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Jeff Daniels Loves His Guitar, And Talks About Other Things
So, Jeff Daniels recently visited the Kelly Clarkson Show [13m]. It was an entirely lovely and kind visit full of humanity. But the real surprise is his confession of the love of playing guitar, having written a zillion original songs, and his performance of a song about how the guitar is his best friend and he moves Clarkson to tears with his performance. It's entirely unexpected, and I'm sorry to have spoiled it for you, but how else could I have gotten you to watch this interview? [more inside]
It's our lockdown album.
'An evening with Pet Shop Boys' 22-04-2024 [Guardian Live, 1h23m] "To celebrate the launch of their highly anticipated new studio album, Nonetheless [Wikipedia], join Pet Shop Boys in conversation with the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis - live in London, with an exclusive album playback, and livestreamed globally." [more inside]
Stereophonic on Broadway, it's an interesting story
Making Real Music for a Fake Band [43m] is from Slate's Decoder Ring podcast that digs pretty deep into a particular Broadway play that is the current Hot Ticket In Town [Playbill, Stereophonic]. It also digs into making real things for fake things. The episode looks at a multitude of excellent fake things you already know, and then the playwright David Adjmi and Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire get into the show itself... A fictional Fleetwood Mac-esque band in the studio struggling to record an album of songs like this [1m45s] in the mid-Seventies. Here's a "retrospective trailer" looking back at its developmental run at Playwrights Horizons. [43s] [more inside]
Geddy Lee's Effin' Life live on stage
In Live at Massey Hall: Geddy Lee [55m, CBC], Geddy spends some time talking to his old friend Alex, and then reads a bit from his book. If you like this kind of thing, maybe you'll like this example of this kind of thing.
Seth Rogan Loves Pot(tery)
About five years ago, Seth Rogen posted a picture on Instagram of seven rudimentary clay objects with the caption: “So maybe I joined a pottery studio so I could start making my own ashtrays.” Now, he’s taken his love for pottery to the next level by signing up as an executive producer for the competition show The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down. He also appears throughout the series as a guest judge. Seth tells Tom Power what inspired his love of pottery, if he finds it therapeutic, and how the imagery and design around weed paraphernalia has changed since legalization. [31m]
The Nanny Meets The Icon
Fran Drescher Interviews Barbra Streisand--SAG 2024 Life Achievement Recipient [35m] Because 50 hours of autobiography audiobook might not be enough.
Clara Belle Williams
Clara Belle Williams was born in Plum, TX in October 1885 [!]. She attended undergrad in Prairie View TX, graduating in 1908. After a marriage, three sons, and a widowing, she enrolled at University Of Chicato and finally at New Mexico College of Agriculture in 1928. Clara Belle Williams was [what is now known as] New Mexico State University's first black graduate [nmsu.edu link, primary text link], graduating in 1937 with a degree in English at the age of 51. She was the Las Cruces School System's first black school teacher, and she forged a path into a community that had very little black population during a time long before it was expected. Here is an interview with Clara Belle Williams and her family from 1980 [1h31m. VHS transfer, long but amazing] [more inside]
Come to see Brian May's kitchen, stay for the lovely conversation!
I'm really not quite sure who Rosie Bennet is, but somehow she ended up sitting in Brian May's kitchen talking about all kinds of things. From fame to his astrophysics degree to AI and even a bit of music! It's a lovely gentle-voiced conversation that is one of the best musician interviews I've encountered lately! Brian May on AI, Mental Health, Fame, Plagiarism and the Internet - FRET NOT EP.2 [1h5m]
Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Barbie, BFI, Wow
I've watched a LOT of stuff related to Barbie. Panels and interviews and contrived videos... but I'm going to say that Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera on Barbie | BFI in conversation [40m] is the single most grounded, real-feeling conversation I've seen. Ryan and America seem to be sitting with a small group of friends talking about this experience they both went through, and it just feels so honest and bare and naked... Hard to describe, great to experience.
Bill Hader talks anxiety with Dan Harris
I don't know what I was expecting when I sat down to watch Bill Hader on Anxiety, Imposter Syndrome and Leaning Into Discomfort [1h20m], from the Ten Percent Happier podcast but what I got was a bare-bones confessional of a man who suffers deeply from anxiety even while he lives one of the most public lives in the country. I think I needed to watch this, and maybe you need to watch it also.
