Category: Medias

Every year or two I purging through my podcast subscriptions.  A couple weeks ago I completely eliminated almost all of my podcast subscriptions down to six or seven feeds.  From that spartan list, I just bloated it back up to about twenty yesterday morning.  As such this seems like the right time to take a snapshot of what I’m listening two.

There are two segments of the podcast world that is conspicuously missing.  For whatever reason I just have never been able to get really into the highly produced refined offerings like Radiolab or This American Life.  They are both excellently produced shows, but unconsciously it just is not what I’m looking for in my audio mumblings. Also, I’m curious whether my interest in politics will return with the next presidential election but at this time, I’ve found that life is much more calm avoiding the subject altogether.  I know where I stand, but I know my wrath inside a metal box moving a mile a minute will do nothing to change things.  So no more audio incitement.

With that here are the 20 podcasts I am actively subscribed, with a few other ones on deck once I finish off some of the completed shows.

HISTORY SERIES
A History of the World in 100 Objects, the classic BBC Series that I’m very slowly working my way through.
History in the Bible, An excellent podcast working his way through the Bible, from start to finish.
The History of China, The History of China, from start to current times, currently in the Song Dynasty
The History of Egypt Podcast, The History of Egypt from start to finish.
Tides of History, A topical series about the transition to modernity.

THE WORLD AT LARGE
The Big Idea, An english Hong Kong radio roundtable program about various topics.  It seems to have ended in 2016, and I want to finish it.
In Our Time, A BBC radio roundtable about various topics.
New Books Network, The mothership New Books feed with all their academic books.
The Evening Jones, Bomani Jones talks about everything except sports, though he only addresses politics obliquely given his position at ESPN.
Common Sense with Dan Carlin, Along with the Evening Jones, this is the only podcast that addresses current events, and he rarely posts now. I like really like his historically based perspective on current events.

MISCELLANY
The Right Time with Bomani Jones, Bomani Jones talks about sports; I really like his perspective on sports and life in general.
Imaginary Worlds, Exploring geekdom in all its facets.
Lexicon Valley, Talking about english.
Akimbo, Seth Godin talks about work.
Twenty Thousand Hertz, A program about sounds.
Levar Burton Reads, He reads big kid stories.  Amazing and often heavy.
Jocko Podcast, The main focus of the podcast is about self ownership and leadership, but the main hook is when he goes through books, mainly military in nature.

SERIOUSLY GEEKY STUFF THAT MAY NOT LAST LONG TERM
Automators, as the title implies, a podcast all about automating stuff.  I’ve had so much fun with Apple Shortcuts recently, I have to give this a try, even though I find myself getting very anxious when I listen to it.
Hello Internet, CGP Grey Talks with a youtuber guy with a funny accent, generally about life, often framed as a youtubers.
Cortex, CGP Grey talks with another podcaster with a funny accent, focused about productivity stuff.

“NEW BOOKS” FEEDS I’D LIKE TO ADD TO THE TOP 20
New Books in Architecture
New Books in Asian American Studies
New Books in Folklore
New Books in Sports

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, NOT YET RESUBSCRIBED
Boardgames to Go, This was my favorite podcast at one point, but I just don’t play enough games at this time.  Listening to it just makes me sade
Hang up and Listen, Slate’s sports podcast.  I like the guys, but since I feel guilty for following too much sports and I’m currently avoiding politics (these guys are openly left as expected by their network), I’ve refrained from subscribing to this one.
Indy Matters, From the Nevada Indy, this would be the one news / politics podcast I would readily bring back in the fold, since state politics is really quite important to my life.
Revisionist History, I am conflicted about Malcom Gladwell.  I find him interesting, but often I think he’s gratuitously counterintuitive just to be cute.
The Longest Shortest Time, Talking about life as parents.  I really want to get into it, but hasn’t really ever really clicked, but I’m not ready to fully give up on it.

