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S8E23: Beautiful Noise with Susanna Hoffs
🕑 Added 2024-06-25 03:04:28 +0000 UTCSusanna Hoffs and Bret discuss the dreadful repetition of life on the road, watching Patti Smith go rogue and the refreshing ribaldry of This Bird Has Flown. Part 2 of 2.
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The Lake Show
Great Episode! Crazy how The Bangles were never nominated for a Grammy, but Anora wins Best Picture. Times are a Changin!
Gnome
I found Anna Karenina a real slog. The most enjoyable "classic" novel I believe is Pride and Prejudice.
Alexander Quattlander
Wow she has great taste in books, film, and tv.
Shaianne
when i was reading it i was thinking bowie but after listening to this that clicked
Alexander Quattlander
Bret did a little review of his work maybe six months ago i think. But he doesnt mention much.
Alexander Quattlander
Haime is opener on Taylor Swift tour and yes i think Bret is right if lead was hotter prob be bigger but the music isnt quite there either. And Bret still referencing Todd as his boyfriend...
Tom
Mailer is a fascinating figure, he was influenced a great deal by the psychologist Wilhelm Reich in his writings- https://projectmailer.net/pm/The_Mailer_Review/Volume_10,_2016/Mailer’s_Use_of_Wilhelm_Reich
Samer Akl
I might try it
E
If you're a transit commuter, Kindle is a must
Samer Akl
There’s a debate among my fellow readers about switching to kindle, the convenience of it, how it saves space and prolongs the reading experience as you age and your sight withers. I just can’t do it. Nothing about it excites me as much as paper, the feeling of a book, its thickness and its richness in my hands.
Mike in Philly
Hey Bret... forgive me if you already have, but have you ever talked about Norman Mailer? I just saw the most recent documentary about him which, all too predictably, focused on his exhibitionism more than his writing. He's a difficult, paradoxical writer to enjoy exactly, but passages of his work have stuck with me. Love to hear your thoughts.
Nikki Ferrari
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vi2IS8APhNorymm9yTsj7?si=eGgquSQ8RzmF6PvXKcVj3g
Nikki Ferrari
There is a prince version, a demo of this song on Spotify and it is also incredible like the Martika song
Tom
omg I didn’t know he was a guest, I have to listen!
Billy Schafer
And directed by a former guest Ti West.
Sodaheiress
Love that Bret only reads physical books. Same and I can’t do audio.
Phoenix
She’s great. Belinda Carlisle next please.
Grant
Definitely two canon episodes.
Brian Aldrich
She's a great guest...should be a regular!
Ashley
Exactly! It was a much needed mood shift for the pod
Patrick
She def did. Like old friends even tho they didn’t know each other. Golden.
oficinismo
just found out about this on Twitter. had to join and listen. I'm so glad
Dave
Among those that have read Hoffs’ novel, anyone else think that the Jonesy character was based on Prince?
Dave
Always wondered whether Bret read in e-book form.
Gatsby
Run like an Egyptian
Tom
Bret will you watching MaXXXine when it hits theatres next week? Seems to be right up your alley- 1980s neo-noir horror about dark Hollywood and the serial killer phenomena. Bares a number of resemblances to the The Shards.
Ashley
Nice energy to this episode. I think Susanna helped lift Bret’s spirits. Spinal Tap is so funny 🎶 gimme some moneyyyy 🎶
MisterBlasty
I am born in 1974 and my cultural experience growing up in LA was mixed due to the rapid technological change that occurred every few years in a constantly changing time. Bret and Susanna's conversation who is slightly older made me appreciate their cultural knowledge and personal inspiration in a slower time before the internet. And they have a lot in common. Plus, sharing the experience of living in LA during an era slightly before mine made me appreciate an era of Los Angeles that I only got to experience at the end when it was in decline. Great podcast
Dave
Love how Susanna is assigning Bret homework.
Darren
Great part 2 and overall conversation on all our favorite topics. It was wonderful to hear Susanna talk about my hometown, Oxford, and how it inspired her novel. I will definitely re-listen to both episodes again soon!
Lionel
He died. A truck got him.
Knokkel knokkel
Are you back yet?
Peter Guzzo
Very good guest. Great episode.
Patrick
😂
Knokkel knokkel
https://open.spotify.com/track/6lHsW2WVG6aNmlc8L3aBRj?si=5hpNE64sRyOFk9pNTJtRXg&context=spotify%3Aartist%3A51l0uqRxGaczYr4271pVIC
Tomás Diana
Definitely the episodes that dive into literature are my favorites. I think since books are mostly out of the current conversations, these episodes are like fresh air. Thank you, more of this please.
Stephen Curry
I’m going to make a demand: that every podcast is accompanied by a special playlist selected by Brett and the guest. Another great song written by prince and sung by a female is Love, Thy Will be Done by Martika. Unbelievable song, which gets hardly any play—I had not heard it until recently! I got it off Lorde’s at home playlist on Apple Music—altogether a work of art in itself. I infer she and martika have something in common—“we crave a different kind of buzz.”
Richie Laufman (Dixie who went Yank)
Thank fuck, finally a good episode
richard owain roberts
am going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
Erix Antoine
My crush on Susanna Hoffs rekindled! … In all seriousness, this was such a great set of episodes. It was just fun. A great conversation between two friends. Your chemistry was palpable. I laughed out loud when she enthusiastically went: “We should go to the New Bev!” And Bret was like: “Nah… I don’t do people…” I also watched her Criterion Closet thing. I agree that Bret should do one of those. She’s just adorable. Love her taste in movies, music and literature.
Oleg
she just got tired
Stevan Popovic
The Pet Shop Boys call it the imperial phase. Whatever you do its successful. After that its downhill. The bands that survive this. Keep there fan base, while surviving the backlash.
Steve
I was wrong. After the first part I complained about her interrupting and talking over Bret too much. This episode was much better. The problem was probably me.
PETER GREER
She’s gorgeous & very talented… great episode.
John Q. Thompson
Also I listened back to "Manic Monday" after the first episode of this podcast dropped. Even if I didn't already know Prince wrote it, you could easily guess it. The opening verse, vocal pattern and lyrical content is fairly similar to "1999." Go listen to them back to back and you'll hear it. It's probably why he didn't keep the track for himself, he likely felt that he already wrote it once before and it was too similar to "1999."
John Q. Thompson
I've never cared about or enjoyed any Patti Smith or Barbra Streisand and I'm a fan or moderately enjoy just about any other band or artist mentioned here. Maybe ya gotta be a woman or a certain type of male to appreciate that stuff? And I like plenty of gay artists, but somehow I just don't connect with the female artists that gay men really tend to like, but I do enjoy some Donna Summer. I don't care about the poetry stuff of artists that I do enjoy like Jim Morrison or Henry Rollins. I think there's a time and place for that stuff and for me it ain't on a record.
M. Nero Nava
Lots of Todd references in this one. But, I’m glad BEE sounds in good spirits. Also, I like like Hoffs now. Also, “Someone To Lay Down Beside Me” is a cool song, and it sounds like something Hoffs would sing. Great choice.
