WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

Yakov Smirnoff ep is one of the best I've heard in a while.

Uh except for the lame pseudo-psychological stuff at the end.

smirnoff was good until the last third.

will ferrell was a B-: maron has too much of a crush on him to ask any real questions, and it mostly just felt like a long Letterman interview with a star.

will ferrell was a bucktooth emoticon?

i liked that one. ferrell has such control of his comedic instrument—his voice—its kind of amazing to listen to him just go in and out of being funny

all the stuff about his dad, and the advice his dad gave him, was kinda fascinating imo

the lou barlow interview is great. especially if you're a sebadoh/dinosaur jr fan. i feel for him, he seems like a anxious troubled soul tbh. i had no idea he recently had a meth addiction. yikes.

maron should really read get around to reading "our band could be your life" if hes going to be interviewing 80s indie rockers

Yeah, and the whole bit about people at the Groundlings being "I give myself three years to get onto SNL" and "I will only improvise with this person and that person."

(xp to VG)

lolz in the Andy Samberg interview when it becomes clear Maron has no idea who Joanna Newsom is: "So she's a classical musician?"

tbf I've seen Joanna Newsom in concert and I still feel I have no idea who she is

No one does.

finally caught an episode of his TV show - quite underwhelmed tbh but maybe it gets better as it progresses

I watched the whole run on Netflix in a couple of days recently. It's clearly cut from the same cloth as his standup and his podcast monologues and it's definitely an achievement in the sense that the show seems 100% reflective of his voice and worldview.

I guess everyone's mileage will vary on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, and I do go through phases of WTF burnout myself sometimes, but I ended up liking the show a good deal more than I expected to after the first episode or two. Maron's acting can be a bit distractingly stiff here and there but overall I'm looking forward to the second season.

If no end else will state the obvious, the Artie interview was terrific.

i have it in my little pile of "I need to listen to these" - interested to hear that convo

yakov smirnoff thriving in branson, mo now seems completely appropriate

Did anyone else like the Phil Stutz interview?

I thought it was great. Took a while to get Hank Azaria's Phil Stutz impression out of my head so I could take the interview seriously, though. Was a little sad for Paul Gilmartin to hear at the end of the Artie Lange episode that he's going to do more interviews like the Phil Stutz one, but hopefully he didn't mean he'd be doing more interviews with therapists.

i liked the autobio part of it a ton, a little less so near the end when he started talking about his book, but whatever.

Marc Maron got turned on to Hawkwind by Ty Segall. That's my first revelation from the Artie Lange ep.

from his twitter account it looks like he got In Search of Space and Hall of the Mountain Grill.

I'm surprised I haven't run into him at Permanent Records yet.

Fucking Artie, man. I can't even imagine what he'd be like on cocaine.

was not really into the patrick stickles interview, but i loved the moment where marc, trying to connect on a basic human level, asked him something like "what do you like to do? don't you eat food that makes you happy?" that's when his lack of research pays off, just wish it would have led to a deeper discussion.

Stickles is horrible so I skipped it.

wut

sounded like a speed freak

ha, yeah, the "do you food that makes you happy?" question was actually great. dude wouldn't go anywhere with it, though...

i felt sorry for the poor guy but a lot of it was like a horrible phone call from an old college friend who's gone off the deep end and wants to be sure you know he's read Nietschze

Psyched for Harry Dean Stanton on Thursday.

Wow at this HDS episode and Maron's inability to process anyone who isn't jumping out of his pants to tell Hollywood drug stories on a podcast

if HDS is 1/8 as awkward on this as he was on DLM a few months ago, Maron must have had his work cut out for him

(no dis on Stanton, just the publicist booking him on podcasts should have realised how badly it was going to go)

He spends about half the podcast bemoaning his subject's reticence and asking "Maybe I should have prepared some questions." No, man, don't put yourself out.

HDS actually gave him quite a bit, but not the "So picture this: me and Jack Nicholson are in Latvia with six hookers and a pound of hash" stories that Maron wanted

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not sure I can make it through the Marc Spitz interview. I learned that heroin is cool tho.

he is horrible

How Soon Is Never (2003), A novel-cum-homage to The Smiths set on Long Island, New York, in the 1980s and 1990s.

ewwwwwww

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"I'm here with somebody. I might be ready to talk about that."

Please don't, Marc.

Moon Zappa, huh?

this is the second time he's talked about the "Powell Doctrine" being some business/ government conspiracy plan from the 60s. What is the actual thing he's referring to?

i mean the actual name of thing. it's obv. not the Powell Doctrine.

Moon Zappa, huh?

So are they dating now? (I'm way behind on my listening, just got to the Billy Braver one yesterday) Not surprised by the heavy flirting during her interview, from both of 'em.

so crazy - i skipped the Moon Zappa one bc my tolerance of Marc + musicians is nearly nil, but my wife said that it was unlistenable because there was so much hostility and sniping in the air... it appears that "hostility and sniping" is marc's equivalent of flirting!

It's been awhile since I listened, but I honestly don't recall much sniping, it was really friendly from what I recall.

i think people mis-read the interview as Maron being disrespectful by asking to many questions about Frank, but it seemed clear they already knew each other pretty well

xp yeah didn't hear any sniping tbh (beyond Marc teasing her by asking 2-3 times what exactly it is that she does). It was pretty obv these two go way back and are pretty comfortable around each other.

feel very silly saying it but i totally called this. it crossed my mind during the zappa interview, then when he started being coy about seeing somebody that's what popped into my head (i mean, if he was dating someone whose name no one would recognize then there would be no need to dance around it).

he also mentioned hanging out with his friend Moon a few weeks ago