Crushing Disappointment Crushing Disappointment
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- Gesellschaft und Kultur
Matt is a mediocre man from the Midlands who surrounds himself with more interesting people. He’s here to chat with them about their first crushes.
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Stand by Me
"It's like God gave you something man. All those stories that you can make up, and He said, "This is what we got for you kid, try not to lose it.""
Welcome to Episode #32 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Annie about her crush on Stand by Me (1986).
Disappointments Does you being awkward absolve you of making people uncomfortable? In the intro, would it have sounded more adult to say "one of my closest friends" instead of "one of my best friends"? Did you give up editing the clicks?
Stand by Me (1986) - Trivia - IMDb -
Emma Goldman
"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus."
Welcome to Episode #31 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Emma Goldman.
Disappointments: Is it called the Britannia Encyclopedia? In the 1890s, would you need to fill in an application to live in a brothel? Have you got worse at enunciating? How do you manage to speak quickly but with no energy? Do you need to make it clearer when you are quoting?
Emma Goldman: Living My Life
Loyal Books (Podcast): Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
Penny A. Weiss & Loretta Kensinger: Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman
Paul Avrich & Karen Avrich: Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
Alix Kates Shulman: Dances with Feminists (Women's Review of Books, Vol. IX, no. 3, December 1991)
The History Channel: Haymarket Riot
Britannica Encyclopedia: Homestead Strike -
Cindi Mayweather
"I imagined Many Moons in the sky lighting the way to freedom"
Welcome to Episode #30 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Cindi Mayweather.
Disappointments: Was this too ambitious? Should you have used more sources than just those you found by searching "Cindi Mayweather" on Google Scholar? Should you have just left this to people who are better equipped to discuss race, class, and gender?
Black Girls Code
Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Cassandra L. Jones: “Tryna Free Kansas City” The Revolutions of Janelle Monáe as Digital Griot
Daylanne K. English and Alvin Kim: Now We Want Our Funk Cut Janelle Monáe’s Neo-Afrofuturism
D.A. Hassler-Forest: The Politics of World-Building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand
Nathalie Aghoro : Agency in the Afrofuturist Ontologies of Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe
Grace D. Gipson: Afrofuturism's Musical Princess Janelle Monáe: Psychedelic Soul Message Music Infused with a Sci-Fi Twist
Anders Liljedahl: Recalling the (Afro)future: Collective Memory and the Construction of Subversive Meanings in Janelle Monáe's Metropolis-Suites
Aleksandra Szaniawska: Gestural Refusals, Embodied Flights Janelle Monáe’s Vision of Black Queer Futurity
Jana Baró González: The ArchAndroid: Cyborg Consciousness in Janelle Monáe’s Cindi Mayweather Saga
E. van Soldt: “Black Girl Magic, Y‟all Can‟t Stand It”: On Afrofuturism and intersectionality in Janelle Monáe‟s Dirty Computer
Darieus Antonino Za Gara II: Finding Moments of Rupture in Monáe's Metropolis: A Hybrid Tradition
Brianne A. Painia: “My Crown Too Heavy Like the Queen Nefertiti”: A Black Feminist Analysis of Erykah Badu, Beyoncé Knowles, Nicki Minaj, and Janelle Monáe
Afrofuturists, Sci-Fi authors and other interesting people to follow on twitter: Ytasha Womack, Ingrid LaFleur, Cassandra L. Jones, Nnedi Okorafor, Tananarive Due, N. K. Jemisin
Nnedi Okorafor's tweet - "I DO NOT WRITE AFROFUTURISM." and her definitions of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism here.
Ytasha Womack - Afrofuturism Imagination and Humanity
TEDxFortGreeneSalon - Ingrid LaFleur - Visual Aesthetics of Afrofuturism
Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa | Nnedi Okorafor
Ytasha Womack L. Womack: Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
What does the Afrofuture say?
