Thousand Movie Project

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. EM...

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/thousandmoviepro...

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/thousandm...

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...

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