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Another week exploring Seminal Works. This week our three hosts, Keith Vincent, John Holt, and Mary Varn are joined again by Adam Moerder. Fair warning, we get a little loopy on this one (maybe it was the heat).

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Segment 1: Egon Schiele (Austrian Artist- Deceased) 

Mary Varn (@maryvarn) has us take a look at an extremely influential painter from the turn-of-century (1900's). Extremely popular and controversial in his time, his work has widespread impact across all forms of visual media. Egon Schiele was a protege of Klimt. He was only 28 years old when he died, having already reached some success.

Here are some examples of comic artists and animation influenced by Schiele:

Ted McKeever- 

Peter Chung- 

You can find galleries of his work and information about Egon Schiele HERE.

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Segment 2: "Yoshima battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips (album)

 Keith Vincent (earthlingkeith.com) brings us an album from the turn-of-the-century (2000's). The Flaming Lips' tenth album. 

You can find Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots on Spotify, Rdio, Amazon, iTunes, and other places that carry albums-in-print!

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Join us next week for our new topic "Childhood."

We explore works from various fields that we consider to be seminal. This week our three hosts, Keith Vincent, John Holt, and Mary Varn are joined by Adam Moerder.

Segment 1: Magic the Gathering (Card Game) 

John Holt (@lordjoho) recommends a game that created its own genre of gaming, the "collectible card game." A product of the early 1990's, Magic the Gathering got a toe-hold in a time when traditional board gaming was taking a back seat to console video games. Celebrating 20yrs of being in existence this year (2013), Magic has persisted and is gaining in popularity.

You can find out more about this game at  wizards.com  or at a friendly local game store (if you're in NYC I recommend the Twenty Sided Store). There are versions of the game available on the current consoles, PC, and tablet devices as well.

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Segment 2: "Emergency" from the collection Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (short story)

Adam Moerder (Mr Dream, @IIIMOERDERIII, www.buzzfeed.com/moerder), our guest host this week, brings a short story from Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son. This collection was adapted into a film starring Billy Crudup, amongst others.

You can find Jesus' son on Kindle, Amazon, and other places that carry books-in-print!

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Join us next week for the second part of our "seminal works" topis, where Keith Vincent (earthlingkeith.tumblr.com) and Mary Varn (npccomic.com) will provide two "seminal" segments!

ALSO: Check out Adam's Kittens donandthor.tumblr.com

New to You Show's twitter account @newtoyoushow is the place to hear the latest on the show.

This week our three hosts are Keith Vincent, John Holt, and Mary Varn.

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 Love Letter (game)

John Holt (@lordjoho) brings an elegant card game to the table.

A number of great rethemed versions can be found out on the web.

Learn more about Love Letter on Boardgamegeek.com

Welcome to the third "maxi" (3 segment ) episode of our show

New to You Show's twitter account @newtoyoushow is the place to hear the latest on the show.

This week our three hosts are Keith Vincent, John Holt, and Mary Varn.

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Segment 1: Five Easy Pieces (film) 

John Holt (@lordjoho) recommends the 1970's BBS picture starring Jack Nicholson.

This movie followed hot on the heels of Easy Rider (check out the BBS Criterion Collection).

You can find this movie on iTunes and on Amazon on DVD and Blu-Ray format.

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Segment 2: Little Sparrow (album)

Keith Vincent (earthlingkeith.tumblr.com) recommends Dolly Parton's 38th studio album. Some great and haunting tracks on this 2000 album from one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the past 50 years. You can find this album on Amazon. 

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Segment 3: Falling Free by Lois Bujold (book)

Mary Varn (npccomic.com) recommends a Nebula Awards recognized novel from the late 80's. This book is available on Amazon.

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Welcome to the second mini-episode of the New To You Show

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This week our three hosts are Keith Vincent, John Holt, and Mary Varn.

This week Mary Varn (@maryvarn) recommends the iOS game "Hey! That's My Fish!" by Fantasy Flight Games. 

You can learn more about the game at Boardgamegeek.com and the iOS/Android game on iTunes.

Welcome to the second "On-Week" episode of our show!

New To You Show is getting rolling, we have a twitter @newtoyoushow where we'll let you know new episodes are up, and pass along any news related to our show. 

Segment 1: The Stars My Destination (book) - or Tiger, Tiger

John Holt (@lordjoho) recommends the 1950's science fiction novel from New York wrtier Alfred Bester. One of the two great novels by Bester from this time period. No movie adaptions as of yet, the audiobook is findable but not in print, but they've made a grapic novel (which is sadly now out of print!) You can find this book on Amazon in Kindle and Trade Paperback format.

Segment 2: Central Reservation (album)

Mary Varn (npccomic.com) recommends a turn of the century album from a contemporary "folktronic" female singer-songwriter. Beth Orton's Central Reserveration was released in 1999.  A British musician, she collaborated with one of the Chemical Brothers on earlier albums, and with Ben Harper and Ben Watts on this album. You can find this album on Amazon, iTunes, Rdio, and Spotify, among others. 

Segment 3: The Gods Must Be Crazy (film)

Keith Vincent (earthlingkeith.tumblr.com) recommends a South African comedic film that saw surprising success worldwide upon its release in the 80's. Written, Directed, and Produced by James Uys, mathmetician teacher turned Justice of the Peace turned film maker, this is a refreshing take on filmmaking coming out of a period of gritty realism.  The Movie is available from on DVD and through iTunes.

Welcome to the first "off-week" segment episode of our show!

New To You will provide a longer episode every  "on-week," and shorter episodes in the other weeks, or "off-weeks." Sometimes these shorter episodes will be audio, sometimes they will be video. The goal is to consistently release content on a weekly basis, while giving our hosts time to really ingest the experiences we're discussing

Radiolab Podcast: Emergence

Keith Vincent (earthlingkeith.tumblr.com)recommends a Public Radio podcast called Radiolab, specifically an episode dealing with the science of Emergence. This episode is from their first season and can be heard on the Radiolab site.

Welcome to the first episode of our show!

New To You strives to present recommendations from at least two perspectives, the perspective of the first-timer, and the perspective of the person recommending it. Each week we'll be presenting one to three new things to experience. We'll be discussing book, films, albums, television, games, places, food, really anything is fair-game. The goal is to find things that at least one of the hosts/guests haven't experienced, let them do so, then bring them on and discuss their take on it. Sometimes it will be something contemporary, sometimes it will be something older, sometimes it will be new to none of the hosts, sometimes it will be new to all the hosts.  

Segment 1: The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (film)

Mary Varn (npccomic.com) recommends Unico. A Japanese animated movie produced by Sanrio in the early 80's, based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka.  It made its way to the US in the mid eighties when Disney Channel struck a deal to air it. Currently it is available in its entirety on Youtube, but it may be possible to track down a VHS or a DVD dub from a VHS.

Segment 2: The Original Sandy Denny (album)

John Holt (@lordjoho) recommends the debut album of a little-known folk singer/songwriter from the late 60's. Sandy Denny's self-titled first album by Saga Records 1966-67, was rereleased under "The Original Sandy Denny" in 1978. You can find this album on iTunes, Rdio, and Spotify, among others. 

Segment 3: Ender's Game (novel)

Keith Vincent (earthlingkeith.tumblr.com)recommends a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, soon to be a movie. Published in the mid-eighties and based on a short story from the 70's, it is available from Tor in paperback, and ebook.