Episode of Siskel & Ebert from 1980 regarding violence toward women in horror films.
This video was a point of inspiration for the topic of this week’s podcast, in which I speak with Dr. Lisa Wade, the founder of Sociological Images and author of this blog post.
Is three really the magic number? Sometimes it seems like it. From three blind mice to sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll, things that come in threes just seem… right.
This time I’ll speak with Michael Eck, who has tracked down and documented things in threes for decades, about why threes are so common, so relatable, and so powerful.
Next week: “Sex, Death and Morality in the Horror Genre”
Why do fictional characters (and pretty much everything else) come in threes? This time on Sounds Familiar.
The Loudness War is the pejorative name given to the decades-long struggle to try and make the loudest record, to have that one song that’ll stand out above the flood of other sounds we hear, musical and non-musical, on a daily basis. Of course, with everybody competing for the next loudest record, all this has done is made that flood much, much louder. And people are starting to say enough!
Why is loudness bad? Is loudness bad? How loud is too loud? What do those shiny little plastic discs we used to pay twenty dollars for have to do with all this? What’s it going to take to end this thing once and for all? The answers to these questions—and some very loud music along the way—this time on Sounds Familiar.
Next week: “The Rule of Threes”
Enormous shout-out to the public radio exchange (PRX.org) for featuring my story “The Loudness War” on their homepage today.
Everyone’s been really cool and encouraging about the podcast I’ve started working on, Sounds Familiar. If you’ve already been following the podcast, and want to know how else you can help boost its signal, click the link to find out other ways you can help.
If you haven’t checked out the podcast yet, clicking the link will take you to a place where you can. It’s a podcast about patterns in media and culture, and if you’re on Tumblr then chances are you’re exactly the kind of person who might find it interesting.
Thanks everybody,
BC
I’ve started to use Google Reader for my podcasts, and so I made a bundle of my podcasts folder. There are 17 podcasts, ranging from news and radio to comedy and film reviews. Here are the podcasts in the bundle:
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We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? Translations of all sorts can, at best, ensure our shared survival. And at worst, mistranslations have had varied, far-reaching and often disastrous effects, as basic as “all your base are belong to us” or as serious as botched postwar food aid.
This time it’s all about translation. What is it? Is it an art or a science? What does it mean to translate something correctly— and, more importantly, what happens when translation goes wrong? I spoke to Jay Rubin, translator of bestselling author Haruki Murakami, among others, to find out.
Next week: “Loudness Wars”
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