STUFF IS HAPPENING!

Nashville International Puppet Festival

Summer Reading (I can’t believe we forgot to mention this.)

DIGITAL TREASURE TROVES

Digital Public Library of America

Hathi Trust

- where you can find The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates…

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

- where you can find the Space Shuttle Enterprise over New York City

- where you can find the Flight Deck of Space Shuttle Endevour

UbuWeb

- where you can find Brian Eno’s Discreet Music

- where you can find the entire Obscure Records series

Brian Eno records at NPL

Project Gutenberg

- where you can find The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

- where you can find Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper

Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (a retelling of Little Fuzzy) at NPL

Trailers from Hell

- where you can find Alan Spencer digging into Theater of Blood

NPL Digital Collections

Free Music Archive

Smashwords

Open Library

Europeana

Internet Archive

Public Domain Review

Open Culture (This is the best one we didn’t talk about.)

TICKLING OUR FANCY

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay: Away From Keyboard

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Sound Opinions podcast

Hannibal

The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene

Ministry of Fear film directed by Fritz Lang

Hint: try searching for Fritz Lang movies on some of the sites we talked about in the first segment.

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The Popmatic crew bravely asks if a work about a work can be as good or better than the original work. Confused? So were we! Plus, what is tickling our fancy this month? We tell you that too.

STUFF ABOUT STUFF

The Shining

Room 237

Nosferatu

Fitzcarraldo

Burden of Dreams

A Christmas Story

Clarkworld

Castle by Richard Castle

Heat Wave by Richard Castle (first in the Nikki Heat series)

Storm Surge by Richard Castle (all three Derrick Storm novellas in one ebook)

Making Rumours by Ken Caillat & Steven Stiefel

Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington

Twenty Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle

20 Jazz Funk Greats by Drew Daniel

33 1/3 series

Stone Reader

The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman

Rob Ager‘s YouTube channels: robag88 & robag555

Kubrick Boxes directed by Jon Ronson

Colour Me Kubrick

Eyes Wide Open by Frederic Raphael

TICKLING OUR FANCY

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber

The Kane Show

Hannibal

Alex Cox Kickstarter for Bill the Galactic Hero film

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During this episode we talk to Ralph Bakshi, director of Fritz the Cat, Wizards, and The Lord of the Rings.   Mr. Bakshi discusses the importance of public libraries, his views on animation, and why he won’t watch Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films.

Come see Bakshi’s film, The Lord of the Rings, on Saturday, May 11^th 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Main Library downtown.

In honor of April Fool’s Day, we celebrate funny things. In honor of National Poetry Month, we play a poetry game. Jane, from Limitless Libraries, makes a cameo appearance. All this and more on the Popmatic Podcast!

FUNNY STUFF

Sarah Vowell

Airplane

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Heartburn film version

When Harry Met Sally

Nora Ephron highly recommends having Meryl Streep play you.

House featuring an essay and cover art by Nashville locals

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Duck Dynasty

POETRY

“The Cathedral Is” by John Ashbery in As We Know

“Reflections on Ice-Breaking” by Ogden Nash

“Common Sense” by Ogden Nash

a soliloquy from Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles

TICKLE MY FANCY

Edley’s Bar-B-Que

River’s Edge

Tim Hunter

Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign

Gun Machine by Warren Ellis

Transmetropolitan

The Awakening

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We have a caffeine-fueled discussion of Life of Pi, the book and movie. Skip to the 28:34 mark to avoid spoilers. We name drop of a few other book-to-movie adaptions worth your time, and we tell you what is tickling our fancy this month. Welcome guest podcaster, Mike! We try not to be too mean to him.

LIFE OF PI

Life of Pi citywide read events

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Life of Pi directed by Ang Lee

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas directed by the Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men directed by the Coen Brothers

TICKLING OUR FANCY

Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday by Jordan Matter

Theatre is Evil by Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra

Sword & Laser – a SF themed book club, video show and podcast

The Film Talk

Legends of Film is proud to present an interview with director Ted Kotcheff. Mr. Kotcheff has directed such movies as First Blood, North Dallas Forty, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? will be showing March 9, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Main Library downtown.

