Lucy and Sean return to the dank, haunted universe of fin de siècle internet culture at the height of Japan's lost decade, encountering ghosts physical, metaphorical and digital in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's rhizomatic masterpiece PULSE/回路

episode - 031_PULSE/回路 Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2001)

In an informal supplement to our episode on Pulse Lucy and Sean discuss urban legends, ghosts and the disputed existence of J-horror as  a cohesive genre or movement, and along the way do a mini-analysis of Takashi Shimizu's Marebito/稀人 (2004)

episode - 032_WHITHER_J-HORROR? (supplementary ep.)

WE ARE BACK! Completing the unplanned 'Japan Trifecta' Lucy and Sean discuss queerness, body horror and the savage, posthuman future of 1989 in Shinya Tsukamoto's legendary TETSUO: The Iron Man

episode - 033_Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto (1989)

Lucy and Sean kick off "Fucked Americana Season" with a double bill exploring postmodernism, mediated reality and the horrors of the early and extremely contemporary internet with The Last Broadcast and Dashcam

TASCAM DR-40

episode - 034_The Last Broadcast - Avalos + Weiler (1998) / Dashcam - Savage (2021)

In our first Patreon exclusive episode of WYRD_SIGNAL, Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair

Access to Patreon-exclusive episodes is $2 a month over at https://www.patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod

star of the film in focus: We're All Going to the World's Fair (Schoenbrun, 2021). In it we discuss our responses to the film, go into some deep background lore around the production and explore the themes of

[PREVIEW] episode - 035_WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Schoenbrun (2021)

Lucy and Sean go down the rabbit hole of American Paranoia, talking conspiracy cinema of the 1970s, therapy cults, the post-60s malaise, the deep state and the confusing unreality of the American Century in Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

episode - 036_INVASION_OF_THE_BODYSNATCHERS - Kaufman (1978)

Sean is joined by the legendary Lee Edelman to discuss the history and (no) future of queer theory, with a brief bypass through Coronation Street

episode: 037_INTERVIEW_SERIES [008] Lee_Edelman

Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman!

Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the full two hour episode at patreon.com/wyrdsignalpod

[PREVIEW] episode - 038_THE_MOTHMAN_PROPHECIES - Pellington (2002)

Lucy and Sean take a detour from their focus on film to explore what "fucked America vibes" mean to them in musical terms through an intensely personal road trip across the post-punk/prog rock/groove metal and 90s alt. landscape

Imaginos

episode: 039_MUSIC_OF_FUCKED_AMERICA - Various Artists (1981-1994)

Sean is joined by none other than M. John Harrison to discuss science fiction and the limits of genre, failures of personal identity, landscape weirdness, and an untranslatable word in Portuguese.

Author photograph by Hugo Glendinning (cropped and grayscaled by Lucy to fit design conventions)

LESSONS

episode: 040_INTERVIEW_SERIES [009] M_John_Harrison

Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair

[UNLOCKED] episode - 035_WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Schoenbrun (2021)

Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman!

[UNLOCKED] episode - 038_THE_MOTHMAN_PROPHECIES - Pellington (2002)

In the latest in our ongoing interview series, Sean talks with horror writer and literal ex-High Priest of Set Don Webb about weird America, the Left Hand Path, and eyebrows.

episode: 041_INTERVIEW_SERIES [010] Don Webb

In the first of what we're intending to be a series of conversations around the theme, Lucy joins Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) to discuss the onging events taking place in Gaza and the Western media's role in facilitating Israel's onging war on the Palestinian people.

WYRD_SIGNAL is still on hiatus but we've opted to use this channel while we figure out our long term plans with this project.

Palestine, the media and the manufacture of consent

Sean and Lucy discuss the landmark sci-fi/horror teleplay: Nigel Kneale's 'The Stone Tape' talking about Derrida, Marx, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, ancient aliens and occult media, in this inaugural transmission of WYRD_SIGNAL.

References, materials and side notes are available through our Stone Tape megathread over on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/990254127316983808

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episode 001_THE_STONE_TAPE Nigel Kneale(1971)

Sean and Lucy journey into the woods of Maryland and into the strange new world of the post-historical century to investigate the history and cultural resonances of 1999's The Blair Witch Project.

References, materials and side notes are available through our Blair Witch Project megathread over on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/986227286914584576

episode 004_THE_BLAIR_WITCH_PROJECT Myrick/Sanchez(1999)

Lucy and Sean take a disquieting peregrination through the dark tunnels and back streets of New York to explore the urban wyrdness, conspiracy lore, psychedelic warfare and the cultural mindset of post-Vietnam America in Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder (1990).

episode 006_JACOB'S_LADDER Adrian Lyne(1990)

Sean and Lucy venture venture back to rural England of the early 1970s, drawing on the origins of folk horror from William Blake to Charles Manson to discuss Piers Haggard's brooding classic: The Blood on Satan's Claw (US title: Satan's Skin).

