The Long Seventies Podcast

We discuss Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel Altered States and the 1980 film adaptation. It's an epic story of scientific zealotry, psychedelic adventure, the power of love and 4 foot protohumans. 

We discuss Allan Arkush's 1983 film Get Crazy, a truly will and crazy cinematic experience and a spiritual follow up to his earlier film Rock 'n' Roll High School. 

We're honored to interview poet and Ong's Hat creator Joseph Matheny. Great stories and some original perspectives on life from a truly original and creative thinker. 

We discuss Jim Jones' The Peoples Temple, it's life and tragectory which ended in tragedy. 

Round two of of Long Seventies Award Show. We're joined again by Sean from Fringe Biology Records. 

We discuss the transition from Westerns to Cop movies during the Long Seventies, focusing primarily on actors that started their career as Cowboys and ended the LS as Cops. 

We discuss Floyd McKissick's intentional community Soul City, North Carolina, its context, goals and why the project ultimately failed. 

We discuss the theory that The Amityville Horror and Alien are conceptually the same movie and why these movies terrified audiences in the Long Seventies and beyond. 

We discuss the story of the founding of the intentional community of Rajneeshpuram in the backcountry of Oregon and the crazy events that followed. 

 We discuss two important films that helped revitalize the American Cold War and militarism.