FOF #985 – Welcome to Planet Larry La Fountain
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Some queer Puerto Ricans feel as if they’re from another planet- strangers in a strange land no matter where they go. Negotiating between cultures gives us fresh eyes with which to seek out the infinite […]
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Great show with all the sci-fi tie-ins! And yeah, I wouldn’t have thought he was Puerto Rican either haha. I, for one, thought the new Star Trek movie was ridiculously incredible. But certain parts of it felt a little rushed just to ‘get the audience to understand everything.’ The storyline itsself felt a little copied from other parts of Trek……but I guess it is difficult to create something brand-new these days. The characters are top-notch though and I think they now have the license to ‘boldly go’ wherever they want to with the new alternate-universe version of Trek. Great shows lately guys and keep up the great FOF!
So you guys are 15 shows away from Number 1000. Are you planning to have like a huge roundtable of all the great and wacky guests on from over the years? I think it would be great if you had like 20 guests on the show all at once…….granted, that would be pretty difficult from a technical perspective, trying to mic all of them lol. Anyways, congrats as you build to #1000……it’s definitely a huge accomplshment!
Also, stay tuned for details in early June about the revised trip to Phoenix. I am working out details now, way ahead of time to ensure this goes forward for early October.
–Joe
Wow, that was an awesome show. It’s amazing how you guys managed to say a lot of really profound and insightful things, while keeping up the usual humour going. And I absolutely loved your guest – I am myself a big fan of this sort of literary/cultural seeking/mingling and of ecclectic themes, so got very intrigued by the parts of his stories Larry read on the show. I am definitely going to check Larry’s book out!
Hi!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I had a wonderful time on the show!!!!
OMG, when Larry was on the podcast with Tracy I kept thinking, why doesn’t he talk about his fiction? I’m so glad you brought him back as a headliner and that he got his own FOF icon! He’ll be reading at the upcoming Hispanic Panic! event at Nowhere in NYC, curated by the also fab Charlie V谩zquez.
When Fausto started talking about Sensual versus Militarism society, he was actually hitting on something. It’s more commonly known as Epicurean(Sensual) and Stoic(Militarism). Epicurean is all about indulgence, food, wine and good times, while the Stoic belief is the strict regulation of your urges and emotions. So, the Feast of Fun would be very Epicurean.
Larry was a great guest, as a multi-racial person I can relate. I find it hard to fit in, especially in Miami, a very diverse, but incredibly self-segregated city.
Stranger in a strange land definitely is really the best way to put it.
In the various stages of my life I realised that the people around me align themselves to rather strong racial/cultural affiliations. And it has definitely resulted in the rather awkward way in which I relate to people. Its an endless sequence of negotiations.
Some examples:
* To my Chinese classmates I am not Chinese enough as I don’t speak proper Cantonese/Mandarin.
* I have had an Irish boss and European co-workers ask me if I came from Europe. When I tell them that I didn’t, I always get “Oh. You just seem very European to me”, which doesn’t really make much sense.
* The Aussies here use local cultural references and I have to politely explain that I did not grow up in Australia.
* I drop in references from the America (like Grey Gardens for example) and all I get are chirping crickets.
* My parents in Malaysia think I’m weird when we talk about ANY topic.
* And apparently, one can be “too gay” and “not gay enough”, all at the same time.
It can be pretty tiring. But I do think that these issues will become more pervasive as immigration and cross-cultural pollination becomes increasingly common.
Professor La Fountain is one of my all time favorite guests. His identification as a queer feminist male is such an inspiration and I find listening to him totally affirming and informative. Really appreciate this POV on the show!
I saw a show on Dali and film and he credited Bunuel and his love of the emerging technology of film with much of the iconic pieces he’s very well known for. He collaborated with many filmmakers including the Marx Bros. Interestingly, the discussion you guys had about Dali and Lorca made me start to think this is something I am gonna talk about in this oral presentation I have to do for my spanish final.
Fausto I don’t think I’ve commented but I really LOVE your deconstruction of social theory. Your brilliant mind never ceases to delight me. The Princess Lea as cockblocker was priceless!
So you guys liked Star Trek? I wouldn’t know it from the way you talked about it on the show.
Are you kidding? We loved it.
I’m mad about it!
Ok, so I went to a drag show last night and had this epiphany, inspired by the show, how drag queens are really the closest modern equivalent we have of the theatre of Shakespeare and of the ancient Greece – after all, in both cases these were men dressed in drag, and pretending their are goddesses and queens – only now it’s the new type of queens and goddesses – the divas of pop-culture. 馃槈