Ep 4: Six Intros, No Show
NB: In this poetry-light episode, I keep trying to get things moving and end up with a series of non sequiturs. Let’s start the fucking show!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– I was a jerk in college
– Mispronunciation is a sign of intelligence (except with names, in which case it’s just a sign of laziness; sorry again)
– “Reticent” is not a chic way to say “hesitant”
– Growing up on Disney movies
– The real reason Grimms’ Fairy Tales isn’t suitable for children
– What ASMR and Louis Malle movies have in common
– “ASMR Chess”: weirdly soothing, and also kind of educational
– A bad definition of pornography
– Lars Von Trier’s movie Antichrist
– Aristotle’s three categories of human activity
– Is porn too useful to be art?
– The five wits (The one I couldn’t think of is estimation)
– Mark Strand’s smile
– Surrealists vs. fantasists
– Dreams and laughter, according to Freud
– The existence of podcasting is proof of widespread human misery
– Terror vs. horror
– The Queen’s Gambit is actually Warrior
– Knockouts vs. submissions
– Sisyphus vs. Oedipus
– A subject on which The Simpsons and Maurice Blanchot can agree
– Marcus Aurelius and the privilege of not having to blind yourself because you’ve killed your dad and married your mom
– Bill Coyle’s poem “Kolmârden Zoo”
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
