My 12-Month Video Fast
I have put my television in the Time Out Corner. After streaming movies and shows and playing video games every day for years, I'm going to describe how going without it for a year changes my home life, my health, and my creative life. This is your chance to experience that vicariously. Wish me luck!
Episodes
In which the podcaster stops by a diner, tells you what you don’t want to know, tells you what you do want to know, and bids you adieu.
MY LINKS
Creative website: http://richardloranger.com
Literary Services: http://PowerUnit17.com
Bandcamp page: https://richardloranger.bandcamp.com/
Email: hello@richardloranger.com
LINKS & INFO
Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss
Episode 32 – Weeks 49-50: I’ll Show You the Life of the Mind
In which the podcaster gives a bad review, takes you on a walk to nowhere, and advocates ecstasy as a form of resistance.
LINKS & INFO
Also sprach Zarathustra, tone poem by Richard Strauss
Barton Fink, 1991 film by the Coen Brothers
Episode 31 – Weeks 47-48: The H-Word
In which the podcaster explains the tragedy of humankind and you can’t stop laughing.
LINKS & INFO
https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-do-we-laugh/
Episode 30 – Weeks 45-46: Aye, I, Eye
In which the podcaster introduces himself, dissolves all boundaries, and stirs up some weather.
LINKS & INFO
Mammal, Roof Books, 2023
And thanks for listening!
Visit http://richardloranger.com for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcom...
In which the podcaster reanimates dialog, disobeys much, and proffers ingredients for an albatross stew.
LINKS & INFO
Network, dir. Sidney Lumet (1976).
Speech 1
Peter Finch as Howard Beale
Speech 2
Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen
Joy Harjo, “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window” from She Had Some Horses. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983
Victor Hernandez Cruz, “tu no eres” recorded by Chris...
In which the podcaster gives you an unexpected assignment.
LINKS
The cut-up lines on the episode logo are from the poem “Final Exam” by Nancy Lambert, taken from the anthology Practising Angels, ed. Michael Mayo, Seismograph Publications (1986). You can find a digital copy of this terrific collection here on the Internet Archive.
Alien (1979) on Wikipedia (this entry is just for the first film of – currently – seven, along with cro...
In which the podcaster puts on a classic, takes off some masks, and explains the politics of the moment.
LINKS
The Wizard of Oz on Wikipedia (includes a link to the page about the books)
No More Masks! anthology – page on poets.org
(has a couple of links to purchase that are not Amazon)
To find Meta Support for Instagram or Facebook, you need to pay for Meta Verified at ...
In which the podcaster takes on a tragicomic perspective while shattering glass, misplacing teeth, and taking a joyride through Hollywood.
LINKS
Golden State Film Festival – 2025 Program
· Not sure this link will hold up, but you can open a pdf of the program. It has a bad interface, but if you click on the three bars on the upper left, you can scroll down it page by page. You’ll find the poster f...
In which the podcaster exposes himself, offers his hand, chases ghosts from a bridge, rips off a few facades, and extols the joys of oranges.
LINKS
Heather Cox Richardson comments
Heather Cox Richardson’s YouTube channel
William Blake – Wikipedia page
Adrienne Rich – Wikipedia page
In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil
Halley Low IG Re...
In which the podcaster recalls talking, derides cyborgs, and examines a chest of survival methods.
LINKS
Videodrome, dir. David Cronenberg (1983)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, dir. Shin'ya Tsukamoto (1989)
Hardware, dir. Richard Stanley (1990)
Virus, dir. John Bruno (1999)
Transhumanism – Wikipedia page
THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, ...
In which the podcaster presents the third and final special episode for the month of January in which he interviews artists and writers about how they manage to support themselves and their creative work while carving out time for it in contemporary American culture.
WITH GUESTS
Paul Corman-Roberts
Paul Corman-Roberts has been learning how to be an on-the-fly organizer, publisher and all around hustler pretty m...
In which the podcaster presents the second of three special episodes for the month of January in which he interviews artists and writers about how they manage to support themselves and their creative work while carving out time for it in contemporary American culture.
WITH GUESTS
Jennifer Blowdryer
Jennifer Blowdryer is a singer and writer whose songs observe in a somewhat detached manner the underworld of punk...
In which the podcaster presents the first of three special episodes for the month of January in which he interviews artists and writers about how they manage to support themselves and their creative work while carving out time for it in contemporary American culture.
WITH GUESTS
Taneesh Kaur
Taneesh Kaur ("Core") is a US-born Punjabi teaching artist whose primary media are writing (poetry, memoir, fictio...
In which the podcaster sings to you a composition of his own design, humbly made and humbly offered.
NOTE: This episode comes across much better with headphones or earbuds. A medium volume may serve it well in any case.
I accompany my vocals with djembe for the drum track and balafon for supporting melody.
Balafon – Wikipedia page
Djembe - Wikipedia page
As a bonus for reading the episode notes, here...
Episode 19 – Weeks 26-27: “Clean”
In which the podcaster jumps up and down, makes an argument for impurity, and reveals his true desire.
FEATURED LINKS
The White Trash Debutantes on Bandcamp
The Scriveners on YouTube (diff kind of improv but good stuff)
(there are five of these – click here to find more)
Lydia Lunch - Wikipedia page
In which the podcaster finally reveals where and when his beef with the televised world began, and uses that to try to light a way forward through darker times.
Video link: Little Billy Magee on "Happy The Clown" - June 1955
THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7.
And thanks for listening!
Visit http://richardloranger.com for writings, publications, reading a...
In which the podcaster defends asymmetry, antagonizes Buddhists, and takes you on a journey somewhere very close you’ve never been.
Referenced Texts
The Overstory by Richard Powers
https://www.richardpowers.net/the-overstory/
Poetry and Flash Prose (by Richard Loranger)
"I Daphne May" was originally printed in the chapbook Poetry is a Form of Light (1986, Clamor Press, SF), and was...
In which the podcaster plays Telephone Games with prehistory, breaks down the industry of Western tradition, and leaves you with a pile of bacon. Mhe!
He also humbly begs your forgiveness for his zombie-like pronunciation of dead languages.
THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2.
And thanks for listening!
Visit http://richardloranger.com for writings, publications, re...
In which the podcaster regresses, confesses, and redresses.
THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19.
And thanks for listening!
Visit http://richardloranger.com for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episode logos. :)
7/25/24 - There's a new review of the ...
In which the podcaster starts a new chapter with blank pages, makes a foul shot, and has an in-body experience.
THE NEXT POD WILL BE CAST ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5.
And thanks for listening!
Visit http://richardloranger.com for writings, publications, reading and performance videos, upcoming events, and more! Also a podcast tab that includes large versions of all the episod...
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