Thousand Movie Project

Wherein the narrator gets a new job and tries to eat a burger shortly after a Novocaine injection.

Wherein the narrator gets a root canal that is very unpleasant but made much worse by the rootcanalist.

Wherein the narrator riffs about a Brickell native.

Wherein the narrator, smitten with a very busy month full of good things, caps it off by interviewing one of his all-time favorite (and most personally influential) novelists, Don Winslow, about his new novel, CITY ON FIRE (which is absolutely incredible, and on whose recommendation I will stake my reputation). Buy CITY ON FIRE here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094SHMHBB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail

Whereing the narrator, thinking this'll just be a hodgepodge episode, talks for a while about his post-book creative position, bingeing coverage of Putin's war in Ukraine, and riffs openly about his excitement for the new Cormac McCarthy releases---PERO THEN: while editing the episode he gets an upsetting email, hops back on the mic, and wallows (publicly).

Wherein the narrator shares too much or too little fruit with a stranger, and re-reads a classic. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com

Wherein the narrator sits down to study Ukraine--but then takes a step back, seeing that he's falling into the same trap he fell into with COVID coverage back in 2020. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com

Wherein the narrator talks about practices that might or might not be unique to the Goodwill in Little Havana, and his conviction that almost every book they sell comes from a dead person's library. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com.

Wherein the narrator breaks a tooth and thinks, mistakenly, that three beers is enough alcohol to keep him from passing out at Dr. Pimple Popper.

Wherein the narrator apparently has a lot on his mind, cuz he starts off the recording by trying to do a quick correction of something he recorded the day before, but ends up riffing, for like fifteen minutes, about basically not knowing what to do now that he's not working on a book.

Wherein the narrator, drinking by himself while reading about the mysterious ~President's Daily Briefing~, took the ill-advised initiative of emailing the CIA and asking to borrow one. **Bonus Reading** "What is the PDB?": https://www.intelligence.gov/publics-daily-brief/presidents-daily-brief

Wherein the narrator takes a few minutes to bask in the way-overdue completion of the book he started writing, and obsessing over, almost exactly one year ago, CUBAFRUIT.

Wherein the narrator riffs about the ideas of "game" philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, and makes a drunken decision about the Jack Reacher book he's pressured himself into reading. NGUYEN ON EZRA KLEIN SHOW: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-c-thi-nguyen.html PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.com

Wherein the narrator riffs in no particular direction, starting off with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, traversing it quickly, and then moseying in what sounds, looking back, like just a desperate ramble, trying not to be panicked. Subjects covered: the biggest fan of the Ninja Turtles, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, how hatred is made a kind of convenience.

Wherein the narrator considers the societal (sorta) and personal ramifications of having things so readily and abundantly available: chicken and pornography being the two big ones. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.com

Wherein the narrator talks about the frustrating/heartbreakingly ridiculous lies that men tell him while he's tending bar. EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail.com PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator gets really frustrated with takeout orders--but also emboldened by the chutzpah of a dude who places a huge order, says he wants it for free, and RECIEVES it; whereupon the narrator attempts this magic himself.

Wherein the narrator talks about his obsession with James Joyce's impossibly complex novel Finnegans Wake, which is a 700-page tome written almost entirely in puns, and about his obsession with other writers who are obsessive: Mark Z. Danielewski, Michael Chabon, and Robert Caro.

Wherein the narrator chimes in to say his book is almost done, and that the proper new slate of episodes will begin next week, but ends up riffing and getting himself way more worked up than he intended. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.com

Wherein the narrator finally revisits and posts a conversation with historian, New Yorker staff writer, and Harvard professor Louis Menand about his latest book THE FREE WORLD: ART AND THOUGHT IN THE COLD WAR. The narrator explains why this is the most mind-widening and -altering book he read in 2021...and then goes on to explain why it took six months for him to work up the courage to post it. EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.com PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject