maaaaaaat FRESTA! of Getting Lit is here to indulge in a bit of essential chilling about reverse favorite Jerzy Skolimowski (artist) and three of his films, Moonlighting (1982), Essential Killing (2010), and EO (2022). wow!
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aka Brady "2many" Sorbets (for his daily calorie expenditure)
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Jake Hanrahan is a British journalist and documentary filmmaker from the East Midlands. He reports on conflict, crime and politics. His work generally focuses on irregular warfare, organised crime and counter culture. Today he's joining me on the 8pl8s podcast :)
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TIMESTAMPS (FOR THE ULTRA-BUSY):
0:00 -- Scam texts / Iran Blues
3:41 -- Creative loss Thru Scrolling
8:52 -- Byron Von's Looking Awry / Being despised
11:32 -- In the Face of Evil
16:41 -- AWAY DAYS (2025)
22:38 -- The Aesthetics of Suffering
25:26 -- Sick of Auteurs (Gaspar Noé)
26:24 -- Clash of Minds (Debating Vincent Gallo)
28:08 -- Jake Hanrahan's awful Letterboxd
31:45 -- Japan Travel / Early Life Dreams
36:40 -- Jake's Turkish Imprisonment
37:47 -- Free Tanner Masseth
39:14 -- Cats & Dogs (love 'em)
52:07 -- Beauty / Honesty / Freedom
56:44 -- American Honey (2016)
57:19 -- VINCENT GALLENAISSANCE
58:26 -- Knowing when to shut it
59:38 -- Jake Hanrahan on Red Scare
59:47 -- I love Dasha Nekrasova and I want to cast her in my films
1:01:29 -- Darius Csiky's TS-CAM (202X)
1:02:30 -- Confidence in your work
1:02:58 -- Lowres Wunderbread Jay Karales' Mass State Lottery (2025) & Future projects
1:05:05 -- Jonny Pickup is the dream collaborator
1:12:41 -- The Essential Struggle / Pitfalls of Wealth
#jakehanrahan #awaydays #conflictjournalism #popularfront #filmpodcast #8pl8s
This awards season, old friend of the show Mick Mais joins me to prepare for the historic sweep The Substance (2024) is sure to go through with this awful year in mainstream cinema.
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90% recovered from pneumonia, 8pl8s RETURNS (I'm back) for a display of love for the GRAND album Mezzanine (1998) by Bristol band MASSIVE ATTACK.
With a cinematic twist, namely the use of the band's music in House M.D. (2004 - 2012), the Wachowskis' The Matrix (1999), Guy Ritchie's Snatch (2000), Wong Kar-Wai's Fallen Angels (1995), and how Mezzanine's album art reminds me of the opening credits of David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).
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Tracklist:
A
1. Angel
2. Risingson
3. Teardrop
B
1. Inertia Creeps
2. Exchange
3. Dissolved Girl
C
1. Man Next Door
2. Black Milk
3. Mezzanine
D
1. Group Four
2. (Exchange)
#massiveattack #wongkarwai #musicpodcast #filmpodcast
(halfway) BACK from the dead to dig through the ABOMINATION called California Son (2019) with the REAL California son Glen Rockney of Rare Candy
I love Morrissey. You love your uncle. We're the same person.
SECOND episode of a limited 8pl8s series on Steven Patrick Morrissey (/ˈmɒrɪsi/ MORR-iss-ee; born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey. While he's most well-known for his contribution to The Smiths, his solo work is some of the most personal, touching music I've ever had the privilege of hearing. A privilege I indulge in on a daily basis.
MOZNAISSANCE 02: California Son (2019) -- OUT NOW ON SPOTIFY / APPLE PODS / ETC.
Tracklist:
1 - Morning Starship (Ft. Ed Droste)
2 - Don't Interrupt the Sorrow (Ft. Ariel Engle)
3 - Only a Pawn in Their Game (Ft. Petra Haden)
4 - Suffer the Little Children
5 - Days of Decision (Ft. Sameer Gadhia)
6 - It's Over (Ft. LP)
7 - Wedding Bell Blues (Ft. Billie Joe Armstrong & Lydia Night)
8 - Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets
9 - Lady Willpower
10 - When You Close Your Eyes (Ft. Petra Haden)
11 - Lenny's Tune
12 - Some Say I Got Devil
#morrissey #californiason #musicpodcast #rarecandy
"I love Morrissey. You love your uncle. We're the same person."
Hitting it solo on this first episode of a limited 8pl8s series on Steven Patrick Morrissey (/ˈmɒrɪsi/ MORR-iss-ee; born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey. While he's most well-known for his contribution to The Smiths, his solo work is some of the most personal, touching music I've ever had the privilege of hearing. A privilege I indulge in on a daily basis.
LIMITED SERIES EPISODE 01: I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (2020)
Tracklist:
#morrissey #thesmiths #music
I was confined to a Couche-Tard gas station for this ep so the audio sucks but this episode is a GARGANTUAN WIN. Everyone agrees. Also, check out my new appearance on //MOVIES with the boys
The iconic actor-director duo composed of JAY KARALES (f.k.a. Lowres Wunderbred) and HANS LAM joins me on 8pl8s to discuss Clint Eastwood's latest film Juror #2 (2024), which we all saw together in NYC.
