The Wonder Of It All
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The Wonder Of It All
The Wonder Of It All is a podcast about film hosted by Sean McTiernan.
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#23 - Navigation: Imprisonment
“But it must not be forgotten that ‘politics’ has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of the military model...
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#30 - The Truth Is Out There
I talk about Twin Peaks and tv recaps. Yes, even here you aren't safe from Twin Peaks.
#29 - Better Living Through Condiments
How making your own condiments can make you incrementally better at cooking in general with no lesson that can be applied to life in general.
#28 - Explaining Paragraph Breaks To A Handgun
I examine Ian Bogost's Atlantic article Video Games Are Better Without Stories and ask the all-important question: whose mans is this?
#27 - The Interior Crocodile Alligator School Of Experience
(AKA Interior Crocodile Alligator:The Cultural Rot Of Mystery Science Theater)
#26 - If I Am Not Tongue But Ears
I talk about Accidental Death Of An Anarchist and Death By Hanging and, in the process, harp on about the prison of language once again.
#24 - Heroes
I'm joined by Brandon Soderberg to discuss his article Heroes in depth. It's a good idea to read the article before listening to this episode http://w...
#23 - You Can Never Know You're Dead
Relying on trees to accept that the axe handle is one of their own
#22 - Dick Gibson And Bowling Alone
I talk about Stanley Elkin's novel The Dick Gibson Show before giving out about young people until my voice starts to give way.
#20 - Citizen Shane/Anytown USA
I talk about two documentaries that roughly revolve around elections.
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #31 - Dracula: Pages From A Virgin’s Diary
With the Great @hipped
"The talkie, with the Depression, cast the world back into the blind hole. Each new film reproduces the effect of Hallelu...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #30 - Messiah Of Evil
With the great Brandon Soderberg (https://twitter.com/notrivia)
“There is no life on the earth without the dead in the earth.”— Veljko...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #29 - Angst
with the great @funkyassdg
It can’t hurt you, so what are you getting excited about? You’re a skeleton; nothing hurts a skeleton. —Jako...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #28 - White Of The Eye
"The crookedness of the Darkness was lack of perception, namely the illusion that there is no one above him." - Gnostic Scriptures, The Paraphrase of...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #27 - Anguish
"You realize that to experience the projected figures on the movie theater screen as life-size involves the reduction of your own body to the size of a...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #26 - Pulse
"If, for the first machine age, the preferred metaphor for the house was industrial, a “machine for living in”, the second machine age would perhaps p...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #25 - #Horror
"To represent is already a murder." —Georges Bataille, 1952
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #24 - Possibly In Michigan
with the great Mairead (@20000TinyJars)
"Puppets, mannequins, waxworks, automatons, dolls, painted scenery, plaster casts, dummies, sec...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #23 - Body Snatchers
With the great Neil Bahadur http://nbahadur.tumblr.com/
"The humility of his pain made me feel ashamed. In order to leave him without...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #22 - Paperhouse
"Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. Both enhance and protect life, yet both can stifle, lay waste, spread out...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #21 - They Have Changed Their Face
"There had been blood. Money and blood. All shoptalk, all expertise had a quality of battle about it, of exultation in the escape from danger. Somethi...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #20 - Ginger Snaps
"... consider how the female body is made to materialize monstrous qualities by systems of power claiming knowledge of its corporeal signs, how these...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #19 - No Telling
"Pain seems to play a part in the process, and the way in which we gain new knowledge of our organs during painful illnesses is perhaps a model of the...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #18 - Sleepwalker
"...the menace is more stimulating when you're not confronting it up close" - Kathe Kollwitz
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #17 - One For The Road
"But seriousness commands us to recognize that it’s the multitude of laws that is responsible for this multitude of crimes."
- Marquis de Sade
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #16 - The Shout
"Waving his arms about, slowly. The music’s getting hotter. He stares out over his arm, half in the dark, he looks, his look is, incredibly intense. T...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #15 - The Stone Tape
"Empty hills, no one in sight,
only the sound of someone talking..."
- Burton Watson, 1971
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #14 - The Appointment
"You know, to a certain extent I think the formula “the end justifies the means” is valid in music". —D. D. Shostakovich (1968)
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #13 - The Other Side of the Underneath
"More than ever, some sort of new arrangement seems in order, some dramatic and unknown arrangement – anything to find release from this heartbreaking...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #12 - A Page of Madness
"It is the custom for the barber to shave the deceased, to powder him, whiten his face and rouge his cheeks and lips, and dress him in a frock coat wi...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #11 - The Mafu Cage
"Sadism, hostility an essential element in love. Therefore it’s important that love be a transaction of hostilities." _ Susan Sontag, Journals.
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #10 - You Are Not I
"I have reached the end of his dreary and repugnant tale of a sense interned in an alien carcass and lumpen by the malignant spirit of the moral major...
Hundreds of Dead Bodies #9 - Unedited Footage of a Bear
"...'Therefore,' he reasoned with himself, 'it is love coming to claim me: I have been so long without love, hated at home, living in terror of my chi...
Hundreds of Dead Bodies #8 - Tesis
"This guy's really my favourite kind of victim. Buried in his books, weighed down by cds and videocassettes. It's vile. Loves all the sick writers, ac...
Hundreds of Dead Bodies #7 - Cold Light Of Day
“Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been...
Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #6 - Rampage
There are very definite aspects to our culture pattern which give psychopaths encouragement. In America we put great value on the acquisition of mater...