in case I forgot to say this,
I just wanted to thank everybody who subscribes to the show and tells people about it.
It's fucking insane that this became my job. I started with absolutely no expectation beyond the fact that I was allowed to Talk to Computer and put it on the internet. Now I get to tell people who work for the government that my profession is Talk to Computer, and they can't tell me it isn't.
And for a number of reasons – some of them formal and technical, some more to do with thought process – I feel pretty goddamn good about the "future," which for me is really the ongoing present, of DEATH/CORNER. You do things partly so the things you do can teach you how to do them, and if you get real lucky, they also teach you why, and lately things have been cohering in greater detail and refinement around cut. cut. cut. a knife of water slicing up a black basaltic rockface for 2 billion years and trouble oh trouble in mind.
I don't know if I've ever really talked about it, but since this show started getting any attention, I have been determined – with a level of concentrated psychic furor that should probably be saved for Protracted People's War, or maybe my Shi'a conversion – that D/C would not become MSJ Presents This Week In My Bullshit Personality (A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of MSJ Industries, ©Creative Artists Agency MMXXVI), and I can tell you: that is NOT where we are going. We're fighting our way up Dreamland's spine.
No, not tomorrow/yesterday, not tomorrow, it's happening now, it happens Outside.
<3
M
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Hell yeah man, onward and upward! ✂️✂️✂️
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This show has helped me heal and grow for 5 years. Thank you ❤️
love you alive
lol the <3. I can't remember if that's kissy lips or a sideways heart, both are funny AND for just the cost of a cup of city coffee: what a deal. Thanks M.
I love this show and have much love and appreciation for you BUT WHERE IS THAT EPISODE ON DAVID JONES YOU PROMISED YEARS BACK For real though, Every time I see Brace at an event, I’m tempted to ask him how you are, but then he’s hitting on Gen Z kiddos so I decide not to. For real for real though, thank you for all you do and have done. You show has been a bridge for me and my brother during the most fucked up of times. But still, I know nobody besides Tom fucking Sleigh who has read David Jones, and the poetry scene in nyc is not well read and I miss being able to have my own personal dialogue with your literature discussions. Your show has been a light. I just want you to know that.
Thanks to you as well. The show has been an amazing addition to my listening, learning, straight up making it all better. Much appreciation for what you do.
Love and Basketball from my keep to MSJ Industries, always!
Thank you for what you do. Cut cut cut.
Thank you! And man did you call this Venezuela shit or what?! 🤬
Peace and love brother, you’ve shared so much to me that has truly changed how I think about the world.
I appreciate you, Michael. If you’re taking show suggestions, I love those series you used to do, where you’d pull from a couple non-fiction sources (eg. Dark Alliance for Iran-Contra and Unspeakable for Losing Blood & Brains the JFK Way)
I’d also like to say that this show, and Paul’s, frequently serves as an anchor point for me. Something that keeps me connected to what’s True and Worthwhile through good times and bad—particularly the latter.
Keep up the good work brother. You’ve opened my eyes on many topics and hope it continues for many more years <3
Been a subscriber since 2020. The generosity of language, thought and humor along the way has been essential. I also appreciate how transparent you have been over the years about the struggles you face, which are so often hidden. The future is the eternal preset. We help each other out, even if it’s not enough.
You do great work, you articulate feelings I’ve had for many years but haven’t been able to fully flesh out. Even got me reading Pynchon now for the first time, looking forward for more to come. All love 🩷
Discovered you through the JFK series which was definitely lifechanging, as any material on such a subject should be if taken seriously. A while later, shortly after meeting my wife, who literally watches no media, barely knows what a marvel movie is, I recommended your show to her. I knew that of all the "content" out there that your show would actually speak to someone like her, as it does me. And yeah she loves the show too. Certainly didnt need that know we were a great fit, but it was more fuel to the fire. This show is like a brief reprieve to a world just as sickly absurd as ours, but where others at least see it too.
I only discovered this show a few months ago, and I never thought I would hear someone articulate thoughts that I have felt in my bones for many years, but never thought would hear someone else say! Out of all of your episodes, which are just amazing, the one about Mr. Rogers was particularly impactful for me, so I want to thank you for that. Like others said here, I am hopeful that your health will hold steady and that you might not kill yourself. People like you and the thoughts that you articulate give me hope for humanity! You have helped me to understand more about the writing of Pynchon (and others) in a deeply human way, much more so than content from some of the logic-bros out there. And, your other show about music is outstanding on a whole other level. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Hell yeah dude, great to hear. You’ve helped guide many through some dark times, I know that’s for sure, and your voice is greatly appreciated. Just the number of books that I’ve read the past couple years, recommended directly from the pod, that have greatly altered my life for the better, is pretty significant. Thanks for all you do.
I really appreciate your work ❤️
You are the man, brother.
Go get ’em, MSJ. This podcast literally changed my worldview forever. The online milieu or whatever for this kind of thing has expanded but there’s still nothing quite like D/C.
Let’s goooooo! Ptolemy’s Almagest episode confirmed
For real though who gonna get that protracted peoples war going already?
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This show has become invaluable to me since i first started listening a year ago. It's incredible how many things I've learned about here that have recontextualized huge chunks of my reality - the same things are in my awareness, but my understanding of and relationship to them is radically different. You don't find that kind of thing often. We can't tell you enough how much we appreciate your work. You wanna know something funny? Remember that old episode, I forget which one, where you talked about how so many scenes of nuclear weapons detonating in movies and books take place on a highway, or looking out from a highway toward a city or broader landscape? Well I was just at a new movie last night about radioactive zombies, and they had a few short scenes of the nuclear explosion that created these zombies cut together from different perspectives around the city. Guess what the very first scene of that sequence was. That's why i listen to the show.
i'm listening to the outro song of the MTG episode as I write this and I've never been a more satisfied recipient of any product. I did unsub from all the others
Siempre contigo, mi general.
¡Viva Manuel Zelaya carajo!
Good on you man, still here for it all.
Dear Michael, 2 things - firstly, how on earth I discovered D/C as probably the 2nd podcast I’d ever listened to at the start of the pandemic god only knows but I’m truly grateful I did. Recommend you to anybody I think would listen I do - you’ve almost got me to evangelistic states at times (terrifying). Sometimes I’ve been very concerned about your health and some episodes have had me worried and thinking is this the sound of a man dying/asking for help and talk about feel powerless as I’m half a world away. However, this is the past and to remain there I hope. You are a very talented human being - thank you for finding away to share it with whoever needs to hear it. Secondly if MSJ industries goes global give us a job x Happy new year by the way (only to annoy you)
I think we're all pretty hyped to be on this train MSJ. In a world where Matt Yglesias makes a fortune for excreting his takes in whatever multimedia formats, subbing to D/C feels somewhere between conscientious consumption and outright rebellion. Please treat yourself to some more guitar gear with our compliments
Hell yeah