Talking bout Practice: a podcast

Billy Ray Stupendous & Th Mza

A weekly podcast in which two New Orleanian flâneurs extemporize for one hour on a matter dear to their hearts

  • TbP 22: Get Paid for Being You (f/ Victor Cayro & Sarianna)

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    Our best ?  Prah'ly not.  Our drunkest ?  Mos def.  Sally Jane Black and I sit down w/ two artists of enormous appeal & imagination, Sarianna Senpai and Victor Cayro, to discuss ☀ day jobs ☀ -- i.e., what they do when they're not working.  Th conversation gets derailed early & continuously, as loves to happen when you been drinking out of cups of pure kindness

    •    00:00  "Break Yr Heart" performed by Sarianna
    •    02:52  Intro | first day job 
    •    05:42  Hijacked chemo drugs 
    •    08:42  Disgusting viral vids | what chemo drugs feel like | Gimme confessions
    •    12:42  Dayjob joke | about jokes | FB is my dayjob 
    •    15:21  Deepest darkest confession | spacemen versus aliens  
    •    19:00  Th election | cowboys versus indians | Jason Statham | George Clooney | th exploding car scene | cinema
    •    27:13  Victor's and Sarianna's night jobs | Bittersweet Romance | Sarianna's movie music | Sveener & the Shmiel (David B. Sharp 2009) | The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee 2001) | Tiptoes (Matthew Bright 2003) 
    •    36:49  My landlord listens to this podcast | our day jobs | suicidegirls.com | "person that cares about you" 
    •    43:42  Myspace | My day job was myspace | I used myspace as my Livejournal | shoutout to K. Thor Jensen again 
    •    50:03  Sarianna's day job | transgender controversy
    •    54:42  Untranslatable visual scene | guns | bootstraps
    • 1:00:04  Jane's day job | Top 40 hits assessed by Jane | Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper 1974) review by Jane | low-income housing app | Trump & bootstraps &  foodstamps | Th Rock
    • 1:08:03  Asians | An unknown Asian artist on FB disses Victor | mixed-race peoples | "Fuck them all, it takes a village, break all the hymens" -- Sanders | Victor Cayro suicide hotline | a testament to honesty & practice | "Hit her in the hair" 
    • 1:22:06  David Bowie | cameo by Victor's 14-year-old bride Becca
    • 1:26:02  Seal | about this podcast | special-order t-shirt | Victor's day job(s) | How'd you meet yr girlfriend ?  
    • 1:36:19  I'm not confident at all | booty & groceries | Jane's disavowal | children & germs 
    • 1:40:33  Life cycle of th pinworm | Good night, Sally Jane Black | pinworm strategy 
    • 1:45:27  Dysentery in Peru | Peruvian rotisserie chicken | race & class 
    • 1:56:33  "My Island" performed by Paulette Williams

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    11 March 2016, 10:25 pm
  • TbP 21: Actually ... Love (f/ Joe Stremph)

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    Sally Jane Black and I welcome that hero-legend of Regular Guy Style, Joe Stremph, to th studio to chat for two hours bout th consensus Most Important Topic o.A.T., though since this is 2016, we couldn't resist throwing some Trump in there, too
    •    00:00  "Today I Met the Girl I'm Gonna Marry" performed by Nation of Ulysses
    •    01:47  Hi, Joe Stremph 
    •    04:11  What's the most fucked up thing you've done for love? | th Anime Girl 
    •    19:24  The very first thing I said to my future wife | Jimmy Eat World 
    •    30:47  Aspirational romantic comedies | not an alcoholic | day we first kissed : 10 Feb 1996                 | what Jews are like | bad maps | musicals 
    •    58:00  If love stops existing, do you think there's something that could replace it ?  
    • 1:08:00  Accurate cinema on love | Roseanne | Parenthood 
    • 1:13:55  Tech difficulties | Victor Cayro cameo | adieu Sally | My Stupid Brother (Jesse                   Peretz 2011) 
    • 1:21:55  Han versus Luke | more tech diff | th one-on-one version of you 
    • 1:27:27  Th desire to be understood and to be psychic | "praise in public, critique in private"                     ethic | (off th record discussion) 
    • 1:36:33  Winning & humility | a scenario that contains potential for mutual understanding                       | kneejerk liberals, kneejerk conservatives, Trump, risk, & accountability
    • 1:49:07  Risk & love | Doblering | vulnerability & desire | weaponizing intimacy 
    • 1:55:02  Engagement | more tech diff | devaluation of jokes, devaluation of engagement                           | cool Internet meetings | adult friends | and more tech diff | distance 
    • 2:10:42  "Your Wonderful, Sweet, Sweet Love" performed by Th Supremes

