Wednesdays, occasionally
Four excerpts from Don DeLillo’s Underworld, which I reread during plague lockdown in 2020.
00:00—”Waste” (music by Charles Mingus)
06:00—”An American Sort of Thing” (music by Miles Davis)
10:50—”Quotidian” (music by Ornette Coleman)
17:25—”Denizens” (music by Endless Boogie)
A talk with writer Lucy Sante. We discuss immigration, her upcoming trip to her native Belgium, transitioning, and more. Learn about Sante at her websiteand follow her on Instagram. Read my reviews of The Other Paris and Maybe the People Would Be the Times and a newsletter about a lunch we shared in May, 2021.
I talk with Chicago writer Mallory Smart about writing, publishing, and a lot more sometime in 2021.
Ben Terrall talks with me about All Hack, Old Style, and more at The Green Arcade in San Francisco in December 2021.
I talk with collector Daniel X. O’Neil about street art, etc.
I talk with musician/artist John Vernon Forbes about Tijuana Hercules, art, music, and more.
I talk with Chicago musician Skyler Rowe about art, life, etc.
I talk collage, art, etc with Chicago artist Rebekka Federle.
Ben Terrall talks with me about Soviet Stamps and more at San Francisco’s The Green Arcade in 2020.
Kyle Beachy talks to me about Soviet Stamps at City Lit Books in 2020.
Christian TeBordo talks to me about Soviet Stamps at the late lamented Dial Bookshop in 2020.
I talk with Alan Medina, Malia Haines-Stewart, and Ashley Cooper about their storefront cinema in Pilsen for a 2018 Chicago Reader article.
I talk to Chicago painter Brian Wells about his work for a Chicago Reader article in 2018.
I talk to Stan Klein about art, music, running a gallery, and more in 2018.
I talk to Christian TeBordo at the Rainbo Club about Ghost Engine and more.
Ben Terrall interviews me about Music to My Eyes at the Green Arcade in San Francisco in 2019.
Bill Savage interviews me at Firecat Projects about my show of CTA drawings there in September 2018.
I talk to filmmaker John McNaughton and photographer/musician Paul Petraitis about the 1970 student film they shot in their Roseland neighborhood and plans to make a documentary around that footage.
(from 2018)
Tim Kinsella interviews me about Music to My Eyes etc.
I talk to Peter Prescott about his time in Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns, and more. Read the article I wrote for Aquarium Drunkard and listen to Prescott’s current band Minibeast.
In 2018, Don De Grazia and I attempted to start a movie podcast. We covered four films: Lowlife (2017), You Were Never Really Here (2017), First Reformed (2017), and The Other Side of the Wind (2018) , then threw in the towel.
My first bit of podcastage. A reading of a thing that wound up in my 2020 book All Hack about the rideshare racket and how it resembled an older type of public driving.
Music by Dexter Gordon.