Regular reminder that you really need to drop in on:
Death is just around the corner
Echo’s bones
The original conceit was kind of a late night AM radio broadcast at the end of the world, but that was dropped fairly quickly.
It’s kind of a one-take monologue format by a midwestern gothic anti-imperialist leftist who is very deeply read and was a jazz musician - troubled guy, has lots of stuff going on - wear your big boy pants when listening, but absolutely makes the most compelling podcast going.
His pods regularly destroy me, especially a recent-ish one where he went after WASP assholes cosplaying as catholic converts - being born catholic deeply traumatized me as a child, and hearing him lay it all out was both horrific and enormously compelling.
LIYL: bowie, scott walker, pynchon, religion, william t vollman, delillo, bolano, djuna barnes, william s burroughs, dos passos, Iain Sinclair, J G Ballard, esotericism, hermeneutics, marx
His ‘pean counterpart is Ghost Stories at the End of the World, similar in some ways. Worth a listen and goes down a bit easier - his subjects are much mote historical
I can’t think of any podcasts with NPR production values that will be anything but embarrassing in some years time, but these are one for the books.