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    17 February 2016, 2:42 am
  • TbP 20: Talking bout Music (f/ Paul G, Lauren M, & Phil B)

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    Thank you for time- and space-travelling back to New Orleans of April 2015 to listen to this podcast live & in person, where Billy Ray Stupendous & I caught up w/ Phil B and Lauren M of el jay fame, & Paul G of two-sport fame (football/trombone), to marvel @ th chart success of Laurie Anderson, th cross-cultural transcendence of Anne Murray, and th unlikely history of Branson, MO

    We tried something new and inserted songs right in th middle of th 'cast -- enjoy, use yr whole heart, control yr gun, spread wings, get loved, be good to yr ears 

    Table of contents:
    • 00:00:00  "Spasticus Autisticus" performed by Ian Dury
    • 00:05:05  Texas, Missouri, & Toronto | favourite Canadian band | bad bands from America | John Tesh
    • 00:13:24  New show format | earliest musical memories
    • 00:22:04   "Fly Robin Fly" performed by Silver Convention
    • 00:25:51  Hairless down there area | when disco was a thing 
    • 00:27:16  What is music, anyhow ? | chopping time up | Time, mortality, & harmony | tribes again
    • 00:31:16  Th insignificance of lyrics | What about hip-hop ? | rapgenius
    • 00:41:07  Scientific fact:  singing along feels good
    • 00:44:00  The Dusty Triangle 
    • 00:45:52  "You're Dead" performed by Norma Tanega
    • 00:48:12  "Walking My Cat Named Dog" | how to discover music | what we know bout Kate Bush
    • 00:55:24   "Running Up That Hill" performed by Kate Bush
    • 01:00:16  MTV | Maxwell | Velvet Underground type of deal | "Why Should I Love U?" | "... all the friends I was girls with ..." | Sandman & The Dreaming
    • 01:07:58  Gloomy Spectrum Disorder, Goonies Spectrum Disorder | baby on th podcast 
    • 01:12:44  Ginger Baker and time   |  "Th sun is God" -- JMW Turner
    • 01:15:42  Censorship for babbies | Nevermind | rock stars who namedrop bands
    • 01:21:24  File-collecting vs social life | Austin Psych Fest
    • 01:26:00  Music is Children's Music | gift from an adult | parental record collections 
    • 01:32:49  Country | Staunton VA | Branson MO | Bald Knobbers
    • 01:39:49  "Old Aunt Dinah" performed by Butter Boy
    • 01:41:11  Metal Machine Music | "O Superman"
    • 01:44:33  Th race card
    • 01:46:33  Culture as takingKurt Cobain's problems | growing up in bumfuck | 120 Minutes
    • 01:52:49  Trombone & American football
    • 01:58:52  Nerds & th experience of music
    • 02:03:07  Why do you think so many people are total assholes ...? | Grouper & Bob Dylan | free Belle & Sebastian image consultation
    • 02:13:55  Hip-hop, St Louis, Ferguson, and involuntary political awareness
    • 02:25:11  Bonus Track: "Ok Denn" performed by Pill
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    25 October 2015, 1:16 am
  • TbP 19: G.O.A.T.

