will Farrell, to the meditative Shadowbahn, a family roadtrip through alternate American histories, featuring Elvis’s stillborn twin brother.  Erickson’s exuberant mashups feel natural and even spontaneous, but he is also a professor of Creative Writing, so in his other life he has the near-impossible task of teasing out and precisely naming the building blocks of great fiction.  And he has to decide which books best model each one for his students. During Alec Baldwin’s conversation with Erickson on the latest episode of Here’s the Thing, he asked Erickson for the reading list he provides to his Creative Writing students at UC Riverside, matched to which writing-tool each one can help budding novelists master.  Below (in the order in which it came), is that list.                Unreliable Narrative:  Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëMixed Textual Media:  Cane by Jean ToomerThe Interior Vision:  To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfStructure: Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Light in August by William FaulknerVoice Driving the Narrative:  Tropic of Cancer by Henry MillerLandscape as Character:  The Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesSocial Commentary Posing as Genre:  The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (crime) & Ubik by Philip K Dick (science fiction)Integrity of Worldview Posing as Anarchy:  V. by Thomas PynchonFiction of Ideas:  Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, & The Names by Don DeLillo  

Tuck In, We're Rolling: Queer Hollyood Stories
EPISODE 9: FUCK JAMES FRANCO, WITH LOVE, FROM ZEROVILLE

Tuck In, We're Rolling: Queer Hollyood Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2017 53:19


Episode 9 of the new podcast "Tuck In, We're Rolling: Queer Hollywood Stories", with special guest Nessa Billock, in which we discuss James Franco's folly in trying to tackle the movie adaptation of "Zeroville". James Franco, please sponsor this podcast.

The Avid Reader Show
1Q1A Steve Erickson Shadowbahn

The Avid Reader Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2017 1:16


Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Steve Erickson author of Shadowbahn, just published last week by Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin. Steve is the author of ten novels, including (some of my favorites) Days Between Stations, Tours of the Black Clock, Arc d’X, Amnesiascope and Zeroville. He’s written for everyone---Esquire, Rolling Stone, Salon, NYT Magazine. He’s received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and a grant from the NEA. I used to think that Steve’s books dealt with an alternative universe that somehow ran parallel to my own waking day-to-day reality. Given the recent troubles, I now feel that Steve’s new novel presents a more logical version of reality than the one I currently find myself in. I find it more likely that the twin towers reappear in the South Dakota badlands along with Elvis’ stillborn brother than I do that Steve Bannon is our new Cromwell and Sean Spicer spins the world weekly news, and the (Betsy Devoss) Tupperware queen is distributing the royal jelly of our educational resources to our youngsters. Nonetheless it is true. The novel begins with the towers reappearing 20 years after their felling and in the upper floors (the 93rd to be exact) Jesse Presley finds himself alive, a life that had previously gone unrealized. He doesn’t quite live up to certain standards however and due to that in part, the music we should have grown up on is not what it should be. Not often that you read a book that references: The Dead, The Doors, Hendrix, The Flatlanders, The Velvet Underground, Missy Elliot, The White Stripes, Aretha and Fredi Washington, to name (really!!) but a few. To steal Steve’s (and Ralph Ellison’s) epigraph we can either live with music or die with noise and I sure as hell would rather spend my last years with a soundtrack. Shadowbahn posits one of a myriad of futures, a future in which a divided America lives out a timescape in which the names Kennedy, Lennon and Presley carry different connotations and the most amazing thing about the book as I alluded to earlier, is that you feel you can hitch the caboose of the novel to another car that is the train that plummets down the track of this new and really really scary America.

The Avid Reader Show
Steve Ericsson Shadowbahn

The Avid Reader Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2017 43:34


Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Steve Erickson author of Shadowbahn, just published last week by Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin. Steve is the author of ten novels, including (some of my favorites) Days Between Stations, Tours of the Black Clock, Arc d’X, Amnesiascope and Zeroville. He’s written for everyone---Esquire, Rolling Stone, Salon, NYT Magazine. He’s received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and a grant from the NEA. I used to think that Steve’s books dealt with an alternative universe that somehow ran parallel to my own waking day-to-day reality. Given the recent troubles, I now feel that Steve’s new novel presents a more logical version of reality than the one I currently find myself in. I find it more likely that the twin towers reappear in the South Dakota badlands along with Elvis’ stillborn brother than I do that Steve Bannon is our new Cromwell and Sean Spicer spins the world weekly news, and the (Betsy Devoss) Tupperware queen is distributing the royal jelly of our educational resources to our youngsters. Nonetheless it is true. The novel begins with the towers reappearing 20 years after their felling and in the upper floors (the 93rd to be exact) Jesse Presley finds himself alive, a life that had previously gone unrealized. He doesn’t quite live up to certain standards however and due to that in part, the music we should have grown up on is not what it should be. Not often that you read a book that references: The Dead, The Doors, Hendrix, The Flatlanders, The Velvet Underground, Missy Elliot, The White Stripes, Aretha and Fredi Washington, to name (really!!) but a few. To steal Steve’s (and Ralph Ellison’s) epigraph we can either live with music or die with noise and I sure as hell would rather spend my last years with a soundtrack. Shadowbahn posits one of a myriad of futures, a future in which a divided America lives out a timescape in which the names Kennedy, Lennon and Presley carry different connotations and the most amazing thing about the book as I alluded to earlier, is that you feel you can hitch the caboose of the novel to another car that is the train that plummets down the track of this new and really really scary America.

