WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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

oh right that too

Kind of amazed he can get anyone to date him, tbh.

lol

I figured this might open a can of worms, but maybe that whole age appropriate relationship thing will work better for him.

so is this what all his "trying to get into captain beefheart" schtick was about last year?

loooool

lol

He's mentioned doing things with Moon (and her kid, and the kid's friend) in just about every episode for the past month, after announcing he was "dating age-appropriately."

BTW gossiping aside, the Amstell interview was the best one in months, I thought (and was delightedly surprised by).

Yeah, that was great. After watching a bunch of Never Mind the Buzzcocks on Youtube, it was pretty cool to hear him being a normal, insecure human being.

I'm not going to get to listen to it for at least a couple of days, but I'm really curious about the Ron White one. And the one with Dr. Bronner's son, too, of course!

I haven't listened by my girlfriend just heard the Bronner episode and he mentions dating Moon.

And she said "he said everyone seemed to have guessed already".

He reads this thread, right?

I like how detailed he gets with the timeline of their relationship--possibly to prevent people thinking he was cheating on jess

Ron White was great because Ron White is great. The handwringing explanation of the Moon relationship made me feel sad for them both that he feels he has to get into it at all.

^this. I don't really listen to the opening monologue stuff if I can help it, but man I always get the creeps when he starts talking about his relationships.

jason isbell has apparently recorded a wtf episode with maron :D

I haven't listened to WTF in many many weeks. Was going to break my dry spell with the Ron White one, so I check the thread and find out he's seeing Moon Zappa now? I thought there was something going on with them, even if neither was acting on it at the time the interview was taped.

yeah i thought the same

"Man, I used to have such a crush on you." "Aw, I used to have such a crush on you, too!" "Ha ha, what a shame we never knew and didn't do anything about it."

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uh oh wonder if Moon is going to on the mic all the time now

Listening to him tell the Moon story now, and when this inevitably falls apart after he's invested himself so deeply in something that sounds perhaps a little volatile, he's going to be a fucking mess for years.

Or it might work out. However, this is Marc Maron we're talking about.

heard Maron on a Grantland podcast today--he gets way bummed out when the interviewer keeps asking him why he never went for coffee with Jon Stewart

Listening to him tell the Moon story now, and when this inevitably falls apart after he's invested himself so deeply in something that sounds perhaps a little volatile, he's going to be a fucking mess for years.

yeah, i was thinking that someone with a young child might have a little less tolerance for a guy whose default relationsip mode seems to be throwing rage fits.

or someone calm and grounded might be better for him than someone who throws such rage fits that he once changed all the locks on his house