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    This one went off th rails pretty early on w/r/t its intended topic and never got back on, fully.  Billy Ray's original intention, I think, was to set up th parameters of what it means to be th Greatest Of All Time, and den debate various G.O.A.T. candidates over various fields of endeavour.  Instead we ended up talking bout Livejournal again 80% of th time, general Internet ethics (10%), Stevie Wonder (5%), and gay filmmakers (5%).  Idlewild, Ryan Jackson, Abbas Kiarostami, bell hooks, James Booker, Los Bros Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Akira Kurosawa, Sergei Parajanov, Persepolis, and Charlie bit me are namedropped in passing.  We are joined this week by Rena J of el jay fame, who was gracious enough to join us on v. short notice and ended up being our first solo guest in many moons after our other guest passed out drunk

    Listen close for th G.E.O.A.T. (greatest ending of all time)

    Table of contents:
    • 00:00:00  "Sir Duke" performed by Stevie Wonder
    • 00:03:52  Nominal attempt to stick to a topic | blah dee blah dee blahHH | etc etc etc
    • 01:59:38  Bonus Track: a great way to start a mixtape or end a podcast
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    26 March 2015, 3:07 pm
  • TbP 18: Aesthetes

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    Went ahead and annotated this one, since it's a Saturday a.m. & I'm ill & industrious, and idle hands are th devil's playthings.  My initial idea was to encourage discussion bout how beauty can be this world's most powerful idea -- that, Helen aside, human people are launching 1,000 ships every hour on behalf of their versions of beauty -- that, @ core, most fights can be reduced to incompatible visions of what beautiful means and what ugly means.  That discussion never happened in an explicit way here, though it is nestled incognito under th discussion that did happen.  Billy Ray Stupendous & I could not be more pleased w/ th results.  We are joined this week by two luminaries of th el gay planet -- Jinx Malone and Mister Eden -- whose imprints on my own consciousness are deep not due to in-yr-face proselytizing, sensory bombardment, or even daily familiarity -- both remain, to my mind, foreigners who vacation in whatever country mine is -- but rather through th consistent, insistent, sneaky internal logic(s) of their worldviews ⚡⚡⚡⚡

    Table of contents:
    • 00:00:00  "Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme)" composed & conducted by Riz Ortolani
    • 00:02:55  Intro guests | vague outline of topic | Oscar Wilde quote re shooting piano players | personal aesthetics vs branding 
    • 00:10:21  A very horror childhood | "... goofy ... visceral excitement ..." | th devaluation of fandom
    • 00:13:24  False memory | psychosexual childhood | th Hammer Films dynasty 
    • 00:19:00  Obsession | Blue Velvet (David Lynch 1986), dayface, & nightface
    • 00:22:22  The Hidden Observer | neurosis or superpower | th writerly attitude | th universal fascinating inner life
    • 00:27:33  Driven by unseen forces vs conspicuous curation | not-caring vs caring | ⚡millennials⚡, YOLO, FOMO, & Burning Man
    • 00:34:51  Infinite, oceanic, & eternal | virtuous buzzkill | "You should feel the horror" | Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato 1980) | "disgusting hipster irony bullshit" | Inland Empire (Lynch 2006)
    • 00:40:08  Billy's reclusive cinemania | MZA's risk advocacy | Jason X (Jim Isaac 2002) | black audiences | movies as sports
    • 00:44:44  Fulci vs Romero | Burial Ground: the Nights of Terror (Andrea Bianchi 1981) | Blind Dead series | The Exorcist (William Friedkin 1973) vs Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski 1968) 
    • 00:51:24  Cinemaphobias | :poop: | rape | Mike Kitchell shoutout 
    • 00:58:39  Th end of sex & violence | economics of inoffense | Quentin Tarantino | Jackie Brown (Tarantino 1997) | talent in bad films 
    • 01:07:11  Talking bout practice in bad films | Jess Franco & visual passion | th virtue of knowing what you're getting into | unstoppable zoom on bush | Barbed Wire Dolls (Jesús Franco 1975) | God's Gun (Gianfranco Parolini 1975)
    • 01:15:00 Patrick McGoohan | Scanners (David Cronenberg 1981) | Jinx's shrine to the Paddy | "destructive glee" 
    • 01:18:49  Regarding television | Columbo | Peter Falk, Hollywood rebel | Twin Peaks | "exasperated by the episodic nature of TV" | Breaking Bad etc | compactness of cinema vs cultural sprawl | British TV | Lost
    • 01:30:33  Feature-length film's incompatibility w/ th novel | talking bout adaptations | novels vs short stories | writing for no audience | Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer 2009)
    • 01:37:42  Return to Driven by Unseen Forces | anthology of el jay writing | honesty, unself-consciousness, Jess Franco, accidents, & el jay | ello.com | "zone of sincerity" 
    • 01:45:07  On being part of no movement | kommentude & th "accidental discovery of something unplanned" | "the sister I wish I had" | song discussion | farewell adieu
    • 01:51:08  Bonus Track: "Giu' la Testa" composed & conducted by Ennio Morricone

