Talksplosion Episode 37 “Vikings say ‘Dude’”
Jeremiah’s PotW: 77Klash: Mad Again
This week in books: DMZ volume 5: The Hidden War
Northlanders: Sven The Returned
Scalped Volume 3: Dead Mothers
Hail fierce warriors, sit down with yer tankard of ale and let us be merry.
Rain falls again in our fair region, does it not?
There! my friends, across the inn, servicing that rather swarthy looking traveler, that is the one I was telling you about. She be the fine Jeremiah, and more of a song bird you couldn’t ask for, and quite the unbroken pony in the straw, if your sword is sharp to my point. She tells me that she’s had to fulfill her womanish duties as a scullery maid in this horse shittery of an inn every day this past week.
Here, here, wench. Bring us some more ale and whatever whore’s meat this is and sing us another song. What was it called? aha! I remember: 77Klash, from the album Code of the Streets, Mad Again.
2:44 Is that Friar Little John I hear in the distance?
4:34 I don’t know what these guys are so mad about, but I think it’s something I would very much like to be mad about as well.
Jeremiah felt it was kind of weird, because it was essentially three choruses, but it was still good. 77Klash is apparently from Brooklyn, which makes the track less interesting to Sam. I personally feel somewhat cheated, and upon a second listening can hear the American “edge” Sam was referring to
6:52 Jeremiah is not lying; it’s a pretty rad video.
What did I tell you, my companions? Glorious indeed.
Now, this one over here, with the birthing hips. Yes, with the rather brutal looking puncture wound. She had a name once, but for all the gold in the king’s coffers I cannot recall what it is. These days most of us common folk call her Daggergash.
Hail you gouged beauty. I will give you another 3 coins to satisfy my horse again. But first, why not entertain my fellow adventurers and I with a song . . . I know!: Bjork’s Nattura.
8:00 I’m pretty sure this is Icelandic ocean sounds, and . . . I’m pretty sure that’s the dude from Lightning Bolt.
9:00 This is how those way too pretty elfish bastards up there flirt with whales.
This single was released to benefit natural preservation efforts in Iceland. Nattura features:
Crazy non word vocals by Thom Yorke
Drumming by Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt (!)
Synthwork by Matthew Herbert
Sam and Jeremiah both were less then pleased with the previous Bjork album. That being said, they both really liked the track. Jeremiah felt it is prime territory for remix.
13:30 Chris Corsano
14:02 Nattura (again)
15:06 I don’t know if it’s just because Jeremiah started to eat the mic, but this has to rank as the most expressive “Oh Jesus Christ” I have ever heard.
16:08 AGAIN!
Ah, what is that parchment you are carrying? DMZ Volume 5: The Hidden War.
15:09 This is what, the 5th straight Brian Wood book Jeremiah didn’t like.
Sam was worried that this book was not going to change Jeremiah’s mind about DMZ. Jeremiah thinks that this is actually what the previous book lacked, but still doesn’t like it.
Sam says to buy this if your already reading DMZ, but it will not be your favorite trade. This would be the 4th one, if you’re asking him.
A fine collection of bawdy tales, to be sure. But what else have you in that kit? Another Brian wood book? Northlanders: Sven the Returned. A story of my Viking brethren? Somebody read these picture words to me, this is sure to be an epic tale.
Set in the awesome world of Vikings, this trade is the first in the series. Jeremiah was turned off by the use of modern language in a Viking book. Sam, who not unfamiliar with that complaint about the book, is ready for this and counters that it’s a translation of the colloquialisms from early (awesome) Viking talk.
20:43 Jeremiah: 2, Brian Wood: 0
20:49 I actually appreciate the modern language because of that very reason. They didn’t talk like Thor.
24:35 Alright Ballard, I call upon you to perform a Blood Eagle on this guy.
Scalped: Dead Mothers.
I should go check on that Daggergash. She always tends to work my poor horse too hard on these cold nights. But another tale before I leave!
Sam and Jeremiah feel that this is one of the few trades from Vertigo that they both enjoy, as well as the best thing Vertigo has put out recently. Sam thinks this is the end of act 1. However, Jeremiah feels that this is the beginning of act 2.
Thanks for listening internet.
The Monday Mix Vol. 17 “Imputor”
The economy is in the toilet and your neck deep in shit. I know what your thinking “I still have my ears and want to fill my iPod, but I don’t want to break out my wallet.”. Well don’t worry, there are plenty of places on the internet to get free music, (legally even, because you don’t want Lars Ulrich all up in your business). So to help you through all through the recession I will be using my Monday mixes to highlight places on the internet to score free music. As long as the bandwidth holds up you’ll still have beer money and we’ll all be ok. This weeks mix is a highlights one of my favorite local electronic labels: Imputor? Records. All of these tracks (and a lot more) are available for free in the mp3 section of their web page.
http://www.imputor.com/mp3.php
The Monday Mix Vol. 16 “Riley has a Zune”
“Hey guys, welcome to my monday mix. I got a new zune, these are the sounds it makes”
Wham city - Dan Deacon
Paragraphs relentless - Dalek
39 thieves - Aesop Rock
wanderlust - Baroness
bassment party - the cool kids
Pop Song - cLOUDEAD
Gemini (birthday song)- Why?
