WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

once listened to an interview with connolly on Citizen Radio and my coworkers kept telling me to turn it down because they could hear connolly's voice out of my headphones

Listening to him completely wing it with Macdonald right now and I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the garage to fall down.

Result: Maron should completely wing it more often, because that was a really good talk.

i guess kevin #2 did get a full hour after all. he's just adorable.

this is cool, the donald cammell doc is going to be an extra on the bluray 'white of the eye' release (unfortunately region 2)

http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/shop/index.php?route=product/product&keyword=white&product_id=290

Just listened to the Maron episode of Jeff Garlin's podcast and laughed all the way to work.

yes! i love that episode!

listened to two first Garlin podcast eps - but as much as I love the guy in Curb, I just found him insufferable on his own show. Maybe I'll check out the Maron ep tho.

I'm not sure if it's online anywhere now, but there's a Garlin interview with Elvis Mitchell on the treatment that's also really fabulous.

Just listening to this Tom Arnold episode and listening to him talk about his abuser is pretty heavy.

Ha! I never was even aware of this April Fool's joke fight that Tom Arnold and Michael Strahan staged on Best Damn Sports Show. Tom goes into a little bit...enough to make me go hunt up the video. Congratulations all around.

Jason Isbell today, Patterson Hood on Friday

:D :D :D :D :D

Hoping for some good Muscle Shoals talk.

Listening now and there's some Shoals and Skynyrd talk.

I never met Jason when I lived there (or maybe I did), but I definitely remember Pat(terson) Hood. Okay dude, beer thief.

lol

Isbell sounds like such an even, easygoing dude. It's weird to picture him as an out of control kinda guy.

I spoke to him once, just briefly to say hi. It was on the Blessing & A Curse tour, they opened for the Black Crowes. I got free tickets to see the show & we'd heard of the Truckers, and got there early to check them out. Hardly anyone was there that time of day but they kicked ass, the people who were in the audience were all on their feet. I went to get a beer during the Crowes set, and saw Isbell standing on the concourse watching the show, smoking a cigarette. I walked over & said yknow, hi you guys were great, thanks so much for playing. And he looked me in the eye and smiled & said 'thank you ma'am'

I didn't know til years later that that tour almost broke the band completely, they were all fucking miserable as hell.

Anyway, that's my long pointless 'I said hi to him once' story :)

:)

I met Patterson Hood a few times before he moved to Athens, and I know a lot of people who know him very well, but this episode is my first experience hearing his story. I like him more now.

Also, my buddy Earl gets a couple namedrops in the interview, despite not having been in the band for a long time. When I first went to college, Earl introduced me to all kinds of fucking wacked out awesome music and fed me spaghetti and meatballs.

are these worth listening to if i don't care about/have never heard the Drive By Truckers?

They're interesting interviews, if only because Hood and Isbell are good storytellers in the southern tradition.

^^^

^^thirded.

^^^Fourthed. Maron does a good job on the Isbell one, especially, in talking about the songwriting process.

Has any addict-interviewee flipped on Maron when he pulls one of his "Oh man, I remember feeling THAT." or "Fuck, that's a bad one." when they get to a drug/booze story? So far - as exemplified in the Isbell one - it's pretty much real talk among addicts that I've heard.

Tears running down my face from the hipster millet farmer image from the Lewis Black interview.

http://i.imgur.com/jLesJGB.jpg

too much blue

That is one 90s looking cover.

I CAN HAZ ISSUES?

I'm almost sad he wouldn't let them use this one.

1) Watched most of Maron's first season this weekend. "Women be crazy."

and then

2) Listened to the Morgan Murphy episode. They dated for a month long ago, and it's just a weird, almost creeping, but compelling conversation.

wow felt sorry for both of them during the Todd Barry one. Funny comedian, but a long-form personal confessional-style interview maybe not exactly the right format for him.

it felt like sitting in a restaurant next to a table with two guys talking about their spreadsheets at work

I gave up before the halfway point. They were chatting about the boring part of comedy shop talk.

I CAN HAZ ISSUES?

― bizarro gazzara, Monday, April 7, 2014 5:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+1

Working my way through a backlog of recentish episodes at the moment and I'm deeply regretting my decision to start listening to the pre-interview stuff again. Maron's accounts of his battles with TimeWarner Cable might be the most tedious thing I've ever heard.

I don't know that I've heard an opening monologue that was anything but tedious.

but how will you live without knowing the state of his tube amps?

His opening monologues have often been compelling and fascinating insights. He might ought to stop them while he's in a happy and fulfilling relationship, though.

I like the monologues - flawed as they are, they're part of what makes me feel I know the guy and care about him.

i find his monologues weirdly relaxing to listen to, i guess its like, knowing there's people out there more neurotic than me makes me feel normal

i guess like marc maron i too am... attempting normal

*plays star spangled banner*

I'm with sic. I feel ok abt skipping the monologues until he goes through another breakup.

Listening to the Isbell one - "Did you grow up with TRUCKS?"

i want an app that ffwds through WTF until "who were your guys?"

I'm getting squirmy hearing Marc challenge Jason Reitman on what was happening in Up In The Air.

Fair question though.

Bursky's a hell of a talker!

So the Moon Zappa thing didn't work out. Shocked!