You've Come A Long Way Over The Past 25 Years, Baby
If you're Hull musician Norman Cook and are looking to observe the 25th anniversary of the album that launched you to global superstardom, there's really only one way you can go. Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby - All Mixed Up is a half-hour journey across the vocal and musical samples of the biggest hits from this seminal album, released in Oct 1998. Even while the magician is showing you his secrets, it feels thrilling and magical. BONUS: Becky Hill talks to Fatboy Slim for 40 minutes for her podcast, and it's a great conversation! [Becky Hill wikipedia, for the non-UKs out there.]
Beato + Saliers = Great Interview
Rick Beato sat down with the Emily Saliers half of Indigo Girls for a conversation about her decades of making and recording music: In the Room with Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers [50m]. It's a free-wheeling talk that I, as a long-time IG fan, felt was revelatory and insightful. And there's a lot of joy happening here, too! Includes solo performance of song Look Long.
Rick Rubin interviews Trent Reznor
Music Master Rick Rubin interviewed NIN creator Trent Reznor for his podcast Tetragrammaton. [2h10m, audio only] Nine Inch Nails is Rubin's favorite band. Reznor shares a lot, reflecting on his life and career from where he is now. It's a bit like Marc Maron only more about music and much more gentle.
Rick and Daniel chatting for a while
Even if you don't know the name Daniel Lanois, you know his work. He produced The Joshua Tree, So, and Time Out Of Mind, to name just a tiny few from his broad ranging career. If you like hearing all manner of music-making tidbits from one of the best, Rick Beato sat down with Daniel for a three-hour conversation. Everything is discussed from music personalities to recording techniques and equipment to songwriting to simply the joy of finding the vibe. It's an astonishing interview that even at its length feels like it is too short.
What do I want to say as a parent? As a human? As a gay man?
Jon Lovett interviews Chasten Buttigieg about his new book I Have Something To Tell You [23m] but more about what growing up gay in the US has been like and what living as a [peculiarly high profile] gay man in the US today is like. It's one of the better, deeper interviews about how growing up queer can be damaging and the choices it leads one to make. [more inside]
Getting to know Julia
Despite the countless series I've seen her in, or the variety of profiles I've read about her across the decades, I've never really felt like I had any peg on Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a person. But she sat down for a 2-hour conversation with Pete Holmes for his podcast You Made It Weird, and across the first half-hour you can watch Pete peel away her defenses and by the end a more fully rounded portrait of her emerged. I really enjoyed this, much more than I expected going in.
I didn't want to snark out anymore
Guy Raz's beardy stubble talks to Jason Sudeikis' beardy stubble about Sudeikis' career [1h12m], from his early years playing basketball and doing Second City in Vegas and through into developing Ted Lasso. You can see Jason transform between minutes 35 and 38 as they move into taking about Lasso, and his investment in the conversation makes the second half come alive. [more inside]
Marc Maron Happy Sad Confused
There's a point close to the end of Josh Horowitz's interview with Marc Maron for his Happy Sad Confused podcast, right around the one hour point, where over the course of about 45 seconds the entire gamut of human emotions from joy to grief flow like a tidal wave. This moment of transparency comes after a conversation about love and loss and life that is dark, hilarious, and ultimately affirming. Marc Maron talks FROM BLEAK TO DARK, TO LESLIE, WTF, AVATAR -- HAPPY SAD CONFUSED [1h3m]
How The Daily Show Sausage Gets Made, Leslie Jones Edition
In this week's Beyond The Scenes, Roy Wood Jr. sits down with her cowriter Lenny Marcus and the woman herself as Leslie Jones Reflects On Her Week As The Daily Show Host [56m]. There's a lot of really interesting, honest talk here about how comedy teams work, what kind of prep went into her week on the show, and then toward the end she sort of falls into a flow and things go off the rails. One of the better comic process interviews I've seen.
All the deepest hues of P!nk
I can't admit I've followed P!nk's career all that closely, but she's been on my radar. So when I clicked through and watched P!nk: 'TRUSTFALL', Touring & Motherhood [52m], her interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, I was pretty pleased with the honesty, openness, and depth of the conversation. I thought you might like it, too!
