This episode will be covering the first six issues of the 1997 comic book Transmetropolitan. Transmetropolitan is a story about a guy named Spider, who is super cool 90s edgelord journalist, searching for truth in a remarkably prescient cyberpunk future. It's a lot to cover, and this is just the first 10th of the whole series, but consider this your intro to Transmet course.

The High Tech Low Life Podcast is a retrospective of cyberpunk fiction across all forms of media. Film, Television, Literature, Games, and Music are all on the table. In each episode we will revisit the property, it's influences, it's prescience, and enshrine it in the chrome and neon halls of Neo Valhalla.

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Cover art by Gillyvor

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At last this bottom-feeding podcast gets a much needed injection of class and taste with 1981's Heavy Metal. A film for the discerning cine-o-phile. Ok so only about 1/5th of this movie can be considered cyberpunk, but that's good enough for us, so we are diving in. Cut yourself a line of Niborg and Loc your Nars in baby.

The High Tech Low Life Podcast is a retrospective of cyberpunk fiction across all forms of media. Film, Television, Literature, Games, and Music are all on the table. In each episode we will revisit the property, it's influences, it's prescience, and enshrine it in the chrome and neon halls of Neo Valhalla.

Bluesky: @hightechlowlife.bsky.social

Patreon: http://patreon.com/hightechlowlife

Cover art by Gillyvor

Theme music by http://www.nihilore.com

This week we are recapping 3 short films found on the internet.

The first is a French film called Lost Memories 2.0 about a man searching for his lost love after a global computer crash.
https://youtu.be/4WwC6CT92qw?si=AlBiIJk6BNKKl5m0

The Second is a Serbian Film called Anima about a cool dude trying to get "juice" for a mysterious reason.
https://vimeo.com/992417940

And the third is a Malaysian film called The Masseuse, wherein a technician has to service the titular robotic Masseuse in the midst of an anti-robot movement.
https://youtu.be/jeI2qXq0RRc?si=J0Jh9lW2Vg9Scyo0

The High Tech Low Life Podcast is a retrospective of cyberpunk fiction across all forms of media. Film, Television, Literature, Games, and Music are all on the table. In each episode we will revisit the property, it's influences, it's prescience, and enshrine it in the chrome and neon halls of Neo Valhalla.

Bluesky: @hightechlowlife.bsky.social

Patreon: http://patreon.com/hightechlowlife

Cover art by Gillyvor

Theme music by http://www.nihilore.com