ON TAKING PICTURES, NOT YET RESUBSCRIBED
On Taking Pictures, They were one of my favorite podcasts for more than a year.  They just concluded their run and I’d like to finish it at some point. 
Iterations, Short musings by Jeffery Saddoris, one of the hosts of OTP.
Pals with Bill Wadman, the other host of OTP interviews other friends.  I want to give it a serious run in the future.

OTHER HISTORY PODCASTS, NOT YET RESUBSCRIBED
History of the Papacy, I like the host from what I’ve heard elsewhere, but I have enough ongoing History podcasts at this time.
The History of the Eastern Church, This seems to be relatively new, I know nothing about this one aside from the title, which is a subject of interest to go with the other podcast.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, He is the godfather of all History Podcasts, but I don’t usually have the stamina to handle his mega long episodes.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Addendum, His shorter episode but more theoretically more frequent podcast feed.

RELIGION PODCASTS, NOT YET RESUBSCRIBED
NT Pod, A really interesting series about the New Testament by a professor at Duke.
The Human Bible, The old series by Robert M. Price who takes an aggressively skeptical view of the Bible.
Bible Geek Show, The current series by Robert M. Price.
The Classical Ideas Podcast, A series of interviews with various experts on different ways of thought.

PODCASTS I FEEL GUILTY FOR NOT FOLLOWING
99% Invisible, I liked the couple episodes I’ve heard, and its about my profession, but something continues to not clicking with me on this one.
The Essay, BBC3’s essay podcast.  I aspire to like it, but haven’t so far.
On Being Present, Poetry is cool and being present sounds good.
RadioLab, I like science. This is really well produced. I should like this podcast. It’s never captured me.

With no link, I can’t remember what it was a decade later since the embed came up blank. Maybe the Asteroids Galaxy Tour? If so, I never did buy the CD.

I wonder how if Picasa 3.5 could work with prawns?  In any case, I have been having a lot of fun messing with the facial recognition on this latest release of Picasa.  It works quite nicely thought it does have a share of mistakes.

So decided to make a list of movies I want to watch. I ended up with alist of 100 movies that I knew that I wanted to watch/rewatch and then threw in all the Fred Astair/Ginger Rogers collaborations, Hitchcock movies, and Jason Statham movies.   And this doesn’t include any asian action flicks I’d want to check out…yikes!

Of course, until I get netflix (and a lot of free time) I doubt I’ll watch that many of them, but it was fun imagining how cultured I’d get if I actually saw these films!

1920

1. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
2. Nosferatu 1922
3. Number 13 1922
4. Always Tell Your Wife 1923
5. The Pleasure Garden 1925
6. The Mountain Eagle 1926
7. Downhill 1927
8. Metropolis 1927
9. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927
10. The Ring 1927
11. Champagne 1928
12. Easy Virtue 1928
13. The Farmer’s Wife 1928
14. Blackmail 1929
15. Sound Test for Blackmail 1929
16. The Manxman 1929

1930

1. An Elastic Affair 1930
2. Elstree Calling 1930
3. Juno and the Paycock 1930
4. Murder! 1930
5. City Lights 1931
6. Mary 1931
7. Rich and Strange 1931
8. The Skin Game 1931
9. Number Seventeen 1932
10. Flying Down To Rio 1933
11. The Gay Divorcee 1934
12. The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934
13. Waltzes from Vienna 1934
14. Roberta 1935
15. The 39 Steps 1935
16. Top Hat 1935
17. Follow the Fleet 1936
18. Modern Times 1936
19. Sabotage 1936
20. Secret Agent 1936
21. Swing Time 1936
22. Shall We Dance? 1937
23. Snow White and Seven Dwarfs 1937
24. Young and Innocent 1937
25. Carefree 1938
26. The Lady Vanishes 1938
27. Jamaica Inn 1939
28. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 1939

1940

1. Fantasia 1940
2. Foreign Correspondent 1940
3. Rebecca 1940
4. Citizen Kane (w/ commentary) 1941
5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith 1941
6. Suspicion 1941
7. Casablanca 1942
8. Saboteur 1942
9. Shadow of a Doubt 1943
10. Aventure malgache 1944
11. Bon Voyage 1944
12. Laura 1944
13. Lifeboat 1944
14. The Fighting Generation 1944
15. Spellbound 1945
16. Watchtower Over Tomorrow 1945
17. Notorious 1946
18. The Paradine Case 1947
19. The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) 1949
20. Third Man 1949
21. Under Capricorn 1949

