<![CDATA[Sofia Mella: This Body Podcast]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/s/this-body-podcasthttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6PHB!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsofiamella.substack.com%2Fimg%2Fsubstack.pngSofia Mella: This Body Podcasthttps://sofiamella.substack.com/s/this-body-podcastSubstackWed, 01 Jul 2026 02:34:35 GMT<![CDATA[Hunkering In Paradise]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/hunkering-in-paradisehttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/hunkering-in-paradiseMon, 22 Jun 2026 21:51:27 GMTLos Angeles, summer smoke, chronic illness rabbit holes, Korean skincare lines, Vanderpump Rules, climate anxiety, perimenopause, and the nervous system's search for safety.

Beverley Hills Housewife by David Hockney

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]]><![CDATA[When Doves Cry in the LA River]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/when-doves-cry-in-the-la-riverhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/when-doves-cry-in-the-la-riverThu, 28 May 2026 19:51:46 GMTLos Angeles anxiety, toxic spills, Ozempic and “food noise,” Drake & Wacko Jacko, dating over 40, aging and osteoarthritis, Melrose Place recaps, Riley Keough, David Lynch, Linda Perry, Green Day, Gregg Araki, and the psychological effects of doomscrolling; nostalgia, media overload.... Surviving America with dread, and French fries.

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]]><![CDATA[GIFT: Jane's Addiction - A Necromance For The Ages]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/gift-janes-addiction-a-necromancehttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/gift-janes-addiction-a-necromanceThu, 21 May 2026 19:05:05 GMTA necromance for the ages.

Continuing my journey through the cult section of the 1990s video store, this week I’m diving into Gift — the bizarre, hypnotic 1993 film vehicle from Jane’s Addiction.

A Santería wedding. Sex with a corpse. Drinking blood. Shooting drugs. Buckle up, because This Rock ’n’ Roll Will Kill You.

Gift captures Jane’s Addiction right b…

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]]><![CDATA[A Mature Woman Who Knows What She Wants]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/a-mature-woman-who-knows-what-shehttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/a-mature-woman-who-knows-what-sheThu, 14 May 2026 23:22:23 GMTHantavirus dread , Dorit Kemsley inertia, Oasis and the damage done, the discomfort of having a crush, estrogen patch nationwide shortage, Erika Ferk - cease & desist! and...

The Wild Ones - Suede

Dreamworld - Rilo Kiley

Silver Stallion - Cat Power

Erika Kirk - Jake Shroeder

In Memory of Gregg Foreman 🪽

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]]><![CDATA[Drugstore Cowboy]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/drugstore-cowboyhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/drugstore-cowboyMon, 04 May 2026 14:18:36 GMTIt's time to take a sentimental journey to the video store. Our first pic from the cult section is Gus Van Sant's game changing second film, Drugstore Cowboy (1989). Join me as I re-watch with the eyes of a world weary adult, vs the teenaged gaze I first cast on this black comedy about a gang of junkies who rob drug stores, because that's where the drugs are. What did kids internalize about heroin and glamor from stylish films such as this, and does this film pass the Truth & Beauty test? Will drugs kill you? Let's find out!

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]]><![CDATA[From The River To The Sea: Taurus Season! Reznor Family Values! Kristi Noem's Husband's TITS! BONUS!]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/from-the-river-to-the-sea-taurushttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/from-the-river-to-the-sea-taurusWed, 22 Apr 2026 23:52:13 GMTFor the roses.... that’s you. Clavicular ODs on livestream. Looksmaxxing, Autismmaxxing, bimboing, birth control. It’s my birthday month! Perimenopause, diet culture, meeting Cher, saving lives, and so much more.

Paid up patrons, dive in xxx

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]]><![CDATA[Inherent Vice, Mahayana Buddhism, and the Dharma of Melrose Place]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/inherent-vice-mahayana-buddhism-andhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/inherent-vice-mahayana-buddhism-andMon, 30 Mar 2026 23:45:42 GMTGetting Current! Bonus ♡

In this episode: Shia LaBeouf’s midlife Dionysus crisis. Arjuna and the moral labrynth of The Bhagavad Gita. Iowa cops vs. Afroman. What Melrose Place taught me. Yoga teachers facing the world on fire. And the base self-interest at the heart of human nature.

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]]><![CDATA[Tales From The Crypt Keeper]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-crypt-keeperhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/tales-from-the-crypt-keeperSun, 15 Mar 2026 21:21:21 GMTBonus episode - Mortality. Lobotomies. Cremation niches. The Oscars. To Live & Die in LA. Remembering Rose Mary Kennedy. Releasing Poison Ivy. “Happy” ides of March.

