The Point: Podcast #1

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Podcast #1

Alright guys, here it is. The first episode of The Point's podcast, The Subject Tonight, at this lovely url for your listening pleasure.

This episode is essentially a conversation between myself and my friend and housemate Meaghan about a book very near and dear to my heart, One Hundred Years of Solitude. She had a lot of interesting things to say about it, and I hope you enjoy listening to what we tried to draw out. Given that some people had asked to make this thing to be downloadable outside of iTunes, I've put it in an mp3 file for your listening pleasure (~~and it is also subscribeable via Apple's delicious devil machinery~~ the iTunes subscription hasn't been working yet, sorry).

The music for this edition:
00:00 Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious
03:26 I Feel It All - Feist
25:53 Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group
43:09 Come March - Takagi Masakatsu
46:21 House Music - Cadence Weapon

Let me know what you think. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated, as always! And by the way, it can hardly be coincidence that this week marked the release of the audio reproduction of the first ever recorded sound.

PS The musician Meaghan and I keep talking about near the end is Eugene Hutz, and the song she samples is called Kids, by MGMT.

Photo credit: cinocino (published under a Creative Commons license)

Labels: literature, music, podcasting

posted by Christopher at 4:54 a.m.

4 Comments:

Insightful as always - you and Meaghan might have finally convinced me to take another stab at One Hundred Years of Solitude, or at least have made me look at Eugene Hutz in a new light. I’m already looking forward to episode #2!

Anonymous, at Saturday, April 05, 2008 11:16:00 p.m.

I'm glad you liked it, Matt! There was actually a segment where we talked about One Hundred Years of Sunshine, but at the last it ended up on the cutting room floor. The second episode is in the works already, and it promises to be just as obscure and sinfully delicious.

Christopher, at Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:43:00 a.m.

i finally got a chance to listen to your brilliant podcast! such a comfortable conversational vibe, good music choices, too, of course.

please tell meaghan i loved the inclusion of the etymology of the word nostalgia -- it finished your talk of the book so nicely.

& nice to hear some eugene hütz love, too. ;)

i hope to hear episode #2 soon!

take care.

jenanne, at Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:02:00 a.m.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Jenanne! Hope things are going well back at home. Episode 2 is all recorded as of yesterday, and it'll be up next week after I'm done exams. I'm pretty excited to hear what you guys have to say about this one. My friend Alan had some interesting stuff to say about the connection between Brazilian jiu jitsu and non-traditional models of Brazilian education...

Christopher, at Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:13:00 p.m.

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