WYRD_SIGNAL

WYRD_SIGNAL

Podcast encountering the spectres of the 20th century via cult film, fringe literature, strange sounds and haunted landscapes.

  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    Palestine, the media and the manufacture of consent
    In the first of what we're intending to be a series of conversations around the theme, Lucy joins Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) to discuss the onging events taking place in Gaza and the Western media's role in facilitating Israel's onging war on the Palestinian people. WYRD_SIGNAL is still on hiatus but we've opted to use this channel while we figure out our long term plans with this project.
    14 November 2023, 6:24 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    episode: 041_INTERVIEW_SERIES [010] Don Webb
    In the latest in our ongoing interview series, Sean talks with horror writer and literal ex-High Priest of Set Don Webb about weird America, the Left Hand Path, and eyebrows.
    29 August 2023, 2:43 pm
  • 1 hour 55 minutes
    [UNLOCKED] episode - 038_THE_MOTHMAN_PROPHECIES - Pellington (2002)
    Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman!
    28 June 2023, 12:58 pm
  • 1 hour 42 minutes
    [UNLOCKED] episode - 035_WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Schoenbrun (2021)
    Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair
    28 June 2023, 12:56 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    episode: 040_INTERVIEW_SERIES [009] M_John_Harrison
    Sean is joined by none other than M. John Harrison to discuss science fiction and the limits of genre, failures of personal identity, landscape weirdness, and an untranslatable word in Portuguese. Author photograph by Hugo Glendinning (cropped and grayscaled by Lucy to fit design conventions)
    28 June 2023, 12:43 pm
  • 2 hours 11 minutes
    episode: 039_MUSIC_OF_FUCKED_AMERICA - Various Artists (1981-1994)
    Lucy and Sean take a detour from their focus on film to explore what "fucked America vibes" mean to them in musical terms through an intensely personal road trip across the post-punk/prog rock/groove metal and 90s alt. landscape
    25 April 2023, 3:34 pm
  • 15 minutes 8 seconds
    [PREVIEW] episode - 038_THE_MOTHMAN_PROPHECIES - Pellington (2002)
    Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman! Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the full two hour episode at patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod
    1 April 2023, 2:36 pm
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    episode: 037_INTERVIEW_SERIES [008] Lee_Edelman
    Sean is joined by the legendary Lee Edelman to discuss the history and (no) future of queer theory, with a brief bypass through Coronation Street
    18 March 2023, 7:27 pm
  • 2 hours 32 minutes
    episode - 036_INVASION_OF_THE_BODYSNATCHERS - Kaufman (1978)
    Lucy and Sean go down the rabbit hole of American Paranoia, talking conspiracy cinema of the 1970s, therapy cults, the post-60s malaise, the deep state and the confusing unreality of the American Century in Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
    1 March 2023, 12:00 pm
  • 5 minutes 24 seconds
    [PREVIEW] episode - 035_WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Schoenbrun (2021)
    In our first Patreon exclusive episode of WYRD_SIGNAL, Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair Access to Patreon-exclusive episodes is $2 a month over at https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod star of the film in focus: We're All Going to the World's Fair (Schoenbrun, 2021). In it we discuss our responses to the film, go into some deep background lore around the production and explore the themes of
    13 February 2023, 3:31 pm
  • 2 hours 43 minutes
    episode - 034_The Last Broadcast - Avalos + Weiler (1998) / Dashcam - Savage (2021)
    Lucy and Sean kick off "Fucked Americana Season" with a double bill exploring postmodernism, mediated reality and the horrors of the early and extremely contemporary internet with The Last Broadcast and Dashcam
    7 February 2023, 12:23 pm
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