2/1 - The Weekly Podioplex
2/2 - Dead Kitchen Radio: Supernatural
2/4 - Roundtable: DC Universe Reboot
2/5 - Cyborgs: "The Solid Gold Kidnapping"
2/6 - The Dome: "Colective"
2/7 - The Weekly Podioplex
2/8 - It Has Come to My Attention: The Rocketeer
2/11 - Presenting the Transcription Feature
2/12 - Brainy Brain Game: History
2/14 - The Weekly Podioplex
2/15 - Dead Kitchen Radio
2/16 - In Review: Love is in the Air
2/18 - Presenting the Transcription Feature
2/19 - Cyborgs: "Population: Zero"
2/21 - The Weekly Podioplex
2/23 - Spotlight: Desert Island Books
2/25 - Presenting the Transcription Feature
2/26 - Brainy Brain Game - Literature
2/28 - The Weekly Podioplex
Really enjoyed this
You presented a great set of episodes that serve to celebrate your anniversary, and serve as a great teaser for the "classic" video releases. What an excellent collection of guests and interviews. I really enjoyed them all!
Thanks
When I think about all the people who were kind enough to come to our studio on 59th street near the West Side Highway, I am very appreciative of it, considering we were a public access show in New York.
One of the nice things about running the old episodes again is getting in touch with those guests and letting them know they're available. In doing so, we're going to have a few Spotlights with some of them coming in the months ahead, including a new interview with Bill Plympton shortly.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
Well Actually...
I broke up with Harrison Ford when he left his second wife. It's complicated.
Now, James Martsters or Guy Pearce? They can tear of my hood or trunk - of my Toyota. ;^)
More on the Frankenstein Episode
As in, how would all feel about a part two on this? Keith said it in his part of the 100th episode, you could go on for another hour about the topic. I like to think myself a somewhat pro on the subject as I've taught it for the last five years. As I was listening to the audio in the car, I kept thinking of things I would bring up, like how the story has more of a connection to Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" than just the quote she uses at one point in the story and how Mary Shelley met Coleridge.
So, what do you think? Maybe the second block of Roundtable episodes as we have the first block to the end of the year scheduled?
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
gee....
...I don't know if that topic holds any interest for me.
[/straight face]
Yes, obviously, I would be interested. *laughs* But I'm not exactly objective, either....
Keith R.A. DeCandido | keith@decandido.net | kradical.livejournal.com | Facebook.com/kradec | Twitter.com/kradec
"Even when you turn your back, you're still facing something."
See...
That's good as I would actually argue that as a written work, it's horrible. The story is great; beautiful in fact, but the prose is awful. It's clunky and Shelley has this obsession with the word "countenance". It's like she discovered an SAT book of terms and went to work. When I teach the book to the kids, I introduce the Frankenstein drinking game. Take a drink every time Shelley uses the word.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
yes
She's also overly fond of the verb "to quit." It reads like it was written by an overeducated 18-year-old.
Oh, wait.... ;)
Keith R.A. DeCandido | keith@decandido.net | kradical.livejournal.com | Facebook.com/kradec | Twitter.com/kradec
"Even when you turn your back, you're still facing something."
Frankenstein
@krad: LOL!
@John: I think its a great idea.
Japanese Animation - The Good and the Awful
Oh Lord, Dan. You had to combine those two episodes??? I'm a fan of our part 2 episode, but our part 1 makes me cringe. Granted, it's my own performance that drives me crazy.
Japanese Animation, Part 1 highlights: I read a memorable moment letter that was obviously written by John (the clue is that it was written by "a fan of the TV show Probe", and how many of those are there?). I stumble repeatedly over the words "Epic Comics" in such a way that I can never live it down. My first question during the roundtable takes me forever to get to the frigging point, and then when I finally get to it, my question is ... why do characters in Japanese animation have such big eyes? ARGH!!!
Japanese Animation, Part 2 highlights: I interview Bill Plympton, which is my second-favorite interview after Ray Harryhausen. And yes, I have a thing for animators, what of it? Also, during this roundtable I seem to actually know what the hell I'm talking about (or at least I'm vastly improved since part 1).
I Beg Your Pardon
While I admit that Probe did not catch on the way other shows have in the past, there was somewhat of an audience. There are over 600 million people in the United States. Some people watched it, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one in the New York City area that did that would write a letter about it. I'm insulted that you think I made the letter up.
I did, but that's besides the point.
