Jason couldn't rent YOU HURT MY FEELINGS, so we're discussing our Barbenheimer takes instead. Enjoy!
Jason recommends: "Bad Idea Right?" (single by Olivia Rodrigo)
Jared recommends: THE BALLAD OF DARREN (album by Blur)
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This is it, the final episode in our miniseries on the extra-WILCO-lar career of Jeff Tweedy. We're discussing the quite excellent solo album, LOVE IS THE KING.
Jason recommends: FIRST TAKE (album by Roberta Flack)
Jared recommends: IN TREATMENT (TV Series)
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It's the penultimate episode of our miniseries on Jeff Tweedy! We've gotten warm, now it's time to get WARMER!
Jason recommends: WHAM! (Netflix documentary on the band of the same name)
Jared recommends: PAST LIVES (film, written/directed by Celine Song)
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We are in the home stretch of our ongoing series discussing Jeff Tweedy's extra-WILCO-lar activities. This time, we're discussing the seasonally appropriate/seasonal understatement, 2018's WARM.
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We're diving back into the Tweedy-verse with 2017's acoustic album, TOGETHER AT LAST - which Jason didn't listen to, because he thought we were covering WARM, but he was very much wrong, that's the next episode. Jared really likes this album a lot, hopes Tweedy continues the series, and thinks you should go check it out. Also discussed: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Paul Simon, and more.
Jason recommends SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE and ER Season 3
Jared recommends the new Jenny Lewis album, JOY'ALL ("Puppy and a Truck" - song of the summer!)
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It's summer, so it's time for a little break from our regularly scheduled programming. This week, instead of getting Tweedy with it, it's a pop culture goulash. Jason and Jared talk ER, Weeds, vintage Conan (O'Brien, not the barbarian), the new Sparks album, and more.
Both hosts highly recommend Sparks' THE GIRL IS CRYING IN HER LATTE
Jason recommends THE FOOL (album by Adanowsky)
Jared recommends the Doughboys episode "Domino's 3 Loaded Tots"
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This is it - we've reached the last of the Jeff Tweedy side-projects (the remaining albums in this series are all Tweedy solo/solo-ish), and it's the best one! THE SUN CAME OUT is the result of what happens when New Zealand pop music icon Neil Finn (Crowded House/Split Enz) gathers together 20 musicians at his studio in Auckland to record an album over 20 days, and what a result! Plus, Jared gives his hot take on THIS IS 40, and we introduce a possible podcast goldmine, John Lith-now: The John Lithgow Career Retrospective.
Recommendations:
Jared - THE ASK (a novel by Sam Lipsyte)
Jason - Haley Heynderickx, Y La Bamba, and Begonia (here's the link to Jason's column in Phoenix Magazine that Jared didn't read)
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Continuing our exploration of Jeff Tweedy's extraWILCOlar activities, Jason and Jared discuss Loose Fur's second offering, BORN AGAIN IN THE USA, and this time they're doing it with their podcast brother from another mother, Chris Ayers (co-host with our own Jason Keil and Barbara VanDenburgh of The Life of the Mind - the podcast about the Coen Brothers). Come for the Tweedy love, stay for the Canadian arts and James Gray digressions.
Recommendations:
Chris Ayers - THE CREATIVE ACT: A WAY OF BEING by Rick Rubin (book)
Jason Keil - THE BIG DOOR PRIZE (Apple TV+)
Jared Duran - CONTINUE AS A GUEST by The New Pornographers and ALL THE EYE CAN SEE by Joe Henry (albums)
Little Somethings Press has an upcoming launch even at Changing Hands in Tempe (Jared is contributor/reader at the event)
Event info here: https://www.changinghands.com/event/april2023/little-something-press
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Be sure to check out THE LIFE OF THE MINE - THE PODCAST ABOUT THE COEN BROTHERS wherever you get your podcasts!
On this episode, Jason and Jared continue to get Tweedy with it (na na na, etc.)! It's the last entry from The Minus 5, their eponymous 2006 album, aka, The Gun Album (due to artwork), which Jared praises as a candidate for one of his desert island discs. Arguably, not as much Tweedy as the prior two Minus 5 entries, but there's a not insignificant contribution from Wilco here, and it's just a damn fine album that more people should hear, so check it out!
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Jason recommends: COCAINE BEAR
Jared recommends: CRACKER ISLAND by Gorillaz
On this episode, we continue our dive into Jeff Tweedy's extraWILCOlar activities with the...minor...Minus 5 work, the At the Organ EP (it's fine, we could've skipped it, though). Also, get ready for Inception-like tangent shit.
Jason recommends: the late-period Billy Wilder film, Avanti!
Jared recommends: the albums Putting on Airs and Lighten Up by Erin Rae
Jason and Jared get down with the Minus 5's DOWN WITH WILCO. Plus, is Jared entering his Larry David phase? Why hasn't Harrison Ford won an Oscar? And much more.
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We're back on our Tweedy bullshit! That's right, Jason and Jared are discussing Loose Fur's eponymous 2003 debut, an album recorded in the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot era. Strap in, folks, it's a wild one.
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We continue our exploration of Jeff Tweedy's extraWILCOlar activities with his score for Ethan Hawke's feature-length directorial debut, CHELSEA WALLS. The movie is okay, the soundtrack RULES. Also, there's some, er, football talk. Yup, that's right, football.
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And so we embark on our miniseries with many names: Tweedy's Extra-Wilcolar Activities, Being Where?, or Getting Tweedy With It. We're talking the 1995 Golden Smog album, Down By The Old Main Stream, which is a pretty good album!
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This episode is a bit of a palate cleanser before getting Tweedy with it. Jason and Jared discuss the merits of covers albums, this year's Treehouse of Horror, and offer up some recommendations.
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Yeah, it's one of our longer episodes, but it's the last film in our Nicole Holofcener discussion, and we had a lot to talk about. In addition to breaking down The Last Duel, we rank all the entries in the Holofcener Cinematic Universe, and land on our next discussion focus (hint, he's an American aquarium drinker).
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Well, we've reached the penultimate entry in our dive into the Holofcener Cinematic Universe, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME. Jason and Jared discuss the different lenses through which they viewed the film, the brilliant performances turned in by McCarthy and Grant, and more.
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