Old Man Yells At Self
Sometimes it's hard to fully comprehend what you're witnessing. Aired in the middle of the night earlier this year on TCM, in accord with some arcane agreement, we get The Dick Tracy Special: Dick Zooms In [27m20s], which features Ben Mankiewicz, Leonard Maltin, Dick Tracy, and eventually Warren Beatty discussing the 1990 film Dick Tracy, which was directed by, written by, and starred Beatty. For a bit of background, there's more inside. [more inside]
My Next Guest With David Letterman And Volodymyr Zelenskyy
David Letterman's series for Netflix My Next Guest takes itself to new territory when David visits Kiev and interviews Voodymyr Zelenskyy in a subway station and tours the city with comics and others. My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Full Episode | Netflix [44m]
An hour with Jeff Goldblum
Ari Melber sits down with Jeff Goldblum for a discussion from just a few days ago about his career that also touches on a zillion other topics, as you would expect from talking to Jeff. It's a fun and fluffy interview that might also contain some insights into the impenetrable Goldblum.
Joni & Elton
In a very rare interview, Elton John spends 25 minutes talking to Joni Mitchell about how she is today, her Newport Folk Festival performance, and many songs and what they bring to mind for her. It's a lovely interview, and Joni seems to be doing really great!
Nine Inch Nails Live Q&A from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Streamed live yesterday as part of NIN Appreciation Day, join Trent and Atticus and nearly the entire other cast of Nine Inch Nails for Nine Inch Nails Live Q&A from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame [1h10m]
I felt like I was really myself out there!
Disability Inclusion Activist Molly Burke was recently on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Dispelling Misrepresentations Of Blindness [7m31s]. Much more fun, however, is Molly's own video I Was Interviewed by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show! [31m] which shows the whole process for her the day of the show. There's so much fun and humanity in that half hour, that's really the part I wanted to share the most!
Amidst Women’s Rights Clash, Sam Bee Fights Back With Comedy, Truth, And
MSNBC's series Mavericks spends a half hour with Samantha Bee in Amidst Women’s Rights Clash, Sam Bee Fights Back With Comedy, Truth, And Late Night Breakthroughs. This is a great interview looking into Bee's career and growth across time, with a lot of introspection and insight. It was sadly recorded shortly before Full Frontal With Samantha Bee was cancelled after its seventh season [Variety].
Lizzo Special Interview
Lizzo's new album Special comes out tomorrow, and she sat down yesterday for a 40 minute interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe about where she is in life and the release of her album and a lot of other things. Lizzo is always amazing, but this interview felt really electric to me.
Alex Wagner Interviews Trevor Noah
From The Daily Show Youtube channel, Alex Wagner Interviews Trevor [42m]. Real introspective conversation about the things you want to hear that kind of conversation about. I truly enjoyed this The first 4m37s are an entertaining but not necessary montage from TDS.
What’s It Like Drumming For Prince? (The true story…)
Drummer Hannah Welton was recruited by Prince to drum for 3rdeyegirl and she played on his last four tours with a band before he died. Spend 1h learning about What’s It Like Drumming For Prince? (The true story…) with drumming tips like how much the space matters, how funky can be simple, and stories about Prince being Prince. She's charming and delightful and so f'n talented!
Vocal ANALYSIS of RUSH's "Tom Sawyer"
International opera singer and vocal coach Elizabeth Zharoff* does an analyzing First Listen of Rush's 1981 song Tom Sawyer [19m]. Her level of delight and wonder is overwhelmingly charming. Also, because I don't want to make two Rush posts in a row, Alex and Geddy in conversation with George Strombo, April 15, 2022. [46m, entirely open conversation about a lot of subjects, please watch if you're a Rush fan] [more inside]
Stephen Colbert interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jan 2010
Colbert was still doing his Comendy Central show. Tyson was at perhaps the height of his powers. The two are electric together, and the amount of science and good humor in this 1h25m is delightful. Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy - 2010-Jan-29 Previously, from 2011.
I've Been 12 Forever
Michel Gondry's autobiographical film, I've Been 12 Forever (2004) [41m], deals with his filmmaking and his imagination and how it all goes back to his childhood and his dreams. Michel Gondry's autobiographical film, I've Been 12 Forever (2004)[36m], deals with the concepts for his music videos and how it all goes back to his childhood and his dreams. In French and English with no subtitles, and that's okay.
Eric Idle interviewed by Bob Saget
Eric Idle Talks About Monty Python, Spamalot, and Why He Always Looks on the Bright Side of Life is 1h30m of really interesting conversation between Idle and Saget, from June 2021. This isn't a comedy interview, it's full of biographical information and insights.
An Evening with Bob Saget Moderated by John Oliver
Maybe you need a filthy adult break from all the insanity? An Evening with Bob Saget Moderated by John Oliver is 1h15m from the 2014 92nd Street Y that is charming and funny and delightful.