1950

1. Stage Fright 1950
2. Sunset Blvd. 1950
3. American in Paris 1951
4. Strangers on a Train 1951
5. Singing In the Rain 1952
6. I Confess 1953
7. Dial M for Murder 1954
8. Rear Window 1954
9. The Trouble with Harry 1955
10. To Catch a Thief 1955
11. The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956
12. The Wrong Man 1956
13. 12 Angry Men 1957
14. Vertigo 1958
15. North by Northwest 1959

1960

1. Psycho 1960
2. Manchurian Candidate 1962
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
4. Goldfinger 1964
5. Marnie 1964
6. Good Bad and Ugly 1966
7. Torn Curtain 1966
8. Graduate 1967
9. Play Time 1967
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
11. Easy Rider 1969
12. Topaz 1969

1970

1. Dirty Harry 1971
2. Frenzy 1972
3. Enter the Dragon 1973
4. Exorcist 1973
5. Chinatown 1974
6. Jaws 1975
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
8. Family Plot 1976
9. Taxi Driver 1976
10. Star Wars IV 1977
11. Big Sleep 1978
12. Alien 1979

1980

1. Raging Bull 1980
2. Star Wars V 1980
3. Das Boot 1981
4. Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
5. ET the extra Terrestrial 1982
6. Rambo, First Blood 1982
7. Thing 1982
8. Tron 1982
9. Star Wars VI 1983
10. War Games 1983
11. Indiana Jones, and the Temple of Doom 1984
12. Aliens 1986
13. Big Trouble in Little China 1986
14. Blue Velvet 1986
15. Full Metal Jacket 1987
16. Raising Arizona 1987
17. Robocop 1987
18. Untouchables 1987
19. Bull Durham 1988
20. Die Hard 1988
21. They Live 1988
22. Indiana Jones, and the Last Crusade 1989

1990

1. Robocop 2 1990
2. Reservoir Dogs 1992
3. Groundhog Day 1993
4. Clerks 1994
5. Hoop Dreams 1994
6. Swingers 1996
7. Grosse Point Blank 1997
8. Cowboy Bebop 1998
9. American Movie 1999
10. Being John Malkovich 1999
11. Fight Club 1999
12. Ghengis Blues 1999
13. Goodfellas 1999
14. Matrix 1999
15. Office Space 1999
16. Run Lola Run 1999
17. Sixth Sense 1999

2000

1. Remember the Titans 2000
2. Turn It Up 2000
3. Ghosts of Mars 2001
4. Mean Machine 2001
5. Spirited Away 2001
6. The One 2001
7. Hero 2002
8. Red Faction II 2002
9. Spider-Man 1 2002
10. The Transporter 2002
11. Lost in Translation 2003
12. The Italian Job 2003
13. Alien Versus Predator 2004
14. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004
15. Cellular 2004
16. Collateral 2004
17. Crash 2004
18. Donnie Darko 2004
19. Napoleon Dynamite 2004
20. Samurai Jack 2004
21. Shrek 2 2004
22. Spider-Man 2 2004
23. Transporter 2 2004
24. Batman Begins 2005
25. London 2005
26. Mirrormask 2005
27. Revolver 2005
28. Sin City 2005
29. The Pink Panther 2005
30. Chaos 2006
31. Clerks II 2006
32. Crank 2006
33. In the Name of The King a Dungeon Siege Tale 2007
34. Shrek 3 2007
35. War 2007
36. Be Kind Rewind 2008
37. King of Kong 2008
38. Rush Hour 3 2008
39. Synecdoche, New York 2008
40. The Bank Job 2008
41. Transporter 3 2008
42. 500 Days of Summer 2009
43. Crank: High Voltage 2009
44. Hangover 2009
45. Hurt Locker 2009
46. Up 2009