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Podcast encountering the spectres of the 20th century via cult film, fringe literature, strange sounds and haunted landscapes.
[Now on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod]
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Palestine, the media and the manufacture of consent
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. -
episode: 041_INTERVIEW_SERIES [010] Don Webb
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.
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[UNLOCKED] episode - 038_THE_MOTHMAN_PROPHECIES - Pellington (2002)
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!
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[UNLOCKED] episode - 035_WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Schoenbrun (2021)
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
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episode: 040_INTERVIEW_SERIES [009] M_John_Harrison
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) -
episode: 039_MUSIC_OF_FUCKED_AMERICA - Various Artists (1981-1994)
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