WYRD_SIGNAL

Lucy and Sean RETVRN to the airwaves and to the year 1994 of 1977/2006 by way of the interminable, kaleidoscopic present to talk about Richard Linklater's (literally) dizzying digitally rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly.

In the first of what we're intending to be a series of conversations around the theme, Lucy joins Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) to discuss the onging events taking place in Gaza and the Western media's role in facilitating Israel's onging war on the Palestinian people. WYRD_SIGNAL is still on hiatus but we've opted to use this channel while we figure out our long term plans with this project.

In the latest in our ongoing interview series, Sean talks with horror writer and literal ex-High Priest of Set Don Webb about weird America, the Left Hand Path, and eyebrows.

Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman!

Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair

Sean is joined by none other than M. John Harrison to discuss science fiction and the limits of genre, failures of personal identity, landscape weirdness, and an untranslatable word in Portuguese. Author photograph by Hugo Glendinning (cropped and grayscaled by Lucy to fit design conventions)

Lucy and Sean take a detour from their focus on film to explore what "fucked America vibes" mean to them in musical terms through an intensely personal road trip across the post-punk/prog rock/groove metal and 90s alt. landscape

Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman! Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the full two hour episode at patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod

Sean is joined by the legendary Lee Edelman to discuss the history and (no) future of queer theory, with a brief bypass through Coronation Street

Lucy and Sean go down the rabbit hole of American Paranoia, talking conspiracy cinema of the 1970s, therapy cults, the post-60s malaise, the deep state and the confusing unreality of the American Century in Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

In our first Patreon exclusive episode of WYRD_SIGNAL, Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair Access to Patreon-exclusive episodes is $2 a month over at https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod star of th...

Lucy and Sean kick off "Fucked Americana Season" with a double bill exploring postmodernism, mediated reality and the horrors of the early and extremely contemporary internet with The Last Broadcast and Dashcam

WE ARE BACK! Completing the unplanned 'Japan Trifecta' Lucy and Sean discuss queerness, body horror and the savage, posthuman future of 1989 in Shinya Tsukamoto's legendary TETSUO: The Iron Man

In an informal supplement to our episode on Pulse Lucy and Sean discuss urban legends, ghosts and the disputed existence of J-horror as a cohesive genre or movement, and along the way do a mini-analysis of Takashi Shimizu's Marebito/稀人 (2004)

Lucy and Sean return to the dank, haunted universe of fin de siècle internet culture at the height of Japan's lost decade, encountering ghosts physical, metaphorical and digital in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's rhizomatic masterpiece PULSE/回路

Lucy and Sean get it together to belatedly wrap up WYRD_SIGNAL S3 before the dark winter of 2020 sets in by going through their recommendations for obscure, under-recognised or undeservedly maligned horror movies! Films listed: Nadja (1994) Baskin (2015) Organ (1996) A Dark Song (2016) Toad Road (2013) The Borderlands (2013)/Grave Encounters (2011) Tesis (1996) The Wailing (2016) The Legend of Hel...

Lucy interviews director, composer and writer Graham Reznick about his work from his debut with 2008's I Can See You to his 2018 series Deadwax, as well as his collaborations with Ti West and the intersections of music and film in horror of the last decade. Deadwax (2018) is available via Shudder at https://www.shudder.com/series/watch/deadwax/f0d3c8a35de5ca85?season=1 His recent music can also be...

Lucy and Sean are joined by video essayist, composer and fellow horror nerd May Leitz (@NyxFears)to explore all that is shocking, painful and unwholesome in the world of extreme cinema from the surrealist eye-gouging of Luis Buñuel to the edgelord antics of the directors of the New French Extremity as they discuss Pascal Laugier's deeply upsetting masterpiece: Martyrs

Sean and Lucy team up once again with Max Feldman to explore Sadeian liberty, the principles of Enlightenment, the history of madness, Artaud's theatre of cruelty and the still ongoing the repercussions of the French Revolution in Peter Brooke's 1967 adaptation of Peter Weiss's play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under th...

Sean and Lucy - totally twisted on frustrated wanderlust - sojourn into the sultry, introxicating climate of the Italian Peninsula to discuss Lucino Visconti's adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice - exploring the twin impulses of the Freidrich Nietzsche's Apolline and the Dionysiac, the history and theory of queerness in 19th and early 20th century Europe, Freud's essay on Narc...

Lucy and Sean get up to speed on latest developments in the wider WYRD_SIGNAL artistic and political sphere, discussing the recent passing of Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, Richard Stanley's The Color out of Space and Robert Egger's The Lighthouse [Artwork: The Hypnotist, Sascha Schneider (the 19th Century painter and scluptor whose name Lucy couldn't find during the podcas...

Lucy and Sean return - spectre-like - to discuss the core WYRD_SIGNAL tenets of Hauntology, occult technology, fringe religious ideas and weird psychology in the ontological uncertainty of Reagan's America as they tackle everyone's favourite contentious rite-of-passage teen film: Donnie Darko

Sean and Lucy are joined by journalist Max [von] Feldman for the pre-hiatus/end of season wrap party in which we participate in the dissection of Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce and the career and mind of the author of its source material: Colin Wilson

Lucy and Sean are joined by Matt Colquhoun (@xenogothic) to discuss cannibalism, art, queerness and the mythological and psychosexual dimensions of serial killing through the lens of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Series! [Apologies in advance - there are some instances of interference on the recording caused by having left the microphone next to a billowing curtain]

Lucy is joined by researcher Joe Ondrak to discuss the ontologically ambiguous history of the online fiction genre of the Creepypasta, exploring its status as literature, its various critical aspects and its uncertain future in a post-web 2.0 universe.