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<span style="font-size: 33pt; font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Went ahead</b></span> 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, <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Helen</span> 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 <i>beautiful</i> means and what <i>ugly</i> means. That discussion never happened in an explicit way here, though it is nestled incognito under th discussion that did happen. <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Billy Ray Stupendous</b></span> & I could not be more pleased w/ th results. We are joined this week by two luminaries of th <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>el gay</b></span></a> planet -- <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Jinx Malone</b></span> and <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Mister Eden</b></span> -- 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 <i>vacation</i> in whatever country mine is -- but rather through th consistent, insistent, sneaky internal logic(s) of their worldviews ⚡⚡⚡⚡ <br />
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<li>00:00:00 "<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme)</b></span>" composed & conducted by <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Riz Ortolani</b></span></li>
<li>00:02:55 Intro guests | vague outline of topic | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Oscar Wilde</span> quote re shooting piano players | personal aesthetics vs branding </li>
<li>00:10:21 A very horror childhood | "... goofy ... visceral excitement ..." | th devaluation of fandom</li>
<li>00:13:24 False memory | psychosexual childhood | th <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Hammer Films</b></span> dynasty </li>
<li>00:19:00 Obsession | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Blue Velvet</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>David Lynch</b></span> 1986), dayface, & nightface</li>
<li>00:22:22 The Hidden Observer | neurosis or superpower | th writerly attitude | th universal fascinating inner life</li>
<li>00:27:33 Driven by unseen forces vs conspicuous curation | not-caring vs caring | ⚡millennials⚡, YOLO, FOMO, & <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Burning Man</b></span> </li>
<li>00:34:51 Infinite, oceanic, & eternal | virtuous buzzkill | "You <i>should</i> feel the horror" | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Cannibal Holocaust</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Ruggero Deodato</b></span> 1980) | "disgusting hipster irony bullshit" | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Inland Empire</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Lynch</b></span> 2006)</li>
<li>00:40:08 Billy's reclusive cinemania | MZA's risk advocacy | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Jason X</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Jim Isaac</b></span> 2002) | black audiences | movies as sports</li>
<li>00:44:44 <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Fulci</b></span> vs <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Romero</b></span> | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Burial Ground: the Nights of Terror</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Andrea Bianchi</b></span> 1981) | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Blind Dead</i> series</b></span> | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>The Exorcist</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>William Friedkin</b></span> 1973) vs <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Rosemary's Baby</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Roman Polanski</b></span> 1968) </li>
<li>00:51:24 Cinemaphobias | :poop: | rape | <a href="https://murdermystery.livejournal.com/465783.html">Mike Kitchell</a> shoutout </li>
<li>00:58:39 Th end of sex & violence | economics of inoffense | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Quentin Tarantino</b></span> | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Jackie Brown</i></b></span> (Tarantino 1997) | talent in bad films </li>
<li>01:07:11 Talking bout practice in bad films | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Jess Franco</b></span> & visual passion | th virtue of knowing what you're getting into | unstoppable zoom on bush | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Barbed Wire Dolls</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Jesús Franco</b></span> 1975) | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>God's Gun</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Gianfranco Parolini</b></span> 1975)</li>
<li>01:15:00 <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Patrick McGoohan</b></span> | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Scanners</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>David Cronenberg</b></span> 1981) | Jinx's shrine to the Paddy | "destructive glee" </li>
<li>01:18:49 Regarding television | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Columbo</i></b></span> | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Peter Falk</b></span>, Hollywood rebel | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Twin Peaks</i></b></span> | "exasperated by the episodic nature of TV" | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Breaking Bad</i></b></span> etc | compactness of cinema vs cultural sprawl | British TV | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Lost</i></b></span> </li>
<li>01:30:33 Feature-length film's incompatibility w/ th novel | talking bout adaptations | novels vs short stories | writing for no audience | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b><i>Zombieland</i></b></span> (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Ruben Fleischer</b></span> 2009) </li>
<li>01:37:42 Return to <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Driven by Unseen Forces</span> | anthology of <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>el jay</b></span> writing | honesty, unself-consciousness, Jess Franco, accidents, & el jay | <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>ello.com</b></span> | "zone of sincerity" </li>
<li>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 </li>
<li>01:51:08 <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Bonus Track:</b></span> "<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Giu' la Testa</b></span>" composed & conducted by <span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><b>Ennio Morricone</b></span> </li>
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