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The Whole Shebang: The Minute-by-Minute Velvet Goldmine Podcast

Take a minute-by-minute journey into the glittery heart of the greatest (and only) glam rock movie of the 1990s, Velvet Goldmine. Who killed Brian Slade? What's with the Oscar Wilde obsession? Why did Bowie sue? Couldn't they afford sturdier trousers for Ewan McGregor? These, and many more questions will be answered by your hard-rocking hosts, Mike Grasso and Jenny Anckorn as we take on... THE WHOLE SHEBANG!
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Take a minute-by-minute journey into the glittery heart of the greatest (and only) glam rock movie of the 1990s, Velvet Goldmine.

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Oct 7, 2016

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Minute 61: The Impenetrable Wall of Verbiage

Minute 62: Maybe You Could Be My Mainman

Minute 63: Satellite(s) Of Love

Minute 64: A Clean-Cut Man Pal

Minute 65: An Artificial Century

Oct 7, 2016

In Minute 65 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike plumb the identities of the Champagne Boys who are singing “Bitters End” by Roxy Music, and look at Brian, Mandy, Curt and the Fripperies’ gold-themed 1930s party, and how the visuals remind Mike of British outlaw filmmakers and visual innovators Ken Russell and Peter Greenaway, and the costuming choices of Curt, Mandy, Shannon, and mostly Jerry. We then talk about how this scene uses Oscar Wilde’s quotes from The Critic As Artist and his conversation in 1891 Paris about artifice vs. nature, and delve a little bit into the résumés of some of the Velvet Goldmine actors and how Todd Haynes harnessed their amateurness into a work of artistic genius.

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Oct 6, 2016



In Minute 64 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike talk about the minute entirely contained within a young teenage girl’s bedroom, including the disdain for young girls’ pop sensibilities in the rock and roll press, the conscious callback to Todd Haynes’s controversial Barbie-doll epic
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, the heterosexual capitalist semiotics of playing with your Ken and Barbie dolls and the queer inversion of Barbie and Ken through parody dolls and reappropriations of the real Ken, and then we talk about the origins of slash fiction in the pages of Star Trek ‘zines and fanfiction’s expansion into Usenet and the origins of many of fanfiction’s signal terms on alt.tv.x-files, and then the political stance of fanfiction, and the further criticism of bad fanfiction on Livejournal and among MST3K fans. And then we wrap up with a look at T. Rex’s “Diamond Meadows,” which plays over the scene.

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Oct 5, 2016

In Minute 63 of The Whole Shebang, Mike valiantly fills the otherwise music-video-y 63rd minute of Velvet Goldmine with discussions of THREE distinct Satellites of Love: the titular Intelligence System from VALIS and how Philip K. Dick used Brian and Angie Bowie and Brian Eno as inspirations for his creepy antagonists; Barbelith, the “end boss” of Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles; and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew’s own Satellite of Love. Then Jenny parries with a tenuous connection (through fairground rides and rock and roll) to the Beatles’ (and Charles Manson’s) “Helter Skelter.” And then we cover the paparazzi and the history of the term as it relates to another film about glamour and image, La Dolce Vita.

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Oct 4, 2016



In Minute 62 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at Curt’s place among the Fripperies and whether his wounded soul is just too authentic and sincere for the campy poses inherent in Brian’s lifestyle, whether or not Jerry is exploiting Brian and Curt’s budding gay romance for publicity and sensation, the phenomenon of gay fanservice in pop music and a modern example of it in K-Pop, and whether this sort of phenomenon will disappear with greater mainstream cultural acceptance of gay desire, and Brian and Curt’s ride on the Space Spinner to Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love.”

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Oct 3, 2016

In Minute 61 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at the hotel breakfast where Curt, Brian and the obfuscatory Jerry go into business together through a blizzard of comedic dialogue (and talk about how funny a movie Velvet Goldmine can be), we wonder if it’s New York or London by looking at the decor, breakfast guests, and stainless steel coffee pots, and we break down the champagne-and-fruit breakfast of hard-partying rock stars. Then we look at Bowie’s annus mirabilis of record producing, 1972, as he helped bring both Lou Reed’s Transformer and Iggy Pop’s Raw Power to life.

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Sep 30, 2016

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Minute 56: Strange Sister Bonding

Minute 57: The Bottom of the Costume Box

Minute 58: All The Babies

Minute 59: The Twittering of the Fripperies

Minute 60: Whoa We're Halfway There

Sep 30, 2016

 

More metaposts!

  • First of all, above please find the long-promised photo of the Brian and Curt dolls that Jenny made for Cat lo those many years ago. We figured it was a good idea to post these now, since we reference them this week in the podcast, and they're VERY relevant next week (no spoilers).
  • We are indeed at the halfway point of the podcast! Our Amazon Video version of Velvet Goldmine ends in Minute 120. So this is a good time to again thank all of you who've listened, kept up, and spread the word about the podcast.
  • Speaking of which, won't you take some time today if you haven't already to throw a dollar or two our way at our Patreon site, or buy something (if you're in the US) via our Amazon link? With only 12 more weeks to go, we could really use your support now more than ever. You can still get yourself on ChallengeBowie, and you can still get three of the six badges that Jenny plans on making for the podcast if you contribute $10/month or more!
  • We thought about taking a hiatus week at the halfway point, but we're chugging along recording. Doing a daily podcast is pretty demanding, we're finding, but it's all worth it when we see numbers like we did this week, where we got two of our best download days so far! Thank you so much.
  • If you haven't already, please Like us on Facebook and add us on Twitter. We post more stuff on both venues and we love to stay in touch with our listeners.
  • Finally... LIME WON! IN YOUR FACE GREEN APPLE!
Sep 30, 2016

