The Wonder Of It All

A podcast about everything by Sean McTiernan

Subscribe To Self Pity 03/25/2022

Subscribe To Self Pity I've got a new show with Alex Degen! It's basically Calling All Units with another, funnier guy there who knows more. It's about everything! It's just 45 minutes! We've got jokes! /episode/index/show/ttv/id/22574927

#23 - Navigation: Imprisonment 04/05/2018

#23 - Navigation: Imprisonment “But it must not be forgotten that ‘politics’ has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of the military model as a fundamental means of preventing civil disorder.” - Michel Foucault Sponsor: subnormality.ca email: [email protected] /episode/index/show/ttv/id/6445657

APB: Listen To All Units 06/05/2017

APB: Listen To All Units The Wonder Of It All continues to stagger along but I've got a more regular, more focused podcast you might be interested in. twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook.com/comeinallunits allunits.libsyn.com https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/all-units/id1241776225 /episode/index/show/ttv/id/5419230

#30 - The Truth Is Out There 05/23/2017

#30 - The Truth Is Out There I talk about Twin Peaks and tv recaps. Yes, even here you aren't safe from Twin Peaks. /episode/index/show/ttv/id/5383084

#29 - Better Living Through Condiments 05/01/2017

#29 - Better Living Through Condiments How making your own condiments can make you incrementally better at cooking in general with no lesson that can be applied to life in general. /episode/index/show/ttv/id/5315967

#28 - Explaining Paragraph Breaks To A Handgun 04/25/2017

#28 - Explaining Paragraph Breaks To A Handgun I examine Ian Bogost's Atlantic article Video Games Are Better Without Stories and ask the all-important question: whose mans is this? /episode/index/show/ttv/id/5298547

#27 - The Interior Crocodile Alligator School Of Experience 04/08/2017

#27 - The Interior Crocodile Alligator School Of Experience (AKA Interior Crocodile Alligator:The Cultural Rot Of Mystery Science Theater) /episode/index/show/ttv/id/5248128

#26 - If I Am Not Tongue But Ears 02/14/2017

#26 - If I Am Not Tongue But Ears I talk about Accidental Death Of An Anarchist and Death By Hanging and, in the process, harp on about the prison of language once again. /episode/index/show/ttv/id/5085334

#25 - Evil Is An Exact Science 02/08/2017

#25 - Evil Is An Exact Science I talk about the Resident Evil movies for 45 minutes. Sorry. /episode/index/show/ttv/id/5067616

#24 - Heroes 01/21/2017

#24 - Heroes I'm joined by Brandon Soderberg to discuss his article Heroes in depth. It's a good idea to read the article before listening to this episode http://www.citypaper.com/news/features/bcpnews-heroes-20170103-htmlstory.html /episode/index/show/ttv/id/5012245

#23 - You Can Never Know You're Dead 12/07/2016

#23 - You Can Never Know You're Dead Relying on trees to accept that the axe handle is one of their own /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4895732

#22 - Dick Gibson And Bowling Alone 11/29/2016

#22 - Dick Gibson And Bowling Alone I talk about Stanley Elkin's novel The Dick Gibson Show before giving out about young people until my voice starts to give way. /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4870154

#21 - Executive Action 11/15/2016

#21 - Executive Action I talk about 1973 film Executive Action. /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4834444

#20 - Citizen Shane/Anytown USA 11/08/2016

#20 - Citizen Shane/Anytown USA I talk about two documentaries that roughly revolve around elections. /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4813869

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #31 - Dracula: Pages From A Virgin’s Diary 10/31/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #31 - Dracula: Pages From A Virgin’s Diary With the Great @hipped "The talkie, with the Depression, cast the world back into the blind hole. Each new film reproduces the effect of Hallelujah, threatens us with depression, with panic and can at best show us nothing more than those who escape from it, the last to have reached climax just before the deluge. The talkie dumped us back into the most sinister part of the Judeo-Christian con-game. It is the end of a fraternity." - Jean-Jacques Abrahams, Fuck The Talkies /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4788864

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #30 - Messiah Of Evil 10/30/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #30 - Messiah Of Evil With the great Brandon Soderberg () “There is no life on the earth without the dead in the earth.”— Veljko Petrovic, The Earth /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4786800

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #29 - Angst 10/29/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #29 - Angst with the great @funkyassdg It can’t hurt you, so what are you getting excited about? You’re a skeleton; nothing hurts a skeleton. —Jakov Lind, 1962 /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4784976

