Archive for January, 2011
Begging on Digital Knees – Episode 48
In this week’s thrilling episode! Jim has an acute attack of Girl On The Internet Syndrome, locksmithing, the evolution of the (Friendly) Local Gaming Store, and we wade carefully into dangerous waters with the latest installment of Stafa’s corner. Finally, we tell a bald-faced lie regarding the inclusion of the fabled “Bo Jackson” content into this week’s episode. No, no! No damn crying! You’ll just have to wait for next week.
We still have Shawnimals to give away! Take them! Dear god take them! Feeding and housing these deadly assassins is as expensive as it is dangerous. You must take them off our hands!
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Double Rainbow – Episode 47
A very special episode of Blue Yonder this week, as the guys discuss a serious topic; gays and geekdom. The geek community has a rep for being open minded and progressive, but is that warranted? Why aren’t there more gay role models/heroes in science fiction, fantasy, and video games in general? It’s not all heavy, as we touch lightly on Minecraft, Breaking Bad, douchebags, and post-outro, offer up some of the finest, old school off topic outtakes we’ve had in a while.
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Links relevant to the cast…
- BS Report: Bill Simmons interview with LZ Ganderson
- GeeksOn: Gays in Sci-Fi
- The douchebag god
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Episode 3 – Jonestown Jams
Hey everybody! I’m finally back with another episode of Jonestown Jams. It’s been forever and I’m sure you’ve missed me. There are some minor changes to the show, as you’ll hear. I’m hoping they can keep me and my listeners interested in the show. I think this is a pretty good one.
Some things to mention about this show’s music:
A. Rival’s album 8-Bit Pimp is on sale for $3 right now on bandcamp. I really like it and even considered using Go for Broke as the Blue Yonder theme song at one point. There are previews for each track so you don’t have to take my word for it!
Most of you probably know it already but the song from Inverse Phase is a Cee-Lo Green cover. One of the best mood lifters I know. The video spins it a bit to be about an old NES that’s been stuck in the closet and forgotten in favor of newer games. Hilarious and sad at the same time. I include it after the track listing.
Finally, Nerdapalooza is a Florida-based con that features a bunch of the biggest nerdy bands around. Check out the site (which links to other sites that have links to even more sites that feature actual music!) and the con if you can make it. The 2011 show is still in the planning stages.
That’s it. Enjoy the music and if you have any requests, send them to me at jimjones@baldmove.com or post them in our forums! See ya next time, hopefully sooner, rather than later.
- Artist: Super 8 Bit Brothers
- Song: Roll It Up
- Album: Brawl
- Artist: Inverse Phase
- Song: F___ed 6502
- Artist: The Protomen
- Song: Iv: Vengeance
- Album: The Protomen
- Artist: Adam Warrock
- Song: Top Wobble
- Artist: A. Rival
- Song: Cybernetic Mariachi
- Album: 8-bit Pimp
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Watersports – Episode 46
I know what you’re thinking. This is the Blue Yonder crew. I’m NOT listening to any damn thing that is tagged “watersports!” I know! I know. But listen, it’s not about what you’re thinking. Mostly not. Maybe a little? But it’s totally in a video game context, so I’m sure you can deal. If not, I have several really excellent therapists I can refer you to.
We also discuss The Fighter, a stunning twist in the recently concluded war with Unwarranted Self-Importants, introduce a new segment, “Stafa’s Corner”, and some contest updates. Have at it!
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MOPI Discussion — BONUS Cast
We knew a lot of you wouldn’t want to sit through even more discussion of singularity / Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, but we had to get it out of our system. This book tends to do that to you. Bonus content to the rescue! Feast your ears on even more discussion and debate about trans-humanity, the ethics and morals of artificial intelligence, plot details, writing styles, graphic content, themes, allegories, religious allusions and other art major type bullshit! Or not!
Like all of our bonus casts, listening to it requires registration to our forums. It’s fast and free! Click here for Prime Intellect Discussion…
Prime Intellects – Episode 45
Whoa, whoa! Check out the big brains on Jim and A.Ron! We do the damn thing on technological singularities, the e-novella Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, discuss the Little Big Planet 2 demo, touch ever so lightly on minecraft, declare total victory over Unwarranted Self Importants, and do some listener feedback. There’s some hot pillow biting action too. Something for everyone! Oh, and Amish Friendship Bread is a real thing. And terrifying.
If you enjoyed the singularity/MOPI stuff, we’ve got bonus content for you coming tomorrow in the forums where we turn up the geek to eleven and go plaid tearing into the underlying premise and philosophy.
Oh, don’t forget about our contest, below! We’ve got one winner already! We have three more ninjas to give away…
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Shawnimal Ninja Contest!
As announced in episode 44, we’re running a promotion; bring us the heads friendship of you and four other friends to our facebook page and we’ll send you a free plush ninja for your trouble.
Here’s how it works. Visit our facebook page and “like” us. Get four of your friends to do the same. Hell, they don’t even have to listen! Then send us an email saying who your friends were, what color ninja you want, and where you want the deadly assassin sent. The USPS does the rest!
Note: one ninja per five likes. So, you can cut him up, starfish style and share, or you keep it intact, for for yourself, and tell your slacker friends to find five more bodies so they can get the silent but deadly plushies too!!
Update: The black and orange ninjas have already been dispatched on their grim but adorable missions. Only the blue and green — masters of the ancient and subtle art of time and wood magic — remain. Are you worthy to claim their allegiance?
Episode 45 Preview
This week’s show, which drops Wednesday, will feature us discussing the concepts of a technological singularity, structured around a review/debate/discussion of the e-novel, Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, which can be read in it’s entirety online. Please heed the warnings on site and below about the contents of this book. We talk about the subject in the cast proper for about 25 minutes, and will release another 40 minutes or so of the discussion as bonus content, where we really get in depth and philosophical. It’s different from our normal stuff, not as funny, per se, but very geeky and we hope interesting to you guys and gals.
As prep, we invite you to read the novel and have a virtual book club with us. The novel, really a novella is short; it can be read in two hours or so. In Jim and I’s opinion, it is some of the finest hard sci-fi we’ve read in the past decade.
WARNING: This book features extremely adult content. It uses intentionally graphic imagery and themes to illustrate the possible loss of humanity that is one potential consequence of post-singularity culture. The chapters, 1, 3, and 8 are particularly graphic, and could probably be skipped without much loss if it gets to be too much. The more interesting and philosophic material is in chapters 2 and 4-7. The way the book is structured, these are fairly stand alone in terms of context and time.
True Grit Review – BONUS Cast
I reckon it is about time to release this here bonus cast. It takes the form of a critical review of the movie, True Grit. Was it any good? Does it do the classic John Wayne justice? Is it badass? And more importantly, why is A.Ron struggling with making a folksy, western sounding news update to accompany this post?
As with all of our bonus cast material, a free registration to our forums is required to listen. Get it while it’s hot!