Mara Joy Loves - Audio Logs

I watched twenty minutes of M&Ms adverts and I have so many questions…

Today I check in on some of the games/definitely serious sports I’ve been watching/playing online. Marble League 2020 spoilers between 00:09:52 and 00:18:37. Links in order of discussion:BOTC - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVmPTpM355K0dXW4MbF_R6QJMR - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJdpnjuSWVOLgGT9fIzL0gNMJ- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS8aP7SiA_eTfvT_Gruxzsw

Quick checklist for the the three shows I discuss today: Dysfunctional main characters? Based on independent comics? Queer lady representation? Check, check and you better believe check!

I just talk about one of my favourite stand-ups for 15 minutes. She’s pretty great, so it’s pretty easy.

It’s hard to overstate how happy getting my hair did.makes me. It’s hard to overstate how happy a hug makes me.

“It’s not TV, it’s HBO.” So let’s talk about the ‘not TV’ that I loved, the ‘not TV’ I never got a round to and the ‘not TV’ I didn’t love.

Today I talk about a video game podcast I’ve been listening to and video games I’ve been playing. It’s a straightforward one.

I give the briefest possible overview of ‘Spoon Theory’ then just talk about all the things I’ve not been doing and all the food I have been eating.

Tonight I talk about two sit-coms that don’t get talked about enough and one podcast that gets talked about a LOT!

Guys, I just think Beanie Feldstein is neato, so I talk about three of the films she’s been in! Two of them are great! One them is fine.

Thirty five minutes of me talking about my favourite children’s book, the movie based on it and how I felt as a ‘gifted’ child. I sigh wistfully a lot.

More apologies for technical difficulties, then some talk about the films, TV and music I’m using to get through this global traumatic event! Standard stuff for these audio logs!

Once again I tried to record an audio log about one thing and messed up the recording so then talk about a completely other thing. Luckily, I like a lot of things…

I try to talk about being too distracted to sleep, but get too distracted. Come hear about my self-proclaimed ‘nerdiest ever’ hobby!

There will be no Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August. Today I talk about what the Fringe is, my relationship with it and what an August without it will be like…

I talk about how I was feeling yesterday, how I am feeling today and how I must have been feeling in a cinema in 1997. (Apologies if you have not been able to get the right audi ofor the July 16 episode. I'm working on it.)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking. CW: I have a very real panic attack at the end of this audio log and have left it in, unedited. I’m feeling much calmer now, so please do not worry about me, but if you are someone who has strong reactions to panic, it starts at 41:47 and continues until the end. (As a fun example of me struggling to communicate, I originally uploaded the wrong audio for this... Should be fixed now.)

For a full half hour, all I talk about is improv on TV. passionately, and undoubtedly incorrectly. For instance I somehow didn't mention the incredible Josie Lawrence. Shame on me. Watch this on Friday: https://readingfringefestival.co.uk/whats-on/hell-yeah/

I yammer on about pizza while waiting for a pizza. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

Take two for today’s audio log as I discuss listening to people, understanding people and shooting people in both a post-apocalypse AND the Old West! Follow Sonya Renee Taylor on Instagram @sonyareneetaylor

To celebrate recording fifty (five zero) of these, I actually do talk about the 1999-2004 television series Angel. I said I'd get round to it...

In this alliterative episode I try and recommend a TV show without telling you what it’s about, recommend a musician while telling you you might not like him and recommend a video game which I’m not even sure I should be playing.

This one goes pretty deep into how my mind and my anxieties work. Especially with regards to how I socialize. It’s pretty vulnerable stuff…

I know what you’ve been thinking: can I just talk about one singer-songwriter for a whole twenty minutes? The answer is, unsurprisingly, yes. With a few tangents.

Let’s talk about books, comics and vinyl. Not any specific books, comics or vinyl… Just the concept of books, comics or vinyl.

Nine days in the future (apparently) I share some of my favourite things on YouTube. I also talk a little bit about Brie Larson.

Some very ill-informed wrestlers make me talk about various masks for 15 minutes. Note: Batman Forever was ‘95, but Dumb and Dumber was ‘94 so my point still stands.

This one starts with me discussing my experiences with mathematics at school, then inexplicably becomes a ramble about pop music. Sure.

Basically I just talk about why I think social media is important in these ‘Unprecedented Times’. I also confuse a Sicilian and a Spaniard, but only briefly.

I just spend the full half hour excitedly gushing about Netflix’s Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, a documentary by Sam Feder looking at representations of trans people in film and television throughout history. That’s the whole episode.

We start with an explanation of the various reasons there wasn’t an audio log yesterday, then take another trip into my weird dreams to talk about social anxiety, meeting your heroes and why I’m scared of teenagers. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/659310126

An apology for their being no new audio log on Friday goes on a rambling path involving swollen hands, rubber gloves, gardening and hyper-violent post apocalyptic video games!

I recommend some TV shows and comics that are linked by one of the biggest TV shows of all time… That I have not watched.

It’s an emotional time for all of us. I talk about some weirdly disparate things that have been making me emotional and also come very close to singing!

I talk a bit about spy movies and TV shows and my history with them, but it’s just an excuse to ramble on excitedly about the best TV show of the past ten years!

I talk about some of the things that have been getting me through the past few weeks including an incredibly well-written and nuanced TV drama, a beautiful revolutionary song and… Marbles.

I just want to talk about TV and pop culture and M&M adverts… But I can’t. She won’t let me.

In my least coherent audio log yet, I sleepily rewrite a TV show, get lost in some old towns and get stuck in a video game. It’s a trip. https://blmsites.carrd.co/

I talk about and recommend three of the best animated shows of the past ten years. Two of which have anthropomorphic animals, but all of which get dark. https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

I switched on my mic with the intention of talking about a vampire, but accidentally gush about time travel movies for twenty minutes instead. Unless I’ve actually already done that? TIME TRAVEL! www.blacklivesmatter.carrd.co

Le sigh. Let’s talk about JK Rowling… https://blacktrans.org/donate/

I recommend some lesbian films for you to watch and pretty much fail to adequately explain why I like them. They’re good, I promise!https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

I talk about the food, flowers, podcasts and movies that have been bringing me joy this Birthday week. Spoiler, some of it is super gay! https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

I talk about being the same age as Jesus and my complicated relationship with cop shows. Details on a campaign for US police reform here: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/ A podcast featuring conversations on police abolition here: https://radicalimagination.us/episodes/police-abolition

Exhausted by the world, I just talk about musicals for a bit. I do at least two terrible musical impressions. https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

I talk in detail about one the saddest episodes of television ever, then I talk about my real experiences of grief, then… I mean, then I talk about chocolate adverts again… Because of course.

The world is complicated and bad, so I recommend some shows made by excellent people, having fun messing with stuff they like! Shucks!

Today is mainly about mental health and alcoholism! Fun! I also still manage sneak in a bunch of TV shows, because I know what I’m all about.

I’m inexplicably confrontational with the audience again, I effuse about a video game company a LOT and then I officially become part of a backlash! Controversy!

I love detective fiction. I especially love Columbo. I talk about that today. What more do you want from me? This is still not a podcast.

Continuing yesterday’s discussion about change, today I talk about things changing and falling out of love. But, like, through the lens of pop culture. As per.