WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

Marc does a great job of getting out of Cheech & Chong's way. Nice change from his dominant style.

Loved sedaris on bookstore employees

I've got Sedaris coming up next. Looking forward to it.

listening now and the intro is making me very uncomfortable. I do not need to know his bathroom habits.

"Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Yeah, yeah." - Marc Maron

The Sedaris one was good.

I think that's the best ending of a WTF interview I've ever heard.

^ Sedaris

the Nick Cave was a bit more open and cheerful than I've heard him in other interviews, though of course Maron had to do an assholish intro.

One of MM's bad interviewing habits is his need to ask a question and then try to answer it before the guest can (one of countless examples: "What albums did you record in Berlin? Let Love In? The Good Son?") or to inaccurately finish his guest's sentences for them. It seems to come from a radio fear of pauses. It creates unneeded tension as the guest has to correct Maron and risk coming off as annoyed.

loved Cheech & Chong!

Cave had some funny Neubaten stories. I don't know what Maron's problem with him was exactly, but Cave seemed like he was having fun.

The Nick Cave one was bad. Marc needs to at least read people's wikipedia page so he doesn't blunder his way through their backstory. So frustrating that he won't do the minimal work he would expect from a host if he was on the other side of the mic.

I thought Cave did a good job of working gracefully around Maron's painfully obvious ignorance, which makes Maron's characterisation of him as "a bit difficult" doubly irritating. Cave would have been entirely justified in being very difficult indeed if he wanted to - it was seriously amateur-hour stuff from Maron, who's usually a bit better at papering over the cracks in his knowledge.

I thought Cave made the most of it. A couple of times he got peeved but never stopped Maron cold despite Marc's inanity. It's frustrating that Marc has reached a level of fame & influence that he can get long form interviews other people can't get but won't do the necessary work.

I'm not inclined to listen to the interview -- what kinds of things did he say, specifically?

Maron must have got in some trouble for that Cave intro, judging by what he said at the beginning of the new podcast

"I'm not going to talk about whether or not I thought it was a tough interview. It was pointed out to me that I was the problem but I can't accept that and am unwilling to change it so fuck that shit."

sad laugh

Nick Cave sucks

It didnt seem to go that badly except for when Marc made a dumb but harmless remark about Cave being "an existential cowboy" and Cave fired back tersely that "Im not a fucking cowboy" and both of them got embarrassed and Marc starting calling Cave "sir" all of a sudden. Anyway, agree with folks here that Marc should do more homework, better for his show in the long run obviously.

he's too busy sketching out his 15 minute pre-interview ramblings that I always skip

I want to see Cave's Gladiator sequel.

Maron is hard to take sometimes, even with a great guest - he just seems like a genuinely unpleasant person to be around.

I don't find that he seems unpleasant at all, actually--but I like his pre-interview ramblings so what do I know (his TV show is painfully bad however)

I wonder just what the demographics of Maron's audience are. I can understand a little bit of feigned ignorance on Maron's part if half of his audience are people who have no idea who Nick Cave, Stinson, etc. are...

Would have expected Maron to pick up on the Grinderman albums - talk about mid-life crisis rage.

You can find a synopsis of Cave's proposed Gladiator sequel online, it sounds fucking awesome.

it sounds quite a bit like that "Casca" series of novels by Barry Sadler, the guy who sang "Ballad of the Green Berets"-- Roman soldier who stabs Jesus on the cross is cursed to remain alive until the 2nd coming and fight as a soldier in every war.

I really have no strong opinions one way or the other on Jonah Hill, but he's a great guest on WTF.

I feel like that nick cave interview was a v accurate reflection of my interactions with a lot of America. Same language but different approaches to unknown people, maybe? Something gets very fucked up in sending and receiving signals or expectations of how the other person will respond or SOMETHING. I certainly don't think it's intentional from either side.

the interview with Open Mike Eagle wasn't as embarrassing as it could have been, though Maron kept throwing out Andy Rooney style questions: "Why are there so many people on the stage? What are they all doing up there?"

iggy pop ep is so good

"Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Yeah, yeah." - Marc Maron

― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, July 1, 2013 2:21 PM (2 weeks ago)

Pamela Adlon ep is pretty good. I like her.

He made the Joe Rogan podcast bearable, I wish he'd talk about politics more (or maybe I just miss those eps of WTF)

No, I think he's been pretty explicitly disengaged from his political past. It is a pity.

So the Yorke interview was done back when the Atoms for Peace album was being recorded, but Maron waited until 5 months after the album came out to release it?

Yeah, I have no idea what factors dictate when he'll release an interview, but it actually way more fun to hear than I was expecting.

AFP are touring now, so maybe that was part of his reasoning?

I am surprised to learn that marc maron still doesn't understand "how the music gets on the vinyl"

^ schtick

it gets there through AUTHENTICITY

Not sure what I was expecting, but thought it was a kinda boring. Not as cringe-worthy as it could have been at least.

I guess I just imagined Thom Yorke being an unpleasant person to talk to, and he really wasn't.

Listened to the Seth Rogen one this weekend on a long walk--fun one.

That "record making is voodoo magic of authenticity" intro is one of the most punch in the face worthy things I've heard him spout off about. Have to take a break before I listen to the interview.

yeah, I want to send him a paragraph-long email explaining how the music gets on the vinyl. but I also don't want to ruin the *magic* for him.

Each groove is carved by a master craftsman

Thanks for reminding me why I skip the intros.

I always feel bad for his girlfriend whenever he starts talking about his stupid record player (WITH TUBES!) and making people listen to music on it. definitely one of those guys who puts a record on and stares right at you expectantly until you say how great it sounds so he can yell "IT'S THE TUBES!" at you

yeah, he is likely the Alexandra Guarnaschelli of tube-and-vinyl-based sound system reaction judging