So we'll march day and night by the big cooling tower, they have the players, but we have the power.

Welcome to Mike Linus. I'm Willis. Welcome back, everyone. Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.

I'm feeling a little down in the dumps because we're having a very aggrieved conversation about current events just off Mike.

A very sad conversation about what the

world's come to and uh you know in this episode uh i have some some lighter matters to discuss

did you see the new york times profile of matt farley this weekend i didn't read it but i did see it

congrats to friend of the show matt farley yeah i mean'm sure many, maybe even most listening to this know who he is, but for those

who don't, he is the New England-based songwriter slash filmmaker, who is notable, among

other things, for having written 25,000 songs on Spotify, which through the accrual of many

pennies, he makes into a living wage.

But also, to some of us, to a smaller number of us, he and his friend Charlie Roxburgh are great

filmmakers who have made this very impressive body of work as backyard productions. And I will,

I will not rest until he has his retrospective on the Criterion Channel, which I think will happen.

But we did an episode on Magic Spot.

I think it was called Motern and Us a few months ago.

This is maybe treading old ground for older listeners, but if you're a new listener,

you may not know that my esteemed co-host Will Sloan has actually played a not negligible

role in putting Matt Farley's

cinema on the map. I've only seen, I think, two of Matt Farley's movies, but they are remarkable,

unique, unusual, absolutely worthy of, you know, wider discussion, wider viewing. And Will,

you published a book called Moturn on Moturn that was a series of interviews with you and

Justin DeClew, co-host of your other podcast, The Important Cinema Club. If people haven't listened to that,

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