Episode #22: Interview with DJ Leary

05/11/2021 57 min Episodio 22

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 - 00:02 - Welcome writer and poet DJ Leary
 - 00:45 - James "don't" do words well
 - 01:06 - How DJ met Catherine
 - 02:00 - DJ inspired at Shakespeare's Globe
 - 04:00 - Street performance typewriter
 - 04:37 - The "COVID Project 7-year novel"
 - 05:24 - Creating characters is complicated!
 - 06:00 - Post English degree creativity
 - 07:17 - Schools fall short for creative endeavors
 - 08:29 - Lack of critical thinking
 - 09:02 - Nobody can teach the artistic process
 - 09:50 - "New Slam In Town", Ghost Poetry Show
 - 10:57 - Kaiti Pritchett Slam Poet
 - 12:18 - Academic poetry turns off a generation
 - 13:50 - Console vs PC gaming
 - 14:50 - Catherine nods off during gaming convo
 - 15:33 - iPhone gaming and cruise ship quotas
 - 17:43 - James dates himself with "Doom"
 - 18:57 - The "gamer history eye roll"
 - 19:22 - Film Bar is back, same location!
 - 19:58 - Club Dwntwn hosts "Poetic Soul"
 - 20:30 - DJ's sci-fi novel
 - 21:09 - Just wear your phone on your face
 - 22:15 - We are the Brave New World Borg
 - 22:42 - Consumption, overstimulation, distraction
 - 24:00 - My phone is my universe, and is boring
 - 27:00 - DJ's busy life and social media
 - 31:04 - Instagram and visual art
 - 31:40 - Twitter is a writer's resume
 - 33:30 - Unplugged anonymity is a luxury
 - 34:00 - Analog nostalgia vs digital complexity
 - 40:30 - Moving beyond a flash of brilliance
 - 43:20 - "Train I Ride", Paul Mosier
 - 44:13 - Middle ground on Myers-Briggs I/O scale
 - 45:57 - DJ's Poet Pick: T.S. Eliot
 - 49:00 - Cutting the Arts won't save a failed educational system
 - 51:07 - DJ and James fix global climate change
 - 52:05 - Pro Pigeon Party
 - 56:45 - DJ reads "Scarecrow, Road-trip, Clay"