This brief telephone interview with Ed Brubaker, (of Captain America, Sleeper and Criminal fame), was conducted by the talented comedian Bill Hader. The audio is great, and works alone, but there’s another story, told with the still photography, that makes it worth watching.
Hader, incidentally, wrote the introduction to the Incognito trade paperback.
Posted by Jesse Willis
A recent episode of the normally ludicrous Coast To Coast AM features a fascinating and lengthy interview with Paul Bishop. Bishop is known to us from his excellent Bish’s Beat blog. In the interview Bish talks about his careers (crime writer, screenwriter and police interrogator). He also talks about his role on a bizarrely watchable new unscripted TV series called Take The Money And Run. Take The Money And Run is a kind of surreal reality game show that pits two American civilians against four American police detectives in a 48 hour competition to win $100,000. Here’s the Wikipedia description:
The contestants are given a car, cell phone, and one hour to hide the case. At the end of the hour, the contestants are taken into custody and questioned by interrogators in an attempt to locate the case. The detectives are given the GPS recordings of the route that the contestants took in the car, as well as phone records of who they called. If the detectives can locate the case within 48 hours, they are awarded the $100,000. If not, the contestants win the prize.
Bishop is one of only three recurring players on the show. His role is to interrogate the detained civilian contestants, find out what they are lying about and thus help the episodes’ guest detectives win.
I’ve seen the show, and I feel very strange after watching it. Bish’s interrogations are psychologically frightening. With so many people out of work in the U.S. it feels almost like a real life precursor to The Running Man!
Here’s the three part interview:
Promo for the TV series:
[via Bish’s Beat]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Back in 2007 Akim Bischoff wrote our review of the Power Records adaptation of Conan The Barbarian (the 1982 Motion Picture directed by John Milius) |READ OUR REVIEW|. Based on the character created by Robert E. Howard, it was the longest audio dramatization of a Conan story up to that point (it wasn’t surpassed until BrokenSea Audio’s Queen Of The Black Coast – currently available via torrent HERE). Akim concluded his review this way:
My only gripe with the record adaptation is I wish it featured the film’s original score. While the orchestration Power Records uses is vast and surprisingly well done, it’s hard to stand against the classic work of composer Basil Poledouris. Though, with their excellent cast and matching production values, this can be easily overlooked. Especially when listening to the “new” dialog and scenes ultimately left on the cutting room floor. As a fan of all things Conan and especially the films, it creates quite a thrill and leaves you slightly imagining… what might have been.
Now you can hear the entire recording, in five parts, as posted to YouTube:
Here is the same audio dramatization but with some of the Marvel comics adaptation added:
[Thank CROM!]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Michael Swanwick has posted a fascinating hour-long convention monologue by Murray Leinster‘s daughter, Billee Stallings. I’m betting that a lot of folks today, even Science Fiction folks, don’t know who Leinster was. I don’t see any of his books in print anymore and that’s a shame. Leinster was one of the pioneers of SF. A giant of his time, and he’s got plenty of powerful stories that still hold up today. Writes Swanwick:
“In the introduction, James Gunn notes that ‘[Leinster] originated more SF concepts than any writer since H.G. Wells.’ Think about that. More than Heinlein! More than Asimov! More than Clarke!”
The stories Billee Stallings tells in the hour are fascinating, and valuable, check it out:
[via Flogging Babel and SFSignal.com]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Written by Frederik Pohl, in a single evening, in 1966. Here’s an “experimental video” with Frederik Pohl reading his story:
There’s a complete unabridged narration available HERE too.
Posted by Jesse Willis
German audiobook narrator Stefan Kaminski performs a one man audio dramatization of Kong! (adapted from Merion C. Cooper’s King Kong) in this making of video:
For more information on the vibrant German audio industry check out SFFaudio Podcast #021 in which we talk to Carsten Schmitt about audio drama and the German audiobook industry.
[via AudioBookCommunity.com]
Posted by Jesse Willis