AE# 18 - Joseph Fenity Talks part 1
Download Podcast!Joseph was such a delight to have here in Austin. We only met for a brief few hours, but we made the best of every minute of it and it shows in this power-packed episode of Austin Exhaustion.
Joseph is starting his very own podcast out of San Francisco called
Porn Stars Talk and is set to premeire on January 4th of 2006! You can hear all about it on today's show.
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AE Promo 11-18-05 "Erect"
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The Pushpins - "Heartbeats" The Pushpins are an Austin original; I know the synth-player, who's actually studying abroad in Berlin for a year!
Thanks for all the plugs,
Fausto! who knew a promo was hidden in your words?!
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AE#17 - Stop Requested
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Haute Tension (US title, "High Tension") is director Alexandre Aja's third film [
Over the Rainbow, 1997;
Furia, 1999...yeah, I had to look those up too!]. In his ode to the horror/gore genre, he in no way limited himself. The two main characters, college friends Marie and Alexia, travel to the idyllic French countryside to get some serious studying in. Instead of doing that, they become the targets of a psychotic trucker capable of amazing feats of skill. My fave-move was the stairway deacpitation, which opened the bloodshed. As it turns out, Marie, the boy-cut blonde, has the hots for Alexia, but of course it's all unrequieted, leading the viewer to suspect her actions from the very beginning. Add to that Marie's early recount of a dream she had during the opening credits in which she, badly injured and bleeding profusely, was being chased through the woods by a killer, who turned out to be herself, and we have a fairly predictable outcome. Whether or not Aja was attempting to be complex with his plot, he get's extra points in
Tension for clever cinemagraphic story-telling that made the film a whole lot of fun to watch. Besides, who
doesn't like
French lesbians? Any Wes Craven fans out there will be happy to hear that he's pegged Aja to be the "future of horror," and has picked him to re-make his
1977,
The Hills Have Eyes.
AE#16 - Fun mit Audio
Download PodcastGINGER KIDS ARE PEOPLE TOO!
It’s audio experimentation day on Austin Exhaustion. I drag you the listener, kicking and screaming, into work with me, but fear not, there’re sound clips and music-bytes all along the way!
Tchaikovsky, Ginger-Kids (not Dag), UT’s beautiful
architecture and
Carlito’s Way all get me through this day, stay tuned until the end for a special easter egg featuring my ersatz co-host,
Amanda!
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AE#15 Everything's Leaking!
Download PodcastFun with audio on today’s podcast! I re-create South Park’s Queer Eye “
Crab-People” soundbyte for lack of finding one on the net and use it to carry my show for the fifteen minutes it runs.
Big props to Dag of
Dagomatik, a fellow podcaster who puts together great shows and music!
In news, I talk about two new intelligence leaks; one concerning
secret CIA prisons abroad and another concerning classified intelligence budgets, that are making the rounds this week as well as a bit on the
French Riots.
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T-shirt!Music provided by
Stereo Total with
Music Automatic and
Joe Le Taxi as the relevant track titles. Check em' out!
Thanks for listening!
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An Oasis in a Sea of...
I just thought I'd share a clipping from the
Daily Texan, UT's newspaper. That orange dot, by the by is where Austin lies. The clipping reads:
“The majority of voters in every county in the state except Travis County voted for Proposition 2:‘The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.’”
Living in Austin isn't exaclty the same thing as living in Texas, this definitely confirms it for me.
Disclaimer: I'm currently anti-marriage, but it would've been nice to be recognized as a human- being by the state of Texas for a day or two.
Video Update: US's Use of WP in Fallujah, 2004
Here are two links to video broadcasts where the subject of white phosphorous-use in Fallujah is discussed. The first takes you to the original Italian
RAI broadcast page where you can download it. The second is from
Democracy Now!note: you'll need the real media player installed to view the Democracy Now! clip.
Thank you
Mark Kraft for the links! Mark Kraft is a political blogger out of Santa Clara, California and was one of the early developers for
LiveJournal. Many of his ideas made what LiveJournal is today!
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AE#14 Constitutional Gay-Bashing
Download PodcastIs it god’s will or constitutional gay-bashing? On Tuesday, November 8th, I learned that the state of Texas, at least the vast majority of it, is keenly interested in establishing a de facto separate-and-unequal status quo when it comes to marriage. Although gay marriage is already considered illegal in the state of Texas, some legislators apparently thought it incumbent on them to politicize the issue through this controversial amendment intermingling gay rights, religious ideology, and simmering hatred all for the public to ratify via the vote.
Great job Texas, anybody in a blue state looking to hire and house a gay rights refugee?
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What Country is This, Anyway?
Today’s Democracy Now! had an interesting and disturbing report on the indiscriminant use of white phosphorous during the U.S. attack on Fallujah one year ago today. Amy Goodman had on three guests for the segment that included a former American soldier now speaking out against the war, a representative for the Pentagon in Iraq and the news director for the Italian TV network (RAI) that produced “Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre.” The Independent reports more on the criticism the U.S. is receiving from a leading campaign group concerned about this country's wanton use of weapons that are not considered chemical, but should be.
In other news, Proposition 2, a Texas constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage, passed with a stunning 76% approval, with over a third of the precincts reporting at the time of this update. It's a super-sad day in the state of Texas.
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The Lost Podcast
So Amanda and I arranged to get together one night last week to work on our first local-audio podcast. Local-audio essentially means that all participants in the show/interview record their audio locally and then send in their isolated recording through to the editor that runs all the audio together.
Sounds easy, right?
Well, I thought so too until about halfway through the show when Amanda was answering questions before I even asked them and hilarious laughter during dead pauses. It sounded a little schizo, so we shelved it. Oh well.
I'm still convinced I can make that type of show work, I just have to do more experimenting. But in the meantime, I've got a new podcast up with just me! Yay?
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