The King of Kong, continued. If you enjoyed "The King of Kong," check out the Onion AV Club's recent, impromptu, and insightful interview with Billy Mitchell. Also featured are responses by filmmakers Ed Cunningham and Seth Gordon.
posted by Monster_Zero
on Feb 9, 2008 -
49 comments
Haruki Murakami doesn't do many interviews. However, he granted one to a University of Hawaii journalism student and it was published in the January 2007 issue of GQ Korea. The text has been translated by the blog owner.
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4
posted by spec80
on Feb 1, 2008 -
25 comments
For the last year, the Vice TV program
Soft Focus has presented an assortment of
"discussions about art, culture, politics, personal history, personal feelings, fashion, and the like" with a series of noteworthy musicians. Host Ian Svenonius manages to wrangle dialogue with of some of the music world's most colorful and idiosyncratic characters: The Fall's
Mark E. Smith, My Bloody Valentine's
Kevin Shields, The Happy Mondays'
Shaun Ryder, Crass'
Penny Rimbaud, Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV's
Genesis P. Orridge, Cat Power's
Chan Marshall, Thee Headcoats'
Billy Childish, The Specials'
Terry Hall,
Andrew WK, Fugazi's
Ian Mackaye, and Palace/Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's
Will Oldham.
[more inside]
posted by item
on Jan 27, 2008 -
21 comments
Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Alfred Hitchcock reflects on his career in movies, discussing among other things, the origin of the term "MacGuffin", his creative process and what his earliest fear was.
posted by empath
on Dec 17, 2007 -
7 comments
Frank Zappa - The Gigantic Spoken Word Project. Numerous volumes of a very large collection of Frank Zappa spoken word releases.
They consist of radio interviews and journalist reporter type personal interviews. During the radio interviews sometimes music was played as background or added before the broadcast in between questions and answers. Sometimes FZ acts as D.J., plays records from his collection and talks to the radio audience. But the main focus of this series is FZ interviews which to me is as interesting as his music. (Just a quick warning; the download mechanism is a tad annoying)
posted by KevinSkomsvold
on Jul 5, 2007 -
6 comments
A Brief History of Errol Morris. His landmark televison interview/documentary series called "
First Person" (ex.
Rick Rosner : One in a Million Trillion [
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7], an interview with a man who went back to high school three times just to try to get it right;
Denny Fitch : Leaving the Earth [
2,
3,
4,
5,
6], where a pilot tells a harrowing tale of his passenger plane crash; and
Andrew Cappocia : Mr. Debt [
2 ,
3], an interview with a passionate man about credit card reform.) ... see also:
Fog of War [
excerpt], an award winning full-length feature about Robert McNamara, US Director of Defense during the Viet Nam War; as well as some very
compelling commercials [
2,
3,
4,
5] that you may remember, and
an interview with the man himself.
(Previously)
posted by Dave Faris
on Jul 2, 2007 -
30 comments
An "
order of magnitude older than the dinosaurs," even older than clams, bugs, vertebrates, are
jellyfish. At almost 600 million years old, jellyfish are some of the oldest animals on the earth that have survived the test of time.
Dr. Lisa-ann Gershwin, (yes, of that
Gershwin family) is a
scientist studying
jellyfish in Queensland, Australia and was recently
interviewed by the ABC. I was particularly disturbed by her gripping description of the tiny
Irukandji jellyfish and how the venom
affects humans. This summer,
swim at your own risk.
posted by gen
on Jun 13, 2007 -
27 comments
Readersvoice.com is a lovely, low key site that interviews authors in a down to earth fashion that you normally don't see. The whole approach is wonderfully refreshing and endlessly fascinating.
posted by milkwood
on May 15, 2007 -
3 comments
“I wanted to try to capture the intelligence of the design, not just the outcome of the design.” “In 1977, [Donald] Knuth halted research on his books for what he expected to be a one-year hiatus. Instead, it took 10. Accompanied by [his wife] Jill, Knuth took design classes from Stanford art professor Matthew Kahn. Knuth, trying to train his programmer’s brain to think like an artist’s, wanted to create a program [
TeX] that would understand why each stroke in a typeface would be pleasing to the eye.”—from a
profile of Knuth in the
Stanford Magazine (May '06).
Salon calls him “
computing’s philosopher king”
(Sep '99). NPR’s
Morning Edition interviews Knuth as “
the founding artist of computer science”
(Mar '05). Perhaps a MeFite somewhere has one of
these?
(Previously)
posted by Ethereal Bligh
on Apr 23, 2007 -
40 comments
Kotaku interviews Dez , the producer of
Whores of Warcraft (
NSFW)(
previously), as well as Mia Rose and Hannah Harper, 2 porn stars recently added to the rolls of addicted
World of Warcraft players. Apparently, Dez has at least 2 level 70 characters, and plays in a guild with Hannah's husband, where she's taken her Blood Elf Priest to level 26 already. Talking about Phat Lewt not getting you hot? How about some
Bare Maidens? (gee, NSFW, you think?). Dez also has a fascinating
MySpace page, mostly for his ...interesting mix of friends.
posted by thanotopsis
on Feb 7, 2007 -
22 comments
In a rare interview out of character, Sacha Baron Cohen discusses his reaction to the controversy over Borat:
And the reason we chose Kazakhstan was because it was a country that no one had heard anything about, so we could essentially play on stereotypes they might have about this ex-Soviet backwater. The joke is not on Kazakhstan. I think the joke is on people who can believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can exist -- who believe that there's a country where homosexuals wear blue hats and the women live in cages and they drink fermented horse urine and the age of consent has been raised to nine years old."
