MaDCap

produced by Alana Pedalino

What would you text President Obama?

"Like Strawberry Blond"

Narrators: Andy Duke and Daphne Pellegrino

Written by David Ross

For prospective interns, we have them send in three to five minutes of audio basically telling us who they are. They are asked to not just read us their resume. In the past, we've had interns rap their cover letter (special shout out to Snadecki). We thought Lauren's audio was honest and worth posting. All we did was add music to it.

Tuesday afternoon weird fiction.

Voice Over done by Andy Duke.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/fashion/mens-style/27-ways-to-be-a-modern-man.html?_r=0

In response to The New York Times article on what defines the modern man, we sent our interns to find out what Metro commuters really thought about the matter. Answers ranged from straightforward to existential, but never disappointing. Take a listen, ya dig?

Produced by Alana Pedalino and Daphne Pellegrino

Photo by Sung Min Kim

Songs c/o Freemusicarchive.org, Bandcamp, and YouTube.

By Alana Pedalino

Voice recording by THE great Andy Duke

The Leftovers has gone stale. Though the HBO series’ second season has garnered positive reviews so far, I ain’t buying what HBO is selling. It’s not that the show is bad – HBO wouldn’t have greenlit it if it was. However, after a lukewarm first season that withheld action and information until its ninth episode or so, I had expectations for the second season to be different and elicit more growth from its main characters. Unfortunately, all that seems to be different is the setting and the directors’ choice to include more racial diversity in some not-so-subtle casting decisions.

Actually, subtlety is a weak point for The Leftovers. The show tries so hard to be bizarre and symbolic and it just doesn’t work. It has plenty of opportunities to be surrealist and clever, but misses out on most of them. That combined with the utter joylessness of the show and all of its characters makes this show a pretty depressing watch. Don’t get me wrong, it’s understandably a depressing premise – 2 percent of the world’s population vanishes for Pete’s sake. But a show like that needs to provide redemption in either answers or its characters; The Leftovers provides neither.

Take a listen and hopefully you’ll understand.

We've sat on this for quite some time. Max Richter is composer for HBO's series, "The Leftovers." He's a classical genius, with a contemporary edge. We waited on this because we wanted to do this right and still really want to do more. But being that the series returns to the screen this Sunday, we figure why not hear what we were able to cut up.

The Leftovers Season 2 airs this Sunday, October 4 at 9pm.

Till then, here's a of Season 2: Episode #1 Clip "Nora & Erika" (HBO)

https://youtu.be/m055pnQ-S-k

Photo credit: Van Redin/HBO

A poem by Michelle Kim for Fiction Friday. Theme: Bad Trip

Narration by Andy Duke

Written by Alana Pedalino

Voice Over work done by Andy Duke.

We went to Firefly Music Festival and had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Cody Simpson. There we sat, in Dover, DE in a tent that gave its strongest attempt at shielding us somewhat from the humidity. Cody spoke to us about his new album, Free and what it means to him. He also sheds light on who influences him and what he's learned along his journey. The kid is kinda wise for being only 18.

Enjoy.

"True" by Spandau Ballet

"Free" by Cody Simpson

"Love" by Cody Simpson

"Thrasher" by Neil Young

"Raag Basant" by Ustad Rashid Khan

"Don't Wanna Be Your Girl" by Wet

"Lenny" by Stevie Ray Vaughan

"Into the Mystic" by Van Morrison