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    7 March 2015, 5:33 pm
  • TbP 17: Serial

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    This is th one you been waiting for.  By "you" I mean "Kathleen O" because she's on this one.  It's bout serial killers.  I play th curious novice; Kathleen & Billy Ray Stupendous play th seasoned veterans showing me th ropes.  Th ropes, th knives, th axes, th guns, th fire, and th bare veiny hands

    Kathleen took copious notes for this one.  Keep an ear out for some of history's most famous -- Jeff Dahmer, Ed Gein, Jack th Ripper, John Wayne Gacy -- as well as lesser-known pop anti-stars.  Billy and I share th same favourite killer, it turns out 👊✊✂💀🍀🔫👻



    Table of contents:
    • 00:00:00  "Red Right Hand" performed by Nick Cave & th Bad Seeds
    • 00:06:06  wah-WAH wah-WAH wah-WAH wah-WAH [adults speaking] 
    • 01:08:24  I enjoy a moment of microsleep mid-podcast and den have to call for an ⚡⚡INTERMISSION⚡⚡
    • 02:04:24  Bonus Track: "Psycho" performed by Jack Kittel

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    6 March 2015, 3:42 pm
  • TbP 16: Livejournals of Future Past

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    Look, you're into Livejournal or you're not, and it's not anyone's job to sell it to you or defend it from its detractors. What Billy Ray Stupendous and I wanted to allow ourselves w/ this episode was a bit of navel-gazing, a bit of choir-preaching, and a bit of self-back-patting, in accordance w/ El Jay's charter as set forth by th one true god Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999. Not sure if that stuff happened. Not sure what's on this podcast. We were joined by last-minute surprise guests Asphalteden, Herrdoktor, Horty_pie, and Koala_infestation. Clocking in @ something like two hours and a quarter, this one's for th frenz & fagues

    Table of contents:
    • 00:00:00  "Th Anthem of Fuck You Crew" performed by David Fox
    • 00:02:24  ??????CONTENT OF SOME SORT
    • 02:04:24  Bonus Track: "Clouds across th Moon" performed by RAH Band

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    28 February 2015, 7:55 pm
  • TbP 15: NOLA: Tourists, Townies, & Transplants

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    It is my fault that our podcast disappeared, and now it is my fault again that it is back, and it is especially my fault that I have little recollection about what is in this episode of the podcast nor enough desire to rediscover what is in it before posting. What is known: Billy Ray Stupendous and I were joined by our roommate and lifelong New Orleans resident Kathleen O and th world-famous-in-New-Orleans DJ Pompeii (to whom you can tune in every Monday from noon to 2:00p Central on WTUL), to discuss the profound differences between being local and being a carpetbagger in America's greatest city

    Table of contents:
    • 00:00:00  "Here Come the Girls" performed by Ernie K Doe
    • 00:02:58  ??????GOD ONLY KNOWS
    • 01:09:58  Bonus Track: America's greatest American
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    23 February 2015, 4:52 pm
  • TbP 14: Canadia (f/ Phil B & Michael Dwilow)