Skylight Books Author Reading Series

Yes Is the Answer: And Other Prog Rock Tales (Barnacle Books/Rare Bird Books) Progressive rock is maligned and misunderstood. Critics hate it, hipsters scoff at it. Yes Is The Answer is a pointed rebuke to the prog-haters, the first literary anthology devoted to the sub genre. Featuring acclaimed novelists, Rick Moody, Wesley Stace, Seth Greenland, Charles Bock, and Joe Meno, as well as musicians Matthew Sweet, Nathan Larson, and Peter Case, Yes Is The Answer is the first book that dares to thoughtfully reclaim prog-rock as a subject worthy of serious consideration. So take a Topographic Journey into a 21st Century Schizoid land of Prog-Lit! Marc Weingarten is the author of The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight and Station to Station. He is producer of the 2011 documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, as well as television's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. He lives in Malibu, CA. Tyson Cornell is the founder of Rare Bird Lit, a Los Angeles and New York-based literary PR and marketing company specializing in book promotion for authors, publishers, and organizations in North America and Europe. He lives with his wife and two children in downtown Los Angeles. Joining the editors of Yes is the Answer in lively discussion will be the following contributors:  John Albert cofounded the semilegendary cross-dressing band Christian Death and also enjoyed a stint as the drummer in Bad Religion. He lives in Los Angeles and has contributed to LA Weekly, Hustler, and BlackBook, among others. He won the Best of the West Journalism Best Sports Writing Award in 2000, for the LA Weekly article from which his first book, Wrecking Crew, derived. Margaret Wappler has written for LA Weekly, Rolling Stone and The Believer. She loves ginger tea, F. Scott Fitzgerald and the judicious use of the drum solo. Matthew Specktor is the author of That Summertime Sound and The Sting, his writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine,Salon, and Open City, and is forthcoming in Tin House, The Believer, and The Paris Review. He is presently collaborating with James Franco on a film adaptation of Steve Erickson's novel Zeroville. A MacDowell Colony fellow and a founding editor of theLos Angeles Review of Books, he lives in Los Angeles. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 13, 2013. COPIES OF THE BOOK FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE PURCHASED HERE:  http://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9780985490201

Skylight Books Author Reading Series

These Dreams of You (Europa Editions) We're thrilled to present Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville and editor of the literary journal Black Clock, who will read and sign his new novel These Dreams of You. "In its gorgeous, vivid prose and its acutely sensitive soul, These Dreams of You shows us just what a novel can still do in our own crazy times." --Boston Globe "Erickson's seemingly fractured novel turns out to be something else -- the novel as fractal, a series of endless, astounding tessellations." --The New York Times Book Review "Over his entire career Erickson has challenged readers with a fiercely intelligent and surprisingly sensual brand of American surrealism." --The Washington Post Steve Erickson is the author of eight previous novels, including Zeroville, which was named one of the best novels of the year by Newsweek, the Washington Post Book World, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and noted as one of five favorite novels in a winter 2008 National Book Critics Circle poll. He also has written two books about American politics and popular culture, Leap Year and American Nomad.  Erickson has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Bookforum, Frieze, Conjunctions, Salon, the L.A. Weekly, the New York Times Magazine and other publications and journals, and his work has been widely anthologized. Currently he is the film critic for the Los Angeles Magazine and the editor of the literary journal Black Clock, which is published by the California Institute of the Arts where he teaches in the MFA Writing Program. Erickson has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts grant and a fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 2010 he was been nominated for a National Magazine Award for criticism and received one of seven awards in literature given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS February 22, 2012.

Bookworm
Steve Erickson: Zeroville

Bookworm

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2007 29:30


Steve Erickson's breakthrough novel Zeroville is about the The Movies — not the movie business, not the wheels and deals— but The Movies themselves.