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #28 - White Of The Eye 10/28/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #28 - White Of The Eye "The crookedness of the Darkness was lack of perception, namely the illusion that there is no one above him." - Gnostic Scriptures, The Paraphrase of Shem /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4782609

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #27 - Anguish 10/27/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #27 - Anguish "You realize that to experience the projected ﬁgures on the movie theater screen as life-size involves the reduction of your own body to the size of a doll, while with television, conversely, you must mentally blow yourself up to the size of a giant to account for the minuscule scale of the ﬁgures on the small screen" - Mike Kelley /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4778967

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #26 - Pulse 10/26/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #26 - Pulse "If, for the first machine age, the preferred metaphor for the house was industrial, a “machine for living in”, the second machine age would perhaps privilege the medical: the house as at once prosthesis and prophylactic. In the Corbusian ‘home of man’ technology took the form of more or less benign ‘object-types’ and perfectly controlled environments… The line between nature and machine, between organic and inorganic, seemed crystal clear… Now, the boundaries between organic and inorganic, blurred by cybernetic and bio-technologies, seem less sharp; the body, itself invaded and reshaped by technology, invades and permeates the space outside, even as this space takes on dimensions that themselves confuse the inner and the outer…" - Anthony Vidler /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4777685

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #25 - #Horror 10/25/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #25 - #Horror "To represent is already a murder." —Georges Bataille, 1952 /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4773356

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #24 - Possibly In Michigan 10/24/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #24 - Possibly In Michigan with the great Mairead (@20000TinyJars) "Puppets, mannequins, waxworks, automatons, dolls, painted scenery, plaster casts, dummies, secret clockworks, mimesis and illusion: all form a part of the fetishist’s magic and artful universe. Lying between life and death, animated and mechanic, hybrid creatures and creatures to which hubris gave birth, they all may be liked to fetishes. And, as fetishes, they give us, for a while, the feeling that a world not ruled by our common laws does exist, a marvelous and uncanny world." Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4769022

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #23 - Body Snatchers 10/23/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #23 - Body Snatchers With the great Neil Bahadur http://nbahadur.tumblr.com/ "The humility of his pain made me feel ashamed. In order to leave him without remorse I insulted him. I was able to do so since he loved me to the point of devotion. He gave me a woebegone look, but it was charged with a poor wretch's hatred" - Jean Genet, Thief's Journal /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4767173

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #22 - Paperhouse 10/22/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #22 - Paperhouse "Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. Both enhance and protect life, yet both can stifle, lay waste, spread out of all control. Both may be used to guard intimacy or to invade it, to nurture or to consume it." - Sissella Bok, 1982 /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4765324

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #21 - They Have Changed Their Face 10/21/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #21 - They Have Changed Their Face "There had been blood. Money and blood. All shoptalk, all expertise had a quality of battle about it, of exultation in the escape from danger. Something was always at stake, every moment you lived. No one could ever really afford to tell the truth. Even after hours, when the store was closed. But sometimes the truth was so good you couldn’t keep it to yourself" - Stanely Elkin, A Bad Man /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4764026

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #20 - Ginger Snaps 10/20/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #20 - Ginger Snaps "... consider how the female body is made to materialize monstrous qualities by systems of power claiming knowledge of its corporeal signs, how these monstrous qualities are marked as secrets, and how these monstrous secrets become a commodity to be dispensed within these same systems of power. " - Sarah Allison Miller, Medieval Monstrosity and The Female /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4759337

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #19 - No Telling 10/19/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #19 - No Telling "Pain seems to play a part in the process, and the way in which we gain new knowledge of our organs during painful illnesses is perhaps a model of the way by which in general we arrive at the idea of our own body" - Freud, The Ego And The Id /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4757345

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #18 - Sleepwalker 10/18/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #18 - Sleepwalker "...the menace is more stimulating when you're not confronting it up close" - Kathe Kollwitz /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4753994

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #17 - One For The Road 10/17/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #17 - One For The Road "But seriousness commands us to recognize that it’s the multitude of laws that is responsible for this multitude of crimes." - Marquis de Sade /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4749842

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #16 - The Shout 10/16/2016

Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #16 - The Shout "Waving his arms about, slowly. The music’s getting hotter. He stares out over his arm, half in the dark, he looks, his look is, incredibly intense. The ﬁre comes back faint, then stronger. He seems to be wavering on the spot, half hunched-up, his arms close in to his chest. It’s like he’s doing some strange dance but he can’t quite balance" - Fionna Banner, The Nam /episode/index/show/ttv/id/4747779

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