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3:22 am
August 10, 2010
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Ahm & Craig
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Ahm and Craig make the lone ranger look like the life of the party, do battle with some sort of magical, furry demon and — through their home videos — figure out how to remember and how to forget.
 Hear the episode!
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9:41 am
August 10, 2010
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Music for this one:
Ahm's Intro: Emily Bate – Thunderclap
Break 1: Yann Tiersen – Soir de fête
Break 2: Katzenjammer - To the Sea
Break 3: Slow Club – Christmas TV
Music under outro: Sufjan Stevens – The Transfiguration
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8:32 pm
August 16, 2010
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Rufus Markiz
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Hello,
Where could I watch the videos that were reviewing on the podcast, i mean the one's from your childhood?
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11:15 pm
August 16, 2010
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Ahm & Craig
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I'm glad you asked, Rufus.
We added a Video tab to the top our our website, but then we didn't mention it anywhere!!
Here is the direct link: http://www.myfavoritestranger……om/videos/
Please, don't think less of us after you see us as children.
;D
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4:26 pm
August 19, 2010
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firstverb
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Enjoyed the pod-cast and the videos. Mr. Craig sir, two questions please. Whose idea was the ‘The Return of the Witches’ and also who was the person behind the camera?
I am a relatively boring, quiet, person, with a very social wife and it seems four increasingly social kids. So I am mostly not social by choice. Maybe I get this from my dad, there are times when I’ll call him and it will be the first time he talks that day. Oh the joys or retirement something to look forward to. I’m sorry Miss Ahm, but I’m sad for you. Your loosing these little touchstones of your past, these little triggers which give your glimpses of that person that you were. I have a box, which is simply labeled, stuff that follows me around. A rush of emotions and feelings of the past comes out of the box every few years when it is rediscovered. Maybe I’m wrong, but all those things from before have made us who we are. And as painful as some of those memories are, I need to remember them, so I don’t repeat the stupid stuff.
Have a great week, be well.
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5:24 pm
August 22, 2010
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Safia, duh!
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I love this podcast!
I loved the discussion about memories and how knick knacks and such and make them rush back. Truth nuggets. That's what I'm going to start calling this podcast: Truth Nuggets.
In other news, your videos: Ahm, adorable, and a bit sad. The zooming in on the baby business was ice cold. I think we've all felt that way at some point in our lives. The sad bit is that that's how I am now, everyday, when people don't pay attention to me. Except I use my middle finger, or write 20 paragraphs on podcast forums, or make racist comments.
Speaking of racism, Craig's video. I'm trying not to read too much into it, but it's hard not to when the video is basically two blonde kids fighting the Jewish "witches." I say Jewish because of the stars of David on their capes. I'm open to the fact that there was childhood confusion
as to how to exactly make a pentagram versus a Star of David out of
glittery tape. However, I prefer thinking of it as social commentary or, dare I say, a propaganda video. I'm hoping it's the former, but the latter would be funnier. Also, the girl falling was awesome.
Keep up the Truth Nuggets!
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5:24 pm
August 25, 2010
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Hey firstverb! I have to admit to having no idea whose idea the video was, it certainly didn't look like too much planning went into it! I'm fairly sure my father was behind the camera, he says one or two words just before and after various cuts.
Also, we're going to have to do something about you Safia, I was hoping my use of the podcast as a platform for advocating racial holy war would go unnoticed until it was too late.
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7:39 am
September 16, 2010
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annthrop
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Hi!
Re: Social invitations.
Do you also cringe when you get invited to attend a wedding?
Brrr. Weddings or any social gathering where I'm required to wear something that's not already in my closet.
Normally it's pretty easy to ignore and decide not to show up; the (very few) friends I have already know me well enough to expect it. It only gets haunting for me when the invite is coming from close family (am unlucky to have one that considers it a big deal to show up all made up–can only be an inconvenience if you're a female). In my case, during my brother's wedding, it wasn't just about getting all made up, it was also about covering up anything "socially unsightly". Back then I had a farm of pimples on my face. Brother and his fiancee hired people to dress up their entourage and when the makeup guy got to me, he slapped on a centimeter thick of powder. Graaaaa. Should've been funny except I was surrounded with people who seemed to find it "disappointing to decide to grow pimples on a wedding day".
4 years later, it was my other brother's wedding. No more pimples but it was still no fun to get all dressed up with a dress my brother and his fiancee bought for me.
So glad I only have 2 siblings.
Unfortunately I have one close cousin still living in the same country (most of my cousins have left the third world). She informed me of her plan a year in advanced! Egad. It was torture coz now I had 12 months to think about its approach. This time I begged out of being part of the entourage but she still wanted me to show up. I can't recall any other time when I was glad to have a bad case of diarrhea. Made my uber late appearance feel heroic.
Dunno what it is really, I just don't like getting all made up. Don't like looking hideous either. Coz either way people will look at you. Something about the "blah look", feels so so nice.
Re: old videos
We don't have much of them in our family. But I know both my brothers have videos of their weddings. Brrr.
Btw Thanks for doing this podcast, Ahm and Craig. I love listening to it while I do boring visual work. 7 eps…make more please!
(Part of me thinks I should've just emailed this. But I'm hoping I'll get over the embarrassment in a few days.)
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4:10 pm
September 18, 2010
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I, too, am tremendously bad at weddings. I actually think it's any large, formal occasion with a lot of strangers there that freaks me out.
I mean, once I get there I'm generally OK but when I think about it in advance the whole idea fills me with dread. It's the same with going on vacation, actually. The thought of being in a whole new, unfamiliar location is very offputting and uncomfortable until I'm actually there.
This really does lead to me to putting off wedding plans until the last possible minute and actually not making any vacation plans at all.
I, too, should really stop admitting to all this stuff! Anyway, we're both really happy you're enjoying the podcast. It's a shame it's so much work to complete each episode because I'd love to move to doing them more frequently than once every two Mondays. Unfortunately our current schedules pretty much make that impossible!
Next one due in two days!
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4:01 am
September 21, 2010
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annthrop
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Post edited 4:02 am – September 21, 2010 by annthrop
BTW, I'm not doing the tiny serif font on purpose. Dunno why it's ending up that way. Sorry if it's making you squint. I have bad eyes myself.
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