{"id":20578,"date":"2021-07-05T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=20578"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T15:29:19","slug":"sharksploitation-and-upcoming-podcasts-sundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=20578","title":{"rendered":"Sharksploitation, and Upcoming Podcasts & Sundry"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you asked me where the last 3 months went, I honestly have no effing idea. March was mid-Third Wave of the pandemic in Toronto, and still a chunk away from the gradual winding down of what I’ll state for the last time was the longest lockdown in North America.<\/p>\n

I did get vaccinated in early April (with the second jab done this weekend without any extreme effects), but quite frankly I’ve no idea how weeks just blurred into a mush of near-nothingness. Ideas were scripted on paper and computer, reviews drafted and written, but the endless ‘languishing’ during the lockdown did a real number on internal verve.<\/p>\n

I’ve had to retrain the brain from drowning in white noise to getting back into some routine, which sounds ridiculous, as well as remembering why it’s good to have a proper meal now & then instead of salty crunchy carbs; and restore the work zone from the disarray that globbed together, as though an invisible magnet of crap & clutter worked hard after hours to add to the physical confusion that developed each morning.<\/p>\n

Bake in furniture-dragging from foot monsters each morning that fueled a corrupted sleep cycle akin to a med student, and it’s no wonder March, April, and May were utter crap.<\/p>\n

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“I think I know what that is, but I just can’t remember if it’s fish, fowl, or a very useless soup bone.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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To the other end, I’ve reviews of killer creature films on the go, of which Joe D’Amato’s almost bloodless\u00a0Deep Blood <\/strong>\/ Sangue negli abissi<\/strong> <\/a>(1990) is the first to emerge (via Severin Blu), with William Girdler’s shockingly fun Day of the Animals<\/strong> (1976) coming next (also Severin), and something insect-ish that’s tied to a new podcast series that’ll debut in about 2 weeks.<\/p>\n

I stepped away from soundtrack reviews & podcasts for a bit – part burnout, part a needed shift in focus – and the limited series is a fusion of filmmusic, films, and nostalgia with minimal treacle. Limited, even though I’ve drafted about 30 viable topics which theoretically should cover 30 months.<\/p>\n

Also coming this week is an interview with artist Donna Wise, whom I interviewed back in 2017<\/a> at the Urban Gallery<\/a>, which itself closed during the pandemic but has plans to re-emerge.<\/p>\n

The new, roughly half-hour Q&A for my occasional ArtsScope TO podcast<\/a> will focus on her work and the repercussions of the lockdown on artists who found themselves without a venue to exhibit, no person-to-person dealings, and the effects of being stuck at home (or having to plan a relocation as developers bought low-rise properties during Toronto’s still screwed-up housing market, or unscrupulous landlords used the pandemic to oust low-paying tenants for a high-paying corporate banalities. But I digress).<\/p>\n

And a little arthouse smut, because filmmaking doesn’t always have to be deeply serious and socially progressive.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Review of Joe D’Amator’s PG-centric DEEP BLOOD \/ SANGUE NEGLI ABISSI (1990) via Severin + Upcoming Podcasts, Reviews, and the Blur that was Spring 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[6573,2562,2563,932,6509],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DeepBlood_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-5lU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20591,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions\/20591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}