Episode 2 - Death Becomes Us: A Very Locust Halloween

Happy Halloween! No surprise we love the scary season here at Locust Radio. To celebrate, Adam, Tish and Alex discuss some of their favorite artifacts of radical(-ish) horror: Larry Cohen's Maniac Cop, Chuck Palahniuk's Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey, and clipping.'s There Existed an Addiction To Blood.

Happy Halloween! No surprise we love the scary season here at Locust Radio. To celebrate, Adam, Tish and Alex discuss some of their favorite artifacts of radical(-ish) horror: Larry Cohen’s Maniac Cop, Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey, and clipping.’s There Existed an Addiction To Blood. We also check in with some spooky pals defending an asylum from gentrifiers and read some our favorite answers from the Irrealist Workers Survey. 

For the second half of our show, available to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, we discuss Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Roger Corman’s 1964 adaptation, in light of Donald Trump’s, shall we say, health problems. We also read a few more answers from the Irrealist Workers Survey and riff a bit about how the goths are right about (almost) everything. If you want to hear this portion, and haven’t subscribed yet, do so now.

Check out more from Locust Review.

Maniac Cop, written and produced by Larry Cohen, directed by William Lustig * Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker, by Tony Williams * Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey, by Chuck Palahniuk *The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord * There Existed an Addiction To Blood, by clipping. * Revolutionary Suicide, by Huey Newton * “Theses On the Concept of History,” by Walter Benjamin * Ghosts of My Life: Writings On Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures, by Mark Fisher

Locust Radio is produced by Drew Franzblau. It is hosted by Alexander Billet, Tish Markley and Adam Turl. Music is by Omnia Sol.


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