WYRD_SIGNAL

Lucy and Sean take take a deep dive into the queer themes present in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, exploring ideas of weirdness, degeneration, erotofascism, Freudian Narcissism and the world of Oscar Wilde and the decadents.

Lucy and Sean are joined by friend and fellow scholar of the weird, Richard Havell (@FolkParanoia) to discuss recent happenings in the world of science fiction, fantasy and the hotly anticipated adaptations of Dune and Michael Moorock's History of the Runestaff, as well as the works and legacy of Gene Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019)

Lucy and Sean make their first excursion outside of the Anglophone sphere* to explore the world of malevolent ghosts, cruel theatrics, hyperrealistic violence and the spectres of nuclear conflagration in Nobuhiko Obayashi's psychedelic fantasy horror film House/ハウス(1977) *Nosferatu doesn't count because it didn't have sound

Sean chats with YouTuber Cuck Philosophy about Mark Fisher, Joy Division and the politics of pessimism and depression.

[Episode available only to our INDIGO tier Patreon subscribers] Sean and Lucy discuss nuclear eschatology in the Age of Sin, the speculative prehistory of 17th Century UFO culture, and the peregrinations of the prophet Daniel in this first, proper inaugural Encrypted Transmission of WYRD_SIGNAL

Lucy joins the director Gabriel Gettman to discuss performance theory, Jungian psychology, Lovecraftian cosmology in contemporary horror and the uncanny realms of postmodern goblin cinema. More information on his debut short, Caecilia (2017) is available here: http://www.caeciliafilm.com/ http://www.gabrielgettman.com/

Kicking off another visionary director's non-sequential trilogy, Lucy and Sean are joined by writer and journalist Philippa Snow to plunge into the strange liminal territory of sociological metamorphoses, crime, deserts, uncomfortable parties and pornography as they discuss David Lynch's 1997 film: Lost Highway

Dispatch from the Screaming Edge of Now - Sean and Lucy explore the newly born yet fast becoming mythos of MOMO the Facebook hoax come queer icon and her predecessors in the hypersitional world of internet cryptids. [UPDATE: WYRD_SIGNAL is now on PATREON! Find out more about how to support the show at https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod]

Sean and Lucy team up with their erstwhile pal and collaborator Chris Richford to talk about cosmic horror, Hellenic philosophy, biology, computers and the death of masculinity in John Carpenter's gut-twisting masterpiece The Thing!

In this episode Lucy and Sean pay tribute to two key figures in the world of WYRD_SIGNAL: David Bowie and Nicholas Roeg, exploring the intersections of Cold War capitalism, space travel, gnosticism, time travel and the creative potential of cocaine and mirrors in the 1977 science fiction classic The Man who Fell to Earth

Sean and Lucy join Producer, DJ and Instrument Designer Lia Mice to talk about music and the techno-physicological implications of time travel. Lia's new album The Sampler as Time Machine can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5xxpAR2NmcRYj19XWrVe6v Information on Lia's work is also available via her website: https://www.liamice.com/

Lucy and Sean recall a grim Halloween night in the early 90s and discuss the hypersititonal phenomenon come collective national trauma that was BBC's 1992 'drama': Ghostwatch.

Lucy speaks with filmmaker, communist and soda enthusiast Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) about his recent films, haunted media, surrealism, 80s skater films and the state of the weird in modern cinema. Jonathan's work can be found at https://vimeo.com/getradified

Sean and Lucy team up with Elizabeth Sandifer to discuss the state and trajectory of modern cyberpunk in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017) and Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014).

Lucy and Sean trace the dark, mysterious and often bizarre currents underpinning one of the most radical periods in art history: the Weimar Republic, and the first truly great works of experimental horror cinema which arose from it, as they discuss F.W. Murnau's landmark vampire film: Nosferatu.

Sean and Lucy venture venture back to rural England of the early 1970s, drawing on the origins of folk horror from William Blake to Charles Manson to discuss Piers Haggard's brooding classic: The Blood on Satan's Claw (US title: Satan's Skin). Outro music by Belbury Poly: The Scarlet Ceremony, from The Owl's Map, Ghost Box 2006: https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/the-owls-map-0/

Lucy and Sean take a disquieting peregrination through the dark tunnels and back streets of New York to explore the urban wyrdness, conspiracy lore, psychedelic warfare and the cultural mindset of post-Vietnam America in Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder (1990).

Lucy and Sean explore a vision of an uncomfortably near future as they explore cyberpunk, robo-ethics, artificial intelligence, ambient post-modern media violence, and currents of radical Gnostic thought in Richard Stanley's Hardware (1990). References, materials and side notes are available through our Hardware megathread over on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/99419323...

Sean and Lucy journey into the woods of Maryland and into the strange new world of the post-historical century to investigate the history and cultural resonances of 1999's The Blair Witch Project. References, materials and side notes are available through our Blair Witch Project megathread over on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/986227286914584576

In this week's episode Sean and Lucy take an unpleasant trip to Montreal to encounter the weird in its most grotesque manifestation in Cronenberg's biomorphic nightmare vision: Shivers!

Sean and Lucy discuss Nicholas Roeg's psycho-supernatural horror film 'Don't Look Now', starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, based on a story by Daphne du Maurier.

Sean and Lucy discuss the landmark sci-fi/horror teleplay: Nigel Kneale's 'The Stone Tape' talking about Derrida, Marx, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, ancient aliens and occult media, in this inaugural transmission of WYRD_SIGNAL. References, materials and side notes are available through our Stone Tape megathread over on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/990254127316983808