by cameron | Nov 16, 2006 | Podcast
Lynn Fischer now has over 1,000,000 healthy cookbooks in print, and her “Low Fat Cooking for Dummies” has been an amazing best seller for the past four years. With so much talk in the media at the moment about the rise and rise of Type II diabetes, I thought it was time for us to talk more about eating to live. So when I met Lynn by chance in San Francisco, I picked up some easy to follow tips for you fat, nerdy geek types out there. 🙂
by cameron | Nov 13, 2006 | Podcast, Uncategorized
As part of my new job as part-time entertainment gossip mongerer for the showBUZZ podcast, I’ve had to learn how to find stuff like this – the recently released 19 second clip of Britney Spears’ alleged sex tape that rumours say her ex-husband K-Fed is going to sell the full version of. WARNING: NOT WORK SAFE… unless, like me, you work for yourself. In which case, bring it on. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.
by cameron | Nov 11, 2006 | Podcast
Yesterday I caught up with Helene Juguet, Director of Marketing, Ubisoft. Among many other successes, Helene was responsible for marketing one of my favourite games EVER – Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. Sam Fisher was in foyer of the Ubisoft offices:
During the interview we talk about:
- The Frag Dolls
- The latest edition of the Splinter Cell franchise – Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
- What a complete GOD Michael Ironside is.
- The idea of a Splinter Cell film – starring Clive Owen.
- The whole Tom Clancy connection and some history of Ubisoft
- What it’s like being a woman in the gaming industry
- Violence in gaming
- Developing games for girls, kids and mature adults
- The future of gaming, MMORPGS, and more.
Hope you enjoy it.
by cameron | Nov 8, 2006 | Podcast
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So tonight I went to see Lou Reed play a gig in Redwood City, an hour by train outside of SF. It was HUGE!
As some of you know, back in Jan 2005, as we started TPN, I published my dream list of people I’d like to interview on my podcast. At the top of the list was… Lou Reed. Next was Noam Chomsky. Well I got Noam out of the way about a year ago. And tonight…
While I was standing in line I started chatting with some of the other folks in the line, and eventually realized that if I can’t get a chance to actually interview Lou Reed, I can at least interview his fans! So I pulled out my iPod asked the people who they were, where they came from, what they did for a living and why they were going to see Lou. I kept doing the interviews while we were sitting inside the theatre, waiting for the show to start. I also recorded 99% of the show, but that’s just for my personal collection. 🙂
In the interviews I met a fine art photographer, a sci-fi author, a landscape gardener, the manager of a comedy club, a psychiatric nurse, the president of a search engine optimization company… and a german. A fair cross-section of Lou Reed fans. I’ve always suspected Lou Reed fans are more intelligent than your average rock fans.
By the way, the show was brilliant. No drums, no keyboards, just Lou on guitar and Rob Wasserman and Fernando Saunders both playing bass! The set list included mostly tracks from Songs For Drella Magic And Loss and The Raven. There was one VU song, a brilliant version of Femme Fatale, and one encore from New York. During the show, Lou announced that the Democrats had taken back the House of Reps and he, along with the crowd, clapped and cheered for about five minutes. Lou made a comment about how convenient it was that Saddam was sentenced the day before the US Elections and then said how he’d like to see George Bush hung. I think the election result must have buoyed his spirits because he did TWO encores – the first was a new track called “Gravity” and the second was “Dirty Boulevard”. Anyway… this show is about the fans, not a review of the concert, but let me just say that it was awesome. And today there was news that he is touring Australia again next month!! And will be performing the entire Berlin album!! Rock on.
Enjoy.
by cameron | Nov 8, 2006 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Allow me to vent for a minute on something few of you will care about – Van Halen. Long time viewers will know that I grew up listening to VH and pretty much decided to be David Lee Roth when I grew up (something I never really got over but now I’d be happy to get him to do a podcast on TPN… Dave, the offer is still open man).Â
Confirmation today from the Van Halen camp that Michael Anthony aka “Michael Fatteny” as we used to call him (a reference to his generous girth) is no longer in the band and has been replaced on bass by Eddie’s 15 year old son Wolfie! Gah! So now the band is Eddie, his son and his brother Al on drums.
Now, losing Mike on bass is bad enough – those of you who aren’t VH fans probably think that all bass players are the same, but Mike has always been a key ingredient to the VH pie. He’s a master on the instrument, provides the dog-whistle-soprano back-up vocals, and of course comes across as the only truly nice guy in the whole outfit. And how is Wolfie going to drink Johnny Walker from the top of his bass? At 15? Although if he’s got his dad’s genes, I doubt it’ll be a problem….
As bad as losing Mike might be, the worst part of all this is that rumours that DLR might be back on vocals is unlikely if they can’t even make peace with Mike. Apparently the problem between Mike & the brothers VH is that he’s still mates with Hagar and plays the occasionaly gig with Sammy at Cabo. Mike’s been with the band since the beginning, around 75/76, that’s 30 years, if you don’t count the last year of them sitting on their rich asses. And they have dumped him because he’d rather play gigs with Sammy than sit around getting even fatter? So you have to surmise that if Eddie can’t get over that, there’s no way in HELL he’s going to tolerate working with Dave again.
So my chances of EVER seeing DLR out front of VH in this lifetime are pretty much zero minus something. Thanks Eddie. Thanks a lot. By the way, hope you enjoyed doing that porn soundtrack cuz I think that’s pretty much where your career is headed now dude.
by cameron | Nov 7, 2006 | Podcast, Uncategorized
J. David Markham and I recorded a new episode of our Napoleon podcast yesterday and it was unique because we were actually in the same room! Check it out.
