Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop
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Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls and...
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal
Charles Baudelaire and Jan Owen
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The poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating...
This House is Not for Sale
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This House is Not for Sale is a story about a house in an African neighbourhood, the Family House,...
Olives: Poems
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Finalist, 2012 NBCC Award in the Poetry categoryRecipient, 2011 MacArthur Fellowship and Guggenheim...
The Mountain Can Wait
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"Her face in the headlights flashed like a coin. She was an instant, the sulphuric flare of a...
Larry Eisner (2082 KP) rated Loot Time Podcast in Podcasts
Oct 3, 2018
This podcast is well crafted from an audio quality standpoint and from a “love of the game” style genuine feeling you get from the hosts. They really love pop culture discussion and it shines through.
They are comfortable with the banter and that’s not easy to make happen, especially within just 25 episodes (when I listened).
My criticism here is a matter of what plagues great intentioned media everywhere. Everyone and everything benefits from a great editor. Now, I’m not talking about topic censure or quality of audio or what other editors of podcasts sometimes do. I’m strictly speaking of editing for content coherency and poignancy.
These guys love to talk pop culture but as any conversation with people who are passionate, they have conversations that seem less interesting if you’re not on the same page. There’s a ton of great content and a lot of boring non-essential content. The non-essential content is usually what defines a conversation-style podcast, because it’s the character of the show. However a lot of times it seems the hosts are stretching for filler. Trying to make the topic of the box more relevant or simply going on a tangent to simply fill tape.
And that is where an editor comes in. I think this could be a FANTASTIC half hour show. But with the dryness of the reaching to stay on topic versus the naturally on-topic stuff, an hour is just too much.
Again, I’m being harsh. I get it. But I think this has a ton of potential. It’s a great idea, and it’s got hosts who are genuinely fun to listen to when they’re jazzed about whatever topic they are on. But when they’re trying too hard to make you love they way they love, it’s too forced. (Loved the Evil Dead stuff, hated the gremlins on VHS stuff as one example).
Enthusiast media is great because it creates a shared space for fans to converge. You don’t have to sell us. We are on board already! So just have fun with it, don’t try to create topics, just run with it. And have someone ready to cut the audio into something more manageable to keep the sweet stuff, and trim the fat!
7/10
Under an African Sky: Journey to Africa's Climate Frontline
Peter Hudson and Chris Brazier
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The Sahel - the 'shore' of the Sahara - is where cultures, customs and climates meet, merge and...
The Caliphate
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What is a caliphate? What is the history of the idea? How is the term used and abused today? In the...
The Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing but a Man
David C. Wall and Michael T. Martin
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Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael...
Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes...