Podcast appearances and mentions of Kim Boekbinder

Helen Perris shares how becoming a prolific songwriter has significantly improved her mental health and how commitment versus perfection has played a vital part in that. We also discuss how songwriting regularly can help with detaching from the outcome of the song and how this opens the creative space up to so much magic. As a home-based business owner and mum of two children, Helen shares some practical parenting tips for finding the space and time to write, and how to minimise distractions to be able to get into flow state when the family is at home. A rich and rewarding listen.  Helen also performs her new song “Over Again” live at I Heart Songwriting Club HQ.Timestamp: 2:35 - Commitment and consistency versus perfection7:50 - Songwriting progress isn't linear, Helen shares some tips for effective learning13:57 - We discuss editing songs and the impact of writing a huge volume of songs 20:02 - Helen shares how regularly writing songs in a community has helped her mental health24:09 - How virtual songwriting spaces can be meaningful28:40 - Formal music training versus learning through experience 34:18 - We discuss the mental load or headspace to write songs, being in flow state 37:33 - We talk about some of the funny songs we've written and how this can unlock creativity 41:45 - How to cultivate space to write at home with a busy household51:27 - Helen shares about how she wrote “Over Again”, a love song to her husband and performs for us.1:02:21 - Helen discusses her upcoming projects and reflects on her songwriting development over the past 10 years About Helen Perris: Self-confessed dork with a keyboard, Helen Perris, combines the influences of her regional AM radio and musical theatre upbringing with more contemporary sounds. Imagine if Kate Bush and Sia had a musical love child via a Megan Washington surrogate, and you'd have a fairly good idea of her aesthetic.Helen Perris is proud to forge her own path in the independent music scene in Sydney. Eschewing the major-label model, she has successfully crowd-funded her two EPs and launched her own subscription community (similar to Patreon) to work on her music directly with her fanbase. She has been shortlisted for both the 2016 and 2017 Australian Songwriters Association Contest in two categories, was a finalist in two categories in the 2016 Australian Independent Music Awards, and was named in the National Top 20 (and Top 10 for NSW/NT/QLD/WA) Songwriters for the inaugural Listen Up Australia competition in 2016.Since launching her solo career in 2011, Helen Perris has shared a stage with Amanda Palmer, Kate Miller-Heidke, Brendan Maclean, Kim Boekbinder and others, and her unique and honest suite of songs have been heard in iconic venues such as The Butterfly Club (Melbourne), The Newsagency (Sydney) and El Rocco's (Sydney), and performed at Peats Ridge Festival, TEDx Canberra and in the world's smallest music venue, Folk in a Box at Sydney Festival.Contact Helen: BandcampFacebookInstagramYouTubeSong Credit: “Over Again” - Music and Lyrics by Helen Perris. Performed live by Helen Perris at I Heart Songwriting Club Headquarters.Find out more and contact us at I Heart Songwriting Club & Francesca de Valence.Get your creativity, confidence, and songwriting output flowing. Join The Club and receive the support and structure to write 10 songs in 10 weeks and get feedback from a private peer community. This is THE essential writing practice that has changed the careers and lives of 1000s of songwriters worldwide. Just getting started on your songwriting journey and need more hands-on support? Establish a firm foundation and develop your musical and lyric skills with our Beginner Songwriting Courses. They are the perfect place to begin and cover everything you need to know to write your first songs. You'll receive lessons from Francesca directly!Don't struggle to write your next album - write an album a year with ease! Watch our Free Songwriting Masterclass. Want more for your songwriting but don't know where to go from here? Take the I Heart Songwriting Club Quiz to discover your next steps and inspire your way to writing better songs.Get songwriting insights from I Heart Songwriting Club: InstagramFacebookYouTubeBe inspired by Francesca on socials:YouTubeFacebookInstagramTheme song: “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other One” music and lyrics by Francesca de Valence If you love this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and tell everyone you know about The Magic of Songwriting. Thank you for joining us.

Episode 27: Today's guest was one of my idols when I was green and first learning the ropes of the wrestling business. She truly has it all. She is a tremendous athlete, looks like a female action figure, has this rock n' roll, crazy-lady vibe, and was the first woman who could do a standing moonsault that didn't look like a death wish. She has had a career spanning over 20 years. She has been known as Victoria, and Tara. Ladies and gentleman, my girl, Lisa Marie Varon. IG: @reallisamarie Twitter: @reallisamarie LET'S GET WILDE!