Articles about Janelle Monáe
Elizabeth Sandifer: A Short Guide to Janelle Monáe and the Metropolis Saga
Aja Romano (Vox): Janelle Monáe’s body of work is a masterpiece of modern science fiction
Geoffrey Himes (Paste Magazine): Janelle Monáe: Imagining Her Own Future
Charles Pulliam-Moore (Gizmodo): From Metropolis to Dirty Computer: A Guide to Janelle Monáe's Time-Traveling Musical Odyssey
YouTube Videos about Haraway
I took the idea of "A Cyborg Manifesto" arguing for a 'posthumanism that is culturally and socially specific' from Rosanna McNamara, '15 Minutes of Utopia - A Cyborg Manifesto'
& I took the comparison between the Cyborg and Marx's conception of capitalism producing the tools to destroy itself from "Theory and Philosophy"'s Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto"
Janelle Monáe Emotion Pictures mentioned
Many Moons
Tightrope
Q.U.E.E.N.
Primetime
Dirty Computer -
Wallace Wood
"I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again."
Welcome to Episode #29 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to himself about his crush on Wallace Wood.
Disappointments: Is "being pretty excitement" correct English? Did you intend to speak in a different tone in the bits you added later? How many times to you say "Starger and Spurlock"?
Steve Starger and J. David Spurlock: Wally's World: The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Wally Wood. The World's Second-Best Comic Book Artist
Bhob Stewart & J. Michael Catron: The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 1
Bhob Stewart & J. Michael Catron: The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Volume 2
Qiana Whitted: EC Comics: Race, Shock & Social Protest
Sean Howe: Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
Marvel in the Silver Age: Daredevil: Hooray for Wally Wood
Matt Seneca: An Erection Four Decades Long: The Pornography of Wally Wood
The Jock and Nerd Podcast: The 50th Anniversary of Wally Wood’s Red Daredevil (09/10/2015)
Chris and Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill: Episode 148 - Wally Wood’s Gang Bang #1 (1980)
Comic book artist Ken Landgraf demonstrates Wally Wood style lighting techniques
HOW TO INK: Studying Inking Masters Episode 4 - Moebius, Wally Wood, P Craig Russell, & more
Wikipedia page from Shock Suspenstories
Tatjana Wood's colours on Swamp Thing with comparisons to the new colours here and here
Some Featured Wallace Wood Comics
My World (Weird Science #22)
The Guilty! (Shock SuspenStories #3)
In Gratitude (Shock SuspenStories #11)
Perimeter (Frontline Combat #15)
The Disney Memorial Orgy
My Word (Big Apple Comix #1) -
Shah Rukh Khan
"If she loves you then she will turn around and see you ... turn ... turn!"
Welcome to Episode #28 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Shandana about her crush on Shah Rukh Khan.
Disappointments: How is it possible that you still don't know how to use a microphone? Do you have any new questions, ideas, thoughts? Did you not think about how to end the episode?
Nosheen Iqbal (The Guardian): Shah Rukh Khan: ‘My success is all down to the women I’ve worked with’
Khandaan- A Bollywood Podcast
Julien Cayla: Following the Endorser's Shadow: Shah Rukh Khan and the Creation of the Cosmopolitan Indian Male
Neelam Sidhar Wright: Bollywood and Postmodernism Popular Indian Cinema in the 21st Century
My Next Guest with David Letterman and Shah Rukh Khan
Sonia Mariam Thomas (Buzzfeed): The Undeniable Misery Of Being A Shah Rukh Khan Fan Today
Richard Dyer: Entertainment & Utopia
Sunny Singh: The Road to Rāmarājya: Analysing Shah Rukh Khan’s Parallel Text in Commercial Hindi Cinema
Podcast Recommendations
Thirst Aid Kit
Into It with Elle Collins
Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces -
Mia Sara
"I want to thank you for your warmth and compassion."
Welcome to Episode #27 of Crushing Disappointment. Matt chats to Alek about his crush on Mia Sara.
Disappointments: How did you forget Matthew Broderick's name? Do you know how to set up the microphones? Should you have known Uncle Buck was a John Hughes film?
Michael Leader (Den of Geek): Looking back at Ridley Scott's Legend
Ed Power (The Telegraph): Ridley Scott’s beautiful dark twisted fantasy: the making of Legend
Antonio Sanna: “A Villainous Appetite: Erôs, Madness, and the Food Analogy in Hannibal and Legend”
Matt Rodgers (HeyUGuys): Legend 1985 Retrospective
Martin Morse Wooster: Angry classrooms, vacant minds: what's happened to our high schools?
Roz Kaveney: Teen dreams: Reading Teen Film from Heathers to Veronica Mars