Remainders

Today and throughout this ten part season, we will be exploring the steps within the creative process. How the stories, sounds, and characters we love come to exist. Together, we’ll be exploring the steps involved and the joy that comes with fully immersing yourself in creation.

In this episode of Remainders, we discuss pre-programming. The helpful and not so helpful behaviors that are learned over time.

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Today and throughout this ten part season, we will be exploring the steps within the creative process. How the stories, sounds, and characters we love come to exist. Together, we’ll be exploring the steps involved and the joy that comes with fully immersing yourself in creation.

In this episode of Remainders, we discuss what it means to be uncomfortable in our daily, and creative lives.

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Today and throughout this ten part season, we will be exploring the steps within the creative process. How the art, music, and stories we love come to exist. Together, we’ll be exploring the steps involved and the joy that comes with fully immersing yourself in creation.

In this first episode - we’re talking about inspiration and where to find it. Sometimes we’re looking for it and sometimes it finds us. Whatever the case may be, we have to be open to letting inspiration happen. We’ll follow up today's episode with 9 more episodes. We’ll be talking about being uncomfortable, pre-programming, being present in the work, freedom from deadlines, resting, collaboration, creative cycles, surrendering and letting go.

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On this episode of Remainders, our host explores the 2011 book "Dear Cary" by Dyan Cannon. Cannon is an accomplished actress, writer, editor and mother. She is also well known for being the fourth wife of legendary Hollywood Actor, Cary Grant.

In "Dear Cary" the reader gets a rare and intimate look at what it was like to be married to (arguably) the biggest star in cinema history. In this personal time capsule, we get to explore the gender roles expected of a man and women and see what happens when a public courtship gives way to marriage, drug use, mental institutions, and a baby.

Join us as we look beneath the grace, charm and wit to see what Remains of Cary Grant.

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“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?” 

On the season finale of Remainders, we discuss Tim Burton’s classic 1994 film Ed Wood. A story of creative expression and a love letter to Burton’s idol, Ed Wood’s status as “World’s Worst Director” only grows with prestige and envy over time. Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi (brilliantly played by Johnny Depp and Martin Landau) inspire and drive each other to leave their mark on Hollywood. Wood’s films included Glen or Glenda, Plan 9 From Outer Space, and among countless other Z-grade schlock in horror and sci-fi. 

A true original, his ambition was far greater than his talent. But it was that originality and drive that caught the attention of similar misanthrope Tim Burton, who created his most personal and auto-biographical film. Similarly, we discuss the ways drive is essential in the creative process, and how that has helped us along the way in life and in art. Join us as we close our season with an endlessly inspiring story of creative originality. 

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Cigarettes and coffee, man, that’s a combination--Iggy Pop. 

On this episode of Remainders, Darren and Patrick discuss the caffeine-fueled conversations in legendary auteur Jim Jarmusch’s 2003 film Coffee and Cigarettes. Jarmusch tells stories of social misfits experiencing the downside of the American Dream, and remains one of the most unique filmmakers working today. An ode to broken connections, Coffee and Cigarettes documents 11 obscure, awkward, and sublime meetings with the most essential cult figures in music, film, and beyond. We rave with Roberto Begnini, ghost-bust with Bill Murray, and check out the jukebox with Iggy Pop. 

But beyond the bitter, black coffee and awkward pauses, why has Jarmusch endured as such a force in independent cinema for so long? Join us as our hosts sip a little coffee, take a drag, and see what remains.

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My shit's fucked up--Warren Zevon 

On this episode of Remainders, our hosts discuss the life and dirty times of Warren Zevon. A gifted songwriter, outsider, cynic, and romantic, Zevon remains an underappreciated rock and roll legend. More than merely the singer behind ‘Werewolves of London,’ Zevon mastered the art of ‘song noir’ and was admired by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Martin Scorsese and countless other artists. 

Behind the critical accolades, he spent a lifetime struggling against alcoholism and drug addiction. His obsession with death came to light in 2002 when Zevon was diagnosed with mesothelioma and was given only months to live. Despite his death sentence, Zevon set out to make the best album of his career. Join us as we pay tribute to the legend. 

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The 2013 documentary Finding Vivian Maier explores the life of revolutionary Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier. A notorious recluse, Maier excelled in the art world and received massive acclaim upon her death because of a chance discovery of her work. 

But Maier’s life deviates from the conventional idea of artistic aspiration: Why didn’t she share her work for the world to see? On this episode of Remainders, Darren and Patrick decipher an artist’s life and discuss the reasons why we create, the ethics of personal expression, and whether we can separate art from the artist. 

Through photographs, we get a glimpse of Vivian Maier and a complex life behind the art. Join us as we see what remains.

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"I have a competition in me...I want no one else to succeed."

On this episode of Remainders, our hosts discuss the fully American and borderline horror film There Will Be Blood. 

Many cite There Will Be Blood as a contemporary classic largely because of Daniel Day-Lewis’ maniacal performance as quintessential capitalist and oilman Daniel Plainview. But it’s also the intricate themes of power and debilitating obsession that continue to resonate in a world dominated by religious threat and the pursuit of wealth. Darren and Patrick ask what There Will Be Blood can teach us about the two most powerful ideas in a self-indulgent America: Money and Religion. 

Join us on this episode of Remainders as we journey through an ocean of oil and ask what remains. 

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“There should be more women directing. I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.”-Kathryn Bigelow. 

Point Break remains a pivotal piece in our hosts’ film education largely because it asks the essential question: what more do you need than Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze surfing, skydiving, and robbing banks? The 1991 film may not have redefined movies upon its release, but since then it’s gained appreciation largely because of director Kathryn Bigelow’s giant mark on Hollywood. Bigelow remains to be the only woman in history to win an Oscar for Best Director, and in this episode of Remainders, Darren and Patrick try to give credit where credit’s due. 

After you Alphonse, I insist.

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