#12 - Intoxication: Alcohol

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#12 - Intoxication: Alcohol

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“All of us, in some part or another, are loathsome. We all harbour a crime we’ve committed, or a crime our soul is begging us to commit” - The Book Of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa Small Back Room - 1949 - Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger Wake In Fright - 1971 - Ted Kotcheff Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com

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SFUltra is my attempt as a lifetime science fiction skeptic's attempt to get into the genre by reading 100 science fiction books I purchased in Wales one time. It gets published every two weeks.

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#3 - Work: Office Politics: "that which is neurotic in the individual is, in capitalism, normal and socially desirable for functioning society" - Harry Braverman, Labour and Monopoly Capital Election - 2005 - Johnnie To Election 2 - 2006 - Johnnie To Human Factor - 1979 - Otto... by SFULTRA
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#1 - Work: Project Management: The Hole - 1960 - Jacques Becker Accident - 2009 - Soi Cheang https://www.facebook.com/ComeInAllUnits/ https://twitter.com/comeinallunits allunitspodcast@gmail.com Sponser: subnormality.ca by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Focus, Hidden City, What Archives Are For: I cover a couple of loose units: Focus and Hidden City. Both provide different angles on surveillance and recording equipment on Dossier 51's take on surveillance. Then I answer some questions and admit to using a fidget spinner. by SFULTRA
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#4 - Work: Work/Life Balance: "In the end, they may submit to the strongest and most brutal individuals, simply because they cannot organize and plan their actions by themselves" - Max Horkheimer, Critical Theory Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits... by SFULTRA
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#18 - Navigation: Another Place: “Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.” ― William T. Vollmann, Lupin the III: The Castle of Cagliostro - 1979 - Hayao Miyazaki Confessions of An Opium Eater -... by SFULTRA
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#13 - Intoxication: Sex: “ Christ is dead and the monks are in ecstasy” - Sarah Kane, 4:48 Psychosis Tightrope - 1984 - Richard Tuggle In The Cut - 2003 - Jane Campion Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook:... by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - The Shit In The Air Will Fuck Up Your Face: You own things. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Depressing Media, Keeping Up, Depicting Fists Connecting: I answer some questions about depressing media, watching habits and ways to watch before discussing the technology that is the fight scenes in Destruction Babies. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook:... by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Sick Day: I'm ill. I could have taken a week off. Instead, I persevered and created this weird ramble which is roughly the same as if I just didn't put out an episode. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook:... by SFULTRA
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#0 - Introduction: A brief introduction to the series and the thinking behind it. by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Vigilante, John Carpenter's Command Of Space, Crime Fiction: I talk a little about a grim Bill Lustig classic before discussing what information struck me anew while embarking on a John Carpenter marathon last weekend. Then I talk a little about crime fiction and the obligation of crime non-fiction. ... by SFULTRA
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#2 - Work: Uniform: "From this point of view, the key element in the evolution of machinery is not its size, complexity, or speed of operation, but the manner in which its operations are controlled" - Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital A Man in Uniform... by SFULTRA
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#5 - Work: Technology: “A microphone which responds unevenly or to less than the full range will alter the sound of the instrument, though this effect may be desirable in some cases” - Microphone Techniques For Music, Sound Reinforcement 711 Ocean Drive - 1950 - Joseph... by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Horrorthon Recap: Capsule reviews of all of the films, around 23?, I managed to catch at this year's horrorthon. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
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#7 - Work: Start-Ups: "Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks." - Stokely Carmichael The Enforcer - 1951 - Bretaigne Windust [Raoul Walsh] The Spook Who Sat By The Door - 1973 - Ivan Dixon Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter:... by SFULTRA
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#6 - Work: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Takeovers: The Nickle Ride - 1974 - Robert Mulligan The Bad Sleep Well - 1960 - Akira Kurosawa Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - You Fail Me: A harddrive is dead. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
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#11 - Intoxication: Drugs: "The style of this film is not that of a thriller. Using image and sound, the filmmaker strives to express the nightmare of a young man whose weaknesses lead him to commit acts of theft for which nothing destined him." - Robert Bresson, Pickpocket ... by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Romero, The Word "Influence", Pacing/Duration: I briefly eulogize genuine legend George Romero before talking about how the word "influence" and the way talking about film can be engineered to be inaccessible. Then I answer a listener question about thrillers and pacing. by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Top Of The Heap, "Post Horror" by SFULTRA
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#8 - Work: Peter Yates Special: "That is to say: Toward the accomplishment of an aim which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgment sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort…" Herman Melville,... by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Elio Petri Special: Friend of the podcast Jools (@Joolsd on twitter) joins me to discuss several films from the career of Elio Petri, the underrated Italian director responsible for Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (one of the stand-out films from the Work... by SFULTRA
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#10 - Work: Office Culture: “Boredom is the desire for happiness left in its pure state”. —Giacomo Leopardi Outrage - 2010 - Takeshi Kitano Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion - 1970 - Elio Petri Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter:... by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - TV VS ADHD, Book Recommendations, Favourite Non-All Units Films: I answer questions about dream logic, adhd impacting on working habits, book recommendations, my favourite films of all time that don't fit into All Units Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook:... by SFULTRA
42 min listen
#14 - Intoxication: Guns: “Since this war was won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like had it existed” - Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place The Hard Way - 1974 - Michael Dryhurst (Richard Ryan) Handgun - 1984 - Tony Garnett... by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - Two E-40 Music Videos: I talk about two E-40 music videos. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
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#17 - Navigation: Trauma: "Tragedy is only a way of assembling human misfortune, of subsuming it, and thus of justifying it by putting it in the form of a necessity, of a kind of wisdom, or of a puriﬁcation. To reject this regeneration and to seek the technical means of not... by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - How Did You Learn To Be Sick? So Cunning.: Why Podcasting Sucks In '18: The Money. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
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#12 - Intoxication: Alcohol: “All of us, in some part or another, are loathsome. We all harbour a crime we’ve committed, or a crime our soul is begging us to commit” - The Book Of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa Small Back Room - 1949 - Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger... by SFULTRA
46 min listen

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