Modern Mythology: Independent and Fringe Media from the Trenches.

Do You Crave Independent Media?

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:32:45 PDT

Independent film, art and media is important. It enables us to create new ways of thinking and being. It attacks the grinding status quo. Do you crave independence? Do you value your own...

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Tinfoil - What Had Happened Was #16

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:54:26 PDT

Subscribe via RSS, or download the episode directly. What Had Happened Was is a grumpyhawk collective podcast co-hosted by grumpyhawk (that would be me)...

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Fuck Yeah Dragon Age

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:52:08 PDT

I'm taking a break from the usual commentary here to just say... Holy shit I waited my entire childhood for video games to be like this. Some of my first memories are of an Atari 2600. Now......

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Science, Narrative: The Story of the Hominids

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:26:56 PDT

Science has a truly ambivalent relationship with mythology. In many ways, science depends on mythology--in part because we quite simply cannot get away from the narrative impulse that lies at the...

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Nature Vs. Nurture: As If It Wasn't Confusing Enough...

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:00:05 PDT

I've long said that "nature vs. nurture" is the wrong argument to be having. It isn't an either or, and the argument itself is essentially structured by the schema that's created so as to have the...

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My Story And I'm Sticking To It: A PRISM of uncertainty.

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:31:28 PDT

As anyone that hasn't been under a rock for the past week knows, this "PRISM thing" has blown up all over the internet. Which is a good thing -- privacy is something that people should be concerned...

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Yahulu? - What Had Happened Was #15

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:23:27 PDT

This Is Going To Make Marchel Duchamp's 'Fountain' look like a urinal.

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:36:54 PDT

From the Wikipedia article: Clark: A Gonzomentary is an American 2013 gonzo journalism-styled mockumentary written, directed and produced by Daniel D. Warwick about a fictionalized version of...

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Fallen Nation: Free Chapter

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:11:23 PDT

I've been getting back into the spirit of giving away writing for free. Which probably means that the summer heat has been getting to me. All the same, feel free to take advantage of the temporary...

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American Meritocracy: The Myth of Success

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:06:19 PDT

Molly Crabapple Just read something that is almost verbatim what I've been saying for years -- that didn't lessen the impact of reading it for me. As much as the myth that 'we are all created equal'...

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And They Lived Happily Ever After...

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:33:44 PDT

One of the narrative biases that all of us are familiar with is the Happy Ending. (Very different from what you might get in certain massage parlors if you ask for a happy ending, to be sure.) As...

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Superstition and Myth: A Bias of Narrative

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:43:14 PDT

Go Ahead. Try To Explain This. While setting up the Survivorship Bias post, I got to thinking about all of the biases that play into such ubiquitous curiosities like superstition,...

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Gonzomentary Selected for Philadelphia Independent Film Festival

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:39:36 PDT

"Clark: A Gonzomentary is a whole bucket of crazy, and I really enjoyed it for all of its insanity." - Filmthreat review. Clark: A Gonzomentary, a movie that keeps growing (like a cancer)...

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Monsanto Myths

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:42:57 PDT

The tone of this blog post aside, the point needs to be made. The GMO issue has gotten horribly muddled, as many vaccine conspiracy theories and general anti-corporate sentiment has blended together...

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Carts and Horses, Follow-up

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:49:19 PDT

A recent Guardian article expands upon a premise (conundrum) near and dear to us, here: Beyond these domestic problems there is the failure of physics to accommodate conscious beings. The attempt...

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Monsanto vs. The World

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:43:10 PDT

Monsanto—one of the largest agriculture and biotech companies in the world—creates genetically engineered seeds and food, or GMOs. They've also brought the world toxic chemicals like DDT, PCBs and...

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Survivorship Bias

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Wed, 29 May 2013 12:00:04 PDT

The Misconception: You should study the successful if you wish to become successful. The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become...

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Casting Call: Music Project, Title TBA

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Tue, 28 May 2013 17:47:19 PDT

Mythos Media is at it again. Laying "ill ryffes" This summer we are beginning production on a new collaborative, concept studio album. Although we are intending for it to have its own...

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Are Anti-Depressants Glorified Placebos?

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Sun, 26 May 2013 15:21:11 PDT

Admittedly "yesterday's news" but this serves as a decent followup to the recent DSM V article 'Curse of Shifting Sands,' Which came first, the mental illness or the drug? While in other areas of...

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Reality, Fiction, and Terrorism

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Sat, 25 May 2013 23:33:00 PDT

Well, it's happening. An 18-year-old high school student from the Boston suburb of Methuen is facing two decades in prison, charged with “communicating a terrorist threat.” The young aspiring...

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Wittgenstein's Vienna

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Fri, 24 May 2013 23:07:11 PDT

Wittgenstein's Vienna by Allan Janik My rating: 5 of 5 stars It is somewhat of a surprise to me, but this may be one of my favorite works of philosophy. The reason why is simple: Wittgenstein's...

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Tumblhoo! - What Had Happened Was #14

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:27:03 PDT

Murdered Soldiers & the Mythology of Terrorism

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:32:18 PDT

Wednesday 22nd 2013, 1421 - Woolwich, South London. That’s when the call was placed to police - that’s when the authorities became aware that two men were hacking another to death with...

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Fighting For The Future - What Had Happened Was #13

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:06:07 PDT

The Anti- Feminist: Is It All About The Menz?

jamescurcio@gmail.com (Mythos Media) — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:24:31 PDT

A friend of mine pointed me in direction of this woman last night, telling me that she raised a lot of points that they resonated with. (For the record, this friend is a woman though it shouldn't...

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