November 2019

Tonebenders Podcast: 117 - Skip Lievsay & Blake Lehy

https://pca.st/episode/82d498dd-7139-4aad-ad74-108b26aead4d (27.11.2019)

  • Abyss ... Barton Fink ... Harriet

  • Cinema is about words, written on paper

Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast: Episode #293 – New Music Streaming Service, Digital Archiving, And Waves Product Manager Yoni Zlotkin

https://pca.st/episode/e13caaaa-d3bd-49c7-a5e8-3bedb5bfa948 (27.11.2019)

  • Majors + Merlin (Indie)

  • Backups on Glass

  • Good speakers + good room vs. Virtual headphone

  • https://www.waves.com/plugins/nx

  • Dolby Atmos Amazon HD ... iPhones Decoder

  • 18.1.5 ... 5 = Overhead speakers

  • Music advice: Plan a mix on the paper (35:50)

  • Distance Fader = Volume

  • Sense of distance

  • Learning Japanese from books vs. Living in Japan for 2 years

KSHE 95: David Lee Roth Interview

https://soundcloud.com/kshe-95/david-lee-roth-interview (26.11.2019)

  • Van Halen is a Billion business 

  • Ain’t talking 'bout love ... it’s about Money

  • Solos: Laughing at the end of a lot of struggle

  • 5 years, 5 sets, 45 minutes ... before the first record ... 10.000 hours

  • Van Halen vs. Horses of God

  • Diversified Hobbies

99% Invisible: 378- Ubiquitous Icons: Peace, Power, and Happiness

https://pca.st/episode/c077fa89-9702-462c-88f1-9fab70f6b1f1 (25.11.2019)

Criminal: Episode 128: Deep Breath

https://pca.st/episode/48e21d64-24a0-4594-987a-f75b16316937 (23.11.2019)

Song Exploder: Jay Som - Tenderness

https://pca.st/episode/49761a3a-362b-44b7-b884-06dd7390f101 (21.11.2019)

  • Vintage drum machines

  • The Bass has so much meaning (root)

  • Music CAN tell a story without lyrics

Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked: The Trespassers

https://pca.st/episode/62e68baf-93e5-4bac-9116-ad621d008b60 (21.11.2019)

  • My brain is frozen

The Mastering Show: The Mastering Show #67 - Minus 14 LUFS - or NOT ?

https://pca.st/episode/14d61c07-2ece-47a2-be6b-d24cf1696c8c (20.11.2019)

  • Kids whine at 2kHz

  • Don’t aim for -14

  • Replay gain: 5% of the Song 👇

  • First impressions count

  • On the other side of the loudness war

  • Don’t aim for targets ... master the music to be the best it can be

  • TOOL 2019

  • Streaming services don’t have an agenda ... side product = quiet music 

  • Challenge the current level

  • https://github.com/audionuma/r128x  km

The James Altucher Show: 504x [Bonus] - Never Go Broke Again: Humble The Poet and I Talk About Our Biggest Investing Mistakes. And The 2 Changes That Helped Us Create Real Wealth

https://pca.st/episode/7623d079-57ee-4ec7-aedb-9af10f361de9 (20.11.2019)

  • Biggest mistake: Being right in something

  • Invest in what you are expert in (1%) = Yourself

  • Figure out a 10 year plan and do it in 2

  • Return of investment: book a course and do it!

  • A service is more profitable/scalable than a service

  • Critical pathways: what would damage all incomes?

  • All the spokes have to be there 🚲  

  • Values: life long learning

  • Hire slow, fire fast 🔥 💨 

  • Derek Sivers: Building your own utopia

  • Business is one of the most interesting types of art (Andy Warhol)

  • You are really smart in things you have done

  • Financial investment: ask others

  • „I am stoopid in most areas of life even most are that even involve me“

  • https://pro.chooseyourselffinancial.com/p/ALR_sidehustle_ar_0219/WALRV703/?h=true

Dereks Sivers: Experiments in music and life

https://pca.st/episode/fae6ad84-2200-4922-9e30-dd41a90fe2ba (20.11.2019)

  • Uninspiring: do what you want

  • Experiment: make your own rules

  • Limitations, fear, detachment, sense of home, fame, boundaries, expanding, quitting, self image, commitment, yes/no, doing the opposite

  • There is no way to fail

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin: Opportunity cost

https://pca.st/episode/b7c81082-36ac-4c4a-9b78-258ede9251e4 (20.11.2019)

  • Stone Age Economics

  • Who invented time?

