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Episode 253: Barry Temple!

01 Saturday Apr 2017

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animation, Art, Atlantis The Lost Empire, Barry Temple, Beauty and the Beast, Cinema, Disney, Disney history, Movies, Ralph Bakshi, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, The Mouse and His Child, Who Framed Roger Rabit?

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Barry Temple

Photo by Jared Silvia.

In this week’s episode, I talk to animator Barry Temple about his extraordinary professional experience in show business. We cover career highlights like The Mouse and His Child, Ralph Bakshi’s animated version of The Lord of the Rings, and the arc of Disney animation in the 1980s (from Don Bluth’s defection to the renaissance of Disney filmmaking). We discuss the role that perseverance and adaptation play in a successful career.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

The Mouse and His Child

The Lord of the Rings.jpg

Black CauldronWho Framed Roger RabbitRoller Coaster RabbitThe Little Mermaidbeauty beast posterThe_lion_king_poster

Mulan

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The Curator of Schlock #1: Nightmare City

09 Friday Aug 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Film, Horror, The Curator of Schlock

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Cinema, Hugo Stiglitz, Nightmare City, The Curator of Schlock, Zombies

The Curator of Schlock #1 by Jeffrey Shuster

Nightmare City

Why should you pop Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City into you’re DVD player? It’s called Nightmare City. What makes the city a nightmare city? Zombies. Lots and lots of zombies.

Apparently, somewhere in Europe there was a radioactive spill at a nuclear plant. The movie doesn’t specify if it’s a nuclear power plant or a plant that makes nukes.  Anyway, they send this scientist named Professor Otto Haggenbach over to find out what’s going on. When the good professor is scheduled to return, the local TV station sends ace reporter Dean Miller (played by Hugo Stiglitz) to interview him at the airport. A mysterious cargo plane lands and the military police are called in to yell at it with a megaphone. I could tell they were military police because their cars say POLICE on the side in big bold letters and they carry machine guns.

The door to the plane opens and lo and behold, it’s Professor Haggenbach. He looks a little frazzled, jet lagged. The Police Chief goes up greet him only to get stabbed in the chest with a pair of scissors by the good professor. The cargo bay door opens and a colony of zombies pours out. There must be about five hundred of them in there. And they’ve got axes, pipes, and other metal implements. As the hacking commences, some of the police try shooting at them with machine guns. The guns do no good and the next moment is awesome. The zombies start picking up the machine guns and using them against the humans. If zombies can use machine guns that pretty much does it for the human race.

I know what you’re thinking. Zombies can’t use machine guns. You’re probably among the same group of geeks who says robots in science fiction must always follow Asimov’s Three Laws. Let me tell you something, Italian zombies using machine guns is inspired. Not only do they use machine guns, they also wipe their mouths after feeding on people. Given time I’m sure they’d start using napkins. There’s one scene in Nightmare City where a bunch of them are clearly enjoying some Southern Comfort right from the bottle. And while these zombies attack men head on, they tend to tear off the blouse of every woman they run into.

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Typically, I’d start rooting for the zombies at this point if we weren’t presented with one of the most heroic reporters in zombie movie history. Dean Miller uses everything at his disposal. He actually sets a bunch of zombies ablaze with a television set. He beats a zombie priest to death with a golden candlestick. So kudos to Dean Miller. He may not be too easy on the eyes, but looks don’t count for much in a zombie apocalypse.

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Dean Miller is a man of action. That’s more than I can say for the generals who spend most of the movie held up in a bunker somewhere saying things like “It looks like the attackers will hit here, here, and here.” Or “Oh, it looks like the attackers dismantled the south power station. It will take hours to get it running again.” Or “Let’s not dramatize the situation and leak any news that might cause public disorder.” Hmmmm. You know what I think would lead to public disorder? An army of machine-gun-wielding undead cannibals attacking everything in sight!

I don’t want to spoil the twist ending for you.

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Jeffrey Shuster

Jeffrey Shuster is an MFA candidate and instructor at the University of Central Florida.

Episode 56: Chuck Klosterman!

04 Thursday Jul 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode, Memoir, Music, Postmodernism, Sports

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Chuck Klosterman, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David Foster Wallace, John King, Literature, Postmodernism, Sports, stephen king, Writing Podcast

Episode 56 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 essayist and novelist Chuck Klosterman,

Chuck Klosterman

Plus John McCaffrey discusses Leo Durocher’s Nice Guys Finish Last.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

I Wear the Black Hat

Downtown owl

Killing Yourself to Live

SexDrugsandCocoaPuffs

Nice Guys Finish Last

NOTES

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

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 we welcome your continued contributions to keep the show going strong!

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When I complained that Britney Spears was in Esquire back in the early paleolithic days of 2004, I confess I didn’t dwell sufficiently on what Chuck Klosteman’s article said about her cognitive dissonance, although his words were competing with Britney Spears’s anatomy at the time.