Love for planet earth- Fuck Buttons
-rilegator
Talksplosion Episode 36 “Knife Wound”
Knifewound’s PotW: Gang Gang Dance — Princes
Jeremiah’s PotW: Height — Seven Cities
This week in books: Ultimate X-men Volume 19
Daredevil: Cruel and Unusual
Welcome to Episode 36, wherein Jeremiah wins.
1:33 Sam, who will henceforth be named “Knifewound” recently went in for some elective surgery, this latest procedure brings him one step closer to living a fulfilling life a half lion half unicorn, SSJ3 animu.
3:30 Jeremiah’s PotW, Seven Cities, by Height, sounds like Adventures in Babysitting, but with blunts.
4:15 I routinely have nightmares about accidently walking into a Juggalo bar, and everyone is well behaved and the prices are reasonable. I take a seat down in a booth with some lovely white smeared ladies and have an engaging conversation about how cool homosexuals are over a couple of clown paints (an uplifting mix of Faygo and Natural Ice). Then I wake up in a cold sweat screaming for help. And that’s how I went on my second suicide watch.
4:45 This track is by Baltimore’s Height, on his SnowGhost sessions. Both of the boys enjoyed the song, and if you did as well, check him out at the link above. 3 bucks for 5 tracks of awesomeness?
6:25 Cex — tall dark and handcuffed
9:13 Gang Gang Dance, knifewound’s PotW, sounds like a dance gang that could seriously give the sharks and jets a run for their money . . . wait a minute, you can’t dance fight to war drums.
10:00 Buying a blowjob in Rabanastre
13:08 no neck blues band
Knifewound loves this album, Saint Dymphna less than Gang Gang Dance’s previous efforts, although the band’s name finally applies on this poppier release. KW found it harder to love than their previous releases, but both of them liked the track
14:54 grime
17:48 “I don’t even know where to begin on this” truer words have never been said.
19:52 these are the issues when you get to volume 19: “what, the, fuck?”
20:33 How can any story told over 4 issues be called “expansive”?
21:24 I always wanted to open a door to a danger room full of mutants training.
22:00 baseball = classic X-men. How is a superhero comic defined by their leisure activities?
KW and Jeremiah, both longtime X-men fans, both agree that this book needs to be killed, with fire. The fire part is all me, but I think they would agree.
Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, on a marvel book? Awesome!
24:20 Gotham Central, the best goddamn NYPD blue comic you’ll ever see, because it has the joker!
25:38 Daredevil, title holder of the longest running “good” book in comics, returns with the newest trade, Cruel and Unusual, Greg Rucka !? Ed Brubaker !? fucking awesome.
25:45 It almost as if everyone whos worked on Daredevil is/was awesome, daredevil is like the cbgb’s of sequential art.
29:11 Mr. fear
30:25 Matt Murdock has never had a successful relationship, his love interest has eternally been “women in the refridgerator”
33:08 “So what did you find out about this? Oh really? Ok, I’m going to go punch them”. I this show
Both of our intrepid hosts agree that this Daredevil book is a great addition to the hero because it’s a great book to introduce people to the character.
36:30 David Mack
39:00 TAXMAN! Hell to the fuck yeah
That’s it for this week, thanks for listening
-Riley “Prince leia touched my leg” Scott
The Monday Mix vol. 15 “DJ iPod to the Rescue”
I didnt have time to make a monday mix this week so I threw this together,
its the top 10 most played songs on my ipod:
10-Debonair Samir-Samir’s Theme
09-Cexman-Overload
08-the Bug-Poison Dart (South Rakkas Crew remix)
07-Rasputina-Cage in a Cave
06-MF Doom-Dead Bent (12″ version)
05-M.I.A.-Paper Planes (Scottie B remix)
04-Company Flow-Simian D
03-Virus Syndicate-Karma
02-Spank Rock-Sweet Talk
01-Knifehandchop-Dirty New York
-Jeremiah
Talksplosion Episode 35 “Whoops 3: The Whoopsing”
Hello, and Welcome to episode 35, LIVE BLOGGING EDITION. This week we are going to be doing things a little differently. I got the rare opportunity to sit in on the recording of today’s episode, so I thought it would be fun to note the recording instead of the episode, let’s watch:
0:01 The door to the plush leather recording room is closed, and oddly enough, locked, from the outside, at least three different times.
