PIMO #5: Julian Simpson

And we’re back. The world has gone mad. Again. So it’s probably the perfect time to talk to the writer and director of The Lovecraft Investigations. Especially since you can now support its next season via a Kickstarter campaign. All the details are in the podcast and in the timestamps below. Enjoy.

00:00:00 – Cold Opener
00:00:38 – Introduction
00:00:50 – Our guest: Julian Simpson “Cartoon Gravity – Julian Simpson’s Second Brain”
00:00:56 – The Lovecraft Investigations
00:01:50 – Kickstarting Crowley “The Kickstarter Campaign”
00:04:34 – PIMO is back – housekeeping “Needcoffee.com Podcasts”
00:06:07 – Authentic, natural and fake introductions
00:06:44 – The Lovecraft Investigations
00:07:37 – Setting a story in the real world – during a pandemic
00:14:03 – Shout out to Page One – The Writer’s Podcast “Page One episode with Julian Simpson on YouTube“
00:14:37 – The Haunter in the Dark
00:15:29 – Blind Alleys vs structure
00:18:24 – Dominik gets what Julian was saying 3 minutes ago
00:19:10 – Lovecraft vs Hemingway
00:19:41 – It’s Matthew Heawoods show
00:20:59 – Kickstarting Aleister Crowley – who was he even really?
00:24:40 – Crowley will influence the fiction
00:25:20 – But he won’t be an active part of it
00:32:44 – A cat visits, insanity ensues
00:32:54 – Do what maketh a good soundbite
00:34:13 – Scholars, practitioners and charlatans
00:40:07 – The Department of Works has active agents in the background of our recording
00:42:04 – Dominik and H. C. Artmann
00:42:37 – The Exposition Appreciation Society is founded
00:46:29 – Exposition in Mission Impossible: A Final Reckoning
00:49:17 – Writers reviewing writers – how to tango that waltz
00:50:45 – Some people set out to do movies of a degree of quality
00:57:46 – Re-evaluating movies or: temporal hermeneutics
01:00:16 – Time is running out, the centre cannot hold, Hollywood calls and Julian must answer
01:00:31 Go to the kickstarter campaign! “The Kickstarter Campaign“

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