Episode 31: You Can Polish AC/DC All Day Long
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2011
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
With Dan on sabbatical, Merlin is joined by John Roderick of The Long Winters to talk about life as a bull in a china closet, craving real-world constraints, making better records, and being banned for life from Interpol’s corn chip bowl.
Links for this episode:
- Van Halen - Hot For Teacher - YouTube
- Def Leppard- Bringing on the Heartbreak - YouTube
- Robert John "Mutt" Lange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Highway to Hell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- University of Washington - washington.edu
- The Long Winters
- john roderick (johnroderick) on Twitter
- John Roderick (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 012: Interview: John Roderick | The Merlin Show
- 016: Interview: John Roderick, Part 2 | The Merlin Show
- 017: Interview: John Roderick, Part 3 | The Merlin Show
- 018: Interview: John Roderick, Part 4 | The Merlin Show
- Video: John Roderick on String Art Owls, Copper Pipe, and Bono's Boss | 43 Folders
- Flickr: Merlin's extensive "John Roderick" gallery
- "Blue Diamonds" - the Long Winters - YouTube
- The Long Winters: "The Commander Thinks Aloud" - YouTube
- The Long Winters - Through With Love Preview - YouTube
- Harvey Danger - Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo - YouTube
- reading room | the long winters library & archive
- Impasto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Helen Frankenthaler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Richard Hugo reads "Degrees of Grey in Philipsburg"
- Wesley Stace | John Wesley Harding
- MISSPEAK: "For Those About to Rock We Salute You" (not "Highway to Hell")
- Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- [SPONSOR] Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp
- [PDF] The Believer: John Roderick Interview (June/July 2005)
- Venom (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ashcan Rantings: Interview with John Roderick of The Long Winters
- Harm's Way by Jeff DeRoche - Seattle News - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
- The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964) High Definition [HD] - YouTube
- John Roderick: A Night on the Town - a set on Flickr
- Alex Van Halen: Artists: Modern Drummer Magazine
- Comparative History of Ideas Program
- Cheer-Accident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- John Vanderslice
- AC/DC - “Back In Black” (1980)
- kung fu grippe - "Before my heart overflowed."
- Air-Raid #60: Hobos of the Future with John Roderick – The Air-Raid Podcast
- Hanford Site
- Mr. Show: Gay Son/Grass Valley Greg - YouTube
- Western State Hurricanes "Car Parts" - YouTube
- Tampabay: 'They said they were glad it wasn't me'
- kung fu grippe - Jim? What a horrible, foul-mouthed little man. ...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When I say your name, when you're not around, I do it to the tune of nasty boys by Janet |
| 0:22.3 | Jackson. |
| 0:23.3 | I don't know why, but I don't, I don't care why. |
| 0:26.9 | I just love it. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm just glad, I'm glad you think of me, I, for you, I, I always do Mercedes boy, how |
| 0:36.1 | does that go? |
| 0:37.1 | Let's see. |
| 0:38.1 | Do you want to ride on my John Roderick? |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, that sounds, I never realized how dirty your name sounds like Peter O'Toole. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm, I'm stealing that from Groucho Marx. |
| 0:47.6 | There are so many ways I'm like Peter O'Toole and a few crucial ways I'm not. |
| 0:53.7 | You're tall, you're slender, you're English, you're in the fashion, in that Pixar movie |
| 0:58.2 | I like drunk. |
| 1:01.4 | I enjoy him. |
| 1:02.4 | I really enjoy him. |
| 1:03.4 | Well, there's another one on the MPR, there's a show that's sponsored by the Robert Wood |
| 1:07.2 | Johnson Foundation. |
| 1:08.2 | I laugh out loud every time I hear that. |
| 1:11.0 | I want Robert to be a dick name too, just because if you can get the triple threat. |
| 1:15.2 | Dick Wood Johnson. |
| 1:16.2 | His lesser name brother Richard, they, they couldn't name the foundation after him, they just, |
| 1:21.8 | they found the grants were just disappearing. |
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