Tonguelash Podcast: After Hours Edition

tonguelash’s freshest installment is an affair of firsts: The first episode we wax cinematical sans Owen ‘The Late Breaker’ Vandenberg; the first appearance of Angela ‘Ms LiteraryMinded’ Meyer; and (most embarrassingly) the first time we hit the sauce and dial up the frank-o-meter.

Episode summary:

“Gerard and Ken are joined by Angela ‘Ms LiteraryMinded’ Meyer for an intimate, extended edition of the tonguelash podcast. Blocks are busted — nay, have their asses handed to them — as the intrepid trio not-so-boldly extol the intergalactic virtues of JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek, and — finally! — tonguelash keeps its Antipodean end up by reflecting on the distinctly disparate (though uniquely Australian) voices behind recent favourites, Samson & Delilah and Mary and Max. From here, however, all bets are off as your humble hosts open a bottle — and their hearts — and delve into a feature-length rumination on the elusive, soul-twisting humanity of Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York.”

Again, I thank Ken Erickson of Urban Mariner for lending his eloquently-administered insights, and I myself would like to apologise for how quickly I degenerate into a cussing, existentially-anxious puddle of disgrace once the whiskey starts flowing and we sink our teeth into Synecdoche — hardly my finest hour. This episode carries a big, red, flashing SWEAR WARNING and runs just shy of two hours as:

a) With so much material to wade through, I became lazy in the edit; and
b) We felt it would be fun to serve up a largely uncensored round-table reflection on a film which quite clearly left an indelible impression.

But mostly a).

Audio quality is as average as ever, and your continued patience is certainly cherished. But please sit tight — I can promise big things are afoot in the world of tonguelash...

And now, without further flurry or fanfare: tonguelash: After Hours Edition. To download the MP3 file of this episode, right click and ‘Save As’ here. To subscribe to the tonguelash RSS feed in iTunes (generously maintained by Mr. Vandenberg), click here.

As ever, your comments, feedback and scathing ridicule remain both welcome and enormously appreciated.

PS — and when mentioning Badlands, I of course mean Martin, and not Michael, Sheen...