Comments on: Cast, pod http://sararyan.com/2007/03/cast-pod/ Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:48:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: intothebassment http://sararyan.com/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1611 intothebassment Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:12:11 +0000 http://oscorp.net/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1611 Other YA fiction that you think is good and would like to promote people to read (or listen to). Good is obviously a very broad word, so it could be whatever you wanted. Other YA fiction that you think is good and would like to promote people to read (or listen to). Good is obviously a very broad word, so it could be whatever you wanted.

]]> By: compound http://sararyan.com/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1610 compound Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:36:46 +0000 http://oscorp.net/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1610 I second that proposal! No, really. I would have suggested <i>Me & Edith Head</i>, but it kinda defeats the purpose, if you can't see the costumes or dress-making process. I second that proposal! No, really.

I would have suggested Me & Edith Head, but it kinda defeats the purpose, if you can’t see the costumes or dress-making process.

]]> By: tugboatcity http://sararyan.com/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1609 tugboatcity Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:20:40 +0000 http://oscorp.net/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1609 a radio play version of Flytrap. a radio play version of Flytrap.

]]> By: signifier http://sararyan.com/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1608 signifier Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:11:02 +0000 http://oscorp.net/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1608 My copy is sadly on the East Coast while I'm on the West, but it's essentially a very free-form monologue with lots of readings, called "Sixty Minutes More or Less with Madame Psychosis." Amazon's search tool reveals that a good Madame-Psychosis-in-the-studio section begins around Pg. 183. "Once last year, Madame Psychosis had the student engineer write out the home-lab process for turning uranium oxide powder into good old fissionable U-235. Then she read it on the air between a Baraka poem and a critique of the Steeler defense's double-slot secondary. It's something a bright high-schooler could cook and took less than three minutes to read on-air and didn't involve one classified procedure or one piece of hardware not gettable from any decent chemical-supply outlet in Boston, but there was no small unpleasantness about it from the M.I.T. administration, which it's well-known M.I.T. is in bed with Defense. The hot-fuel recipe was the one bit of verbal intercourse the engineer's had with Madame Psychosis that didn't involve straight levels and cues." Oh, here's another passage describing the sorts of stuff she reads: "Like for months in the spring semester of Y.D.P.A.H. she referred to her own program as 'Madame's Downer-Lit Hour' and read depressing book after depressing book--<i>Good Morning, Midnight</i> and <i>Maggie: A Girl of the Streets</i> and <i>Giovanni's Room</i> and <i>Under the Volcano</i>, plus a truly ghasty Bret Ellis period during Lent--in a monotone, really slowly, night after night...The background music is both predictable and, within that predictability, surprising: it's periodic. It suggests expansion without really expanding. It leads up to the exact kind of inevitability it denies. It is heavily digital, but with something of a choral bouquet. But unhuman. Mario thinks of the word <i>haunting</i>, like in 'a haunting echo of thus-and-such.'" (And one thing in particular the name Madame Psychosis evokes is metempsychosis, one of <i>Infinite Jest</i>'s many <i>Ulysses</i> jokes...) My copy is sadly on the East Coast while I’m on the West, but it’s essentially a very free-form monologue with lots of readings, called “Sixty Minutes More or Less with Madame Psychosis.” Amazon’s search tool reveals that a good Madame-Psychosis-in-the-studio section begins around Pg. 183. “Once last year, Madame Psychosis had the student engineer write out the home-lab process for turning uranium oxide powder into good old fissionable U-235. Then she read it on the air between a Baraka poem and a critique of the Steeler defense’s double-slot secondary. It’s something a bright high-schooler could cook and took less than three minutes to read on-air and didn’t involve one classified procedure or one piece of hardware not gettable from any decent chemical-supply outlet in Boston, but there was no small unpleasantness about it from the M.I.T. administration, which it’s well-known M.I.T. is in bed with Defense. The hot-fuel recipe was the one bit of verbal intercourse the engineer’s had with Madame Psychosis that didn’t involve straight levels and cues.”

Oh, here’s another passage describing the sorts of stuff she reads: “Like for months in the spring semester of Y.D.P.A.H. she referred to her own program as ‘Madame’s Downer-Lit Hour’ and read depressing book after depressing book–Good Morning, Midnight and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Giovanni’s Room and Under the Volcano, plus a truly ghasty Bret Ellis period during Lent–in a monotone, really slowly, night after night…The background music is both predictable and, within that predictability, surprising: it’s periodic. It suggests expansion without really expanding. It leads up to the exact kind of inevitability it denies. It is heavily digital, but with something of a choral bouquet. But unhuman. Mario thinks of the word haunting, like in ‘a haunting echo of thus-and-such.’”

(And one thing in particular the name Madame Psychosis evokes is metempsychosis, one of Infinite Jest‘s many Ulysses jokes…)

]]> By: thisisnotanlj http://sararyan.com/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1607 thisisnotanlj Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:37:39 +0000 http://oscorp.net/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1607 i am intimidated by the enormousness of <i>infinite jest</i> (yes, i know, totally unjustified coming from a woman who utterly loves <i>jonathan strange and mr. norrell</i>, moving on...) and thus do not know the reference. explain? expand? the name madame psychosis is certainly evocative... i am intimidated by the enormousness of infinite jest (yes, i know, totally unjustified coming from a woman who utterly loves jonathan strange and mr. norrell, moving on…) and thus do not know the reference. explain? expand? the name madame psychosis is certainly evocative…

]]> By: kiplet http://sararyan.com/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1606 kiplet Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:31:34 +0000 http://oscorp.net/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1606 Found art! Randomly dial up some internet content and read it aloud. Theatrical interpretations of spam poetry! Found art! Randomly dial up some internet content and read it aloud. Theatrical interpretations of spam poetry!

]]> By: signifier http://sararyan.com/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1605 signifier Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:02:36 +0000 http://oscorp.net/2007/03/cast-pod/#comment-1605 I always imagine a podcast that would be something along the lines of Madame Psychosis's radio show from <i>Infinite Jest</i>. I always imagine a podcast that would be something along the lines of Madame Psychosis’s radio show from Infinite Jest.

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