In an attempt to forge new frontiers of podcastdom We’re All Gonna Die tries our hand at podcasting over the phone, and I’m sorry about the constant hum.  I ran noise reduction and the compression software multiple times, and well…it’s at least an amusing conversation between myself, Stephanie Brea, Jason Baldinger, and all the way … Continue reading Episode 69: Party Line

Old friend Brook Pridemore and new friend Jake McKelvie stop by to discuss their life as artists in gentrifying Brooklyn.  While I go all academic Marxist on them, they offer pragmatic advice on how to find platforms for art at this moment in history.  We discuss venues, physical media vs. downloads, and of course, Freddie … Continue reading Episode 68: Rhinestone Busboys are My Only Friend

For this episode John Charney of The Saturn Plan hangs out in a gazebo on a beautiful summer evening to discuss his new solo acoustic album on Until the Quasar Cassettes.  During the course of our conversation we grapple with the problem of how do we assign worth to memory and we listen to a … Continue reading Episode 67: Far Away from Today

For this episode the excellent comedian Shannon Norman stops by to promote his new comedy album Human Raccoon.  In the process we discuss racist Beatles songs, the exact moment Dennis Miller lost it, and a surprisingly serious conversation about the general absurdity of the human condition.  Also, Shannon coughs a lot because he’s “just getting … Continue reading Episode 66: Shannon Norman is the King of the Worst

Frequent, and frequently entertaining, guest Jason Baldinger stops by to discuss the publication of two new books This Useless Beauty and The Ugly Side of the Lake (written with John Dorsey).  During the course of our conversation we discuss American decay, the nostalgia trap, and what it’s like to grow old in an era when … Continue reading Episode 65: This Useless Beauty

Dusty Hanna and Erica Moulinier stop by to talk about the 10th installment of Skull Fest, the internationally known punk festival.  In our conversation we discuss how Skull Fest is like a university, sidewalk pooping, and we collectively geek out about bands like the Cro-Mags, Arctic Flowers, Dark Thoughts, and Blood Pressure. Skull Fest 10 … Continue reading Episode 64: Enter the SkullCast 10

Janette Schafer stops by to discuss her new play Mad Virginia, which will be premiering at the Pittsburgh Original Short Play Series at The Glitter Box Theater on July 27th and 28th hosted by Yinz Like Plays?  Mad Virginia chronicles the final moment’s of Virginia Woolf’s life.  During our discussion we explore the romanticised mythos … Continue reading Episode 63: Mad Virginia

For this episode Andrew Fox (aka Andrw Fx) stops by to discuss his new short film and old cassette.  The film is entitled The Dialectics of Falling, and it is based on a poem of the same name.  You can go to The Dialectics of Falling Premier at the Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination … Continue reading Episode 62: The Dialectics of Falling

For our first podcast in a million, billion years Eric Montanez stops by to discuss his encyclopedic knowledge of hardcore, and his personal quest to find hardcore records.  In the process, we reminisce about what it was like to be a music fan before the internet, we geek out over what it was like to … Continue reading Episode 61: For the Love of Hardcore

For this episode, friend of the podcast Stephanie Brea stops by to read some of her poems, the Valentines Day poems of Ted Kooser, and I bungle the bottom 5 by asking a question I asked her on our last episode from December.  Most importantly however, in a new frontier for the podcast Stephanie adds … Continue reading Episode 60: The Lovelorn Lines