Thousand Movie Project

Matt, from the YouTube channel "Thrift a Life," and Furious Pete from his own self-titled channel were already practiced vloggers when a lifechange came along, and with the skills and habits in tow, they brought their audience along for it. email: thousandmovieproject at gmaildotcom instagram: @thousandmoviepod

William T. Vollmann Talks About His 3,400-page Novel, A TABLE FOR FORTUNE by Alexander Sorondo

Walking a new route to The Abbey, his favorite bar on the beach, the narrator walks into a robbery. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod

People Who Live in Condemned Places by Alexander Sorondo

A colleague leaves town following an attempted murder. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod

PornHub released its annual infographic storm of data and reporting about the world's porn-watching habits. In today's episode we look at four of their "top" insights, and certain states' most-searched pornography. Feel free to say hey! email: thousandmovieproject at gmaildotcom instagram (new): thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator riffs about a couple of true-crime/horrorish YouTube channels on which he spends a whole lotta time despite how consistently and completely they ruin his day. Feel free to reach out below! email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram (new): @thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator riffs about not *minding* when someone's a billionaire, so long as he knows it, but also for some reason gets really pissed when he learns that someone's *been* a billionaire this whole time and he didn't know it. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram (new): @thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator riffs about a kid who just broke a world record from his bedroom, and its resonance with something total strangers tell him three to five times a day at work. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator riffs about the retail/hospitality “season” being over, at least on Miami Beach, and about what the season entails, the ups and the downs, and contending with his own penchant for looking at the bad little things inside the better large ones. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com ig: thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator riffs about John Dillinger's death (execution?) at the hands of federal agents in 1933 and goes from there into talking all about Wikileaks and the Mueller report--but not in a conspiratorial or educated way, just kinda muuusing. Yknow? email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail ig: @thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator riffs about Boxing Day, the weird symmetry of big fires in Kurt Vonnegut's life, and the "necessary" bummer of looking at something like Nobel laureate Saul Bellow's sad, late, Alzheimer's-induced fascination with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator talks about New Years Eve at a rooftop bar, watching people work while everyone around them celebrates; Andre the Giant, Samuel Beckett, and the paltry school buses of the French; new year resolutions and a double-order in the produce section. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod

Earbuds, Ghost Temper, Sontag Sex and Leonard's Exit by Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator riffs about his old acquaintance Peter popping up in the news, Dean Koontz, neurodiversity and deathbed wishes.

Wherein the narrator riffs about: - Jill Lepore's new essay collection - People's grocery-shopping faces - God(?) - George Saunders - Finding a new place email: thousandmovieproject at gmail ig: thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator talks about taking the dog for pre-dawn walks, to avoid certain social obstacles, but how the whole pre-dawn thing is apparently laden with its own unexpected set of social obstacles. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail ig: thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator, wrapping up some thoughts on Nonfiction November, riffs on some realizations about John Updike and writing in general. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail

Wherein the narrator speaks with Tess Gerritsen about her new novel, THE SPY COAST, and tries to examine some themes from her blockbuster crime series, RIZZOLI & ISLES. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail

Wherein the narrator, tasked with giving out samples of wine at the grocery store, makes a mistake. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail dot com