I'm even more insulted that your tipoff was that it was for a scene from Probe rather than my writing "my two favorite things together, Andrea and Probe."
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
My favorite episode...
...so what did you think of my selection?
Did it meet with your approval?
:D
Two Things
(1) Can I talk fast or what?
(2) That scene from Alien really doesn't work in an audio format. It took me a long while to figure out to what I was lisetening.
Video to audio
In going over this, I realized there were a couple of things that didn't work. I only edited out two things the entire week though. One was the gaps that sometimes occurred between opening credits or Memorable Moments and when the hosts would start talking. The other was in Dan's episode on Saturday. In the first part, we had an extensive sampling of Japanese anime set to music. I removed the music from the audio as the episode is just over an hour long as it is what with it being two episodes in the one.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
No reflection on you...
John, that scene needed the video to make sense, at least to me.
just a random newbie view: the Alien scene worked for me
For the first couple of seconds I wondered what was going on and why you were playing an audio clip in which a guy who sounded kind of like Yaphet Kotto was making a joke about wishing he was performing oral sex rather than eating dinner, but then I recognized the scene. It was definitely interesting to experience it just in the audio!
Depends on your criteria
If you enjoy a good conversation, yes.
If you enjoy the one sentence that encapsulates the epitome of entertainment (and the phrase which many people thought but never dared to say out loud), then also yes.
sighs
*shakes head and wanders off, muttering to self*
Keith R.A. DeCandido | keith@decandido.net | kradical.livejournal.com | Facebook.com/kradec | Twitter.com/kradec
"Even when you turn your back, you're still facing something."
my dumb outsider take
Being completely outside the production of the show and hearing that clip it sounded to me like you might be being a little florid in your speech because you were excited by having Peter David on the program and wanted to show off your own wordplay. (Was this recorded before you had written any Star Trek material of your own?) I've done such things myself when in the presence of someone I respected and wanted to impress, so at least that's why I interepreted it that way... That said Orenthal's response was funny.
long long before I'd written any Trek material
This was recorded in the fall of 1990, when the sum total of my writing career was an article for Library Journal, a news story for The Comics Journal, and a handful of book and comics reviews for both those magazines and Publishers Weekly. It was four years before my first fiction sale, eight years before my first novel was published, and nine years before my first Trek work (the WildStorm TNG comic Perchance to Dream) was published.
And yeah, I was excited to have one of my favorite writers on the show -- as were the rest of us. And I was babbling... *laughs*
Keith R.A. DeCandido | keith@decandido.net | kradical.livejournal.com | Facebook.com/kradec | Twitter.com/kradec
"Even when you turn your back, you're still facing something."
coincidentally...
I worked at the Comics Journal three years later. Which was around the time Peter David got really pissed off at the magazine because of a couple of conflicts related to his friendship with Ellison and a letter someone sent to the magazine under Peter David's name that he didn't actually write, so he probably wasn't as annoyed by you mentioning being a writer for them back in 1990.
Ironic
It's ironic (and sad) that we were amazed at ourselves for keeping that little bit in, patting ourselves on the back for being such an edgy show that one would talk back to the host.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
yeah...
what Andrea said
Barry Malzberg?
I'm sure I mangled his last name, but I was curious, Keith, if you remember why he didn't make it to the censorship panel. You mentioned him as being a possible panelist (good cover), but clearly, he wasn't there.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
omg
Maybe his thoughts on censorship were so controversial you censored him from the show!
don't recall
Honestly, I have no recollection of that. It's possible we asked him and he declined. *shrug* Sorry....
Keith R.A. DeCandido | keith@decandido.net | kradical.livejournal.com | Facebook.com/kradec | Twitter.com/kradec
"Even when you turn your back, you're still facing something."
He! He!
So, I'm finishing up the edits on Andrea's episode and you can tell how ironically dated it is when Andrea boasts, "I'm on the cutting edge of technology." Tune in tomorrow and find out how she got on the wrong boat with that comment.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
hmm...
Did she just buy a laserdisc player? Get an AOL account? Fax machine? Can't wait to find out...
One of those guesses is correct!
You'll see which one when you listen to the episode :)
Technology
I was amused by the video reviews. In 2010, $90 gets you ten months of unlimited streaming of movies via netflix. In 1990, for the same amount, one copy of "Slumber Party Massacre".
I noticed that...
