S02 E05: Getting Wiser

Greetings!
Normally, here you'd find some sort of introductory paragraph outlining the content of this week's episode, usually in an overly perspicacious fashion and coming across as a sorry attempt to sound "hip". That's all well and good, but today is Tyler's birthday, so instead, here is a picture of him at age 5:

Rock on, man-child, rock on.

PLAYLIST

The Dirty Projectors - Knotty Pine
Spoon - I Saw The Light

Arcade Fire - Lenin
Feist and Ben Gibbard - Train Song

Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA

Elbow - One Day Like This


LINKS

Charlie Brooker - How to Report the News
Stewart Brand's TV version of "How Buildings Learn"

LOST

a.k.a. se2e4
That's right folks: if you're a fan of LOST, this is your episode, filled with analysis, speculation and series-related tunes. If you are not a fan, well, you have a few days yet to watch five seasons' worth of T.V. in preparation for the season premiere on Tuesday. Get going!


PLAYLIST

Buddy Holly - Everyday (S05E11)
Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight (multiple episodes)

Brenda Lee - I Wonder (S03E05)

The Police - Message in a Bottle
John Denver - Leaving on a Jet Plane

Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
Drive Shaft - You All Everybody

Mama Cass Elliot - Make Your Own Kind Of Music (multiple episodes)


LINKS

Origin of the image above: Lost opening credits as done à la Saul Bass.
LOST Origins I
'SMOKE' - A Lost Original Trailer
'The Evolution' - of Jack Shephard
LOST Origins - Locke
LOST Season 3 Recap
LOST Season Six - Trailer
LOST Season Six - Ben Promo

S02 E03: The Road Less Travelled

Where do we go from here, faithful listeners? That seems to be the overall theme of this episode, if you had to think about it (we did). Hmm... a rhetorical question from two twenty-something nerds concerned with the uncertainty surrounding our times? Cue the Indie music!


PLAYLIST

Brand New - I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light
Minus The Bear - This Ain't A Surfin' Movie

Wolf Parade - Shine A Light
TV On The Radio - Province

The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves

New Order - Temptation


LINKS

Conan + Lost + The Office = 2006 Emmys

S02 E02: Building On

We won't say that this is the best episode of A. S. ever. That would be presumptuous. But it's probably fair to say it's the best of this season. And if we keep building on our experience, Season 3 will win some sort of Podcastie Award. No pressure, though...

PLAYLIST

Lilly Allen - Everything's Just Wonderful
Rilo Kiley - My Slumbering Heart

CSS - Off The Hook
Little Girls - Youth Tunes

Tegan and Sara - On Directing

Nightmares on Wax - Flip Ya Lid

LINKS
Alice is Dead; Here Comes the Boogeyman
Century Theatre is Destroyed; Century Theater Photos
Cinema Treasures
Inventory of Vieux-Montreal
Raisethehammer.org: Why I'm With CoCo, And Why That Spells Trouble For Traditional TV

Awkward Silences S02 E01: The Big Leagues

One might say we've 'graduated' to the next level of podcasting. The second season, if you will.

PLAYLIST

French Kicks - Said So What

Sarah Harmer - Lodestar
Taken by Trees - Lost and Found

Tegan and Sara - The Cure
Tegan and Sara - Someday

Stars - Heart

Coldplay - See You Soon






LINKS

Michael Ignatieff's Opinion Piece
Lost Overview

We'll be back on Sunday...

It's taking awhile to recover from the Holidays, but rest assured, there's a new episode on it's way!

Episode 47: Baby, It's Cold Outside

Since this episode is pretty self-explanatory, how about an anecdote? As a child, I always thought that the line "See the blazing Yule before us," from Deck the Halls, made reference to a tradition dating back to the pagan roots of this holiday; namely, the ritualistic burning of Yul Brynner, star of such films as The King and I, on a large pyre fuelled by yew-wood and holly. And since I never knew the lyrics to "Baby, It's Cold Outside," past the title phrase, I assumed the rest of the verse was, "So warm yourself next to Brynner, aglow." But I digress... Merry Christmas!


PLAYLIST

King's Singers - Deck The Halls
Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Is Coming
Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here

The Drifters - White Christmas
Ertha Kit - Santa Baby
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Bing Crosby - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters - Jingle Bells
Bing Crosby - White Christmas

Vince Guaraldi - O Tannenbaum
Vince Guaraldi - Skating
Vince Guaraldi - Linus and Lucy
John Denver and the Muppets -12 Days of Christmas
John Denver and the Muppets - We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Barenaked Ladies & Sarah McLachlan - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings
Joni Mitchell - River
Celine Dion - O Holy Night
John Williams - Carol of the Bells
Brassroots - Sleigh Ride
Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow

John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
Simon & Garfunkel - 7 O'clock News/Silent Night
Judy Garland - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Thurl Ravenscroft - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
Vince Guaraldi - Hark, The Harold Angels Sing


LINKS

Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas - "Little Drummer Boy" by Bing Crosby and David Bowie (1977)
The Star Wars Holiday Special - "Happy Life Day" (1978)