This Is Bullshit

Episode #10 – Dorodango

Emilia Ortega — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:07:02 +0000

Andy and Emilia welcome, and are dazzled by, the lovely Sadia Harper. Together they discuss Emilia and Andy’s upcoming Minnesota adventure, all three versions of True Grit, the subtle tactics employed to brainwash children, the subjective nature of “musical genius,” and a whole slew of shitty ways to get high.

We forgot to shoot Sadia at the studio, so she kindly sent us this photo.

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Before beginning to record this episode, Andy insisted on screening this video of a tremendously coked-up Billy Preston absolutely murdering his organ on stage. It is unreal.

John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn

Jeff Bridges as Cogburn

Emilia mentions a story from a recent episode of This American Life presented by Starlee Kine. The episode presents several disturbing scenarios and statistics, which is pretty much where Ira Glass eats.

“Brain. On. Drugs.” was the theme of Ari Shaffir’s show This Is Not Happening on January 22nd, 2011. On stage that night, Bobcat Goldthwait mentioned that he has, in fact, been sober since the age of nineteen. That came as a shock the audience that night as well as everyone to whom Emilia repeated it. If you just look at his publicity photo on IMDb, it’s not hard to see why.

It would be wrong of us not to include a little more information about the Japanese art of Dorodango.

In the latter half of the episode, there are a litany of film titles mentioned. We’re including a list here in case you want to check any of them out.

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
Sneakers
Airplane
Kentucky Fried Movie
Top Secret
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Stranger Than Fiction
In Bruges
The King’s Speech
Blue Valentine

Generalissimo will, in fact, be at the Hemlock Tavern on February 2nd.

Sadia is charming, hilarious and deserves your attention. All of it.
Sadia on Twitter
She also writes about music for The Owl Mag.

The signed version of “Fuck You” is actually in American Sign Language, not French, but it doesn’t matter really. It’s incredibly fun to watch.

Episode #9 – We Fight For The Users

Emilia Ortega — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:56:09 +0000

Andy and Emilia welcome the charming and multi-talented Sig Hafstrom to the podcast. The trio discuss the shelf-life of gimmick bands, the far-ranging implications of the Wikileaks/Julian Assange story, why Justin Timberlake can not be referred to as “the modern-day Michael Jackson” and the magic of Christmas. This is a special extra-long episode, perfect for keeping you company on the road or on a flight home for the holidays. Happy New Year from This Is Bullshit! We thank you all for your love and support.

Sig gets cozy with a terrifying frog.

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Cookie Mongoloid is pretty amusing. I mean, just look at this logo:

It turns out that not only are Arnocorps still together, but they’ll be celebrating their ten year anniversary on January 8th, 2011 at Slim’s in San Francisco. According to their website, this show will feature all band members past and present, bringing their force to three guitars and three basses. We’re pretty sure that’s in the dictionary under “good times.”

Here’s a clip of Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow in the 1978 film version of The Wiz, directed by Sidney Lumet.

Instead of dicking around on our crap website, you could take ten minutes and read about what’s going on in the world. Here’s a link to the article Sig referenced, authored by Naomi Wolf.

Sig is involved in just about everything fun and interesting under the sun. Here are some bits from her world.
Sig on Twitter
The Eggplant Casino
Ace Gift Wrapping Service
Killing My Lobster
Family Plot, The Movie

You might catch Emilia behind the front desk at Ojas Yoga Center, a great place to stretch, meditate or just get all up in some really good smelling stuff.

Next month will mark the beginning of the 10th Annual San Francisco Sketchfest. As mentioned in the show, Killing My Lobster will be opening for Will Durst at the Eureka Theater on January 27th.

Happy Holidays, everyone! Please be safe out there, we can’t afford to lose any of our listeners.

Episode #8 – Nicole Simpson Can’t Rap

Emilia Ortega — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:58:10 +0000

Andy and Emilia talk about Andy’s heavy investment in Four Loko futures. They review Glengarry Glen Ross, reminisce about their separate experiences seeing Dave Chappelle perform, who The Shins are really for and why Girl Talk’s latest release is a big letdown.

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There is some information up on Erowid, if you’re interested in donating to Sasha Shulgin or the Shulgin Collection Project.

There was going to be a link to at least one Four Loko after-effects video here, but the search just made me really depressed. You can find a bunch of them on YouTube, as well as old news stories about how the drink put a bunch of college kids in the hospital, but make sure you’ve got some anti-depressants handy. Looking forward to Andy to drinking one on-air in a future episode.

Like everyone else in the world, we love Dave Chappelle.

Andy briefly mentioned Kowloon Walled City, and then the conversation strayed to hearing loss. We’d like to just underline that this band is good times and you can download a bucket of their songs for free on their site.

The latest Girl Talk release, All Day, can be downloaded for free from the label site. See if you can get through this thing. Ugh.

Episode #7 – An Uprising of Awesome

Emilia Ortega — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:24:41 +0000

Andy and Emilia are joined by two very talented DJs and fellow weirdos, Matt Holland and Mike Robinson. They discuss Andy’s recent trip to Portland, some programming-related controversy, the nature of personal responsibility, DJ autonomy and what happens when you ruin a perfectly good spy movie with too much eye candy.

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In case you haven’t caught it, check out The History Of Rap, as interpreted by The Roots, Jimmy Fallon and some guy wearing huge nerd glasses.

Plunge, the event that took place in August of 2010, is discussed at length in this episode. Mike’s set from that weekend, as well as all of the other recordings, can be downloaded here.

Here’s a little more information on The Nine Billion Names of God.

A glimpse of the good times, late at night.

