Show Notes
This week we're joined by podcaster, writer, artist and academic Matthew Ellis [https://x.com/matthiasellis?lang=en] to talk about Wes Anderson's 2007 hit-and-miss feature The Darjeeling Limited. Can Gen X find spiritual sustenance in the East, or will they fail like their Boomer forerunners, empty, cold, confused and shivering in some pay-as-you-go ashram?
Isn't it more fun to go shopping anyway?
Sam (as a Brit) gets his Indian-hat on and Chase freaks out about Anglican hymns. This, and more, in today's episode.
You can find Ellis's podcast at the Andersonianlly named 'The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pacific-northwest-insurance-corporation-moviefilm/id1712416222].' Check out his Substack, "Histories of the Present." [https://www.historiesofthepresent.com/]
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After a year, your hosts are ready to wrap Gen X. Season One is at a close. What did we learn about the self-professedly forgotten generation? What has Banksy to do with the spirit of the age? And, most importantly we answer the question that started it all: how did the dirty girls end up in the K-Hive?
DPP is back, baby — and this time for an encore. Chase and Sam thought they'd round out the season — find a 'capstone', if you will — for the last year. That pediment takes the form of Chris Smith's fly-on-the-wall documentary American Movie (1999).
Fear the coming of the trilby. Yes, that's right — today, in the last episode of our first season, we're looking at Gen X accelerating towards middle age and a crash encounter with those coming up behind them: millennials.