Tag: prince

Blue Apron on French Fry Diary

GAR! on Blue Apron

Blue Apron

From the New Yorker: The Courage of the Soul Singer Charles Bradley

Videos:

“Ain’t It A Sin” by Charles Bradley

“The Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground

GAR! 173: Bobby the Brain and the Avengers Go to Twin Peaks

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following: Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan, “Twin Peaks,” Secret Empire, Len Wein, “The Good Place,” Hurricane Irma, Spider-Man, broken Avengers, Archie and digest comics, reprint comics, great gifts, the work of Alan Light, and Watchmen and “The Twilight Zone.”

Glenn admits that he got the “Seinfeld” episode memory wrong, but the analogy of the toothbrush in the toilet he presented still holds for Captain America and Secret Empire.

Links:

The Nerdfect Strangers Podcast

GAR! on Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan

Bobby Heenan Hall of Fame Speech

Wrapped in Plastic by Andy Burns

Captain America – The Damage Is Done

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

A List of Alan Light’s Flashback Reprint Comic Series

Len Wein and the Golden Age of Comics

The GAR! Podcast on Twitter

GAR! 172: The Prince Chronology, Part 1

Prince, Controversy, pictured above.

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast presents a track-by-track album-by-album discussion of Prince’s career from his first album For You through to Controversy, including the self-titled Prince and Dirty Mind, as well as the debut album by The Time and the only album release from Vanity 6. We also talk about the early days of The Revolution, the tours, album art, Billboard charts, covers, radio airplay, record store memories, analog television, Andre Cymone, Ready for the World, Taylor Swift, hackers, and our new Twitter feed.

And since it’s about Prince, there’s a mature content warning on this episode, because yeah, we’re going to talk a lot about songs he wrote about vaginas. It is Prince after all.

Here’s the albums we reviewed. If you use our Amazon links, we get a small commission.

Prince, For You.

Prince, Prince.

Prince, Dirty Mind.

The Time, The Time.

Vanity 6, Vanity 6. Sadly, not officially available, and ridiculously expensive, but still fun if you can find a copy.

And here’s the ad from the Courier-Post for Prince’s show at Emerald City in 1980. We mention this on the show.

Links:

The Make Mine Magic Podcast Twitter

Huge thanks to the team at PrinceVault for all the knowledge used on this week’s show.

The GAR! Podcast Twitter

GAR! 171: Cyberbullying and Nuclear War

Glenn’s Heroes and Villains comics review column at Biff Bam Pop!

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following: Chapterhouse Comics, Frank Miller, Susan Rogers, behind the scenes at GAR!, ghost cats, cyberbullying, Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Obamacare, The Day After, how to survive a possible nuclear war, Richard Nixon, movies about nuclear war, the episode we were supposed to do, Ray sings Fall Out Boy, and Glenn does his Frank Miller imitation.

Links:

Glenn on Freelance

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

GAR! on My Super Ex-Girlfriend

GAR! on Prince

“Uma Thurman” by Fall Out Boy

Jared Kushner on Deadspin

How to Survive the First Hour of a Nuclear Attack

GAR! 169: Prince Underground

Prince.org Online Fan Community

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following: Prince, Purple Rain Deluxe, The Revolution, Susan Rogers, bootlegs, the Prince estate, The Black Album, drugs, baseball umbrellas, high price paraphernalia, listener feedback, Keith Pollard and Ron Wilson, and AI Alexa.

Links:

PrinceVault

Nerdfect Strangers Podcast

Charlie Murphy’s Prince Story

GAR! 168: Comics and Controversy

We talk about this book this week.

The Divided States of Bleeding Cool

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following: Howard Chaykin and his Divided States of Hysteria, reactions to the comic, Ray’s unintended Bleeding Cool celebrity, underappreciated Jack Kirby, Neal Stephenson, schlepping, Blue Apron’s vinegar obsession, Crossed and the evil that is Frank Sinatra.

Neal Stephenson and the Baroque Cycle- I’m on Book 8!

Links:

Bleeding Cool

Howard Chaykin Responds to Controversy

Howard Chaykin at FreakSugar

FreakSugar

#Kirby100 at Biff Bam Pop!

Glenn on The Green Arrow

French Fry Diary

Golden Voices: Frank Sinatra on Comixology

The GAR! Podcast 143: Steak, Tech, and Old School Radio

Cassettes!

Manny’s Original Chophouse

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / Florida again / Manny’s Original Chophouse / the Red Lobster robbery, again / Manny’s food / restaurant rules / Mugsy and crotch-hitting / Evernote / Legion of Super-Bloggers / the Apple iWatch / biotech / drivers and the driverless / listening on the commute / Ray’s commute / Walkman / Discman in space / old school cassettes / play and record / DJ chatter / Hot Hits 98 / Terry Young / oldies / Apple Music / the iPhone / Ulysses / surprise in the fridge / Joe DeVito’s Kickstarter / closing /

Steak!

Links:

French Fry Diary

South Jersey Farewell Tour

FFD at Donkey’s Place Too

Amy Holiday

Legion of Super-Bloggers

Hot Hits 98

Ulysses

The GAR! Podcast on iTunes

The GAR! Podcast 137: Phil Collins, Don’t Kill Us

Oh God, Phil Collins is going to kill us.

Glenn on the Eagles documentary

This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

intro / Star Wars / The Hateful Eight / Phil Collins / growing up Phil / saturation / vocal percussion / angry Phil / Prince’s Hit N Run / Genesis and the Eagles / he just can’t hurry love / Camden Comic Con / cosplay after the fact / Deathstroke / what do you mean you don’t like Star Wars? / wiped continuity / Episode VII / sexism and racism / Jar-Jar / George Lucas and company / Rogue One / a friendly break-up / Audacious Eleven / surprise guest Ray / Cornwall time / snow show / con guests / loose ends / unpaid interns / popcorn / the Fantastic Four, t-shirts, and Nikki Sixx / the final tour / Molly Hatchet / SpongeBag SquishPants / the dead eye / The GAR! Podcast / the cosplay parade / action figures / Christopher Priest / GAR! in cosplay / so many Spider-Men, so little time / Deathstroke threatens Ray / name that cosplayer / Better Call Saul / the new Electra Woman and Dyna Girl / kid friendly con / Deathstroke vs. Phil Collins / thank yous / closing /

Here’s some great Camden Comic Con pics!

Cobra Commander (actually, my good friend Ray Lopez) and me.

Here's the whole cosplay team. Fantastic! — Here’s the whole cosplay team. Fantastic!

Links:

Camden Comic Con

Glenn on the Genesis documentary

The Make Mine Magic Podcast

Glenn on the Seth Rogan Green Hornet

The GAR! Podcast on iTunes

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The GAR! Podcast 136: Remembering Prince

We’re both huge Prince fans, and if you’re a regular listener, you know how often his name and work come up on this podcast. Needless to say, we’re gutted, and needed to talk about it when we heard of Prince’s passing. We hope you’ll enjoy listening to this special edition of The GAR! Podcast, and remembering with us. Rest in peace, Prince.

And this is Ray’s favorite version of It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night:

Links:

Glenn on Prince

Biff Bam Pop! Remembers Prince

The Shadow Knows Podcast

The GAR! Podcast on iTunes

The GAR! Podcast 120: Comedy and Music

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