Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:25:47 -0500 Julian Fleisher http://www.julianfleisher.com/Podcast Podcast Maker v1.3.8b - http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcastmaker What are the songs you hate to love? Confess! New York "nightclub supernova" and "human iPod" Julian Fleisher asks his guests to reveal the songs they're most embarrassed to admit they love. Mortification is transformed into pride and guilt becomes greatness as, one by one, special guests (both famous and not-so) unburden themselves of a lifetime of secret shame. Don't just listen! Share your Guilty Pleasures with us at julian@julianfleisher.com. We and our guests will work 'em over good on the air. Write or call the "JFGP" Hotline at 347-229-1343 en Julian Fleisher http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ Julian Fleisher julian@julianfleisher.com http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/Guilty_Pleasures_144.jpg http://www.julianfleisher.com/Podcast 144 144 Music Society & Culture Performing Arts songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, yes Julian Fleisher Star of Sports Night, The West Wing and other Aaron Sorkin endeavors, gets his guilty gold from his kids... You may know Joshua ("Josh") Malina from such television warhorses as Sports Night, The West Wing and Big Shots -- well, maybe not Big Shots. But did you know that he is also the co-creator of Bravo's network-making series Celebrity Poker Showdown? Well he is. He's also sire to a frisky brood of precocious insult comics who don't even take Shabbas off to spare a hapless visitor the business end of his forked, if funny toung. Perhaps that's why our guest, after sharing stories from the trenches of the Hollywood poker scene, shamelessly susses out his own kids for guilty pleasure gold. NB: This episode was originally recorded a very long time ago, and since then many things have changes. Rest assured, however, that where ever possible, we attempted to let you know. Huzzah! http://www.julianfleisher.com/Podcast.html http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_051107_JM.m4a Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:05:35 -0500 Music, Songs, Guilt, Confessions, Guilty Pleasures yes 00:42:22 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher Pianist. Icon. Legend. Honoree. Dad in boxers. You do the math... Ravel, The Green Hornet and masturbation: just a few of the head-spinning juxtapositions you’ll enjoy when JF interlocutes his own elusive sire in this, the long-overdue latest edition of the podcast. On the eve of his coronation at the 2007 Kennedy Center Honors, piano papa Leon Fleisher hauls his cookies up to Kitchen Studios for a revealing - and sometimes troubling - look at one “longhair’s” guilty glee. Get the real story... http://www.julianfleisher.com/Podcast.html http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_122307_LF.m4a Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:36:40 -0500 Music, Songs, Guilt, Confessions, Guilty Pleasures yes 00:47:44 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher LA's Queen of Almost Everything goes deep during this remote episode from the wilds of Van Nuys! Sandra Tsing Loh is just about as fabulously polymorphous as they come. She's an icon in the cultural sphere of Los Angeles, and practically the patron saint of Van Nuys, where she lives -- and that's not some kind of backhanded compliment. She's an award-winning writer/performer/composer/gadfly and, incredibly, also a beloved NPR personality. She's a wife, a mom and yet still somehow a really, really good time. And that's before lunch! Famous for (among other things) having lost her job on LA's legendary NPR outlet WKCRW when her engineer failed to bleep the word "fuck" from one of her famous dispatches, she was eventually offered her job back...but told her producer to, well, fuck off. Love that! Meanwhile, her many books, articles, plays, performances, compositions, dispatches and commentaries can be found in bookstores, theaters, cinemas, magazines and on the radio just about any day of the week. But lucky you: you can get this one here...now! http://www.julianfleisher.com/Welcome.html http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_12_STsL.m4a Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:47:30 -0400 Music, Songs, Guilt, Confessions yes 00:31:04 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher "The Dorothy Parker of the cyber age," turns her acetylene glance to the Guilty Pleasure, and someone will never be the same. Someone somewhere once called Cintra Wilson "The Dorothy Parker of the Cyber Age". But as Dorothy Parker herself once said "I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true." Indeed! For if Parker's keen eye had had half the fire that this dame's has, why the Algonquin would long ago have burst into flames. From her columns in Salon, The San Francisco Examiner and in weeklies around the nation, to her incendiary blog -- the dreaded Dregublog -- this Wilson flips the switch that lights the hair of the high and mighty on fire. With a flair for the well turned, acid-dipped riposte and an eye for the slightest chink in the most self-righteous armor, she's made a career of taking the air out of some of our culture's hottest hot air balloons. Guess what her Guilty Pleasure is... http://www.julianfleisher.com/Welcome.html http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_CW.m4a Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:03:19 -0400 Audio Blogs yes 00:38:54 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher Genial genius David Rakoff, author of the bestselling Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable, turns the GP on its ear! It's hard to say how David Rakoff is best known: as an author, actor, comic, editorialist. If he weren't such a luddite, he'd surely have an influential blog. But it's probably safe to say his most lasting fame will result from his two bestselling comic masterworks, Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable, each a cunning, penetrating and hilarious look at one man's (as he puts it) intense discomfort moving through the world. It should come as no surprise, then, that David's take on the ol' GP should be tinged with the sadness of a childhood spent at the movies, rather than the record store. What's a guy who's never even heard of Duran Duran supposed to do when asked to choose his guiltiest popular pleasure? Never fear, dear reader. Rakoff his here! http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_012407_DRak_lev.m4a Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:03:22 -0400 Audio Blogs yes 00:32:47 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher Magic Mo Rocca hosts your host -- and an "episode" of JF's GPs on his weekly show on SIRIUS Satellite Radio! Our friend Mo Rocca dragged us kicking and screaming onto his weekly variety program, The Mo Rocca Show, on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. After spending an evening on Guilty Pleaures (back in Episode 4), Mo got it into his head to have us over to his big-time satellite studio where he kindly devoted much of his show to letting your host Julian take calls and talk guilt and pleasure. The phones rang off the hook as callers from all over this great country chimed in with their GPs, many of them wildly surprising! It was a dream come true! Our deepest thanks to Mr. Mo Rocca, his delightful production team and the fine people of SIRIUS Satellite Radio for allowing us to spread the word in a big way. NB: This is not an enhanced podcast, so no chapters. links or pictures. Also, you're listening to a taped episode, so no calling the call-in number that Mo keeps repeating over and over. This happened a long time ago, so who knows who you'll get if you do! Play on... http://www.julianfleisher.com http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_SIRIUS.m4a Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:45:13 -0500 Audio Blogs yes 00:39:08 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher Widely known as adult film star Gus Mattox, the Catskill's own Tom Judson waxes wise about the the ol' GP. Composer. Producer. Writer. Porn star? That's right. Polymorphously perverse Tom Judson wears many hats, most interestingly that of "Gus Mattox", recent winner of the GAYVN Performer of the Year Award -- a feat made more remarkable by the winner's all-to-brief tour of duty in the adult industry, his relatively advanced age among performers therein and his many successes outside thereof. Who better, then, to help us bridge the gap between pleasure and pain, guilt and glory, sex and song than a man whose work in the sex trade is rivaled only by his success writing film scores, magazine editorials and pop songs! Join your host, the ever-intrepid Julian Fleisher, as he tiptoes through the tulips of the charming and disarming Tom Judson's garden of earthly delights. Oh, and, um, Guilty Pleasures. Don't forget to write! http://www.julianfleisher.com http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_07106_TJ.m4a Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:25:20 -0500 Audio Blogs yes 00:37:04 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher Hollywood veteran Martha Plimpton gets down and guilty about some rather problematic pleasures... The scion of one of the American Theater's reigning families, Martha Plimpton has been performing in one way or another for, well, a long time. Countless movies, plays and other gigs later, she is at her fighting best: young, sexy, irrascible and brilliant. In fighting trim and down for almost anything, Marty took time out from rehearsing Tom Stoppard's mammoth "The Coast of Utopia" at Lincoln Center to talk with her old partner in nightclub shenanigans about one of her great passions: the pop song. Those who don't know her well might be as surprised to discover her sweeping familiarity with the world of pop music as they are to learn that she herself is one helluva chanteuse. (Check out the link to a brief video of her belting out one of Julian's tunes with him and his Rather Big Band that's buried in the enhanced portion of the podcast.) So pour yourself a stiff one and buckle up tight as Rowdy Roddy Marty Plimpy introduces you to some pretty dicey Guilty Pleasures. Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Martha Plimpton... http://www.julianfleisher.com http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_122506_MP.m4a Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:56:43 -0500 Audio Blogs yes 00:43:33 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher "Herb" of Kiki & Herb, Mellman is the deliriously talented pianist behind the daring duo's signature sound and fury. What could he possibly have to be guilty about? "A truly inspired pop musicologist" is how the New York Times described Kenny Mellman in its all-out rave of Kiki & Herb's recent limited run on Broadway. (This interview was conducted just weeks before they opened). "The secret ingredient" is how another observer trenchantly described the deceptively retiring Herb. Indeed, one might (but wont) be forgiven for underestimating his contribution to the duo's performances, given his willingness to cede center stage to his more demonstrative partner. But anything more than a cursory listen reveals the stunning and irreplaceable quality of not only his playing, but also his de facto curatorship of the entire K&H repertoire. As music director, pianist and, perhaps most importantly, arranger, he is in many ways responsible