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    There were times  in this podcast when th dead air stretched out before us like a highway cutting through th Canadian wilderness. Billy Ray Stupendous and I were cool w/ it as we emulated th chillness of our esteemed Canadian guests, Toronto's Phil B and Winnipeg's Michael Dwilow, who hold court on th greatness, th bashfulness, th emotional weirdness, and th relative invisibility of th land known to people in my neighbourhood as "Canadia". Listen as Billy and I indulge in a nostalgic callback to our shared coming-of-age to Allan Moyle's Pump Up th Volume (1990). (Yes, Moyle is Canadian.) Learn th fate of th Loyalists from th American Revolution. Slap yr own head in astonishment as one of th world's most beloved superheroes is outed. Picture Chester Brown's m-bation technique. Surrender to th feeling that something's off about a famous person you admire -- that's right, it's because they're from Canadia

    Table of contents:
    • 00:00  "Everybody Knows" performed by Leonard Cohen
    • 05:29  A pair of killer Canadians | What the fuck is going on in Ottawa!? | serious Canadian terrorism
    • 09:24  Upsetting our thesis | size comparison: Toronto vs NOLA | surfing/Slurpee capital of th world
    • 13:06  The feet in Vancouver | Twin Peaks/Canada crossover
    • 16:16  What are the signifiers of Canadian culture? | long stretches of non-civilization | default: hockey
    • 20:58  Michael gets frozen in time | burger culture
    • 24:08  Canadian Thanksgiving vs Canadian Halloween | Canada's Mexico | northern superiority | Canadian jail
    • 29:33  MZA's Canadian gaydar | gun control & diversity | the Memphis of Canada
    • 35:19  Canada's treatment of its aborigines
    • 36:55  How do you feel bout Québécois separatism? | How do you feel bout the Queen of England?
    • 39:55  Th Canadian/American crossover | dual credibility | unassumingness/bashfulness/humility | wet split beaver
    • 43:11  Th Canadian reputation for comedy | shoutout to Crime Wave (John Paizs 1985) | speculations on killer Canadians
    • 46:27  Th Lowest of th Low | Barenaked Ladies
    • 49:01  calibrating yr Canadian gaydar: Jim Jarmusch | Twin Peaks | Canadian selfhood eludes me | Jodie Foster
    • 54:33  Famous Canadian authors
    • 56:19  Rob Ford
    • 57:42  MZA, what is it that you find weird bout Canada? | Coen Bros & Minnesota | th cinematic Canadian spectrum | Guy Maddin
    • 1:04:07  Michael Dwilow's historical theory re Loyalists from th American Revolution migrating to Canada | Phil's Canadian body language | th 'Nuck/flippy crossover
    • 1:06:55  What to do for fun in Winnipeg | invitations to our respective cities
    • 1:08:49  America: guns & diabetes | Phil visits America | Torontonians vs Winnipeggers
    • 1:12:11  Who is yr favourite Canadian ? | David Cronenberg | little Canadian in-jokes | Chester Brown | Cronenberg again
    • 1:21:49  Canadian rebels who have gotten adopted/co-opted by official culture: Leonard Cohen & Louis Riel | how Chester Brown m-bates
    • 1:27:00  List of famous Canadians: hot or not | Superman is half-Canadian (!?) | Clifford Olson | James Randi | Pierre Trudeau | Big Bear | Michael's dad was a fish pathologist
    • 1:38:58  Billy issues an apology
    • 1:39:16  Famous Canadian actors | th shape of Pamela Anderson's pussy
    • 1:41:55  Good-bye to our Canadians | Roger Ebert | Canadian selfhood still eludes me | Rough Trade's "High School Confidential" etc
    • 1:46:39  Bonus Track: male feminist Canadian anthem
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    3 November 2014, 3:02 pm
  • TbP 13: Social (f/ Doc Carnage & Hooper X)

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    Th good news  is that th ASMR-esque aspects of our podcast are undiminished (or augmented, possibly) by crappy audio quality. Th bad news is that it is hard to hear what our guests are saying, @ times. Consider listening on headphones as Billy Ray Stupendous and I bring together two giants of th troll community, Doc Carnage and Hooper X, for an informal (and barely audible, @ times) chat about th evolution of yr favourite addiction: social media. Play that game where you eavesdrop on somebody's call and try to guess what th person on th other end of th line is saying. You'll be rewarded w/ @ least 6 or 7 minutes of penis talk, and th birth of perhaps th strangest presidential ticket in history

