Episode #20
“...little kid blues...”
with guest Mark Olsen
“…and here was Doc, on the natch, caught in a low-level bummer he couldn’t find a way out of, about how the Psychedelic Sixties, this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness…”
That’s a line from Inherent Vice the novel… and here’s our wayward host, thinking a lot about it lot these days, as the little parenthesis of light left in 2020 America seems slimmer and slimmer and slimmer. It’s also a line that ol’ PTA lamented leaving out of the film adaptation in an interview with today’s guest…which is as good a place to start the conversation as any other, or our host thinks as the dark shadow of the Golden Fang seems to loom taller and darker over all with every passing day…
About the Guest
MARK OLSEN
Mark Olsen writes about all kinds of movies for the Los Angeles Times as both a feature writer and reviewer. He creates a regular series on independent, documentary and foreign language films under the banner of Indie Focus, also curating and hosting the Indie Focus Screening Series. His work has also appeared in Film Comment, the New York Times, LA Weekly, Sight & Sound and other publications. He is from Kansas.