Thousand Movie Project

Wherein the narrator wishes you well, remembers his late grandfather, and talks about ROCKY as a metaphor on how to die well. EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.com PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator is lied to, about something totally innocuous, and decides to make it into a huge thing. EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.com PATREON: www.thousandmovieproject.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator talks about two of his favorite storytellers, James Ellroy and Ridley Scott, and how they inspire him to get better at embarrassing himself.

Wherein the narrator ponders a thing about one of his colleagues, looking at the guy's behavior through the lens of something an artist said on the GaryVee podcast, with other detours along the theme of insecurity--including an old porno, a radio broadcast, Timothy Chalamet's frustrating beauty, and that old viral video of the lizard doing LSD in a closet. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.com

Wherein the narrator dreads going to the laundromat and just complains about it for ten minutes. EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com.

Wherein the narrator offers, to listeners interested, a letter in the mail and then talks about an ethically questionable thing that he did, and gets around to topics like Flannery O'Connor, the phallic properties of a cashew, the Kennedy assassination, an answer to the question of What's Your Favorite Snack and a breakdown of one of his larger personality flaws. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com

Wherein the narrator offers listeners a package in the mail, if they just send their mailing address to thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com, and also talks about a six-hour intelligence test he once took, a man in a thong who dances near his apartment, and the roach phobia that complicates his life. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject IG: thousandmovieproject

Today's episode is a twenty-minute rambling intro to a fifteen-minute sample of the Patreon Exclusive episodes of the podcast. The intro covers a few things that've happened lately at the bar where I work, it's about six times longer than it was supposed to be, and then the rest of it is about vegetarianism and other ramblesome things -- basically this whole episode is a commercial for the Patreon, where you can get more riffy, personal, exclusive episodes. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.com

Wherein the narrator inadvertently creates a problem by requesting more bread. Support the show and get access to regular bonus episodes at www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject Email me to chat about whatever! thousandmovieprojectpodcast@gmail.com

Wherein the narrator, on receiving a gift card, is suddenly paralyzed by the burden of how to spend it. Support the show! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thousandmovieproject

Wherein the narrator tells a buncha rumors while trying to make a point about how hard it is to cancel his subscription to The Miami Herald.

Wherein the narrator talks for a couple minutes about DON'T BREATHE 2, and then about Derrida's crackpot idea regarding "center" spaces, and then about why he's never quite understood vacation.

Wherein the narrator talks for a while about things that scare him, like interviewing an estimable writer, and then goes on to interview an estimable writer, Margaret MacMillan, about her new book, WAR: HOW CONFLICT SHAPED US.

Wherein the narrator talks about the latest installment in the Halloween franchise, "Halloween Kills," and also about a boss who fell from grace, lecherous dudes in film, and those moments when your subject is larger than your occasion.

Wherein the narrator, after recounting the finer points of his favorite early Superman comic, talks with author Douglas Wolk about his new book, ALL OF THE MARVELS. Wolk read all 27,000 issues of Marvel's expanded comic book universe and writes, in his story, about the beauty of confusion, the maturation of the brand, and whether Stan Lee did in fact hate children (this is the host's contention, not necessarily Wolk's).

Wherein the narrator reacts to the SCREAM 5 trailer, and complains that it shouldn't called "SCREAM" (which is the actual title), and then tells a story about a very angry math teacher he had in high school, and how the teachers of "regular" classes were generally pretty shattered, emotionally; by the end of it he's remembering what it was like to buy VHS tapes on eBay, once the technology was obsolete, and then he shares some of novelist Mark Z. Danielewski's wisdom regarding fear and its adversarial/inverse relationship to knowledge.

Wherein the narrator whispers with undue stress about a long weekend he spent in a mansion.

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Wherein the narrator riffs about a president's first 100 days, phlegm and other fluids, and eventually gets pretty sentimental about the idea of having made a hundred of these things, and feeling a really sincere kinship with (and appreciation for) everyone who's taken the time to listen.

Wherein the narrator, having taken a full month to work on his book, eases himself back into the podcasting routine by doing a simple episode, with very few sound effects, in which he talks about Stephen King's two major thematic obsessions, and how they recur through his body of work, and then about some of his own (that is, the narrator's) more sinister culinary interests.