Episode #45: DJ Leary: Take Two

06/05/2022 56 min Episodio 45

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Episode Synopsis

SHOW TOPICS
 - Writer DJ Leary discusses art, poetry, prose, and next steps on his creative journey.
SHOW NOTES
 - 00:12 - DJ "SubRants" again!
 - 02:00 - Pandemic apartment good for writing
 - 02:50 - Laundry basket anxiety attack
 - 04:00 - Poems, stories, Pivot Cycles commercial
 - 04:20 - DJ's Pivot Shadowcat Ad
 - 08:20 - "4 Minutes Later" (James bike-nerds out)
 - 09:50 - No more training wheels, ever!
 - 11:15 - Listen to the neighborhood ambiance
 - 12:00 - "DC Rat Mob" (actual rodents, not politicians)
 - 14:08 - Bethesda v. Scottsdale and a tattoo artist's floor
 - 16:20 - Bird loudly joins podcast
 - 17:00 - What DJ will and won't miss about Phoenix
 - 19:20 - Phoenix expensive, friends moving on
 - 20:30 - One rodeo is enough for a lifetime
 - 21:00 - Surprise, DC is political!
 - 22:30 - Poems for "Tuckle"
 - 23:13 - Cocaine free coffee beans
 - 24:15 - No "swerving right" for easy money?
 - 26:00 - Writers needed (in Thailand?)
 - 27:15 - Fiverr and the "gig economy"
 - 29:15 - Motivated through authentic interaction
 - 32:18 - Instagram as "poetry archive"
 - 33:30 - DJ is a tattoo!
 - 35:30 - Being an artist is hard work
 - 38:40 - Screaming into the Twitter void
 - 41:04 - Instagram pay dirt
 - 43:20 - Next steps for prose over poetry
 - 44:50 - Think you're good at what you do? You're not!
 - 47:45 - Catchy, but played out
 - 49:00 - Practice makes better
 - 50:25 - DJ and a typewriter
 - 52:00 - San Diego and DC give "great busk"
 - 53:03 - Shout out to The Smithsonian
 - 54:05 - DJ recites a poem