Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: Also, I love your hat, Eric.
It's so awesome.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: Can't wear ball caps all the time.
I usually wear ball caps.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: Feeling extra classy today.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I like that.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: Got the real, you know, professorly looking glasses.
[00:00:22] Speaker A: I like that. Yeah.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: Different look.
[00:00:24] Speaker A: I watched this show called the Great British Sewing Bee.
It's incredible. It's so awesome. But I think last season they had to make that kind of hat in one of the challenges. It was fascinating. Like, just. Yeah, it's pretty challenging to, like, make that style and especially with the lining and anyway, it was interesting.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: So they're serious about it.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's cool. This season they had to make a pair of shoes.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:00:49] Speaker A: Just kind of neat. It's structured the same way as Bake Off.
It's just sewing.
It's so great. And it's free. It's on the Roku channel and there's like 10 seasons of it or something, so plenty of. Plenty of watching.
It's very calming.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: And yeah, it's like my.
Got that. My guilty pleasure is forged in fire.
So they make knives.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen. I haven't watched it, but I've seen that. Yeah, that sounds cool.
[00:01:20] Speaker B: Yeah, it's cool. Crazy.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: There used to be, like, a glass blowing show that was like, maybe similar or something like that. Yeah, we used to watch that. Like, that was a Covid. That was a Covid show, I think.
All right, Are we rolling?
[00:01:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:01:35] Speaker D: I got our whole conversation.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Wow. Sweet.
[00:01:37] Speaker D: That's how we're starting the show.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Cold open.
[00:01:39] Speaker E: Let's go.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I like it. We're talking about Eric's professorly look.
[00:01:45] Speaker D: He's always so dapper.
[00:01:46] Speaker A: I know.
[00:01:47] Speaker D: What a gentleman.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: He's like, extra dapper today because he's recovering. So he's trying to, like.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Come out with a. With a fresh look.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Trying to improve my attitude too.
[00:01:57] Speaker A: Yeah, Love that.
Cool. Well, hey, everyone. Welcome to what I listened to this week.
We're back with a full panel, which is exciting. Eric is feeling better. He's on the mend. We're so glad he's here and he's feeling okay.
And Sergio's here and Molly's here again.
Hi, it's Melanie.
And as always.
Well, maybe not as always, but we are continuing into season four, our little intro here, which is what is new and good.
So hopefully you all have something new and good in your lives, considering the state of things.
I'm gonna throw it to Molly first. Boom.
[00:02:41] Speaker E: Something weird.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: That's fine.
[00:02:43] Speaker E: So I've been trying to get back into writing. And it's a slow process. And I wrote a ton of fanfiction when I was younger.
Not like smut or anything like that, like actual stories. I want to make that very clear.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: I mean, if it was.
It's fine. No judgment.
[00:03:01] Speaker D: You can read it. You can read some. Bring it to the podcast. Yeah, maybe AI Song.
[00:03:07] Speaker E: I think the first one I wrote, I was literally 12. So if you want to hear some 12 year old writing from Twilight.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Oh, I love that.
[00:03:17] Speaker E: But I, I decided that for. Because I'm trying to. I. I want to publish a book. I have an idea for a series I want to write and that's like, that has become one of my goals in life is like, I'm going to publish the series, but I'm a little bit out of practice. So I decided, you know what, I'm going to actually get back into writing via fan fiction because it's a nice, safe way to practice and not get blown up on the. Well, still get blown up on the Internet, but it's a little bit kinder. The community is generally a lot nicer.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: So I.
[00:03:49] Speaker E: One of these ideas that I've had for a while that I was on and off thinking about writing is it's like six stories for Harry Potter that are all interconnected and almost all of them are happening at the same time.
So I decided, you know what, that's going to be my intro for getting back into writing and to get kind of my muscles working. And then as I'm working on that, I can work on my original story as well as, like ideas come to mind and I'm like getting used to things again.
So I have two out of six outlines done for what I want to. For what I want to do.
And because they're all so interconnected, I want to get all the outlines done to make sure I don't have any conflicting plot points.
So that's kind of my goal. But yeah, I have two out of six done, so. So I'm excited. It's like, sweet. I can actually start writing soon. I'm like, I'm so close. But I'd say that's what's been good. I just finished the second outline this past weekend.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: Nice. So is that why you were sporting the Slytherin shirt today? You're in that headspace.
[00:04:48] Speaker E: This is a really comfy shirt.
It's one of my bigger shirts that's super comfy. And I was like, you know what? I feel kind of tired today. I had therapy earlier. I'm gonna wear A comfy shirt and just be cozy today. So it was like, I get to be Harry Potter and I get to be cozy today. I love that that's where that came from.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: Well, that's exciting. Definitely. Keep us posted and share it with us when. When you're ready for some eyeballs.
[00:05:11] Speaker E: If you want next time the cold open can be that however, like over a decade year old fan fiction. If you just want like the first pair.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Yeah, sounds great. I love that.
Cool. Eric, what's new and good with you?
[00:05:26] Speaker B: I saw a movie this weekend called Ku Kuho Kokuo. It's a Japanese movie in any case.
