With special guest Kelly Krantz (https://twitter.com/kransekage_)!

You may love THE DOOM GENERATION for its gonzo mix of sexploitation, comic violence, overacting, and non-comic violence, or you may hate it for… exactly the same reasons! Director Gregg Araki says he makes films “for” queer folks – and in this episode, we dig into what that means for a movie where people are getting their limbs blown off, their convenience stores robbed, and worse.

Find Kelly…

- On Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_

- On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/

- On Trylove episodes about WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), and REVOLVER (1971)

“Apocalypse Then: Gregg Araki on the queer chaos of newly restored The Doom Generation” by Mitchell Beaupre for Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/journal/apocalypse-then-gregg-araki-doom-generation-restoration/

Get tickets to ALL HAIL PARKER POSEY (June 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/all-hail-parker-posey/

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Alison” by Slowdive from the THE DOOM GENERATION soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 230: THE DOOM GENERATION (1995) with Kelly Krantz

0:45 - Quadlove (quadball talk) (Cody won his series)

2:58 - The episode actually starts

5:02 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:34 - Kicking off the discussion

26:21 - Who Gregg Araki makes movies “for”

28:18 - The punk rock grating is the point

43:04 - The sights and sounds of THE DOOM GENERATION

51:21 - The Junk Drawer

58:29 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

1:04:01 - Cody’s Noteys: The Doom-Trylove-ation (THE DOOM GENERATION cast trivia)