Dimitri and Khalid ruthlessly discuss the Dr. Jekkyl/MIB Hyde aspects of Noam Chomsky’s Radical Intellectual career, including: the legendary 1971 TV debate between Chomsky and Foucault, Lorenzoae’s “Chomsky and the Compatible Left” essay, Chomsky’s saintly status in the left-liberal alt-media ecosystem, his influential linguistics theories and simultaneous involvement with USAF command and control projects, Chomsky-as-Pentagon’s very own Lysenko, comparing Chomsky’s dismissal of left-wing “conspiracy theories” to Carl Oglesby’s “The Yankee and Cowboy War”, his bizarre insistence that the JFK assassination was a meaningless event, and why Chomsky reaches for his revolver whenever he hears the word “dialectics”.

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Welcome to the world of modern filmmaking—a place where anyone can make anything at any time and put it online pretty much anywhere. Whether or not people actually watch it? Well, that's a different question. With the democratization of film comes the democratization of exhibitors, and in today's new media landscape, the number of platforms through which a filmmaker can show their work can be overwhelming.

In this week's episode of The No Film School Podcast, Producer Jon Fusco sits down with a handful of short filmmakers whose projects have either been funded, licensed, or exhibited by the idiosyncratic video website Super Deluxe. The Super Deluxe platform is one that should be a model for innovative filmmakers looking to get their work noticed. Self-described as "a community of creative weirdos making videos that are (we hope) more substantial than much of what you see on the internet," they are truly a service to filmmakers, providing funding, creative freedom, and, most importantly, trust. 

Kenneth Gug, Pipus Larsen, and Scott Ross started making Instagram videos and are now Sundance alum with their short doc, Deer Squad. Matt Wolf has been making feature documentaries for years, and Super Deluxe funded his doc short, Bayard &amp; Me, a biography about Civil Rights leader Bayard Washington. Anna Kerrigan was brought on as a director for hire for the web series The Chances, following two deaf friends as they navigate the buzzy scene in Los Angeles. 

There is no right way to go about getting your project recognized, although it's preferable to have a strategy rather than throwing something online and hoping it catches fire. All of these filmmakers came together at Sundance to discuss their own experience within the oversaturated new media landscape and their strategies in tailoring stories for an era of rabid media consumption.

Breaking the Algorithm: How to Make Your Video Stand Out Online

On June 30th, Tompkins Square will reissue two albums by Texas singer/songwriter Will Beeley - the self-released mega-rare (only 200 copies) private press LP Gallivantin' from 1971, and Passing Dream, originally released by Malaco Records in 1979.

Recorded in San Antonio, Gallivantin' shows Beeley's heartfelt, folky side - a wistful set of original tunes, plus a cover of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" and a spaced-out, 10 minute+ Eastern-influenced psych take on Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Little Wheel Spin And Spin / Co'Dine".

Recorded in Jackson, Mississippi, Passing Dream reveals the shifting musical direction of opposite sides of the 70's - a tougher, huskier, more alt-country sound emerging, presaging modern day troubadours like Chris Stapleton and Jamey Johnson. Released by Malaco Records in 1979, the album features the very first studio credit by guitarist Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm), along with drummer James Stroud (Marshall Tucker Band, Eddie Rabbitt), keyboardist Carson Whitsett (Paul Simon, Tony Joe White) and other crack studio players.

Now a truck driver living in New Mexico, Will Beeley recently recorded his first new album since 1979's Passing Dream. Produced by Jerry David DeCicca of The Black Swans (who also produced Larry Jon Wilson's final album), the new one features Michael Guerra (The Mavericks), and is mixed by Stuart Sikes (Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose, Cat Power's The Greatest). The album is slated for release on Tompkins Square sometime in 2018.

PRE-ORDER : tompkinssquare.com

Gallivantin'  - CD - TSQ 5395 / LP - TSQ 5401 / digital
Passing Dream - LP only - TSQ 5418

Tompkins Square is distributed by INgrooves and Revolver in NA, Cargo for Europe

Rainy Sundays by Will Beeley

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“One writer says that Brown's peculiar monomania made him to be ‘dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being.’ Sure enough, a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. They talk as if it were impossible that a man could be ‘divinely appointed’ in these days to do any work whatever; as if vows and religion were out of date as connected with any man's daily work; as if the agent to abolish slavery could only be somebody appointed by the President, or by some political party. They talk as if a man's death were a failure, and his continued life, be it of whatever character, were a success.”
—H.D. Thoreau, “A Plea For Captain John Brown,” 1859.

Cabin is the new season from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over multiple episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019 and 2020.

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SOURCES (Ep. 4):
- “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” by H.D. Thoreau (1859): bit.ly/2CPiMHT ; 
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods, by H.D. Thoreau (1854): bit.ly/3jS0Woq ; 
- Videos and resources on John Brown, the raid on Harpers Ferry, and its aftermath: youtu.be/EG4ukrMtdNs , youtu.be/bB_kbFAui-U , youtu.be/LPyqE2zpQCg , youtu.be/Ax7KjLUOt8w , youtu.be/roNmeOOJCDY , youtu.be/q-E-ffXl2Uk , youtu.be/MILN_17KH6M , youtu.be/dmyswQs6_Bw . 
- Henry David Thoreau: A Life, by Laura Dassow Walls (2018): amzn.to/2B22qdw ; 
- “Civil Disobedience,” by H.D. Thoreau (1849): bit.ly/2OYTQjz ; 
- Westward, I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau’s Last Journey, by Corinne Smith: amzn.to/2OUyYKi ; corinnehsmith.com ; thoreausociety.org ; 
- Thoreau’s letter to Parker Pillsbury, April 10 1861: bit.ly/2WVVdEg [“Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God. But alas I have heard of Sumpter, & Pickens, & even of Buchanan, (though I did not read his message)”] ; 
- Thoreau’s journals, 1860-61: bit.ly/2WXHUmI ; 
- “The Wreckage,” The Relentless Picnic, ep. 27: bit.ly/2By6Md7 ; 
- Joanna Newsom, “Does Not Suffice” (youtu.be/FkjkT-ohCpQ) & “Good Intentions Paving Company” (youtu.be/KCCl3nzL5PI) ; 
- Don DeLillo, Mao II (1991): amzn.to/30VqmJc ; 
- The Unabomber In His Own Words (2018), documentary on Netflix: bit.ly/2DbHkuh ; 
 - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.

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In his third Design Matters interview, writer Seth Godin riffs on his 20th book—“The Practice”—a milestone text exploring creativity and the sheer power of doing the work and putting it out into the world.

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