1:00 Jeremiah has brought a small rabbit to the recording, I am intrigued. Almost immediately Sam starts screaming with an intensity I’ve never seen in him before. This is not the right animal, I cannot fathom what creative purpose a small woodland animal would play in a Podcast, but I’m sure it’s to be inspiring.
3:00 the one hundred and twenty seconds of chastising on Sam’s part has scared the rabbit. It’s running around the room looking for an exit. Jeremiah, his vision blurred by Sam’s harsh words, is stumbling around after the little guy. Sam reaches into a desk and pulls out a large leather pouch of some kind; I wonder if this is where they keep the famous Talksplosion mics.
3:14 I was wrong, it’s not a microphone but a huge fucking knife. I think you need a permit to carry a blade that large.
3:16 Jeremiah has managed to catch the hasenpfeffer, and on bended knee, holds it up for Sam’s inspection. Only they know what a purpose a pre recording ritual like this serves, I want to stop them and ask the meaning of such obtuse actions, but I am like Jane Gooddall, and these are my gorillas in the mist.
4:00 I have vomited all over myself. I tell myself that it’s just the byproduct of the creation of art. You can’t make an omelet without ripping a bunny in half and devouring its heart while pouring the blood of a small creature forgotten by god over your co-hosts tear streamed face. I get my stomach under control, and clean the chunks of the Aqua dot bubble tea Jeremiah made me drink before being allowed to enter the “dungeon”, a clever name for the recording studio.
10:00 Jeremiah, tired of Sam’s rabbit blood bathing, (I must admit, it is surprising to learn that a animal that small contains enough blood to cover a man as large as Sam) procures a small glass pipe along with the scariest lighter I have ever seen, from his Laptop Bag. I’m pretty sure it’s a spot welder and not actually a lighter, but I’m just relieved that Jeremiah had the foresight to bring some pot, maybe he can get Sam to calm down and get to recording the show.
(At this time, Sam is marching around the room, naked, smearing himself with bunny blood, shouting in German, I think he’s quoting Mein Kampf)
10:15 I don’t remember Pot smelling like urine and baking sodaOhmy, Jeremiah has pulled a small film canister full of crack out of his laptop bag, and is already sucking down his 2nd rock.
11:45 Sam, the acrid smell of crack smoke finally pulling him out of his trance like state, strides over to Jeremiahs hunched form and with a wild scream, snatches the crack pipe out of Jeremiahs shaking hands, shoves a fist full of blood stained rock into the fragile looking too small bowl.
12:40 after lighting and inhaling this diamond of crack for nearly a minute, Sam lets out a great cloud of smoke, and with a glassy look in his eyes, stabs the computer with the giant knife I mentioned earlier. “Ok, let’s do this”
Finally, time to record the show, this is it, this is what I’ve been hoping to see.
13:00 my disappointment is palpable, instead of reaching for a microphone Jeremiah has instead pulled a Nerf hand cannon out of the desk, and carefully, almost as if he was handling a holy relic, begins to unload the rubber cup tipped foam darts and place them on the desk.
13:15 Sam picks up a single dart, and from a box labeled “L S FUCKING D” extracts a small vial of yellowish fluid. He carefully covers the tip of the darts suction cup with this fluid of questionable origin.
13:30 Sam hands the “poisoned” dart back to Jeremiah, who, with the upmost care, places it in one of the chambers.
14:00 you know, I’ve never seen a room that have bars on the inside of the windows before.
14:04 Jeremiah spins the chambers on the nerf execution device, and after pulling back the spring
mechanism, places the gun against his temple, and with a choked cry of “You are my holocaust” pulls the trigger.
14:04 *click*, Jeremiah is safe, for now.
14:15 I can feel the blood rushing through my veins as my heart beats wildly. Sam plays a round of this Russian roulette himself, not satisfied with the results, he plays 4 more times before growing frustrated and pointing the gun at me.
14:16 they say that urinating yourself is the best defense when confronted with a large crazed predator. This is not always the case, as I am sure that I pissed enough to drown a whale, but it couldn’t stop these two giants of the podcasting industry, bodies covered in blood and reeking of crack, from closing in on me.
16:00 the dart smacked my head with the force of a large spitball, I can still hear the impact reverberating in my ears. The wet splotch on my temple where the LSD was forced into my brain feels . . . purple.
15:45:13 I wake up, clothes missing, in an alley behind a Korean Restraint in Downtown Eugene, Oregon. I notice the boys have left a warning carved into my chest, it hurts to breathe, but I can make out their dire warning etched into my flesh
“Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus”
-riley “I really need a ride” scott
The Monday Mix Vol. 14 “Fall Songs - Bittersweet”
OK a few weeks back I was talking about types of songs I associate with the Fall. One of those styles were sorta pretty bittersweet songs, usually in the traditional indie modes. So this week I decided to take a crack at showing what I was talking about.
