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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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Sep 22, 2016

In Minute 54 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at Brian’s theft of Jack’s earring of purest green, the raucous press conference that launched Brian Slade’s career of outrageousness, the fashion outrage of neon-green leopard print, Mandy and Brian’s coordinated outfits and careers, Mandy’s rainbow eye makeup and the history of the rainbow flag in the gay lib movement, the rainbow as signifier of the Age of Aquarius, the meaning of all the colors in the gay rainbow (and hanky codes), Jerry’s lack of specificity in referring to the reporters at the press conference, our second visit with the “rock and roll is a prostitute” quote, Brian’s cocksure taking of elements of gay identity and wearing it in public, and whether lime or green apple is the superior flavor of Green.

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Sep 21, 2016

In Minute 53 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at the perfect symbolism of T. Rex’s 1971 track “Cosmic Dancer” and its applicability to both Jack and Brian, how it presents the liminality of Brian’s transition from folkie to glam, Mandy’s integral role in making Brian’s new image, Mandy’s philosophy of a mediator to help the world cope with the acceleration of progress, its relation to Bowie’s idea of the “homo superior” (swiped by Chris Claremont for the X-Men) and Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero, how Mandy’s theories of time and progress reflect the stimulating nature of her marriage, the visual callbacks to Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, how Angie and Brian’s comfy and awesome bedroom is reminiscent of David and Angie Bowie’s Haddon Hall, and other famous rock living quarters.

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Sep 20, 2016

In Minute 52 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike continue to take a close look at the sexy sex scene between Brian and Mandy, Mike tries his hand at both his Matt Berry impression and at sex play-by-play commentary, we recall the naughty ‘70s/’80s sketch movies The Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Amazon Women on the Moon, the literal blurring of identity between Jack Fairy, Mandy, and Brian, Jack’s possible metamorphosis into Brian, and Brian’s naked attempt to steal something shiny and green from Jack.

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Sep 19, 2016

In Minute 51 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at the kind of gothic first date which Mandy and Brian take on a cold New Year’s Eve, the Apollonian symbology of the goth raven, and then Mike conclusively links Brian Slade to the immortal legend of the Highgate Vampire. And then we get into our own “goth meet-cute” (really more of a “nerd meet-cute”) on teh Livejournals, how our first two guest hosts were instrumental in our long-distance courtship, and how Immigration forced us to have a quickie wedding in the middle of the winter, much like Mandy and Brian. Then we finally get to the Brian/Mandy sex scene and our, er, inspirational sex scenes of adolescent yesteryear, including Jenny’s favorite in Nicolas Roeg’s Performance and the rumors about unsimulated sex between Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, our favorite adolescent-years softcore porn on Skinemax and Channel 4, Jenny’s love of the ironic camp of Channel 4’s Eurotrash, and Mike’s love of HBO’s Real Sex, the much more sincere American equivalent.

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Sep 16, 2016

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Minute 46: When Mandy Met Brian

Minute 47: Smeared In Vaseline

Minute 48: A Shipwreck of the Streets

Minute 49: The United Nations of Gay Slurs

Minute 50: Do You Jive?

Sep 16, 2016

In Minute 50 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny talk about “Ladytron,” both Bry(i)ans working at the height of their powers, and Brian Eno’s utterly baffling unconfirmed Twitter account, Todd Haynes’s continuing expert use of color to signify character, how Jenny has given Mike the vocabulary to speak about musical theater, how Mandy and Brian meet and how the real Angie and David met, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Toni Collette’s real chemistry and how we’re going to talk about Brian and Mandy’s sex scene over a podcast.

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Sep 15, 2016

In Minute 49 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny look at the dreamlike gauntlet of gay slurs and slurs for androgyny that Jack must walk by in the hotel restaurant, the trope of the gay waiter or maitre d’ and the gay sailor or matelot, the awesomely camp tableau of Jack receiving a rose from a clubgoer in a sailor outfit, the blurring and polymorphousness of identity inherent in Velvet Goldmine’s poststructural and queer aesthetic, Mandy’s relationship to Jack and the specter of Mandy being way more into Jack than he is into her, the legacy of the sometimes strained relationship between straight women and gay men, the difference between the Sombrero Club in reality’s gay clientele and the more bisexual clientele of the movie, Jack’s status as a true original and Brian’s sudden metamorphosis into a predatory figure, and we spend a very long time giving all hosannas to the arch, sexy, weird, delightful legacy of Jarvis Cocker and Pulp.

