Trash & Treasures

We promised we would, so here it is: the book that spent a stunning two weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list despite having a decades-old fanbase, by the novelist who don't need no editor but does have cease & desist letters if you write fanfic, we bring you: the Tale of the Madoka Bird Aliens and the Clone People andalsoohyeahsomevampiresiguess.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, racism, sexism, and TERFiness. Y'know, Anne Rice stuff. Minimal sexualization of teens though! cause none of those characters are in this one.

Prince Lestat Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-960635156/drunk-book-club-prince-lestat?in=user-960635156/sets/drunk-book-club

"Interrogating the Text from the Wrong Perspective": https://fanlore.org/wiki/Interrogating_the_text_from_the_wrong_perspective

Bodice Rippers, VC, and Virtue Coding: http://goth-mabel.tumblr.com/post/171102462308/thanks-so-much-for-your-analysis-what-gets-me-is

Vrai Livetweets Realms of Atlantis: https://twitter.com/writervrai/status/971904204515172352?s=21

1:00 Specialty Drink

3:00 Lestat and Louis

9:00 The Source of All Vampires

13:00 Lestat and Autonomy

16:00 The Standalone This Started As

21:00 Madoka Bird Aliens

25:00 The Replimoids

29:00 Framing and Storytelling

34:00 Amel: Maker of Sociopaths

39:00 As a Sequel

41:00 Analyzing the Prose

44:00 Gender Shit and Gabrielle

49:00 How Do Conflict

53:00 Louis is So Tired

59:00 Failures in Mad Science

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We wrap up Pride Month 2018 with the deservedly beloved Bound. Even as queer storytellers gain more opportunities and indie works become more widely available, films like Bound are still a relative rarity: a genre film (in this case, neo-noir) that happens to have a queer relationship at the heart of it rather than being a film about The Gay Experience. With a happy ending and everything.

Also it's like, really good. Super fucking good. Maybe one of the Wachowski Sisters' best, despite being their debut. With sex scenes they hired an actual lesbian to choreograph and everything! Apparently nobody ever thought of that before.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of brutal violence, intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, homophobic slurs, torture

2:00 The Other Lesbian Heist Movie

5:00 The Plot

7:00 Our Heroines

11:30 Sex as Storytelling

19:00 """"""Sexploitation""""""

23:00 Mob Violence

29:00 Trust Games

32:00 Murder Cinematography

43:00 The Perfect Crime

47:00 Should You Watch This

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The Gay 90s gave us plenty of queer film, but none so uniquely beloved as this pastel pink satire-cum-romcom. While pretty damn important and frequently delightful (not to mention still damn rare), the writing is starting to show its age. But hey, at least the screenwriter went on to work on that powerhouse of magnificent writing: Smallville.

Movies about The Gay Experience are always quick to become time capsules, and while there's still a lot to love here, it's worth taking a magnifying glass to what happens when your satire doesn't have goals beyond a nebulous "piss some people off on Both Sides."

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of hate crimes, conversion therapy, sexual assault, suicide, and homophobia

2:00 New Queer Cinema

6:00 The Plot

8:00 Crew Info

14:00 The Rating Fight

19:00 Gag Casting

21:00 Elder Gays

26:00 The Campers

32:00 Where Were They Now (Smallville Corner)

35:00 Graham

42:00 Critical Reception

45:00 Suddenly Dark Shit

49:00 The Finale

54:00 Should You Watch This

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Pride Month rolls on with a movie about a good ol' platonic friendship, the kind where you kiss each other and run away from an abusive spouse and raise a child together. Extremely heterosexually, except for the source material that was written by a lesbian.

Fried Green Tomatoes is a big name in the "weepy" boom of the 80s and 90s, big prestigious family/generational dramas with star-studded female casts where somebody is bound to die of a fatal disease before the credits roll. So while this movie does technically have a dead lesbian, it's not a killer case of the gays that gets her.

Meanwhile, poor Kathy Bates is trapped in the 90s feminism subplot from hell. Pray for her.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of racism, fatphobia, homophobia, and cannibalism. All the best love stories have cannibalism.

2:00 A History Lesson

9:00 Terrifying Southern Manners

14:00 Poor Kathy Bates

17:00 Alabama: Definitely the LEAST Racist State

21:00 Train Trauma

25:00 The Courtship

30:00 90s Feminism

36:30 Cannibalism!

42:00 Courtroom Drama

46:00 Tears, Jerked

51:00 Should You Watch This

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It's that time of year! Time for us to dive into the history of queer cinema and look at representation through the decades. This year we're focusing on queer ladies, and that means starting with that most noxious of tropes: the dead lesbian.

The Children's Hour is a particularly accomplished film: not only does its gay lead kill herself out of terrible guilt for existing, it also has time to be soulsuckingly dull and produce the single most wooden performance of Audrey Hepburn's career! This was nominated for Oscars, people.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of child abuse, homophobia, and suicide

1:00 Pride Month

4:00 The Plot

7:00 Your Oppression is Not a Metaphor

10:00 Lesbian Pulp

12:30 The Karen. That One.

