The Battle of the Long, Long Films

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens soon to be coming out in theaters, it seems like every youtuber and blogger out there is trying get some angle or other on it. Well, this blog won't be caught up in the hype. Could you imagine? Our first blog post in a month being something about Star Wars! No.

. . .

Okay, maybe. Just a tiny post. See, something that recently caught the attention of Cosmo and I were the lengths of several blockbuster hits. As the audience, you're expected to sit through hours of the heroes marching through seemingly endless plots. Peter Jackson's baby, The Hobbit trilogy, was 7.9 hours total (474 minutes). That's how long it'd take to watch all three films back to back. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is 9.3 hours long (558 minutes). All the Hobbit and LoTR movies together are 17.2 hours long. This isn't even counting all the extra footage and deleted material.

The prequel trilogy of Star Wars is roughly 6.4 hours (376 minutes) and the original series is about 7 hours (416 minutes). Before I bore you with numbers, let me just say that together they are 13.4 hours, so the LoTR-Hobbit combo wins out.

That's why The Force Awakens is so important to this imaginary, pointless contest Cosmo and I have invented. It won't be able to put the Star Wars series over 17.2 hours, but what if it were to spawn a whole new trilogy? Disney would be losing money if it didn't do that, right? That could potentially catapult Star Wars over LoTR/Hobbit and maybe even over the eight films of the Harry Potter franchise, which are 19.65 hours in length (1179 minutes).

Edit: I'm told that there really is going to be a new Star Wars trilogy, so there we go. Star Wars will win.

By Day She Dreams of Heroes

This Thanksgiving weekend we've got a story by David Martin. Our hope is that the contrasting of ancient Geatish heroes and petty school bullies will go along well with your turkey.

She must have laid on the ground for a good five minutes. Finally the snickering and laughs woke her up. “Wotta tosser”, chirped the teenage English accents. This was the third time this week. A teacher got her to stand up. While walking home more voices were heard. These were American tourists gawking at a local sign. “Double letters on names are for good luck!” It was a pleasant custom for a small town in the south of England. There was nothing in her life to explain these episodes. Up until then she had been a lively curious girl looking forward to traveling the world. She had Facebook friends on every continent. The actor in Bollywood. The couple high hiking across Ontario. The Nigerian with the sushi pub.

“Are you feeling better Amy?” asked her mother. Her response was a forced smile. The conversation continued with mention of an appointment with a local child therapist. Amy could do nothing but accept her fate. Later she was tucked into bed.

The dream returned. The massive door slowly caving in to the horrible pounding. A great cold wind blowing through the hall as monstrous feet landed on the wooden floor. Brave warriors meeting cruel fates. Cowering in the darkest corner was all she could do as the mayhem ensued. Finally the cries for help grew distant as the victims were carried off into the frigid night.
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Episode 2.5: Back to the Sea

In this interlude, Kyle talks about the mini-series on gender and sexuality coming out in December and gives a shout-out to some of our contributing artists.

Credits
Voice by Kyle Mitchell
Sound editing and script by Cosmo Cavanaugh

Music Credits
"Gymnopedie No. 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode 2: Book Readings . . . And Stuff

In our first comedy episode—unless, that is, you’d consider our previous discussion funny—classic authors talk about about our private moments, Anne wrecks my computer charger, and we play some music by Kevin MacLeod, Doprah, and Cash Out Keyz.

In December, we’ll be doing a q&a with our guest Klaus McHendry on gender and sexuality. If you have any topics or inquiries relating to that subject, email us at geometicoctopus@gmail.com. That also goes for any thoughts or questions you may have on this episode.

If you are interested in submitting a track to us for promotion in one of our episodes, please send us an email stating so and we will reply as soon as we are able to. Alternatively, submit a track through our moderated group on SoundCloud. If you are interested in hearing your short story read aloud or performed, please visit our blog page for the details.

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Music Credits
“Mind of a Monster” by Cash Out Keyz
https://soundcloud.com/cash-out-keyz-c-o-k/cash-out-keyz-mind-of-monster

“Stranger People” by Doprah
https://soundcloud.com/doprah/stranger-people

"The Show Must Be Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We're Looking For Stories Relating to Gender and Sexuality

We're currently working on a small series of episodes where we discuss gender and sexuality. Think LGBTQQIAAP. If you've got a story, either fiction or non-fiction, relating to that topic, please, by all means, send it in! In order to have your story on the podcast during the same period as the discussion, email it to geometricoctopus@gmail.com or put it in our Dropbox before December 12.
For for more information on submitting stories, look at our Call for Contributors page.

Episode 1: Cosmicism

Geometric Octopus would like to bring you a platterful of a writhing, slimy fiction, humor, music, and discussion if you’ll let us. It’s a veritable variety of things we have stewing. In this first episode, we discuss Cosmicism (a philosophy developed by H. P. Lovecraft), and whether or not humans are more than the sum of their parts. You can listen to it above or click here.
Also, if you haven’t already, be sure to put this episode in a packing crate and store it somewhere very safe. You never know—it could be a collector’s item in the future!
Our sources are linked to below, except a lot of the information came from Anne’s memory, and we can’t link to her brain (although we’re trying). Check us out on the links below.
For questions/comments, shoot us an email at geometicoctopus@gmail.com—we would love to hear your thoughts on this episode. If you are interested in submitting a track to us for promotion in one of our episodes, please send us an email stating so and we will reply as soon as we are able to. Alternatively, submit a track through our moderated group (on SoundCloud). If you are interested in hearing your short fiction read aloud or performed, please visit our Reddit page for the details.

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Music Credits
"The Complex" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Spellbound" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicism

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Behold! The Podcast

This short clip introduces the Geometric Octopus Podcast (and if you play it backwards, you will hear our plan to take over the world).

Credits:

Editing and voice by Cosmo Cavanaugh

Additional voice by Anne Beaudoin

Script by Kyle Mitchell

Music

"Unity" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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