BERKELEY, Calif. — On the first full moon of 2016—Episode 10 of OPEN HAUS PODCAST--we're finally able, on our third attempt, to powwow at length about Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be? (2010), with sufficient flow and thoroughness to deem the resulting recording worth sharing publicly. That we're no different than Sheila and Margaux shitshooting on Sheila's voice recorder was key in having been able to make this jump.
BERKELEY, Calif. — In the first OPEN HAUS PODCAST episode of 2016, on the first new moon of 2016, we discuss Book One of Karl Ove Knausgaard's epic, 6-volume, mostly autobiographical "novel," My Struggle.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — In Episode 8 of OPEN HAUS PODCAST, we return from a month-long hiatus—for reasons discussed, or glossed over, in the episode—and try to parse through our dual reactions: (1) sympathy for a kid in a war he's too young to know why it is he's fighting; (2) bafflement at the absurdity of the world Fountain so unflinchingly conveys. NATURAL BRIDGES STATE BEACH, Calif. — In Episode 7 of OPEN HAUS PODCAST, we venture outdoors, on foot, beach-ward, in search of Vivian Maier one might say. Along the way, we talk social representation, names, and footprints that lead to water. We never find her. This episode is dedicated to Harris Wittels (1984-2015). REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — In Episode 6 of OPEN HAUS PODCAST, we humor the possibility of a post-feminist reading of Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence. It's a sunny, mid-February, afternoon in the Bay Area, so we powwow outdoors for a change; talk connections between LDR's and novelist Rachel Kushner's aesthetics; consider how broadly the male gaze pervades modern Capitalistic society, and how one might navigate a world in which all subjects, gender non-specific, are relegated, if implicitly, to roles of the submissive object. This episode is sponsored by 1STORYHAUS. Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk next. So get to readin'! REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — In Episode 5 of OPEN HAUS PODCAST, we discuss Rachel Kushner's novel, The Flamethrowers, which we each read in a fortnight—but remotely, the below conversation our first powwow since respective book-completions. The virtuosity of Kushner's prose, the complexity of Kushner's characters, and where The Flamethrowers might fall in the "waves" of feminism are some of the things we hash out. This episode is sponsored by 1STORYHAUS. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — To complete our first BAM! (Book, Album, Movie), we chose Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s most recent movie, Birdman. From this film we concluded we can all be superheroes, so long as we act out our super-heroism to loved ones. Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers next week. This episode is sponsored by publishing house/record label/travel blog 1STORYHAUS. [TEMPORARILY OFFLINE FOR "COPYRIGHT" REASONS]
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Before expressing love for Atlanta rapper Makonnen Sherantino, we park the box whip oceanside, pull up the blinds, await sundown. Once talking, we locate connections between iLoveMakonnen and last week’s Roberto Bolaño; consider implications of Makonnen’s DIY aesthetic in the context of today’s Capitalistic, information-age world; conclude that the democratization of music and the collaborative possibilities of recent technological developments are just what we need at this "critical juncture." Or something. Alejandro Iñárritu's Birdman next week. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — This week, we follow the serpent’s trail (cf. “The Detectives”) into the box van (vox ban?) to word vomit immediate reactions to, ideas provoked by, and takeaways from Roberto Bolaño’s Woes of the True Policeman, a novel we respectively ingested in a week’s time. We consider the significance of epistolary writing, discuss Bolaño’s tendency to dwell in the peripheral, and incoherently conclude that the "fragmentary" is more important than the "complete"—spouted sentences included. ATTN. EAGER BEAVERS: We will be reading Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers next. Head to you local bookstore stat. Next week in the box van, to the dismay of his PO, iLoveMakonnen and his Drink More Water series (1-5). This episode still has no sponsors. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Fledgling podcasters Shou and Rosermary on a whim venture outdoors, get comfortable, and powwow. OPEN HAUS PODCAST, they decide, or come to find, is a weekly forum wherein they shit-shoot about a book, album, or movie, agreed upon in advance—why they picked it, what it made them think about, why it might be relevant to current happenings. This episode has no sponsors. |
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