Marv’s Midlife Meanderings

  Friday July the 30th, 2021 - The Blurb - I got in from work at about twenty to nine, in bed for about nine, and up at half past three in the afternoon. Got up, made drinks, paid bills on a banking app, and prepared myself for another night of work.  Interesting video from critic Grace Randolph about the Scarlett Johansson and Disney legal battle that also includes information about the UK government suing Netflix -  https://youtu.be/kjFqekHA-5Y   Another night that was relatively steady, albeit being a night that once again dragged. I got a message from Mike at Tabletop Genesis to say that he will contact me at some point with regard to them appearing as guests on Pods Like Us, who I’ve wanted to since I started the show, because I love Genesis, and their show is great. The ‘Casts - This Week In Marvel  - chaotic neutral. Benedict Cumberbatch birthday. Clip of stunt double for Scarlett Johansson. Large scale Galactus figure. Marvel’s Wastelanders Old Man Starlord details - I need to

  Thursday July the 29th, 2021 - The Blurb - I woke up at about twenty past three in the afternoon, feeling a bit refreshed, even if it was under six hours of sleep. I put the files from the show last night through my software to smooth and level the sound, placed them in line, placed the intro and outro music, created an mp3, and set it up for release on Sunday. Of course I also had a trip to the supermarket to do before work, and picked up a surprise for Louise from the Amazon locker therein.  The surprise for Louise - a Funko Pop figure of her favourite baseball pitcher, Gerrit Cole from the New York Yankees. Well, we are only 50 years young! 7pm start at work this time, and listening wise it started with me going through another episode I’ll be releasing in the future, and taking notes of where there are cut outs in signal, etc.  The good thing about this is that I can now edit that episode accordingly, and I may do that with other episodes that are already recorded… I need to get

  Tuesday-Wednesday  July the 27th-28th, 2021 - The Blurb - Tuesday - Awake at 3:30 bed at 7am Wed - Awake 10:30/12:30/2:30 We watched the film Black Widow.    Disappointing considering the positive reviews.   Original founder member and drummer for Slipknot Joey Jordison passed away at the age of 47.    In my opinion their material was better when Joey was a member. I don’t know if he had much of a hand in the writing, but there was still a certain quality and sound to the songs. Wednesday - we listened to the podcast Two Chicks Talkin’ Flicks where Sara & April were talking about the film The Proposal. We also listened to an episode of the Blaine Desantis led Amalfi Media show Snapshots.  We watched an episode of the podcast Talking Sopranos, with this specific episode seeing Steve Schrippa and Michael Imperioli from the show being joined by John Ventimiglia, who played Artie in the show. I’ve felt off for days. Over the previous weekend a bit from one of my fillings had come out

  This was a section of the next blogpost, but I thought that it would work better as a post of it’s own; Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard of ZZ Top issued a message to fans that bassist/keyboard player/co-lead singer Dusty Hill had passed away. I was immediately hit by their music when I caught the video for Gimme All Your Lovin’ on Top Of The Pops, and if I’m being honest it had nothing to do with the ladies in the video, because even though I was a little over twelve and a half when that video came out, I wasn’t really that bothered about “girls” back then (I’ve made up for that since then, lol). My friend Jim Annison hates that the material from the Eliminator and Afterburner albums were my in-road to the band, but they were. Damn, I even think that Velcro Fly is a shit hot song!  Dusty was incredibly important to the sound of the band, not just because as the bassist he put the bottom into the “Top”, but he was also the keyboard player, which was important to their growth in the eigh

  Monday July the 26th, 2021 - The Blurb - I got in at around a quarter to eight or so in the morning, after having to go to the supermarket so that I could get some change for the car park.    There were no parking spaces available on the nearest street where we can park, so it had to be a car park. I think it was after nine in the morning when I got to sleep, and I woke up a few times, before waking up properly at around four o’clock. After breakfast I got on with correcting the mistakes on the episode of Pods Like Us, before changing the audio file, and then republishing the episode. It’s a fun episode in my opinion, but it had a few problems, first of all being the damaged zoom files, which meant that my usual editing technique of cutting down on people talking over each other was not possible. I don’t mind a little bit of it, because that’s natural, but I would ordinarily make it a couple of voices… As an example, there were four of us in total in this conversation. I would pick w

  Sunday July the 25th, 2021 - The Blurb - I woke up at about half past two in the afternoon, got on with editing the new episode of Pods Like Us, which was the chat with Steve & Gerry from Something For Nothing: The Rush Fancast, for which I had a guest co-host, in the shape of the very professional Gregg from Bad Counsel. In the night at work I was told about problems with the sound, so took it down, and then corrected on Monday - more on that in the next blog, as that is a Monday thing. Work was incredibly busy, including an alarm that was set off by the police trying a door that wasn’t closed properly. Four alarms in total for me, and patrols on a fairly distant site that we don’t normally do. Twelve hour shift turned into a thirteen and a half hour shift. The ‘Casts - We Were On a Break - back from their vacation in Portland. Playing catch with the kids. Sex. Needing to get away to be able to get close to each other, because life gets in the way. From me - remember what John L

  Saturday July the 24th, 2021 - The Blurb - Woke up at twenty to three, after I had woken up around 11am and then at 1pm.  I did some bits towards the Grumble Goat episode of Pods Like Us, trying to correct phasing issues, while editing my rambling questions into something that sounds like I know what I’m doing. I still have a little more than an hour of in-show footage to go through of the Grumble Goat episode, and then there is the pre and post-show chat to edit for the post show music extras. Edit - Funnily enough while listening to the episode that is actually going out next, I listened to the whole original recording, and that will have six edits in total, and one of those is to get rid of an F bomb, although I’m still questioning doing that. Other than that, I think it’s actually really good, and flows nicely. I did nip to Morrison’s again to get some bits before work, of course.  During the night someone reminded me of this unreleased song from Paul McCartney that I think is a