[00:05:38] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: It's about the world of kabuki and the actors. Kabuki is a traditional Japanese theater form from the 16th century and it's about two guys growing up who become the particular type of kabuki actors who portray females and they're called Onogartha.
And it's an incredible movie and it's about three hours long, but well worth one of the best. Well, I know it's early in the year, but it's one of the best movies I've seen in a while, say in the last year. It was actually is from last year. It had just broke into my top 10 but incredible movie and I would highly recommend it.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: Nice.
How did you watch it? Where can we access it?
[00:06:35] Speaker B: I had to go to the theater in Boulder where it was packed on a Saturday afternoon.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: And there were a lot of older Japanese ladies in the audience.
And while I'm sort of just trying to figure out what's going on, they're sniffling and crying and it's like, wow. There's obviously cultural things here that I'm missing.
But yeah, it was excellent.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: That's a cool experience that you got to experience with folks who have like a maybe a deeper connection with it. That's really neat.
So, yeah, so it's in theaters now, I guess.
In select theaters.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: In select theaters.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: Okay, cool.
[00:07:19] Speaker D: What was it called?
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Do you remember? Kokuro?
[00:07:21] Speaker D: Kokuro.
Kokoro.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: Koku Ho. Koku Ho, yeah.
[00:07:27] Speaker D: Okay, check it out.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: Cool. Do you know the director or like the filmmaker?
[00:07:32] Speaker B: No.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: Okay, cool. I'll have to look it up. Nice.
Sergio, what's new and good with you?
[00:07:38] Speaker D: That's a good segue because in a week and a half I'm going to be in Japan for two weeks.
So you will have to do the podcast without me next month and then I'll bring some Japanese music. Maybe the month after that.
Yeah. So yeah, we're Pretty excited to go there. That's new and good.
Been catching up on Oscar nominated movies.
Working my way through the list.
Went to a Sundance thing last week to.
There was a documentary that won. It was like a war, like a People's Choice Award that was about Luis Valdez, I think that's his name. He was the one who made La Bamba and a bunch of other stuff.
Really good documentary. And then he ended up showing up. He was part of the panel, him and his brother. So that was really awesome to see.
And then just been getting into AI stuff. I made AI music.
It's crazy. That's a crazy world. And it's even crazier how fast it is to. And how good it can be. I don't know.
[00:08:49] Speaker B: Did you use Suno?
[00:08:51] Speaker D: Yeah, I did use Suno. Just a free tier. I made a Winter Walkabout song about selling booze at Winter Walkabout and then
[00:09:01] Speaker A: I made one that's pretty wild.
[00:09:03] Speaker D: I think I shared it with you.
[00:09:04] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:05] Speaker D: And then I made one for AI class I taught at the library. And it. I mean it made a song in under a minute. It's just crazy.
So. Yeah, I don't know if that's new. Well, it's new. I don't know if that's good.
[00:09:19] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a lot of debate that's happening around like copyright with that kind of stuff and like whether you can copyright it or not or.
And if you can, what that releases like what Pandora's box that opens. If you can.
There's like a lot of interesting reading online about that.
Yeah, I don't know. I haven't gone down that rabbit hole
[00:09:46] Speaker E: in a while, but it's a dark hole.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of how I feel, but yeah, that's me. I'm also the type of person that just wants to stick my head in the ground and ignore everything. So ostrich mode. Yeah, basically.
Yeah. What's new and good with me? I just got back from 10 days in the Pacific Northwest, which was quite lovely.
I had to go both for work and to visit family. I didn't have. I guess I didn't have to visit family, but I had to go for work. And so then I tacked on a family. I tacked on a family visit.
But yeah, it was great. Had so much good food and it's just nice to be in real cities. I don't know.
[00:10:36] Speaker E: Longmont is made out of cardboard.
[00:10:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: I don't know.
I love Longmont, but it's. Yeah, it's not, it's not a real city hot date. Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, everybody has different parameters for cities that they live in. But anyway, yeah, it was great. My, the highlight though is I got to do a floating sauna which was on Lake Washington and The sauna was 190 degrees and then the lake water was 40 degrees and then the air was probably about like 45 degrees.
So you like sit in the sauna and then you cold plunge the lake. Lake water and like I, we were on a pier cuz they're like docked to appear and like I was too chicken to jump off the pier into the lake. It was like our, we were there at like sunset, which was beautiful. But then it got dark very quickly and I was like, I don't know if I want to jump into the lake. And it was like a pretty far jump into the lake and then you had to like swim to a ladder to crawl up. I was a little like chicken to do that. So they had these five gallon buckets that you could hoist down into the lake and then pull up the water and then just throw it over your, your head as your cold plunge.
So I did that because it was a little bit more accessible to me.
But man, it was life changing.
I cannot recommend it enough. And I had never done a sauna that hot before.
[00:12:07] Speaker D: 190.
[00:12:08] Speaker A: Yeah, seems hot. Yeah, yeah. They range between. That particular sauna ranges between 185, 185 and 195.
[00:12:16] Speaker D: Did you not burn? How did you not?
[00:12:19] Speaker A: I don't know. I mean, you're fine. What was interesting is that my sister had a stainless steel bar, like industrial piercing in her ear and she'd take it out because it was burning her ear.
