Episode Twenty of The Chippewa Valley Geek Podcast and Rhythm & Blues Revue is complete and can be found here or on iTunes and Stitcher.
This installment is all about stories and writing! We're tellin' tales out of school (and occasionally singing into a can)!
0:00:00 Intros
0:01:22 The Up Front: On nerves of steel and the courage to tell stories
0:05:59 The Interview: Publishing agent Jennifer Johnson-Blalock talks about the world of pitches and queries, reveals her favorite storytellers, and takes on the Geek-del Test!
0:51:13 The Roundtable: Monster Mike and Jetpack Jack talk about storytelling, misattribute famous 70's gangster movies and give readings from their favorite works of fiction!
2:33:34 The Community Calendar and The Monthly Marathon: Grovers' Mills, Population: You!
2:38:38 Outro & Credits
2:40:03 Bonus Track: "Rocket Into Space"
Some Show Notes and Links!
Meet our special guest, literary agent Jennifer Johnson-Blalock of Liza Dawson Associates!
Jennifer's guest post on Carly Watters' blog!
Hamilton!
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
Jennifer's Top 5 Storytellers (off the top of her head)
Follow up for more of our guest out at: www.jjohnsonblalock.com!
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Better Off Dead
Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"
Curtis Hanson's "Wonder Boys" and Michael Chabon's "Wonder Boys"
Barrett
Izzy Stradlin
What the World Needs Now
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The Roundtable gives a lot of storytelling shoutouts to:
Jennifer's guest post on Carly Watters' blog!
Hamilton!
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
Jennifer's Top 5 Storytellers (off the top of her head)
- Aaron Sorkin
- Jane Austen
- Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, The Marriage Plot)
- Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby)
- J. Courtney Sullivan (Commencement)
Follow up for more of our guest out at: www.jjohnsonblalock.com!
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Better Off Dead
Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"
Curtis Hanson's "Wonder Boys" and Michael Chabon's "Wonder Boys"
Barrett
Izzy Stradlin
What the World Needs Now
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The Roundtable gives a lot of storytelling shoutouts to:
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Lee Child
- Jetpack Jack has fightin' words about Jane Austen
- Phillip "Merlot"
- JRR Tolkien
- Isaac Asimov
- Alan Moore
- Stan Lee
- Jim Henson (Check out The Dark Crystal or A Tale of Sand)
- Neil Gaiman
- Agatha Christie
- Fritz Lieber
- Graeme Morris
- Douglas Adams
- The late Spalding Gray and Swimming to Cambodia
- Paul Harvey (Really, Mike?)
- Benjamin Bagby's "Beowulf"
- Springsteen's, "Nebraska" and "Hammersmith Odeon, London 1975"
Shit Pitches on Twitter
- R. A. Salvatore
- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Michael Crichton
- Dean Koontz
- Stephen King
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Mark Kurlansky
- Stephen Hunter
- Larry Correia
- Richard Rhodes actually wrote "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
- Charles Dickens
The Roundtable Readings:
Jim Butcher's "Summer Knight"
Stephen King's "Salem's Lot"
Robert E. Howard's "Queen of the Black Coast"
Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club"
Patrick O'Brien's "The Reverse of the Medal"
Vladimir Nabokov's "Pnin"
I also highly recommend the Dark Horse adaptation of Mike's REH reading in "Conan, Volume 13: Queen of the Black Coast".
Mike also drops some P.G. Wodehouse on us.
Then there's Lolita...
"Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose
For the record, Scorsese is pretty cool, but:
- Dog Day Afternoon was directed by Sidney Lumet
- The Godfather was directed by Francis Ford Coppola
- Scarface was directed by Brian DePalma
The final reading is from The Stranger by Albert Camus.
Luke Cage!
The backing sound effects used in this episode included:
- "Pirate ship at bay.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license. The original file can be found here.
- "Electronic music loop 2 M1", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license. The original file can be found here.
- "Lightning crash.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license. The original file can be found here.
- "Incoming Artillery.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons Attribution license. The original file can be found here.
- "Explosion 2.wav", obtained via Freesound.org via a Creative Commons 0 license. The original file can be found here.
I also cribbed a bit of the first episode of Futurama.
All apologies to Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats
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