WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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!

welp

that seems rapid

don't be judgy

y'all

He mentioned they were together for five months, so he waited a minute to tell the audience they'd started dating.

Also, how long ago did he break up with Jess? Last year I guess, but it seems more recent.

last october

I think Benmont Tench is the first musician interview Marc's done where it just seems like two guys sitting around talking about music they like without one of them sort of wishing he could leave.

Ha. I haven't heard the Malkmus one yet, but I enjoyed the Karen Kilgariff and Todd Barry ones. I like the episodes where he has history with the people but it's not drowning in bitter competitive drama (don't get me wrong, I like those episodes too).

I keep meaning to seek out Todd Barry's old rock bands. His 'Crowd Work' special on Louis CK was good fun.

todd barry one did get a lil close to two circuit pros discussing the respective merits of continental breakfast portion sizes at various budget idaho motels

also only just caught up with the lou barlow ep & the guy narrating his divorce before playing soul & fire on a ukelele is gonna haunt me forever

I think Benmont Tench is the first musician interview Marc's done where it just seems like two guys sitting around talking about music they like without one of them sort of wishing he could leave.

Isbell's "Elephant" at the end is fucking brutal, for anyone who hasn't listened to that one yet.

Yeah, after I typed that out I remembered a few that didn't feel like hostage situations.

is there where we talk about the television show? i watched a couple episodes last season and thought it wasn't really good but my dvr recorded the season premiere and i figured i'd check it out. i thought it was legit funny! maron was even relatable! i even thought his philosophical musings about how we are all recreating our parental relationships in our romantic relationships was pretty insightful (and i loved when he concluded w/ "and if the original cast didn't do a great job, the remake isn't going to be any better")

Wyne Kramer seemed super into it too. Gotta say, he's been on a good roll with the music interviews lately - I'm actually even digging the constant looping around to his touchstones ("Just got that on vinyl", "Keith Richards biography - it's surprising!", "When you first heard Robert Johnson, didn't it seem like something from another planet?", etc.)

next time there's a "what is rockism?" debate on ILM someone should just transcribe some WTF rock talk

but I'm being a jerk - recent music interviews have been top shelf

yeah,it always amazes me when people say, "that Keith Richards, he's like a real writer!" It was ghostwritten by James "White Mischief" Fox in the Keef voice, from their taped conversations.

but his memory is so good! and you wouldn't think so because all the drugs!

Laser-like insight from Marc on today's interview with Rhys Darby: "Asians are er, uhh, ahh everywhere! It's kind of amazing though... makes a lot more different food available!"

a few years ago he used to mention on every fifth show that he was "uncomfortable" around Asian people. But I guess their foodstuffs have turned him around.

oy his "why is there tension between India and Pakistan when they both have the same kind of bread?" bit is excrutiating too

he's been trying to patch together this "funny" overarching food/race "funny" theory for a long time, should really give it up

Is "alt comedy" where you say a bunch of stupid things about the world in your stand up, and everyone thinks you are otm bc you are on stage and hey that was a callback to an earlier joke?

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

i think it's mostly stone temple pilots jokes

oh man. mike burbiglia's stand up is practically a youth pastor's sermon.

i don't really get him at all

but apparently it's not "alt comedy" that bugs me, because Todd Barry is in that wiki. Barry is able to effectively tell jokes in his stand up w/o going for otm observations about too large subject matter.

xp I shouldn't be so harsh, because I did like his movie. his latest stand up was just too motivational speaker for me.

I wish just one of these guests would ask Maron if he knows what a "political reactionary" actually is

Birbiglia really is a great storyteller but I agree - his tendency to tie things up all tidy with a lesson learned is getting more and more grating. The Captain Epiphany schtick just feels forced - motivated more by his own quest to find a perfectly symetrical story structure than a genuine experience.

yeah, that is well put.

it's because that's the this american life formula and he is (somewhat inexplicably) their chosen stand-up

The Moth formula as well

http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9403-marc-maron/

Good piece.

some of these would make good sad youtubes

Scott Aukerman in the NYT:

Your show airs right after your fellow comedy-podcaster Marc Maron’s TV show, “Maron.” You two are sort of rivals. He seems to prefer stand-up to improv comedy.

Marc actually has a goofy sense of humor, but he doesn’t do that in his own act. His own act is more a personal examination of his own psychosis and born out of a desire to inform the audience about how many 20-year-olds are inclined to sleep with him. In his mind there is a difference between the wacky people and the real comics. I don’t see the distinction all that much.

Then, predictably:

http://oi58.tinypic.com/vh3mu9.jpg

Haha. Maron got Saucermanned.

Has anyone interviewed Maron the way he interviews people? Ill-prepared, somewhat disinterested, constantly shifting direction when their attention span wanes?

someone should interview him and just keep asking questions about Sam Seder

rupaul on Monday! :D

innaresting!

sick burnerman

Aukerman seems like a prick

I could listen to RuPaul for forever.

Adam Scott openly questioned him on his "and on a brand new Maron!" schtick he'll do when announcing their IFC shows a few weeks back on their pseudo-U2 show. Can't remember his response, tho

Ru gave Maron the full Ru experience. Loved it.