Completely Conspicuous 128: Stranger in a Strange Land

My guest on the podcast this week is Matt Phillion, who discusses his adventures in Ireland. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:

- Matt moved to Ireland in late February

- Followed a girl

- Had never been out of the U.S. before

- Fun with Irish border agents

- Home straightening out his paperwork

- Massive life change

- Culture shock: Lack of water pressure

- Matt's proud to be an American

- Food's fine if you don't eat Irish

- Guinness makes a meal

- Matt ate a lot of lamb, Chinese food

- (Visit from my 6-year-old)

- Saw Hope Sandoval play

- In Ireland, everything requires a conversation

- Picking up different pronunciations

- Tipping differences

- Irish moonshine tastes sweet, smells like turpentine

- Hurling is Matt's new favorite sport: Kill the man with the ball

- Irish follow rugby, soccer, hurling--but not cricket

- Matt confronts Polish bouncer with unintelligible accent

- Never turn down a drink in Ireland

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

The Hold Steady - Hurricane J

The Roots with Jim James - Dear God, 2.0

Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure

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The Hold Steady song is on the album Heaven is Whenever on Vagrant Records. Download the song for free at Insound.

The Roots song is on the forthcoming album How I Got Over on Island Def Jam Records, where you can download the song for free.

The Wolf Parade song is on the band's album Expo 86 on Sub Pop Records. Download the song for free at Soundcloud.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog.

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Completely Conspicuous 125: The Camera Eye

The podcast's back with special guest Ric Dube as we program our own TV networks. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:

- Wiping out the CW

- Check out Dube's blog and forthcoming podcast, More Lost Time

- Part of the NAC podcast network

- Saturday morning programming

- Kumar: The Misadventures and Sad Life of Scrappy Doo

- Many ghost-chasing cartoons in the '70s

- Dube: The Blair Witch Laugh Factory and Crazy Hour Featuring Woof Woof

- Kumar: The Haughty Endorphin Seizure Hour

- Dube: Toredeing Ukado

- Kumar: iMarley

- Dube: Next of Kin Bandstand

- Kumar: Thundarr the Librarian

- Dube: Cereal Wars

- Ric's co-worker Rachel suffered through this pitch

- Kumar: Wile E. Coyote's Revenge

- Road Runner's dark side is revealed

- Saturday night

- Dube: Route 128

- A look at pissed off Mass. drivers stuck in traffic

- Kumar: The Wonderful World of Hakayashi

- Dube: Arkancilliopoulos

- Promo: Arkancilliopoulos

- Kumar: Trump's Trillions

- Kumar: KTV Movie of the Week

- Opposite of Lifetime movies

- Dube's SNL competitor: Chipmunk Playhouse

- All squeakquel, all the time

- Promo: Chipmunk Playhouse does Jaws

- Kumar's SNL competitor: Yakov Smirnov's What a Country Laugh Riot

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

Interpol - Lights

Wolf Parade - What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had to Go This Way)

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The show is sponsored by Budget, the country's premier car rental service with 900 locations. Go to Budget.com/CompCon and save 10% off any reservation or $30 off a weekly rental.

The Interpol song is a new song released by the band; no new album information is available yet. Download the song for free from the band's site.

The Wolf Parade song is on the new album Expo 86 on Sub Pop Records, where you can download the song for free.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog.

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Completely Conspicuous 98: The Decade in Rock, Part 3

The podcast is back with part 3 of my look at the decade in rock with special guest Jay Breitling. Click here to listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly here (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:

- Breitling's 2005 picks: A-Sides, Meneguar, The Hold Steady, Wolf Parade, Logh, Mazarin

- Big ups to Philly indie rock

- Was the Hold Steady influential?

- Kumar's 2005 picks: Bloc Party, Spoon, New Pornographers, Death From Above 1979

- 2006: Ringtones were big business

- Bands selling out in commercials

- Breitling's 2006 picks: Fields, Snowden, Armalite, Lemonheads, The Hold Steady, Okay Paddy, Up Up Down Down etc., McLusky, Haywood

- Kumar's 2006 picks: Mission of Burma, Drive-By Truckers, Arctic Monkeys, TVOTR, Destroyer, Sloan, Mastodon

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son

- Bloc Party - Helicopter

- The Lemonheads - No Backbone

- Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start - Janet Bateman

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The Wolf Parade song is on the 2005 album Apologies to the Queen Mary on Sub Pop Records, where you can download the track.

