The Spectacle

Happy HallowSCREAM boys, ghouls and nonbi-scary’s! Mckenzie and Io are talking about Texas chainsaw Massacres 1 and 2. Two movies of distilled human degradation and American nihilism from opposite ends of the spectrum. The first being one of the most evil, grotesque and unbelievably artful movies ever made - the next an infinitely rewatchable funhouse romp that hits every note of the first movie,...

MCKENZIE, REALLY, IO, AND ROSIE MARX GET REALLY EXCITED ABOUT A LOT OF TOPICS THAT VAUGELY ORBIT JANE SCHOENBRUN’S NEW FLICK “SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA” SORRY FOR YELLING This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org , or on Twitter @ TangledWild and Instagram @ Tangled_Wilderness . You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.co...

Tuck and McKenzie rejoin the pod to talk about a summer blockbuster 3000 years in the making. Chris Nolans The Odyssey! Only one of us liked it even a little bit, who could it be? Surf the wine dark podcast seas with us and hear about movie magic, “realism”, “the west” and why men are obsessed with making guilt both an everyone else problem but also a glorious, interesting and absolving personal f...

Beau Patrick joins McKenzie and io to talk about I love Boosters. The new surrealist veneration of the noble shoplifter from Boots Riley that has a dialectical materialism gun. Beau talks about directing music videos for The Coup and the gang talk weird cinema, making class war chic, and the Tangeled web of artistry that lands us in weird situations. Check out Beau’s work most especially Burn Barr...

McKenzie and Io talk with friend of the pod and genuine movie pervert Vicky Osterweil about the history of cinema, copyright, and how that fucking mouse wound up owning everything. BUY THE BOOK!! https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2525-the-extended-universe Vicky can also be found on bluesky @vickyacab.bsky.social Io can be found https://twitter.com/bum_lung on Instagram @ Bum. Lung , bluesky @b...

Episode Summary This time on The Spectacle, we have the final frontier we've all been waiting for, a crossover episode with Resistance is Fertile, the anarcho-trekkie podcast, to talk about Star Trek and anarchism. Host Info Io can be found on Twitter @ Bum_lung or on Instagram @ Bum. Lung or you can find shirts and patches that they make on Etsy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumLung Miriam can be...

Resident anime scholar Eren K Wilson teaches us about the history of anime and we talk a lot about a horny child hobo turned dog-fused, tit crazed, blood chugging living weapon we all call Chainsaw Man. Check out Eren’s everything at erenkwilson.com Io can be found on instagram at @bum.lung, bluesky @citizenio or Patreon at Bum Lung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We c...

the entire world was devastated to hear that Wicked 2: the Wickening did not receive a single Oscar nomination. But it received something much more important. A very belated review by your favorite anarchist musical theater nerds. Inmn, Rosza and Miriam return to discuss whether Wicked is any good This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness...

New year new pod. McKenzie and Io are rooting around in the media pile 2025 left us to bring you just right AND too hot takes about Eddington, One Battle After Another, Bugonia, Sinners, Marty Supreme, The Long Walk, Toxic Avenger, Weapons, 28 Years Later, Final Destination, Naked Gun, Bring Her Back, The Monkey, Companion, Mickey 17, Wake Up Dead Man, Superman, Welcome to Derry and uh a couple ot...

Shuli Branson joins Io to discuss Frankenstein! We talk about Mary Shelley’s cool life and legacy and Guillermo Del Toro’s (secret egg) take on her story. We also talk monstrosity, transness, parenthood and abolishing the family, prison, id and ego, what “life” is. You know, Frankenstein stuff. It’s about an hour and a half of a professor and a clown talking Frankenstein stuff. Listen to Shuli’s g...

Margaret Killjoy, Hazel Acacia and Io Asunder talk about everyone’s favorite allegory for Vietnam (Star Wars) Specifically the only good Star Wars, Andor. We talk about revolutionary fiction, what we would do if given free reign over a piece of the Star Wars extended universe, fascists in love and their bewildering sexual habits, hope, nihilism, the catechism of the revolutionary, ego, manufacturi...

Episode Summary A deadly disease strikes, and everyone is ill-equipped to handle it; a group of young people is stuck inside trying to escape, and they feel (and act) weird about it. This is the plot of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century story collection, set against the backdrop of the Black Death. For SOME REASON, this felt relevant to adapt in the early 2020s. Robin, Miriam, and returning guest...

