Hello, This is Talon Stradley, creator, writer, and producer of Newton’s Dark Room. Newton’s Dark Room is a fictional artist collective comprised of cosmic space beings, vintage AI’s, tiny civilizations, post-ancient cults and, of course, plenty of cats and Roombas.
I made Newton’s Dark Room because I wanted to put out a wide variety of content all under one banner. On top of podcasts, we also make music, perform live, and create visual art to coincide with our releases. The Newton’s Dark Room Presents feed contains a couple different shows. On the last Monday of every month, we release Broadcast. Broadcast is an ongoing series that details the lives of these fictional collective members. Sometimes, they discover a microscopic civilization living on some rotten food. Other times they travel out into the desert to reunite a kitten with its god-like siblings out in the mystical desert. We really run the gambit so check out some of our Broadcast episodes if that sounds interesting.
The feed also features Main Street Mythology, which is what we’re gonna show you today. Main Street Mythology is a five-episode mini-series about a modern pantheon of gods. In this episode, you’ll hear legends of the Goddess of Streetlights, clocks, music, and garbage as well as two gods responsible for making skyscrapers and cities. It features the vocal talents of Eleiece Krawiec, Mike Emling, and Robert Ready and each legend is accompanied by an original song by Long Beach musician, La Troienne. If you like this episode and want to dive further, my brother, Trent Stradley, made art of all the gods which you can find on our website at newtonsdarkroom.com/mainstreetmythology. We hope you enjoy this piece and consider Newton’s Dark Room for Spoken Word Writing and Spoken Word Production. Now, without further ado, here is Newton’s Dark Room Presents: Main Street Mythology, Episode 1.