"It's like God gave you something man. All those stories that you can make up, and He said, "This is what we got for you kid, try not to lose it.""

Welcome to Episode #32 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Annie about her crush on Stand by Me (1986).

Disappointments Does you being awkward absolve you of making people uncomfortable? In the intro, would it have sounded more adult to say "one of my closest friends" instead of "one of my best friends"? Did you give up editing the clicks?

Stand by Me (1986) - Trivia - IMDb

"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus."

Welcome to Episode #31 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Emma Goldman.

Disappointments: Is it called the Britannia Encyclopedia? In the 1890s, would you need to fill in an application to live in a brothel? Have you got worse at enunciating? How do you manage to speak quickly but with no energy? Do you need to make it clearer when you are quoting?

Emma Goldman: Living My Life

Loyal Books (Podcast): Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Penny A. Weiss & Loretta Kensinger: Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman

Paul Avrich & Karen Avrich: Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman

Alix Kates Shulman: Dances with Feminists (Women's Review of Books, Vol. IX, no. 3, December 1991)

The History Channel: Haymarket Riot

Britannica Encyclopedia: Homestead Strike

"I imagined Many Moons in the sky lighting the way to freedom"

Welcome to Episode #30 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Cindi Mayweather.

Disappointments: Was this too ambitious? Should you have used more sources than just those you found by searching "Cindi Mayweather" on Google Scholar? Should you have just left this to people who are better equipped to discuss race, class, and gender?

Black Girls Code

Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Cassandra L. Jones: “Tryna Free Kansas City” The Revolutions of Janelle Monáe as Digital Griot

Daylanne K. English and Alvin Kim: Now We Want Our Funk Cut Janelle Monáe’s Neo-Afrofuturism

D.A. Hassler-Forest: The Politics of World-Building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand

Nathalie Aghoro : Agency in the Afrofuturist Ontologies of Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe

Grace D. Gipson: Afrofuturism's Musical Princess Janelle Monáe: Psychedelic Soul Message Music Infused with a Sci-Fi Twist

Anders Liljedahl: Recalling the (Afro)future: Collective Memory and the Construction of Subversive Meanings in Janelle Monáe's Metropolis-Suites

Aleksandra Szaniawska: Gestural Refusals, Embodied Flights Janelle Monáe’s Vision of Black Queer Futurity

Jana Baró González: The ArchAndroid: Cyborg Consciousness in Janelle Monáe’s Cindi Mayweather Saga

E. van Soldt: “Black Girl Magic, Y‟all Can‟t Stand It”: On Afrofuturism and intersectionality in Janelle Monáe‟s Dirty Computer

Darieus Antonino Za Gara II: Finding Moments of Rupture in Monáe's Metropolis: A Hybrid Tradition

Brianne A. Painia: “My Crown Too Heavy Like the Queen Nefertiti”: A Black Feminist Analysis of Erykah Badu, Beyoncé Knowles, Nicki Minaj, and Janelle Monáe

Afrofuturists, Sci-Fi authors and other interesting people to follow on twitter: Ytasha Womack, Ingrid LaFleur, Cassandra L. Jones, Nnedi Okorafor, Tananarive Due, N. K. Jemisin

Nnedi Okorafor's tweet - "I DO NOT WRITE AFROFUTURISM." and her definitions of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism here.

Ytasha Womack - Afrofuturism Imagination and Humanity

TEDxFortGreeneSalon - Ingrid LaFleur - Visual Aesthetics of Afrofuturism

Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa | Nnedi Okorafor

Ytasha Womack L. Womack: Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

What does the Afrofuture say?

Elizabeth Sandifer: A Short Guide to Janelle Monáe and the Metropolis Saga

Aja Romano (Vox): Janelle Monáe’s body of work is a masterpiece of modern science fiction

Geoffrey Himes (Paste Magazine): Janelle Monáe: Imagining Her Own Future

Charles Pulliam-Moore (Gizmodo): From Metropolis to Dirty Computer: A Guide to Janelle Monáe's Time-Traveling Musical Odyssey

I took the idea of "A Cyborg Manifesto" arguing for a 'posthumanism that is culturally and socially specific' from Rosanna McNamara, '15 Minutes of Utopia - A Cyborg Manifesto'

& I took the comparison between the Cyborg and Marx's conception of capitalism producing the tools to destroy itself from "Theory and Philosophy"'s Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto"

Janelle Monáe Emotion Pictures mentioned

Many Moons

Tightrope

Q.U.E.E.N.

