Next episode: Dead Pool on the 7th!

Due to the difficulties we had with the David Bowie podcast, and the long delay in releasing it, we won't be releasing a second podcast this month as we had planned. Also, our next episode will be on Dead Pool, and likely there will some more discussion on absurd-ism a bit as well. That will release the 7th of March and the Kaiju episode will be coming later in March. So stay tuned!

Episode 17: David Bowie

Episode 17: David Bowie
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Special guest: Tom Sherlock
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by Frank Shaw
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw

Here it is folks! Episode 17: David Bowie. We had a lot of grief recording this episode. Our first attempt proved fruitless when the new program I was using to record our Skype conversation was inadvertently closed about an hour in to the discussion. Our second attempt, about a week later went off without a hitch... except of course for all the hitches we ran into. We had several moments of connectivity issues through out the recording and due to the length it took to record we lost John about halfway through due to how late it had become. Regardless of all these problems we managed to put together a pretty good episode. We're joined by our good friend Tom Sherlock, who is also a podcaster on the Apart of Him Podcasting Network. He's featured on A Pod of Us Podcast and Internet Radio Wrestling. Two shows that are really fun listens (and at time over the top hilarious). Sadly we were going to have Aubrey Spivey on with us for this episode, but she was unable to join us for our second attempt. Give the episode, which is essentially a love letter to the works of David Bowie, a listen. It's truly enjoyable.

There maybe a bonus episode with John and I discussing Black Star and Labyrinth in the very near future, so stay tuned for that as well!

Most of the links are to Youtube videos:

This first link is to BBC: Sound and Vision David Bowie. It's an older documentary, but a fascinating look at his life and career up to the early 2000's.

Here's the first part of the documentary that John mentions in the podcast called Duffy: The Man Who Shot the Sixties. It's an interesting take on another aspect and side of the pop music, and art, scene of this time period.

Here's another Sound and Vision documentary released just a few weeks after Bowie's death. It's a more of a tribute video than anything, but still fun to watch.

Here's the Wikipedia page of David Bowie's discography, for those that want to see what albums and tunes are out there.

Here's David Bowies 100 Favorite Books from Mental Floss.

And here, lastly are some thoughts of various artists that were influenced by David Bowie. First is Beck. Trent Reznor discussing how Bowie helped him overcome addiction. And finally Ozzie Ousborne and Geezer Butler discussing Lemmy of Motorhead and David Bowie.

Hey folks! Just a little update. Due to some amazing technical issues (Frank screwed up), our next episode won't hit on Monday as our normal schedule would dictate. (We actually have a semi-normal schedule!) Instead it will be postponed until later in the week. We're still discussing David Bowie of course and we have our regular contributor Aubrey Spivey and our good friend (and a bit of a Bowie expert) Tom Sherlock with us well. So stay tuned!

What if Episode III Were Good?

Here is the final "What If" video by Belated Media. If you're a Star Wars fan you should definitely check this out. They go through and essentially revamp the plot of each film, keeping the essence of each movie but making the plot... potentially good. Definitely worth watching, I think this might be my favorite one.

What if Star Wars Episode II Were Good?

This is the next video by Belated Media on the prequel trilogy. This video begins to stray quite a bit from what we were given in The Attack of the Clones. It's definitely worth checking out and shows how much thought and creativity this guy actually put into these story changes. Yes, overall this is essentially fan-fiction, but it's intriguing never the less and definitely worth your time.

What if Star Wars Episode I Was Good?

Here's the first of a short series of videos on the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy by Belated Media on YouTube. I watched  these videos a week before we recorded the Star Wars podcast and was both impressed at his fixes, and thoughts on the matter. Here's the first of three:





Here's a link to Belated Media's YouTube Channel if you don't want to wait for me to post the next videos in the series. They've got other videos and are worth checking out.

Episode 16: Star Wars Episode VII

Episode 16: Star Wars Episode VII
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Special guest: Richard L. Sanders
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw

John and I are joined by author Richard L. Sanders where we discuss our thoughts about the newest addition to the Star Wars franchise. We throw out some crazy theories as well as discuss our likes and dislikes about the franchise in general.  The conversation is more rambling than normal, but is still a lot of fun.

There are a lot of links, but many will be posted through out the next couple of weeks, as they include several videos from Youtube. The ones below all lead to articles though and are worth a read.

First up is an interview given to Rolling Stone by Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill.

Here's a theory (one of many) about Rey's background, and it's personally the one I hope is true.

Here is the article mentioned in the podcast where the fan debunks the 40 plot hole article on the Huffington Post.

Here's the link to Darth Jar Jar. 

Finally, here's the article on the deleted scene of Maz Kanata's use of the force.