Ah Yes, Settle Down for Adventure, it's Letter to America - The Irish Podcast - Chapter 60 - The 2007 Irish Blog Awards Podcast Special!
In which we get lost like last time, Gingerpixel has some interesting views, Jett dissects Wayne's allegation that the Awards are fixed, we root for the Big Guy - Allyn Quigley, and Oldbones makes a cameo appearance.
All this and more on your "Well, the Above Items Might Not Be in the Show" Irish Podcast.
We have to wait until Friday?
Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Tom Raftery | March 05, 2007 at 04:47 AM
I've heard Chapter 59, but I need time to get the rest of the show. Either way, new episode sounds like it's gonna be fun, so I look forward to it. By the way, I like this format of transmission, but am not entirely caught up on knowing how to go about making a Podcast. Any chance you could tell the listeners in an upcoming show, Chapter 61 or 62, maybe?
Posted by: Judas Trainwreck | March 05, 2007 at 04:48 AM
That's a good idea Judas - maybe we'll have some sort of 'how to do a podcast' show in the near future - thanks for listening! :)
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 05, 2007 at 05:38 AM
ha did you drive on past Lisburn, (you'd think you'd learn doing that once, didnt you do that last year) I did that with a pal from Dublin and was mortified when I had to tell her we missed, I missed the turn off.
We ended coming down through Craigavon and 50 roundabouts! Looking forward to hearing the podcasts
Posted by: Red Mum | March 05, 2007 at 06:11 AM
We did many things Red Mum - but got there eventually - and yes, we did get lost last year. Sigh.
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 05, 2007 at 06:26 AM
That image looks strangely familiar.
Posted by: Annie Rhiannon | March 05, 2007 at 09:15 AM
Ah yes, please tell me how you'd like to the credit to read...
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 05, 2007 at 09:20 AM
As I was saying over on Wayne's blog, the two of ye were Cinderella-like in terms of the swift post-event disappearance. Was looking forward to a few words with you both but all I noticed was a puff of smoke, a faint whiff of sulphur, and a discarded man-sized slipper. LTA had left the building.
Posted by: fústar | March 05, 2007 at 09:49 AM
Yeah, we have to cross the border before Midnight or we turn into...well, I'll leave that to your imagination.
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 05, 2007 at 09:56 AM
hey, it was great meeting you at the irish blog awards although it was only for a second on your way out. Yous so deserved to win something, bt like me i guess youll have to wait till next yr, i love the podcast!
Posted by: Pádraig | March 05, 2007 at 04:50 PM
Thanking you Pádraig - I'd compliment you on your blog but my Irish is a wee bit rusty! :)
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 05, 2007 at 05:43 PM
How about the LTA crew actually spending an evening crawling around Dublin? We could set you up at the tail end of a Hen Party and I'll bet the podcast on the back end would be a scream.
Posted by: Bernie Goldbach | March 06, 2007 at 09:43 PM
Not a bad idea Bernie - Wayne and I could make a trip down - a Dublin Special. Please feel free to email in with any suggestions/offers of support!
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 07, 2007 at 03:44 AM
If you pay for the gas/petrol, Jett, I'd gladly do a Dublin Podcast. Maybe they'd like us better next year at the awards if we did so. BTW did ANY N.I. blog or podcast win anything?
I'm just askin'....
Posted by: Wayne Ordinary American | March 08, 2007 at 03:26 PM
Perhaps if Jett hadn't waited until after the awards to re-design the blog, he might have won something...
Posted by: Phil | March 08, 2007 at 04:49 PM
Some of the ads get cut off, so they don't look quite right, but overall, I see how the design will be better in the longrun, assuming Jett doesn't stop doing the show if he doesn't win anything.
Posted by: Judas Trainwreck | March 08, 2007 at 09:25 PM
I wonder if you guys have thought about using an LTA Twitter account to text ONLY about gigs, exhibits, local music tracks, and podcast releases. You could embed those things in a front page column, make it stand alone in a separate blog category or keep it as a microblog. People could subscribe to all of those things plus you have UK phone number textback to your posse.
Posted by: Bernie Goldbach | March 09, 2007 at 01:49 AM
Bernie - you're definitely the man to go to for tech - using Twitter might be going too far for us here at LTA...and I'm scared to think that we have a 'posse'! ;-)
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 09, 2007 at 05:40 AM
Don't become another Pete Jackson, Jett. Don't give in to the current trend for length and volume. “King Kong” may have been 3 hours long, but it felt closer to 30. Absolutely draining...and utterly pointless.
I rewatched "The Incredible Shrinking Man" on Sunday night. Not only is it one of my favourite 'genre' movies of all time - it clocks in at about 82 minutes! Despite that it effortlessly achieves everything it needs to in that time.
No such luck these days. I sat through 2 1/2 hours of “Superman Returns” recently. By the end I wished myself dead.
Posted by: fústar | March 09, 2007 at 05:53 PM
First of all, 'The Incredible Shrinking Man' rocks! Greatest ending EVER.
As for King Kong - I walked out of the middle of the picture - went across the street to a pub for mineral water - had two - went back to the cinema - and Kong was STILL fighting those friggin' dinosaurs.
Lastly, Superman Returns blowed.
And you're right - things are too bloated - just watched the amazing Sam Fuller's 'Forty Guns' tonight - only 79 minutes long = perfect.
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 09, 2007 at 06:43 PM
You could always make the director's cut available as a download, and put the hacked short version on the podcast feed. For those of us not in Dublin, we might enjoy reliving the evening through your Minidisc player!
Posted by: Alan in Belfast | March 10, 2007 at 10:18 AM
I have never downloaded a podcast longer than two hours. This will be an interesting episode because anything longer than 45 minutes means taking it in over several different time periods. That could destroy the narrative.
Posted by: Bernie Goldbach | March 11, 2007 at 03:22 PM
I'm for the Director's Cut Edition idea, more accurately, I'm for having EVERYTHING! Put as much of the material into the podcast as possible. Think of the HARDCORE FANS, Jett! We have high-speed internet now. Downloading a podcast won't take too awful long, no matter how long it goes. And by the way, WHERE is the podcast, anyway? It's the next week, now, and we're fiending for our LTA fix, so make with the podcast before we all starve! No, seriously, we want quality, so do whatever you feel you need to do to make the podcast ready.
Posted by: Judas Trainwreck | March 12, 2007 at 06:58 AM
Bernie - you have obviously missed out on the "olden days" of LTA, when podcasts were routinely over an hour long.... 1hr 30mn, 1hr 45mins was not unheard of.....
Posted by: Phil | March 12, 2007 at 10:52 AM
Is that it?
Posted by: John | March 14, 2007 at 12:12 PM