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Alister Newstead
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- Test Pattern
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- Mar 31, 2026
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- 7633
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Summary
Alister Newstead — author of the new 33⅓ Oceania book on Tame Impala's Currents and Double J’s music & pop culture reporter — joins Angus Truskett for a conversation about whether we’re living in a golden age of culture, perfect needle drops, and the work of late Australian animation pioneer Yoram Gross. We get into: switching into author mode, fandom and accessibility, the “golden age” question, Safdie face, Oscar snubs, Timmy talk, Park Chan-wook, Akira as gateway anime, a Yoram Gross reappraisal, scores vs soundtracks, biopics vs music documentaries, whether any movie tie-in games are actually good, newsroom genre kink, “getting” Fight Club, Quentin Tarantino’s 10-film limit, catching up on Titanic, Mad God makes TOOL look like Disney, the Pringles curve, and whether Hideo Kojima should make a movie. Music by Gab Strum . Find Alister on Instagram . Buy Tame Impala's Currents 33 1/3 Oceania by Alister Newstead . @testpatternpresents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.