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ZorajitZorajit posted:Just finished the first episode of Conversations with People who Hate Me. I'm not totally sure what I think of it. It's well produced and I think it's got a lot of potential. At the very least as a sort of historical documentation of the zeitgeist we're in. And I don't want to suggest it needs to be for me. But I live in the mid-west, I'm the only progressive in my office building and I hear the poo poo the right says constantly. So I don't know if I can listen to it being engaged, because that rhetoric is so loving cliche. I will say this. I spend a lot of days hiding because my continued livelihood depends on my not questions rear end in a top hat's, I'm glad that someone has the ability to do so. The second episode goes somewhere pretty different, and then next week's episode is with someone who is not conservative at all.
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Alice Isn't Dead is getting a TV show? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...0db6_story.html
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lovely poker hand posted:Alice Isn't Dead is getting a TV show? On the USA Channel? Seems like an odd fit for their usual stuff, though I guess they do have Mr. Robot.
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Alice Isn't Dead tv sounds dope as hell
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Aug 16, 2017 18:04
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Diners drive ins and dives but with Thistle men
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Yeah I can totally imagine AiD working as a TV show pretty comfortably. For example Night Vale's format would need some major reworking to fit the TV. Very excited! Also, I god drat hope Jasika Nicole is going to star as Keisha. She has to, right?
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extradite THIS! posted:Yeah I can totally imagine AiD working as a TV show pretty comfortably. For example Night Vale's format would need some major reworking to fit the TV. Very excited! Her tumblr suggests it is.
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Democratic Pirate posted:Diners drive ins and dives but with Thistle men with guy fieri as "earl" in episode one
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ok I'm not normally one to brag about media mentions and that but I just loving love that we got this writeup in Jalopnik of all places http://jalopnik.com/one-of-the-best-trucking-centric-horror-podcasts-is-com-1797904050 
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Earwicker posted:with guy fieri as "earl" in episode one YASS
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Really digging the new Within the Wires season. It seems this takes place in a wold where WW2 didn't happen? "The Great Reckoning" seems to refer to WWI from what I can tell.
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Kazy posted:Really digging the new Within the Wires season. It seems this takes place in a wold where WW2 didn't happen? "The Great Reckoning" seems to refer to WWI from what I can tell. Yeah, I'm really enjoying the concept of the setting from where the first episode established it. I can only imagine how weird it's going to get.
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Latest episode. Did... did Tamika Flynn just pull off a coup? 
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Dr Pepper posted:Latest episode. I think so 
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"A planet, of awesome size, lit by no sun" you say? Ok!
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"Dubbed a 'Hot Jupiter'", is NASA neging Jupiter?
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There is no way that the new city council arrangement will end badly. It'll all be great! 
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Aside from the obvious, is this the first time it's been made explicit that the City Council is a single entity with multiple heads?
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docbeard posted:Aside from the obvious, is this the first time it's been made explicit that the City Council is a single entity with multiple heads? No, it was pretty explicitly so when they went out on a date with Station Management
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Just got home from the Helsinki show! It was a wonderful evening altogether - definitely one of the best overall live show scripts (this is the only one I've actually seen) and the audience participation stuff was fabulous too. Only criticism is there was a bit too much of Erin McKeown for my tastes since her music isn't really my thing and a bit too little of Disparition. I was kind of expecting a full version of The Ballad of Fiedlr and Mundt or something, not really sure why, though. Definitely want to see the next tour if one ever comes back to Finland / Europe.
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I'm not entirely hooked on It Makes A Sound yet, but I'm interested to see where it goes. PS if you actually need a working tape player (I assume that's just part of the story and you don't need one), I'm still using a stereo with dual tape decks, which worked last time I tried it (years ago). I can even copy the tape with it!
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Is there going to be an I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats thread, or does the whole Nigtvale Presents family live here?
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vortmax posted:I'm not entirely hooked on It Makes A Sound yet, but I'm interested to see where it goes. I was interested enough in it from the trailer that played on the last Night Vale episode, but the first episode of this was obnoxious enough to burn up most of that interest, with ten minutes left to spare.
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Chairman Capone posted:I was interested enough in it from the trailer that played on the last Night Vale episode, but the first episode of this was obnoxious enough to burn up most of that interest, with ten minutes left to spare. I felt the same. It was like 15 minutes too long because it just never went anywhere. Maybe I'll give the second episode a shot but I'm hoping it's a lot more interesting.
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Sep 29, 2017 09:15
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It is September, and the days have gone sinister...
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so like it's a lonely orphan lady who was obsessed with some teen guy with a band no ones ever heard of yeah?
