AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 140: BLINDBOY BOATCLUB
or ABSURD UNCONSCIOUS CANNIBAL PROCESS
LISTEN HERE VIA SOUNDCLOUD OR ON Apple Podcasts • Spotify • Breaker• Anchor
This podcast is only possible because listeners like you support it. Do contribute to my mission by supporting Against Everyone With Conner Habib on Patreon! Thank you so, so much.
Want to buy the books mentioned on this ep? For Blindboy’s books you should order from Amazon. His two short story collections, Boulevard Wrenand The Gospel According To Blindboy as well as the book on Irish-English, A Dictionary of Hiberno English(by Terrence Dolan), which he helped re-release, are all a little bit of a pain to get from bookshop.org in the US, so I am unfortunately directing you to Amazon for them. Still, get them. Get them. For the other books mentioned on or related to this episode, please go to my booklist for AEWCH 140 on bookshop.org. It will help support independent bookstores, and the show gets a small financial kickback, too.
Friends,
Jacques Lacan once said something like, the only difference between “normal” people and paranoid schizophrenic people is that the latter has their frantic-Charlie-Day-bulletin-board on the surface. We all draw lines between seemingly disparate points, and our connections are ultimately meaningless. It’s just that you can see that process in the paranoid schizophrenic person.
Well, I don’t know that I agree that the points, the pathways, or the reason we select either are meaningless, but I do like this metaphor. Still, my question is why do you draw the lines you draw? Why are they different from the ones I draw?
I asked my pal Blindboy Boatclub – member of The Rubberbandits and host of The Blindboy Podcast (and also one of the most productively absurd people I’ve ever met) – to join me to talk about all of this.
You might remember Blindboy from my appearance on his show back in March 0f 2019 (and I talk about it in the intro to this ep), when we talked about the occult, ghosts, sex work, and more. This is a continuation of that conversation, and it leads us into weird territory.
ON THIS EPISODE
- Versatile Irish words like “craic,” “ride,” and “horny,” why we have boners in America, and why we can say cunt in Ireland
- Drawing lines between seemingly disparate topics
- Why showing the process in art reveals its livingness
- “The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one’s desire.’
- The connection between themes in our art and healing images in the world; and why birdflight is healing
- Each problem has a virtue
- Autonomous shadows and cartoon duck landlords
- Anxiety, depression, and the recreation of time in the global crisis
- Why the Irish never think in rectangles
SHOW NOTES
• For more Blindboy, support his Patreon.
His two short story collections, Boulevard Wrenand The Gospel According To Blindboy as well as the book on Irish-English, A Dictionary of Hiberno English(by Terrence Dolan), which he helped re-release, are all a little bit of a pain to get from bookshop.org, so I am unfortunately directing you to amazon for them. Still, get them. Get them.
One of my favorite Rubberbandits videos is when they go to an aviary. And one of my favorite Rubberbandits songs is “Spastic Hawk.”
Finally, here’s Blindboy talking about mental health.
• Here’s the great Blindboy Podcast Chicken fillet rolls episode.
• Here’s Jon Ronson’s story about his son saying the worst swear word ever.
• Duncan Trussell and I talked about the oblivion in the signal on his show here.
• Want to learn about the mind parasite of the fungal cordyceps? Yeah, of course you do.
• Here’s a good example of one of Blindboy’s drawings (which you can find in his books).
• AEWCH 40 with poet Zachary Schomburg is one of my favorite episodes of the show!
• My Irish Times essay about the changing nature of time and space is here. And here’s the Wittgenstein quote from it: “When we think of the world’s future, we always mean the destination it will reach if it keeps going in the direction we can see it going in now; it does not occur to us that its path is not a straight line but a curve, constantly changing direction,”
• Melancholiais my favorite Lars von Trier movie (maybe the only one I truly like?) and it’s a great comment on the power of depression.
• Here’s a long and thoughtful essay on Witold Gombrowicz.
• Here’s one of the first things I ever published, “Emit Time.” Just deciding that one of your first essays ever written would be a new ontology of time, nbd, Conner.
• Explaining Irish wedding drinking to an American doctor, by Irish comedian Jarlath Regan.
Until next time ye gas cunts,
CH
LISTEN ON: 
Conner Habib 