Thousand Movie Project

Wherein the narrator, before visiting a bank, welcomes a few guests and hears riffs about beards, the dark way in which the Internet is like the printing press, and receives missives from a baby.

Wherein the narrator recounts the Miami-wide panic leading up to Hurricane Dorian, the death of his 17-year companion Mango, and then waxes at the end about his love life.

Wherein the narrator riffs about the haircuts and hygiene of certain people, remembers a childhood acquaintance, and talks for a bit about why the story of Rob Zombie's development as a filmmaker is maybe more interesting than his movies.

Wherein the narrator has managed, just hours before tonsillitis rendered him speechless, to crank out a length collage-style exploration of his favorite book series, Mark Z. Danielewski's 27-volume THE FAMILIAR, and also to relate that with certain things mentioned by his favorite YouTuber, Steve Donoghue.

Special thanks to Michael Silverblatt, the host of KCRW's magnificent show BOOKWORM, for the permission to excerpt some of his conversation with Mark Danielewski.

Thanks also to Steve Donoghue for letting me chop up some of his own work and assemble it here. His channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/saintdonoghue

Had to use text-to-speech software for the concluding segment.

Wherein the narrator gets nostalgic about reading (and never finishing) John Updike books on rainy summer afternoons, guesses at strategies employed by homeless persons in the collection of donations, opines about subtexts to the new CHILD'S PLAY movie and then, for the first time, talks for a few minutes without a script.

Wherein the narrator, still soaked in Miami rain, talks a bit about the 8th street bakery where he so often gets his breakfast, and where the staff doesn't like him, and where the new and profoundly disturbed homeless guy in the area tends to make a show of himself. After that, the narrator voices some admiration for the YouTuber Grace Randolph, Gary Vaynerchuk, and what a content creator can learn from following them.

Wherein the narrator appears to've taken a puff of something before walking you, with lots of giggles and digressions, through James Whale's 1935 masterpiece, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. If you haven't seen the movie, here's your reason to give it a shot!

Wherein the narrator talks about rainy season in Miami and his friend Rachel's heartbroken theatrics and douchery.

Featured on this episode are excerpts from a 2006 interview with Philip Roth, conducted by Christopher Lydon, and presented with permission from the good folks at Radio Open Source. Also, at the end, you'll find a clip from an old episode of AN EVENING WITH GROUCHO, of which you can find a few more slivers here: https://archive.org/details/OTRR_An_Evening_With_Groucho_Singles/AnEveningWithGroucho_33_ThalbergStory-Garbo.mp3

The opening and closing song, JUMP, is produced by the artist Speakea5y. You can find more of his work at www.speakea5y.com

Wherein the narrator talks a bit about telling the wrong morbid quote to the wrong person, recounts what's probably an apocryphal story from the posh 1960s literary scene, and then posts a good chunk of what's left from last week's conversation with film critic Pavel Klein.

Wherein the narrator surrenders some control of things and chats with his colleague about reviewing movies on the internet, getting into arguments on the internet, the new Rambo and the new Terminator and Kevin Smith and some other things.