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So I missed binging a long-form fictional podcast after finishing the first TAZ arc, and thought I might check out Night Vale (I didn’t know Fink was a goon until just now, drat the early pages of this thread are interesting to read  ), but decided to try Alice Isn’t Dead first to see what I’d think of Fink’s style.First season down and I gotta say I’m really enjoying it. The writing arguably works better written down than it does as narration, but the tone and overall story and music/ambience/voice acting are very good. Can’t wait to get to season 2  How similar is Night Vale to Alice? I feel just from general cultural osmosis like it has more deadpan humour and isn’t quite as creepy, but are the storylines as well-thought-out over the run so far?
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Night Vale veers into dark humor a lot more and isn't as story focused (though this varies between seasons) as character focused. There are ongoing stories and themes even on the most episodic sections but NV is about the weird situations that occur in the town and how the characters respond (or don't) to them. Fink has admitted most of the story stuff just comes up when an idea comes to him rather than being heavily planned in advance but hes so good at tying these plots to things already existing in the universe that they develop quite organically. Also if the Strex plot starts to bore you when you reach it, keep going. Things only get better after it. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Mokinokaro posted:Also if the FTFY
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Congratulations on the book release! I just started the Audible version. Looking forward to getting a hard copy when you guys are in Dallas in a few weeks.
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I mentioned Strex because I know a lot of people seemed to burn out at that arc. The beagle thing is silly, but is mercifully short lived.
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Am I the only one listening to It Makes A Sound? I'm actually really enjoying it. It just feels so earnest. With Deidre latching onto her childhood nostalgia probably because after having to move back in with her mother who is clearly suffering from dementia, she's falling back on something that genuinely made her happy. Is it weird to find that charming? Remember Wim Faros.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Am I the only one listening to It Makes A Sound? I'm actually really enjoying it. I'm liking it a lot. I thought the interactions in today's episode, Deidre getting her mother to play the tambourine, etc, was really sweet. So you think Deidre had moved out of the Rosemary Hills townhouse and has only recently returned? I figured it was more a Gray Gardens thing where she was just stuck there and had been for decades.
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drunkencarp posted:I'm liking it a lot. I thought the interactions in today's episode, Deidre getting her mother to play the tambourine, etc, was really sweet. Well, she mentioned that a lot of people were moving back in with their parents due to the economy in episode 2, and considering her mother's condition, that would be another compelling reason for her to come back. And then one day she finds The Attic Tape while she's tidying the house, and then things go from there.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Am I the only one listening to It Makes A Sound? I'm actually really enjoying it. I am enjoying the show where a nerd geeks out about a musician I've never heard of and tells others how life-changing the experience is. In addition to I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, It Makes a Sound is pretty good.  Seriously, though, I thought the first episode of IMS was painful, as I was having trouble accepting that this fictional musician was so important and endless superlatives weren't convincing me. By episode 2 or 3, though, I realized that was the point. He's important to her personally but probably not to anyone else.
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YEah, It makes a sound is good. More stories about living in dying suburb town please. Related, How come no one told me about Andrew WK?
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Is this the place to talk about the novels as well? I finished It Devours! yesterday and I I have so many comments and questions about it (most of the questions being "So where does this fall in the podcast timeline?" and "Wait, what's that about Kevin? But... I thought... but...").
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Yes we usually discuss the novels here.Jurgan posted:Seriously, though, I thought the first episode of IMS was painful, as I was having trouble accepting that this fictional musician was so important and endless superlatives weren't convincing me. By episode 2 or 3, though, I realized that was the point. He's important to her personally but probably not to anyone else. Yeah the earnestness of the entire thing is what sells it. She's a really goofy hipster obsessed with a super obscure artist, because his music/life actually had a profound effect on her.
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Okay then, if talking about the books is fine here: 1) When does It Devours takes place? I don't recall any of the events of the book being mentioned, even offhandedly in the podcast so far, but it definitely seems to take place before the Huntokar arc and possibly before the Good Boy arc? There's an offhand mention of a discussion of dogs and "Who's a good boy", but that's about it. 2) Kevin: So if Kevin founded the church that eventually converted him from a defiant radio host into... well, Kevin, does that mean his whole life is an ouroboros? And what did they mean by "he went through the oak doors and returned, and then was sent back through the oak door"? Was the events of Old Oak Doors the first or the second time he went through them? I'm assuming the first time, because the way the ritual book is written sounds like strex-Kevin. Edit: The novel takes place after Cecil and Carlos' wedding, so I'm not sure why I thought it may not have been after the Good Boy arc. Randalor fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Oct 24, 2017 |
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I finally listened to the Council Member Tamika Flynn trilogy. Figured I'd do it all at once Was this the first time the City Council (as in the collective 'city Council', not including Tamika) did something by itself to resolve the plot? I like how the Council's tendency to go on vacation at the first sign of trouble actually worked in the town's favour for once.
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