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Dan Gedman might be the smartest dude I've ever had a sit-down conversation with, and he certainly has the deepest voice of any I can recall, which is a batshit combo if you're in to running metrics on how stupid you think you might be.Whew.What a chat, though. I've never gone into an interview thinking I'll be less prepared than my guest, but never did I imagine feeling dumber and less knowledgable than a guest who didn't prepare at all! Yyyikes.Anyway, Dan is a really awesome dude. He just is. I hate to distill it down to that, but -- if we're being honest -- that's all any guy wants...is to be known and remembered as an awesome dude.Now, I'm obviously not married to Dan, and I'm not his business partner, but he has always been the nicest guy I run across. He's an A+ host with fine-tuned hospitality skills. He's a funny fellow, and -- well -- goddamn it if he doesn't know the shit out of his music.Christ.Dan's a son and a brother and a husband and a father to three and a business partner and a music-savvy cat, but he's also just...he's doing it right. I think. You know...from the outsider standpoint. He runs this thing called Liquid9. I'm still not sure what they do. They might traffic Russian mail-order brides (Note: Joke! It's a joke! Take it easy...), but I think they produce music videos, among other sleek, industry kinds of things.Regardless, Dan's for sure a have-back.I felt humbled having him on, and -- while we covered a few records -- there're for sure more where that came from, and I'm legit' excited about what our next visit might look like. The ones we touched on today include the following:Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan (1975)Outlandos d'Amour, The Police (1978)Tim, The Replacements (1985)Copper Blue, Sugar (1992)Midnight Marauders, A Tribe Called Quest (1993)Illmatic, Nas (1994)Heartbreaker, Ryan Adams (2000)Is This It, The Strokes (2001)I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, Bright Eyes (2003)Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River (2005)I'd be pleased as punch if you gave this conversation a listen. They don't get much better.One final note: I fuck up a lot on this thing.A lot.It's hard to focus on the questions and listen to the answers and keep the thing moving and be aware of the time and of every thing you have said on every other episode.Point being, I used to scoff like a little punk at podcasters for such things. And to hopefully make up for that, I want to point out my mistakes when I become aware of them. In this case, Dan wasn't the first guest with biological parents that're both still alive and together. Jason (episode #1) was, but...that was six months ago, and I'm an aging human.I'm far from perfect. Really far. If you know that and listen anyway, praise be to ye.Blessings.copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the intro/outro audio samples. They are both clips from "Next to You," by Poolside, off of their 2012 release called, Pacific Standard Time (c/o themselves).
The boys journey down the waterways of Austin, Texas this week as they delve into Okkervil River's emotionally charged third album Black Sheep Boy.
This week on Rounding Down we talk about Pink Floyd's masterpiece, "Animals" and how it relates to current politics and much more. Plus, Sigh reveals his belief that therapists must have couches large enough for the therapist to lie down on, a strange idea that makes no sense! We brush off the dust and rust, and Chid is told he smells bad by his son. Sigh also explains that he eats pizza in the shower. This is canon. Follow us on Twitter: @CHIDSPIN / @SighFieri / @RoundingDownRate and review us on iTunes. Send us MONEYYYYYY. Support the show (https://cash.app/$roundingdown)
..........RAPTURED BEINGS................... http://www.filefactory.com/file/563kanpkronf/Raptured.mp3 01. State Azure – Deep Space Cafe; 02. There Will Be Fireworks – South Street (Acoustic) (04.29); 03. Cell - Security (07.52); 04. Mercury Rev – Louisiana Man (16.07); 05. Chasing Dreams – As Pictures Flutter into Dust (19.49); 06. Delectatio (feat. Hannah Sumner) – Caree for You (24.20); 07. MGMT – Electric Feel (CRW Chill Trap Remix) (29.17); 08. Dense – Entering Triton (33.31); 09. London Grammar – Big Picture (ThrdLife Remix) (39.00); 10. Atati – Dela Deji (42.47); 11. Alexi Murdoch – Slow Revolution (49.57); 12. Huun-Huur-Tu – Sagly Kadyn Turu-la- Boor (55.36); 13. JP Illusion - Underwater (60.52); 14. Mystic Crock – Raptured Beings (67.00); 15. Nils Lofgren – Black Sheep Boy (74.57); 16. Japan – A Foreign Place (76.44). Total Time: 01.19.56 Sultry voice of Rádio Etiópia: Ana Ribeiro .... How to make Humble Pie: One barrel of rotten apples, one tub of orange paste, one large (im)peach(ment); Simmer until done; Discard; Clean up messy left-over ingredients; Open all doors to outside to get rid of noxious odor. ….
Death and rebirth are at the center of what may be Okkervil River's most heartfelt and touching record since "Black Sheep Boy." It's called "Away," and we discuss it in-depth in this episode of "For the Record."
Death and rebirth are at the center of what may be Okkervil River's most heartfelt and touching record since "Black Sheep Boy." It's called "Away," and we discuss it in-depth in this episode of "For the Record."