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Screenwriter & filmmaker RYAN JACKSON, of Mutual Aberration Society (podcast) and Wildflower with Tyrese Gibson (film), joins me on 8pl8s to discuss Sean Baker's latest and Palme d'Or Winner Anora (2024), starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, and this show's sweetheart Karren Karagulian. Lots of other stuff too probably but my bus to NYC is leaving in 23 minutes and I can't type it all out. I've, of course, famously said that listening to the entire episode is the best summary.
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Personal trainer & personal friend (!) THOM, of Unironiczyzzposting, joins me on 8pl8s to discuss Pearl Jam's hit debut album from 1991: Ten. With detours to romantic loserdom, bodybuilding, bullying and the ANSWER to "Who bears the responsibility for teenage tragedies?". This episode is a spiritual successor to our Type-O-Negative one, which itself was a relic of the Jicksroanomicon...
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Works discussed:
#pearljam #ten #8pl8s #eddievedder
Writer, artist & reformed enemy, ADAM LEHRER, of System of Systems (podcast) and Safety Propaganda (collaborative media platform), joins me on 8pl8s to discuss a few weird cuts from DENNIS HOPPER's directing career. But the fun doesn't stop there. Not before we discuss 2024 films, light BB-ing, NYC's decline, and the inimitability of the year 1999. Some say the fun never stops with 8pl8s, but I don't really buy into that type of hyperbole.
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Works discussed:
#8pl8s #DennisHopper #OrsonWelles #AdamLehrer #dimessquare
Short-haired thought leader, Glen Rockney of Rare Candy, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about two short tales from H.P. Lovecraft, the master of confirming my disinterest in horror. I await the gen X rage like Noble Six at the end of Reach.
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Works discussed:
#8pl8s #HPlovecraft #rarecandy
Visionary podcaster, Jack Mason of The Continuing Story of The Perfume Nationalist, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about evil tormentors, ultra-stinky old Hollywood stars, gossip that's going to seriously stunt my career, courtroom dramas, and the four forgotten sections of personal hygiene!
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Works discussed:
#8pl8s #hygienetips #theperfumenationalist #hollywood
Filmmaker & artist, Byron Von, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about our mutual fascination with Anthony Bourdain and his work, his legacy and the void he left, and how he influenced our outlook on travel.
This is a continuation of last week's Part 1, related to Byron's work, film and literature, available everywhere you listen to podcasts.
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Works discussed:
Filmmaker & artist, Byron Von, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about his documentary series Looking Awry, his previous project Fully Loaded, the spiritual pitfalls of self-proclaimed artists, sneaky techniques to book guests and collaborators, removing yourself from your work, and a myriad of smaller subjects blossoms from there. Byron is an incredibly pleasant person to talk to, and I feel like this is an episode I would have loved to hear a few years back when I started creating. Enjoy!!
Part 2, related to the work and legacy of Anthony Bourdain, will be released next week.
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
Dorian Z. Bell (f.k.a. Dank Deleuze) joins me on 8pl8s to discuss Buddhist, zen, and ascetic currents in filmmaking. Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema characterised by a style that is minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative, and which typically emphasizes long takes. It is sometimes called "Darius Csiky's favorite typa cinema". REAL.
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Timeline for the movies discussed:
13:25 - Film (1965) dir. Alan Schneider
17:53 - Fata Morgana (1971) dir. Werner Herzog
21:33 - News from Home (1976) dir. Chantal Akerman
26:36 - *Woyzeck (1979) dir. Werner Herzog
28:38 - *Baal (1970) dir. Volker Schlöndorff
42:23 - *Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014) dir. Hsieh Chin-Lin
44:37 - *Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
56:25 - *Deep Rising (1998) dir. Stephen Sommers
58:07 - The Turin Horse (2011) dir. Tarr Béla
1:03:27 - *Drive My Car dir. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
1:19:31 - Days (2020) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
1:22:56 - About Dry Grasses (2023) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* NOT SLOW CINEMA, THESE FILMS SIMPLY CAME UP
#8pl8s #dankdeleuze #tsaimingliang #leekangsheng
After recording my latest appearance on their show, Lowres & Hans from the //Movies podcast join me on 8pl8s to discuss three films we'd absolutely DISAGREE on (if we remembered them), with the following (welcome) digressions into Costa Rican film critics, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, behind-the-scenes stories on Mass State Lottery (2024) & Saint Griefer (2024/2025), David Blaine & Criss Angel, ENTOURAGE & films based on television, being obsessed with Anthony Hopkins, and yes, FRED: The Movie (2010).
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Timeline for the movies we're torn on:
3:52 - The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)
10:41 - Honey Boy (2019)
42:35 - The Master (2012)
Alec Mouhibian is a film producer & director, as well as the host of the Filthy Armenian Adventures (FAA) podcast. He joins me this week to discuss stogies and our opposing feelings on Reagan (2024) starring Dennis Quaid and the legendary Kevin Dillon from Entourage.
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THE SEQUEL!!! Check out part 1 here
Ryan Simón, the creator of American Vulgaria magazine, and Matt Gomes, a photographer and musician join me for a SECOND trip thru pics, Infinite Jest tattoos, Tanner Masseth's Surveillance film, and so much more...
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