Primetime

Dirty Computer

"I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again."

Welcome to Episode #29 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Wallace Wood.

Disappointments: Is "being pretty excitement" correct English? Did you intend to speak in a different tone in the bits you added later? How many times to you say "Starger and Spurlock"?

Steve Starger and J. David Spurlock: Wally's World: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Wally Wood. The World's Second-Best Comic Book Artist

Bhob Stewart & J. Michael Catron: The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 1

Bhob Stewart & J. Michael Catron: The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2

Qiana Whitted: EC Comics: Race, Shock & Social Protest

Sean Howe: Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Marvel in the Silver Age: Daredevil: Hooray for Wally Wood

Matt Seneca: An Erection Four Decades Long: The Pornography of Wally Wood

The Jock and Nerd Podcast: The 50th Anniversary of Wally Wood’s Red Daredevil (09/10/2015)

Chris and Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill: Episode 148 - Wally Wood’s Gang Bang #1 (1980)

Comic book artist Ken Landgraf demonstrates Wally Wood style lighting techniques

HOW TO INK: Studying Inking Masters Episode 4 - Moebius, Wally Wood, P Craig Russell, & more

Wikipedia page from Shock Suspenstories

Tatjana Wood's colours on Swamp Thing with comparisons to the new colours here and here

Some Featured Wallace Wood Comics

My World (Weird Science #22)

The Guilty! (Shock SuspenStories #3)

In Gratitude (Shock SuspenStories #11)

Perimeter (Frontline Combat #15)

The Disney Memorial Orgy

My Word (Big Apple Comix #1)

"If she loves you then she will turn around and see you ... turn ... turn!"

Welcome to Episode #28 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Shandana about her crush on Shah Rukh Khan.

Disappointments: How is it possible that you still don't know how to use a microphone? Do you have any new questions, ideas, thoughts? Did you not think about how to end the episode?

Nosheen Iqbal (The Guardian): Shah Rukh Khan: ‘My success is all down to the women I’ve worked with’

Khandaan- A Bollywood Podcast

Julien Cayla: Following the Endorser's Shadow: Shah Rukh Khan and the Creation of the Cosmopolitan Indian Male

Neelam Sidhar Wright: Bollywood and Postmodernism Popular Indian Cinema in the 21st Century

My Next Guest with David Letterman and Shah Rukh Khan

Sonia Mariam Thomas (Buzzfeed): The Undeniable Misery Of Being A Shah Rukh Khan Fan Today

Richard Dyer: Entertainment & Utopia

Sunny Singh: The Road to Rāmarājya: Analysing Shah Rukh Khan’s Parallel Text in Commercial Hindi Cinema

Podcast Recommendations

Thirst Aid Kit

Into It with Elle Collins

Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces

"I want to thank you for your warmth and compassion."

Welcome to Episode #27 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Alek about his crush on Mia Sara.

Disappointments: How did you forget Matthew Broderick's name? Do you know how to set up the microphones? Should you have known Uncle Buck was a John Hughes film?

Michael Leader (Den of Geek): Looking back at Ridley Scott's Legend

Ed Power (The Telegraph): Ridley Scott’s beautiful dark twisted fantasy: the making of Legend

Antonio Sanna: “A Villainous Appetite: Erôs, Madness, and the Food Analogy in Hannibal and Legend”

Matt Rodgers (HeyUGuys): Legend 1985 Retrospective

Martin Morse Wooster: Angry classrooms, vacant minds: what's happened to our high schools?

Roz Kaveney: Teen dreams: Reading Teen Film from Heathers to Veronica Mars

"I ask for nothing / I can get by"

Welcome to Episode #26 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Georgette about her crush on Esmeralda from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Georgette's

Podcast: Just the Tip and the episodes "It Makes my Cu*t Wet" and "Anal Mindset"

Twitter: @Just_Georgette

Instagram: @Just_Georgette

Killing Kittens Manchester Social: The Big 'O' Discussion

My

email: [email protected]

twitter: @disappointmatt

Disappointments: Why did you ask if Esmeralda is too impressive, when you previously found Aragon's impressiveness to be a positive? Could you stop saying "And then" and "On the flip side"? Why did you not mention that Esmeralda's singing voice was Heidi Mollenhauer?