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Sep 14, 2016

In Minute 48 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny focus on Jack Fairy and his absolute dominance of the scene at the Sombrero, but also take side-treks down imagining Jack’s time in London in the Swinging Sixties, talking about Jack’s wardrobe, accessories, and self bridging both the highbrow and gutter, and Jack’s visual and thematic similarities to Quentin Crisp.

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Sep 13, 2016

In Minute 47 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny talk about the early years of funk thanks to the appearance of The Mighty Hannibal on the soundtrack, how funk and go-go music fed into the coming wave of disco in the late ‘70s, the dress code at the Sombrero Club’s party and how white and silver also prefigure the coming space/glam age, Jenny’s love of a glam Christmas, how the party is reminiscent of Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball in 1966, the Rothschild Surrealist Ball in 1972, and the Goblin King’s Ball in 1986, the gauzy filter that’s used for Mandy’s flashbacks, and Jack Fairy’s epic entrance into the party and how there is an equivalence between Brian trying to meet Mandy and trying to meet Jack.

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Sep 12, 2016

In Minute 46 of The Whole Shebang, Mike and Jenny talk about the many guises of David Bowie and how other artists have succeeded or failed in that kind of compulsive reinvention, our flashback to New Year’s Eve 1969 and the exterior of the Sombrero Club, Brian’s late hippie look and the secret origin of Mandy’s afghan coat, David and Angie’s swapping clothes and looks, the ten-shilling cover charge at the Sombrero and Mike’s nerding out about the decimalization of British currency in 1971, the post-Christmas interior of the Sombrero and the legacy of its lighted dance floor, the fin-de-décennie aesthetic of this scene and its analogue in the fin-de-siècle aesthetic of Oscar Wilde’s era, when decades actually begin and end, and a lot of cheeky banter about Mike’s freakishly-large head.

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Sep 9, 2016

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Minute 41: The August Gentlemen

Minute 42: The Topsy-Turvy World of Heavy Rock

Minute 43: Birmingham Is A Code Word For Space

Minute 44: The Divine Miss Mandy

Minute 45: Left Bereft

Sep 9, 2016

In Minute 45 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike talk about Mandy’s reaction to Brian’s staged assassination, his prolonged absence from the pop culture scene and how it jibes with Jenny’s “there is no Brian Slade” theory, we take a look at the differing careers of Christian Bale and Toni Collette and examine what this has to tell us about institutionalized sexism in Hollywood, and how the legacy of glam differs in our 1984 and Velvet Goldmine’s 1984.

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Sep 8, 2016

In Minute 44 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike begin their out and proud praise of Angie Bowie, beginning with our goodbye to Cecil, our hello to the 1984 Mandy Slade, an examination of what kind of pub would have Mandy on nightly, how Angie Bowie got stiffed out of her own career during the split with David, Angie’s influence on the transgressive visual impact of glam, Angie’s ownership of the Daredevil/Black Widow Marvel properties in the late ‘70s, what Angie’s been up to since then (including a surreal sojourn on Celebrity Big Brother), Mandy Slade’s quiet noble dignity in the face of glam’s downfall, and Brian Slade, psychic vampire.

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Sep 7, 2016

In Minute 43 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike examine the pub where Cecil’s downfall begins, the beginning of the glam era, the importance of the “schoolgirl” audience to glam and the trope of the deprecation of the schoolgirl music fan in The Who’s Tommy and elsewhere, the mystery of where the Venus in Furs and Brian went to during their downfall and not talking to Cecil, and Cecil’s luxuriating in his misery and the gossip of long-gone days.

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Sep 6, 2016

In Minute 42 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike look at rock and roll managers’ requirement to be slightly physically intimidating, our first listen to the song “The Whole Shebang,” and one of Mike’s favorite bands from the ‘90s, Grant Lee Buffalo, the possibility of the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack bands being victims of a Velvet Goldmine Curse, the history of Top of the Pops in British culture, its roots in pop music on pirate and continental radio, and its role in burnishing David Bowie’s legend, TotP’s American equivalents in American Top 40, American Bandstand, and Soul Train, and other scandalous TotP performances.

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