for their uncanny ability to own the songs they choose to perform, no matter how iconic the song may be. So what tune makes the tune-master feel ashamed...? http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_070606_KM.m4a Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:49:09 -0400 Audio Blogs yes 00:30:38 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher On the eve of their Broadway debut, Kiki and Herb's Justin Bond opens up not only about his Guilty Pleasure, but the very nature of guilt itself! It's a jagged little pill... For more than a decade, Justin Bond has thrilled and terrified audiences around the world as Kiki Durane, the booze-swilling, fire-breathing, mind-blowing T-Rex of the washed-up lounge singer set. With the ingenious Kenny Mellman as Herb at the piano, these two fiercely original, yet strangely recognizable titans of the performance world have left a stunning, brilliant and inimitable swath of scorched earth behind them during their long march through the dense jungle of pop-culture, politics, music and modern life. Having just returned home from their Resurrection Tour (which followed their sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall) Justin and Kenny are set to conquer Broadway. With only days until their opening, they each sat down with Julian to discuss, among other things, their guilty pleasures. First up is Justin who, naturally, takes issue with the very idea of guilt itself. Soon enough, however, the tequilla is flowing...and so is the pleasure! http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_062706_JBo.m4a Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:29:24 -0400 Audio Blogs yes 00:37:32 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, celebrity, talk, humor, music, pop, culture, comedy, singing, Julian Fleisher Comedian, journalist, pundit and collector of all 50 state anthems, "The Roc" opines on a whole array of shame-based musical infatuations. Most of you know Mr. Mo Rocca from his many appearances on The Daily Show, VH1, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and even Animal Planet's "Whoa, Sunday". Really. What you probably don't know about Mo, though, is that this charming, brilliant and easy-going "humorista" is also a veteran of New Jersey's Hunterdon Hills Playhouse's Song & Dance Review...not to mention that he's harboring a pretty substantial collection of Andy Williams DVDs. And that's just the tip of this icy 'berg. Come with us, wont you, as we plumb the depths of Mo's hidden pop-musical identity, dig for pearls and emerge fairly overwhelmed with precious booty -- and yet unburdened of baggage and newly alive. No, really! http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_061406_Roc.m4a Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:25:40 -0400 Audio Blogs yes 00:32:28 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, talk, humor, music, pop, culture Julian Fleisher The filmmaker and novelist speaks love to shame about his deepest Guilty Pleasure...what will it be? Brian Sloan has written and directed several hit independent feature films including "I Think I Do", "Boys Life" and most recently "WTC View". He is also the author of two Young Adult novels, last years "A Really Nice Prom Mess" and the newly released "Tale of Two Summers", both published Simon & Schuster. Brian's a longtime downtown New York denizen with a fierce appetite for all things poppy -- music, movies and strip clubs included. With an uncanny knack for finding the hidden heart within the most banal situations, he's a gifted comic voice and hilarious storyteller. Sit on the hood with us while we watch the band practice in the garage... http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP_053106_BS02.m4a Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:54:01 -0400 Audio Blogs yes 00:32:08 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, talk, humor, music, pop, culture Julian Fleisher The actress, singer, mother and lover breaks down her secret shame. Check it! Molly Ringwald is many things to many people, to be sure. To us, though, she'll always be the gal who cooked a 20-pound turkey to bronze perfection in under 2-hours, while graciously losing at Scrabble. As if that weren't enough, she's a willing participant in another game that doesn't always end so well: confessing one's sins as a lover of David Cassidy. Listen and learn... http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP02_020306_MR_fin.m4a Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:06:09 -0500 Audio Blogs yes 00:29:41 guilt, pleasure, songs, music, pop, culture Julian Fleisher Podcast High Priestess One Tryck Pony exposes her guilty pleasures, and my neighbors'! One of the podcast-o-sphere's leading lights, the mysterious and yet simultaneously highly exposed, One Tryck Pony stops by to talk guilty pleasures. Instead of coughing up titles, however, she ends up in a shamelessly flirting with two of Julian's neighbors, both recent (and vulnerable) graduates of NYU. This episode-within-an-episode was originally thrown together at the request of Dawn and Drew, two even more important podcasters who now broadcast their shows on the wondrous SIRIUS radio. While marked #3 on the episode list, this was actually an early exercise, but one with some really groovy guilty pleasures. Listen in as OTP, Julian and new buddies Nick "Danger" and David "Manarm" indulge in precisely the sort of dorm-room kibbitzing you'd never actually want other people to hear. http://www.julianfleisher.com http://guiltypleasures.podbus.com/guiltypleasures.podbus.com/JFGP01_012806_OTP.mp3 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:57:31 -0500 Audio Blogs yes 00:22:03 songs, pop culture, guilt, pleasure, celebrities, talk, humor, music, pop, culture