Guest: Melinda Baldwin of Physics Today.
First broadcast March 29 2019.
“There were other consequences, don’t you think?”
Guest: Melinda Baldwin of Physics Today.
First broadcast March 29 2019.
“There were other consequences, don’t you think?”
This 1992 album is celebrated as one of the best of the era but we look at the dysfunctional, toxic relationships between the five band members, and we find that the pressures of the music business, touring, and getting older, led to internal conflicts that made it harder for Faith No More to just be a group of goofy weirdos.
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Guests: Cynthia Kutka, Georgia Tech Library
First broadcast March 22, 2019
Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2019/03/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-march-22nd-new-library-new-librarian-episode-417/
“Is a library like a band?”
This 1967 British TV show is revered as a cult classic that was radical and countercultural, while symbolizing philosophical arguments about individualism vs. collectivism. We take a deeper look at star Patrick McGoohan and the commercial interests behind the show to ask if it’s ultimately more conservative than pop culture likes to remember.
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Guest: Nick Sturm of Georgia Tech.
First broadcast on March 16 2019.
“Bringing them into these materials is just amazing to me.”
This 1979 collection of essays attempts to reveal the 1960s and California as stories without narratives. We discuss how Didion’s work was branded because of her gender, class, and lack of politics, despite her insistence that writing was only an attempt to make sense out of chaos.
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What happens when you can’t have what you want, when you want it?
Music: “The Informant” by Steelism, “Modulation of the Spirit” by Little Glass Men, “City in Ruins” by Máscaras, and “Boop” by Podington Bear.
Part 2 of AUTHORS
Guest: Monica Miller of Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
First broadcast August 7 2015.
Playlist at http://www.wrek.org/?p=12577
“What are thinking of when you say ‘weird Georgia’?”
This 2015 Indian romantic comedy uses a meta-narrative to deconstruct expectations about identity and everyday life. We question the assumptions writer/director Imtiaz Ali makes about gender roles, while wondering how much the real infidelity between the lead actors complicated the film’s big theme.
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Guest: Ezra Furman
First broadcast March 1 2019.
“Ambiguity is a major building block of queerness, and Lou Reed may be the most ambiguous rock star who ever lived.”