Fri, 25 March 2022
I've got a new show with Alex Degen! It's basically Calling All Units with another, funnier guy there who knows more. It's about everything! It's just 45 minutes! We've got jokes! |
Thu, 5 April 2018
“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 as a fundamental means of preventing civil disorder.” - Michel Foucault Sponsor: subnormality.ca |
Mon, 5 June 2017
The Wonder Of It All continues to stagger along but I've got a more regular, more focused podcast you might be interested in. |
Tue, 23 May 2017
I talk about Twin Peaks and tv recaps. Yes, even here you aren't safe from Twin Peaks. |
Mon, 1 May 2017
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. |
Tue, 25 April 2017
I examine Ian Bogost's Atlantic article Video Games Are Better Without Stories and ask the all-important question: whose mans is this? |
Sat, 8 April 2017
(AKA Interior Crocodile Alligator:The Cultural Rot Of Mystery Science Theater) |
Tue, 14 February 2017
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. |
Wed, 8 February 2017
I talk about the Resident Evil movies for 45 minutes. Sorry. |
Sat, 21 January 2017
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://www.citypaper.com/news/features/bcpnews-heroes-20170103-htmlstory.html |
Wed, 7 December 2016
Relying on trees to accept that the axe handle is one of their own |
Tue, 29 November 2016
I talk about Stanley Elkin's novel The Dick Gibson Show before giving out about young people until my voice starts to give way. |
Tue, 15 November 2016
I talk about 1973 film Executive Action. |
Tue, 8 November 2016
I talk about two documentaries that roughly revolve around elections. |
Mon, 31 October 2016
With the Great @hipped "The talkie, with the Depression, cast the world back into the blind hole. Each new film reproduces the effect of Hallelujah, threatens us with depression, with panic and can at best show us nothing more than those who escape from it, the last to have reached climax just before the deluge. The talkie dumped us back into the most sinister part of the Judeo-Christian con-game. It is the end of a fraternity." - Jean-Jacques Abrahams, Fuck The Talkies |
Sun, 30 October 2016
With the great Brandon Soderberg (https://twitter.com/notrivia) |
Sat, 29 October 2016
with the great @funkyassdg |
Fri, 28 October 2016
"The crookedness of the Darkness was lack of perception, namely the illusion that there is no one above him." - Gnostic Scriptures, The Paraphrase of Shem |
Thu, 27 October 2016
"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 doll, while with television, conversely, you must mentally blow yourself up to the size of a giant to account for the minuscule scale of the figures on the small screen" - Mike Kelley |
Wed, 26 October 2016
"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 privilege the medical: the house as at once prosthesis and prophylactic. In the Corbusian ‘home of man’ technology took the form of more or less benign ‘object-types’ and perfectly controlled environments… The line between nature and machine, between organic and inorganic, seemed crystal clear… Now, the boundaries between organic and inorganic, blurred by cybernetic and bio-technologies, seem less sharp; the body, itself invaded and reshaped by technology, invades and permeates the space outside, even as this space takes on dimensions that themselves confuse the inner and the outer…" - Anthony Vidler |
Tue, 25 October 2016
"To represent is already a murder." —Georges Bataille, 1952 |
Mon, 24 October 2016
with the great Mairead (@20000TinyJars) |
Sun, 23 October 2016
With the great Neil Bahadur http://nbahadur.tumblr.com/ |
Sat, 22 October 2016
"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 of all control. Both may be used to guard intimacy or to invade it, to nurture or to consume it." - Sissella Bok, 1982 |
Fri, 21 October 2016
"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. Something was always at stake, every moment you lived. No one could ever really afford to tell the truth. Even after hours, when the store was closed. But sometimes the truth was so good you couldn’t keep it to yourself" - Stanely Elkin, A Bad Man |
Thu, 20 October 2016
"... consider how the female body is made to materialize monstrous qualities by systems of power claiming knowledge of its corporeal signs, how these monstrous qualities are marked as secrets, and how these monstrous secrets become a commodity to be dispensed within these same systems of power. " - Sarah Allison Miller, Medieval Monstrosity and The Female |
Wed, 19 October 2016
"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 way by which in general we arrive at the idea of our own body" - Freud, The Ego And The Id |
Tue, 18 October 2016
"...the menace is more stimulating when you're not confronting it up close" - Kathe Kollwitz |
Mon, 17 October 2016