Seriah is joined by The Snake Brothers as they cover some recent space and Archaeology news. A significance on the space news is also the way much of it connects to the Electric Universe Theory. Outro Music by Kim Boekbinder with The Sky is Calling... Download

Almost three hundred years ago, a woman called Mary Toft was interrogated a bunch of doctors in London. She was interrogated after having given birth to a litter of rabbits. Or so she claimed. But, in that era, one of the strangest things about the case wasn’t just the rabbits: it was that doctors — “male midwives” — were muscling into the giving birth business. Amelia Dale teaches at Sydney University and talked about Toft in her PhD thesis. Links from this episode: Learn more about Mary Toft here, or listen to the BBC’s take on her story. What Hogarth print where? William Hogarth was a visual satirist, who made fun of the scandal around Toft with this engraving:   Songs from Midwives, Doctors and Rabbits: Ojos Del Sol — Y La BambaAkogare — Super Magic HatsCopza Luca — Adrian Simionescu and Orchestre Marin Ioan (Gajo Dilo soundtrack)Slip Away — Kim Boekbinder

In this episode we are talking about edible cutlery and huge Kickstarter success with crowdfunder Sarah Munir. ‘Edible’ and ‘Cutlery’ are two words that don’t normally go together and yet this is a remarkable idea that may play a significant role in reducing toxic, plastic waste. In India alone, it’s estimated that 120 billion pieces of disposable plastic cutlery are thrown away each year. So, the invention of edible, biodegradable cutlery provides an alternative that’s good for everyone. Our guest on Crowd Scene today is Sarah Munir, the US representative of the Indian team behind edible cutlery, which recently hit the big time with this idea on Kickstarter. The edible cutlery product is called “Bakeys” – which is a reference to the production technique. Sarah launched the Kickstarter campaign for Bakeys two months ago with a goal of $20,000. 30 days later, she had raised close to $300,000 and her campaign was backed by 9,293 people (including Pete). We find out how she did it and – perhaps more importantly – how it’s possible to eat soup with an edible spoon. Show notes are on crowdsceneshow.com. Please spend a minute to track us down on iTunes and leave us a nice review. Mike will warmly shake you by the hand as a sign of appreciation to each and every reviewer. The Crowd Scene theme music is by Kim Boekbinder. Special thanks also to Jim Fowler. Additional music by Jukedeck – create your own at jukedeck.com

The town of Desert Bluffs is no more. Plus, an update from Paul Birmingham, a look at traffic, and changes afoot at the Ralphs. Weather: "The Sky Is Calling" by Kim Boekbinder (kimboekbinder.bandcamp.com) Music: Disparition, disparition.info. Logo: Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com. Produced by Night Vale Presents. Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. More Info: welcometonightvale.com, and follow @NightValeRadio on Twitter or Facebook.

São Paolo has a traffic problem. But while the cars stand still, motoboys (and motogirls) ride up the "corridor of death" between gridlock. Over two hundred thousand of them. It's an incredibly dangerous job. Spanish artist, Antoni Abad gave the motoboys a voice atmegafone.net in the early days of the mobile internet and will tell you all about them, from the favela to the app economy. He knows his motoboys. Links from this episode: The motoboy section of Megafone.net is still running, the better part of a decade later. If you're Sydney-based, you might want to check out his Sydney project Blind.wiki. If you're blind or vision impaired, you might want to contribute. You can also check out a few of megafone.net's other channels. Read the New York Times' article on Motoboys from 2004. Dated, but still good. Antoni was in Sydney for Art and About as a guest of theSydney Cervantes institute. You can also check out Rinaldo's mini-documentary about life as a motoboy. (It's ok: there are subtitles.) Music in this episode: The Shrew — Beirut Jaan Pehechan Ho — The Bombay Royale Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Theives) — Carlo Lippari Dreamsong — Kim Boekbinder Please Feel Free to Piss in the Garden — SQÜRL Together - the xx Monkey Fight Snake — The Bombay Royale

Sometimes technology helps, sometimes technology is all we have. First Light and Guardians by Inon Zur from Crysis by Crytek Frankfurt; Primordia by Nathaniel Chambers, Cycles by Kim Boekbinder (arrangement by Nathaniel Chambers) from Primordia by Wadjet Eye Games and Wormwood Studios.

