Echologorrhea

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Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner (January 14, 1944 – October 2, 2026)

He was a real one. There are a lot of people we mention on this podcast and we really would love to record with any one of them.

You can find the documentary at archive.org, Tubi, and YouTube.

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Exactly what it says on the tin!

Joined by friend Deckard. This will be one of many episodes where we discuss

The hardest part of finding reading material is that I feel like i have to summarize everything up to this moment in history. Just read everything Peter Weiss ever wrote.

1966 Version: https://archive.org/details/bwb_T2-EGZ-371

Recording of the production https://archive.org/details/lp_marat-sade-original-motion-picture-soun_richard-peaslee

Everything by Peter Weiss in the Internet Archive https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Weiss%2C+Peter%2C+1916-1982%22

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Guest Julian (MeOnAPicnicTable) joins Saath for a dramatic reading of a piece that was rejected for having "no action." Saath disagrees.

Some supplemental reading

ERCOLINO, S. (2012). The Maximalist Novel. Comparative Literature, 64(3), 241–256. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23252885

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Station Agent, dir Tom McCarthy

Moonlight, dir Barry Jenkins

Baraka, dir Ron Fricke

Koyaanisqatsi, dr Godfrey Reggio

Madsen, Borge Gedso. Strindberg’s Naturalistic Theatre. Russell & Russell.1962. ISBN 0-8462-1729-5

Walker, John. (1992) "Kitchen Sink School". Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Retrieved 20 January 2012.

Zen Koans: http://www.thezensite.com/MainPages/koan_studies.html

Hairston, M. (2008). A Healing, Gentle Apocalypse: Yokohama kaidashi kikō. Mechademia 3, 256-258. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mec.0.0036.

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The thrilling conclusions! Still working on the audio but it's better than before!

Supplemental materials:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/infographic-what-makes-film-noir

Film Noir: An Introduction

Noir and Neonoir | The Criterion Collection

Grossman, Julie (2009). Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Ready for Her Close-Up.

Keaney, Michael F. (2003). Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940–1959.

"Film Gris": Crime, Critique and Cold War Culture in 1951 (JSTOR)

Films mentioned:

The Lost Weekend

Brick

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Bugsy Malone (the one Saath couldn't remember)

Blues In The Night

Blue Velvet

Double Indemnity

Little Caesar

White Heat

A Touch of Evil

Laura

The Maltese Falcon

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Friend of the Indelicate, Orbific (James B), joins to talk about one of his favorite art pieces of all time. Another crispy crunchy episode because Saath was screwing around with the audio inputs.

Notes and supplemental material:

High quality image of the art https://www.moma.org/collection/works/114939

Thomas Friedman: https://www.tomfriedmanartist.com

Tehching Hsieh: https://www.tehchinghsieh.net

Painting with White exhibit at Tate Museum https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/in-the-studio/painting-white

Orbific: https://orbific.com

Mycelium Parish News: https://hermetic.com/serapeion/mycelium-parish-news-2023

Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51161/51161-h/51161-h.htm

Degenerate Art from A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust https://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/artDegen.htm

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Xel (XelBleedsGlitter on Tumblr) comes back to talk more about fandom and some of the strange ways one can become a micro-celebrity whether they want to or not.

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Guest Xel (XelBleedsGlitter on Tumblr) joins us to discuss how fandom has changed in our lifetimes. Wrev is cooking with gas on this one too.

Some additional reading--

Memorial Blog to Dee AKA @spockslash

Matt Baume's work on queerness on All In The Family

Bronte Sisters and Gondal

Queer and Now by Eve Sedgewick

Lawrence v Texas

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Friend of The Indelicates, Mayer, comes to hang out and talk about "outsider art" and the origins of the term itself. Sadly, Wrev could not join us. Spoiler: We think that term sucks!

Supplemental Reading:

Benedetto Croce, The Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and of the Linguistic in General

Minturn, Kent. "Dubuffet, Levi-Strauss, and the Idea of Art Brut". Anthropology and Aesthetics

Outsider Art Fair

Koenig, Raphael (2018), "Art Beyond the Norms: Art of the Insane, Art Brut, and the Avant-Garde from Prinzhorn to Dubuffet" (PDF), Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

"Jerry Saltz on the Outsider Art Fair — and Why There's No Such Thing As 'Outsider' Art".

"Curator, Tear Down These Walls".

"Monkey Christ fresco boosts tourism"

"Botched restoration has visitors flooding to sleepy Spanish village"

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We get back previous guest Teucer to explain why Jimmy Buffett is a musician worth your time.

Supplemental reading:

Following the Equator (sometimes titled "More Tramps Abroad") (1897) - Mark Twain

Don't Stop the Carnival (1965) - Herman Wouk

Tales from Margaritaville

Where is Jon Merchant?

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A double-stuffed episode!

Supplemental Work:

Click and Clack The Tap-it Brothers - NPR

David Cronenberg and JG Ballard in Conversation at Cannes

And of course. Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

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