Popmatic crew shares our Oscar picks and a whole lot of recommendations of things for you to watch, read, and listen to while you wait for the DVDs of the winners to come in. Crystal was so disappointed with this year’s nominees that she called in sick. We give you the skinny on a whole lot of programming the library is doing for African American History Month. We cover so many things in this episode, I’m going to stop typing now.

African American History Month:

full list of African American History Month programs

DVD pick - Pariah directed by former Nashvillian Dee Rees

Oscars:

Master of Disguise by Antoni J. Mendez (basis for Argo)

Amanda’s picks

Best picture – Django Unchained

Best actor Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables

The Boy from Oz soundtrack featuring Hugh Jackman

Best actress - Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty

Best director – Ang Lee for Life of Pi

Writing (original screenplay) – Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino

Music (original song) – “Skyfall” by Adele & Paul Epworth from Skyfall - get it on Freegal

Music (original song) – “Everybody Needs a Friend” by Walter Murphy & Seth McFarlane from Ted

Music (original song) – ” Suddenly” by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boubil

Bill’s picks

Best picture - Zero Dark Thirty

Hurt Locker

Actor in a leading role - Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln

Best actress – Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty

Take Shelter starring Michael Shannon & Jessica Chastain

Best director – Michael Haneke for Amour 

Cinematography - Roger Deakins for Skyfall

The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy starring Gary Oldman

Bryan’s picks

Do the Movies Have a Future? by David Denby

Best picture - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Ballast

Actor in a leading role - Joaquin Phoenix in The Master

Sex and Rockets: the Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter

Strange Angel: the Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle

I’m Still Here

Actress in a leading role – Quvenzhané Wallis is Beasts of the Southern Wild

Mulholland Drive starring Naomi Watts

Directing - David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook

I ♥ Huckabees starring Naomi Watts

The Fighter

Writing (adapted screenplay) - Tony Kushner for Lincoln

Angels in America

Visual Effects – Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, and Martin Hill for Prometheus

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

Whew! We made it through another one: another year, another podcast, another apocalyptic cult. In celebration, we tell you about the things we are most looking forward to in 2013. The library will have them or already has things by their creators so you can pregame. First, some events we are looking forward to:

Movies @ Main: Man on a Swing

Writer’s Circle with David Maraniss

Books We’re Looking Forward To

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

next volume in the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth

The Dying Grass by William Vollmann, the next volume in The Seven Dreams series

Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris, perhaps the last volume in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series

Ever After by Kim Harrison, the next volume in The Hollows series

A Wrinkle in Time by Hope Larson

Music We’re Looking Forward To

a new Civil Wars album

a new Straight No Chaser album

Amok by Atoms for Peace, an art rock super group led by Thom Yorke

Bish Bosch by Scott Walker

Movies We’re Looking Forward To

new seasons of American Horror Story

Oz: The Great and Powerful with James Franco

Springbreakers also starring James Franco, directed by Harmony Korine

On the Road starring Viggo Mortensen as William S. Burroughs

Hannibal which will star Gillian Anderson but NOT Kevin Bacon

Star Trek Into Darkness starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Zachary Quinto

new episodes of Key and Peele

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Legends of Film is proud to present an interview with Director of Photography Adam Holender.  Mr. Holender has photographed Midnight Cowboy, Smoke, Fresh, and Man on a Swing.  Man on a Swing will be showing January 12, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Main Library downtown.

Best of the year show! Ours’ is superior in that you get our favorites from the library. Because we are human, we mention some things we absorbed in 2012 but were not necessarily released in 2012. We end with a teary-eyed look back at the year that was in Popmatic Podcast land. Are those tears of laughter or tears of rage?

Of all the events happening at the library in December, the one that gets us most excited is Amanda’s holiday concert featuring herself and her students.

Awesome Books

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

You’re Already Amazing by Holley Gerth

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Ghost Wave by Chris Dixon

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Canada by Richard Ford

Among Others by Jo Walton

Awesome Movies & TV

Savages

Lawless

In Treatment

Awesome Music

Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming by M83

R.A.P. Music by Killer Mike

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