[00:12:30] Speaker D: Oh God.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: But yeah, I didn't have stainless steel jewelry and so I was okay. But it was interesting.
Yeah, it was just like so cleansing and yeah, it was pretty great. So highly recommend. Now I'm like seeking them out everywhere.
I'm like, how can I? I don't know if it's like as easy in Colorado to do that kind of thing because we don't have like oceans and I don't know if we have lakes that.
[00:12:57] Speaker E: Union Reservoir, there might be something up in Estes.
[00:13:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I think I found something in like Bailey. But anyway, I'm sure there's something I can find. But anyway, it was, it was pretty.
Yeah, it was pretty remarkable. Highly recommend.
Six out of five stars.
Yeah. So anyway, that's new. It was a new brand new experience for me.
[00:13:17] Speaker D: So you seem refreshed.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I liked it a lot. And I feel. Yeah, I feel refreshed.
Okay, well, let's get into the music.
What's up first? I think Sergio's song.
[00:13:30] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess so.
It is mine.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: All right.
[00:13:34] Speaker D: This song is called Never Be Me, Parentheses mother beep.
I guess going on YouTube so by cherry bo.
[00:14:00] Speaker C: Can never be me when you're looking for somebody to leave Darling know that it will never be me Cuz you love to make them suffer oh you if you ever find another she better be a runner I hope you get the help that you need but it will never be me Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep 3am texting that you drown Call out of the hole you dug Telling me I'm the only one if you counting one of a million little men always crying wo Careful now it's not how it's bl.
Little lamb with enough for her got a standing ho from Hollywood I'm not a quitter but you know I have no choice Lottery winner you're such a lucky boy.
Neighbor Darling know that you will never be Cuz you love to make them suffer oh you if you ever find another she better be a runner I hope it get the hurt that you need but it will never be me Drowning in crocodile tears in it deep into cavalier whirlpool spinning crystal clear do you have to cover every single mirror? I'm not a quitter but you know I have no choice Lottery winner you're such a lucky boy I hope you get the Darling know that you can Time for somebody to leave up Darling know that it will never be me Cuz you love to make him suffer oh you if you ever find another she better be a runner.
I hope that you know that it can never be me Know that it can never be.
[00:17:27] Speaker D: That was never be me by never be me parentheses motherfucker. My cherry Jerry Bond.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: Man, I love a good, like, club song with a lady telling a guy to go fuck off.
It's like a great. Such a great combo. I don't know any. Like, I don't really. I know, like, two Taylor Swift songs, so I'm not gonna, like, pretend that I know anything about Taylor Swift, but for some reason, like, if you took, like, the backing track from, like, a Robin song, and then for some reason, Taylor Swift came to mind towards the end, singing on top of that is kind of what I was imagining.
She didn't really have, like, the same voice. As Robin, but it was like Robin Dancy backing tracks is like kind of the vibe that I was getting and like an angrier Taylor Swift again, I don't know any. I don't. I'm not gonna pretend to know any Taylor Swift songs, but I feel like she's all about like, yeah, whatever, I'm over you and moving on.
T. Swift.
[00:18:38] Speaker C: I don't know.
[00:18:39] Speaker E: I don't know.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: I don't know. Like not. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it, but anyway. But yeah, that was. I mean, I just wanted to dance. I was like picturing like strobe lights in a club. And yeah, it was a lot of fun. Even though it was like kind of angry. It was like, it was very fun.
[00:18:58] Speaker E: Yeah, I had the same kind of sentiment.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: Oh, you go.
It was fun. It didn't sound like human beings played on it except for the vocal. Everything else was like some angry woman playing over a track.
Pre recorded track, which made it more interesting, I think.
But it was fun. And you know that initial motherfucker. Yeah.
[00:19:26] Speaker A: It just hits you.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like, I'm gonna listen to this from now.
[00:19:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: So yeah, I like it because you're
[00:19:33] Speaker A: just like, woo, I'm gonna party, listen to this dance. Then you're like, wait, what?
[00:19:38] Speaker E: Hold up, what are the lyrics? Yeah, yeah, but no, I very much felt that same kind of vibe where it's like, this is fun. Then you listen closer to the lyrics and it was like these, you would not think that these match, but it's a fun time.
It's like that's some of my favorite type of music sometimes is like when the lyrics just absolutely do not match the music in a sense or it takes you a second to register what, what the lyrics actually are. Because it gets you to kind of do a double take and then it makes you pay closer attention, which I always find so much fun in music.
[00:20:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:19] Speaker E: And yeah, it's like I felt myself thinking of some songs that one have made me feel that way before of like doing that double take of like. Wait, what did you just say?
Mixed with kind of that fun angry woman music.
Me and my sister, there's a group we listen to called Diamante that has. They're a little bit more rock metal, but it's some of that same kind of stuff where it's like, you can go fuck yourself, but we're gonna have fun about it.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: Yeah, but we're going clubbing too.
[00:20:48] Speaker E: So it's like those are some of the things that came to mind. Where it's just like. Yeah. Kind of forcing people to pay attention to the song when you don't realize what it is about at first. And then also just having fun as an angry woman is always nice.
