Tue, 3 May 2016
Part 1 of my conversation with
guest Phil Stacey as we discuss how our musical tastes have changed
over the years. Show notes: - Revisionist band
history - Bands we once loved but now dislike - Phil's #3 - Liz Phair got off to a strong start, disappointed afterward - Jay's #3 - Huge artist I enjoyed as a kid - Billy Joel stopped releasing new pop music in the '90s - Phil's #2 - Love his first band, hate the solo stuff - Sting's elevated the art of pretentious douchiness - Jay's #2 - It's trendy to hate this band now - Used to dig the Eagles - Henley's personality turned me off the band - Phil's #1 - Coldplay lost their way - Jay's #1 - Red Hot Chili Peppers haven't aged well - Liked them in my 20s, "but now they're just stupid" - Bands you just stopped listening to - Phil's #3 - Lenny Kravitz got too slick and repetitive - Jay's #3 - Big fan of hard rock as a kid, but hair metal lost its appeal - Phil's #2 - Boston-area rock fans grew up on Aerosmith - After they reunited in mid-80s, quality went downhill - Jay's #2 - Liked the band Live for a few years but just lost interest - Singer got too full of himself - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 26 April 2016
Part 3 of my conversation with
guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the need for organization and
tell old journalism stories. Show notes: - Order Matt's book
The Entropy of Everything: The Indestructibles Book
3 - Making a good first
impression - Journalism: A good profession for social misfits - What to do when an ax-wielding maniac is on the loose - "Your internship could have kids" - Fun with newspaper interns - Person-on-the-street interviews were challenging - Expiration date for the newspaper biz - Writing on deadline helps with time management - Editors who can't write and vice versa - Being a supervisor - "Done is good."
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 19 April 2016
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the need for organization. Show notes: - Order Matt's book The Entropy of Everything: The Indestructibles Book 3 - Always planning ahead to the next project - Happiness is an empty inbox - Jay: Preparing for a purge of office stuff - How much is too much work? - Matt doesn't need a calendar - Organization via Google Calendar - The art of the sticky note - Business is moving away from email - Working with people from across the globe - Matt: Don't know how I could do more - The newspaper life was a disorganized one - Working way too many hours for tiny salary - Learned how to write efficiently on deadline - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Wed, 13 April 2016
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the need for organization. Show notes: - Order Matt's book The Entropy of Everything: The Indestructibles Book 3 - Organization is important when you're juggling a lot of responsibilities - The challenge of working a full-time gig while also doing other jobs - Prioritizing by deadlines - Writing a book adds another big deadline - Finding time for other activities when you have kids - Doing plenty of unpaid work - Organized to a point - Sometimes the need for sleep takes over - Matt: Watching TV's too passive - "The People vs. OJ Simpson" was surprisingly good - Old-school Internet problems - Wasting time online - Cubicle life - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 5 April 2016
Part 3 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1999. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's new podcast Input/Output - Brian's #3 - Magnetic Fields play every style of music on 69 Love Songs - Jay's #3 - Beck funks it up - Beck stopped experimenting years ago - Brian's #2 - Brian's favorite Pavement album, but not Jay's - Band was falling apart - Jay's #2 - Sloan's concept album...about themselves - Brian's #1 - Sigur Ros sing in an unidentified language - Loud, droning orchestral sound - Jay's #1 - Built to Spill released some epic guitar jams - Lamenting shows we missed - Jay: Learned about Built to Spill via Napster - Next up (in a few months): 1981
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 29 March 2016
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1999. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's new podcast Input/Output - Brian's bubbling under picks: The Microphones, Tom Waits, Foo Fighters, Frank Black, The Roots, American Football - Jay: Sheila Divine, Wilco, Matthew Sweet, Guided by Voices, White Stripes, Ben Folds Five, Sebadoh - Wanted: A Bob Pollard curator - Brian's #5 - Matt Sharp goes for a bigger rock sound - Jay's #5 - The Lips go symphonic - Big change from early guitar-driven stuff - Brian's #4 - Wilco moves away from Americana sound - Jay's #4 - Frank Black keeps cranking out winners - Pixies are working on a new album - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 22 March 2016
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Brian Salvatore as we look back at the music of 1999. Show notes: - Recorded via Skype - Check out Brian's new podcast Input/Output - Brian was 16 going on 17 in '99, Jay was 31 going on 32 - The dawn of Napster - Downloading music via dial-up was excruciatingly slow - Most downloading was done on college campuses - 1999 was the biggest sales year for the music industry - Bowie was first major artist to release album online before retail - eMusic over the years - Amazon makes it easy to buy music now - External CD burners, early MP3 players - Brian's 1999 regrets: Primus teaming with Fred Durst, Lit, Rage Against the Machine, "ska residue," Stone Temple Pilots - Jay's regrets: Lenny Kravitz, RHCP - Jay: Got into stoner rock in '99 (Fu Manchu, Nebula) - Woodstock '99 was a disaster - Brian: Respect for "I Want it That Way" - Cher had the #1 song of the year - The movie Go is a good document of its time - Santana scored big with guest-filled album - Pop country was getting big - The Cherone era of Van Halen ends - The hills are alive with the sound of VH rumors - Several prominent indie rock acts formed in '99 - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 15 March 2016
Part 3 of my conversation with guest Christian Douglass as we discuss presidential candidates, the '70s and regional differences. Show notes: - New England is not representative of the rest of the country - Christian's ideal place to live: DC - The '70s were a fascinating time in the U.S. - Hip hop and punk grew out of mid-'70s NYC - The Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi - Lee Atwater, bluesman - The momentum of Trump - Last summer, Jeb Bush was a lead pipe cinch - Christian: Used to go to CPAC every year - What about Hillary? - How does a president get anything done? - Firmly on the fence
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 8 March 2016
Part 2 of my conversation with guest Christian Douglass as we discuss racism, political correctness and gentrification. You know, the lighter side of life. Show notes: - Political correctness on both sides of the aisle - Literary archetypes reflect cultural fears - The Trump Method: Repeat your point until people agree with you - The Washington football team sticks to its guns - Could All in the Family and Blazing Saddles come out today? - No safe space for satire - It's hard to talk about race these days - Lamenting the closing of local rock clubs - The upper crust and the townies - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |
Tue, 1 March 2016
Part 1 of my conversation with guest Christian Douglass as we discuss the differences between the North and the South. Show notes: - Christian grew up in Texas - The tension between North and South is still around - The Cuban Connection - Ted Cruz's attempts at humor - Batshit crazy election season - The Trump effect - It's still the economy, stupid - A brown dude in New Hampshire - Canada welcomed a generation of immigrants in the '70s and '80s - Sri Lankan and Samoan street gangs - Jay: Toronto was the most diverse place I've lived - Christian: Was ignorant of the North as a kid - The OJ Simpson miniseries is pretty fun - Southern stereotypes are strong up North - A formal level of ignorance - To be continued
Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review! The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian. |