MEL's Craig MacNeil talks to author, poet, and professor Martin Pousson about Cajun culture, Queer culture and what almost caused him to quit writing. Martin's latest book "Black Sheep Boy" is available now at all good bookstores.
Black Sheep Boy (Rare Bird Books) Meet a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a Cajun French phantom father. In a series of tender and tough stories, he encounters gender outlaws, drag queen renegades, and a rogues gallery of sex-starved priests, perverted teachers, and murderous bar owners. To escape his haunted history, the wild-hearted boy must shed his old skin and make a new self. As he does, his story rises from dark and murk, from moss and mud, to reach a new light and a new brand of fairy tale. Cajun legends, queer fantasies, and universal myths converge into a powerful work of counter-realism. Black Sheep Boy is a song of passion and a novel of defiance. Praise for Black Sheep Boy “Beautifully impressionistic, and also raw, open and vulnerable. Pousson’s bayou is such a frightening and vibrant place, generous and punishing, and the narrator’s perspective pulls us in, and brings the reader close.”—Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake "Electrical, convulsive, hallucinatory, elemental... A book to give you fevers, chills, and visions."—Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day Praise for No Place, Louisiana finalist for the John Gardner Book Award in Fiction “Setting out to capture the modern South, the first-time novelist confidently eschews the style of a Faulkner or the charm of a McCullers to evoke the prejudices and limitations of Cajun culture in its unique, enriching and destructive complexity.”—Publishers Weekly “No Place, Louisiana is the Southern answer to The Ice Storm; from its sultry pages there emerges a chilling portrait of a family in the midst of a very deep freeze.”—The Los Angeles Times “Powerful and empathetic...A beautiful ode to the lonely and unloved.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune “Pousson has written a strong, confident novel... many veteran authors have yet to write a novel of this depth.”—BookReporter.com “A remarkably sure-footed and rich first novel, admirable not only for the clarity of its voice and the fluidity of its style but for the coherence of its vision; its dramatic family saga, gradually unfolding in a deftly integrated Cajun universe, reveals the narrator to be a complex and acrobatic survivor. Pousson brings remarkable insight and literary power to the landscape of the American novel.” —Lis Harris, author of Rules of Engagement Praise for Sugar finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Awards for Poetry “With Sugar, Martin Pousson returns to the territory that activated his novel, No Place, Louisiana, recharging that fertile ground with a shift from prose to poetry. The result is a series of compressed observations, by turns satiric and heartbreaking, languorous, outraged, and tender.” —Dave King, author of The Ha-Ha “Here is the poet Louisiana has always wanted. Gulf Coast heat turns into huge trees and lush flora, which then turn into sex and dramatic dialogue. Desire so metamorphic inevitably slides toward hallucination. To convey experience at the edge, Martin Pousson has invented a new poetics that takes from the earlier art only its intense imagery and verbal economy. The few dozen pages of Sugar bring a tragic and sensuous bayou mindscape unforgettably to life.” —Alfred Corn, author of Stake and Contradictions “...his sugar ain’t sweet, it’s scorched.” —Jake Shears, Scissor Sisters Martin Pousson was born and raised in the bayou land of Louisiana. His short stories won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and have appeared in The Antioch Review, Epoch, Five Points, StoryQuarterly, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He also was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award, the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He now lives in Los Angeles.
It's not just Barack Obama who is drawn to Will Sheff's music, Lou Reed was a massive fan as well. Like his mentor Lou Reed, Sheff is a bit of a polymath, but best known for being the lead singer for the indie darling rock band Okkervil River straight out of Austin, Texas. Sheff is also an artist and prolific and pithy writer. You can check out his drawings on his website and read his essays on art and fiction in McSweeney’s, The Talkhouse, Magnet, Billboard, and the Austin Chronicle, where he worked as a film critic for a spell. In 2010, Sheff’s liner notes for the Roky Erickson album True Love Cast Out All Evil, which he also produced, were nominated for a Grammy. I didn't even know liner notes could win a Grammy! More recently, Sheff directed, composed the music and wrote the script for the indie film Down Down the Deep River, which reflects on his childhood of growing up in the 1980’s. Okkervill River is celebrating the ten year anniversary of their popular albim Black Sheep Boy with a new release and...
Tonight we talked about Meek Mill going off on a fan for bringing a poster of Drake to his show, Motorhead makes their own line of "Adult Toys," Okkervil River repress Black Sheep Boy for the 10th Anniversary, and we answer questions from our friends on Instagram!
BILL CALLAHAN. SUMMER PAINTER – 6:30Dream River, Drag City, 2013 SHEARWATER. MY GOOD DEED – 5:50Winged Life, Misra, 2004 OKKERVIL RIVER. IN A RADIO SONG – 5:35Black Sheep Boy, Jagjaguwar, 2005 TIM HARDIN. LENNY'S TUNE – 6:55Tim Hardin III Live In Concert, Verve Forecast, 1968 OKKERVIL RIVER. BLACK SHEEP BOY – 1:15Black Sheep Boy, Jagjaguwar, […] Cet article Errance #16 : De Bill Callahan à The Apartments est apparu en premier sur Eldorado.