#10b - Adorable Small Business Tyrant Simulator
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Alex Ross (@Alexrosswrites) returns for part two of this examination of the indie game world via a few documentaries for part two. this time we cover the post-indie boom from around 2015-now. first we look at depressing vanity project/indie survival story "Surviving Indie" from late 2016, then we look at a surprisingly quality documentary about the indie game scene in China called "Indie Games In China" from 2018. and then in an ill-advised move... we look at this year's E3 "Wholesome Direct" stream.
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#10a - White Collar Mario From The Future
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hey everyone! for the 10th episode i've brought game academic and writer Alex Ross on board for part one of a punishingly long journey relitigating all the ridiculous things of independent game development scenes past via a few documentaries.
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#09 - We'll Be Middle-Aged Children (But So What)
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hi folks! it's 2021 now, i guess. perfect time to get back into the Cinderella story of a bunch of middle aged guys who hit the big time from the city of Dayton, Ohio.... Guided By Voices. specifically i focus on what i consider the strangest and most unique album of their catalog, 1993's Vampire on Titus.
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#08 - Hurtling Over Peak Videograme
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it's a video...grames episode! i briefly talk about cool oddball that very much bear the mark of their creators: the colorful and goofy Super Bogus World (which has a new sequel) and the very unsettling Pagan: Autogeny.
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#07 - The Great Sea Swallows Her Whole For A Treat
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greetings and apologies for the time between episodes! the music industry facing a severe downturn because of the recent pandemic and the general deluge of traumatic news has made me reflect more on smaller, more understated artistic triumphs as an antidote.
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#06 - Enduring Mock Funerals
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a journey through the myth, the legend, the phenomenon Travel Channel tv show and Ghost Bro hunter sanctum Ghost Adventures featuring special guest Ian Williams.
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#05 - Remixed Down In The Scab Hole
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hello fellow dark voyagers of the great beyond,
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#04 - That's A Dead Kid
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welcome back, universe!
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#03 - Third Eye Wide Blind
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greetings! on this very chunky special episode, i rewatched Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and talk about its various allusions and resonances to the modern day hell world we are all trudging through. major spoilers for the film.
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#02 - Trapped Inside A Soul Cube
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my brain is forever infected by worms after 15 hours of Soul Axiom, the Southland Tales of videogames... maybe? it's a bizarre and clunky videogame released in 2016 that is far more ambitious than it has any right to be. because my mind is a prison now, i talk Jeffrey Epstein, eugenics, corny indie game cliches, and the tech world. uhh oh yeah, and also a lot about Soul Axiom. is it a good game? is it a bad game? is it a "so bad it's good" game? who the hell knows anymore.
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hi folks! it's 2021 now, i guess. and all the time i spent inside with anxiety over the past year has made me far more aware of how much i'm rapidly aging into irrelevance... perfect time for my 33 year old self to get back into the Cinderella story of a bunch of middle aged guys with families who hit the big time from the city of Dayton in my home state of Ohio.... Guided By Voices. specifically i focus on what i consider to be the strangest and most unique album of their catalog, 1993's Vampire on Titus.
i also go over why i fell out with GBV over the years after my intense fandom of them in my late teens, my issues with the GBV fandom (aka cult), and the (many) things i feel like nuGBV has lost compared to the classic 90's lo-fi albums.
here's a list of things referenced in this episode:
Nuggets compilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuggets:_Original_Artyfacts_from_the_First_Psychedelic_Era,_1965%E2%80%931968
info on Record Clubs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_club
Scat Records: https://realscatrecords.com/
Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/37506059-closer-you-are
Self-inflicted Aural Nostalgia podcast episode on Vampire on Titus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h0QXtssTG0
Penny Fractions newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/pennyfractions
Future of Music Coalition: https://twitter.com/future_of_music
Liz Pelly: https://lizpelly.com/
AND MY PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
all songs used in this episode are by Guided By Voices:
"Club Molluska" from Same Place The Fly Got Smashed
"Dusted" from the Fast Japanese Spin Cycle EP
"Motor Away" from the Crying Your Knife Away live album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSJfeNKLbx0
"No. 2 in the Model Home Series" from Vampire on Titus
"Donkey School" from Vampire on Titus
"Wondering Boy Poet" from Vampire on Titus
"'Wished I Was A Giant'" from Vampire on Titus
Tim Heidecker on GBV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfG8nEhNMhk
"The Best of Jill Hives" from Earthquake Glue
"Expecting Brainchild", "Superior Sector Janitor X", "Dusted", "Marchers in Orange", "Sot", "World of Fun", "Jar of Cardinals" "E-5", "Gleemer (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)", "What About It", and "Non-Absorbing" from Vampire on Titus
"Don't Stop Now" from King Shit & The Golden Boys
"Superior Sector Janitor X" (again)
"The Old Grunt" from Mag Earwhig!
"The Weeping Boogeyman" from Universal Truths and Cycles
"Ambergris" from Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
"Pendulum" from Same Place the Fly Got Smashed