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marathonpacks Podcast #5: Dough

Monday, August 7, 2006

It’s been called the root of all evil, but here at marathonpacks, it’s the root of a kickass podcast. If you haven’t listened to any of these things yet, dig this one. It’s my first live remote, and I come to your ears from the headquarters of Marathonpacks Amalgamated, LLC, which contains not only the executive offices of this here blog, but also every bit of music I’ve ever written or thought about for sale at reduced prices. Michel Gondry is working on a film treatment about it, I’m told. I recorded this on a pretty hectic day, so my staff was too busy to run after the thief who tried to make off with some of my precious goods about halfway through the deal. Wu-Tang stopped by, as did Enon, ABBA and XTC. A special thanks to Raymond Scott for his esteemed production work with our sponsors. When you’re in the neighborhood, be sure to stop by. For now, subscribe below for free!

marathonpacks podcast #5 (128k mp3, 67:32, 61.9 mb)

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AND WHAT’S MORE: Amy at Shake Your Fist has mentioned dialing back her blogging activities, which I suppose I can live with, especially if her sporadic posts are as inspiring as this one, re: Luna, 9/11 and just read it:

Almost nothing in American indie rock is more elegiac and backward-looking (and good God, isn’t so much of it?!) than Galaxie 500 songs when Dean Wareham is singing falsetto. Even if he’s just talking about buying junk food while stoned or trying to get a girl’s attention, his feverish pitch and regretful inflection imply something important has been lost and is now unrecoverable. Knowing what I know today and what I probably didn’t when I first heard G500’s music, this all seems a bit exaggerated and young. You deal with losses, and then you find new interests and objects to moor you to the world again.

BEFORE YOU LEAVE: Tuwa’s Shanty delves with remarkable clarity and precision into the Schoolhouse Rock vault:

In this regard, the shorts were ahead of their time, integrating perfectly with Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences, which holds that there aren’t simply two kinds of intelligence (linguistic/verbal and logical/mathematical) but at least eight, including visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, musical, naturalist, intrapersonal, and interpersonal. I’ve never met anyone who’d seen the shorts as a youngster and didn’t like them; most people, even if they hadn’t thought of the series in decades, could at least respond to “Conjunction Junction” with “What’s your function?”

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