For the most part, it's an improvement, but it's also a symptom of the devaluation of creative work in our intensely saturated networked media landscape. Now every movie is not only competing with free TV shows but also free YouTube videos and addictive online games.
it's all to the good
Anything that keeps people from charging ninety fripping dollars for Slumber Party Massacre has to be seen as a good thing. *grin*
Keith R.A. DeCandido | keith@decandido.net | kradical.livejournal.com | Facebook.com/kradec | Twitter.com/kradec
"Even when you turn your back, you're still facing something."
heck
I wouldn't even charge that much to actually massacre a slumber party.
LOL!
Thanks! That's the best line I've heard in forever!
Fair point
That's an extremely fair point, but I think it's a two-sided coin. On the one hand, there's never been more video that panders to the worst and/or laziest side of humanity, making it easier for society to devalue creativity; but there's also never been more access to truly creative works. Artists now have direct access to their viewers, and this is a good thing. Prior to 1990, our choices were largely dictated by big companies run by decidedly non-artist types. Now, we have the power to choose to watch things we never would have seen before. I do worry about the revenue model...making sure creative types get fair recompense for their work. But their ability to reach an audience has never been better.
I'm making an effort to try and notice the non-corporate artists...whether it be a small indy film like "Armaggedon for Andy" (http://bohemiafilms.com/), a podcast like the Chronic Rift or Decoder Ring Theatre, my friendly neighborhood Shakespeare company, or a new CD put out by a local band. The internet really is a powerful tool to find and follow these artists.
But yes, it's also a powerful tool in the other direction, too.
tiny moment I enjoyed
I'm listening to the Frankenstein episode and liked how when the clip from the movie is playing you can hear Judy whisper that she hadn't seen the movie. Adorable!
Gruesome trivia: The unauthorized New Kids on the Block comic book publisher that Keith was discussing in this episode was later found stabbed to death.
OOPS! On the Vocal Bleeding
Sorry about that.
I have since seen the movie, and I can conclude that it is tripe, but it did fit with the show's theme that day.
I can also say that Jennifer Beals cannot parallel park an automobile as she, before my horrified eveys, nearly took off the hood of my Toyota in the Garden District in New Orleans. But, I digress.
oooh, cool
I would let her take the hood off my Toyota anytime.
Too bad it wasn't Harrison Ford for ya...
Vocal Bleeding
Yeah, sometimes the person handling the audio board wasn't paying attention to his or her job, but rather got caught up in the show itself and missed my cues. Or sometimes, I forgot my cue.
At the end of the episode, when Keith says, "This is the part where we talk amongst ourselves." the Judy had just said good night and we faded to black instead of staying on the guests as the text would roll. The text did come up and we forgot to feed in the theme song.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
Frankenstein Episode
Keith mentioned the address where you can go to find the old episodes of the public access show. I didn't have time to ask him to correct it as he gave the podcast's address instead. If you'd like to see the video from our old public access days, you can subscribe on iTunes or by visit tcrclassic.mevio.com. Plus, I post each new episode here on the website each week. The Frankenstein episode will premiere on October, 1, 2010.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
oops....
Sorry about that, chief.....
Keith R.A. DeCandido | keith@decandido.net | kradical.livejournal.com | Facebook.com/kradec | Twitter.com/kradec
"Even when you turn your back, you're still facing something."
A few thoughts on our censorship discussion
The biggest problem that I remember with this discussion was that we had exactly one microphone to share between us, and each person had to pass it along the row to the next person who wanted to speak. Everyone had so many good things to contribute to the discussion that I didn't want to interrupt. I just made my quick comments about Stuart Little and then kept passing the microphone along.
At the time we recorded this episode I knew very little about banned books -- I knew that there was a list of banned books, but not that it was maintained by the American Library Association. I also didn't understand about the distinction between banned and challenged books, and about how often books were challenged in public libraries and school libraries. But since I became a librarian fifteen years ago I started to learn about the subject, and now you can, too.
Every year the American Library Association has a "Banned Books Week" to draw attention to banned and challenged books. And as a matter of fact, it's coming up at the end of this month! Click here to learn more from the ALA website.
A First
It was the first panel we ever did outside the studio. I forget if there was a second mic for the audience to make comments into or if you had to pass up the solitary one. If you note, the audio quality at the start of the panel was poor. That was because the camera operator on the "A" roll camera didn't start rolling right away. Fortunately, I had a "B" roll camera which was supposed to offer a variety of shots set up to the side. It managed to capture the start of the panel. I tried cleaning it up here for the podcast, but it's not that good. Fortunately, it's less than a minute and you get the gist.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"