Podcasts You Should Check Out if You Want to Be Cool

If you enjoy emotions like happiness and glee, then you're totally going to dig these podcasts.


Comedy and Everything Else- Comedy greats Jimmy Dore, Stefane Zamorano and Todd Glass deliver the goods in this hilarious and thought provoking podcast. I'm partial to episode 14 featuring the always brilliant Paul F. Tomkins (if you don't yet have his cd Impersonal, go buy it immediately, then come back because I have more podcasts to tell you about).

The Sound of Young America- Great comedians, hip new bands, authors and s bunch of other stuff you're gonna love brought to you by "America's Radio Sweetheart," Jesse Thorn.

Here are some upcoming guests. (told you so.)
Actress and comic Janeane Garofalo
Comic Tig Notaro
Comic Greg Behrendt
The Human Giant
Author and designer Chip Kidd
Comic artist Adrian Tomine
Rhett Miller of The Old 97s
Musician PWRFL Power
And many more...

Real Time With Bill Maher- Don't have HBO? Don't worry you can listen to the show instead.

Here are some more excellent free podcasts I bet you'll like-
This American Life
KCRW's Top Tune- free songs!
Slate Magazine's Daily Podcast

Want to Know About Some Cool Movies?

I thought so.

Here's a great interview from salon.com with director Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake) about his new film Happy Go Lucky (10/10). Here's the trailer.

In the same article Stephanie Zacharek gives David Koepp's "Ghost Town," kudos, referring to it as "breezy and smart." I will see any movie that's referred to as breezy. Here's the trailer.

I ran across another great piece from Zacharek on the sad state of romantic comedies. The article is from '99, but guess what? It's nearly a decade later and romantic comedies still suck.

Here's a few other movies you'll probably want to see.

John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. (It was a play first, but you probably know this because you are smart.)

Jonathon Demme's Rachel Getting Married on October 3rd.

Here's an article about upcoming indie flick Gigantic. Zooey Deschanel is in it. Need I say more?