that last episode of the tv show was fucking awful....i'm sorry, until further notice, this show sucks
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 15 June 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
The Iggy episode was pretty good.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 June 2013 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
when he was teasing last week that he had a guest he'd been trying to get forever I thought it would be Seinfeld or something but of course it was a musician.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 24 June 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
im still waiting on the sedaris episode.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
Did he mention that he has a john cale interview in his pocket?
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 24 June 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
He definitely told Iggy that Cale was wearing athletic shorts when he was interviewed so is have to say he has it in the can.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 June 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
goddamn hoarder PONY UP DAMMIT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
withholding makes powerless people feel empowered
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
jerks
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
xxxpost the Julie Klausner podcast w/ D. Sedative was really good
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
Baha spellcheck SEDARIS
― Hadrian VIII, Monday, 24 June 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
I figure there have to be several levels of urgency that determine when these interviews get dropped
1. There are the people doing publicity for a time sensitive property whose publicists ask for a specific time for the interview to go up2. There are the "get" interviews with people Maron is excited about. These go the front of the queue so that Hardwick doesn't get them first3. All the other people who can get slotted in whenever
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 24 June 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
xp lol I thought that was a slam.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
There's a Nick Cave interview in the can too.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
you're just fucking with me now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 June 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
TELL ME YOU'RE KIDDING
Maron referenced it several months ago.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 June 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
i downloaded the kristen schall ep bc i like her a lot but haven't listened to it yet, is it an ok one?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 June 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Made it five minutes into the Rogen/Goldberg one before I couldn't take Rogen's laugh any longer.
Iggy Pop ep is good, I'd love to hear WTF w/ Henry Rollins.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh hey that exists and I think I've listened to it
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, the Rollins one was a couple years back, but it was pretty enjoyable iirc.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
The Kristen Schaal one was pretty light and fluffy, but it came to light that she was a ska kid at one point in time and it rubbed some of her shine off.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 24 June 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
I couldn't take Rogen's laugh any longer.
about a decade back I was in a band with a guy who laughed just like rogen. I quit that band.
― Clay, Monday, 24 June 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
really enjoying iggyhearing him talk about music is such a treat. like in that fat possum doc.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
nick cave in the cat palace. wow
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Thursday, 27 June 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
MM: I just interviewed Thom Yorke.
WCP: Wow. You haven’t posted that one yet, have you?
MM: No. They’re all a little different. Some are more aware than others. I’ve got a Nick Cave coming up.
WCP: I had an interview scheduled with him once but he cancelled and I never got to do it.
MM: He’s not easy. He’s difficult.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
*cough* pot *cough*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
When I had John Cale on, that was fuckin’ impossible, dude! The guy’s been around for 40 years or longer. I’m not that familiar with his solo stuff. I don’t have Paris 1919. I took the interview because I could, and because I wanted to talk about the fuckin’ Velvet Underground and producing The Stooges.
So I’m listening to all this stuff, trying to cram it in. I talked to him for like an hour and 15 minutes, and was very forthcoming about The Velvet Underground, about production, about noise music. Then he asks, “Are we going to talk about the new album?” And I’m like, “No, I didn’t get it, dude. They didn’t sent it to me. I haven’t heard it.” I just had to be honest. And he looked at me like, You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. I didn’t know what to do. So I seized that moment and asked him, “Well, what did you do differently this record?” It was the right question to ask. It was better because I was honest. He had to explain something to me about his process. So it worked out.
jesus
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Seems like Maron says "No one sent me a copy" all the time. Are publicists really that shitty or is that Maron's "a dog ate my homework"?
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
Unless the interview was pre-release that's no excuse. Spend 30 seconds to find a legal stream on the net. Do the fucking work or you deserve to get called on it.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
This is a problem now if he's interviewing people who are on any kind of publicity tour and are just there to plug something.
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Friday, 28 June 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure I really care if he's done the research - the unpreparedness is kind of his thing, no?
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 28 June 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
sometimes it's fine and just his style, sometimes it's like jesus at least read their wikipedia entry
― brio, Friday, 28 June 2013 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
the nick lowe one really suffered from that, i thought
― brio, Friday, 28 June 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
It works fine when he has a guest who's up for talking about whatever or who can go for an hour with one question, or people he already knows. But as he branches into interviews with musicians who aren't that familiar with his steez it could become a thing. It didn't with, say, Huey Lewis because he was just a talker. Kerry Kinney called him out pretty hard in her interview for not knowing that she was in a rock band for years.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, 28 June 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
It's kind of a drag that he's getting more and more people who're there specifically to plug something.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
i really liked the danny lobell one recently. i'd never heard of him but it was nice to have someone on who's still struggling and figuring things out, and a little bit frustrated by it. also fun to hear him (as someone who also had a comedy interview project) analyzing previous wtf interviews.
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to Cheech & Chong right now. I love that half the stories are about Bobby Taylor.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
i've kinda skirted a lot of the musical/celeb ones cause of the negativity here but the couple music interviews i heard where he knows his stuff - cf the iggy pop one, which he's great on, ie just familiar enough w/stuff like we will fall & their detroit antecedents, &c - are really satisfying. iggy interview is so dope.
― szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 1 July 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Marc does a great job of getting out of Cheech & Chong's way. Nice change from his dominant style.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 1 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
Loved sedaris on bookstore employees
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Monday, 1 July 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
I've got Sedaris coming up next. Looking forward to it.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 1 July 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
listening now and the intro is making me very uncomfortable. I do not need to know his bathroom habits.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 1 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
"Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Yeah, yeah." - Marc Maron
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 1 July 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
The Sedaris one was good.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 1 July 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
I think that's the best ending of a WTF interview I've ever heard.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 1 July 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
^ Sedaris
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 1 July 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
the Nick Cave was a bit more open and cheerful than I've heard him in other interviews, though of course Maron had to do an assholish intro.
One of MM's bad interviewing habits is his need to ask a question and then try to answer it before the guest can (one of countless examples: "What albums did you record in Berlin? Let Love In? The Good Son?") or to inaccurately finish his guest's sentences for them. It seems to come from a radio fear of pauses. It creates unneeded tension as the guest has to correct Maron and risk coming off as annoyed.
― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 July 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
loved Cheech & Chong!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 4 July 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link