The GSpot: Yony Leyser

Joseph Matheny in conversation with filmmaker Yony Leyser director of the documentary “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within“

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Yony Leyser is a twenty-five-year-old filmmaker living in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has directed several short films. After being kicked out of film school, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, and began his passionate first feature film, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within,  about one of the most interesting icons of
the 20th century,

He also works as a curator, video artist and photographer, documenting people who are outside the mainstream of society. His photograph series have included Ida, a utopian transgender commune in Tennessee; Christiana, an anarchist village in Copenhagen; Kopi, Berlin’s largest
squat, and naked bike rides in the US. His work has been shown work in galleries and theaters in Chicago, New York, London, Berlin, Paris,
Vienna and Los Angeles. Yony Leyser brings a more personal perspective to Burroughs’ legacy, examining the private versus the public personae
of Burroughs and the effect this may have had on his most intimate
self.

http://www.burroughsthemovie.com/

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Cup of TNB: Episode 6: Peter Gajdics

Cup of TNB host Joseph Matheny talks to TNB contributor and author Peter Gajdics about his experiences that influenced his book Crossing Styx.
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Peter Gajdics is the winner of Opium magazine’s 2009 500-word memoir contest, and has also been published in New York Tyrant, The Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Gay Times, and The Printed Blog. His first book, CROSSING STYX, is about his six years in primal therapy trying to “change” his sexual orientation from gay to straight, and the subsequent medical malpractice suit he filed against his former psychiatrist for treating his homosexuality as a disease. Peter lives in Vancouver, Canada, and can be contacted at gajdics@hotmail.com.

For more information about The Nervous Breakdown check out TNB in the LA Times.

Listen here or at http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/podcasts

New look for TNB and Book Soup Tonight

The Nervous Breakdown has a new look! Congratulations to Brad Listi (our guest on the GSpot on December 11th) and company for pulling off a fantastic makeover. I  will be starting a new podcast there soon, called “A Cup of TNB“, which will feature short interviews with the many TNB writers. I’ll be at Book Soup tonight, recording my first show: a chat with D.R. Haney, author of Banned for Life . Expect announcements soon regarding the schedule for “A Cup of TNB“.

The times they are a’changin’

Big changes coming here to this network. A complete rewrite and redesign of Alterati, Piltolite, Greylodge, and PODLAFF is coming this winter. We will probably be off-line for a month or so as we roll it all up and begin to roll out the new stuff. Alterati, PodLaff and Piltolite will be merging into something new, currently code-named Hukilau.However, right now, we can say no more. We will continue to put out GSpots every 2 weeks, and will leave up an archive page of the last 4 0r 4 episodes, while we hammer and saw behind the curtain. We are aiming for a 2010 relaunch of the new project and we think you’re going to LOVE it. Until then, be well and we’ll see you in the new year.

The GSpot: User’s Manual for the Human Experience- CIRXUS

The GSpot: User’s Manual for the Human Experience- CIRXUS

Joseph Matheny talks to Michael Dean about his newest book, A USER’S MANUAL FOR THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. Also in this show: Sleepchamber and and excerpt from the Foolishpeople production of CIRXUS.

Show dedicated to my dearly departed friend: Dave Szulborski

Information: In the SLEEPCHAMBER bit, John Zewizz and co. gives updates on the band, shares tracks from the forthcoming album “Stolen Sleep”, and thanks the fans and collaborators who have supported the return of SLEEPCHAMBER.

Exerpt from Cirxus, a FoolishPeople production written and directed by John Harrigan. This psycho-audio sequence is produced and performed by P. Emerson Williams and directed by John Harrigan. A promenade performance will run from 25th May – 13th June 2009 in Arcola Theatre’s new industrial space, Studio K in London.

Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Redux (Part 2)

Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Redux (Part 2)

Part two of the three part series Fear and Loathing on the Internet: Redux (Part one here)

GPod Radio host Joseph Matheny moderates a roundtable discussion on the subject of Myth on the Modern World, with guests: Wes Unruh, James Curcio, John Harrigan, Lucy Allin, P. Emerson Williams and Anna Young. (Note: When I recorded the intros to part one and two, I forgot to mention Wes as a participant in the roundtable. He is however introduced in the actual roundtable piece and is a major contributor to the conversation. My omission was simply due to being overworked with too little time. Hopefully he will not hate me for this oversight. )

Also, the first installment of In Your Ear, some tidbits about the Y project and some ranting and raging in response to the mailbag.

In part three we will introduce another regular segment to the GSpot, A Concise Guide To Setting Yourself On Fire

with Kara Rae Garland.

Part Three coming in about 2 weeks. Enjoy!