Episode 29 (Special Edition) with Andy Mingo
Episode 28 with Stephen Graham Jones
Past episodes are all available at www.books-booze.com
Tell your friends, AND if you know someone who has a book or lit mag that would want to be on the show, please send them our way. You can email us: renee @ books-booze.com, jessica @ books-booze.com or dakota @ books-booze.com
or get us through the facebook page.
I'm here to announce Books And Booze. This is truly a LitReactor collective. Three users (myself, Averydoll and Jacks_username) got together and decided we liked books, we liked booze, and we liked the internet--so what of it?
Books And Booze will be a podcast featuring interviews with authors, musicians, and a little bit of current events thrown in. We're not out to compete with Booked. We love those guys--we're out to get a little drunk, get the authors a little drunk, and bring something closer to a live radio experience to the literary podcast..
"Like" the Books And Booze Facebook page (featuring a logo by Alex J. Kane) to get the first episode and our latest announcements!
LitReactor made this possible, so hopefully LitReactor can make it successful!
Great idea! I listen to podcasts at work every day, so I'm stoked to hear this. I also think booze is wonnnnnnderful, and should be included with most activities.
Going around like a mad woman today - but I wanted to pop in and say how wonderful I am.
Because I'm wonderful.
And my thoughts on books are also wonderful. Therefore, you should love this project.
Sounds wonderful.
Good luck!!
I made you a hipster graphic so I'm clearly the best.
Did someone mention booze?
I came for the books, but I stayed for the booze...or did I come for the booze, but stayed for the books? Either way I am down for both. Sounds like a great project. I am emphatically pro this thing.
I fully support this. I'll toss you guys a link and a mention on the Insomnia Press website/facebook. Good luck!
Bloody brilliant idea, if you ask me (which no one did, but still). And chuffed to get to waffle on in the first episode. Make sure you keep reigns on me, mates! But, seriously, am honoured. Can't wait. ;)
Cool beans. Look forward to this.
You got chocolate in my peanut butter...
Kick ass. Now I just need to be an author or have a band—and since I'm a writer and musician, those deficiencies seem a little sad, really.
Totally on board. Let us know when it goes live! I'm super curious to hear what Andrez and Avery sound like.
Avoid extreme heat, especially from flammable turkeys which have been set ablaze.
Despite how good they smell.
Well, good luck. One tip I've learned from personal experience is not to submerge the laptop in ice water. It does cool it down, but there are usually some other unintended side effects.
Flammable turkeys are a worry...
I liked. etc
Thanks all for bringing up the greatest worry, my love of useless rambling and nonsense.
Now is the time in the program where I become irrationally and disproportionately angry over something trivial.
I could see that.
@Avery Okay, I'll listen. You sold me with irrationally and disproportionately anger. Just make sure to wear purple cut-offs. Pictured below.
It's just audio. But you are free to imagine me wearing whatever.
You should do a picture every three minutes or something (totally random snapshots of people making dumb faces in midsentence or something from a webcam) to go with the podcast. It would be funny to see people's reactions during the topics.
I want to see drunk faces to go along with the slurring insults.
I'm the only one that throws out slurring insults. But gosh, I'm not Don Draper yet.
Pictures!
Jacks goes from normal to violently angry in about 1 second. Luckily when he starts talking about book burning, we have the ability to just mute him.
I'm liking this podcast more and more every time I hear about it. How much alcohol is consumed during a taping?
I'm starting to make a connection now. I like to set people things on fire when I'm drinking.
How much alcohol is consumed during a taping?
We can guarantee that no one will be completely sober. And if they deny it, they're lieing.
I suppose that will vary. I was sober last time we talked, although we haven't done our first official show yet.
One of these days you should have me on as a guest. I love to reminisce about booze!
A special guest host perhaps when I'm too drunk to do the show? I like the idea.
Sure! I don't know what the fuck I'll have to say, but I can reminisce about being a drunk criminal. Or you can just read all about that stuff in my upcoming memoir, Drunk Criminal, or I Need a Nap, Bitches!
I miss doing a podcast. It really can be a lot of fun and a rewarding experience.
What I don't miss is editing a podcast. If you want it to sound halfway professional and are dealing with upwards of 5 people over the Internet, good God what a nightmare.
How are you guys approaching it, Sparrow? Have you done test episodes yet? Did anyone get drunk and try to eat the mic?
We are doing it in the least professional way possible.
I want to hear at least one episode of Jessica emasculating someone during an interview. The entire interview.
HAHAHA! Why would you interview me? I'm a nobody! I've gotten one thing in print and even that hasn't dropped yet! Haven't got the edits yet.
Oh God yes, a Matt vs. Avery podcast would be wonderful. I think.
but Dakota (Jacks) did yell for awhile about book burning on one of the recent calls.
Have I mentioned how much I'm looking forward to this?
I'm mysterious.
Whenever I have to do these things, I use an app called Audio Hijack. It's able to record any sound your Mac produces (internally, no cables), so you just point it at the app whose audio you want to capture, like Skype or whatever. It can also separate your outoing audio (your mic) from the incoming audio (everyone else) in a stereo pair, allowing you to put those on separate tracks in GarageBand or whatever you edit in (Pro Tools for me). Gives you a lot more control, being able to overlap things or adjust the timing, especially with the auditory train-wreck that often results from delays or not being able to see one another.