Episode #22: Interview with DJ Leary November 5, 2021
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Show Notes
- 00:02 - Welcome writer and poet DJ Leary
- 00:45 - James "don't" do words well
- 01:06 - How DJ met Catherine
- 02:00 - DJ inspired at Shakespeare's Globe
- 04:00 - Street performance typewriter
- 04:37 - The "COVID Project 7-year novel"
- 05:24 - Creating characters is complicated!
- 06:00 - Post English degree creativity
- 07:17 - Schools fall short for creative endeavors
- 08:29 - Lack of critical thinking
- 09:02 - Nobody can teach the artistic process
- 09:50 - "New Slam In Town", Ghost Poetry Show
- 10:57 - Kaiti Pritchett Slam Poet
- 12:18 - Academic poetry turns off a generation
- 13:50 - Console vs PC gaming
- 14:50 - Catherine nods off during gaming convo
- 15:33 - iPhone gaming and cruise ship quotas
- 17:43 - James dates himself with "Doom"
- 18:57 - The "gamer history eye roll"
- 19:22 - Film Bar is back, same location!
- 19:58 - Club Dwntwn hosts "Poetic Soul"
- 20:30 - DJ's sci-fi novel
- 21:09 - Just wear your phone on your face
- 22:15 - We are the Brave New World Borg
- 22:42 - Consumption, overstimulation, distraction
- 24:00 - My phone is my universe, and is boring
- 27:00 - DJ's busy life and social media
- 31:04 - Instagram and visual art
- 31:40 - Twitter is a writer's resume
- 33:30 - Unplugged anonymity is a luxury
- 34:00 - Analog nostalgia vs digital complexity
- 40:30 - Moving beyond a flash of brilliance
- 43:20 - "Train I Ride", Paul Mosier
- 44:13 - Middle ground on Myers-Briggs I/O scale
- 45:57 - DJ's Poet Pick: T.S. Eliot
- 49:00 - Cutting the Arts won't save a failed educational system
- 51:07 - DJ and James fix global climate change
- 52:05 - Pro Pigeon Party
- 56:45 - DJ reads "Scarecrow, Road-trip, Clay"