So those. Those are my two things.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: I could, like, picture her just, like, playing the backing track. Like, she finds one, she's like, I like this one. And then she's just, like, angry singing over the backing track.
Yeah. Cool. So, Sergio, tell us all about this song.
[00:21:17] Speaker D: I mean, I don't know much about this. It came out a couple weeks ago. It showed up on my Discover Weekly. I think the.
The singer.
She is the lead singer in Mr. Wives.
[00:21:31] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:21:32] Speaker B: Who?
[00:21:33] Speaker D: I. I started. Listen, there. There's one song that you might remember or I. I. So I started listening to them anyway. Yeah, I. I just thought this was, like, so incredibly addicting. And the clubby aspect of it, I was not expecting at all. But it also just sounds, like, so familiar. Like, there's a.
I don't know. It just. I was like, I've heard this before, but I haven't, because it clearly just came out.
But I just thought it was. Yeah, it was really fun. So that's all I have.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Cool. So the singer, you said is in another band?
[00:22:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Okay. So this is like a side.
[00:22:10] Speaker D: I think it's a side project.
[00:22:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:13] Speaker D: First song, first single.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: Cool.
Yeah.
Nice. Now I'm in the mood to go clubbing.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: After your sauna.
[00:22:24] Speaker D: After the sauna.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: After the sauna or. No, I was, like, ready for bed. I think I ate, like, a giant salad and then I went to bed.
[00:22:31] Speaker E: Sauna after sauna after clubbing.
[00:22:33] Speaker A: Sauna after clubbing. Yeah. Because you've got a lot of toxins in your body probably, if you're going clubbing.
[00:22:39] Speaker E: So cleanse it all.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: Yeah, Exactly.
Cool.
[00:22:42] Speaker D: All right. The next song is called Modal Soul by New Jabez.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:52] Speaker D: And Oyama Hiroto.
[00:24:30] Speaker F: It.
[00:24:55] Speaker C: Sam.
It's.
It.
Sa.
[00:27:41] Speaker D: That was Modal Soul by New Jabbis and Oyama Hiroto.
I could just hear, like, a ongoing hum.
Was that. Anyone else hear that? It was, like, in the back. That would, like, go.
Is that supposed to be there?
[00:27:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Okay.
[00:28:01] Speaker D: It was so distracting to me. I just.
[00:28:03] Speaker B: I was like.
[00:28:04] Speaker D: I thought I was going crazy. I was like, what the fuck is this?
[00:28:06] Speaker E: I didn't even notice.
[00:28:07] Speaker D: And that's all I could. Once I started hearing it, that's all I could focus on. And then the, like, random chirping.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: Right.
[00:28:14] Speaker D: I was like. I mean, at first, I was like, oh, I'm somewhere tropical. But now I've felt like I'm, like, in a city, and, like, in a tropical city.
I don't know.
[00:28:24] Speaker A: I feel like city is a good analogy, because the way that I thought of it was, like. So what's interesting is that, like, let's say. Let's, like, categorize this into jazz. That's pretty broad brushing it, but, like, let's just do it. I feel like a lot of times when you listen to jazz, it's like.
It's like a. It's like a conversation. So it's like somebody's talking louder, and then somebody's talking quieter, and somebody else talks a little bit louder, and then somebody else talks quieter, and it's sort of like you're passing it back and forth, but you're all kind of working together in a cohesive thing. I think what was different about this is that, like, it was just like, all right, y'.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: All.
[00:28:57] Speaker A: Y' all play at the same time. Just do your thing.
But it all, like, works together. Like, it's layered. Like a city where it's like, everybody's like, the bus is doing this thing, the pedestrian's doing this thing, and the bike's doing this thing. But it's all. They're all, like, working together.
It's, like, chaotic, but, like, organized chaos in a way.
That's kind of what one thing I felt was so interesting about this, is that, like, they were all playing their own thing, but it was all, like, layered on top of each other. And it's not like one was really louder than the other. Sometimes you could hear the piano a little bit more, the saxophone a little bit more. But, like, for the most part, they were all just kind of, like, in the same pool.
The baseline, like, is what sort of hooked me at the beginning. And I feel like I followed that for most of it.
But, yeah, I felt like I was in a dreamscape. Like, it was very hypnotizing for me. Maybe it was the baseline, I don't know. But that was kind of like. It was like one of those things where it was like. When it started to fade, I felt like I, like, snapped out of it, and I was like, oh, I'm here.
I'm back in it.
Do we know what mode the song is in? That's, like, a very nerdy music thing to ask.
No, Now I'm like, I don't. I'm not, like, as. I'm not, like, that good of a musician to be like, oh, that's the phrygian mode.
But I'm curious now, like, if they were all playing in, like, the same mode.
[00:30:25] Speaker B: Probably.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: And that's why it worked. That was kind of what I was envisioning.
Anyway. Sorry.
[00:30:34] Speaker E: I got the same kind of dreamy but also cityscape thing that you were talking about, or at least similar. I know last podcast I talked about Vaporwave, and that's like. I kind of got that in my head again a little bit. It was like that mixed with either utopian slash utopian dystopian, like, more modern cityscape, where it's like you see one of those, like, there's a train in Hunger Games that, like, goes super fast. And I know there's parts of it that look like, super clean, super sleek. So it's like. That popped into my head where it's just like, you see one of these really fast, super sleek trains that's just traveling through, like, a city.
