This episode is the best one in maybe forever. It all started just as I was finishing my grueling fitness regimen. Jake and I discussed subjects as deep as Lake Titicaca and as broad as the Mississipi.
It was my turn to set the agenda so I took full advantage of it. At one point I offered to buy a copy of a book I like, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, for anyone who wants one. The offer stands, if you want a copy, email me at tetherballs at veryserious.org with your address and I’ll see that you get a copy. Jake tried to defend Clerks, but I wouldn’t have it. We also discussed New York, a Documentary Film and Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Generally speaking, we talked about what makes works of art age well or poorly and how our view of the past changes over time. Some questions that we attempted to answer were:
Where does taste comes from?
How selective are you?
What should be reassessed?
How influential was Beavis and Butthead?
Are you glad things you don’t like exist?
What works will be remembered from our era?
Please have a listen and let us know what you think.
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Mikel
// May 14, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I’d like to let you guys know I’m backing new country. I don’t care if it’s not cool. I wear polyester wranglers and listen to the wolf. c’mon tell me you don’t like the song “tequila makes her clothes fall off” !!!
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jake
// May 15, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Et tu, Mikel?
Phil & I just finished talking about this a little bit in AVSC #33. Hopefully I can get it edited and posted here sometime before that song becomes not-so-new country…
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Dannikins
// May 30, 2008 at 10:41 am
Driving in the U-Haul last weekend, we only had a radio. Radio is so bad that new country was the best thing we could find.
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