"But seriousness commands us to recognize that it’s the multitude of laws that is responsible for this multitude of crimes." |
Sun, 16 October 2016
"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. The fire comes back faint, then stronger. He seems to be wavering on the spot, half hunched-up, his arms close in to his chest. It’s like he’s doing some strange dance but he can’t quite balance" - Fionna Banner, The Nam |
Sat, 15 October 2016
"Empty hills, no one in sight, |
Fri, 14 October 2016
"You know, to a certain extent I think the formula “the end justifies the means” is valid in music". —D. D. Shostakovich (1968) |
Thu, 13 October 2016
"More than ever, some sort of new arrangement seems in order, some dramatic and unknown arrangement – anything to find release from this heartbreaking sadness I suffer every minute of the day (and night), this killing sadness that feels as if it will never leave me no matter where I go or what I do or whom I may ever know" - Thomas Ligotti |
Wed, 12 October 2016
"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 with patent leather shoes and black trousers, as if going to a ball, may God forbid—this shall not happen to Makso." —Testament of Hatji Makso Despic, drawn up in Sarajevo, 29 March 1921 |
Tue, 11 October 2016
"Sadism, hostility an essential element in love. Therefore it’s important that love be a transaction of hostilities." _ Susan Sontag, Journals. |
Mon, 10 October 2016
"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 majority |
Sun, 9 October 2016
"...'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 children’s lives: it is pure, tender, normal love.' |
Sat, 8 October 2016
"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, accursed artists, degenerate whores. Likes his decadence arranged in alphabetical order. A good spectator, in good health. Knows how to apprecaite the genius of others, from afar, you know. And of course with moderation. Sleeps well, conscience always clear. What we did at his place was a moral duty. " - Virginie Despentes, Baise-Moi |
Fri, 7 October 2016
“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 wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.” |
Fri, 7 October 2016
There are very definite aspects to our culture pattern which give psychopaths encouragement. In America we put great value on the acquisition of material gain, prestige, power, personal ascendance, and the competitive massing of goods. —William Krasner, The Psychopath in Our Society, Neurotica II, 1948 Thursday |
Wed, 5 October 2016
"As if there were a control
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Tue, 4 October 2016
"[She bites God in the wrist. An immense spurt of blood lacerates the stag, and through the biggest flash ofl ightning the Priest can be seen, making the sign oft he cross. When the lights go on again, all the characters are dead, and their corpses lie all over the ground...]" Antonin Artaud |
Mon, 3 October 2016
"But is not every square inch of our cities the scene of a crime? Every passer-by a culprit?" - Walter Benjamin |
Sun, 2 October 2016
"To know our enemies' minds, we rip their hearts" - Shakespeare, King Lear |
Sat, 1 October 2016
"The relation between God and human beings is often mediated by the sign of the weapon" - Elaine Scarry |
Fri, 9 September 2016
Solo episode where I talk about the unexplored potential of big data and rap music, prompted by reading an article about some Bob Dylan text analysis bullshit. |
Sun, 4 September 2016
I'm joined by Mairead (@20000tinyjars) to talk about vending machines, youtube vlogs about vending machines, videos of people beating other people up and how youtube can work with the individual experience. |
Fri, 26 August 2016
I talk to Baltimore City Paper Deputy Editor Brandon Soderberg about the logistics, organization and consideration it has taken to cover the last few years of rallies and protest in Baltimore focused on endemic widescale police brutality |
Fri, 19 August 2016
I talk to comedian Gemma Flynn about what being a comedian is like post podcast boom and how to find an audience eager to laugh about, not at, rap music. |
Thu, 11 August 2016
I talk to comics critic Joe McCulloch for an hour about Jason Shiga's excellent comic Demon. |
Thu, 4 August 2016
I speak to Frank Lantz about what people expect from VR, No Man's Sky and games in general. Frank is Director of the New York University Game Center and co-founder of Area/Code who created games like Drop7 and Parking Wars. |
Thu, 28 July 2016
I talk to Chris Spann about what losing weight and having weight to lose can do to your mind and how he navigated it. |
Thu, 21 July 2016
Comics scholar and Garth Ennis expert Kelly Kanayama of podcast Fonfliff joins Sean to talk about Ireland's longest running magazine and one of Ireland's best-loved comics creators.
