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Comments 50 - The Kindness and Venom of Kate Bush (Patreon)

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2022-06-29 02:36:25
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Dr. T

I don't know if its mentioned yet, but the curse continues. You killed the dude from Rome.

Dr. T

I hit enter; Sorry about that. Anyway, Ray Stevenson recently died.

Dr. T

Probably not the best time to mention it, but you guys continue to be awesome. I have been listening since 2014 and I don't miss an episode. Just don't mention me during a show. I can't die yet. I have student loans to pay!

Dr. T

also wrong damn episode. This is a 2022 show lol

Evan

Nothing constructive to say, but as a fellow Madisonite who after 2 and a half years - or however long we’ve been living in this hellscape - finally caught the Rona, thank you for keeping me entertained as I sit in my bedroom and cough. 🫡 Also, spoopy has been in my vernacular since at least middle school, it might be a Midwest thing but I get the feeling it’s more of an internet culture deal

Rob Gillie

So that's where all the arrows in the neighborhood are coming from … I am just about done with my second run of listening to all of the episodes, too, and I really enjoy them in an almost unseemly way. They've been wonderful company over the past two years or so since I started listening to the show. Whenever I've had a bad day, I'll usually end up listening to either "The Day of the Dragon" or "THEM!" and they always cheer me up something fierce. So, seriously, thanks to both of you for making my life just that much better. Also? I can't not read Frankenstein without hearing Grieg Johnson as the Monster in my head. In fact, I hear Grieg Johnson as the Monster in my head even when I'm not reading Frankenstein. I'm not sure what's up with that.

Michael-Paul Schallmo

Regarding the question from Illegal Structures about peeing pants in stories, I don't think that was the first reference on this show. Not if you count Chad's story "One Small Valuable Thing" which includes a horrified moment of incontinence.

Pearce Duncan

The story about Del Close’s skull is great but sadly it isn’t quite true. He did bequeath his skull to the Goodman Theater but the laws around human remains got in the way and eventually they bought a skull from a medical supply company and agreed to treat it as his. The full story is in the biography The Funniest One In the Room by Kim Howard Johnson, which is filled with amazing stories. Incidentally, Close was a horror writer himself. His comic book The Wasteland (co-written with John Ostrander, who also wrote plays directed by Stuart Gordon) alternates some genuinely disturbing horror with mostly-true tall tales of Close’s past. It even retells the story of Lovecraft’s death in one issue. The whole run is worth tracking down, I wish DC would print a collected edition.

BaeOfPigs

On the topic of grammatical gender in German, I’ve personally not noticed “der” (masculine) and “die” (feminine) being used less, even amongst younger people. Grammatical gender typically has no connection to the human concept of gender other than some of the terminology For example in German “the clock” is “die Uhr”. It’s a feminine noun, but it’s not as if Germans think of clocks as being women or something. Furthermore the word for “girl” is “das Mädchen”, a neuter noun is used despite being a “feminine” concept. I think this is something that just tends to confuse people who don’t have grammatical gender in their languages (it certainly confused me when I began learning!) However there are definitely some areas where German is being made a bit more gender neutral in terms of vocabulary. Chris mentioned the “Lehrer/Lehrerin” example. It’s very similar to saying “waiter/waitress” in English. But recently there have been some attempts to change this. For example, a male student is “Student” and a female student would be “Studentin”. Nowadays though, many universities will refer to students as “Studierende” (lit. “ones who study”) to remove any gender from the term. Recently, when Angela Merkel stepped down as chancellor and Olaf Scholz became the new head of government, I heard several Germans talk about how strange it was to now have a “Kanzler” in office rather than a “Kanzlerin”. Obviously just anecdotal, but these distinctions are definitely still used by most people Another common thing you’ll see is what is called the “gender star” (Gendersternchen). Essentially it combines the maculine and feminine forms into a single word. So to use the student example, you would see it written as “Student*in” This next thing has less to do with the German language itself, but more with how German society is changing on that topic. Typically, when you see a “help wanted” sign in Germany, you’ll see the title of the job they’re looking to fill, followed by “m/w/d”. These abbreviations stand for “male/female/diverse” (männlich/weiblich/divers). Essentially this is just to explicitly say that they won’t be taking gender into account when they review job applicants (theoretically anyway) I hope some of that made sense, I just thought it could be some interesting things to think about on the topic since it came up again. Full disclosure I’m an American, and while I’ve been studying German for years now and have lived here for some time, I’m by no means an expert. If anyone wants to correct something I said here, please do so!

Illegal_Structures

Thanks for including my comment again, guys! I’m always happy to bring a laugh; however, it occurs to me that the last time you read a comment from me, it also involved urine. Specifically, I was talking about the scene in Tale of the Body Thief were Lestat is grossed out by taking a leak for the first time in 200 years. You know, I make plenty of other comments NOT related to pee; hopefully you can share some of my other remarks before I get a reputation 😂

Joshua

I can only echo all the other listeners who’ve enjoyed the company of your conversations over the past decade plus. I’m keen to see the show grow under the new moniker. Though you must be awash in suggestions, I’d love to hear JG Ballard get an episode or two. In particular, as early troublemakers in the SF genre, his Vermillion Sands stories would be great material for conversation.

