Episode 18: “Yes, It’s a Terrible Risk, and I’m Taking It” (Heart of Midnight)

To start with:

Yanni/Overture (from Heart of Midnight) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_epW6yR8e0s

Whitney Houston/I’m Your Baby Tonight* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0oRnyXxIrY

X-Men: The Animated Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk

Join Sam and Jason this month as they discuss 1988’s Heart of Midnight, as well as Steve Buscemi, The Three Mothers, the spectre of AIDS, Tamara de Lempicka, Aphex Twin/”Come To Daddy,” 3D conflict, makeup theory in Lady Vengeance and The Substance, expansive cosmic horror, The Allnighter, Hooper X, NTSC/PAL framerates, Brenda Vaccaro, garbage disposals, Everett DeRoche, “Far From Over,” liminal spaces, cigarette smoking, pink/grey dialectics, what Inferno & Total Recall have in common, the psychic toll of water damage, Sam inventing a new fighting move, Eric Prydz/”Call On Me,” road trips, the return of waterbed discourse, The Ozploit Podcast, Hawai’ian shirts as signifier, Suspiria red, a flashback to our origin episode, extensive color theory, A germ of a podcast idea for the grabbing, Odalisques with UmbyPods and disco balls, and Hider in the House.

Our theme musics are by Tim Kutz, and you can hear more of his work at theeuphoricrecall.bandcamp.com

* this was not the version released to radio and MTV in Europe, so it may sound unexpectedly different.