INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #14: "...this i...

The novels of Inherent Vice author Thomas Pynchon are littered and laced and threaded and latticed with all manner of references to songs and bands and movies and TV shows and cartoons either real or imagined, a paranoid prism of pop culture through which you see his characters, their lives, and the conspiratorial entanglements that enmesh them. So it’s all rather appropriate that today’s guest comes armed with movie marathons and mixtapes and double and triple features all centered around Inherent Vice—through her incredible array of popsterpieces, we can see through the fog of the Fang and recognize a few folks we know, like a certain heartbusted detective, his maybe-real/maybe-not surfergal Jimminy Crickett, a mysterious ex-old of some repute, and a fast-talking Chick Planet countergirl who maybe just maybe knows more than anyone else in this misty night-world we find ourselves returning to….

Millie De Chirico is a 15-year veteran of the programming department at Turner Classic Movies and is at the helm of their late-night cult movie franchise, TCM Underground.