Maybe this Kazakhstan doesn't exist--but Borat's antics sometimes aren't far off the mark from
other parts of the world where gang-rape and stoning are meted out as punishment. Is it so silly to appreciate Borat as a comical icon from these dark corners of the world? Who is ignorant of what is really happening in the world--Cohen or his unwitting interviewees?
posted by Brian James
on Nov 16, 2006 -
150 comments
"
My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the
end of the road. What a pity. I would like to
live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the
trial. I do think I will be found
guilty."
-Oriana Fallaci
posted by felix betachat
on Sep 15, 2006 -
47 comments
Science Live site I found this because of the live coverage of the Festival of Science 2006 from Norwich, but found lots of other great links! Great for kids, but good for anyone curious about science.
"What if you could watch any popular science lecture you wanted to? What if you could participate in any popular science event? What if you could find out what scientists themselves have to say about the issues that are important in society today? ScienceLive is an initiative that seeks to bring some of the best popular science events (discussions, lectures, interviews) directly to your home, so that you can watch these events whenever and from whereever you can.
posted by k8t
on Sep 6, 2006 -
3 comments
On May 14th, 1967, the new British pop group The Pink Floyd makes one of their first ever TV appearances. Despite a stellar performance of the song Astronomy Domine, the pretentious host of the show, Hans Keller, has nothing good to say about the band. During the
interview (youtube, performance comes first, interview starts about 5:50 in.
transcript here.), he chastises the band for their "continuous repetition", "terribly loud" volume, and their "proportionately a bit boring" sound.
However, it seems that all Hans' show will ever be remembered for is
this single interview. Pink Floyd, on the other hand.. Well, we all know what happened to
them. Syd Barrett, on the other hand,
was not so lucky.
posted by Afroblanco
on May 29, 2006 -
67 comments
BBC interviews news editor regarding the Apple/Beatles verdict. Only one problem: the gentleman in the hotseat was the news editor's driver. Hilarity ensues. (video of the interview
here - the driver's expression when he realizes he's been mistaken is priceless.)
posted by aberrant
on May 14, 2006 -
79 comments
Culture Catch is an online "magazine" featuring vid and podcasts of musicians such as Mark Kozelek, American Music Club, Les Paul and Tony Visconti. Plus: Todd McFarlane, Sir Richard Branson, Henry Rollins, Gisele, David Cronenberg and more.
posted by edlundart
on Mar 30, 2006 -
7 comments
Random Rules , a new[ish] feature of
the Onion: A.V. Club. They ask a rocker/writer/comedian/whatever to set their MP3 player to "shuffle" and comment on the first few tracks that come up. This probably could have been very
boring, but it actually ended up kind of interesting. See
Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse call Belle and Sebastian a “one-fuckin'-trick pony”. Enjoy
David Cross waxing poetic about R.E.M.’s
Murmur. From the main link, read the description of the raw sexual chemistry that existed between David Berman of the Silver Jews and the actress that played Ginger on Gilligan's Island.
posted by ND¢
on Mar 1, 2006 -
137 comments
"The iPod’s a great product. However our experience in dealing with them, as regards licensing music for iTunes, has been quite depressing."
Coldcut member and indie label
Ninja Tune co-founder Matt Black in a pixelsurgeon
interview about the new album, the relative relaxation on sample licensing, and iTunes. For another independent perspective on iTunes see
The 99c Question - addressing the pressures on iTunes from major labels to raise prices.
posted by nthdegx
on Feb 2, 2006 -
21 comments
DriveTime. Live in Boston? Need a ride to (or from) work? You could be a
guest on Ravi Jain's weekly video blog/talk show/commute. Episodes
1,
2,
3,
4,
5, and
6, (QT .mov)
posted by steef
on Nov 20, 2005 -
5 comments
Chomsky gets his apology. The world's most famous public intellectual would appear to have been vindicated
back after the hatchet job done on him in the Guardian by
Emma Brockes two weeks ago. The Guardian has had to withdraw the offending article from its site and Ms Brockes has made no comment after her employer's Correction & Clarifications tore strips off of her article.
The original article was previously discussed
here.
posted by ClanvidHorse
on Nov 17, 2005 -
42 comments
They are feeding the public a line of bull, and they are spinning, and people are dying down here: A post with a link to MP3 of an explosive WWL radio interview in which New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has a message for politicians: "
I don't want to see anybody do any more goddamned press conferences... put a moratorium on press conferences, don't do another press conference until the resources are in this city, and then come down to this city and stand with us... Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here - they're not here; it's too doggoned late. Now get off your asses and let's do something..."
posted by taz
on Sep 2, 2005 -
560 comments
