I beg MUBI to sponsor The Petroleum Boogie. I riff about Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s essay “Letter to Abel Ferrara on His 59th Birthday.” I tease my upcoming ALT LIT BRACKET. I talk about my grandma throwing a party for JFK and writing an elegy for her when she died. I also discuss songs by Iván Muela and Warm Human. Music from Renjā, Angelo Badalamenti, Why?, Golden Earring, audio clips from the film The Way We Were, The Sopranos, + a snippet from an interview with David Lynch.