WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

This Jimmy Walker episode is so funny.

― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:45 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

did maron ask him about dating ann coulter?

Heidecker even made mention of Maron keeping digging for more and more info on the bands after he mentioned them only in passing.

1) Consider yourself lucky that the guitar question didn't end up in a three-song jam
2) Apart from the fact that they did discuss The Comedy, how many other WTFs with people who normally write and perform and produce and direct and generate hours upon hours of their own work have gone into long discussions of a single hired acting job?

yea they did talk abt it a bit right? maron gave his 'film studies major' take on it

A wtf with colt cabana? Hello sam bait! Ridiculously excited about this, even if maron talking wrestling is going to be super embarrassing. (cabana is p much the worlds best comedy wrestler and has a wtf like hour podcast with wrestlers every week. Also he did stand up for a couple years, dunno if he was any good though.)

okay i haven't listened to this epo yet but I heard him on Sklarboro County and it turns out that I love colt cabana! I have started listening to his podcast. Mick Foley! The Brooklyn Brawler? HOORAY.
can't wait to hear this ep now.

the wrestling one was pretty good

Mascis interview: "What are your favorite chords?"

oh god

"I have a pair of thick green bellbottoms that are pretty cool"

I love Maron, and I often applaud him for attempting musician interviews, but this Mascis experiment is a near total failure.

Just that opening framing of Nevermind and Green Mind as the records that blew Maron's mind was nuts.

About 30 minutes in J. seems to realize Marc is a nutter and begins to treat it like an interview by Nardwuar. Which is pretty much is, except Nardwuar does more research for his interviews.

Mascis interview: "What are your favorite chords?"

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 November 2012 13:50 (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha i need to hear this

i feel like the difference in how frenetically & laconically they both speak is gonna make it sound like people speaking across a language barrier

and Maron asking if Mascis knew every Boston band he could think of.

What about Tom Scholz? Was he your guy?

haha

Maron was a squirrel on Adventure Time tonight.

Eventually Maron will have to have Jim Ladd on and the universe will implode.

Solondz interview is surprisingly excellent; a good reminder that Marc can be a great interviewer even outside his element.

I dont think the J Mascis interview was that bad. Its hard for anyone to get a sentence out of the guy.

i don't listen to this a lot but thought tge mascis interview was really moving. all the stories about producing other groups were awesome, tio

the episode today with Mike Lawrence was good. a throwback to when WTF was mostly comics I'd never heard of being really interesting.

Dylan Moran! He & Marc get along swimmingly

Yes, Bill Hicks is brought up.

GASP

oh i am so listening to that

:D :D

Listening to Maron and Favreau talk about Cowboys & Aliens finally makes me want to see it.

was that the most butt kissing a guest has ever done to Maron? Like every other sentence from Favreau was about how great WTF is.

Maybe, but I think that's just kind of built in to Favreau's personality.

Would really like to hear the story from the viewpoint of the other Soul Coughing dudes, Doughty comes across as a huge douche and intensely unlikable dude.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:12 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just listened to this one and yeah i was a little Ô_o about all of that

particularly how he simultaneously claims the other guys weren't involved in any of the songwriting and deserve no credit, but they also somehow forced him to make music he didn't like. can't have it both ways buddy.

Chris Garcia's bit on the live podcast was amazing.

there was like exactly one article about the Doughty book where the writer talked to other members of Soul Coughing, guys showed admirable restraint imo: http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/mike-doughty-soul-coughing-the-book-of-drugs/Content?oid=2831236

good article

i mean this:

"I've gone through my own process of owning my bullshit in that situation," former Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg tells The Pitch over the phone, while on tour with Fiona Apple. "I don't miss being in a band with Mike, but I have a lot of compassion for him. I actually think that he's got a form of aphasia — a perceptive gap. He demonstrated that through the whole career of the band, and the way he talks and writes about it now seems to be there. He doesn't hear what the rest of us did as songs. It's like trying to tell a colorblind person what orange is. The synapse isn't there. And I don't mean that as belittling as it sounds. I genuinely sense his agony over this. I feel for him on the most human level. I'm sorry that he feels that way. I wish he could look at Soul Coughing and be proud that he's created a whole new thing. I love that Doughty's created a new book of songs. I love that he's persevered. He has every right to be as proud as he can be. I just wish he could see Soul Coughing for what it was, and not for what he always tried to get credit for it as being. That band never existed. He'll sleep better if he ever figures that out. I sure do."

next to this:

"To a certain extent," Doughty says during a phone call with The Pitch, "I suspect that they're all just deeply self-destructive people, that they were consciously or unconsciously trying to wreck the boat. They just ended up with the wrong crazy person that wasn't going to let go of the boat. In my opinion, they were on a continuum between sociopathic and just straight-up delusional."

and this:

"There was a lot of stuff that came from jamming — a keyboard part or a beat," Doughty says. "But in the end, songs are things that are sung. And I was the only guy writing stuff that was sung."

Naturally, former Soul Coughing sampler Mark De Gli Antoni sees the process from a different angle, but the overlap in their accounts is telling.

"I could enter a rehearsal with Sebastian and Yuval [Gabay, drummer]," De Gli Antoni says via e-mail, "begin playing a shell of something, and the two of them would then completely invent a whole drum-bass world around that. I would then drop what I was initially doing and do something else. Mike would then start riffing words, and eventually we would have a 'Super Bon Bon.' To me, the final result is something I would never say I 'wrote' even if I started it, because the end result was so something-else. Many, many of our songs were like that."

is pretty telling

"But in the end, songs are things that are sung. And I was the only guy writing stuff that was sung."

Those are called poems

Thanks for that link, that is a great read and, as s1ocki points out, extremely telling.

also lol @ this

"The idea of Mike's book," De Gli Antoni writes, "that through a fog of drugs he behaved a certain way, is a ruse, a construct/fabrication. I was there in his apartment taking his watered-down heroin with him.

The Jay Mohr episode is actually a good example of why I like WTF in general. I mean, it was nothing mindblowing, but I find it interesting when someone like Mohr is able to dig in a little and talk about why he thinks he comes across as a dick or arrogant. I mean, he didn't blame other people, he was pretty much able to fully acknowledge his part.

kinda weird that Maron didn't ask about Bobcat, since he talked shit about Mohr on WTF

he did? I don't remember that...

yeah, mohr is married to bobcat's exwife

Maron talked about it when he was on Mohr's podcast.

haha what kind of woman would marry TWO gross comedians

and gross in such different ways!

connoisseur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Cox

Nikki is an American sitcom that aired on The WB from 2000 to 2002. Nikki was a starring vehicle for Nikki Cox, who had previously starred in another WB sitcom, Unhappily Ever After, which ran for five seasons. Looking to capitalize on Cox's popularity, Bruce Helford created a sitcom that featured Cox as the title character.

i don't know if i can bring myself to listen to the Blues Traveler one, unless one of you tells me it's super compelling.

yeah that one is an automatic NOPE for me

just the barest possibility that he will play or even TALK about that fucking harmonica is enough to give me nausea

There's some funny bits in it, mostly near the beginning.

It wasn't that bad, mostly because the BT guys are huge dorks