1. The Microphones - Sand (Erics Trip)
2. Devendra Banhart - Pumpkin Seeds
3. The Books - All our Base are Belong to Them
4. Eyes of Autumn - As a Child
5. Grails - Invocation
6. Grails - Space Prophet Dogon
7. Six Organs of Admittance - Eight Cognition/All You’ve Left
8. Fennesz - Chateau Rouge
9. The Notwist - One Step Inside Doesn’t Mean you Understand
10. Akron/Family - I’ll be on the Water
11. Sufjan Stevens - Sister
-Samuel
info@talksplosion.com
The Monday Mix Vol. 13 “Original Chiptunes”
i really like a lot of current gameboy music and this week i thought it would be fun to
go the opisite direction ad play some old school NES music. maybe someday i will do a current
chiptune monday mix, but for now, please enjoy some NES classics:
legend of zelda-title
legend of zelda-castle
mega man 2-woodman
mega man-electric man
metal gear-begining
metroid-kraid’s hide
punch out-title
punch out boxing
punch out-you got a password
castlecania-stage 3
kid icarus-world 1
kid icarus-castle
snake rattle n’ roll-stage 1
double dragon-stage 1
ghosts & goblins-stage 1
super mario bros 2-character select
super mario bros 2-stage 1
super mario bros 2-underworld
super mario bros 2-starman
super mario bros-overoworld
super mario bros-underworld
super mario bros-castle
super mario bros-swimming
-Jeremiah
Talksplosion Episode 34 “We all love Germany.”
Hi, welcome to talksplosion episode 34.
This week things happened. Jeremiah took his customs official (?) test finally, hes been studying for that for a while, we all are glad he survived. Sam went to multiple shoes. The first of which took place at the Josephine on Thursday, WildildLife performed, as did Dull knife, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, and Tecumsah. Everyone did an awesome job and Sam was very pleased. Friday had Sam (and myself) attending the Genghis Tron/Baroness show at Studio 7. Our minds were blown, a point which I plan to bring up with both bands in a very polite open letter. Please clean the bits of my skull meat off of your amplifiers and light show set up and mail the collected remains back to me.
The Cool Kids
Jeremiahs pick of the week this week is The Cool Kids, with Black Mags. Can you tell how excited he is about his pick? I can, lets see why.
4:36 its about his bike, it took me too long to figure out what this song was about.
4:50 I want to marry the bass on this track, our honeymoon would consist of a ‘69 Impala and orifice cut into the speakers in the trunk.
6:24 This sucks: the mix tape
Sam likes other tracks on the EP more than then the one Jeremiah picked, but still enjoys
7:27 Neckerchif rap, that is the best thing I’ve heard, ever.
Jeremiah enjoyed it, rating it a 3, calling the Cool Kids a poor mans Spank Rock.
KRGA
Sams PoW is from KRGA, off his recent Debacle release, Thousands, this is Thousand Armed.
13:26 if you ever wake up naked in a field, and are not upset by this fact, its because of this song.
Sam really enjoyed the song, as did Jeremiah, who liked it more than his previous album, Thirds.
15:55 DJ Rupture
17:25 Emeralds
(EDITORS NOTES: the comics section gets a bit garbled this week due to mic issues. It was a good discussion with some major disagreements so we wanted it to go up even as messy as it is.)
This week in comics we are taking a look at Brian Wood’s Local.
20:37 the longest “ehhhh” Jeremiah has ever uttered can be heard here.
21:00 girls comic? what qualifies as a girls comic
Jeremiah does not like this book very much, he was not blown away.
21:44 I wonder what crazy diatribe got cut out right here. (I heard on the grapevine one of the mics was going stupid for awhile, POPUP podcast)
22:58 him? who’s him? this whole bit sounds really weird, yay for the edit!
Sam feels very differently about this book, very differently
25:54 Do you want to talk about maturity? FUCK YOU. only on talksplosion folks.
I hope you enjoyed our disjointed dialogue remix, thanks for readening.
The Monday Mix Vol. 12 “Long Songs I Can’t Play on the Show”
So sometimes I am loving albums that only seem to have long songs on them. I want to tell you all how much I love them in the regular show, but I tend to cut off songs at about 8:00 minutes otherwise they tend to ruin the flow of the show.
So this monday I decided to throw up a few longer songs i have been digging that I dont think will be making the show anytime soon.
1. Wildildlife - “Magic Johnson”
2. Emeralds - “The Quaking Mess”
3. Kevin Drumm - “Imperial Distortion”
4. Tecumseh - “Cascadia”
Hope you enjoy, leave a comment with your thoughts!
-Samuel
info@talksplosion.com