And in my head, it was kind of like the train equivalent of elevator music was what I also.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: I also thought elevator music, but, like, not bad. Like, not. I feel like some people give fantasy a bad connotation, but I also thought, like, really good hold music.
[00:31:29] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:31:29] Speaker A: I was on hold for a little while today, and it was like that same song that, like every. It was like, no, but I thought, like, man, this would be really dope. Like, hold music.
[00:31:41] Speaker E: Yeah. Like, the other thing that popped into my head too was like, if you have, like a movie, like, in a movie, you have a sequence where you're showing off the city, you're showing off kind of how people travel, all this kind of stuff. You have this, like, first, further out view of a train going through the city, maybe at, like, twilight or dusk or like, as the sun is going down. And it's like you have the song playing as you're showing off kind of how people travel in the city was kind of. I would say that that is the summary of what my brain saw when I heard this song.
[00:32:11] Speaker A: Yeah. You've got the train and the biker and the walker and the bus and the. Yeah.
[00:32:15] Speaker E: And just as you're traveling through the city with these people, it's like you're hearing this song.
[00:32:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:21] Speaker B: Well, New Job is. First of all, it's Japanese music.
[00:32:26] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:32:28] Speaker B: Because I was looking for music like Rads Wimps. If you don't know Rad's Wimps, they do soundtracks for anime movies.
So they did one, the one for Wuthering with youh and one that is one of my favorites called Suzume So I went down that rabbit hole and somehow I ended up here.
And this guy is a very influential Japanese producer, composer, tragically died in a car accident in 2010, but he did a lot of stuff like this and then some. A lot of hip hop is taken in. His is done over his tracks.
So I found this one. I said, yeah, yeah. And it's exactly wrong for what I wanted to use it for, but I liked it. So this is how I got here.
[00:33:23] Speaker A: Yeah, that's really cool. So wait, so what were you hoping to find to use?
[00:33:29] Speaker B: I've got an idea for a little short documentary because a friend of mine has a 1920 Model T and he drives it.
[00:33:39] Speaker A: You've talked about this car before.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: Yeah. He drives it in the springtime, in the summertime, and then he puts it away.
So it's coming out probably next month.
And so we just thought we'd do something, but it's exactly the wrong type of music.
[00:33:58] Speaker A: But that's what you were searching for and found it. Cool.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: So I'm still looking, but anyway, I found this guy and a lot of his stuff is so good.
[00:34:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I like it. I could see, like, hip hop using it as, like, backing tracks. That makes sense.
[00:34:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very cinematic and it's very layered also.
[00:34:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:34:23] Speaker B: So anyway, and radzwim's gonna shout out to radwim because they do incredible stuff for anime movies.
Cool. All right, so that's it.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: Wow, Cool. Interesting. Learned so many new things today.
Thanks, Eric.
[00:34:41] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: All right, what's next?
[00:34:44] Speaker B: What's next?
[00:34:44] Speaker D: Hold on.
Oh, shit.
[00:34:47] Speaker A: I think Molly's song.
[00:34:49] Speaker D: All right, the next song is called Ad Astra by starset.
By starset.
[00:35:13] Speaker C: Star.
[00:35:17] Speaker F: Do you wonder what you are
[00:35:23] Speaker C: In
[00:35:23] Speaker F: a world of ugly things?
You're where the dream of goes to dream.
The dream goes to dream.
To the Stepping into the dark Two stars become.
Stars become fine.
To be afraid of where you are.
In a place of lonely seas.
You're at a drift to go to me.
Into the emptiness, the infinite out to where it all began.
Into the nothingness, the bitter test. I'll do anything I can.
I just wish that I'd be with you in the end.
[00:37:01] Speaker C: And I swear
[00:37:05] Speaker F: to the only one stepping into the dark.
To the stars we come. You find I time on the bright side.
I hope you find love.
I hope you find love.
I hope you find love you
[00:37:41] Speaker C: I
[00:37:42] Speaker F: hope you find out.
I hope you find out.
Will you forget me when I go?
Will you fall at me? Forgive me when I'm gone.
[00:38:29] Speaker C: Bright
[00:38:32] Speaker F: Stepping into the dark stars we come from.
[00:39:34] Speaker D: That was Ad Astra by Starset.
[00:39:39] Speaker B: I just want to find out about it.
[00:39:41] Speaker A: I mean, epic.
[00:39:43] Speaker E: I can tell you so much here in a minute.
[00:39:45] Speaker A: I feel like.
Yeah, that was so, like. I mean, cinematic, similar to what we were kind of just talking about, but completely different realm of cinema. Cinema.
Yeah, it was. It was like lush and just like, so full of, like, I don't know, picturing, like, astronauts and like this. This big, like, rock band on stage with this giant production.
And like, I don't know, it's just like. There's just so. So many, like, really big, giant visuals that I feel like could go along with this. I also.
Do you know the band May?
Anybody know the band May? No. M A Y, M A E May.
