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BSP Episode 304: Downfall

Point one:  Apparently, someone’s cell phone was too close to the recorder and because of that we kept getting random line noise on the recording.  At least that is what “science” would have you believe. Personally, I’m of the mind that it was Hitler’s ghost coming to haunt our recording.  I cleaned up a good bit of the audio, but there is still some random parts that have buzzing and crackling in them.

 

Point two:  This movie was too much of a bummer to write show notes for… that, or we are still too lazy to do them ourselves.  By we, I mean me.

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Back Seat Book Club Shows

Back Seat Book Club – Book Seventeen: Clockwork Orange

Author: Anthony Burgess

Published: 1962

William Heinemann Ltd.

Plot Summary – In Anthony Burgess’s nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends’ social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex—to “redeem” him—the novel asks, “At what cost?”

Quick Thoughts:

  • [now hiring: show note guy]

“Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.” 

Your Hosts:

  • Jim
  • Lena
  • Scott

Recorded: 01/08/13

Next Time: Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan