Some Podcast’s To Follow

I discovered podcasts about 2 years after everyone else did. That said here is a list of my favourites.

1. Slate Audio Book Club: really really fantastic analysis of books by some really, really smart people. You’ll get a lot more out of them if you have already read the book they’re talking about, but it’s good either way. The highlight was the disscussion of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” where they invited on some 10 year olds (who talk like they’re 30) to talk about the in’s and out’s of the potter world. Fantastic.

2. Slate Culture Gabfest: Yet another Slate podcast (there is also a political gabfest) consisting of really smart people talking about really smart things. They disscuss a lot of cultural stories (from high end to low brow). My favorite was the “Oversimplification” episode, where they disscuss the Kony 2012 phenomenon.

3. Slate Spoiler Special: Sensing a pattern here? Fantastic disscussion of films. It’s called the spoiler special because they give away the entire plot. The analysis will leave you with a greater understanding for the film in question. Defiantly worth listening to.

4. Triple J Unearthed: A music podcasts dedicated to little known or unsigned Australian artists from all different genres. 

5. Triple J Mark Fennell (that Movie guy): Tiny bite sized movie reviews. Great summary’s of films, good if deciding if you want to spend 15 dollars and 18 sense on a ticket.

(Source: lioness-zine)

@1 year ago with 1 note
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Some things that make me sad.

1. People that don’t read. I really don’t get it. I don’t understand why you would want to cut yourself off from a life of literature. Why you wouldn’t want to spend every second of every day losing yourself in worlds and places and people that you will never be able to to discover in your own pathetic life? It does not matter what book it is. Pick. Up. A. Book. You won’t regret it.

2. People who won’t even listen to a certin band because it’s to ‘mainstream.’  Please. Please get off your high horse, you could be shutting yourself off from your favourite artists. It doesn’t matter how hardcore your reputation is, music is music, no matter if one person listens to or one million. Yes, a lot of that music is manufactured and superficial, and if you don’t like it good for you. But do you know who can be also considered ‘mainstream’? The Beatles, The Ramones, Nirvana and numerous other incredible artists.

3. People who automatically dismiss music because its ‘old’  When people think old, they automatically think “boring, nothing I’d ever want to listen to”. It’s a shame, becuase some of the most subversive, cutting edge music was made 20 or even 50 years ago. One example ”Happiness Is A Warm Gun” by The Beatles. It was written by John Lennon in 1968, which makes it 44 years old. It’s lyrics include “When I feel my finger on you trigger” and “She’s well acquainted with the touch of a velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane” As well as countless drug reference’s (I need a fix cos’ I’m going down) and criticisms to the government. If that’s not ‘edgy’ I don’t know what is.

So that’s my list. I’ve been writing quite a lot of these. If you want some more, let me know.

(Source: lioness-zine)

@1 year ago with 1 note
#music #books #beatles #ramones #nirvana #lists 
Some Podcast’s To Follow

I discovered podcasts about 2 years after everyone else did. That said here is a list of my favourites.

1. Slate Audio Book Club: really really fantastic analysis of books by some really, really smart people. You’ll get a lot more out of them if you have already read the book they’re talking about, but it’s good either way. The highlight was the disscussion of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” where they invited on some 10 year olds (who talk like they’re 30) to talk about the in’s and out’s of the potter world. Fantastic.

2. Slate Culture Gabfest: Yet another Slate podcast (there is also a political gabfest) consisting of really smart people talking about really smart things. They disscuss a lot of cultural stories (from high end to low brow). My favorite was the “Oversimplification” episode, where they disscuss the Kony 2012 phenomenon.

3. Slate Spoiler Special: Sensing a pattern here? Fantastic disscussion of films. It’s called the spoiler special because they give away the entire plot. The analysis will leave you with a greater understanding for the film in question. Defiantly worth listening to.

4. Triple J Unearthed: A music podcasts dedicated to little known or unsigned Australian artists from all different genres. 

5. Triple J Mark Fennell (that Movie guy): Tiny bite sized movie reviews. Great summary’s of films, good if deciding if you want to spend 15 dollars and 18 sense on a ticket.

(Source: lioness-zine)

1 year ago
#state #triple j #unearthed #mark fennell #books #music #film #list #lists 
Some things that make me sad.

1. People that don’t read. I really don’t get it. I don’t understand why you would want to cut yourself off from a life of literature. Why you wouldn’t want to spend every second of every day losing yourself in worlds and places and people that you will never be able to to discover in your own pathetic life? It does not matter what book it is. Pick. Up. A. Book. You won’t regret it.

2. People who won’t even listen to a certin band because it’s to ‘mainstream.’  Please. Please get off your high horse, you could be shutting yourself off from your favourite artists. It doesn’t matter how hardcore your reputation is, music is music, no matter if one person listens to or one million. Yes, a lot of that music is manufactured and superficial, and if you don’t like it good for you. But do you know who can be also considered ‘mainstream’? The Beatles, The Ramones, Nirvana and numerous other incredible artists.

3. People who automatically dismiss music because its ‘old’  When people think old, they automatically think “boring, nothing I’d ever want to listen to”. It’s a shame, becuase some of the most subversive, cutting edge music was made 20 or even 50 years ago. One example ”Happiness Is A Warm Gun” by The Beatles. It was written by John Lennon in 1968, which makes it 44 years old. It’s lyrics include “When I feel my finger on you trigger” and “She’s well acquainted with the touch of a velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane” As well as countless drug reference’s (I need a fix cos’ I’m going down) and criticisms to the government. If that’s not ‘edgy’ I don’t know what is.

So that’s my list. I’ve been writing quite a lot of these. If you want some more, let me know.

(Source: lioness-zine)

1 year ago
#music #books #beatles #ramones #nirvana #lists