 The next Lost podcast has been posted at the official ABC site.
You can stream it through their site or use podcasting software to snag it. iTunes is easily the most popular, but I like iPodder a lot more for the control it gives me over what to do with the file.
Both ABC and NPR (which has recently gotten into podcasting in a big way) are guilty of not really formating their MP3 files in a way nearly every other podcaster does, which would take them seconds more, if that, and would eliminate a minor annoyance with each. Go ahead and make the genre “Podcast,” guys, not “Fun & Games” or “News” or whatever. The fact that every other podcast does that — or close to it — means that people like me have their playlists set up to automagically include anything flagged as a podcast, without needing to futz with it beyond that. (In my case, it’s only unplayed podcasts, at that.)
In addition, I know that both ABC and NPR have logos and graphics they can slap onto their podcast. This isn’t some kid in their basement — the graphics already exist. Slap it onto the template for it and be done with it. You look less professional not doing it this way, when ABC, especially, is likely having someone with a $60,000 salary squirting out their podcasts each week.
(I actually have the same objection about Liz Phair‘s podcast, Uplands, but it sounds like she’s the one assembling it on her own while she’s on tour, so that merits a lot more slack.)
Anyway, back to the Lost podcast: This week’s includes Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly and Terry O’Quinn (Locke, the man) talking about their favorite season one moments, and the writers talking about last week’s episode along with talking up this week’s episode, “The Other 48 Days.”
It gives hints on where the Jack/Kate relationship is going, the intent of last week’s Shannon flashbacks, how they picked who would die, a big answer that doesn’t give away anything (yes, that stuff is all tied into the island’s Big Secret) and a bit more about the Black Rock that I hadn’t realized myself.
Check it out.
I saw Liz Phair on the Tavis Smiley Show this week (thanks to the wonders of TiVo), and it turns out her song, “Table for One,” isn’t autobiographical, but biographical:
Tavis: You like taking on really ambitious projects. I mean, “Exile in Guyville� huge, massive undertaking, response to the Stones. I mean, where do you come up with these ideas?
 Phair: They’re really natural to me, and I never got to finish my Stevie Wonder project. And really, it’s kind of one of those sadnesses in my life where I would have liked to have finished that, but that was such an epic record. It was so much to undertake, and the more I got into it, the more it became this kind of, I was missing some of the really important songs like, “Isn’t She Lovely?â€? That was a really hard one to come up with. Something from my own life that would be sort of equivalent.
Like, I don’t try to imitate anyone. But it helps me make a record. ‘Cause I don’t really naturally know how to make records. So I kind of, I go to school. I take on an artist who’s phenomenal, and I try to go to their school. And that’s the way that I look at it. Like for me on this record, I have a song about my brother’s alcoholism called “Table for One,â€? and that was my Village Ghetto Land, because Village Ghetto Land to me is the most devastating song on the record.
It’s kind of bringing dignity to sort of the least appreciated part of life. It’s like shining a spotlight on the invisible and downtrodden. And I kind of tried to look at my own life, and see what was the most devastating thing that I witnessed, or that I thought went unsung in a weird way, and it was, for me, the loneliness that my brother would have felt and like the bottom, when he bottomed out.
He’s sober since then, but that’s sort of how I would do it. I would look at what he wrote about, and I’d think about what in my own life, you know, mirrors this sentiment.
She also waxed enthusiastic about her weekly podcast, Uplands, which is available through her site or via your podcasting software of choice.
Hankering for more Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Joss Whedon? I know I am, because I actually found myself TiVoing Angel, a television show with a demon who owns a karaoke bar.
The good news is that there is more official-if-that-matters Buffy coming:
Speaking of Darkhorse Comics, they are starting a new Buffy comic, and as I understand it, it will take place after the end of Buffy and Angel and be canon in the Buffy world. And I understand it that way ’cause I’M WRITING IT. I’m kicking off the book with a four issue arc that finds Buffy — you guessed it — living in Italy with The Immortal. (Scott — don’t be mad I spoiled the announcement — saying it means I have to finish it.) Then I’ll be overseeing the book more closely, to make sure it remains true. Gonna be interesting. And it just might tie in to…
The infamous Spike movie. Still haven’t finalized anything, but I feel that very soon I’ll be able to go to James and say something a lot more interesting than “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” ‘Course, I just hope he’s free some time this decade. See how my peeps is all actifying! Tomorrow night is AMIAS, (that’s alias with Acker in it.) Happy. And totally jealous.
See, the Buffyverse glows in my brain with a new, overreaching arc that will include the comics, Spike, and more. It’s taking shape and soon you will know its name. And you will tremble.
Then of course there’s a little thing called X-Men, who are apparantly supposed to become astonishing again real soon. I miss me my Cassiday. Can’t wait to see the fan response when I kill Wolverine and replace him with fan-fave Marrow.
Well, I certainly can’t say much more, except that Wonder Woman is finally kicking ass that is not my ass, as in, I’m loving this script. She’s saving the world in a tiara, people; this is why there’s a me!
Someone needs to introduce Joss to decaf, just after he polishes off the Buffy comic book story and turns in the Wonder Woman movie script.
 To help promote the show during November sweeps, ABC will be distributing podcasts relating to Lost all this month. The first one is an interview teasing tonight’s episode, “Abandoned.” This is a pretty clever thing for ABC to do, in my opinion, since the auxillary Lost Web sites have shown the series’ audience is already pretty much online and techie.
It’s a little surprising the podcast doesn’t have video with it — how hard would it have been to stick the two people talking on stools in front of a Lost backdrop and just film it? — but maybe later, or next year.
If you don’t have iTunes or use other podcasting software, you can hear the podcast as streaming audio on the official site.
 Rock Star: INXS contestant Jordis Unga has landed a record deal with Epic Records, according to published reports (including more here).
Although she ran out of emotional steam, she was one of the standout performers, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Jordis has up her sleeve.
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