talking about grief, fear, and chuck berry + sum poems & a song by me (phc)much of this episode's music is highlighted in my occasional music newsletter https://delete.substack.com/p/004

drafting the transformation

Oct 22nd, 2020 1h 30m

Jeremy Boyd is the author of Split. He joined me on the Petroleum Boogie podcast to discuss how play informs creativity, finding confidence as an artist, why he likes to go on walks, and much more. Honestly it's just a chill conversation where

hopefully together

Sep 6th, 2020 1h 24m

Lana’s cover of “Doin’ Time”, Super Mario Theme, brief clip from “Nolia Clap” by UTP, “I Hate The Capitalist System” by Barbara Dane, the beautiful piano stylings of legendary Ethiopian nun Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbro, a reversed clip from Kany

three songs

Aug 27th, 2020 1h 20m

I beg MUBI to sponsor The Petroleum Boogie. I riff about Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s essay “Letter to Abel Ferrara on His 59th Birthday.” I tease my upcoming ALT LIT BRACKET. I talk about my grandma throwing a party for JFK and writing an elegy for

the toddfather pt 3

Aug 18th, 2020 1h 28m

My interview with Todd Robinson concludes. We discuss two more poems from his collection MASS FOR SHUT-INS (this book, btw, is out in the world, so buy it!). One thing about Todd is he’s very real, and I think all these interviews show that, bu

the toddfather pt 2

Aug 13th, 2020 1h 28m

Todd and I’s conversation continues. More discussion of some of our fav poets… this round it’s Matthew Yeager, Joyce Monsour, Bill Cassidy, and N.H. Pritchard. Later we talk about being young in the 80s/90s, experiencing the era’s surreal omnip

the toddfather pt 1

Aug 10th, 2020 1h 32m

Todd Robinson, a badass poet and a true beacon of mirth, joins me for a conversation. We talk about doing whippits, loving Pink Floyd, writing poems, and being motherfuckn addicts!!! Todd gets very real about a terrifying drug-related health st