8pl8s (Eight Plates) Podcast

Filmmaker & artist, Byron Von, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about his documentary series Looking Awry, his previous project Fully Loaded, the spiritual pitfalls of self-proclaimed artists, sneaky techniques to book guests and collaborators, removing yourself from your work, and a myriad of smaller subjects blossoms from there. Byron is an incredibly pleasant person to talk to, and I feel like this is an episode I would have loved to hear a few years back when I started creating. Enjoy!! Part 2, related to the work and legacy of Anthony Bourdain, will be released next week. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR UNSTOPPABLE FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Byron on IG and visit his website BOOKS MENTIONED: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) Essays, ‘Of Marriage and the Single Life’ (1625) Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization (2015) Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) The Short-Timers (1979)

Musician Mario Cuomo, former lead singer of The Orwells, joins me on 8pl8s to discuss this year's massive musical comebacks (Oasis, Deftones, Caesar's Palace) and his path as a solo musician turned filmmaker. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PHOENIX FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Mario on IG and Bandcamp FILMS DISCUSSED featuring Mario's music: Mass State Lottery (2024) dir. Jay Karales Jack (2024) dir. Jay Curtis Miller My Best Friend Depression (2024) dir. Heather Le Roy TS-CAM (202X) dir. Darius Csiky

Dorian Z. Bell (f.k.a. Dank Deleuze) joins me on 8pl8s to discuss Buddhist, zen, and ascetic currents in filmmaking. Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema characterised by a style that is minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative, and which typically emphasizes long takes. It is sometimes called "Darius Csiky's favorite typa cinema". REAL. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR ZEN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Danko on IG and stay tuned for his book coming soon. Timeline for the movies discussed: 13:25 - Film (1965) dir. Alan Schneider 17:53 - Fata Morgana (1971) dir. Werner Herzog 21:33 - News from Home (1976) dir. Chantal Akerman 26:36 - *Woyzeck (1979) dir. Werner Herzog 28:38 - *Baal (1970) dir. Volker Schlöndorff 42:23 - *Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014) dir. Hsieh Chin-Lin 44:37 - *Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini 56:25 - *Deep Rising (1998) dir. Stephen Sommers 58:07 - The Turin Horse (2011) dir. Tarr Béla 1:03:27 - *Drive My Car dir. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi 1:19:31 - Days (2020) dir. Tsai Ming-liang 1:22:56 - About Dry Grasses (2023) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan * NOT SLOW CINEMA, THESE FILMS SIMPLY CAME UP

After recording my latest appearance on their show, Lowres & Hans from the //Movies podcast join me on 8pl8s to discuss three films we'd absolutely DISAGREE on (if we remembered them), with the following (welcome) digressions into Costa Rican film critics, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, behind-the-scenes stories on Mass State Lottery (2024) & Saint Griefer (2024/2025), David Blaine & Criss Angel, ENTOURAGE & films based on television, being obsessed with Anthony Hopkins, and yes, FRED: The Movie (2010). SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR BOSTON RICAN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Lowres (Jay) on X and IG Follow Hans on X and IG Timeline for the movies we're torn on: 3:52 - The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008) 10:41 - Honey Boy (2019) 42:35 - The Master (2012)

Alec Mouhibian is a film producer & director, as well as the host of the Filthy Armenian Adventures (FAA) podcast. He joins me this week to discuss stogies and our opposing feelings on Reagan (2024) starring Dennis Quaid and the legendary Kevin Dillon from Entourage. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR REAGANOMIX FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Check out Alec's pod, and follow him on X and IG.

The world is a vampire. Case and point: The Twilight Saga. Full breakdown and OUT. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR GLITTERING FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

I love Ozu. I tell you why for an hour in this first third of my 8pl8s: Ozu trilogy, covering the director's silent film era (1927 - 1936). SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR BORN, BUT... FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

THE SEQUEL!!! Check out part 1 here Ryan Simón, the creator of American Vulgaria magazine, and Matt Gomes, a photographer and musician join me for a SECOND trip thru pics, Infinite Jest tattoos, Tanner Masseth's Surveillance film, and so much more... SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PHOTO-READY FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

Ryan Simón, the creator of American Vulgaria magazine, and Matt Gomes, a photographer and musician join me for a trip through the history and the state of photography in the modern age. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PHOTO-READY FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

Thom from UnironicZyzzPosting joins me for a slow, deep & hard-dive into the history and discography of one of America's most misunderstood bands, Type O Negative. With hints of addiction, religion, and of course, Zyzz. --- Chapters: 0:00 - Origins (1989–1991) 11:14 - Slow, Deep and Hard and The Origin of the Feces (1991-1992) 26:15 - Bloody Kisses (1993) 50:28 - October Rust (1996) 1:17:41 - World Coming Down (1999) 1:28:49 - Life Is Killing Me (2003) 1:44:22 - Dead Again (2007) + Legacy --- SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR DRUIDESS FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

John Wayning it up with new friend of the show Kelby Losack of the Agitator pod & Broken River book collective SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR WESTERN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

In what critics are calling the Horizon: An American Saga of film-pod crossovers, I am once again teaming up with Ryan Jackson of M.A.S. for a director deep dive. This week, we're going deep into the second half of Yorgos Lanthimos' filmography. We're in a great place mentally!! Films discussed in this ep: -The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) -The Favorite (2018) -Nimic (2019) -Gucci: Of Course a Horse (2020) -Bleat (2022) -Poor Things (2023) -Kinds of Kindness (2024) SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR GREEKCEL FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ LISTEN TO THE FIRST PART ON RYAN'S FEED (Mutual Aberration Society)

https://open.spotify.com/show/5pskLTN4rrqYDvk3fxqlTE?si=1d609bc7ac1e46bd On this legendary crossover episode, I go through EVERY feature film directed by https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048918/ with screenwriter/filmmaker https://www.instagram.com/ryanrjack/. This first half, featuring Four Letter Words (2000), Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), and Starlet (2012), was posted on the 8pl8s feed. The second half, featuring Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Red Rocket (2021) & even an Anora (2024) SNEAK PREVIEW (not exactly a TRAILER). I love his films, but Ryan has a love/hate w/ Sean Baker . SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR HOLLYWOOD FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Aberrationcelletuals: https://www.instagram.com/aberrationcellectuals2/

zach langley chi chi is an American drag queen in Japan and the host of the I'M SO POPULAR podcast ------------ SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR JAPANESE FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

liminal intl newport ft. Dark Marg / Memes of Saturn  pour yourself a grape fanta & light up a grape swisher sweet... audio heaven! Inventive purple digital artist Dark Marg / Memes of Saturn comes on to discuss Poor Things, edging trailers, Morocco smokes, liminal airports, while his home slides!! What a terrific display of stability!! SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PURPLE FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Dark Marg IG: https://www.instagram.com/darkmargaritaville/