https://twitter.com/KellyKanayama |
Sat, 16 July 2016
I use Dennis Cooper's blog crisis to hyper-ventilate about the constant, tragic data loss that goes on every day. |
Thu, 7 July 2016
Lisa and I talk about the mechanics of a couple of british crime procedurals. |
Wed, 29 June 2016
I review mmo snake and hubris. |
Tue, 21 June 2016
A solo episode where I talk to you about TLC reality shows. |
Sat, 19 March 2016
Solo episode where I talk through my thoughts on the one perfect shot account/approach, how I react to it and a couple of the most popular established kinds of film fandom.
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Mon, 14 December 2015
A conversation with composer Joseph Ohegyi (@nogangcolors) about Rick Alverson's recent movies Entertainment and The Comedy. |
Thu, 12 November 2015
A solo podcast where I review an entire series of splatterpunk paperback thrillers. |
Thu, 5 November 2015
Journalist Brandon Soderberg and I use Ti West's Sacrement to talk about horror, being in a room, internet documentaries and a lot more. |
Tue, 3 November 2015
I talk to writer and cultural critic Claire Lobenfeld about horror's ending problem, punchline endings in horror and what Gregg Araki can do to a young mind. |
Mon, 2 November 2015
I talk to journalist Jason Walsh about The Thing and what he'd like horror to be. |
Thu, 29 October 2015
Built Dublin's Lisa Cassidy and I use Bernard Rose's Candyman to a different perspective on horror before discussing the role architecture plays in the film. |
Thu, 29 October 2015
Let's get started. |
Sun, 27 January 2013
Bringing their review of comics in 2012 to a close, Sean and Brandon give a full episode over to discussing their mutual favourite book of the year. Josh Simmons' Furry Trap is less a collection of horror comics than a man howling in the wilderness and in this episode we attempt to even just scratch the surface of all the elements that make it incredible. Warning: this episode necessarily contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence and every slur you can think of. |
Fri, 11 January 2013
In part three of there End of Year bloodletting Sean and Brandon examine the explosion of “genrified” art comics. What does “genre” mean? Why is trying to be smart the least smart thing you can do? How many awkward things can Sean say about the Punisher’s visit to Ierland? And how is Johnny Ryan’s splatter punk battle-manga tribute Prison Pit similar to Samuel Beckett? |
Mon, 31 December 2012
In this episode Sean and Brandon discuss the comics from 2012 that took what could typically found in underground comics and did something interesting with them. We look at what Micheal Deforge’s Lose #4, how he’s changing the anthology pattern and everything else he’s doing in some depth. We talk about the seering honestly of Sad Sex by Heather Benjamin that takes a beloved underground comix trope, sad sex, to a completely brutal, original and peerless place. We look at a bunch of comics taking the well-trodden teenage/early-20s loser stories to strange new places. And to finish we talk about Derf’s My Friend Dahmer, a level-headed, painfully honest account of what Dahmer’s pre-infamy teenage years were like from someone who was actually there. |