15:00 This Movie Hates Women

17:00 The Littlest Sociopath

21:00 Well That Escalated Quickly

23:00 The Two Endings

29:00 Hepburn

32:00 Rules of Censorship

35:00 Bad Child Psychology

41:00 Should You Watch This

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Today is a momentous occasion for the podcast: the three avowed Cronenerds finally get to talk about one of his movies in its own episode.

Crash is a film about a lot of things: sex, consent, the ethics of kink, the lines between community and cult....or, if you're boring, it's just That One Scene where James Spader humps a woman's yonic leg scar.

Join us in wondering how the fuck a movie about people's sex lives had an R-rated cut, why James Spader has sexual chemistry with literally everything, and why this movie isn't more famous than the shitty oscarbait Crash.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of unsafe sex, sexual assault, disability fetishism, animal death, self-harm, and lots of car crashes

JG Ballard's Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqn6zA1sMg

More About Jayne Mansfield: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2017/3/27/jayne-mansfield-dead-blondes-episode-9?rq=dead%20blondes

2:00 R-rated Cut How

4:00 We're Cronenberg Nerds

7:00 Plot Synopsis

10:00 JG Ballard

16:00 Pivotal Cut Scenes

19:00 The Honeymoon Period

23:00 Tent Pegs

25:00 Vaughn, Human Greaseball

31:00 Serial Killer Scrapbook

35:00 The Dark Turn

43:00 Cronenberg as Director

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Between Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle made a movie for himself...and possibly no one else. The result is a messy, sometimes charming, bafflingly heterosexual romcom about a disgruntled office worker and a borderline-sociopathic rich girl forced together by meddling heavenly hands.

Come along for Ewan McGregor's American accent, Bilbo Baggins as a soulless corporate overlord, and the most awkward dance scene since...actually, before Spiderman 3. Also a mini-podcast about Sunshine, because Vrai refuses to watch it again for a full episode.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault

1:00 Aggressive Heterosexuality

3:00 Danny Boyle Movies (Mostly Sunshine)

10:00 Remember Cameron Diaz?

12:00 Heaven's Precinct

15:00 Ewan McGregor's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

25:00 Manic Pixie Murder Girl

31:00 Horny Angels

35:00 The Dance From Hell

39:00 "Put 'em in Danger"

43:00 Third Act Misunderstanding (and VENGEANCE)

52:00 Death by Pretension

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In the late 90s, Kevin Murphy (no, the other one; though we were mistaken in the recording)debuted a musical version of the famous 1930s scare film on the LA theatre scene. Several years later, Showtime filmed a version of the musical, and the results are here before you--they are only a little bit smug.

BEHOLD, Alan Cumming doing his very best Stephen Colbert impression. WITNESS. Future Frozen star Kristen Bell rocking some excellent dominatrix gear. SEE. A bunch of comic actors who deserve a lot more appreciation.

CONTENT WARNING for sexual assault, intimate partner abuse, cannibalism, racism, and homophobia.

2:00 Vrai is a Theatre Geek

7:00 Yes We Were High

13:00 The One Joke

17:00 That Animation Was a CHOICE

21;00 Mary Lane (Get It)

28:00 LISTEN TO JESUS PUNKS

32:00 Den of Sin and Underrated Actors

41:00 BEST CHARACTER

45:00 Should You Watch This

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This film is the epic, multi-generational tale of uncovering how exactly to punch a murderer in the dick. And in the end, the day is saved by wig-snatching.

Executioners from Shaolin is a Shaw Brothers film, the most prolific and influential studio in Chinese cinema. We tease, but this is a time to pay tribute to a troupe of incredibly skilled actors and athletes. The stunts they pull of in this film, including dragging a man around by the foot with thigh muscle alone and putting out a FLAMING METAL STATUE WITH YOUR HANDS, are beyond awesome.

Shawn also has some very special words for Quentin Tarantino.

CONTENT WARNING for mentions of sexual assault.

2:00 History of Shaw Brothers

5:00 Tarantino's Fanfic

9:00 Pai Mei, Historical Figure

13:00 The Shit Dub

19:00 Theatricality and Rbellion

24:00 Ying Chun

27:00 Very Important Advice

29:00 Not Creepy We Swear

33:00 Time Skip

36:00 Revenge Fail

41:30 The Son of Hung

43:30 We Don't Know Enough to Themes

46:00 Should You Watch This

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Terry Pratchett is one of the most influential and fondly remembered fantasy authors in the English language, with good reason. That's why we set out to read his worst book, to prove that sometimes really good authors flower from really terrible novels.

Or, there is a very good reason why the first piece of advice Discworld fans give is "don't start with the first book."

Strap in for a parody that only works if you have an encyclopedic knowledge of fantasy novels from the 80s, and even then it's touch and go. With special guest appearances by the astonishing amount of bullshit in Anne McCaffrey novels.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault

1:00 Inroads to Pratchett, and Gaiman

6:30 Seriously the Later Books Thouggh

9:00 The Real World Drunk Book Club

17:00 Uncanny Valley Ankh-Morpork

23:00 Rincewind and Twoflower

31:00 Conan of Argon

38:00 Tent Peg Dragons

46:00 Something with Space

52:00 Editing Issues

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