The GenX Show
A podcast covering all aspects of culture from the slacker generation. Featuring guests and subjects on music/movies and more that are sure to appeal to your inner flannel-wearing teenage self. Not.
Episodes
April 18, 2024 • 73 mins
Trace Thurman from the Horror Queers podcast and Bloody Disgusting joins Jeff to talk about the Disney classic Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
Along the way they talk about latchkey kids, bad parents, the history of Disney Studio's in the late 1980's and how great the practical effects were. They discuss 'the' scene with the Ant and the Scorpion and ask what in the hell was a scorpion doing in a suburban back yard.
What a great conversat...
Along the way they talk about latchkey kids, bad parents, the history of Disney Studio's in the late 1980's and how great the practical effects were. They discuss 'the' scene with the Ant and the Scorpion and ask what in the hell was a scorpion doing in a suburban back yard.
What a great conversat...
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March 21, 2024 • 36 mins
David Lynch's Dune from 1984 is a massive failure on both a commercial and artistic scale. It was too weird to be a blockbuster and too blockbuster to be a weirdo independent film.
Dune's lasting legacy, however, is it spurred David Lynch on to go make the movies he was always meant to make. Gritty, weird neo-noir films starring Kyle MacLaughlin. How in failing on such a large scale led to maybe his best movie ... Blue Velvet.
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Dune's lasting legacy, however, is it spurred David Lynch on to go make the movies he was always meant to make. Gritty, weird neo-noir films starring Kyle MacLaughlin. How in failing on such a large scale led to maybe his best movie ... Blue Velvet.
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February 29, 2024 • 32 mins
In 1979 Dario Argento's cut of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead was a huge hit in Italy. To capitalize, Italian producers were looking to make a quick sequel. In comes Lucio Fulci and the most surreal, over the top, grotesque zombie movie of its era was born.
We also talk about the "Italian ripoff cinema" era and how gloriously bad it was. From the Bronx Warriors to The Last Shark. Italian cinema at its most absurd.
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We also talk about the "Italian ripoff cinema" era and how gloriously bad it was. From the Bronx Warriors to The Last Shark. Italian cinema at its most absurd.
Enjoy the show!
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February 15, 2024 • 31 mins
In 1979 Greek Egyptian Oviido Assinitis gave us the craziest Italian movie of the 1970's, The Visitor. A combination of Star Wars, The Omen and Italian Giallo woven into a batsh*t crazy tapestry. It features some of the greats of old Hollywood in John Huston, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford, Mel Ferer and even director Sam Peckinhpah.
That doesn't make the movie any less crazy. In the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about this undescribabl...
That doesn't make the movie any less crazy. In the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about this undescribabl...
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January 24, 2024 • 34 mins
On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the history of recorded music and how record company greed in the late 1990's caused their own demise. How a cheap to make CD became so overpriced a revolt was bound to happen.
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Enjoy the show!
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January 4, 2024 • 60 mins
Magnus and Pat recently made a trip to Las Vegas to see the band U2 at the brand new Las Vegas Sphere. On the latest GenX Show the fellas review their experience, talk about the technicalities about being in the Sphere and U2's performance. Does the band miss Larry Mullen Jr? Is the band re-invigorated and what does that mean for the future of our favorite band.
Hope you enjoy the show!
Hope you enjoy the show!
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December 30, 2023 • 33 mins
Netflix has been an issue in Hollywood. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the history of B Movies, their evolution, and how Netflix (specifically) has hollowed out the 'bread and butter' B movies that sustained Hollywood. It's not that people don't go to movie theaters anymore (which is sorta true) it's that what's available on streaming is either big budget extravaganzas or utter crap C movies.
Like the analytics boom in th...
Like the analytics boom in th...
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December 19, 2023 • 35 mins
A little, underpublicized game game out in 1999 that changed the way we viewed horror gaming. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about Silent Hill ... the little game that could, that it's parent company couldn't care less about, changed our perceptipon of what makes something scary and laid the groundwork for future horror games.
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November 30, 2023 • 34 mins
On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the worst era for horror movies, the early 1990's. How a collision of several circumstances from the prevalence of AIDS in the public consciousness to the rise of the Erotic Thriller combined to dampen the both the public's appetite for Horror and depress the quality of what was coming out at the time.
However there were exceptions and, as Jeff points out, those exceptions pointed the way tow...
However there were exceptions and, as Jeff points out, those exceptions pointed the way tow...
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November 22, 2023 • 53 mins
"You shitters wouldn't understand!"
40 years ago, in 1983, Stephen King's novel Christine was released (April) a mere seven months later (November) John Carpenter's version of that movie was released in theaters. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff and Magnus discuss both the book and movie, the 'coked out King" era, Carpenter's terrible 1982 and how both the book and movie are the same and completely different.