So I listened to them, maybe May. Good one. Good one. I listened to them a lot in high school, and for some reason I was getting kind of a similar vibe here. And it's like May is like the watered down version of this, but like, similar kind of vocals, similar kind of like lush sound.
And so I was kind of getting.
Again, it would be a very watered down version of this, but I feel like. I feel like they could be kind of in the same realm in some way. But, yeah, a lot of production,
[00:41:07] Speaker B: mixing of the voices and the instruments.
[00:41:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:10] Speaker B: Just an orchestra and then maybe another orchestra. Just big. It was big and cool.
[00:41:19] Speaker D: I'm curious if it has anything to do with the movie Astra.
[00:41:23] Speaker E: I don't think so.
[00:41:24] Speaker D: No.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:41:25] Speaker D: It also reminded me, I think it was either you or you brought Apollo by Thomas Bergenberger.
[00:41:31] Speaker B: That was me.
[00:41:32] Speaker D: Okay. That's what it reminded me of, that one. I was like, oh. At first I thought it was gonna be something like that, and then, oh, there's vocals and yeah, it was grand. I felt like I was in a spaceship getting away from here.
[00:41:47] Speaker C: Bye. Bye. See ya. Bye.
[00:41:51] Speaker A: All right, I need to. Yeah, we need to know about this.
[00:41:53] Speaker E: Okay. So for anyone who doesn't know, Ad Astra infinitum means to the stars forever.
So that's one of the repeated lines of the song.
But Starset, which I am wearing hoodie right now because they are my favorite band, didn't even notice that they. How to describe them? They are kind of a mixture of cinematic and rock and metal sometimes, and sometimes more like alternative.
But their whole thing is that they are kind of a sci fi music band where they call their concerts demonstrations.
Because I'm trying to remember all the lore. It's Been a second since I've looked at all of it.
But basically the way they operate and the way they present the band and the music they make is a message was sent from the future that if we don't do better, then the world is going to become this dystopian world.
So the music is them basically repeating this message in different ways that they have been, that they came across.
And it's like, I.
I got to go see them live in 2024. I want to say it is the absolute best live performance I have ever seen.
It was so entertaining.
If you guys have seen, like the holographic discs that spin and, like do a projection on it, they put together multiple of those to create a wall for this performance to show different, like, technological things going on while they're performing. And they had, like film sequences going on between songs to take you through this story that they are playing for you.
It is so freaking cool. I love it so much. I cannot wait to see them again.
But, yeah, it's basically. That's their whole thing. Some of their other music is a lot heavier. And some of the other songs from this album, there's a song called Degenerate where it's showing old art from the American Revolution. But they got artists permission, like modern artists permission to put it through AI to distort it and make it look weird to kind of put forward this perspective of America right now.
So they do some stuff like that too.
But they have, like a whole world of lore that goes into a lot of their songs.
Sorry, excuse me. About wanting to like, make the world better.
And with this song in particular, they. They have two different music videos. One of them is astronauts on a spaceship, or one astronaut on a spaceship going to find another person.
But my favorite music video for this song, it's like an animated black and white, beautifully done style.
And the part where it kind of gets high pitched and he's saying, like, will you love me when I'm gone?
You literally see, like someone's soul being disconnected from their body in a hospital.
It's incredibly beautiful. I highly recommend watching that music video if you're interested, because the art style itself is just gorgeous in my mind. And then you have the actual story of the music video. But that's. That's my all over the place tangent of what Starset is trying to condense it down.
[00:45:23] Speaker A: Wow. They have lore for all of their.
[00:45:26] Speaker E: They have books.
[00:45:27] Speaker A: That's wild.
[00:45:27] Speaker E: They've written books.
[00:45:28] Speaker A: Are they from America?
[00:45:30] Speaker E: Yeah, I think they're from Connecticut. If I remember correctly.
[00:45:34] Speaker D: I feel like they should play at the Sphere in Las Vegas.
[00:45:37] Speaker E: Yeah, they would have so much fun with that.
[00:45:39] Speaker A: Where did you see them when you saw them? Here.
[00:45:43] Speaker E: What's it called?
It's the one with, like, the purple chandeliers.
I want to say the Fillmore.
[00:45:52] Speaker A: Oh, I think.
Yeah, that sounds right. It's not the Paramount because I was just there and I get those two mixed up in my head.
[00:46:01] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:46:01] Speaker A: So it's probably the Fillmore and it's.
[00:46:03] Speaker E: I always need to remember it's not the Mission Ballroom, despite the chandeliers. It is not the Mission Ballroom. So I want to say it's the Fillmore that I saw them at.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: I was expecting you to be like, oh, Ballerina.
Because that's where I can picture them.
[00:46:19] Speaker E: They're coming to Ballerina this year, but they're opening for Breaking Benjamin.
[00:46:23] Speaker A: Oh, man. Breaking Benjamin. That's a blast from the past.
[00:46:27] Speaker E: So I'm like. I'm debating if I actually want to buy a ticket to go see them or not. Because it's like, okay, they're one of four openers. And then there's Breaking Benjamin and it's like, I just want to see Star set.
[00:46:38] Speaker A: Yeah, we should be able to sell you tickets. Or it's like partial concert. Yeah, I just want to see the opener.