    Table of contents:
    • 00:00  "Hangin' on th Telephone" performed by Th Nerves
    • 02:01  Welcome back, Doc | technical difficulties harbinger | godforsaken Shockwave | This podcast is the Cullman Nation of social media
    • 06:28  Portal of Evil forum | Usenet illiteracy
    • 10:00  Penis talk
    • 13:29  I once got beat up for making fun of a guy's metaphorical penis
    • 15:49  People aren't used to being criticized in person | on private thoughts becoming public record | on interpreting personality on th Internet | homeless friend(s) 
    • 19:55  Listen to my typing on th Internet | th rise and fall of ello | th collapse of FB
    • 22:08  Myspace
    • 24:08  Welcome, Hooper X | Time To Cock (TTC): 30 seconds
    • 26:07  Phone phreaking & Captain Crunch
    • 29:07  Taking pictures of Hooper | G+
    • 30:19  Youtube komments: "the DMV of the Internet" | "I tore down and rebuilt my dryer from a Youtube video"
    • 32:42  On running for office w/ a checkered Internet past
    • 35:13  [email protected]
    • 37:07  Have you guys ever met in person ? | I'm really worried about th audio this time | turning th cameras off | Hooper meets Doc, continued | when rock bands reunite
    • 43:42  Age & social media | Hooper met his wife on Friendster
    • 45:57  Zuckerberg's wishes | FB stalking as a traffic driver | th autistic network
    • 47:55  Generational segregation | what old people use Facebook for | Death comes to FB
    • 54:49  Th Livejournal and Hotmail accounts of Gordon Meuse
    • 56:22  The information superhighway | Anna Paquin ? | iPhone vs Batman's utility belt
    • 59:49  Owning vs renting | worst podcast o.a.t. | shoutout to NOLA Hopitoulas
    • 1:03:04  How have social media changed yr life ? | on growing up in the middle of nowhere and the escape from place | Cullman, Alabama
    • 1:08:19  Th disintegration of local selfhood & th rise of all other kinds of selfhood, including th Brony : correlation or causation ? | American punk infrastructure
    • 1:12:02  On how childhood/adolescent experiences shape attitude toward Internet community | how trolls are born
    • 1:15:03  On demonizing various categories & gradations of Other | th diversification of Internet users | Eternal September | a black lesbian trapped in a man's body
    • 1:18:49  You can't out-weird the Internet | Florida hate | crime stats & th eternal drug-addled murder capital of th world | Roe v Wade's theoretical effect on th crime rate
    • 1:25:55  Ken Baumann tweet re "I don't like what that person's doing" vs "That person is trying to destroy me" | the echo chamber and the great Tea Party/Tumblr emotional crossover (fear) | FEMA concentration camps & FEMA guillotines
    • 1:33:00  Mental illness & social media | ridiculous tribalism
    • 1:36:33  Where do we go next ? | geographical segregation based on political/identity-based fragmentation | sexual barter system
    • 1:41:13  Future political candidates' Internet accountability | Doc Carnage + Hooper X: the weirdest presidential ticket o.a.t. | coitus interruptus
    • 1:45:45  Bonus Track: errbody do a Rosie Perez dance 
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    19 October 2014, 8:09 pm
  • TbP 12: Anticulture (f/ Lisa Carver & Mr Musty)

