Episode #45: DJ Leary: Take Two

SHOW TOPICS

 - Writer DJ Leary discusses art, poetry, prose, and next steps on his creative journey.

SHOW NOTES

 - 00:12 - DJ "SubRants" again!

 - 02:00 - Pandemic apartment good for writing

 - 02:50 - Laundry basket anxiety attack

 - 04:00 - Poems, stories, Pivot Cycles commercial

 - 04:20 - DJ's Pivot Shadowcat Ad

 - 08:20 - "4 Minutes Later" (James bike-nerds out)

 - 09:50 - No more training wheels, ever!

 - 11:15 - Listen to the neighborhood ambiance

 - 12:00 - "DC Rat Mob" (actual rodents, not politicians)

 - 14:08 - Bethesda v. Scottsdale and a tattoo artist's floor

 - 16:20 - Bird loudly joins podcast

 - 17:00 - What DJ will and won't miss about Phoenix

 - 19:20 - Phoenix expensive, friends moving on

 - 20:30 - One rodeo is enough for a lifetime

 - 21:00 - Surprise, DC is political!

 - 22:30 - Poems for "Tuckle"

 - 23:13 - Cocaine free coffee beans

 - 24:15 - No "swerving right" for easy money?

 - 26:00 - Writers needed (in Thailand?)

 - 27:15 - Fiverr and the "gig economy"

 - 29:15 - Motivated through authentic interaction

 - 32:18 - Instagram as "poetry archive"

 - 33:30 - DJ is a tattoo!

 - 35:30 - Being an artist is hard work

 - 38:40 - Screaming into the Twitter void

 - 41:04 - Instagram pay dirt

 - 43:20 - Next steps for prose over poetry

 - 44:50 - Think you're good at what you do? You're not!

 - 47:45 - Catchy, but played out

 - 49:00 - Practice makes better

 - 50:25 - DJ and a typewriter

 - 52:00 - San Diego and DC give "great busk"

 - 53:03 - Shout out to The Smithsonian

 - 54:05 - DJ recites a poem