Writer’s Block Party Episode 6: The Friend in the Radiator

It is Friday. Writers’ Block Party Episode 6: The Friend in the Radiator is out for your listening pleasure! Tune in on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to hear the beginning of our wonderful guest, Luca Pfeiffenberger’s new short film, The Friend in the Radiator.

Luca and the two episode hosts, Thea and Lauren, discuss living an absurdist theatre piece in the pandemic, accessibility of art, talking to yourself as a means of avoiding yourself, creating from a place of numbness rather than distress or manic-ness or something in between, the unfamiliar and yet completely universal cycles of isolation, humanity separate of society or culture, the disparity between people who have decided the health threat is over and those who are still waiting for the concrete end to this liminal space, quarantine envy, the art of documentation, Luca’s inspirations, developing quarantine personalities, losing the equalizing factor of school in an online set-up, and what she does when she has writer’s block.

We are cool and trendy, so check out the cool and trendy pop culture references you will find in this episode: Waiting for Godot, gyms, performance art, Bushwick, Zoom school, Skype, FaceTime, toxic traits, Uber, repertoires, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Glee, Twitter, cancel culture, the concept of time, portraiture and self-portraiture, partisan vs non-partisan responses to COVID-19, the Wes Anderson aesthetic, Black Mirror, gap years, Ratatouille, Pixar, Toy Story, and Disney movies that are actually set in quarantine!

Luca was a joy to have on the pod, and we are so excited for you all to get to experience her work! Thanks, and have a great week!

The Disco Team