Wyatt reads an excerpt from Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, while Dave provides the drones.

We watched a playthrough of video game auteur Hideo Kojima’s lost vision, P.T., and used that as a jumping-off point for some impassioned rambling about the state of media.

Notes:

P.T. (game)

Hideo Kojima

P.T. conspiracy video

Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar

Milhouse’s dad getting fired

Old Boy (film)

The Pick-Axe Murders by Cannibal Corpse

Kitsune

Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga

Death Stranding (game)

AOS tarot deck

Thoth deck Death card

Marseille deck Death card

Doki Doki Literature Club! (game)

Dust Bowl

Old man yells at cloud

Slitterhead (game)

Music by Çhåkrå Pånōptįkōn

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To close out our month of anime, we’re joined by Justin Sevakis to discuss 1987 anthology film Robot Carnival!

Notes:

Robot Carnival

Anime News Network

A-Ha Take On Me music video

Seiko Matsuda

NFB animation

Heavy Metal (film)

Streets of Fire (film)

The Power Station (band)

South Park “Major Boobage” episode

Yukihiro Takahashi

Katamari Damacy (game)

The Adventures of Naughty Monkey

Mezzo Forte (film)

Fantasia Czernobog sequence

Fist of the North Star (film)

Memories (film)

Fordlandia

Liquid Television

animeigo.com

mediaocd.com

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 dystopian sci-fi / body horror extravaganza, is rightly regarded as one of (if not the) best anime films of all time. With that in mind, how much more do we really think there is to say about it? Two hours more!

Notes:

Akira (anime) by Katsuhiro Otomo

Akira (manga) by Katsuhiro Otomo

Kazuo Umezu

Junji Ito

C. Spencer Yeh

Weeb

Kaneda bike slide compilation

Brought to Light by Alan Moore

Paprika by Satoshi Kon

known(1) by Autechre

The Incal by Moebius & Jodorowsky

Luxor hotel elevator

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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An addendum to our Ghost in the Shell episode, wherein Wyatt extolls the healing powers of Kenji Kawai’s score.

Notes:

M01 Chant One - Making of Cyborg by Kenji Kawai

Age Of by Oneohtrix Point Never

The Ghost of a Flea by William Blake

Nick Land

Weird Studies Episode 36: On Hyperstition

Paul Erdos

Meltdown by Nick Land (video by Orphan Drift)

No Maps For These Territories (William Gibson documentary)

Music by Hoofwerk

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We begin our protracted anime reverie with stone-cold classic Ghost in the Shell.

Notes:

Ghost in the Shell (anime) by Mamoru Oshii

Ghost in the Shell (manga) by Shirow Masamune

Rationalizing Brutality: The Cultural Legacy of the Headshot by Jacob Geller

Banana extinction

Clear by Cybotron

Kowloon Walled City

Suffering, Misery, Death by Hoofwerk

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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Story time again! Wyatt reads William Gibson’s Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), once more over Dave’s darkest drones.

Notes:

Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) by William Gibson

Agrippa gallery

Music by David Paha

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Four-time guest Sam Jones returns to the podcast to discuss Frank Henenlotter’s 1982 exploitation masterpiece, Basket Case!

Notes:

Basket Case (film)

Sam Jones

Hotel Broslin site

The photo Sam is describing

Simpsons evil twin episode

Tony Harrison (Mighty Boosh character)

Eagleman commercial

Mia Goth screaming clip

Xasthur - Prison of Mirrors

Sunn O))) - It Took the Night to Believe

Belial

Vampire’s Kiss Nic Cage scene

Deep-voiced cat video

Intro & outro by Annelise Baer

Music by David Paha

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