Michael Caine Loves The Muppet Christmas Carol as Much as You Do
Michael Caine Loves The Muppet Christmas Carol as Much as You Do [GQ Interview] "I had never made a movie that a 7-year-old can see. And so a man mentioned the Muppets and I said, “That’s it! I’ll do that!” And it’s A Christmas Carol, it’s a fabulous tale! You’ll be old Scrooge, it’ll be marvelous! And it was absolutely perfect at that time for what I wanted. I could make it, and my daughter could see it. That’s why I did it. And it was lovely."
Musicians on Musicians: Lorde & David Byrne
From Rolling Stone: On fighting stage fright, staying true to your inspiration, and the mysteries of songwriting " “I’ve thought about you a lot,” [Lorde] tells him as they sit down to talk. “I don’t even know where to start, David. I just have so much to ask you.” Byrne smiles courteously: “Ah, thank you.” And they’re off."
Brothers Of A Feather
Via NPR's World Cafe: Chris and Rich Robinson (former Black Crowes) come together to perform and talk on the April 8 episode of World Cafe. Show runs 45 minutes. Song performed are Jealous Again, Thorn In My Pride, She Talks To Angels, and Descending. Page also includes bonus video of performance of Thorn In My Side. Accompanying article provides some perhaps needed context.
What Shia LaBeouf Taught Me About Empathy and Forgiveness
From the moment I learned that “Honey Boy” explored a complex father-child relationship — how pain and abuse can transcend generations — I knew that interviewing Shia LaBeouf, one of Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch, would be an emotional experience for me. I just never expected for it to change me. [Variety, medium read, cw: abuse] [more inside]
Mark Hamill In Conversation With Frank Oz
In Which Frank Oz answers only one question and maybe only asks a dozen but Mark Hamill talks (and talks) and is charming and delightful and open about his life experiences, and it's 1h30m of joy and anecdotes and great storytelling from one of the masters. Recorded at the 92Y on 3-23-18, published 12-5-19.
Terry Gross + Lizzo
"You treacherous bastard."
Eric Idle and John Cleese (of Monty Python) sit down in front of an audience and reminisce about John's life and career. [1h17m] Recorded in late 2014 as John was doing promotion for his memoir, "So, Anyway...". Charming and hilarious. Enjoy!
Life Goes On
The extended interview transcript between John Mellencamp and Jane Pauley is charming and worth reading, across 5 pages. [more inside]
Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge on their stage roles in visceral '1984'
Take 15 minutes to listen to john Horn talk to Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge about the stage adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. You can also read the interview highlights, but there's a lot more in the interview.
A Voice Of Reason In A Time Of Troubles
Neal Conan (former host of NPR's Talk Of The Nation) returns to doing regular interviews full of intelligence and insight with his new weekly show/podcast Truth Politics & Power. The trial-ballon first episode in early January was An Inaugural Special, with Robert Kagan and Volker Ullrich. Starting last Friday, it began weekly programs with Enemies Of The People speaking with Scott McClellan and Ted Koppel. The show is distributed by PRX, can be listened to on its website, and is also podcast on all your favorite podcatchers.
I can't possibly pick just one pullquote
David Axelrod talks to Jon Stewart [full transcript, 50 minute audio] (surfacing for the first time in quite a while) at the University Of Chicago Institute Of Politics about everything you might hope. Don't expect it to go where you want it to go. [more inside]
The Kids
Judges, academics, pundits and activists keep wondering how children are impacted by gay marriage. Maybe it’s time to ask the kids. A rich media photo essay coupled with audio interviews, by Gabriela Herman. [more inside]
The President Was Here
From the minute the Presidential motorcade pulled away, Marc began recording his reaction to the momentous event that just occurred in his garage. Hear Marc's ongoing reflections in the aftermath as well as a discussion with WTF producer Brendan McDonald about how this happened in the first place. [1h18m] [more inside]
Indigo Girls - Backstage At The Greek
In July 2014, Indigo Girls did a show at the Greek Theater in LA with Joan Baez. They filmed a series of videos backstage discussing their songs and their songwriting process. In Part 1, they discuss and perform Amy Ray's song Devotion. (album version, lyrics) [more inside]
I Don't Know Jack
Friends, family, and co-workers reminisce before the camera in the biographic documentary I Don't Know Jack [~1h30m], about the life and career and character of Jack Nance, best known for playing Henry Spencer in Eraserhead and Pete Martell in Twin Peaks.
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