Show Notes
Acknowledgement of Country
I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and learn on the traditional lands of the Dharug and Darkinjung peoples. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.
Content Warning: like all of my eps, this is an explicit episode which is targeted at adults. It is labelled accordingly on your pod platforms with *E* symbol. Please go through the triggers below before jumping in!
Trigger Warning for the novel & this ep: graphic violence, sexual violence (SA & others), animal cruelty, necrophilia and cannibalism, misogyny, child harm, torture and gore, substance abuse, homophobic and racist language, body horror.
Cold open: The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist Lyrics
I meant DSM not DCM, soz: Psychiatry.org - DSM
Warm close: Nelly – Just a Dream Lyrics
Picador edition of my book, include shrink wrapped pic:
I keep calling Bateman Batman? Some kind of Freudian slip hehehe… Bruce Wayne is played, btw, also by Christian Bale in the movies :)
Associations:
Mentioned:
Lost Lambs by Madeleine Cash: Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash | Goodreads
Sources:
Keeping Up With The Penguins, "American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis"
Dan McNeil, "American Psycho" — The McNeil Variations
Literariness, "Analysis of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho"
Panova, O. Yu., "American underground spirit: Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground and 20th century USA literature," Izvestiya Saratov University (2021) — DOAJ link
Baltimore Sun review, "'American Psycho' is not merely gruesome, it's also dull" (1991)
Music - Free Music Archive - CC License:
- Andrew R Codeman - Crazy Bot
- Blank & Kytt - Come Get Some
- Blank & Kytt - Thursday & Snow (Reprise)
- Cullah - Ooh Baby You Drive Me Crazy Blues
- Damiano Baldoni - I'm CrAZy
- Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music - Crazy Town
- HoliznaRAPS - My Family Thinks I'm Crazy
- Josh Woodward - Crazy Glue (Instrumental Version)
- Mise Darling - It's Crazy!
- Ondrosik - Crazy
- Paweł Spychała - Crazy parrot.mp3
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Email: kinoroyalepodcast@gmail.com
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Equipment:
JBL Quantum Stream Studio | Quad pattern premium USB microphone for streaming, recording and gaming
Audacity - recording & editing by FL