-being a “producer" is better than being an “editor." because producing means just emailing people and expecting them to show up.
-99 percent of the time people are very gracious with their time and showing up.
-1 percent of the time people claim they will be there and then just never get back to you. and then keep pushing it back every week until finally it just isn’t worth it.
-3 drink maximum before recording isn’t smart.
-some people like listening to drunks talk about films. probably for the wrong reason and to laugh at us, but hey.
-sometimes you say something dumb. like calling wordplay a great documentary.
-sometimes you can scream “GODDARD" and it will stop a conversation.
-i want to make “the noel murray stop-clock" into merchandise. someone please send me noel murray’s photo attached to a stopwatch.
-we had three or four failed concepts for on-going segments: “vadim rizov reads film ads," facebook friending david hudson, people thinking vadim and i are gay, and trying to get armond white on the show.
-actually, people do think we’re gay. we’re not. unless you are willing to pay us a few hundred thousand dollars. even then, don’t expect a lot.
-and we do want armond on.
-grassroots tavern really doesn’t give a shit about us recording in there, but the only time they cared was ep. 2 when vadim kept screaming something about werner herzog or something. i don’t remember.
-they play the same goddamn songs every time: acoustic psycho killer, sex machine, money and something off sea change. it’s errie. you can hear it in the background too on a few episodes.
-sometimes, people stand behind one of us and point at our recorder. then they mime to their friends “OMGWTF?" and they’re all, “IDUNNOLOL." these people are normally fucking retarded. and are fuckers.
-writing down things never works.
-my “podcast voice" is scarily broadcast friendly. i equate this to my old days at msnbc fetching coffee and having chris matthews come to eat my french fries.
-no one ever arrives on time. mainly me or vadim.
-ok, vadim never gets there on time. except for two occasions.
-my favorite guest remains preston miller ("jones") because preston went to the n+1 “TAKE BACK THE INTERNET" party and proved it was awkward, stuffy and that new media people are way too pretentious.
-Vadim and I have a dream list of guests. This includes but is not limited to: Armond White, Ed Koch, Joe Swanburg, A.O. Scott,Nathan Lee, Lisa “Motherfucking" Schwarzbaum, Noel Murray and more. Maybe Dr. VanNostrand if he survived post-Pioneer Theater
-I also want to bring on Travers, Gene Shalit and The Lyons (both father and son.) And force them to justify their lives. Travers must do so in awkward attempts at multimedia (although his editoiral control is amazing); Shalit must make puns so incredible that I stab myself in the ears; the Lyons must do what they’ve always done and be carried by Alison Bailes in conversation.
-I sort of want Keith Gessen on because I am 99 percent sure he would not want to talk about Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. But I would.
-be nice.
-three drink maximum until you finish recording, or else you’ll say a lot of things about not being afraid of people because you are sure you can take them in a fight.
-the first episode cut out a lot of that.
-seriously.