{"id":1482,"date":"2013-04-16T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2013-04-28T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T04:06:13","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e22-battle-damage-with-chris-gore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E22: Battle Damage with Chris Gore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1483\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chrisgore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chrisgore.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chrisgore-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Glassell Park with comedian and man of cinema <a href=\"http:\/\/thatchrisgore.tumblr.com\/\">Chris Gore<\/a>, who has talked movies on such television shows as <em>The X Show<\/em>, <em>The New Movie Show with Chris Gore<\/em>, and <em>Attack of the Show<\/em>; has written books including <em>The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide<\/em>, <em>The Complete DVD Book<\/em>, and <em>The Fifty Greatest Movies Never Made<\/em>; hosts the podcast <em>PodCRASH with That Chris Gore<\/em>; and has a new comedy album and picture book coming up called <em>Celebrities Poop<\/em>. They discuss how he takes his work seriously, but not himself; his &#8220;war&#8221; on the top five podcasts; his contretemps with Representative Dan Lungren while editing <em>Videogames<\/em>\u00a0magazine; Colin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2013\/04\/08\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-podcrash-chris-gore\">Podthought on <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/2013\/04\/08\/podthoughts-colin-marshall-podcrash-chris-gore\">PodCRASH<\/a><\/em>, and the superiority of essays and films that don&#8217;t tell you how to feel; his first television appearances on FX, and how he there learned to read a teleprompter by pretending not to read it; growing up a Michigander and a nerd, discovering alternative culture through film (and building his own eight-millimeter home theater at age seven) while actively not giving a shit what anyone thought of him; his choice to come to Los Angeles because it smelled less like pee than New York; his place in film culture versus nerd culture, and the word &#8220;nerd&#8221; versus the word &#8220;geek&#8221;; how he makes a podcast out of his appearances on other podcasts in the podcast Mecca that is Los Angeles; meeting and talking to cool people as a byproduct of a career, or as the raison d&#8217;\u00eatre\u00a0of one; which of them buys cars and which of them buys bespoke suits; what it felt like being around for the nineties&#8217; American indie film boom, and why only Quentin Tarantino has kept up his auteur&#8217;s head of steam from those days; and why he made <em>My Big Fat Independent Movie <\/em>when that boom got to be too much.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e22-battle-damage-with-chris-gore\"><em>Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Glassell Park with comedian and man of cinema Chris Gore, who has talked movies on such television shows as The X Show, The New Movie Show with Chris Gore, and Attack of the Show; has written books including The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, The Complete DVD Book, and The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}