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    This episode of Talking bout Practice is so good I'm probably a genius just for scheduling it. Please join me & Billy Ray "the Bedroom Genius" Stupendous as we execute a flawless takedown of two overrated geniuses, "Rowdy" Mr Musty and Lisa "The Hitman" Carver, in a no-holds-barred cage match ...... nah. Truth is there weren't a whole lot of disagreements in this one, only thoughts presented in a gentle manner by civilized adults. Fans of Mr Musty's Livejournal and Ms Carver's zines and books -- of which th latest is named Money's Nothing -- won't be surprised by their incisive interpretations and their oblique angles on familiar topics, though their shared affection for Kardashians and Furries might catch a few off guard. Th evening's topic? Culture, Counterculture, & Anticulture -- i.e., th Dominant, th Insurgent, & th Invisible. Th Assimilator, th Assimilated, & th Unassimilable. Th Lawful Good, th Chaotic Neutral, & th Ugly. Th Bad Ugly Good, th Ugly Beautiful Baaaad, & th Angelic Demonic Freakin' Week-end. We never did get around to defining our terms

    Table of contents:
    00:00  "In Spite of Ourselves" performed by John Prine & Iris Dement
    03:30  Intro Mr Musty and Lisa Carver | What is a str8wad? | Mr Musty's three agents of culture | counterculture to culture: a process
    08:44  Lisa on being assimilated by culture | two books published in one year
    11:00  Kardashians vs Art Is Life movement
    13:33  Baseline mass-cultural product has gotten really good | Family Ties
    17:06  Agreeing on everything -- what a bummer | information saturation | "I wasn't using my privacy anyway" | seamlessness between culture and counterculture
    19:25  UFO abductees | Anticulture is unassimilable | what UFO-acceptance culture would look like
    23:44  Constituents' paranoid fantasies come true | how to get on a watchlist
    26:30  On th gentleness of abductees, psychics, & witches | late Furry friend | shoutout to AA and Livejournal
    31:07  Non-geographical vs geographical senses of self | tribute to New Orleans | Local conformity was an illusion | one possible advantage of geographical/local identity | can opener story: Culture, Counterculture, or Anticulture? 
    38:33  Message from Culture: Yr Neighbourhood Is Not Who You Are | hashtags and their relationship to #identity #politics | Never go outside | Never go outside w/o yr smartphone | I'm going to keep my flip-phone
    40:35  Young and untraceable | what it would take to get a visit from th FBI | th antiterror comedy | close enough for government work | Are you Saudi Arabian?
    43:19  How to get along w/ Republicans | The fact that Ds and Rs don't talk to each other anymore is totally fucking up the country | hatred, or just wanting to win? | Nobody wins
    50:55  Rs, Ds, symbolic fights, & real fights | things (politics, jobs, numbers) that are and aren't real 
    54:44  Mr Musty and Ms Carver appear to disagree | ethanol story | abstractions tumbling downhill into th real | what businesspeople and politicians are supposed to be doing
    57:58  Lego hypothesis
    59:11  College is ... | "I don't think there should be school anymore" | de facto debtors' prison | Swedes | th grind | fake jobs
    1:04:30  I never went to college | windsurfing Furry dream | Financial obligations multiply | MZA says something racist again
    1:08:33  Resolved: I am going to own 10 of everything | on having 10 friends | 1 computer w/ 10 of everything on it
    1:12:33  Why do you have physical books? | th comix problem | why painting paintings is more lucrative than writing books | Carver is th Klimt of now
    1:14:29  The last, bloody, failed, rear-guard action to hang on to the physical book | those fucking millennials | over-under on th lifespan of books
    1:15:54  Guys who need books to get laid | when girls got into comix | Craig Thompson's Blankets | classy people who make lists of books
    1:19:33  On making a book interactive | on th seclusion of books
    1:21:21  Differences in th new brain | Submitted: technology changes more than th brain does
    1:22:16  Ode to th long form: Livejournal & Grantland as Counterculture | Now we are th slow grandparents | split attentions in th new brain
    1:25:45  "Web sites are tools" vs "Web sites are houses" | remembering facts vs remembering locations of facts | What are street signs ? | wearable tech | drunks in driverless cars | th Apocalypse | th wristwatch, th map, th chicken nugget, & th printing press
    1:32:42  Let's do a Diet show | th game-ification of incentives | You can't lie to yr iWatch | "I permit all"
    1:36:55  Good-bye, Lisa & Mr Musty | good-bye, listeners
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    11 October 2014, 1:06 am
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