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]]><![CDATA[Big Cartel Energy & The Epstein War]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/big-cartel-energy-and-the-epsteinhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/big-cartel-energy-and-the-epsteinThu, 05 Mar 2026 18:39:29 GMTThe Epstein War, El Mencho’s Blue Balls, and America’s Next Top Model

I recorded this from my studio apartment in Los Feliz, in the lobotomizing sunshine of psychedelic Southern California, and despite my suntanned brain tissue. I have thoughts.

Thoughts on the BAFTAs disaster during Black History Month. Thoughts on the BBC censoring “Free Palestine” while airing something they absolutely should not have aired. Thoughts on Larry Ellison buying a Hawaiian island, abandoning it, and moving 20 minutes from Mar-a-Lago like the demon he is. Thoughts on the Ellison-Paramount-Warner Brothers megadeal that will make sure every story you consume is owned by like, three guys.

El Mencho is dead. The Jalisco Cartel boss, one of the most wanted men on earth, tracked down through a girlfriend. Very Adriana La Cerva coded. Mexico is burning and none of it touches the Epstein files, which is, I suspect, the whole point.

America and Israel bombed Iran at 4am whilst we all slept. We woke to the killing of little girls. The Epstein War. Look over there guys! Don’t look at what’s happening here.

Oh, and America’s Next Top Model? We always knew it was fucked. Some of us said so at the time. “It was a different era” is not the excuse people think it is.

This one’s behind the paywall, over on Patreon (patreon.com/thisbodypodcast) because frankly it has to be. It’s got Dead Kennedys, it’s got cartel kingpin romance, it’s got me ranting about the Kennedy family’s collective karma while bleeding for the second time in three weeks.

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]]><![CDATA[Blue Movie 2 - The History of Porn - Berlin Burns, America Buys]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/blue-movie-2-the-history-of-pornhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/blue-movie-2-the-history-of-pornMon, 23 Feb 2026 22:04:32 GMTBerlin, 1924.
Hyperinflation. Maimed soldiers. Cocaine cabarets. Early gender-affirming surgery. Queer films screening publicly. Magnus Hirschfeld arguing homosexuality is innate, not criminal.

In this episode of Blue Movie, we trace how the sexual laboratory of the Weimar Republic burned bright and brief — and how its collapse under Adolf Hitler reshaped the future of pornography.

During WW2, attitudes shifted again -

From the liberal sexual attitudes of Berlin to Nazi book burnings and raids
From underground American stag films to the Hays Code.
From wartime pin-ups to mail-order bondage empires.
From Alberto Vargas to Bettie Page.

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]]><![CDATA[Night Blooming Jasmine: Transcendental Meditation]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/night-blooming-jasmine-transcendentalhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/night-blooming-jasmine-transcendentalTue, 10 Feb 2026 03:55:35 GMT🪷🪷🪷 David Lynch's legacy is forever entwined with the practice of Transcendental Meditation. He was gleefully evangelical about it, describing the practice as a dive within, to the bottom of the ocean of consciousness. But what exactly is TM? Who invented it? How is it different from other forms of meditation? Allow me to enlighten you. 🪷🪷🪷

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]]><![CDATA["are you ok? I loved the torture video..." Patreon Teaser]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/are-you-ok-i-loved-the-torture-videohttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/are-you-ok-i-loved-the-torture-videoThu, 05 Feb 2026 18:37:42 GMTFergie’s big pimpin’ with Epstein and the files; Ketamine, then and now. 💊 🪿The geese take revenge on the late Great Gandolfini; and a journey through my old ipod 📱 from 20 years ago. JOIN PATREON - YOUR SUPPORT KEEPS THIS SHOW INDEPENDENT AND SENDS REAL MONEY TO REAL CAUSES 🧊 ICE OUT🧊

]]><![CDATA[ABCDEFUCKICE]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/abcdefuckicehttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/abcdefuckiceWed, 28 Jan 2026 15:51:05 GMTIt’s a rebel music episode, as we rage against the machine in every facet of our American Lives. Your Patreon $$ are going to the ACLU and other affiliated causes this year. We are in this struggle for liberty and truth together. I love you, Sofia xxx

Electric Head - White Zombie

Lonesome Drifter - Charlie Crockett

Love At First Sight - Lush

The Heathen - B…

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]]><![CDATA[BLUE MOVIE - LIVING IN THE RUINS OF PORN'S GOLDEN AGE]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/blue-movie-living-in-the-ruins-ofhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/blue-movie-living-in-the-ruins-ofWed, 21 Jan 2026 21:19:29 GMTBefore OnlyFans, before the internet, there were French postcards.Blue Movie from This Body traces the hidden history of pornography and its impact on desire, labor, and culture. From French erotic postcards to stag films, Warhol’s downtown New York, Deep Throat, VHS vixens, and today’s OnlyFans economy, this series asks: how did we get here, and what has porn done to our bodies and fantasies?

