The Gas Giants End of Year Roundup!

If you're staying in waiting for guests, or seeing if the postman will bring you your Trump Guitar, or just wondering about some resolutions, let us keep you company...

Dec 27, 2024

Transcript

Let’s start on a positive note, even though I don’t know why we bother with these links, nobody ever clicks on them…

Film

Gav really enjoyed Rodrigo Areias’s biopic of Charles Augustus Howell…

Tina Satter’s blow by blow account of the interrogation of Reality Winner…

…and the attempt by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt, to unravel the complicated history of Billy Tipton.

Tom finally got to see F for Fake…

1974’s The Card That Ate Paris…

1957’s Mysterians..

ON THE SMALL SCREEN, Gav had a lot of fun with the ARD’s centenary celebration of Franz Kafka. Link HERE, you may need a VPN to watch it, but it’s well worth it. I’m fairly sure that sooner or later it’ll get sold to every TV network in the world.

…and the WORST Films…

Tom found Michael Mann’s Ferrari biopic unintentionally hilarious. Guardian review, (that largely agreed with him), HERE.
Gav watched most of The Pope’s Exorcist thinking it was a particularly high pitched piece of satire. It was only when he realised that it was supposed to be taken seriously that he stopped watching. Guardian review HERE.

Books

Gav was enthralled to discover Jospeh Fulkerson’s “East Jesus Nowhere”. If you’d like to investigate this further, HERE is a link
Thomas Hüetlin’s book Berlin,24 Juni 1922 seems to be only available in German at the moment, HERE is a link to it. Let’s hope it gets translated soon.
Robin D.G. Kelley’s book on Thelonius Monk is the kind of serious, scholarly biography that we’ve all been waiting for. Guardian review HERE.
Tom liked the collaboration between Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber, Cities Made Differently - Try Imagining Another Urban existence. Text HERE, buy the book HERE. The discussion also touched on Tom’s solo album “The Form of Space”, link to the soundcloud page HERE.

Music

Recorded

Tom REALLY loved him some Azerbaijani Guitar, link for the album on Bandcamp HERE
Gav was thrilled by Geordie Greep’s latest outing. He’s on tour at the moment and just posted this…
Gav also caught up with an older album this year…

Live

Gav checked out the Marina Schlagintweit Large Ensemble at ünterfahrt.

…and checked out Bill Evans at the Porto Drum Show. HERE is a link to the master’s website.

Online

News & Politics

Tom Recommends the Youtube Channel History Legends
…and also the London Review of Books podcast, particularly the episode about Grenfell HERE.
Gav likes Rosalux History, link HERE , and Wohlstand für alle, Link HERE , but you’re probably so hip, you knew about this already.

Entertainment

Gav’s Monday mornings have been greatly brightened by the Here Comes the Guillotine podcast, link HERE. He also enjoyed BBC Radio 4’s drama The Lovecraft Investigations, link HERE.

Our Youtube Channels

Tom’s channel, guitar stuff and Dog videos is HERE. As followed by the Master Musicians of JouJouka!
Gav’s serious channel, all wind quintets and the like, is
The Podcast’s channel, which will one day have shows on it, but up until now just serves as a platform for Gav’s rather unusual incidental music, is HERE