  • H.G. Wells: time machine

  • Left, right, up, down, time

  • Time = Tool?

  • Opportunity Cost: What NOT to do

  • Buchtipp: The last policeman

  • The twins paradox: 30 years apart

  • Social media rabbit hole

  • Options

  • Yesterday: what would you do differently? What would you do differently tomorrow?

  • Zig Zig: Do things that are not optional ... eating!

  • Put things „in the circle“ (not optional)

  • Life long learning: read every day for an hour ... the rest is carved out for the rest

The James Altucher Show: 503 - The Path to Stillness: Ryan Holiday on How to Develop Self-Discipline & Reduce Overwhelm

https://pca.st/episode/cd703e51-ff4f-4375-ac5c-8103816feeb4 (19.11.2019)

  • 4 stigmatic mushroome coffe ... more than mushroom/coffee

  • Mailchimp changed my life

  • Do what you wanna do NOW ... skipping advice ... „You can do that right now.“

  • Trilogy: obstacle is the way, ego is the enemy, stillness is the key

  • The end spot of any wisdom is some kind of stillness (Jesus, Buddha, ...)

  • Courage, moderation, justice, wisdom ... on every level on the food chain

  • Nero = Trump ... Obsessed wit being liked but being deeply unlikeable at the same time

  • If I don’t do the job, someone worse will replace me (trump administration) 

  • Philosophy is not for the classroom

  • Being the best (process) vs. Being No. 1 (external goal)

  • Sanity is tying your ambition to your own actions, insanity is tying it to the recognition from others

  • Don’t turn the definition of success to someone else

  • Inner score guard: successful people are usually not that motivated by external events

  • Living on borrowed time (mindset)

  • If you are in books for the money, you are in the wrong business vs. DEEPLY URGENT

  • DO THE THINGS ONLY YOU CAN DO

  • Hot things are crappy

  • Writing process: basic ideas

  • Arguments + Sub-Arguments

  • How to bring stillness into your life: Journaling (in the morning), serious mediation, walking in nature 

  • Agnostic vs. Atheist

  • 30 more Summers vs. Years (unusual measures)

  • Sannaca: we are dying NOW ... 43 years are already dead 💀 

  • Trump is a fucking moron ... „That’s anfair“ ... Ryan: „It’s my opinion on my platform“ ... „My book is about whatever the fuck I want it to be.“

  • I want the best reach for my book: I can’t control if I’m on Oprah, I can control what’s in my book

Pensado's Place - Audio: Founder of Warm Audio, Bryce Young

https://pca.st/episode/c3effa03-1919-47f5-ba00-360fd9dae415 (19.11.2019)

  • Free videos to promote the gear

  • Lee Brice Rolling studio bus

  • If you stole a gear, it would make feel you horrible vs. Knowing people who does your gearContradiction: leave wife and kids to seek enlightenment

Derek Sivers: How I became Ryuichi Sakamoto’s guitarist

https://pca.st/episode/16aea153-ff19-4f0c-8b65-019ccaee7ef9 (18.11.2019)

  • Commitment

  • Learnings

    1. Being in the middle of things increases the chances for opportunities 

    2. Everything great that happens to you in your career starts with someone you know

    3. Whenyou hear from a opportunity you want you have to go for it completely 

    4. The tiniest detail can derail everything

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Lili Taylor

https://pca.st/episode/b1168a24-0bb8-4904-a270-de07ae4840e6 (18.11.2019)

  • stance.com/wtf

  • Dead in „Short Cuts“ (Rick Baker)

  • Robert Altman: master puppeteer

  • Mentally ill dad

  • He came home with Cadillac, pianos, a house

  • Sober in 1991

  • Mystic Pizza

  • Born on the 4th of July ... Oliver Stone 🕳 

  • Damaged by the war

  • Tom Cruise needs an object (wheelchair, hanging off things)

