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Hi! Welcome to Quite Useless, a podcast about art and its role in our lives. Thanks for stopping by. You can find every published episode below. Or, if you'd like to opt for a more convenient listening experience, you can stream, download, and subscribe to Quite Useless on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. And don't hesitate to drop me line via the Contact link above.

Greg

Mar 10, 2019

What lies at the intersection of art and commerce? Is it possible for these two categories of human endeavor to get along, or are they like cats and dogs, fated to engage in an endless struggle for dominance? (Okay, not really like cats and dogs, but you get the idea...)

This episode features insights from Alan Watts,...


Feb 26, 2018

Why should the idea of a person having sex with a dead chicken bother us? And what insight can films like Deliverance, Indecent Proposal, and Nightcrawler give us into the thornier terrain of contemporary moral philosophy?


Feb 19, 2018

After a bit of a delay, Episode 6: Boundaries, will be landing soon. In this episode, we wade into some of the murkiest terrain in modern moral philosophy, seen through the lens of movies. Forget your grandparents' moral dilemmas -- we're talking about moral discomfort and dumbfounding.

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Dec 18, 2017

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufmann couldn't figure out how to tell the story he was trying to tell... until he figured out how to frame it.

A story about adaptations (framed as a story about frames), with reference to Stephen Belber, Richard Linklater, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, and some wild fan theories (including my...