DEATH // SENTENCE

On this episode, Langdon and Eden are forced to tackle the so-called "Hegelian E-girl Council" and explain why they suck. While they tackle them. To the ground.

Then, they talk about the tantalizing, subtle, and down-right inimitable The West Passage. Weird fantasy, even weirder honey, and the weirdest eldritch beings in the form of Ladies, plus all the occulted, esoteric lore you could crave.

Music played:

Oh Hiroshima - Swans In A Field https://ohhiroshima.bandcamp.com/track/swans-in-a-field

Pinkish Black - Ashtray Eyes

https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/track/ashtray-eyes

In this solo episode, Eden talks about the Arthurian myth and its weird potentialities by covering Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword. Gender-bending, political disorder, and why weird fantasy matters and, of course, sick ass swords and cool mage duels!

Eden's essay on the political uses of science fiction: https://www.notthesky.com/posts/essays/the-men-who-sold-the-moon/

Eden's essay on The Green Knight: https://www.notthesky.com/posts/essays/the-knight-is-always-greener/

Music played:

Meer - This Is the End https://meer.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-the-end

In this episode, Langdon and Eden discuss the merits, oddities, and uses of mediocrity before covering a mediocre, but fun, book from an excellent author, Roger Zelazny. Time travel, making fun of Hitler, zen koan martial arts, dinosaurs, and a lot of confused writing!

Music played:

Lie Heavy - Burn to the Moon https://lieheavy.bandcamp.com/album/burn-to-the-moon

We definitely didn't record this three months ago and only remembered to post this now! Langdon's computer definitely didn't die at the end! Stations of the Tide is DEFINITELY an excellent and weird book and Spring is definitely NOT the best season (that last part is true, actually)!

Music played -

BIG | BRAVE - I felt a funeral https://bigbrave.bandcamp.com/track/i-felt-a-funeral

And So I Watch You From Afar - North Coast Megafauna https://asiwyfa.bandcamp.com/track/north-coast-megafauna

In Mobility, Lydia Kiesling really bildungs the heck out of a Roman. Bunny is a foreign-service brat who wants a conventional life and, spoilers, she gets one - but it's a conventional life while the oil industry and American imperialism kills the planet.

Music by Orgone.

Babe, wake up, my new favourite book just dropped.

Music by Sauna Youth.

Imagine The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and It. Okay, imagining that? Okay, now make it gay. Gayer. More gay than that.

That's returning guest Gretchen Felker Martin's follow up to the masterful Manhunt.

Music from Scarcity

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This time around, Eden is joined by none other than Vajra Chandrasekera, author of The Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall! The two discuss time, history, anti-colonial and colonial violence, the legacy of Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka, memory, scale, science fiction and the New Weird as a genre and so much more!

Music played:

Wormed - PROTOGOD https://wormed.bandcamp.com/track/protogod

This episode is titled FOUR because Langdon used it to talk to Eden about FOUR books. We have read too many books and all the Smart has leaked away. The books range over topics like psychosis, the death of art, idealism, hauntings, and introspection. You know, Death // Sentence things.

The books are:

The Passion According to GH - Clarice Lispector

Agapē Agape - William Gaddis

The Water Statues - Fleur Jaeggy

Vertigo - W. G. Sebald

Music played:

Niftar - Cosmic Embryogenesis https://niftar.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-embryogenesis

What if the real horror story didn't involve skeletons and boggarts and whatnot... what if the real horror was your boss? There is probably more to returning guest Jon Greenaway's book Capitalism: A Horror Story than that, but we mostly talk about how sick the Saw films were.

Music by Valerian Swing