  • People don’t like dark endings

  • Not transfered celloloyd

  •  Book ... Lou Reed is a character in it

  • Stalked

  • Hearing is the sense is the skill ... focus

  • Being in the moment is not actable 

  • Nestcams vs. The conjuring

  •  Create space for yourself

Ich höre gerade Talking to Strangers von Malcolm Gladwell, gesprochen von Malcolm Gladwell, über meine Audible-App. Probier Audible aus und hole Dir hier das Hörbuch: https://www.audible.de/pd?asin=1549150340&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006 (12.11.2019)

No Guitar Is Safe: 101 - Jennifer Batten (with Gretchen Menn)

https://pca.st/episode/68811f60-5832-403b-95e2-75fc256e6f71 (13.11.2019)

  • Laptop on Stage

  • MJ for 10 years 

  • Media show vs. Band

  • Whammy ... Wholestep Down

  • BluGuitar ... I will never go back

  • Jennifer at the guestroom ... strange until first hang

  • Bumble Bee 🐝 

  • GIT ... women’s bathroom as a reverb chamber

  • Giant Steps ... jazz police

  • Put the hours in

  • Emmet Chapman Clinic

  • Blisters on all right fingers

  • Gambale

  • Video camera audition for MJ

  • Beat It – adventures

  • Platinum Blonde Vision ... „Michael branded me“

  • 1993 Super Bowl ... 1,3 Billion watching: https://youtu.be/r8hr1K-667I

  • 3 World Tours ... 1987 ... „I just don’t wait in line anymore“

  • Captain Eo

  • Craig Howe ... substitute with no rehearsals

  • WIG = Fake Jennifer

  • David Williams: mistake on stage ... amps fault ... 4 picks per show

  • Showing Eddie Van Halen, how to play the Beat It Solo ... „You are a motherfucker“

  • MJ ... 2 Opening Bands ... Jeff Beck @ The Gig

  • Wisdom: „If the groove is going, you don’t need much more.“

  • MJs paycheck bought me a house

  • ZZ Top on Crack

Go Creative Show: Cinematography of Joker (with Lawrence Sher)

https://pca.st/episode/81818d6d-fd46-418b-8c51-65d53592232e (12.11.2019)

  • A dangerous movie 

  • The audience is ready for uneasy movies ... box office shows

  • creating a „bible“ for the movie

  • insignificant + Connection to the audience (extreme closeups)

  • Small Arthur vs. Big world

  • Decisions are made before shooting

  • Free to be him = Handheld

  • Coverage from top to bottom (wide to close)

  • Lets move blazing fast

  • Fast pace vs. Art movie ... don’t break the momentum

  • Joaquin = real acting ... you can’t stop watching him

  • Dislocated knee ... on day 3!

  • Reference: This is America (Childish Gambino)

  • 60 Days

  • LED Screen media Player

  • Fun stories ... Pr.2

  • https://shotdeck.com/

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Malcolm Gladwell

https://pca.st/episode/065637ae-47f7-4dbb-be78-a28ae2f3a5d5 (12.11.2019)

  • What we should know about people we don’t know

  • „Come to Pushkin“

  • Black girl vs. White Cop

  • Doing what was trained is the bigger scandal

  • Paranoid people

  • White Girl privileged world

  • TLDR: To long don’t read

  • Goofy, friendly, curious malcol

  • Unified Theory of deception: Evolution has favored those who trust everyone

  • Default to truth

  • Matched/mismatched people

  • It’s not them, it’s us

  • Your blonde Hair says nothing about your character

  • Agnostic ... don’t draw conclusion

  • Internet is a safe place to meet people from different backgrounds

  • Podcast Company ... 17 employees

  • Enhanced Versions: 3 days, $ 10.000.- Audio Book vs. 4 months, $ 200.000.- enhanced = outselling the physical book

  • 5 liquids: water, tea, red wine, espresso, milk

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Steven Heller

https://pca.st/episode/f04105c8-b93a-4644-ba8e-ddf5a940ac69 (11.11.2019)

  • If gonna fight a war, you gotta wear a uniform

  • Visual obscenity = embodiment of hate

  • Symbol and Concept

  • 4 squares

  • Earliest known Symbol ... not represented in nature ... it’s the sun ☀️ 

  • Abused

  • It’s a meme of the past

  • Uberman vs. Untermensch

  • The source of Life ... ethnic cleansing

  • Failed artist ... Kunstgewerbeschule

  • KISS

  • Wilhelm Deffke – Logo Designer https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Deffke

  • Make America great again ... make Germany great

  • Branding by proxy

The Empire Film Podcast: #389 – Stephen Graham, Roland Emmerich

https://pca.st/episode/cc445f0e-394b-4103-911b-763e93bfa167 (10.11.2019)

  • Long movie enjoyment

  • Midway: 1.500 vs. 300 (Pearl Harbour)

  • „I like short movies“ ... condensed

  • No Second unit, 65 days

  • What’s the script that’s inside you?