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40 years ago, in 1983, Stephen King's novel Christine was released (April) a mere seven months later (November) John Carpenter's version of that movie was released in theaters. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff and Magnus discuss both the book and movie, the 'coked out King" era, Carpenter's terrible 1982 and how both the book and movie are the same and completely different.
Hope you enjoy the show!
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October 31, 2023 • 35 mins
John Carpenter and Debra Hill never wanted to do any Halloween sequels. After, essentially, being bullied into doing Halloween 2 ... the pair were left with a choice to continue. The choice that was made: Turn the Halloween series into an anthology series with each movie a differnet story on Halloween night.
The legacy of Halloween 3 might just be that, despite failing initially, Carpenter, Hill and director Tommy Lee Wallace were c...
The legacy of Halloween 3 might just be that, despite failing initially, Carpenter, Hill and director Tommy Lee Wallace were c...
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October 17, 2023 • 73 mins
Magnus from Voltaire's Ghost once again joins Jeff to talk about the history of Horror movies. From the Universal Monsters to the 1980's Slashers. The guys talk about their favorites from each era while touching on their overall affect on the history of horror movies. You don't want to miss this one.
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Enjoy the show!
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October 5, 2023 • 40 mins
John Carpenter's 1978 Slasher masterpiece Halloween turns 45 this month. In the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the lead up to the production of the film and how it's complicated legacy and it's financial success has haunted Carpenter throughout his career. How his breakthrough has become the shadow he cannot escape.
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September 5, 2023 • 34 mins
There have been many attempts to do HP Lovecraft style Cosmic Horror in the past both in games and in movies. On the latest episode of The GenX Show, Jeff talks about the most successful of these attempts in the classic Dark Souls styled epic horror game Bloodborne from 2015. One of the best games ever made.
Along the way Jeff talks about it's surprisingly Catholic themes hinted with Asian perspective. Gothic Lovcraftian Werewolf co...
Along the way Jeff talks about it's surprisingly Catholic themes hinted with Asian perspective. Gothic Lovcraftian Werewolf co...
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August 11, 2023 • 61 mins
Magnus, from streaming sensation Voltaire's Ghost joins Jeff to talk about his new music and the ever changing state of the Music business. Has the availability of recording technology made things easier or ... worse? Fascinating conversation with an great musician.
Find Magnus on:
Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/voltaires-ghost/1687826381
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4qh2ndBmksowS2QsZW8Iw3?si=Pr09s536RcWO1_-FnGmB...
Find Magnus on:
Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/voltaires-ghost/1687826381
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4qh2ndBmksowS2QsZW8Iw3?si=Pr09s536RcWO1_-FnGmB...
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July 3, 2023 • 40 mins
The 1990's gave us grunge, mid-tempo jangly guitar based pop songs, Friends ... Frasier ... Seinfeld and the big time classic rock reunion. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the heavily anticipated reunion of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. A union that produced a good unplugged live concert with an Egyptian orchestra called Unledded, a massive year long tour with an orchestra and disappointingly a half baked album that needed ...
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June 27, 2023 • 31 mins
1988 was THE year Jeff became a horror movie fan. Chief among those movies Jeff adored was the camp horror classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Don't devote a ton of brain power to trying to "break down" the meaning of this movie. It does what it says on the tin, as the British might say. Still one of his favorite movies of all time.
In the second half Jeff talks about the year 1988 and how it formed what he liked in horror movi...
In the second half Jeff talks about the year 1988 and how it formed what he liked in horror movi...
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June 20, 2023 • 35 mins
On the latest episode of The GenX Show, Jeff talks about how his childhood/teenage love of the one and only Paul McCartney turned him into a music obsessive. Jeff also goes over how two of McCartney's most "unloved" album's (Off the Ground and Back to the Egg) are his personal favorites. From recording off the radio, to buying tapes then CD's Jeff goes through it all ... including owning a vinyl of one of McCartney's "failed" proje...
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June 16, 2023 • 35 mins
On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about how his own generation's rejection of being "sold" contributed greatly in the notion that Generation X is the "forgotten" one. How our unease with being marketed to and aversion to selling out left Hollywood, the music business and much more left us to sell to our younger brothers and sisters ... the millennials.
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Enjoy the show!
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The 1984 Richard Franklin directed movie, Cloak and Dagger from 1984 is on the surface a typical cold war kids movie about a kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dig deeper, however and you see that it's really about a kid who's dad is his hero.
Featuring wonderful performances from Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman (in maybe his best acting performance) it's a kids movie with tons of heart. About fractured family, about...
Featuring wonderful performances from Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman (in maybe his best acting performance) it's a kids movie with tons of heart. About fractured family, about...
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