Check it out, we also did some trial Field Recording at Plunge.

We’re going to have to get back to you on that, though.

Here are some links to Mike Robinson’s multi-faceted online presence:
Dollar Bin Sins Podcast
Twitter
The Ambient Rockstar

You could also check out his collaboration with DJ Hickory (Greg Stone), called We Are Not Pandas.

Other than this music nerd blog, Matt Holland is too mysterious to be found on the internet. That’s a total lie, actually, but the name Matt Holland might be more common than you think. So good luck with that.

Have Special Power will be playing with Guitar vs. Gravity and The Poison Control Center on November 10th at the Elbo Room in San Francisco.

What’s Emilia doing right now? How much do you want to bet she’s not writing? But she should be.

We’ve withheld a spectacular 10 minutes of Andy Birthday Tribute Stories and Memories, but we’re waiting for some supplemental audio for that segment. If it ever appears, we’ll post it here as our first-ever Bonus Material.

Episode 6 – Scream For Cream

Emilia Ortega — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:48:01 +0000

Andy and Emilia debut a new special guest. The trio discuss Inception, Deltron 3030, Metalocalypse, the irrelevance of the political right (and left), Andy’s upcoming coffee table book and why you can’t get a good bowl of hot garbage any more.

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[Supplemental Materials will be updated when I'm not sick any more. -Ed.]

Episode #5 – All The Good Things And The Bad Things

Emilia Ortega — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:46:19 +0000

Andy and Emilia discuss the non-existent Oakland riots, gender roles, human sexuality, pornography and old war wounds.

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Who is Oscar Grant?

A great book about what to do with a cock in your mouth: Ultimate Guide to Fellatio.

There would also be a link to the FNF (Friends and Family) site here, but it’s woefully outdated.

Episode #4 – Due Nonna

Emilia Ortega — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:50:02 +0000

Andy and Emilia welcome their first podcast guests. André Zivkovich and Brad Meyer of Generalissimo come by to talk about the gulf oil spill, men’s fashion, the history of beer and their debut album.

André tries to blow up Brad's head using only his determination.

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Emilia and André reference an article reporting on BP buying search terms from Google and Yahoo. It ran in the San Francisco Examiner and can be read here.

After expressing his dislike for Attack Attack and BrokeNCYDE, André says that the only thing that may be worse is the song “Honkey Tonk Badonkadonk.” Andy thought that sounded good, you can decide for yourself. (Please don’t click on any of those links.)

We like beer. It’s been around for a while.

Andy’s band, Have Special Power, have released their EP, Land of Plenty. Kind of. We don’t know how to get it to you, but a download should be available on their website someday.

It's really a thing.

Finally, buy Generalissimo’s record and/or schwag here. Discounted pre-orders are available until June 29th. Go see them live at the Hemlock in San Francisco on July 29th with Cartographer and Ovipositor. We’ll see you there.

Episode 3 – Mama Didn’t Raise No Fools

Emilia Ortega — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:14:09 +0000

Recorded on Mother’s Day, after Andy and Emilia had both done their familial duties. The pair go on at length about issues of morality and consequence. This episode is brought to you by the glory and wonderment of big-ass deli sandwiches.

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Emilia is quickly becoming the Queen of Misattributions, mixing up her South American geography and late night television personalities. We don’t have the time or the bandwidth to run corrections every time she runs off at the mouth in error, but let this be one exception in the name of credit where credit is due.
Andy Kindler is a delightful, not-as-well-known-as-he-probably-deserves-to-be stand up comedian. Conan O’Brien’s sidekick is, of course, Andy Richter. Okay then.

Generalissimo is a kick-ass band made up of the bits and pieces of popular Bay Area bands of yesteryear. But not, like, the gross bits. These guys are the perfectly seared, tender, melt-in-your-mouth filet mignon from those bands. Unless you’re a vegetarian. In that case, Generalissimo is like whatever the hell vegetarians like to eat, except they’re exciting. They put crazy amounts of meticulous thought into producing their debut record, which is now available for pre-order.

Pretty much everyone has to have heard Patton Oswalt‘s bit about Star Wars from his 2007 album Werewolves and Lollipops, but here it is, just in case.

On The Media reported two stories about the anonymous commenter whose identity was published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. You can listen to them or read the transcripts on their website.
From April 2, 2010
From April 9, 2010

Andy mentioned an article in defense of Apple’s actions following the lost iPhone debacle. That article can be found here.

You can check out Andy’s (Mutor) remix of Caltrop’s “Good To See You” on the Nude Photo Music website.

In closing: We miss you, Guru.

Episode 2 – The Lost Episode

Emilia Ortega — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:21:12 +0000

Episode two may be forever lost to the sands of time. This is a place mark in case we ever sack up enough to release it to the world. Maybe it will wind up as an extra feature on the DVD edition of the movie made of our thoroughly captivating lives.

Who We Are, What We’re Doing

Emilia Ortega — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:27:47 +0000

This Is Bullshit is the illegitimate brain child of Emilia Ortega and Andy W. They met back in the late 90′s and have been entertaining each other ever since.

Emilia Ortega is an Oakland native who loves writing, creating visual art, cooking, gardening and tanning. Pretty much everything else you want to know about her (as well as a bunch of stuff you don’t) can be found on her blog, This Side of a Miracle.

Andy W is a human man.

Along with links to all of the TIBS episodes, we’ll also be posting links, photos, and anything else related to subjects we’ve covered on the podcast.

If you have any questions, comments, marriage proposals, ultimatums or free pony rides, you can contact us at TIBSPodcast@gmail.com. You can also follow us on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.