Episode 349: A Craft Discussion of The Birth of Tragedy, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek!

12 Saturday Jan 2019

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Episode 349 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I croak with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek about the Apollonian and Dionysian origins of storytelling as explored in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.

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the birth of tragedy

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If you live in Orlando, come hear Mark and his band, Strange Angels, play jazz at the Imperial at Washburn Imports this Thursday, January 17, 2019, 8-11 PM.

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1800 N Orange BLVD / Orlando, FL 32804.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2187842224789407/

Episode 349 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode #210: Ron Cooper!

11 Saturday Jun 2016

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Episode 210 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer and philosopher Ron Cooper,

Ron Cooper

plus I chat with actor Jeremy Palko, who many of you might recognize as Andy from season 6 of The Walking Dead.

Jeremy Palko is the more handsome fellow on the right.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Gospel Of The Twin

NOTES

Check out Jeremy Palko’s website here, and So Dark’s website here.

Here’s my video of the Frank Miller event from Megacon.

Johnny Depp’s head made a brief appearance on The Walking Dead.

Check out Jeff Shuster’s first review of one of Tom Selleck’s films.

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Episode 210 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 144: Katie Farris!

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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boysgirls, Jesse Back, Katie Farris, The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

Episode 144 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk flash fiction, mythology, Cosmopolitan, the meeting of graphic and written art, and experimental writing with the fabulous Katie Farris,

plus Jesse Back writes about his spiritual, romantic, and personal evolution through Will Durant’s The History of Philosophy.

Photo by Daniel Parsons.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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The music used with “Forgetting Christianity” is “Bleached Beach” by Noveller, a one person band, that band being the amazing Sarah Lipstate.

The music at the start and finish of this episode was “Rising East” and “Chaotica” by The Bambi Molesters, an amazing surf rock band out of Croatia. “Rising East” is from their 2010 album, As the Dark Wave Swells, and “Chaotica” is from their 2004 album, Sonic Bullets: 13 From the Hip.

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Episode 144 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 125: Kent Wascom!

09 Sunday Nov 2014

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Episode 125 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I interview the novelist Kent Wascom,

Plus Ian Rogers writes about reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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The music accompanying Ian Rogers’s Essay is The Lovely Moon‘s “And We Danced Into the Night.”

The music in the introduction (“Central Coast Swing”) and conclusion (“Baia”) of this episode was by the immortal Croatian surf rock band, The Bambi Molesters.

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Episode 125 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 55: Bruce Janz!

29 Saturday Jun 2013

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Aristotle, Cinema, Creative Writing, Philosophy, Writing Podcast

Episode 55 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk to the philosopher Bruce Janz,

Plus Robert Jacobs shares his Facebook posts.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velasquez.

The painting “Resolve” from Keith Harder’s show “Children of Icarus.”

“Squadron II” from the “Dereliction of Memory” series of digital prints from Keith B. Harder’s “Children of Icarus” project.

Check out Keith B. Harder’s Children of Icarus series here.

Keith Harder’s “Shuswap.”

The Under-appreciated live-action film of Popeye, directed by Robert Altman, with fabulous music by Harry Nilsson. (I can’t vouch for the Avon novelization, though.)

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See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but anything over that will go into the show.

The Drunken Odyssey hath done Rumfest the Ninth.

Matthew Peters, Captain Morgan, and John King were drunken Odyssians on June 21st.

For a millisecond, Matthew thought he had found enough rum.

I need to move quickly.

On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown orlando.

Episode 55 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.