That "record making is voodoo magic of authenticity" intro is one of the most punch in the face worthy things I've heard him spout off about. Have to take a break before I listen to the interview.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 22 July 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I want to send him a paragraph-long email explaining how the music gets on the vinyl. but I also don't want to ruin the *magic* for him.
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 July 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Each groove is carved by a master craftsman
― President Keyes, Monday, 22 July 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for reminding me why I skip the intros.
― sofatruck, Monday, 22 July 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
I always feel bad for his girlfriend whenever he starts talking about his stupid record player (WITH TUBES!) and making people listen to music on it. definitely one of those guys who puts a record on and stares right at you expectantly until you say how great it sounds so he can yell "IT'S THE TUBES!" at you
― brio, Monday, 22 July 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
yeah, he is likely the Alexandra Guarnaschelli of tube-and-vinyl-based sound system reaction judging
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 July 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
The IFC show has been renewed. Oh joy.
(I quit after two episodes.)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
now you're going to be forced to watch another 18 of them ;_;
― eau de feet (sic), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
so Maron recounts Cale saying "Are we going to talk about my new album?" before playing the interview where he doesn't actually say that.
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 July 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
I laughed at: "They didn't send it to me." "Who is 'they'?"
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 July 2013 13:52 (ten years ago) link
that's Maron's "the dog ate my homework"
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
also he makes it sound like Cale demanded to talk about the new album - when in fact, as you point out, Maron brings it up and Cale almost immediately says "We don't have tot talk about it if you don't want to..."
I love Maron and WTF - but he should seriously consider going down to 1 interview per week.
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
Why?
― waterface, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
so he can dedicate some time to preparing for his interviews
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
lol like he would do that
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 July 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
ha fair enough
maybe I'm just Maron-ed out
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
lol "prepare"
― the pen is mightier than the penisword (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 July 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
I just wish someone who was better versed or gave a fuck could get the musician interviews. Cale is very engaging, despite Marc being his usual unprepared self and riding his pet topics.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
someone needs to invent a way to like killfile maron out of his own podcast
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
i accidentally got caught up listening to the into abt his eating head cheese and feeling bad abt himself for it and i was just like wtf am i doing
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
he should start talking to nutritionists or dieticians so he really cares abt the interviews
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
I've started two episodes of this (Fogerty, Stinson) and bailed out early both times.
― things are going to get better or worse (WilliamC), Monday, 29 July 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
Both of those interviews are awesome
― waterface, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
I hate it, because I'm a fan of most the musicians he's interviewed over time, but he interviews with comics are generally better because it doesn't feel like he's puffing up and fronting. Well, maybe sometimes, just because that's who he is. But he's more at ease with fellow comics.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 July 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
He's definitely going more for cool anecdotes from the musicians than for deep analysis of craft, though sometimes the musicians get into that despite Maron. Like, in the Cale interview there are a few nice stories about Nico and Lou, but I liked hearing him talk about Houston rap and stuff a bit more.
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 July 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
really I guess I just wish there was somebody other than Maron doing WTF-style long-form interviews with musicians. Sometimes he gets a great conversation out of a musician - I loved Fogerty, Darnielle, Iggy and Stinson among others - but too often I just feel like they could have been a lot better. I think it's more his comfort level than research or knowledge...like when comedian interviews go off the rails a little bit, Maron can bust balls or find common ground but when musicians fluster him he gets all weird.
Tom Scharpling's Low Times podcast seems to be going for a musicians WTF thing but it's pretty hit & miss so far - and the musicians I don't know I find a lot less engaging than the comics I don't know on WTF.
― brio, Monday, 29 July 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Dave Alvin interview still my favorite of the musician ones.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
i saw the live one at just for laughs on friday, it was fun. eddie izzard, seth meyers, tig notaro, some other guys
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
Bill Hader's story about Martin Kove is awesome.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
― things are going to get better or worse (WilliamC), Monday, July 29, 2013 11:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fogerty starts out rough -- Maron keeps saying "Yeah? Yeah?" to show that he's "listening" -- but gets a lot better about halfway through. Totally worth it.
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
JF, that story was fucking amazing
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
I bailed on Hader. Marc was twitching too much for me early on so I said fuck it.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
You need that story
― touch. zing touch. you've almost convinced me I'm real (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
i seriously don't even hear that, i guess my brain just filters it out.
xp
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 8 August 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, this is one of my favorite episodes...mostly because Hader is a great storyteller, but it's so loose and casual and Marc isn't really a distraction at all.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 8 August 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
I've never cared for Hader one way or the other so didn't feel like putting up with Maron today. Such is life.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 August 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Listening to the live WTF he posted Monday... getting a glimpse into Jim Norton's head is fucking terrifying.
― get in yr plastic FEMA coffin & stop asking questions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 9 August 2013 09:19 (ten years ago) link
that was a fun episode, esp if you're into maron and michael ian black sniping at each other
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 9 August 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
if only kumail was there
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 10 August 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
Bill Hader was great, he's such a likeable dude. That Martin Kove story was some A+ hollywood shit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
Best not really comedian ones for me remain Stephen Tobolowsky and Todd Hanson. Both are remarkable, both sort of make you want to hug someone.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
Todd Hanson's one still cuts me.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Todd Hanson was amazing but it broke me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
simon pegg worked @ the same place as fred west!@
― johnny crunch, Friday, 16 August 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
has anyone else listened to Maynard James Keenan?
It's p great but Mr Veg totally fucked with my head - I got about halfway through and was telling him about the interview & he's all, 'You know he makes a ton of shit up, right?' and I knew that but I hadn't actually thought about it til right then
and now I'm listening and I'm like, huh. some of this does sound kinda bullshitty.
but wtf I'm enjoying it anyway so who cares
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
halfway through the Garry Shandling one and it's a bit disappointing. I'd rather listen to Shandling talk politics and Buddhism for an hour without being interrupted by Maron talking about his mother.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 05:05 (ten years ago) link
YACHT: We were into mid- early 90s pop-punk
Maron: You mean like They Might Be Giants?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 22 August 2013 12:16 (ten years ago) link
FYI Maron is being interviewed by Jeff Garlin live @ largo on Jeff's latest episode of 'By the way'. I haven't been able to listen to it yet because I can't deal with people who analyze themselves endlessly but I kind of want to because I know Jeff will give him total shit about it.
― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Friday, 23 August 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link
I heart Catherine O'Hara's laugh so much
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 05:47 (ten years ago) link
It's the best.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 05:51 (ten years ago) link