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21: Lake Mungo and Storytelling with Technology

Jun 1, 2018

Hey Class.  Its Tyler here doing the show notes again.  Like my lesson plans they may be a little incomplete :).  This week we had a lot to discuss regarding the great found footage flick Lake Mungo and various forms of psychoanalysis.  Enjoy.  
 
2:20-  Tyler talks about Deadpool 2.  It was pretty good.  Not amazing but totally worth his 10.00 investment in moviepass.  Get your movie pass
 
2:30-  Tyler is reading Jason Parents Book They Feed.  It looks like its got zombie stuff in it.  SUPER COOL!!!.  Buy it here.  
 
3:00-  Mike and Tyler talk about Grimscribes Puppets another reference to Thomas Ligotti.  Tyler tries to pretend he knows something about Ligotti.  He does not.  It is obvious. it is cringy and maybe a little pathetic.  Mike mentions another podcast we love called the Outer Dark Podcast.  It is totally worth a listen.
 
5:45-  Mike recommends the episode of Pseudopod by Thomas Ligotti called Bungalow House.  Download it here
 
8:00-  For like the 8th episode in a row Tyler and Mike recommend Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience by Rebbeca Roanhorse published by Apex.  This story won a Nebula Award.  You can read it for free.  Tyler also mentions a poem by Sherman Alexie.  The poem is called evolution and it is so good.  Read it here.
 
16:30-  Tyler discusses Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay.  Tremblay recommends Lake Mungo and we totally understand why.  
 
17:19  Tyler discusses Tubi TV.  It is a pretty cool app.  Check it out. 
 
18:15 Tyler discusses Oz Perkins who directed Blackcoat's Daughter who will also direct the film adaptation of A Head Full of Ghosts.  He also directed a Netflix original I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
 
23:30-  Mike mentions that the oldest human remains ever were found in and around Lake Mungo.  
 
24:30-  Hold onto your butts the boys start talking about Slavoj Zizek.  Specifically his concepts of the Parallax.   The article 'Denegation and the Undead' from Screening the Past April 2018 by Kevin Fisher.  
 
29:00- Mike talks about a book we reviewed on Signal Horizon called America's Dark Theologian by Douglas E. Cowan.  Its a really great connection and an even better read.  
 
35:30-  Tyler talks about the article "Conjuring the real: Ghosts, technology and landscape in 'Lake Mungo'" in Screen Education Issue 82 September 2016 by Tyson Wils.  Check it out for further reading.  
 
37:00 Mike and Tyler are both obsessed with the short story by Ray Bradbury called The Toynbee Convector.  The collection is really remarkable.  
 
39:00  Both Mike and Tyler spend some time discussing Fahrenheit 451.  
 
40:45 Mike mentions creepy photos of girls with Fairies.  Here are some of them.  
 
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