The Bloc Party song is on their 2005 debut Silent Alarm on Dim Mak Records. The song is courtesy of Mevio's Music Alley.

The Lemonheads song is on their 2006 self-titled album on Vagrant Records, where you can download the song.

The Up Up Down Down song is on the 2006 self-released EP Girls Names. Find out more and download the song here.

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography here.

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Completely Conspicuous Episode 56: This is Your Brain on Drugs

Just cranked out the latest ep of CompCon. Some good stuff, methinks. Do check it out here (right click and "Save as").

Show notes...

Topics:
- The world of pharmaceutical drugs
- The obsolescence of the necktie
- Pinhead of the Week

Music:
- Mudhoney - I'm Now
- Wolf Parade - Language City
- The Chelsea Smiles - Nothing Wrong
- The Black Halos - Disbelief
- The Zambonis with James Kochalka - Hockey Monkey

Promo:
- New England Podcasting

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The Mudhoney song is on the new album The Lucky Ones. The Wolf Parade song is on the new album At Mount Zoomer. Both songs are courtesy of Sub Pop Records, where you can find out more and download the tracks.

The Zambonis song is on the album More Songs About Hockey...and Buildings and Food on Tarquin Records; find out more and buy the album here.

The Black Halos song is on the new album We Are Not Alone. The Chelsea Smiles song is on the album Thirty Six Hours Later. Both albums are on Acetate Records and both songs were provided by IODA Promonet:

The Chelsea Smiles
"Nothing Wrong" (mp3)
from "Thirty Six Hours Later"
(Acetate Records)

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"Disbelief" (mp3)
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(Acetate Records)

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of Mark Campbell.

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Completely Conspicuous Episode 54: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

While praying for no rain on Sunday in New Jersey, I cranked out the latest episode of CompCon. Download it directly here (right click and "save as").

The show notes...

Topics:
- Shark attack hysteria
- Lessons learned from six years of parenting
- Pinhead of the Week

Music:
- Dead Meadow - What Needs Must Be
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Cold Son
- Centro-Matic - I the Kite
- Wolf Parade - Call It a Ritual
- Joseph Arthur - Killer's Knife

Promo:
- New England Podcasting.

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The song from Dead Meadow is on their album Old Growth; the Stephen Malkmus song is on the album Real Emotional Trash. Both albums are on Matador Records, where you can find out more and download the songs.

The Centro-Matic song is on the new album Dual Hawks. The song is courtesy of Misra Records, where you can find out more and download the track. The song from Wolf Parade is on the new album At Mount Zoomer. The song is courtesy of Sub Pop Records, where you can find out more and download the track.

The Joseph Arthur song is on the EP Crazy Rain on Lonely Astronaut Records. The song is provided by IODA Promonet:

Joseph Arthur
"Killer's Knife" (mp3)
from "Crazy Rain"
(Lonely Astronaut Records)

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of Mark Campbell.

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Completely Conspicuous Episode 46: The Year in Rear View

Geez, you'd think with 10 days off from work, I'd have plenty of time to do a podcast or two. But between doing work that I brought home, finishing Christmas shopping, playing with my kids, entertaining guests, and watching televised sports, "studio" time (aka quiet time at the computer) has been scarce. But I had the afternoon free today while Deb took the girls to see the movie Enchanted, so I made the most of it. So here it is for your downloading pleasure (right click and "save as").

And as I wait for yet another snowstorm to hit, here are the show notes...

Topics:
- A look back at the year that was
- Pinhead of the Year

Music:
- The Shins - Phantom Limb
- Les Savy Fav - Brace Yourself
- Brian Jonestown Massacre - When Jokers Attack
- Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I am My Father's Son
- The Thermals - No Culture Icons

Promo:
- New England Podcasting

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes, Yahoo Podcasts and Podcast Pickle podcast directories. Subscribe and write a review!

The song from Les Savy Fav is on their album Let's Stay Friends on French Kiss Records. It comes courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network.

The Shins song is on the album Wincing the Night Away. The Wolf Parade song is on the album Apologies to the Queen Mary. The Thermals song is on the album More Parts Per Million. All three songs are courtesy of Sub Pop Records, where you can find out more and download the songs for free.

The song from Brian Jonestown Massacre is on the album Tepid Peppermint Wonderland on Rubric Records. It was provided by IODA Promonet.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre
"When Jokers Attack" (mp3)
from "Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective"
(Rubric Records)

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling by visiting his muy excellente blog de la musica. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of Mark Campbell.

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