Interviews & Reviews

X-R-A-Y Specs: THE PLUMBER (1979)

March 22, 2024

I don’t think Max’s colonization of the bathroom is an accident. It’s a place where we feel vulnerable, and many times we attach a lock to the door to prevent others from walking in unannounced.

Transmissions: Wake Island

March 20, 2024

What are your plans for the future? Death.

OUT FROM UNDER THE BRIDGE: ON DAVE FITZGERALD by K Hank Jost

March 12, 2024

To refer back to Jeanette’s advice again for a second, it’s not just that no one will care if you don’t do it. In a lot of cases, it’s that no one will even know if you don’t do it. For me, ‘doing the thing’ has changed my life.

Transmissions: The Book Chemist

March 8, 2024

What I never do is read a book with the specific intent to review it (e.g., because I think it will be popular on the channel). It would take all the fun out of reading!

POSSESSION IN THE GAME: An Interview with Thomas Kendall

March 6, 2024

There is this un-healable division between the physical and the mental within capitalist ‘culture.’ I do feel that we are losing the world and that begins with an alienation from the body.

X-R-A-Y SPECS: A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers (1980)

February 23, 2024

The idea of chasing people into submission, trying to tame them as they run for their lives. Both the futility and cruelty of it.

TRANSMISSIONS: Not Worth Living

February 9, 2024

RG: What do you dislike about podcasts? IR: Hosts.

HERO WORSHIP LEADS TO CULTS: An Interview with Brad Neely

January 26, 2024

I wanted to highlight how that’s an impossible fantasy in biographies of someone in the past. That said, I wanted to be silly with the title.

X-R-A-Y SPECS: Toys (1992)

January 19, 2024

In fact, my experience watching Popeye is what this film most reminded me of: the feeling of alarm, then dismay, and then the slow death of acceptance.

LENGTH OR GIRTH OR BOTH: An Interview with Gwen E. Kirby

January 12, 2024

As for the demon novel, yes, I am dancing with that devil, so we’ll see what happens. But I hope to write short stories for as long as I’m writing.