  • Dick Best

  • Climate change = more refugees

  • „Day after tomorrow“ ... 15 years = documentary

  • Movie: a super hero fights climate change

  • Cows and cars ... vegan Burger

  • Next movie: Moonfall

  • 2012 meets 2001

  • Grumpy Dennis, funny Woody

  • Randy Quaid: lost in the Canadian Woods

  • See (Apple TV) ... best blind fight scene on TV

  • Apple TV+ ... no back catalogue

  • Have all the money and do the f*** what you want

  • M. Night Shamalan ... Servant

  • CG James Dean = Rebel without a corpse

  • Filmtipp: The Congress

  • Terminator is terminated

  • Pixar: SOUL (Pete octor) ... Smooth Jazz Existentialism and spirituality

  • The color out of space (Nicolas Cage)

  • No Egos on Set (Scorsese & Co)

  • The truth within a scene

  • John Lorean

  • You would never put a wig on Patrick Steward

  • The Good Lisa (Helen Mirren & Ian McKellan)

Derek Sivers: When in doubt, try the difference

https://pca.st/episode/f817905b-7531-459e-bec8-053b6722052d (10.11.2019)

  • If in doubt: try it

  • Moving somewhere ... quitting job

  • If in doubt: Get rid of it

  • Default to not having it

Criminal: Episode 127: The Reverend

https://pca.st/episode/1f076773-ebdb-4a00-a92b-c1650f9cac9e (09.11.2019)

  • Staged death 

  • Large, lawless and lucrative 

  • Writing = sitting in front of a typewriter, waiting for the forehead to bleed

  • Even her mysteries had mysteries 

The Empire Film Podcast: Joker Spoiler Special ft. Todd Phillips

https://pca.st/episode/147b2f01-559f-487c-96de-9df02469b1a5 (7.11.2019)

  • This Joker meets this Bruce Wayne

  • Brothers

  • Batman in that Gotham

  • Inspiration: The man who smiled (1928) https://youtu.be/90WCUZq6pAY

  • Laughing from a place of pain

  • „You wouldn’t get it“

  • We walk around in life with a mask on, Joker is the opposite vs. Being yourself ... fully free dancing on the stairs

  • Psychopath, but OK

  • „Bad“ jokes

  • Gotham City: City of broken dreams ... comedian vs. Clown

  • Really real violence vs. Cartoonish

  • 1st killing: Jerk, Victim, Self Defence, predator ... all in one scene (brilliant Joaquin)

  • Accidental Agent of Chaos

  • Parallels: Joker = Trump

  • What is it like to kill Robert De Niro 

  • King of Comedy

  • The whole movie could be in his head (last scene)

  • Downtime talk: sequel

  • Criminal mastermind? Not yet!

  • The making of a super villain

  • Due Date (provocative)

  • Gary Glitter ... no royalties

  • Celebrate Joker?

  • Context: Hangover

  • GG Allin Doku: https://youtu.be/0UR2Y94gmgU

  • NYC Anti Hero ... real Shootings in the 80s

  • Alec Baldwin as Thomas Wayne

  • Teen Titans Go to the movies ... killing scene

  • Arthur Fleck is not THE Joker

  • 1981 ... Pre Gulliani

  • A. Fleck = Affleck (best Batman?)

  • Everything in the movie is a dream

  •  Clue: smashing his head on a white room door

  • EVERY watch is showing 11:10 – all is n his head?

  • Charlie Chaplin deeply not funny?

  • Joker = Taxi Driver + The King of Comedy (?)

