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EGC Clambake for December 3, 2006

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We go around the podosphere in this episode. I play a song from Sufjan Stevens and talk about the sentimental feelings it invokes in me; I play a bunch of clips – Richard Dawkins on In Our Time; Nando Parrado from the Authors on Tour podcast; Michael Apted from KCRW’s The Treatment; Kathan Brown on IT Conversations; Dan the Automator from RU Sirius; Steve Blush and Paul Rachman from RU Sirius; a speech from Something to Be Desired; a web 2.0 commercial from Hak.5; and finally a snippet from Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase. I follow it up with a song by Michelle Malone and then hit the Nyquil and go back to bed.

Today’s misstatements: I refer to the host of In Our Time as “Melvyn Peake” when he is in fact “Melvyn Bragg”. I say that Hak.5 is from Toronto when it is really from Virginia.

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Around the Podosphere

Here’s some more things of note from my recent podcast listening, as I slowly work off the backlog. Some of this stuff is a month or more old (some of it is years old but I’m just discovering it) but all good.

I heard Justin Kownacki on MacVoices #676. In it, he was talking about PodCamp Pittsburgh but also his vlog narrative series Something to Be Desired. I’ll talk about it more later on, but I’m watching the last episode of season 1 right now over lunch. The acting at times is a little of that forced local theater group style, but overall I’m getting into it. There are like 40 more episodes I have yet to watch, so my opinion has a lot of room to develop but I’m liking it so far.

More RU Sirius love/hate, this time on the love side of the equation. On episode #67, he talked to the makers of the documentary American Hardcore. This sounds really interesting (and I probably need to read the book too) as it seems to fill in exactly the gaps that I had such a problem with in IFC’s Punk:Attitude documentary. Mainly, punk didn’t stop from 1980 to 1990 and just because New York and LA people got blase about it, it didn’t disappear. There is a lot of good stuff in here about the DIY aesthetic, and how a big portion of what made indy punk work was the supportive community of people helping each other out. A lot of these insights are directly applicable to new media, and it would behoove all of us who care about it to pay attention to these lessons of recent history.

The key point in this episode, when the guys won my heart, was when Diana Brown tried to play the “These kids today with their iPods and Gameboys” card, and they refused to accept that. Bravo! I spent most of my life hearing how bad I and my generation were because we weren’t stereotypical hippies like the Baby Boomers. I refuse to do the same thing to today’s kids just because they aren’t like us. Flowers grown in different soil bloom differently, and that is not their moral failing but a fact of nature.

An episode of IT Conversations from the Adaptive Path Conference was an interview conducted by Janice Fraser with Kathan Brown about her art press and book on creativity. There is a whole lot of insight here relevant to new media, about fearlessly approaching your creativity and owning your art. I highly recommend it.

EGC Clambake For September 16, 2006

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I play a live version of the New York Dolls from the Henry Rollins show on IFC; I talk about my talk at PME and conversing with Tony Kahn; I play commentary from Ted Riecken; I play a live song from Sonic Youth; I talk more about the PME talk; send me your show logo or your web page URL; on podPress, did I err? I play a poem by Guillermo Gomez-Pena from the RU Sirius show; I play a song from Rickie Lee Jones and head out.

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EGC Clambake For September 9, 2006

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Today is a clip show and a live bootleg show. I play bits of other podcasts that have struck my fancy later and several songs that are freely available out there on the internet. I start with a song from the late great Warren Zevon; I play two bits from RU Sirius, one of which prompts me to discuss geographic elitism; I play a silly clip from the “official Ebert and Roeper podcast”; I play a bit from Jonathan Coulton on the PopSci podcast; I play a live bootleg from the Butthole Surfers; I play a little moment from the dada madness of Tiki Bar TV; I show what kind of crap I did for WREK in Atlanta; I play a snippet from Jeff Mallett at the Web 2.0 conference via IT Conversations; I talk about the Flaming Lips documentary and play a live song from them; it’s over and nothing can change that.

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