We can actually do a lot just with bacteria. Microbiologist Nicholas Coleman wants to tell you exactly how much. We can build them into computers, redesign them and even use them as computers. Which you can eat. Links from this episode: Do some of this stuff yourself at Sydney’s Biofoundry; further afield, via DIY Bio’s great directory of spaces; at the iGEM competition (Sydney has a team this year); recreating a virus similar to the 1918 “Spanish” flu; make Nick’s life harder, learn about E. coli. Songs in this episode: Stellar Alchemist — Kim Boekbinder Lighten Up — The Beastie Boys Electric Worm — The Beastie Boys Suco de Tangerina — The Beastie Boys Freaky Hijiki — The Beastie Boys Hear more episodes of Not What You Think at fbiradio.com/notwhatyouthink

Kyra Maya Phillips wrote a book trying to understand illicit economies with Alexa Clay, the Misfit Economy. But in this episode she’s geeking out about pirates. Get the lowdown on how pirates did things, from pirate voters in eighteenth-century Atlantic, through to the pirates with letterheads in twenty-first century Somalia. Links from this Episode: The book mentioned in the intro was Marcus Rediker’s Villains of All Nations; how Somali fishermen became pirates; yes really, there are pirate letterheads. Songs in this Episode: The Drake Equation — Kim Boekbinder Got Glint — The Chemical Brothers Nights — Totally Mild World Love — The Magnetic Fields Art of Revolution — Bassnectar   Hear more episodes of Not What You Think atfbiradio.com/notwhatyouthink

How would you feel if random strangers kept grabbing your hair? African Australian women deal with this all the time. It’s annoying, it’s humiliating and it’s about deeper things than just random hair touching. Ameisa Meima Konneh has African Australian hair. In fact, she wrote her honours thesis about life with African hair in Australia. She has thoughts. Links from this episode: Leaf through Ameisa’s thesis (pdf); see where your curly hair sits on a curl chart; the trailer for Chris Rock’s Good Hair doco; Lenya Jones‘ is starting up a new personal styling gig, you can contact her for more info; a friend of hers also runs Curl Talks — they got cut from this episode for time — all curly hair, and associated styling traumas, are welcome there. Songs in this Episode: Fix You Good — Kim Boekbinder To Be Touched — Kim Boekbinder Beastie Boys — The Cousin of Death Good to Be Alive — They Might Be Giants  Hear more episodes of Not What You Think at fbiradio.com/notwhatyouthink

How bad can a first date get? Emma Daniels has seen lots of first dates running her speed dating night, Dear Pluto. She likes first dates, she likes internet dating. She also wants to tell you that they work better with a little time thrown in. And also about that really bad first date she had that one time. Links from this episode: Emma wrote us an essay that goes with this episode, read it here. Songs in this episode: Hand to Mouth — Kim Boekbinder La Bicha — Bebe Hear more episodes of Not What You Think at fbiradio.com/notwhatyouthink

In the very first episode of Crowd Scene, hosts Michael Ogden and Peter Dean talk with New York singer-songwriter Kim Boekbinder about her "Infinite Minute" Kickstarter campaign that might just have broken a world record. Kim, a veteran of crowdfunding, shares her wisdom, tips for success and lots more.

Reviews: Age of Ultron #10AI, Batman/Superman #1, Lazarus, Uncanny #1 Jimmy flies solo again due to time constraints and briefly chats about his SDCC press woes being solved, attending his friend Kim Boekbinder's album release party and trying to get Suicide Girl Soya on the podcast while at SDCC. News includes: DC Comics Vertigo imprint is bringing 6 new titles this fall, Comixology offers subscriptions and bundles and Starz announces 2 new series in Outlander and Black Sails. And, it's the third and final of three panels that Jimmy moderated at Heroes Con a few weeks ago. This one dealt with going from indie comics to mainstream and back. It featured Becky Cloonan, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Robbi Rodriguez. Jimmy was a bit under the weather so isn't his normal chatty moderating self. Thankfully, he had smart, entertaining and talkative panelists! Great discussion about how they got started and where they are now.  Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!   Thanks for listening!

Love songs - they are pretty much ubiquitous. In this episode, you'll hear five fun and interesting takes on the ubiquitous love song. The songs are "Nolan's Song" by Arcadia, "The Organ Donor's March" by Kim Boekbinder, "8 Bit Video Romance" by Shade of Red, "Delorean" by The Droids We're Looking For, and "I Bet We'll Be OK" by C Vincent Plummer.

Reviews: Adventures Of Augusta Wind #1, Baltimore The Play One Shot (Dark Horse), Captain America Vol 7 #1, Edgar Allan Poes Conqueror Worm One Shot, Indestructible Hulk #1, Judge Dredd Vol 4 #1  Jimmy is joined in studio by the fantastic musician extraordinaire Kim Boekbinder! We chat about her music and just for us nerds...her upcoming album all about space! News includes: director Bryan Singer announces cast for his upcoming X-Men flick, the Joseph Gordin Levitt as Batman rumor and Jim Mahfood re-releases his Beastie Boys comic. As always, listener feedback, Top 3 and more! Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!