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Podcasts - The League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen: Volume 8, Issue 3: Lansdale Landslide

The much heralded return of our favorite guest ever, author Joe R. Lansdale, has finally come to pass!Joe, and his daughter Kasey, who is a talented musician and author herself, sit down with the LEOG gang and converse about all kinds of stuff, including Kasey's upcoming album and Joe's new highly regarded novel,"Edge of Dark Water". The only thing that possibly could have made this greater is if Cyrus hadn't screwed up the end of it. Oh well.

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81 Comments for The League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen: V...

April 11, 2012 at 2:32 AM, said ...

I know Cyrus, garage's band main purpose is to be fun and easy to use. It fact, recording is almost an add on. Even thought its a very powerful program it is not intended for pro use at all. In this case Apple's only fault is to ship macs with default software that is almost good enough for pro use. That is no crime.

Just like the rest of the iLife suite, its just for fun.

I listen to you guys al the time at work, it helps me while programing. lol

Great work.
April 10, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Cyrus said ...

Trust me, nyambe, if it's not there in 'show package contents', it's not there. The thing overwrote what we had just recorded with what we had recorded in the previous segment. Weird, yes, but, as I discovered in my research, not unheard of for Garage Band.
April 10, 2012 at 7:41 PM, said ...

Hey you cant really blame Mac. Garage Band comes with the OS. Its not ment for pro-work. It would be like trying to the a sports illustrated cover on MSPaint.

Besides, NO matter what OS you have, you can recover the temp files if you crash while recording. Always(pc or mac). You might not recover the edit points in the program, but the raw audio file has to be there because... you were recording. That works just like on tape.

Maybe it crashed and you did not realize it, so it did not get recorded. That still strange.

did you hit rec? lol

great show anyways.

get a zoom h1 as a backup lol

hi from spain!
April 09, 2012 at 10:22 PM, said ...

Kasey's accent is sexy and shes not bad on the eyes either.
April 09, 2012 at 9:16 PM, said ...

@stiver the word inspiration can be also used. Apple took that idea (if they actually did) and started something that changed the face of computing forever. Which Xerox failed to do.. And then Microsoft came out of no where with a near duplicate a few years later. We can discuss who stole what and whatever, but Apple changed the face of countless industries.. The smartphone, music, tablet, commercial, computer, Internet, books, etc.
April 09, 2012 at 7:33 PM, -n8 said ...

- - - LEOG & LANSDALE LISTENING! Part two- - -

What a good song. That Kasey Lansdale's a talent to be sure

52:17 - Agreed re: Handshake Deals

53:35 - "To me the idea that someone's waiting to make me feel better in the end and give me a reward... I don't want to be good for THAT, I want to be good because it's the RIGHT GODDAMN THING TO DO. Treat people the way they're supposed to be treated, with respect." FUCKING. A. I could listen to that quote all day.

55:46 - "It's a miracle that requires medical attention and recovery time? What kind of miracle is that?" LOL. Damn.

1:06:16 - (sitting here, just listning to Kacey talk about musical influences, she DEFINITELY inherited her Dad's talent for hodling a captivated audience.)

1:07:49 - OMG COOLEST MOM EVAR

1:08:00 - That's part of what makes the Ramones work so well, they're among the great angry early-punk acts... but their influences was the good happy-fun-time-rock.

1:13:46 - "He's one of us!" Hearing him say that gave me a bit of a thrill. :) It's good to hear someone like Joe (a creator I really like and admire) unashamed to talk about him and other professionals being on the same geek-level as us. It's important to hear that every once in a while. remind yourself that your artistic heroes aren't necessarily larger-than life gods but can be humble geeks just like us

1:24:20 - Woo! Another song!

1:28:18 - Aww. now the songs over... and it's sad to know that I know the ending...

1:32:01 - WOO! Awesome! Maybe next time I'll leave my hero-worship-nerves on the shelf actually say something!

1:33:01 - Fun Fact: I was talking with Jason before and after his segment, and he was DRAGGING. he had just gotten over a really rough illness and had just woken up one or two hours before the recording... but when he was interviewing, the dude was sharp, aware, and on-point. A Pro, that Jason Murphy.

1:39:00 - Shitty things happen, but all-in-all a damn good episode was still put out, guys. I got a lot out of it, myself.

Long live the League, And Lansdales!
April 09, 2012 at 4:59 PM, -n8 said ...

- - - LEOG & LANSDALE LISTENING (LATE)! Part one - - -

Lawn work and a big alcohol fueled Farewell party totally monopolized my weekend... making LEOG my #1 priority this Monday morning. :)

14:15 - It suddenly occured to me that I haven't written down any thoughts or comments yet. it's WAY to easy to just sit and listen when Joe is talkin.

15:30 - I hadn't read John Carter, but hearing that breif breakdown on how he got to Mars is exactly the reason I like to read the old original stories, instead of relying on the newest movie or published re-imagining of a character. Awesome.

20:02 - GHAH. I still haven't started the Hap and Leonard series.

28:28 - "If you're going to get screwed, get screwed with some money. You'll get flowers, afterwards." Joe R. Lansdale.

in General - a few years ago I thought I was a huge Joe R. Lansdale fan: 'til I learned how much of his stuff I hadn't yet read. Discovered I hadn't even scratched far below the surface. I first got into Joe's work with the Jonah Hex comics and continued in with the books with a more Horror slant... but haven't gotten to Hap and Leonard or the stuff yet, or the Bottoms... Gotta get off my ass and get readin. I'm still a huge fan, just not as well-read in his work as I used to think I was...

