Cyberpunk is My Favorite Kind of Punk

Montreal Sauce

This episode your favorite bosom buddies are conversing with developer, musician & writer Arturo Vergara about language, influential authors & thinkers, cyberpunk and the value of art criticism.

• We met Arturo on Cupcake.io.
• Interactive fiction games? Design your own using the awkward R.A.G.S. or the HTML-based Twine.
• Arturo encourages everyone to check out Rudy Mancuso.
• Learning about Mexico City.
• Where there hell does Halloween come from, anyway?
• Arturo’s pond project is for synchronizing RSS and Atom feeds. Soon to be renamed so it won’t be mistaken for the other Pond.
• His other project is a self-hosted email server, Postage.
• He was inspired to make Postage in part because of arkOS.
• We talk about the T.P.P. and jkillearn shot us a link in the chat channel. Here it is.
• Arturo suggests searching for David Lynch’s Daily Weather Report on Youtube.
• Paul suggests searching for George Carlin’s Hippy Dippy Weatherman.
• Chris chimes in with Kevin Nealon with News From 10 Feet Away. Of course, he and Arturo can’t watch that clip because of lame copyright laws.
• Austin Kleon presents at SXSW in 2014.
• What’s with that weird hinge on the Surface Book?
• Arturo digs the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack.
• Other cyberpunk movies discussed: The Matrix, Tron & Blade Runner.
• Some other books of note we discussed, cyberpunk & drama flavored:
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
  • Neuromancer
  • Snowcrash
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Ready Player One.
• Arturo suggests Android: Netrunner The Card Game.
• The bizarre history The Catcher in the Rye in pop culture.
• Arturo doesn’t like the notion of art critics as “nobody gets to decide what’s good and what’s bad in art.” Chris & Paul discuss ArtPrize.
• Arturo is a part of a reading group that discusses Heidegger and Sartre.
• Wine-tasting: it’s junk science.
• Arturo says Albert Camus was very influential to him.

Thanks to Arturo for joining us at the last minute! It was a pleasure to chat with him. Be sure to check out his site, arturovm.me to find his work and where to stalk him online. Thank you for listening! For more information about the podcast & upcoming shows, check out our Patreon page. You can throw money at us there as well.

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