This week we’re taking a break from our usual narration and charming sibling banter while we finish up season two.

Today’s mini episode is going to be a little different. We’ve put together a playlist of all the music we’ve heard so far on La Jolla Babylon.

Here is a link to almost all the music: Marine Layer

I wrote the bulk of these chapters in cafes and was constantly distracted by whatever the baristas were playing. And since to me, there’s no such thing as background music, I made my own to help me concentrate. Most of the songs you’ll be listening to are from the collection of music I’ve recorded called Marine Layer: Music to Block Out Other Music. A few songs are from a new record I’m working on of background music for parties.

I play all the instruments except on a song called Let’s Go. On that one, guitar is by Arrington de Dionyso, the vibes are played by Walker Spring and that’s Lisa Shonberg on the drums. There are no distracting lyrics, just some la las. This is not music you’re supposed to listen to, it’s meant to be in the background, taking up as little space in your mind as possible while you do other things.

Please enjoy these songs and if you want, head on over to band camp and stream or download them for free at your leisure.

Thanks so much for listening to our fucking podcast and check your feed for season 2 - it’s almost ready for you!

Katie and I would like to thank you for all for your support for this first season of La Jolla Babylon!

We would love to hear from you! Drop us a line at [email protected] or find us on Instagram here. LJB

Playlist:

Starve a Fever

Seemingly Endless

Evergreen

New as of Now

Let’s Go

Modern Love

Marine Layer

Dibble Dabble

No Mirrors

Worse Brains

Chapters:

29 Worse Brains

30 Second Job

In this final episode of Season 1, Dan and Adam have a run-in with a cop in Tijuana.

Adam gets the perfect job for someone like him.

Yes, Katie asks Aaron if Bad Brains is a band. It’s cool, baby. I’m sure she knows lots of stuff you don’t know anything about!

Stay tuned for season 2! Please subscribe to La Jolla Babylon so you don’t miss an episode!

Chimpanzee love link https://music.apple.com/us/album/david-and-katie-get-re-married-ep/1751815233

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/

https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “Let’s Go” By Aaron Hartman

Drums - Lisa Schonberg - https://www.lisaschonberg.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/lisaannschonberg/

Vibes - A. Walker Spring | https://www.instagram.com/nightbrunchband

Electric guitar - Arrington DeDionyso https://www.instagram.com/arringtondedionyso | https://arrington.bandcamp.com/

Generation: Stand By Me

Chapter titles:

27 The John Muir Alternative School for Humanistic Studies

28 Introduction to Female Hygiene

In which Adam turns 17 and his party is disgusting. Aaron does not over-sell the story. Katie finally finds her breaking point. And the hashtag #crustytampontiktokchallenge is born.

Music: “Be Your Person” (unreleased)

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: Dibble Dabble by Marine Layer https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/album/no-room-music-to-block-out-other-music

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/

https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

La Jolla Babylon

Chapter:

26 La Jolla Babylon

In this episode, Adam and Dan Jones want to be able to leave any party and have more fun. Roaming the beach at night yields unexpected gifts. In what turns out to be what Katie calls a “classic Southern California gen-X stand-by-me beach situation”.

Katie also coins the phrase “pity bra”.

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: Dibble Dabble by Marine Layer https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/album/no-room-music-to-block-out-other-music

Links:

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/

https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

“Guitar face was the least of it”

Chapter titles:

24 REQUIEM

25 Sweet spot

In this episode: Adam’s first band sucks but something clicks. The boys do some inexcusable things while Adam’s blind grandmother is in the room.

Katie and Aaron talk about their older cousin’s funeral at sea.

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: Green Walls https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/album/evergreen-more-music-to-block-out-other-music

Links:

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/

https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

 “What if We Disappeared?”

Chapter titles:

20 Trial 2

21 Fear and Loathing

22 Dan Jones

23 To the Beach!

Adam gets busted for weed and has a brilliant way of talking his way out of it: being a dick to his parents. The threat of rehab looms.

