Feb 13, 2018
There's a creeping madness in the air, one that Your Favorite
Monster know all too well. On the docket tonight, everyone's
problematic fav, HP Lovecraft paints the walls of Crystal Cove with
his particular brand of splendiferous charnel, and really just
stinking up the joint.
As promised, here is listed timestamps for the discussion.
Check out the tumblr if they aren't coming through in the
feed! (42:00 will skip to the end)
6:20 - HP Hatecraft IS Jeffery
Combs
9:30 - other adaptations that
aren't super on the radar
11:15 - the Lovecraft
discourse...BEGINS
11:40 - the highly inaccurate, pithy, and
brief history of pulp (in which betsy talks broadly about a lot of
significant and insignificant dates in the same
breath)
18:40 - why exactly it's so rough to talk
about Lovecraft - one beginners guide
21:00 - in which betsy and blake are
embarrassed in how stupid they were (are)(lets be
real)
27:05 - side story (not Lovecraft
related! a breather!)
30:30 -Lovecraft influences / the mythos
(including a good riff on Stephen king)
34:00 - Betsy gets fiesty on
creativity
35:50 - there's the rub - the real issue
with Lovecraft in the modern day
42:00 - HERE! Here is where you
start if you want to skip the Lovecraft Discourse!