David Pratt

So, I do not think I ever shared this story with Chad or Chris, or the community, but given the rebranding of the podcast is happening this month I figured now is a good time to share, and the comments show seemed like a good place. Anyway, I grew up knowing about Lovecraft through cultural references, (Iron Maiden and Obituary album covers, Metallica and Morbid Angel song lyrics, and of movies such as the Evil Dead Trilogy). And I even collected a few Lovecraft anthologies over the years. But if I were to be completely honest, aside from starting a few of the shorter stories here and there, and finishing a couple of the more famous works, I never really spent the time to really explore Lovecraft’s catalog. Then somewhere toward the end of 2011 I finally decided it was time to familiarize myself with the source material that has influenced so much of the music, art and movies I have loved for decades. Around the same time, I was really getting into listening to Podcasts, so I started searching for Lovecraft related Podcast in iTunes, which brought me to the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast. As best as I am able to determine it was somewhere between the “Out of Aeon’s Pt 2” and “The thing on The Doorstep” episodes when I discovered you guys. I felt the podcast was exactly what I needed to help guide me through Lovecraft’s works. Like joining a book club. Like so many people I decided to try, and binge listen to the back catalog before listening to the then current episodes. But for various reasons, life got complicated, and I sort of lost track of my goal of reading all of Lovecraft’s work and listening to every episode of the podcast. Fast forward about a year and a half and I decided it was time to revisit that goal. I was in a more stable place both with work and my living situation, so I figured it was time to tackle this project once again. Around the same time the Barnes and Noble Lovecraft Complete works came out, so I picked. So, in October of 2013 I came up with an insane plan, read every single story covered by the podcast, and listen to every episode along the way. All in the in the month of October! I somehow pulled it off, though there may have been a lot of skimming in some of the revision pieces and drier original works along the way 😊 Of course, after I got through all the stories I am listening to the wrap-up episode where Chad addresses the question of whether someone needs to read every single one of Lovecraft’s stories, and his answer was a definite “no, whatever collection you have would be just fine”. Had I only listened to that episode first 😊 After I got through all the Lovecraft stuff, I found I was a fan of the podcast and Chad and Chris but wasn’t sure whether I was interested in paying for the non-Lovecraft stuff. Thankfully, there was some random glitch in the iTunes store that let me access all the Witch House media episodes without having paid for the subscription yet. Of course, by the time I got through all those episodes, I decided that yes $6.66 was a more than fair price to pay every three months to get access to the podcast. As I said once I made it through the back catalog, I decided I was not only a fan of the subject matter covered by the podcast, but I was also a fan of Chad and Chris, and over the next few months picked up as much of their work outside of the podcast as I could find. So, I own a copy of The Chosen One on DVD, and have copies of Deadbeats, Tranquility, and Children in Heat, and everything Chad has up on Bandcamp. Plus, I have a few HPLS things that you were also involved in. And here we are 10 yrs. after I first discovered the podcast, and I am still subscribed and look forward to each episode as they drop. Plus, I am looking forward to seeing what direction you take the podcast in moving forward. (Let us be honest though you are changing the name and expanding the pool of stories you will be drawing from, it’s still the same podcast). Though I rarely, if ever comment, and never join the discussions on Patreon. I have listened to ever single episode (many numerous times) and am looking forward to listening another six hundred or more.

Sludgecrawler

Another listener here who's gone through almost every episode multiple times. Couldn't guess at how many. Since I began listening in 2009, around the release of episode 7 or 8, C&C with all the readers and guests have been a comforting light in the dark.

Jim Cannon

So I did finally watch Lifeforce just the other night and I used Tubi. The ads didn't bother me much. Which leads me to the personally startling revelation that Chad hates ads even more than I do, which I never would have thought possible.

Mark Simmons

Another fun one! I should say that I like the new branding - while the term "weird fiction" invites a certain amount of category-debating and definition-wrangling, "strange" seems to be a refreshingly uncomplicated word that gives you free reign to talk about any cool stuff you like. Speaking of which, if you want to see Kate Bush get occult and interdimensional, check out her short film "The Line, the Cross and the Curve." It's basically a 45-minute music video in which Kate sells her soul to a mirror-lady in return for magic shoes, and you can find it floating around on YouTube...

Doc Singles

Suddenly overnight I'm not the only one in the room who has ever heard of Kate Bush! The song Lily off The Red Shoes album is about invoking angels for protection (in the Circle of Fire!).

Robert Curtin

You go Chris! I'm on day 848 of my streak! If an ADHD bound nut can make it that far, I knoe you can do it!

Ben A

Hey guys, I am always happy to be a sugar daddy when the candy comes wrapped in poorly acted, vaguely B grade horror television from the late 80s. I just sent you a direct message following up about Friday the 13th. Thanks for humoring my offer!

Matt Heerdt

Isn’t “Spoopy” from Red Letter Media’s BOTW where they watched “The Spookies?” IIRC Rich Evans mispronounced it and they went with it. Appropriate since RLM is based in Wisconsin as well. Maybe I’m wrong who knows. 😎

Zippy Zito

Honestly Chris’ version of “Wuthering Heights” was my gateway drug into Kate Bush

FB

I particularly remember listening to "Experiment IV" from "The Whole Story' while reading through the LP sleeve...she was one of the first 'different; artists I really got into.