Episode Summary McKenzie and Io chin wag about Conclave, the two popes and Catholicism and make a case for why Conclave should be ushered in gay film canon (a buncha messy flamboyant divas in iconic outfits backstab each other and treat women weirdly to see which of their boys gets to be the man?) What's better than this? Guys being dudes. Host Info Io can be found on Twitter @ Bum_lung or on Inst...

In the first of a series of over-analyzing underappreciated streaming series, Ellery, Robin and Miriam discuss Kevin Can Fuck Himself, a sitcom about patriarchy, abuse, and Massachusetts This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org , or on Twitter @ TangledWild and Instagram @ Tangled_Wilderness . You can support the show on Patreon at w...

Episode Summary This isn't a real episode. It's an advertisement, but it's an advertisement for a really cool thing, a new new book by Margaret Killjoy that we're Kickstarting. You can get so many deals and cool rewards and stretch goals that have already been unlocked, as long as you're listening to this before March 21st at 9am est. If you're listening after that, then you can probably just go p...

Carta Monir is here talking about her work making and archiving DIY queer porn from throughout the ages. TW for lots of stuff the stuff that comes up with smut history. Like pedophilia, we talk about that for awhile. Find all of Carta ‘s links at allmylinks.com/XXXcartaXXX Find io on insta @bum.lung This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderne...

Continuing our ongoing series of podcasts run by theater dorks Miriam, Inmn and Rosza are gabbing about Wicked. Some sort of prequel to the wizard of Oz venerating the noble witch. Inmn Neruin. You can find them on instagram @shadowtail.artificery Miriam: Making funnies at Strangers Rosza: a great guest Our logo is by Robin Savage. And our theme music is by a lovely mountain goblin.

Nosferatu is a movie about poly drama and how doing real estate is evil Rosie Knight and returning champ Mckenzie talk with Io on the new vision of horror from director Robbie Eggo and decide once and for all who was the horniest Dracula. For my money I think it’s this uncut Romanian trade with the big mustache like handlebars for riding that dirty nose. Shout your choice into your phone or whatev...

We talk about Hot Fuzz and Io tries to watch another copmedy for this episode but honestly got so bored so it’s just a lot of hot fuzz talk

Inmn, Kallie and Io talk about The Rings of Power and what a piece of shit it is. Also Peter Jacksons trilogy, not respecting your audience, Tolkien’s anarchism (and Catholicism and monarchism), word salad visual language, homosociality, and armouring. Plus our resident Tolkien scholar Inmn gives us more Middle Earth lore than you can handle. Kallie can be found on insta at @itsametaphorefordeath...

creeking doors do you hear that? rattling chains oh no! you know what that means the sound of a mummies curse its hallowtide again and we got our resident horror movie girlies Mckenzeee and Tabitha to school Io, our resident fraidy cat on the true meaning of terror. We talk about gnostic horror, the reptile brain, demons, sexual and gender anxiety in scary media, how porn and horror movies relate...

Episode Summary On this episode of the Spectacle, you no longer have to wait one day more--otherwise known as tomorrow--to know which musicals are revolutionary and which are trash. Join Miriam, Rosza, and Inmn on their exploration of different radical-seeming musicals. Which are our comrades and which are getting thrown up against the wall? They cover Assassins, Little Shop of Horror, Hamilton, N...

It was hot brat summer until suddenly it wasn’t. Can we still love charli xcx and be cool? Bea can be found on twitter at @beaflowers This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org , or on Twitter @ TangledWild and Instagram @ Tangled_Wilderness . You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness . Our lo...

Live from the after-after-after party of the Constellation Anarchy-fest in beautiful Montreal Bea, Rob and Io convene an emergency pod after not being able to stop talking about I saw the TV glow. A surreal and beautiful movie for those looking to walk around in a daze for awhile. I dont know how else to describe this episode bud. Trans cis or otherwise you should go see this flick If you enjoy fe...

We talk with old pal Dan Abbot of Bobby joe Ebola about Geekfest. The freaky music festival organized by literal children in the bay area in the 90s borne out of an increasingly insular punk subculture in the wake of Green Day blowing up the spot. We also discuss Temporary Autonomous Zones, what happened to make Burning Man go from something anarchistic to its current form, and how to find each ot...