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Josh, formerly of the Evil Thespian podcast, and currently of The Dionysian Dream, joins me for his third appearance on the pod!

We're talking about Baz Luhrmann's sumptuous, vital, and very theatrical "Red Curtain" Trilogy: Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001).

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This episode, Ryan Simón, editor of the fabulous magazine, American Vulgaria, joins me to talk about Philip K Dick's mind-bending science fiction masterpiece, Ubik.

Arty sleaze, "pick me straights," beauty and art and reading as the way out of Current Thingism, making a magazine an aesthetic object, bubbles of irreality, Gnosticism, Dick's constant destruction of his own narrative, what Ubik means, science fiction tropes, crazy sci fi fashions, and much more discussed on the longest episode with a single guest ever!

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This episode I talk about two of my favourite Biblical adaptations: Jesus Christ Superstar and The Prince of Egypt.

Australian 1992 cast of Jesus Christ Superstar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea9mtQ1RM8I

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Poet Andrew Ketcham joins me for a deep dive into celebrity poetry books, specifically Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass and Jewel's A Night Without Armor. 

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The lovely Alex (https://twitter.com/fraunichts) was in town and we went to the National Gallery of Victoria's Alexander McQueen exhibit, then got drunk on gin while we talked about McQueen's influential, shockingly violent, and sex-drenched work. We also discuss the wonderfully unpretentious and sometimes cheeky Channel 4 documentary, McQueen and I.

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This episode Matt invites six guests for a series of one on one segments. Each has brought along something old and something new to discuss that they're passionate about.

Guests include:

Paul Dalla Rosa (buy his collection here)
River Page (Pirate Wires)
Max Easton (buy The Magpie Wing here)
Miss Unity (https://www.missunity.net/)
Sheila Ngoc Pham
Zach Langley Chi Chi (I'm So Popular podcast)

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Matt talks about some old polaroids that made him cry, Roland Barthes' book on photography, Camera Lucida, and Chris Marker's 1962 science fiction still image film, La Jetée.

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Matt is joined by Dallas songwriter, poet, multi-instrumentalist, Young Dean to talk Flannery O'Connor's short stories Everything That Rises Must Converge and The Partridge Festival, as well as Dean's songwriting process, influences, and his new album, Terror on Vacation (https://open.spotify.com/album/6Sv1LICDiPLZUqWbxtSEb8?si=e-fi-T-uRrCHbjZ1jLchOQ)

Dean's Twitter: https://twitter.com/yearningprison
Dean's insta: https://www.instagram.com/y0ung.dean/

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Matt is recording LIVE from the poolside, tanning and talking about the books he's read this summer. Summer romances, Roald Dahl vs sensitivity readers, American Psycho's censorship in Australia, Jack Vance's Dying Earth stories, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life, and J David Osborne's new cyberpunk novel, Dying World.

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Writer, producer, and radiomaker, Sheila Ngoc Pham joins Reuben and Matt to discuss Kay Dick's dystopian "sequence of unease", They.

Nonconformity, enemies of art, Western Sydney, identity politics in writing, and much more. 

Follow Sheila on Twitter: https://twitter.com/birdpham

Read Sheila's essay on the Western Sydney writing scene: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/western-sydney-is-dead-long-live-western-sydney/

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