solo pod today as I create a mixtape of some of my favorite blog rock era twee jams. this music has been hugely influential on me, as you will be immediately be able to tell.
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today's guest is @mcellenj on twitter (okay, X, whatever)
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A new episode with Kevin Froleiks, AKA Goodbye Charlamagne https://goodbyecharlemagne.bandcamp.com/
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the year in review w/ morgan and zac!
hey so for 2024 i finally got my act together and opened a little tip jar for the pod. if you ever feel like kicking us a few bucks, please do so. money will go to hosting the pod/going to the movies.
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One time I started writing a poem called DON DRAPER SELLS ME A USED CAR, which I never finished but here's what I got:
DON DRAPER SELLS ME A USED CAR
Don Draper slurred at us in a precovid conference room:
You must remember this.
For a moment we believed in the promise of a past we could trust, could hold aside, preserved.
I think all my earliest memories were actually home video
(You must remember this)
Recorded, and played back, ceaselessly against the past
So I picked up a camera and got in the business
of making false memories.
The old ones I once believed in are gone now
Dissolved on magnetic tape.
Teddy told me that "lacuna" means a hole in the bone
We use it to refer to a gap in the fossil record.
We assume it is there, though.
It has to be.
Aaron's full mixtape: https://open.spotify.com/
In other news, Tuesdays W/ Morgan is back -- first episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=320EfMDqCG0
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The first in a series! Morgan and Zac get together to each select 10 songs from 2003 to create a mixtape that represents the best and most on-brand (for us) songs of the year.
I don't want to put the list of songs or a playlist in the video info yet because I think it's fun to listen along. But if you look back at this podcast in a couple of days I will edit this description to include one.
Thanks for listening!
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how long can i keep this episode title up before robin pecknold sues me for vibe infringement?
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a new episode of MAKE A MIXTAPE, a podcast by zac little
this episode was recorded w/ friend of the pod tom -- a while ago. it was actually the first mixtape interview, before it was even a done deal that the podcast was changing over to this format more or less permanently. it was recorded a couple of days after i released an episode called "document drama/quarantine the past" and toward the end, we talk about it.
tom's mixtape
boys of summer - don henley
echoes - pink floyd
for sure - future island
late night - ODESZA
all for the best - thom yorke
my girls - animal collective
our house - CSNY
additional songs
boys of summer/what you need (zl mashup)
spiders (kidsmoke)/clubhouse (zl mashup)
i don't live today - jimi hendrix
a hard rain's a-gonna fall (live) - bob dylan
foxglove - murder by death (jam in the van version)
as of today, august 2nd, guardians of the galaxy volume 3 is on disney+ (at least in the usa), which seems like a great time to drop me and morgan's conversation about it from back when we'd both recently caught it in theaters. watch the movie, come back here, listen to our chat. or whatever, i mean, do what you want. it's a free country.
episode includes the following mashups/songs
"i'm always chasing rainbows" - alice cooper
"solsbury hill" - peter gabriel
"solsbury hill/big bank" - peter gabriel x yg (zl mashup)
"dog days are over" - florence + the machine
"dog days are over/the hillbillies" - florence x baby keem (zl mashup)
"king kunta/come and get your love/encore" - kendrick lamar x redbone x jay z (zl mashup)
"that's right" - girl talk (spacehog sample)
"i'm always chasing rainbows" - jazz piano
"no sleep till brooklyn/sweet home alabama" beastie boys x lynryrd skynyrd (zl mashup)
Quick note on spoilers! While we do talk about a bunch of TV shows, movies, and books in this episode, nothing in particular is really spoiled about ANY of them — sensitivity to spoilers—and where Zac P. and I have fairly different and yet complimentary philosophies about them — in fact being a major topic of reflection here.
The only movie that I would say is significantly spoiled is The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, the 1993 film. And we don’t talk about that until the very end of the episode, so like, if its on your list on Max and you haven’t quite gotten to it — first of all I totally get it —just jump off the episode when you get there.
Songs in this episode:
back in the new york groove with jon waugh - damntelevision.libsyn.com
new mixtape! this one is with Will Green, of the band/project Full Blown Meltdown!
here's a link to Will's songs on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5rJrE1zK51LwsiZth7PLlb
here's a link to Will's (very fun) twitter page: https://twitter.com/FullBlownMltdwn
songs in this episode:
"party with villains" by full blown meltdown
"december" by collective soul
"smells like teen spirit" by nirvana
"stick up" by heart attack man
"hot dog" by super american & kaley doyle
"wrecking ball" by gillian welch
"i feel so" by box car racer
"where the streets have no name (songs of surrender)" by U2
"wrecking ball" by bright eyes
"king park" by la dispute
"art is hard" by cursive
"transatlanticism" by death cab for cutie
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Rambling Gambling Man - Bob Seger
I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
Bombs Over Bagdhad - Outkast
Exile - Taylor Swift feat. Bon Iver
Hello It’s Me - Todd Rundgren
A Day In The Life - The Beatles
Duality - Slipknot
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Living for the City - Stevie Wonder
a note about the new future of the podcast formerly known as the last podcast
this is the first song for your mixtape
Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79a-ojNbWKw
organ music in this episode by Morgan Little
Meaning-making with Zac Parsons.
This episode features music made mostly just by plugging in a Roland JX-3P Polyphonic Synth (circa 1983) into a Kustom '36 Coupe amp, but also William Basinski's Disintegration Loop D|P 2.1, as well as "Ann Buchanan Theme" by Dean & Britta.
The Little Boys are here to review the year in media -- we're counting down our top 3 movies, TV shows, books, lines & lyrics, and more!
A disorganized episode about being disorganized.
When we talked about stuff! (Approximate time codes)
00:02:00 - The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special on Disney+
00:35:00 - Black Panther: Wakanda Forver
00:56:00 - Bright Eyes reissues (Lifted, I'm Wide Awake, Digital Ash)