Our first episode with a guest! We welcome our friend Sam Jones to the Rubbish Bin™, and together we discuss David Cronenberg’s 1999 oft-overlooked techno-thriller/body-horror gem, eXistenZ.

Notes:

Louis Cole

Podcast The Ride

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Einstürzende Neubauten

My Life With the Spirits by Lon Milo DuQuette

Night hag

Simpsons Naked Lunch joke

Yorgos Lanthimos

Room To Dream by David Lynch

Superhot (VR game)

Tech-gnostic

Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran

ReBoot (TV series)

From Beyond (story by H.P Lovecraft)

From Beyond (film by Stuart Gordon)

Society (film by Brian Yuzna)

The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

CanCon (“Canadian Content”)

Marshall McLuhan

Raëlians

Ray Kurzweil

Sabina Spielrein

Ween

Dean Ween will kill you

James Woods Simpsons joke

Christopher Priest

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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