EP21: Kids on the Slope

In which Cass & Alex discuss Kids on the Slope, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and produced by MAPPA and Tezuka Productions.

Next month we will be discussing Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, directed by Tetsuo Imazawa, Kouzou Nagayama, and Kenji Nakamura and produced by Toei Animation. 

Discussed: The Gang Forms A Polycule, jazz, catholicism, 1960s japan, a spasm of chivalry, the beginning of a beautiful friendship, homoeroticism, how kyūshū girls behave, intense jazz drumming, upright bass, full ragtime, donkey kong getting pogged out of his gourd, a pigeon with a first and a last name, you don't deserve this giant onigiri, winter temperatures in kyūshū, love triangle, love heptagon, love snake, sadly looking at onigiri, making girls cry, my [16M] mom [48F] hooked up with the drummer in my jazz band [16M], making like a tree and getting out of here, clamming, dying on the cross,  the fantasy of a jazz nerd, 1968 and the Japanese Student Movement,  a spiral directly into the toilet, Junichi Katsuragi Scissors Truther Minute, yeet, teey, visiting someone while they're sick, the jazz wars, You Must Believe In Spring by Bill Evans, alex abandons cass in their time of need, Keanu Reeves, blood quanta, Light in August by William Faulkner

Alex's Book Recommendation: Passing by Nella Larsen

Cass's Book Recommendation: Twentieth-Century Harmony by Vincent Persichetti

Cass said they would provide links to their favorite recordings of the jazz standards from the episode titles so:

Moanin'
Summertime
Someday My Prince Will Come
But Not For Me
Lullaby of Birdland
You Don't Know What Love Is
Now's The Time
These Foolish Things
Love Me Or Leave Me
In A Sentimental Mood
Left Alone
All Blues

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