Cup of TNB: Episode #3: Nick Belardes

Cup of TNB is a podcast hosted by Joseph Matheny. Every few weeks, Matheny interviews authors who contribute to The Nervous Breakdown. In this episode, he talks to Nick Belardes, whose book of bizarre trivia, Random Obsessions, is now out in paperback from Viva Editions. (Also, check out TNB in the LA Times)

Listen above or at http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/podcasts/

The GSpot will be on vacation until January 22nd. Cup of TNB will continue every two weeks. In the meantime, a few people have stepped up to run shows in the place of  the GSpot for the next 4 weeks. Enjoy!

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The GSpot:Brad Listi

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Brad Listi, author and founder of The Nervous Breakdown. Also, a new episode of In Your Ear reviewing the QN podcast.

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BRAD LISTI (b. August 1, 1975) is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestselling novel Attention. Deficit. Disorder. and the founder of TheNervousBreakdown.com, an online literary community and publication featuring writers from around the world. He has a BFA from the University of Colorado and an MFA from the University of Southern California. He was raised in the Middle West, but his kinfolk are from the Deep South. He teaches creative writing and English composition at Santa Monica College, and he can be found online at Myspace, Facebook, and www.thenervousbreakdown.com.

Cup of TNB is a podcast hosted by Joseph Matheny. Every few weeks, Matheny will interview authors who contribute to The Nervous Breakdown. In this, the first episode, he talks to D.R. Haney, author of the remarkable novel Banned for Life.

Listen at Alterati or at The Nervous Breakdown.com

(Also, check out TNB in the LA Times)

The GSpot: Rachel Haywire

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Rachel Haywire about the good old BBS days, music, art and all sorts of goodies.  Since this is a special holiday show, they just talked and talked and talked, with no fascist concepts of clocks or calendars. Chaos Never Died!

Music this week by Rachel Haywire.
Song 1: Dark Discordia
Song 2: Mean Enough Hot Enough (Savage Ideal Dance Club Forsaken mix)

Rachel Haywire is a reality terrorist from the metaphysical gutters of post-apocalyptic hell.

She has an article out in the disinfo anthology “Generation Hex” entitled “Eris is My Biatch.” She also has two songs coming out on a compilation called Women Take Back the Noise.

Besides annihilating reality and deconstructing sound, Rachel Haywire spends her time traveling from city to city and country to country. She likes long walks on the beach and lunatic street riots.

link
http://experimenthaywire.net/

Haney & Olear – Book Soup

TNB contributors D.R. Haney and Greg Olear read at Book Soup in West Hollywood, California on November 20, 2009. Recorded, edited, and introduced by Joseph Matheny.

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/podcasts/

also on

http://www.alterati.com/blog/2009/11/haney-olear-book-soup-on-tnb/

The Nervous Breakdown has a new look! Congratulations to Brad Listi (our guest on the GSpot on December 11th) and company for pulling off a fantastic makeover. I  will be starting a new podcast there soon, called “A Cup of TNB“, which will feature short interviews with the many TNB writers. I’ll be at Book Soup tonight, recording my first show: a chat with D.R. Haney, author of Banned for Life . Expect announcements soon regarding the schedule for “A Cup of TNB“.

the smallWORLD: Joseph Matheny, Alterati

On the last edition of the small WORLD I announced that the small WORLD had found a new home on Alterati. But what is Alterati? That’s the topic of today’s show.

Our guest on today’s show is Joseph Matheny, the founder of Alterati.

Joseph has been on the small WORLD twice before: once to talk about The Incunabula Papers: Ong’s Hat and once to talk about Grey Lodge. Joseph has also worked for Adobe. Joseph has also written and contributed to many books and magazine articles, is involved in theater, television, film and video and will soon be launching Hukilau.

We’ll learn all about Joseph and more on today’s show. Stay tuned!

As always, you can reach me at smallworldpodcast@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/smallworld