The thirteenth episode of TIMFT explores the fetid ecstasy of Danny Boyle's film Trainspotting (1996) with Nicholas Castro looking at empathetic cinema, the black hole of addiction, and the idea of "found family".

Trainspotting (1996) https://boxd.it/29XY

Trainspotting: The Choice of a Generation https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Danny_Boyle/HEhKWfOyQLcC

This bumper double episode of TIMFT with Static Vision's Conor Bateman and Felix Hubble looks at the oddly familiar in two new media works: the idiosyncratic YouTube artefact 'Competitive eating icon, a Staten Islander, retires', and the extravagant pop deconstruction of easyFun's easyMix.

Competitive eating icon, a Staten Islander, retires (2008) https://youtu.be/nnl9rRw-Qgc

easyMix - easyFun (2015) https://soundcloud.com/easyfun/easymix

Embalming the obscure: The rise of B-movie cinephilia https://www.academia.edu/35802985/

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBryTebK2Og

Perfect Film (1986) dir. Ken Jacobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_qJoqvzA4

Hollow Jungle (2019) dir. Conor Bateman http://norbateman.co/hollow-jungle/

Ian Barr tweet https://twitter.com/ianbarr/status/747995667461603332

Static Vision https://linktr.ee/staticvision

The beautiful rural microcosms of Cate Kennedy's award-winning poetry collection, The Taste of River Water, are explored with James Perkins in THIS, the ELEVENTH episode of This Is My Favourite Thing!

The Taste of River Water by Cate Kennedy (1962) https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-taste-of-river-water

Joy flight - Cate Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieBFToPv4xA

Writing The 'Ow' Factor: Cate Kennedy discusses the craft of writing fiction https://overland.org.au/feature-cate-kennedy/

Jennifer Byrne Presents: Words Aloud http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s3429626.htm