Hello and welcome to another episode of the hottest new podcast on the lesbian block, To L and Back — this week, Kristin and Riese (that’s me) watch The L Word Episode 104, “Longing,” and then talk about it out loud. We also laugh a lot! I am confident that if you listen to this, you will enjoy yourself.
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Episode Index:
- “Dirty Pictures,” written by Ilene Chaiken, covers the story of the 1990 trial of Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center director Dennis Barrie, who was under fire for allegedly “promoting pornography” when he brought a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition to his museum. Here’s a Washington Post article looking back on the controversy, the trial and its impact on how fine art is seen today.
- An Artsy article about “Sensation,” a controversial exhibition that came to the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, raising a bunch of controversy, which I have generally assumed was also an inspiration for the “Provocations” storyline.
- Here’s when Holland Taylor’s came out
- Here’s Basically Everybody Who Was In “The L Word” And Also Is Gay Now
- How ‘Sex and the City’ Ruined the Cosmo
- Stendhal Syndrome: can art be so beautiful it almost kills you?
- My bowl cut
Episode Music:
This week’s big switch was at the very end, when Lucinda Williams’ “Right in Time” was replaced with some other nonsense assortment of notes and words. I’ve had mixed feelings about it over the years — whether its mood, which is pretty upbeat for what’s transpiring, was appropriate for the scene — but I did love listening to it back then! And its way better than the substitute song.
Hot tip: if you have a DVD player, you can also subscribe to Netflix DVD, which still exists, and has every season of The L Word as well as lots of queer films you can’t get on Netflix streaming — But I’m a Cheerleader, Saving Face, The Favourite, If These Walls Could Talk 2, The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love, Fucking Amal/Show Me Love, Saving Face, Imagine Me & You, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Desert Hearts, Personal Best, Disobedience, The Watermelon Woman, The Hours — and so many more. Also Netflix unfortunately is not paying us to tell you this, but they should.
If you do buy the DVDs, do it through our links so we can get a kickback: Season One is here. By the time Season Two began, streaming existed so those rights were, in fact, negotiated. Season One is the only season in which this ongoing tragedy is a thing. So you don’t need to buy the complete DVD set unless, you know, you appreciate great modern art as much as Bette Porter and Peggy Peabody do.
This weeks podcast is about episode 104! (The title and body of the post call it out as 105). It made me nervous that I was a whole episode behind!
I’m loving the podcast and the Carra Sykes logo! It’s a bounty of aural and visual riches!
Honestly thrilled that this episode is a bit shorter than previous weeks’. IMO, 40-45 minutes is the ideal podcast length! An hour is just… a lot.
Noooo sont say this my commute is exactly one hour 🤣
haha, we try to keep them around an hour, and shorter if possible. this week it was possible to keep it shorter but some weeks it isn’t! so i can’t make any promises either way. :-)
Am really really enjoying these! Thank you for making this podcast~
Got Milk !!
This episode has been my favourite so far, so many great quotes from both of you.
” Wait till she transitions to tablecloths.”
In season 2 one of main memories of Jenny was that she was always wearing doilies, that and the famous Carmen & Jenny toilet moment.
Had a bad day, hahahahaha that was too much ! Remember Lisa the lesbian man? I feel like that song would definitely be on his/her playlist ( not sure what the right pronoun is now).
That baby bird Jenny scene gave me feels, even as a closeted 15 year old.
Thank you both again. :)
“Bette drives a car. Bette can drive a car on a road.”
“Not a car, Riese, a fucking convertible.”
“A fucking convertible. Bette is driving it on the road and she is driving.”
I laughed so hard I produced a tear.
This was a fun time. Was the geography quiz a good one, Riese? I’m definitely with you as far as phone games go!
I’m absolutely living for this entire situation, thank you Riese and Kristin
well thank you for asking Eddis! i have several because i decided to memorize the location of every country and capital in the world as well as major landmarks and flags so that international news will be more accessible and understandable for me as it happens.
So i have a few things — a national geographic GeoBee quiz, and then several apps from andrey solovyev — flags of all world countries, Famous Monuments, Cities of the World, Capitals of the World, Flags of the World and National Parks. Then an app called “My Geography” which is pretty basic just locating countries on maps.
Hell yeah! Thank you, I just saw this and will be checking some of them out!
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I was in transit when I listened to the 1.03 episode. Can y’all post a link to that survey you mentioned that we can help out with?
thank you so much for doing this podcast! it has actually been lovely to rewatch those first few episodes so many years later. provocations went to moca.
this is a very small detail about something in the beginning of the podcast but I also had a bowl haircut, specifically described by my mother to the woman cutting my hair as like Dorthy Hamill.