This Is My Favourite Thing

The thirteenth episode of TIMFT explores the fetid ecstasy of Danny Boyle's film Trainspotting (1996) with Nicholas Castro looking at empathetic cinema, the black hole of addiction, and the idea of "found family".

Trainspotting (1996) https://boxd.it/29XY

Trainspotting: The Choice of a Generation https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Danny_Boyle/HEhKWfOyQLcC

This bumper double episode of TIMFT with Static Vision's Conor Bateman and Felix Hubble looks at the oddly familiar in two new media works: the idiosyncratic YouTube artefact 'Competitive eating icon, a Staten Islander, retires', and the extravagant pop deconstruction of easyFun's easyMix.

Competitive eating icon, a Staten Islander, retires (2008) https://youtu.be/nnl9rRw-Qgc

easyMix - easyFun (2015) https://soundcloud.com/easyfun/easymix

Embalming the obscure: The rise of B-movie cinephilia https://www.academia.edu/35802985/

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBryTebK2Og

Perfect Film (1986) dir. Ken Jacobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_qJoqvzA4

Hollow Jungle (2019) dir. Conor Bateman http://norbateman.co/hollow-jungle/

Ian Barr tweet https://twitter.com/ianbarr/status/747995667461603332

Static Vision https://linktr.ee/staticvision

The beautiful rural microcosms of Cate Kennedy's award-winning poetry collection, The Taste of River Water, are explored with James Perkins in THIS, the ELEVENTH episode of This Is My Favourite Thing!

The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy (1962) https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-taste-of-river-water

Joy flight - Cate Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieBFToPv4xA

Writing The 'Ow' Factor: Cate Kennedy discusses the craft of writing fiction https://overland.org.au/feature-cate-kennedy/

Jennifer Byrne Presents: Words Aloud http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s3429626.htm

Episode TEN of This Is My Favourite Thing travels to the cozy English countryside in Edgar Wright's 2007 cop-comedy Hot Fuzz, with Fiona Gillman.

Hot Fuzz (2007) Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayTnvVpj9t4

Hot Fuzz commentary with Edgar Wright & Quentin Tarantino https://youtu.be/FxWfWgOAg-A

Hey dude, where’s my doughnut? by Brian Johnson https://archive.macleans.ca/article/2007/4/23/hey-dude-wheres-my-doughnut

Episode NINE of This Is My Favourite Thing with Charlie Walsh investigates the mystery of Vladimir Nabokov's infinitely layered mystery-box of a novel, the 999-line poem Pale Fire.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962) https://www.penguin.com.au/books/pale-fire-9780141185262

Pale Fire: poem https://genius.com/John-francis-shade-pale-fire-a-poem-in-four-cantos-annotated

Nabokov's "Pale Fire": The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t9zq

Episode EIGHT of This Is My Favourite Thing looks at the revolutionary ideas behind Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power, with Emily Trueman. "It's a piece of feminist science fiction - or speculative fiction, or fiction about a fictional thing rather than a real thing (curious concept). In the novel, very suddenly almost all the women in the world develop the power to electrocute people at will. Anything from a tiny tingle all the way to full electro-death. And then everything is different."

The Power by Naomi Alderman https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Power/xS_eDQAAQBAJ

‘The Power’ author Naomi Alderman answers your questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Haxmediwv0g

Feminism: in conversation with Camille Paglia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3-KIesYRE

Episode SEVEN of This Is My Favourite Thing with Andi May discussing the beautiful track Distance off Emily King's second album, The Switch (2015).

Distance by Emily King (2015) https://youtu.be/4DbeYbcZAJE

Emily King's Minimalist R&B Album 'Scenery' Puts Feelings First http://exclaim.ca/music/article/emily_kings_minimalist_r_and_b_album_scenery_puts_feelings_first

Soul Music by Portia K. Maultsby https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1983.1702_51.x

Episode SIX of This Is My Favourite Thing with Jack James, where we take a dive into Lorde's critically acclaimed sophomore album Melodrama (2017).

Melodrama (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJuygTp7ydE&list=PLvm6B0LWgqu9pWrYmmC-6ETs7yDcfHyl9

Lorde Talks 'Melodrama' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1IlwgxCF8

Lorde Writing 'Melodrama' with Jack Antonoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm5LO1yXGic

Melodrama by James L. Smith https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Melodrama.html?id=ikcrDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y

Fred Rogers Acceptance Speech - 1997 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM

Episode FIVE of This Is My Favourite Thing with Brooke Pritchard, discussing Dreamworks' 2016 film Trolls.

Trolls (2016) trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyjm5VQ11TQ

Anxiety and Fear in Children’s Films by Rıdvan Şentürk https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ936301.pdf

Trolls: Dreamworks' Trash Can of Ideology by Big Joel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWyWSwq6fVc

Episode FOUR of This Is My Favourite Thing with Brandon Taylor, discussing the soundtrack to Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin (2004), created by Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie.

Mysterious Skin (Music from the Film) - Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd https://youtu.be/dUzyIrVbj0w

Mysterious Skin (2004) trailer https://youtu.be/5Lp5v4oQZRw

Major Briggs' Vision https://youtu.be/tc74zZmn2m8

Gregg Araki Interview with Filmmaker Magazine (2005) https://filmmakermagazine.com/archives/issues/spring2005/features/wonder_years.php

Musical Cachet in The Living End and the New Queer Cinema by Jack Dubowsky https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137454218_3