34:15 - Jesus I wish I was in the room when Leon was geeking out over General Hospital and All my Children. :D LOL

37:57 - My Grandparents on my Dad's side of the family, they worked thru the Great Depression too. and the "Save it because it'll be useful later" mentality was a strong one and it sticks with me and my siblings and cousins today.

39:23 - (Another Spillio copy called out this quote out a few comment pages back... but it's so damn good it's gotta be called out again) "If it cost a quarter to shit, we'd have to throw up" - Mr. Lansdale

- End of Part 1 -

PS to say: Damn that's a good song. "Edge of Dark Water" everyone. Starts around 44:10
April 09, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Michael Stiver-Balla said ...

Steve Jobs was just given a tour at Xerox, which included the Xerox Alto, it's GUI and the concept of the mouse. He himself admits he went and put it into the Lisa and later the Mac. He didn't pay for it, it wasn't a license, he just took the idea. No it isn't stealing, I was being sarcastic people thinking Microsoft "stole" from apple. Both companies did the exact same thing to Xerox, they took that idea.
April 09, 2012 at 1:03 PM, said ...

@stiver Apple "shamelessly" stole from Xerox? Get your facts right boy, Apple bought the stuff from Xerox legally. Unlike Microsoft who stole it. You may be right at some point, but Apple was the company that really started the "personal computer have a computer in your house" thing.. They made that shit easy and what it is today, without that step.. Shit would be different.
April 09, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Brutuxan said ...

Well, since stiver pretty much explained everything - all I have to say is.......in YO face Arnulfo Rojas and Dilster3000! In YO FACE!!!!! ;)
April 09, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Michael Stiver-Balla said ...

"No Leon, you're wrong. OS X is far superior than Windows. If it wasn't for Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak this website wouldn't even exist."

If you look, some of the pages on this site have the page "Default.aspx" which means this entire site, it's core functionality is written in Active Server Pages. If you don't know what that is, look up ASP.NET on wikipedia. If you are too lazy, know that ASP.NET is a Microsoft proprietary platform for web design. Anyone talking shit about microsoft, remember this website wouldn't exist without them.

How about we play this game, you think windows wouldn't exist without Steve Jobs? No, Windows is based on MSDos which in turn was based on QDos. You can thank Tim Paterson for that, not Steve Jobs.
In addition, you can thank Xerox, and Xerox Alto for the Graphical User Interface(GUI). Which the Apple Lisa and Apple Mac shamelessly stole from.

Actually, if we are going to play the "this wouldn't exist if X" game,
Dennis Ritchie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
The man who died the same month as steve jobs, the one NO ONE talked about? The man who wrote C and Unix, the foundation for the entire modern computing world? Without whom we would not have a Unix, Linux, Windows, OSX/iOS, IBM System i, SunOS, Android, etc. etc. I could go on. Whose contributions mean systems like Google, Amazon, this site, can exist.

"shit windows wouldn't even exist. windows is made on a mac."
No. This is wrong on so many levels.
Currently Mac is mostly written in Objective-C, a derivative of C++ which is a superset of C (see above).
Windows used to be based an extension of MSDOS, which was written in C and QBasic. Since 2003 and Windows XP, it's been exclusively written in C/C++. Likely Vista and on also has C#.
April 09, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Scott_PJ said ...

Guys, even with the lost content, that was still an amazing episode and I can't wait for Mr. Lansdale to come back again. He's a wonderful host, man, and storyteller and his daughter was great too. Maybe start with Beau and Jason next time. XD
April 09, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Jeremy said ...

Oh and I'm with Leon. FUCK APPLE!
April 09, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Jeremy said ...

Joe R. Lansdale's views on religion are 100% spot on with what I believe in. Be a good person, be nice to others, and be happy. Not a hard concept to grasp :)
April 08, 2012 at 7:40 PM, said ...

Hey i'm really liking the new format it feels like it's getting more personal to the audience keep up the good work
April 08, 2012 at 9:46 AM, said ...

@Dilster3000 shit windows wouldn't even exist. windows is made on a mac.
April 08, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Dr. Detfink said ...

Hmm...Never had a problem with apple and even my first laptop in the '97 works like a dream. Not that I dispute the frustration. damn shame for sure.
April 08, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Near said ...

even with the last sagment gone its a very good show i enjoyed the hell out of it.

-matt
April 08, 2012 at 12:48 AM, said ...

No Leon, you're wrong. OS X is far superior than Windows. If it wasn't for Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak this website wouldn't even exist.
April 07, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Travis Pickle said ...

Just settled down with my last beer of the night and a bowl of wotsits to listen to the Beaumonster and the Murph and SHhhhhiiiiit!!!

oh well thanks LEOG for a great show and fuckyou apple!

;)
April 07, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Mr.Dandy said ...

Great episode! And good on you guys for not downplaying what was missing, it would be so easy to sweep it under the rug. Definitely look forward to hearing Joe and his family again!
April 07, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Travis Pickle said ...

Ah! thank god for Joe R. Lansdale woops!

LEOG turned me onto his stuff last time and I can't wait to get his new book!

;)
April 07, 2012 at 9:48 PM, lawrence said ...

P.S. Joe and Kasey were awesome. I can't wait for them to return along with Joe's son.
April 07, 2012 at 9:46 PM, lawrence said ...

I forgive you Cyrus, it isn't like we were in the middle of the segment and it stopped. I had a awesome time with today's episode and I feel satisfied. All that can be said is ''Long Live The League''!
April 07, 2012 at 9:05 PM, delvan hamilton said ...

Don't feel too bad Cyrus. Shit happens.

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