Thousand Movie Project

Beginninig with avid praise for Rose Glass's new crime movie, LOVE LIES BLEEDING, and transitioning into a conversation about how she and I apparently spring from the "peak millennial" camp, of people born between 1990 and 1992, before dissolving in talk about this new memoir by Bev Stol, Noam Chomsky's 24-year assistant/manager/coordinator, and this weird phenomenon of Noam Chomsky producing thre...

Wherein the narrator talks, among other things, about a new appreciation for Doja Cat, his favorite new artist on Instagram, and the how the Spice Girls nearly shattered the He-Man Woman Haters Club. check out @brianhuntress on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianhuntresss/ email: thousandmoviepod at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod

Wherein the narrator talks about recent reading, including some negotiation tactics from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and a quick anecdote about one of the most unbearable people he's ever met. instagram: @thousandmoviepod email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com

George Saunders joins for a conversation about Michael Silverblatt, the former host of BOOKWORM. Silverblatt had to retire in 2022 for medical reasons, ending BOOKWORM's 33-year run. Saunders, one of the most venerated writers in America (TENTH OF DECEMBER, LIBERATION DAY, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO), was a regular guest on BOOKWORM starting in 1997 - and one of its most distinct. He and Silverblatt had...

Matt Singer @superpulse joins me for today's episode of the pod, the first after a two-week break, to discuss his wonderful biography of film critics Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, and the show that changed TV, film, criticism and media. Buy OPPOSABLE THUMBS here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710246/opposable-thumbs-by-matt-singer/ email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail instagram: thousandmov...

YouTube's Daniel Greene, who makes content revolving almost exclusively around things that don't interest the narrator at all, happens to've lured the narrator into several years of regular viewing. mentioned along the way: Mark Z. Danielewski's grocery war stories, SISKEL & EBERT, Slavoj Zizek's sitcom theory. email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail instagram: @thousandmoviepod

David Remnick, editor-in-chief of THE NEW YORKER, has a new book out, called HOLDING THE NOTE, a collection of essays on older musicians in the latter parts of their careers -- it's an absolute delight, and reveals some unintentional goods about the author. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail instagram: thousandmoviepod

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A Healthier Way of Talking by Alexander Sorondo

Why You Should Never Feel Bad for Calling Out by Alexander Sorondo

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.