  • DeNiro: new mouth ... sideways

  • Frowdy Downwards

  • Ranking Joker performances

The Tim Ferriss Show: #386: Ken Burns — A Master Filmmaker on Creative Process, the Long Game, and the Noumenal

https://pca.st/episode/4be0a638-1342-4ed3-a2c1-dc251e0cec8d (19.9.2019)

  • Civil War (99s) in CBS ... 40.000.000 viewer

  • „Country Music“ Doku

  • Problems = necessary friction to overcome as part of the creativity process 

  • 10 years Vietnam, 8 years country music

  • „The only thing that’s really new is the history you don’t know“ (Harry Truman)

  • „History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes“ (Mark Twain)

  • If something works, don’t touch it

  • Neon sign: It’s complicated ... learn at hand

  • I am who I am (Popeye)

  • Banjo > Africa

  • No one gets out of this alive 

  • Story = edited human experience

  • Merle Haggard: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ptmyXoL7poH6Zq62h1QT9?si=YGLHJS0hRlCeuh7aZ0RALQ

  • „It’s the things we believe in but can’t see like dreams and songs and souls“ Merle Haggard

  • „Art is the transfer of emotion from one person to another“ Leo Tolstoi

Derek Sivers: Travel without social praise

https://pca.st/episode/3da0dd44-867d-48d4-8f4a-9ee0d8593071 (05.11.2019)

  • We are trying to impress a invisible crowd

  • Raising Arizona ... Nicolas Cage –  Character based on a Cartoon

  • Roseanne – I am that guy

  • BARTON FINK ... and King Ralph

  • The big Lebowsky – A frightening little cult

  • Hanging at Amblin

  • Hell Cesar (sequel to Barton Fink)

  • Monsters Inc.

  • Roseanne II ... surreal

  • Yell louder, we dig it (cats)

Derek Sivers: Travel without a phone

https://pca.st/episode/db91bae1-94c7-405a-b906-080f37170224 (05.11.2019)

  • One step process: geniessen und dokumentieren

  • A break from connection

  • Clocks and maps

Derek Sivers: initialize

https://pca.st/episode/40cd4c2b-5b31-4682-b125-8c57d60f6662 (05.11.2019)

  • The shortest Podcast ever 😃

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: John Goodman

https://pca.st/episode/8e46b8c4-6367-4ec5-95d2-bc2851a6d202 (05.11.2019)

  • That guy is an asshole – why I am more like him?

  • I‘m in the mood for drum 🥁

Criminal: Episode 126: A New Kind of Life

https://pca.st/episode/fb46cae2-8dff-42ca-82ea-0e9bf20b4178 (4.11.2019)

  • Incubation tank ... to preserve the body ... spooky

  • Friendly hands

  • Helpful crime

  • 1.000.000:1 chance bringing her back to life

SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of Stranger Things 3

https://pca.st/episode/053266ae-cb22-4069-bc20-f6e15be406c3 (3.11.2019)

  • Bigger and bigger sound from season to season

  • TV schedule and budget vs. Cinema Sound

  • Bold decisions

  • Low end on home speakers

  • 8 big reels ... one BIG movie

  • Going back and enhance episodes later

  • The Duffers encourage creativity 

  • A show made for sound

  • Specific to 1985

  • Duffers: mission statements for every season ... S03: Gore

  • Rules: no animal sounds

  • Never ending story ... challenge: Guide track for the editing

  • Sound in the 80s: there was no Dolby Atmos ... doing a early stereo mix

ID10T with Chris Hardwick: Linda Hamilton

https://pca.st/episode/b411efa2-4bac-4ce3-b357-b3668956738e (02.11.2019)

  • Terminator: (no) overnight Sensation

  • Woman in hell

  • Small town girl vs. New York

  • It’s a job

  • Being happy vs. Chasing it

  • So hard, so fun ... 4 months later

  • 15 minutes after successful project vs. Unavailable (kids)

  • Don’t look for the easy way

  • Knowing (and protecting) Sarah Connor

  • Ready after months: who wants to fight? The inside work gets lost

  • That’s not me (CGI self)

  • Sarah Connor is certain ... she might be wrong

  • No tourist during shooting

  • SciFi Fantasy: Joe Abercrombie (Trilogy) ... Broken earth (J.K) ... 3 Body Problem“

  • The age of me

  • Animals, books and friends vs. Things

  • New Orleans 

  • Doing comedy and Shakespeare 

  • Honest and authentic ... tribute to the world

  • I'm the failure in the family

  • Lead with love and empathy ... most people are doing their best