ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A podcast about the agonizing questions of existence and the shit we watch, read, and listen to to try to make sense of it.
Currently handcuffed to a bank vault. Send cheap wine, expensive cigarettes, or unpublished biographies of David Berman.
Updated bi-weekly.
Contact Us: candyjailpod@gmail.com
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
81 minutes
Video podcast
English
United States
18 episodes
since May 17, 2023
episodic
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The final installment of our deep dive into the second Silver Jews album.
David Berman recorded on Drag City records.
The second part of our deep dive into the 1996 Silver Jews album The Natural Bridge.
Silver Jews recorded on Drag City records.
Part one of our deep dive into the 1996 Silver Jews album The Natural Bridge.
Silver Jews recorded on Drag City records.
We discuss Christian Petzold’s 2014 film, Phoenix, in all of its preposterously implausible and emotionally poignant glory. We also explore the film’s explicit connections to Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary 1958 film, Vertigo.
Intro and outro music: Candy Jail, by Silver Jews
This episode marks our first deep dive into Silver Jews’ first studio album, Starlite Walker.
Note: Due to technical issues (and apparently the fact that it’s no one’s favorite SJ song) there is no audio snippet for Tide to the Oceans.
Silver Jews recorded on Drag City records.
Ahead of our first Silver Jews album breakdown, we turn our attention to the most un-Berman of bands.
We discuss Phil Joanou’s 1988 documentary Rattle and Hum, and ponder superstardom, super fandom, and the role our favorite bands play in shaping identity.
Come for the love, stay for the hate.
Also…
What happens when a French philosopher writes about photography while grieving for his mother? Did you think that was the setup to a Freudian joke? What’s wrong with you? You people make us sick.
The wonderful Helen Miller joins us to discuss Roland Barthes’ seminal photography text Camera Lucida.
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After much procrastinating and shoegazing we peel ourselves away from the punch bowl to ask if you’d like to hear us talk about a man named David Berman.
Also mentioned: U2, Guns n Roses, Tori Amos, Father John Misty, Lana Del Rey, Doseone, The Microphones, Dan Bejar
David Berman recorded on Drag C…
Mr. Hallorann, what’s in Room 237?
We watch Rodney Ascher’s 2012 documentary and ponder whether there really is such a thing as a harmless conspiracy theory.
Also mentioned: The X-Files, NXIVM, When Prophecy Fails, Kurt Vonnegut, Inglourious Basterds, Vic Chesnutt.
The pastor Brendan mentioned is D…
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