We finally meet the kid who Adam dedicates his adolescence to. A polite punk who loves his grandmother.

“The scarier you look, the nicer you have to be.”

Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com

Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “What Kind of Night is This?” By Aaron Hartman (Unreleased)

Links:

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/

https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Let’s meet my stepfather, shall we?

Chapter titles

17 Gene

18 Gradual

19 Confidential

It’s stepfather time! Adam’s mom gets swept off her feet. We get an origin story and a good ole 1980s-era scare-the-parents institution tries to convince Adam’s parents that he’s on the wrong path. He probably was. Katie does her best to get Aaron to admit that he’s petty.

Three chapters of fun!

#latchkeykid, #genx, #generationx #millennialwisdom, #empathy, #humor, #divorce, #truestories, #siblings, #half-siblings, #artschool, #seminar, #schoolbus, #rehab, #stepdad, #ihatemystep, #quacks, #1980s, #hoteldel, #scaredstraight, #notreally, #middleschool, #jrhigh, #sandiego, #socal, #ruinous, #teens

Links:

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/ https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Music:

La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music: “Let’s Go” By Aaron Hartman

Drums - Lisa Schonberg - https://www.lisaschonberg.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/ lisaannschonberg/

Vibes - A. Walker Spring | https://www.instagram.com/nightbrunchband

Electric guitar - Arrington DeDionyso https://www.instagram.com/arringtondedionyso | https://arrington.bandcamp.com/

Fuzzy Strawberries and Watermelon Men

Chapters:

14 Fuzzy Strawberries 15 Transfer

16 Watermelon Men

Quick note: Aaron’s daughter has given permission to talk about the fact that she had lice. Her reasoning was, “No one’s going to listen to this, so it doesn’t really matter.” Point taken.

It’s an #ifyouknowyouknow kind of episode. Adam talks his way into advanced band and learns that some people do actually hear the bass - not in a good way. Some mafia- infused family lore and Terry leaves something in Adam’s grandmother’s apartment. Katie says, “We were raised so differently” - not for the last time.

Three groovy chapters.

#latchkeykid, #genx, #generationx #millennialwisdom, #empathy, #humor, #divorce, #truestories, #siblings, #half-siblings, #artschool, #seminar, #mafia, #twoversionsofthesamesong, #band, #advancedband, #funnygrandma, #muirlands, LaJollaHigh, #memoir,

Links:

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/ https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Music:

La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music:

“New as of Now” https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/album/new-as-of-now

Dance class bully

Chapters titles:

10 Terry

11 Influence 12 Trial

13 Lila

Over the course of four chapters, we meet Adam’s high school bully, a new kid at school influences Adam in unexpected ways and Adam meets a girl and is not exactly a smooth talker.

In the discussion afterward, Aaron brags to Katie about his tap dancing and aikido skills.

#danceclassbully

#SCPASD #SDSCPA #latchkeykid, #genx, #generationx #millennialwisdom, #empathy, #humor, #divorce, #truestories, #siblings, #half-siblings, #artschool, #seminar, #schoolbus, #narcs

Links:

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/ https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Music:

La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music:

“Evergreen” by Aaron Hartman https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/album/evergreen- more-music-to-block-out-other-music

Here We Go!

Chapter titles:

5 Socratic, or otherwise

6 The Prophet

7 Deep wells

8 The School of creative and Performing Arts

9 Sleep over

Here we go. Katie and Aaron talk about how fucked up Aaron’s childhood was. Aaron starts to understand that his funny stories are maybe the tiniest bit traumatic. Katie is disappointed by her fictionalized name and Aaron talks himself into a corner. It gets real with an older hanger-on.

Five Chapters herein.

#SCPASD #SDSCPA #latchkeykid, #genx, #generationx #millennialwisdom, #empathy, #humor, #divorce, #truestories, #siblings, #half-siblings, #artschool, #seminar, #schoolbus,

Links:

Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/ https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Music:

La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman

Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Additional music “Seemingly Endless” by Aaron Hartman https:// marinelayer.bandcamp.com/track/seemingly-endless