Nine months ago, I was out of a job, fricasseed by my own wee media market, and generally peeking down the double barrel of “destiny, interrupted.” I was at the lowest point I'd ever been, which is saying something since I was a teenage telemar

009: It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been

Jul 6th, 2017 4m 58s

I remember when I was first on the periphery of what I guess we could call my screenwriting career and some Hollywood dickhead asked me “What’s your quote?” He meant “what’s your rate, your fee, your market value” — all of which was zero at the

008: Keep the Aspidistra Dying: I'm an Artist, Not a Creative Entrepreneur

Jun 12th, 2017 5m 19s

When you’re a broke-ass-art-person, there’s about million podcasts and blogs and online courses encouraging you to create podcasts and blogs and online courses to help monetize your creative process by sharing it with other artists who, in turn

007: Transmedia, Worldbuilding and Weird German Words

May 19th, 2017 5m 36s

This edition of Daedalus Howell’s Night School of the Mind, is brought to you by Quantum Deadline, "...a noirish, sci-fi-lite detective story with a heap of self-parody that's by turns poignant, witty and comic..." says the North Bay Bohemian.

006: That Time My Fear of Artistic Inauthenticity Met The Fear Doctor

May 3rd, 2017 5m 58s

Before I walked the plank into indie authorship, I did time as a small town newspaperman. As my affiliations grew, so did the amount of press releases I received in my inbox. I still receive them, and one arrived today that served as an ironic

005: Did Shakespeare Smoke Pot?

Apr 15th, 2017 4m 19s

April 23rd marks William Shakespeare’s 423rd bday. For the sake of this chat, however, let’s just say it’s his 4-20th birthday. Because the question of the day is “Did Shakespeare smoke weed?”Doobie, or not doobie? That is the question – the

004: Quicksand. Don't Make it Weird.

Apr 7th, 2017 7m 19s

Long left behind in B-Movies, quicksand is making something of a cultural comeback. But maybe not in the way one might expect. From fetish films to a David Bowie word salad, your host Daedalus Howell plays through the sandtrap and finds old vid

003: Burning Down the Art House, Part Three: Nostalgia, the Good Disease

Mar 31st, 2017 5m 28s

The third and final installment of the mini-series "Burning Down the Art House" focuses on Tom Schiller’s hat tip to Fellini, "La Dolce Gilda," starring Gilda Radner and evoking a nostalgia trip for your host, Daedalus Howell. Links to the vi

002: Burning Down the Art House, Part Two: Death Becomes Him

Mar 23rd, 2017 5m 10s

Still in pursuit of the elusive art film, I find my way to Bergman through the portal of parody and pubescent thanatos. Behold, De Düva... Watch the films mentioned here: http://daedalushowell.com/blog/part-two-art-films. Theme music by Shannon

001: Burning Down the Art House, Part One: Poseurs, Parodists and Pill Head, an Art Film

Mar 16th, 2017 7m 49s

Whilst developing my feature-length art film, Pill Head, I ask why I'm drawn to the genre and whether it's really a genre at all. Also, I connect the dots between Monty Python and Jean-Luc Godard...

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