A podcast about movie making and the science fiction featurette, Daughter of God, with Director Shri Fugi Spilt, (Dan Kelly). Daughter of Godcast, Episode 062, Summary. How Conan the Barbarian got off the Wheel of Pain with the Power of Desire, an allegory for the unfettering of this podcast from precedent and genre.

Welcome to episode 062. I had a dream last night of high end art directors gone rogue. Fantastical creatures who usually lurk in ad agency corner offices, emerging only for clients with deep pockets. Brilliant autistics fused with a rapacious billing infrastructure. Meme prostitutes, transforming schlock  into campaigns and branding, sinister and hilarious iterations of the dominant paradigm.

For whatever reason, the 3-4 art directors in my dream decided that maybe they didn’t give a fuck anymore about money. There was a vague house fire in the backstory somewhere, call that motivation. The main guy was a version of myself, in a charcoal grey Armani suit, or whatever passes for haute alpha male fashion in days to come, because this felt slightly futury.

They were developing a campaign to slather the streets with clandestine art… for arts sake, or awakening, or both. Felt a bit abstracted, but also cool.

As I was waking I was tinkering with desire. Desire as the driving force of the cosmos, of our lives. I’ve been so mixed up about desire, in the past associating desire to lack. As so many seem to do – I wish I had a girlfriend or I wish I could pay for my kid’s college. That’s not desire, to my way of thinking, that’s a horror show, the perspective that keeps us trudging around in circles, pushing the Conan wheel. Stuck.