[00:46:43] Speaker E: Yeah, I want to see. It's one particular group and then I want to leave.
[00:46:47] Speaker D: Yeah, that's a billion dollar startup.
[00:46:49] Speaker A: Yeah. I feel like I've been in that boat before.
I just want to see this guy. And then I'm done.
[00:46:55] Speaker E: They are genuinely so much fun to watch perform. And it's like I'm someone that's like, how many people?
I want to say it's six band members, which just reminded me of another point you mentioned, like, orchestra and stuff. Two of the members. One of them plays violin, one of them plays cello, and then they have a person that does piano, slash the techie stuff.
[00:47:14] Speaker A: That's cool.
[00:47:15] Speaker E: And then guitars and singer and. Yeah.
[00:47:18] Speaker A: Wow.
Yeah, I mean, I can imagine they are probably amazing to see live. Just like the production value of it,
[00:47:25] Speaker E: I'm sure, is, even if you're not the biggest fan of the music, being able to go see the performance they put on. I would highly recommend.
[00:47:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
Oh, man, that's cool.
[00:47:36] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:47:36] Speaker E: I can talk forever about that.
[00:47:38] Speaker A: Thank you so much for bringing that.
I love. I love it. It's. Yeah, that's great.
[00:47:45] Speaker D: All right, onto the last and final song of the evening.
Is it worth it? That's the name of the song worth it, just worth it I hope it's worth it by Ray R A Y
[00:47:57] Speaker C: E.
[00:48:28] Speaker E: I'm just trying to tell you
[00:48:29] Speaker A: how I feel if my body was
[00:48:31] Speaker G: a boat could you stare that sailor make it feel like it's a 1960s Hollywood trailer classic like cars classic like Elizabeth Taylor teacher to me I need to give another take I could love you if I really wanted to you could be my glass of wine sunset let me exhale my exes baby, baby, baby, baby would you, would you make it all right?
Or maybe that much better if you wanted you could make it all worth it worth it worth it, worth it Ooh, when I see the sun rising you figured out my strength better going to make it all worth it worth it.
This is the night something thought it's making me cry get the.
Credential self residentials oh, baby boy, you got so much potential I could love you if I really wanted to you
[00:50:07] Speaker C: could be be my glass of wine sunset let me.
[00:51:03] Speaker G: All of my plans and I'm holding my breath.
To give your baby so hope you gonna make it all worth it Worth it.
[00:52:13] Speaker B: 21st century R B female vocal.
Started out like. I thought it was gonna be like Billie Holiday, because last time I was here, it was gonna be like Billie Holiday. Well, we did. You did. You brought Billie Holiday. And then it turned into just sweet little dancey pop track.
But cool. Very cool.
[00:52:37] Speaker D: That was awesome. Yeah, that was more than worth it.
I didn't wanna make a silly pun like that, but I feel like I have to.
[00:52:45] Speaker E: Puns are the best.
[00:52:46] Speaker B: Somebody's gonna do it.
[00:52:47] Speaker D: It was really good. That was really good. I was not expecting it to get all poppy. I got, like.
It reminded me of, like, Justin Timberlake, Future Sex Love, like, some of the, like, I guess, experimental, like, combinations. But it was. That was awesome. Wow. I'm excited to listen to this album.
[00:53:08] Speaker E: I want to say that I've heard her before.
I think she's been coming recently.
I want to say I've seen a clip recently of, like, her and some backup singers singing about, like. I don't remember all the lyrics because they were going so damn fast, but, like, something about a ring and a
[00:53:26] Speaker A: man needing a husband.
[00:53:27] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:53:27] Speaker A: Yes. Is it her? That's her, like, most recent big single,
[00:53:32] Speaker E: I think, from last year because I've been seeing more and more clips of her recently. And it's so much fun to watch her perform because it's so much of that kind of. She has a voice that fits kind of some of the older jazz that I sang when I was in high school for, like, jazz choir and stuff.
But she's like. It's so smooth. And then there's almost like rap qualities about how she performs sometimes. It's insane. And I love watching her because she's just. One, she's so much fun to watch.
But two, she's just. The way it comes out is so smooth and clean. Is like.
She's very pleasant to listen to.
[00:54:08] Speaker A: Yeah. And she's pretty.
[00:54:09] Speaker E: Yes.
[00:54:10] Speaker A: Yes.
She's gorgeous.
Yeah. So I. I don't remember how I came across this song, but I have, like, a saved playlist of, like, when I'm getting ready for this podcast, I put things into that playlist, like, when I listen to them, and I go, oh, that's one I want to bring. That's one I want to bring. And so I have kind of like a saved playlist, so that's a great idea.
[00:54:32] Speaker D: So you didn't listen to it this week?
[00:54:34] Speaker A: I mean, not technically.
[00:54:35] Speaker E: I think earlier.
[00:54:37] Speaker A: Earlier this week I was, like, listening to some other music and it was just kind of sad, and I was just kind of like.
And it's because I was.
I don't know anyway, but it was just kind of sad and I was like, I don't really want to bring that. It's like, warm out, even though it shouldn't be, so.
But I'm feeling like, I don't know, I want to be outside. And so then I'm, like, looking for more upbeat music. But I was, like, going through that playlist earlier this week of those songs, and so I was listening to it this week, but just, like, kind of prompted by coming here.