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]]><![CDATA[Night Blooming Jasmine: The Black Lodge, The White Lodge, & The Folly of Absolutes]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/night-blooming-jasmine-the-blackhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/night-blooming-jasmine-the-blackSun, 11 Jan 2026 19:13:38 GMTHappy New Year, Night People. January is a holy month for our community, marking the first anniversary of David Lynch's passing, his birthday, Bowie's birthday, and 10 years since the Black Star passed; and now, one year since the LA fires. Let us reflect. Come with me, wont you, on a journey into the unexamined shadows of the Black Lodge, and it's opposite, the White Lodge, a place where wisdom and peace reside in abundance. Are the notions of these lodges real, like a formica table? Or are we always dwelling on the thresholds of these states of being, passing through and doubling back, like threading a needle, again and again.

]]><![CDATA[The World According To Grok]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/the-world-according-to-grokhttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/the-world-according-to-grokTue, 06 Jan 2026 22:40:46 GMTBack in LA, one year on from the fires... Reminiscing on the cinematic purgatory of 2025. Is the Vice President Erika Kirk in drag? I just can’t take one more battle after another... Also: Club Chalomet, Leo Di Crap, and Rancho Relaxin’ into the dying of the light.

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]]><![CDATA[Decolonize Christmas with Assata Shakur!]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/decolonize-christmas-with-assatahttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/decolonize-christmas-with-assataWed, 24 Dec 2025 00:56:19 GMTMerry Christmas from the FBI!

This year we lost a real one (another one), Assata Shakur. Freedom fighter, political refugee, mother, and MOTHER. From growing up under Jim Crow, to the Black Panthers, and on to the Black Liberation Army - from COINTELPRO to Cuba, this episode is about hope in times of chaos. Assata’s story is crazy, it’s unbelievalbe no one has made a blockbuster out of it yet. Rest in Power Assata, and Merry Christmas ALL!

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Little bits of “Song For Assata” by Common & Cee Lo Green

“Money’s Too Tight To Mention” - Simply Red, a band I have always deeply disliked, up until this moment. The tides are turning on the old definitions of self, if my softening in Simply Red’s direction is to be trusted.

]]><![CDATA[Fear & Loathing In 29 Palms]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-29-palmshttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-29-palmsThu, 11 Dec 2025 23:03:40 GMTIt’s fkn December!?!?! & It’s your bonus, babes.

That’s the Doors, btw, Runnin’ Blues, Outkast with Bombs Over Bagdad, Kylie with Better The Devil You Know, and The Congos with Fisherman. Transfer your library to Tidal and add them to your playlist!

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]]><![CDATA[Night Blooming Jasmine : Annie, Belladonna Of Sadness]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/night-blooming-jasmine-annie-belladonna-355https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/night-blooming-jasmine-annie-belladonna-355Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:28:25 GMTWelcome back to Night Blooming Jasmine. Join me as I visit the myth of Annie Blackburn — a woman written as a narrative fix, then transformed by David Lynch into something spectral and essential. From the convent shadows to Miss Twin Peaks, Annie becomes a guide, a sacrifice, a hinge in Cooper’s fate, and an echo of older myths: Ariadne, Persephone, Psyche.

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]]><![CDATA[QUIET, PIGGY! Plus! 4 Breathwork Techniques to Hasten The Enemy's Downfall]]>https://sofiamella.substack.com/p/quiet-piggy-plus-4-breathwork-techniqueshttps://sofiamella.substack.com/p/quiet-piggy-plus-4-breathwork-techniquesFri, 21 Nov 2025 22:21:07 GMTClinton. Trump. Nancy. WHO IS THE THROAT GOAT REALLY?? Usha Vance is on the Brink. Epstein Files About To Drop??! The Pope Hosts A Rave. Plus 4 Breathing Techniques from the Katonah practice, designed to keep your mind and lungs open. Winter Is Coming.

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