Romani or Gypsies? | Dijana Pavlovic | TEDxBocconiU

Amy M Davis: Good Girls and Wicked Witches

Celeste Lacroix: “Images of Animated Others: The Orientalization of Disney's Cartoon Heroines From The Little Mermaid to The Hunchback of Notre Dame”

Michael Smith: “Driven to Sin”: Victor Hugo’s Complex Vision of Humanity in Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Adina Schneeweis: The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell: Deciphering Esmeralda in Popular Culture

Hannah Koga (Medium): Esmeralda and Sexualization

Lindsay Ellis: The Case for Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

"I feel sorry for you, you zeroes, you nobodies. What’s going to live on after you die? I’ll tell you — nothing, that’s what!"

Welcome to Episode #25 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Girl on the Net about her crush on Rik Mayall.

Girl on the net's:

Website: girlonthenet.com

Audio Porn: girlonthenet.com/audio-porn

Twitter: @girlonthenet

Patreon: patreon.com/girlonthenet

Comedy Recommendations: Helen Bawel & John Robertson's Dark Room

My

email: [email protected]

twitter: @disappointmatt

Disappointments: Did you forget to ask a couple of questions and hope nobody would notice that you just threw them in at the end? Did removing most of your irritating "uhums" make it seem that you weren't there? Did you say "prophetic" instead of "pathetic" in the intro?

Clips from Blackadder II and Man Down. Bottom is currently on Netflix UK.

Professor Nick Groom: A Tribute

Justin Quirk (The Guardian): 'Shut up you hippy!'

Philip Watson (GQ): When Rik Mayall covered GQ

"I'm not a cat, I don't say meow"

Welcome to Episode #24 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Anna about cats and Cats.

Disappointments: Was it being proved wrong that made you shit on the idea of the Jellicle cats? Were the effects discussed in Pan's Labyrinth computer generated? Should you be so critical of a musical you haven't seen? Does this episode spread misinformation about dogs? Have you been listening to the Cats soundtrack since recording this?

Cat Videos

Thomas Edison - 1894 Boxing cats

Phineas Tyrion Holly @orangeisthenewblackandtan

Mr. Sandman Cats Compilation

だるまさんが転んにゃ - Stalking Cat

Funny Cats

CatDad Feeds His Kitties In Cat Mask Fail! (Original Video)

Woman’s Maine Coon cats have oddly human faces

The Original Grumpy Cat!

Nyan Cat [Original]

Samuel D Gosling, Carson J Sandy & Jeff Potter: Personalities of Self-Identified “Dog People” and “Cat People”

Psychology Today: Neuroticism

Facebook Research: Cat People, Dog People

Jessica Gall Myrick: Emotion regulation, procrastination, and watching cat videos online: Who watches Internet cats, why, and to what effect?

Justin Jones: How Cats Took Over the Internet—And Became Art

Catherine Shoard (The Guardian): Cats’ dirty little secret: it’s a horny feline romp

Siman Hans (The Guardian): Cats review – will haunt viewers for generations

Kim Honda: "A Witch, A Cat Woman": Cat Woman's Patriarchal Roots

Clip from Batman: Arkham Knight with Batman and Catwoman character models swapped

Lucy Jones (The Guardian): Claws out! Why pop culture clings to the crazy cat lady

Stéphane Garnier How to Live Like Your Cat

"I never take my skates off"

Welcome to Episode #23 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Ed about his crush on Rollergirl.

Disappointments: Does naming this episode "Rollergirl" come across as passive-aggressive rather than amusing? Did The Hangover come out in 2008? Should you send out the questions in advance?

Elaine Lipworth (The Courier Mail): Heather Graham: I'm a nerd

Rosanna Greenstreet (The Guardian): Q&A: Heather Graham, actor

Claire Coghlan (NY Times): Actress Heather Graham Turns From #MeToo to Toil and Trouble

George Toles: Paul Thomas Anderson

Frogmouth (The Cauldron): The Power Of Roller Derby Skate Names

Alexa Clay (Medium): The Power of Alter Egos

Science Daily: 'Power poses' don't work, eleven new studies suggest

Jacob Oller (Interview Magazine) Heather Graham Sends up Hollywood's Toxic Masculinity in Her Director Debut

Lucy Bolton: Melanie Griffith: Wild Girl and Working Woman

Sara Century (SYFY): 54 Thoughts We Had While Watching Lost in Space [1998]