Esquire

On May 14th, 1988, Atlantic Records held a 40th Anniversary Concert during which, in my infallible opinion, and it pained me to say this, Debbie Gibson outplayed Led Zeppelin. Want to disagree? Watch the footage:

Debbie Gibson

Led Zeppelin

For the record, Jason Bonham was drumming, although I don’t this Hindenburg of a performance can be blamed on him.

According to a Times profile, Alice Munro is retiring.

According to The Guardian, Neil Gaiman is writing a new Sandman series.

Episode 56 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

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Art, Episode, Philosophy

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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,

Bruce Janz

Plus Robert Jacobs shares his Facebook posts.

Rob Jacobs

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Velasquez Juan de Pareja

The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velasquez.

Resolve

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

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“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."

Keith Harder’s “Shuswap.”

popeye

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.)

Leonard Cohen Anthem

NOTES

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.

Weeki-Wachee-Mermaids

The Drunken Odyssey hath done Rumfest the Ninth.
Matthew Peters, Captain Morgan, and John King were drunken Odyssians on June 21st.

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

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

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

I need to move quickly.

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.

Episode 54: Bloomsday in Orlando!

22 Saturday Jun 2013

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Bloomsday, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Fiction, James Joyce, Literature, Shakespeare, Ulysses, Writing Podcast

Episode 54 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 share the live Bloomsday event!

Bloomsday 2013

NOTES

See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids.

Weeki-Wachee-Mermaids

Richard Peabody, our guest on episode 45, has a new audio book of poems available through Eat Poems.  Sample the poems, then pay what you wish for the download!

Nylon Soul

On Saturday, June 22, from 5 to 8, The Drunken Odyssey will sink anchor here:

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Here’s this week’s book:

Episode 54 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 43: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

06 Saturday Apr 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Music, Poetry

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Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Literature, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare, Theatre, Writing Podcast

Episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I talk to the poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram,

Lillian Yvonne Bertram

Plus James Best discusses Gatsby.

James Best

Texts Discussed

Carlton Melton’s Photos of Photos.

Photos Of Photos

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

titus andronicus

Music for this week’s essay provided by Carlton Melton.

Daybreak

Princess Parizade

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Grrr: Amazon buys Goodreads.com.

The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

 Episode 43 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 42: Stephen Elliott, Isaac Fitzgerald, & The Rumpus!

29 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Episode

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Burrow Press, Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Isaac Fitzgerald, Literature, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare, Stephen Elliott, stephen king, The Rumpus, Theatre, Titus Andronicus

Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, I talk to Stephen Elliott and Isaac Fitzgerald of

 Stephen Elliot/Isaac Fitzgerald

plus Astrid Cook writes about Stephen King’s The Stand.

Astrid Cook

Texts Discussed

Happy Baby

The Adderall Diaries

About Cherry

Isaac Fitzgerald’s Why I Agreed to be a Bend-over Boyfriend.

The Stand

Things Fall Apart

Notes

Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Titus Andronicus runs through April 28.

titus andronicus

Music for this week’s essay provided by Zelda Re-orchestrated.

Chinua Achebe, Literary Titan, dies at 82.

Episode 42 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 34: Stephen Burdman!

01 Friday Feb 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Shakespeare

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Cinema, Creative Writing, Literature, Shakespeare, Theatre, Writing Podcast


Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I talk Shakespeare with Stephen Burdman, the artistic director of New York Classical Theatre,

Stephen Burdman

New York Classical Theatre

Plus Bronte Bettencourt talks about Lestat.

Bronte Bettencourt

Texts Discussed:

HamletThe Vampire Lestat

Notes

Laurence Olivier’s screenplay adaptation of his never-filmed Macbeth has been found, according to The Guardian.

Barnes and Noble will be closing 20 stores a year for the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Throughout February, Rollins College will be hosting its annual author series,Winter with the Writers.

Orlando Shakespeare Theatre presents Othello, now through March 16th.

Episode 34 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 31: Grant Ginder!

13 Sunday Jan 2013

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf

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Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, David Lipsky, Fiction, Literature, Shakespeare

Episode 31 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s show, I interview novelist Grant Ginder,

Grant Ginder

Plus Tim J. Myers discusses Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are,

Tim Myers

Texts Discussed

Driver's Education
This is How it Starts
Where The Wild Things Are
This is How You Lose Her
Tom Ameen Solo Piano Moments
Notes

The Drunken Odyssey has its first video posting!  Presenting Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International (the video version of episode 26).

Martin Amis at Miami Bookfair International 2012 from John King on Vimeo.

David Bowie’s new song, “Where Are We Now?”

Is Barnes and Noble in Trouble?

Episode 31 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

13 Girls on Episode 13!

31 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Craft of Fiction Writing, Drinking, Episode

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Cinema, Craft of Writing, Creative Writing, Crime Fiction, Fiction, Literature, Writing Podcast

Episode 13 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On Episode 13, I talk to Mikita Brottman about her latest book, 13 Girls,

J.J. Anselmi discusses Lauren Slater’s Lying,

and I answer mail to the entrancing tunes of The Tequila Worms.

 Texts Discussed

The Tequila Worms have generously offered their album Cantina as a free download.

Episode 13 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
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