In Minute 60 of The Whole Shebang, we have hit the halfway point of the podcast, and Mike celebrates in song! (while Jenny mercilessly mocks him) We then move back to the Max’s Kansas City analogue to talk about the Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean… impersonators? fantasy figures? at the club, and the influence of the Hopper Nighthawks parody painting Boulevard of Broken Dreams on this scene, and the relationship between Warhol and Bowie, including Bowie playing him in Basquiat, the mysterious two companions of Curt Wild in this scene as he nods off, the real-life Bowie’s talent and how it compares to Brian’s, and meeting our idols and not embarrassing ourselves like Brian does with Curt: Jenny’s meeting Noel Fielding and Cat’s meeting Stewart Lee… or alternately embarrassing ourselves as Cat did with KateGoes.

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Sep 29, 2016

In Minute 59 of The Whole Shebang, Mike, Jenny and special guest Cat talk about the Slade gang’s reaction to the news that they’re going to America and the spectacularly weird choices they make on famous people they want to meet there, Brian’s date with destiny with Curt Wild in New York, Suzi Quatro and her Velvet Goldmine-verse analogue in Polly Small, Donna Matthews, Elastica, and the Velvet Goldmine curse, the New York Dolls’ “Personality Crisis” and David Johansen’s reinvention of himself in the 1980s as Buster Poindexter, and the legend of Max’s Kansas City in the early ‘70s. And then we talk with Cat about how she came to discover Velvet Goldmine through the tutelage of her older sister Jenny, and how it became a style bible for her in her legendary Tag Days.

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Sep 28, 2016

In Minute 58 of The Whole Shebang, Mike, Jenny and Jenny’s sister and special guest for the week Cat cover the Jean Harlow portrait in Jerry’s office and the urban legend that it was actually Eddie Izzard in drag, and then we talk about the tragic life and death of Jean Harlow and stage moms throughout Hollywood history, and then we introduce a new character… Freddi’s Minnie Mouse suit, and oh, Shannon and her lucking into the Easiest Job Interview Ever, more costume-trying-on sequences, and the eventual heel turn of Shannon and whether the condescending attitude of Mandy and the rest of the Brian Slade hangers-on towards Shannon justifies it.

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Sep 27, 2016

In Minute 57 of The Whole Shebang, Mike, Jenny, and special guest Cat continue to look at the success montage including Cooper’s lackluster costuming, the stately homes of Old England including Chiswick House in Cat’s Architectural History Minute, Cooper’s poor impression of Mickey Rooney, the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland comedies of the late ‘30s and early ‘40s, the many urban legends surrounding Walt Disney, the similarities between child actors Mickey Rooney, Gary Coleman and Emmanuel Lewis, and yes, yet MORE costumes to review, including Brian’s white suit which leaves nothing to the imagination, the Venus in Furs trying gamely to glam up, and Mandy’s fantastic colorful sundress, and then we talk a lot about Eddie Izzard’s acting in Velvet Goldmine and his recent appearance in the press for chasing down a beret thief. And we reveal the reason behind our trip to England– Cat’s wedding to her husband Drew– and give a free commercial for the tasty wedding catering of Burger Bros. in Deal, UK.

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Sep 26, 2016

In Minute 56 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny are broadcasting LIVE from jolly old England, and they’ve got the most special of special guests… Jenny’s sister Cat Anckorn-Harris! In this minute, the three of us cover Roxy Music’s penchant for in-jokes within their first single “Virginia Plain,” the references to both “Street-Fighting Man” and “Dancing in the Streets” in Mandy’s narration and the difficulties of having a threesome in a small cupboard, the success headline montage and its references to Judy Garland in “A Star is Born,” Brian’s stealing of Jack Fairy’s posse and their fantastic outfits, the awkward Oscar moment where Whoopi Goldberg dressed as Maxwell Demon, the history of rock and roll airplanes including the legendary “Starship,” Brian’s retinue as echo of Warhol’s Superstars, and David Hoyle’s role in this film as “Freddie,” and on late-night Channel 4.

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Sep 23, 2016

Every week, The Whole Shebang will collect and present Amazon links to the movies, music, and books we've talked about in each episode. Buy these or other Amazon items through these links to help support the podcast!

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Minute 51: A Goth Meet-Cute

Minute 52: A Tempest of Identity

Minute 53: Time, Places, People

Minute 54: The Earring of Destiny

Minute 55: That's Me!

Sep 23, 2016

In Minute 55 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at possibly one of the most heartbreakingly poignant moments in Velvet Goldmine, where Arthur makes a connection via the television to Brian Slade and his own identity, gay representation in media and its importance more generally, Brian’s and Mandy’s orchestrated triple coming-out at the press conference as married, bisexual, and polyamorous. And Melissa Kaplan plays a special two-for-the-price-of-one ChallengeBowie, where she challenges Bowie at… remembering his own lyrics, and knitting!

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