WTF with Marc Maron (it's a podcast)

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

I finally listened to the Dylan Moran interview - pretty good! Typically, I got annoyed that Maron kept harping on the Catholic abuse thing - DUDE THEY DID THE SAME THING HERE IN THE STATES JESUS CHRIST LET IT GO but I thought Moran engaged with the questions really intelligently and he didn't seem as annoyed as I would have been in the same situation

anyway I just love hearing Moran talk at length so I was happy

When they were talking about don delillo i was picturing maron shouting at a copy of cosmopolis, "goddamn it, tell me how to live!"

DUDE THEY DID THE SAME THING HERE IN THE STATES JESUS CHRIST LET IT GO

Catholic church integration into everyday life just might be a smidgen higher in Ireland, maybe

oh I know, it just...the way he kept asking about it annoyed me. esp since Moran said he didn't grow up catholic and yet is being called on to act as emmissary for the entire catholic population :)

actually I misread Maron as Moran in your post, makes sense now

ha :)

smh first sentence uttered in the Katz interview, "I have to play my vinyl records because there is integrity to them, authenticity."

wow maron brought in the katz

If Maron had any authenticity and integrity, his podcasts would be recorded on wire spools and sent to each individual listener via carrier pigeon.

Where is Donald Fagan's anger?

I thought he would have dug Steely Dan

https://twitter.com/marcmaron/status/281624014479294464

he really should

But he has a blues based cock

anyway I just love hearing Moran talk at length

ha, maybe avoid the upcoming Stephen Tyler one then, dude didn't get a word in edgewise

Moran or Maron?

Poor Stephen.

lol oh wait I was confusing Maron and Moran, never mind

lol if it makes you all feel better it was just as confusing trying to write it

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/02/get-a-brain-morans.jpg

ha, maybe avoid the upcoming Stephen Tyler one then, dude didn't get a word in edgewise

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totally looking forward to this btw

omg yes

i wish it was a call in episode so we could call in and ask about scarf selection, etc
oh well

i wish it was a call in episode so we could call in and ask about scarf selection, etc

irl LOL

Michael Keaton curses like a sailor.

It's fascinating how it took him so long to "get" the Beetlejuice character, but that when he finally did he really did.

I can't wait to listen to this

That was a really good one. Keaton has lots to say for a guy who doesn't talk much.

(I mean he actually talks a lot (A LOT!) but rarely does any media.)

mere minutes into that interview & i'm grinning like a loon

it's him! it's really him

I don't know why I didn't know he was from Pittsburgh? He sure sounds like it once he really starts talking

Man, this was one of those conversations where Marc really slots in with somebody and they just go.

totally!

Best one in quite some time.