Sunday, August 14, 2011

Episode 6 - Lolla review



Salutations listeners!  Welcome back to the Egalitarian Fun Hour!  This episode, with our special guest, Matthew Lanus, back on the show, we collectively review our Lollapalooza experience from last weekend.  It was a glorious Chicago weekend - it started off beautifully, and ended with a climactic bang.  Listen in to hear our thoughts on the bands we heard and saw!





Also, below, check out some photos and video that Matt and my father recorded during the weekend, as well as some live review coverage of Matthew.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Episode 5 - Brother Matt gives us a Lolla preview



Above, you'll find a special episode of our podcast - a preview to the Lollapalooza music festival being held this weekend in Chicago's Grant Park.  Seeing as I am home in the suburbs of Chicago, I invited my brother, Matt, to join the show while we performed some technical magic and Skyped Shannon in from Los Angeles while simultaneously recording her audio - pretty complicated stuff.  Anyway, in this show, we discuss those bands that we're most looking forward to, some noticeable changes to this year's festival, some Lanus family Lolla stories, and Matt gives us some important festival-going tips and tricks.  Enjoy the show!



Below is this episode's playlist.  This show features only music from artists that will perform at Lolla this year.

  1. Muse - "United States of Eurasia/Collateral Damage" from The Resistance
  2. Tennis - "Baltimore" from Cape Dory
  3. Cults - "Walk at Night" from Cults
  4. Smith Westerns - "Imagine, pt. 3" from Dye it Blonde
  5. Black Lips - "Modern Art" from Arabia Mountain
  6. Beirut - "The Penalty" from The Flying Club Cup
  7. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - "The Fisherman" from It's a Corporate World
  8. Local Natives - "Airplanes" from Gorilla Manor
  9. Cage the Elephant - "Always Something" from Thank You Happy Birthday
  10. KiD KuDi - "Soundtrack 2 My Life" from Man on the Moon: The End of Day

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Norm MacDonald, the Moth Expert

With our last podcast about comedy in mind, I also wanted to share with all of our listeners/readers a fantastic piece by one of my favorite comedians, Norm MacDonald.  Below, watch Norm telling a wonderfully amusing joke on Conan's Tonight Show.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Episode 4 - A Comedic Discussion



Greetings!  Welcome back to the podcast!  Above, you'll find the fourth installment of the podcast in which we talk about comedy, stand-up comics, their various permutations, and both Shannon and my reactions to them.  I might classify this episode as our most (technically) successful yet, and as a result, I'm already very proud of it.  Please have a listen and tell us what you think!

Below is the playlist for this episode:

  • The Guess Who - "Laughing"
  • Louis C.K. - "Suck a Bag of Dicks"
  • Woody Allen - "The Science Fiction Film"
  • Steve Martin - "Hostages"
  • Mitch Hedberg - Clip from a late night show
  • St. Vincent - "Laughing with a Mouth of Blood"