February 2024 in The Metropolitan has seen a lot of twins, copies and reflections and so this month’s podcast is
reading her essay from June 2022: Double White Female.Double White Female
Film and psychology: if ever two innovations – both born at the turn of the 20th century – were destined to be twinned, it’s this pair. One asks what motivates us to watch; the other taps into our dreams and nightmares. They are not so much codependent as conjoined.
Our theme music is Otra vez by friend of the show S F Gallardo, who you can find on Spotify and Bandcamp
Related essays from February 2024 include:
1983: Smith vs Smiths
There’s a good argument that Indie music, as a distinct genre, emerged in October 1983 with the release of two singles by two apparently diametrically (and often vitriolically) opposed bands: ‘This Charming Man’ by The Smiths, and ‘Lovecats’ by The Cure.
Big Night In
The first thing I did, on moving into our shared house in the second year of university, was to head down to Granada and hire a TV. The last thing I did before I left a year later was forget to cancel the hire. This was a bad choice. But getting the TV was a good one; 1990 turned out to be an excellent year. Two new shows in particular proved to be perfe…
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