The Midnight Citizen 121 -- "Open Air"

Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night. Topics include: Facebook reminder of my horrific car accident 3 years ago today; cell phone obliterated; Jessica's new show, "Venus in Fur", made me uncomfortable; why I'm not an actor; Joe Bob Briggs should come to Birmingham's Sidewalk Film Festival; outdoor movies to continue next week at the Oak Hill Cemetery; why I'm not worried about David Lynch leaving "Twin Peaks"; show revivals may ruin TV's golden age; "True Detective" coming back, and; much more!

Show time: 1:09:07

Music for this episode is music from the Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released April 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen.

Fade In:

Mike takes a walk and ends up at the Sidewalk Film Festival downtown. Topics include: attending the first Sidewalk in 1998 and seeing "Seinfeld" Director Tom Cherones there; ScriptThing for Windows; downtown Birmingham is full of cars, but where are all the people?; walking around Sidwalk on my way to hear actors do a table read of short screenplays; screenwriting; Lee Strasburg; all the annoying hoops you have to jump through to make movies, and; much more! Note: this episode has a secret track. MAKE SURE YOU LISTEN ALL THE WAY THROUGH FOR THE SECRET TRACK!!!!

Show time: 1:39:35

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen (themidnightcitizen.com).

The Final Girl Theory

After a month's absence, I get on back to the microphone for another landmark episode.  Actually, this is a show that was supposed to be posted weeks ago, just after Birmingham's Sidewalk Film Festival in late August, but due to a slew of technical problems (no procrastination for once, I promise), it's just going up now.  It's still cool and relevant, though, I swear!

On this episode: 

An interview with Mark Trammell, former pop culture and entertainment editor for UAB's Kaleidoscope newspaper, who gives the most extensive review you'll hear of the grassroots Sidewalk Film Festival.  I talk with Mark about why Sidewalk matters in the film festival scene, and get a breakdown of all the independent flicks that played at this year's event that you need to see.  Tell your girlfriend, tell your parents -- truly something for everybody!