Join me, Matt, and Amy McWilliams as we go through the Columbia Pike Blues Festival, hour by hour. Thank you to everyone who helped to make the day so special, to all the sponsors, volunteers, workers, planners, and residents of the Pike! Support The Conner & Smith Show on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/ConnerandSmith

Matt and I talk about what is happening in our lives currently, with the Columbia Pike Blues Festival this Saturday, and Matt doing five hundred things at the same time. Support The Conner & Smith Show on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/ConnerandSmith

Join Matt & I as we continue our series on Monsters of the Villa Diodati themes that we would like to call “Monsters Among Us”. We discuss and read from many of the books that we read in our research while writing our show, “Monsters of the Villa Diodati”. This was not intended to be this long, but as you can hear, once we start going down the rabbit hole, we get drawn in, and keep finding more fascinating excerpts that highly influenced our writing. It’s basically gay monsters book club. You’re welcome.

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Join Matt & I as we continue our series on Monsters of the Villa Diodati themed films that we would like to call “Monsters Among Us”. We discuss the 1931 film of “Frankenstein ” directed by James Whale for Universal Studios. This film is the standard bearer that all other Monster films follow the template of.

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Join Matt & I as we continue our series on Monsters of the Villa Diodati themed films that we would like to call “Monsters Among Us”. We discuss the 2024 music video of “Fortnight” by Taylor Swift from her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department”. Being fairly new Swifties, we were super excited for the new album, but when the music video of this lead single came out and used very clear Mary Shelley and Frankenstein imagery, we were OBSESSED! Listen to us break down the imagery and voice our opinions on where it might have come from.

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Join Matt & I as we continue our series on Monsters of the Villa Diodati themed films that we would like to call “Monsters Among Us”. We discuss the 2024 film, ”Lisa Frankenstein ”, which is one of our new favorites of this series! More than just an 80’s parody comedy horror, screenwriter Diablo Cody crafts an incredibly smart script that pulls elements of Mary Shelley’s history, the Diodati Summer, and the classic Universal films through the vantage point of an 80’s Comedy/Horror film. No small feat to thread that needle. Well done.

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Join Matt & I as we continue our series on Monsters of the Villa Diodati themed films that we would like to call “Monsters Among Us”. We discuss the 1986 film, ”Gothic”, which is my least favorite adaptation of the Summer of Darkness. We at least have Natasha Richardson and Julian Sands.

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Join Matt & I as we continue our series on Monsters of the Villa Diodati themed films that we would like to call “Monsters Among Us”. We discuss the 1988 film, ”Haunted Summer”, which is not my favorite adaptation of the Summer of Darkness, but not my least favorite. We at least have Laura Dern and Eric Stoltz.

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Join Matt & I as we continue our series on Monsters of the Villa Diodati themed films that we would like to call “Monsters Among Us”. We discuss the 1988 film, ”Rowing with the Wind”, which is my personal favorite of all of the 4 (soon to be 5!) films about the Summer of Darkness in 1816, just because of it’s historical accuracy and artistic embellishment of adding the Monster into the story as a character. And Valentine Pelka is pretty easy on the eyes as Percy Byshee Shelley, and so is Hugh Grant as Lord Byron, to be honest.

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Join Matt & I as we start a new series on Monsters of the Villa Diodati themed films that we would like to call “Monsters Among Us”. We discuss the 2017 film, ”Mary Shelley ”, which feels like the ONE film out of 4 about the creation of her novel, Frankenstein that she edited herself from the grave. She who holds the pen last - wins.

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