See, I don't remember how I found it originally, but, yeah, she's.
Apparently, she's very big on social media.
I don't have any social media, so I don't know this, but.
But apparently that's.
I think a lot of people know her from there. She's really big in Britain. Like, I think she's won a bunch of awards. Like Brit pop awards.
Yes. Yeah. She's from Tooting.
[00:55:33] Speaker D: Tooting.
[00:55:34] Speaker A: Tooting, Tooting, Tooting, Tooting, Tooting. Yeah.
Yeah. I think she's. I think her mom is, like, Ghanaian, Swiss, and then her dad's, like, from Yorkshire or something like that.
[00:55:46] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:55:48] Speaker A: But, yeah, she. So she's really big in England, but she.
This album that she released was like. She. I think she, like, self released it kind of a thing, but her background is like. She wrote songs for, like, Beyonce, Charlie xcx, so she's collaborated with a lot of people before, like, pretty well known pop, R and B artists, and then was like, I'm going to do my own thing. And she released this album, and I think she has a newer one that the I Need a Husband song is maybe from.
But, yeah, I mean, you could probably tell she's, like, very heavily influenced from jazz and R B and like, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong are, like, listed as, like, some of her influences. And, like, the beginning of the song is very much like, kind of like when you listen to an old jazz standard, how they have like, the little. The little beginning coda thing before they. Before they get into, like, the main part of the song, which is kind of what this is. But, yeah, it, like, totally flips the switch and you're just like, wait a minute.
[00:56:54] Speaker B: What?
[00:56:54] Speaker A: That's not what I was expecting. But, yeah, she has a beautiful voice. And, yeah, she's. Yeah, she's pretty cool. She's. Yeah, I've only watched, like, a video or two, but, yeah, she's pretty fun to watch perform. And, yeah, I don't know, like, a ton of her catalog. Just like, yeah, couple songs here and there. But yeah, I also want to dig in more. I think she won, like, I think she was. I think I read today, when I was, like, reading up a little bit more on her, that she was the first woman to win, like, Best Songwriter for, like, some British music award. I don't. It's like, maybe their version of the Grammys,
[00:57:37] Speaker E: but.
[00:57:37] Speaker A: Yeah. So sweet. Yeah. She's typically billed as, like, singer, songwriter, slash record producer, which is kind of interesting because, like, you listen to this and you're like, singer, songwriter.
But anyway, yeah, it's fun. It's a fun dancing one. It's like, you listen to that while you're making dinner in the kitchen and dancing. Yeah, it's hard to listen to that one sitting down. Oh, yeah, I'll say.
[00:58:03] Speaker D: I normally listen. Yeah, I tend to listen to the albums of, like, whatever you guys bring. I, like, listen then to the full album over between now and the next one. So I did that with all of your guys last month. So excited to do that again for this month.
[00:58:19] Speaker A: Cool.
Nice. Well, thanks for doing that.
That's great.
[00:58:25] Speaker D: I mean, I'm not getting paid or anything.
[00:58:27] Speaker C: No, I know.
[00:58:28] Speaker A: But you're a good student.
[00:58:29] Speaker D: I'm a good student.
[00:58:31] Speaker A: Oh, I thought of you, Eric. When I was in the hotel in Portland, they were playing.
What is it? Hiatus? Coyote. Yeah. In the lobby of the hotel. I'm like, this hotel is hip.
[00:58:42] Speaker D: Is that Karangabin?
[00:58:44] Speaker A: No, no, that's the band name.
[00:58:46] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:58:46] Speaker A: I don't think they. I think they played the song that you brought.
[00:58:48] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:58:49] Speaker A: Which was kind of fun. I don't think it was a. It was def. Because I know a few of their songs now after you brought them, and I was. I think it was the one that you brought.
[00:58:58] Speaker B: Band on the Rise.
[00:58:59] Speaker A: Yeah. But. Yeah, the Ritz Carlton in Portland has them on their playlist.
[00:59:03] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:59:04] Speaker D: Everything's beautiful. Oh, I don't. Yeah, I don't think I was. I don't remember that one.
[00:59:09] Speaker A: Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I was listening to them a lot, like, a month ago, so they were in my brain rotation, so that's probably why I picked up on it.
All right, cool. Anything else?
[00:59:22] Speaker E: Fun songs?
[00:59:22] Speaker A: All right. Yeah. Good. Good selections today.
[00:59:25] Speaker D: Very good.
[00:59:25] Speaker A: Eric, it's so great to have you back.
[00:59:27] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:59:30] Speaker A: Sergio. We don't care about you.
[00:59:33] Speaker D: Nobody does. It's okay. I'm not worth it.
[00:59:36] Speaker A: Terrible.
[00:59:37] Speaker C: Terrible.
[00:59:37] Speaker E: But you listen to the Worth it song, and then you are worth it, right?
[00:59:40] Speaker A: Exactly.
Well, thanks, everyone, for listening. Shout out to our fans. Thanks for tuning in. If you have a song you'd like us to listen to, drop it in the comments or send us an email. Helloongmontpublicmedia.org until next time.
