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I felt like reaching out to y'all out there so I recorded a solo episode just for fun.  I live streamed the recording on Instagram which I've never done before so this is all in one take. Stand up comedy has been calling to me so I recently gave it a shot at an open mic.  It was nervewracking but also kind of exciting.  To be honest, these are as much rants as they are jokes.  But it's fun to talk...

I talk with Scout Tafoya about our mutual loathing of "elavated horror", the new film "Men", and then get into his book on the films of Tobe Hooper ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Poltergeist", "Lifeforce".) Scout Tafoya is a film critic, video essayist, filmmaker, and author of Cinemaphagy: On The Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper , the first book-length critical study of the director of "Th...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

Kat and Andrew are back with more Trace Radio!  Here is some music to break up "The Sky, Finally" episodes.  Part 8 of the novel comes out next Thursday.  On this show we each pick five tracks from the 80's.  We don't exactly pick the songs you might expect.  Give a listen to some great 80's music plus fun conversation with Kat and Andrew.

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

"The Sky, Finally" is my debut novel.  This is the story of 17 year old Anna from Omaha, Nebraska.  The year is 1979 and she feels very much like an outsider.  She is longing for another life.  Punk music, religion, partying, sex, philosophy..she's looking for a place to be.  Will she find it? I will be releasing these in parts here on The Trace Podcast and also at andrewhackett.bandcamp.com.  I w...

Natalia Keogan is a film critic who is especially passionate about the gendered and sexualized aesthetics of horror, LGBTQ+ cinema, Spanish-language films, punk music and anti-fascism. Women's reproductive and mental health issues are also subjects of interest in her work.   In other words…Natalia is a perfect guest for The Trace Podcast! We talk about how she fell in love with movies, the ethics...

On this episode of The Trace Kat Sommers and Andrew Hackett play "Outcast Songs". These are songs by or about people that are different, people that don't have a place to be, people that don't quite fit in.   As usual Kat and Andrew get into existential themes through their song choices.   Keep an eye out for the upcoming serialized audiobook by Andrew which is called "The Sky, Finally".   Part 1...

A 14 year-old makes his first true friend after his family moves to a commune in the San Fernando Valley foothills of Los Angeles.  They cause trouble, begin to discover sexuality, and fall in love with Weezer (oh yes, the year is 1992). All is well and then, of course, life is interrupted. "Erotic Thriller and the Tumbleweed" is an audio story written by Andrew Hackett and produced by Andrew Hill...

In the coming months I am going to be sharing audio stories here on The Trace.   I spent much of the quarantine part of the pandemic writing fiction.   Now I am ready to share these stories with you in audio format. First up is "Erotic Thriller and the Tumbleweed".   I wrote this story knowing that my dear friend Andrew Hiller would do the score and production on it.   Well, he went way above and...

What songs make you think of rebirth?  We are in the season of fall where the leaves are falling and the weather gets colder.  But we also know from experience that those leaves will return and it will heat up once again.   On this episode of The Trace Andrew and Kat talk about rebirth, anger, grief, hope.  Expect to hear some awesome songs and also some inspiring words.  You know there will be so...

On this episode of The Trace Radio it's Andrew solo playing music and musing on mysteries.  The Coen Brothers are discussed as religious provocoteur filmmakers which leads into tracks by NIN, mewithoutYou, and Andrew WK.   Take a walk, a drive, a run, or just chill out as you listen to some curious thoughts and some great music.  

Steve Elkins is a filmmaker whose recent documentary Echoes of the Invisible takes the viewer on a "journey into the most extreme environments on earth to find the connective tissue between all things seen and unseen". On this episode of The Trace Podcast Steve and I talk about interconnectedness, filmmaking, plus everything from science to meditation. Steve is also a musician who played in The Au...

Kat and Andrew are back with songs that would be on our life soundtracks.  Happy birthday to Kat on this episode! If there was a movie made of your life what would be 5 songs that would have to be on that soundtrack?  That's the theme for this show and it gives us a chance to talk life and music and meaning. As you listen to the show think of the songs that you would choose for your own life sound...

Once a month I (Andrew) host a 2-hour Saturday morning radio show in Seattle on 107.3FM.   This is an opportunity to get a little more mystical and philosophical while pairing songs with thought meditations. A theme I keep returning to is "You are who you say you are" or "I am who I say I am".   This is about lovingly and intentionaly defining yourself.   If you don't do it the culture or other to...