Brian and Spencer discuss Star Trek, Free Comic Book Day featuring Atomic Robo and Ex Machina, Richard Price’s novel, Lush Life, new music by Japandroids, digging out old music after a hard drive crash, and the application of Newton’s laws to celebrities. But not in that order.

Podcast #2 is here and ready for your ears.

We were a little more comfortable recording this time out, which was both good and bad. We had more fun with it, but also went off on a few random tangents that lead to dead ends. That means a slightly longer show, but also more editing on our end to keep the momentum going. On the plus side, more editing means a few bonus music breaks. Maybe next time we can prepare a little better and find a happy medium.

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Notes:

Asher Roth, Kim Kardashian, and OctoMom don’t deserve any links from this site. Though I did learn one thing after the podcast: there are two girls who are identical twins, and six boys, two of whom are also identical. They say you learn something new every day, but not necessarily that that ’something’ will be of any value.

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If you’re curious after Spencer’s description or enticed by the mini-mix he built for the outro, Jobriath’s catalog was reissued on CD last year.

Anyone’s Live Acid CD is actually available to stream on Rollingstone.com.

Smile’s album Girl Crushes Boy, featured in the first two music breaks, might be a little harder to come by. But there are used copies on Amazon and some other assorted tracks on iTunes.

To clarify some passing references, Velvet Goldmine is absolutely 100% a move based on David Bowie and Lou Reed. The Flaming Lips documentary briefly mentioned is called Fearless Freaks.

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Japandroids’ Post-Nothing, featured in the last two breaks, is out now on Unfamiliar Records in digital or vinyl formats. Or see our previous post on Japandroids to stream the album and download a sample song.

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Richard Price’s book Lush Life is available all the usual places in paperback.

Michael Chabon also wrote a thorough review of Lush Life for the New York Book Review, and in a short interview with NY Magazine, Price addresses the fact that he also wrote the dialog for Michael Jackson’s (Scorcese-directed) video for ‘Bad’. Who knew?

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You may have missed Free Comic Book Day on May 2nd, but at least they have a helpful counter so you can start keeping time until the next one.

William Shatner’s free comic was indeed a Tekwar title, a series which is not in Esperanto. (I must have been thinking of the 1965 film he starred in, called Incubus, with dialogue entirely in Esperanto. Silly me.)

Atomic Robo was my favorite pick from the free selections — you can check out a few of those pages here, or find out more about the full books at their official site. And what’s this? You can check out their first issue for free on your iPhone too? How cool is that?

Also: NEEERRRRRDS.

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Brian K Vaughan’s two comic series, Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man are available from DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm. The latter has run its full 60-issue course, the former is ongoing. The DC sites have issue #1 of both available for free download if you want a preview.

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Star Trek. There’s nothing much else to say about Star Trek. Apparently everyone likes this movie. Just go see it if you haven’t.

The Onion bit that Spencer mentioned, “Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film as ‘Fun, Watchable’”,  is pretty good though.

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Final note: Spencer finally did check his email (Spencer at under-culture dot com). There were 0 emails and one fake ebay listing response.