The Computer Room

The Computer Room

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The Computer Room episodes

  • The Most Famous Blogger in the World Started on Youse-net

    I talked about Usenet (and, incredibly, mispronounced it), elitism, and the lost civilizations of the Internet with the most famous blogger in the world.

    I’m not one of his readers, but I feel like I understand him a lot better after hearing him talk about the Internet. After this conversation, I’m left wondering… do we need to govern the Internet, as though it were a physical place?

    (I also wish I asked him about his galaxy of other projects.)

    Theme: Computer Love by KraftwerkAudio edited by: Will KrausReach Will here.

    Stay tuned for a very special interview with Freddie de Boer later this week.



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    1 hr 8 min
  • The Baroque Creoles of the Internet

    Default Friend and friend of the pod and artist Gio Pennacchietti discuss internet-based creoles, the Internet's obsession with the body, the trad thots of yore, 'found footage' e-girls and self-posters, Girl Bosses as a sexual orientation, and why Default Friend wasn't bat mitzvahed.

    (If anyone can help me edit audio… I’ll take it… This was my first attempt.)

    Theme: Sara perché ti amo by Ricche e Poveri 



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    2 hr 17 min
  • [ATO] An Ounce of (The) Cure
    Fresh off going viral with their own respective Twitter mishaps, DF and TPG discuss Alice Munro's "An Ounce of Cure," a short story about a teenage girl who accidentally humiliates herself during a drunken, angst-ridden babysitting gig.
    Theme: Friday I'm In Love by The Cure
    42 min
  • The Baroque Creoles of the Internet ft. Gio Pennacchietti

    In an episode that may or may not be part of After the Orgy, Default Friend and friend of the pod and artist Gio Pennacchietti discuss internet-based creoles, the Internet's obsession with the body, the trad thots of yore, 'found footage' e-girls and self-posters, Girl Bosses as a sexual orientation, and why Default Friend wasn't bat mitzvahed.

    Theme: Sara perché ti amo by Ricche e Poveri 

    Find Gio around the web: 
    https://twitter.com/giantgio
    https://gioscontentcorner.wordpress.com/author/giopennacchietti/

    Get your Default Friend fix:
    defaultfriend.substack.com 

    As for TPG, she has requested for me to amend to "you know where to find her." 

    2 hr 17 min
  • [ATO] All We Need Is Less
    Default Friend and the Personality Girl discuss the 2013 Elizabeth Wurtzel essay "Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One Night Stand of a Life" and Dan Sallitt's 2019 film Fourteen. What does it mean for a woman not to grow up? What does it mean for anyone to accept responsibility for their lives, as an adult?
    Theme: Good Advice by The Growlers
    Links:
    https://www.thecut.com/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html
    https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/fourteen/
    1 hr 30 min
  • Whitepill Resistant Covid
    Home from waiting five hours for a negative corona test, TPG uploads the latest gab fest with Default, where Default made the mistake of checking her Twitter DMs and then drinking a beer. They talk about the ongoing lockdown crisis. Default apologizes for the reactive nature of her statements.
    Theme: "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell
    46 min
  • [ATO] On the Casting Couch
    In their first in-person episode, Default and TPG talk about Larry Clark's 2004 casting-couch film "Impaled," porn, casual sex, and when anal becomes sacred.
    Theme: More, More, More by Andrea True Connection
    1 hr 12 min
  • Brief Interviews with Cancelled Men 1 ft. Stephen Elliott
    We welcome our first cancelled man, writer and filmmaker Stephen Elliott, known for founding the Rumpus, writing The Adderall Diaries and Happy Baby, directing About Cherry (starring James Franco) and suing Moira Donegan, creator of the Shitty Media Men list.
    Recommended reading: "The Score" by Stephen Elliott, https://believermag.com/the-score/
    Theme: "Beat My Guest" by Adam Ant
    1 hr 20 min

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