Outro music by Belbury Poly: The Scarlet Ceremony, from The Owl's Map, Ghost Box 2006: https://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/the-owls-map-0/

episode - 007_THE_BLOOD_ON_SATAN'S_CLAW Piers Haggard (1971)

Lucy and Sean trace the dark, mysterious and often bizarre currents underpinning one of the most radical periods in art history: the Weimar Republic, and the first truly great works of experimental horror cinema which arose from it, as they discuss F.W. Murnau's landmark vampire film: Nosferatu.

episode - 008_NOSFERATU F.W. Murnau (1922)

Lucy speaks with filmmaker, communist and soda enthusiast Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) about his recent films, haunted media, surrealism, 80s skater films and the state of the weird in modern cinema.

Jonathan's work can be found at https://vimeo.com/getradified

episode 010 WS_INTERVIEW SERIES [001]: Jonathan Kennedy

Lucy and Sean recall a grim Halloween night in the early 90s and discuss the hypersititonal phenomenon come collective national trauma that was BBC's 1992 'drama': Ghostwatch.

episode - 011_GHOSTWATCH Stephen_Volk (1992)

Kicking off another visionary director's non-sequential trilogy, Lucy and Sean are joined by writer and journalist Philippa Snow to plunge into the strange liminal territory of sociological metamorphoses, crime, deserts, uncomfortable parties and pornography as they discuss David Lynch's 1997 film: Lost Highway

episode - 017_LOST_HIGHWAY David Lynch (1997)- feat. Philippa Snow

Lucy and Sean make their first excursion outside of the Anglophone sphere* to explore the world of malevolent ghosts, cruel theatrics, hyperrealistic violence and the spectres of nuclear conflagration in Nobuhiko Obayashi's psychedelic fantasy horror film House/ハウス(1977)

*Nosferatu doesn't count because it didn't have sound

episode: 020_HOUSE/ハウス Nobuhiko Obayashi(1977)

Lucy is joined by researcher Joe Ondrak to discuss the ontologically ambiguous history of the online fiction genre of the Creepypasta, exploring its status as literature, its various critical aspects and its uncertain future in a post-web 2.0 universe.

episode: 022_INTERVIEW_SERIES[006] Joe_Ondrak

Sean and Lucy are joined by journalist Max [von] Feldman for the pre-hiatus/end of season wrap party in which we participate in the dissection of Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce and the career and mind of the author of its source material: Colin Wilson

episode: 024 _ LIFEFORCE - Colin Wilson/Tobe Hooper (1985) [ft. Max Feldman]

Lucy and Sean return - spectre-like - to discuss the core WYRD_SIGNAL tenets of Hauntology, occult technology, fringe religious ideas and weird psychology in the ontological uncertainty of Reagan's America as they tackle everyone's favourite contentious rite-of-passage teen film: Donnie Darko

episode - 025_DONNIE_DARKO Richard Kelly (2001)

Sean and Lucy - totally twisted on frustrated wanderlust - sojourn into the sultry, introxicating climate of the Italian Peninsula to discuss Lucino Visconti's adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice - exploring the twin impulses of the Freidrich Nietzsche's Apolline and the Dionysiac, the history and theory of queerness in 19th and early 20th century Europe, Freud's essay on Narcissim and the Lovecraftian turn in Mann's modernism.

episode - 026_DEATH_IN_VENICE Lucino Visconti (1971)

Sean and Lucy team up once again with Max Feldman to explore Sadeian liberty, the principles of Enlightenment, the history of madness, Artaud's theatre of cruelty and the still ongoing the repercussions of the French Revolution in Peter Brooke's 1967 adaptation of Peter Weiss's play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

episode - 027_MARAT/SADE Peter Brook (1967)ft. Max Feldman

Lucy and Sean are joined by video essayist, composer and fellow horror nerd May Leitz (@NyxFears)to explore all that is shocking, painful and unwholesome in the world of extreme cinema from the surrealist eye-gouging of Luis Buñuel to the edgelord antics of the directors of the New French Extremity as they discuss Pascal Laugier's deeply upsetting masterpiece: Martyrs

episode - 028_MARTYRS Pascal Laugier (2008)ft. Nyx Fears

Lucy interviews director, composer and writer Graham Reznick about his work from his debut with 2008's I Can See You to his 2018 series Deadwax, as well as his collaborations with Ti West and the intersections of music and film in horror of the last decade.

Deadwax (2018) is available via Shudder at https://www.shudder.com/series/watch/deadwax/f0d3c8a35de5ca85?season=1
His recent music can also be found at https://grahamreznick.bandcamp.com/ - Robophasia and his work on PIECES Vol. 3 with Deadly Avenger for Burning Witches Records is available here: https://burningwitchesrecords.bandcamp.com/

episode: 029_INTERVIEW_SERIES [007] Graham_Reznick

Lucy and Sean get it together to belatedly wrap up WYRD_SIGNAL S3 before the dark winter of 2020 sets in by going through their recommendations for obscure, under-recognised or undeservedly maligned horror movies!

Films listed:
Nadja (1994)
Baskin (2015)
Organ (1996)
A Dark Song (2016)
Toad Road (2013)
The Borderlands (2013)/Grave Encounters (2011)
Tesis (1996)
The Wailing (2016)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

episode - 030_HALLOWEEN SPECIAL 2020

Podcast encountering the spectres of the 20th century via cult film, fringe literature, strange sounds and haunted landscapes.

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