Episode #29
“...motto panukeiku...”
with guest matt zoller seitz
Well, mornin, Sam. It’s finally here, it’s final time—we’re gonna sit down with that hippie-hating mad dog himself, Christian F. “Bigfoot” Bjornsen and have ourselves motto panukeiku.
And sure it’s something to laugh at, Bigfoot chowing down on pancakes with the same ravenous intensity that he deep throats a chocolate covered frozen banana or a platter full of Doc’s best Asian Indica, but at the same time, this is mourning all right, and it is deep. Bigfoot’s air of possessed melancholy—where does it come from? What’s been lost? If the term “inherent vice” refers to all that is lost irrevocably due to time, what’s the shape of the hole in Bigfoot’s heart…?
…or maybe it’s his stomach?
About the Guest
MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com. He is also the TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and television has appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Sight and Sound. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine, and the co-founder and original editor of Press Play, an IndieWire blog of film and TV criticism and video essays. He is the author/co-author of such books as THE WES ANDERSON COLLECTION, MAD MEN CAROUSEL: THE COMPLETE CRITICAL COMPANION, TV (THE BOOK), and THE SOPRANOS SESSIONS.