Australian Radio Interview Tonight
Jeff VanderMeer • April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:35 pm • Uncategorized
Australian national public radio, for a book show, will be interviewing me live about Steampunk around 8:15-8:20 pm EST. I think that’s about 10:15 in the morning Sydney time?
UPDATE: Here’s the podcast.
April 22, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Is this ABC radio national’s The Book Show? If so, they have a podcast.
April 22, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Grant–Yes, it is!
April 22, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Huzzah!
April 22, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Send me a Kiwi Bird in the post to fight my Frankenhamster and I will call you “New Zealand’s foremost Steampunk writer.”
April 22, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Alas, I could not claim to be so, especially since this chap was on the national news last night:
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/Story/tabid/209/articleID/53431/cat/84/Default.aspx
Oh, I want one of those guns…
April 22, 2008 at 6:47 pm
SEND ME YOUR SUCCULENT KIWI BIRD, NEW ZEALANDER! T
April 22, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Er, continuing on…
THE FRANKENHAMSTER AWAITETH
April 22, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I can feel a cartoon coming on. Fetch me a napkin and marker pen! Stat!
April 22, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Yessir! It’s coming…by freighter.
April 22, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I’m on hold while they interview Isabel Allende…
April 22, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I can’t believe I just talked about Steampunk following Isabelle Allende talking about her heart-rending memoir. A little bit like bringing on the clowns after a Tennessee Williams’ play…
I did do my normal pre-interview routine: 10 push-ups, a few shouts and yells, a few swings of the arms, then a yoga thing where you kind of gently rap your knuckles against the sides of your head to get the blood flowing. Seemed to work. Didn’t sound like too much of an idiot. Well, we’ll see…
April 22, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Alas I was enduring an audit at work while your broadcast was being aired. Will listen to the podcast tonight.
April 22, 2008 at 8:52 pm
It’s one of my favorite podcasts. And besides our host here and Isabelle Allende, they had John Clarke on yesterday and Ursula Le Guin’s on tomorrow.
I’m assuming you are all familiar with John Clarke, the greatest New Zealand comedian of all time (possibly now sharing first equal spot with the Conchords) uttering that immortal phrase ‘kick it in the guts, Trev’:
April 22, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Yeah–so tell me: how bad did I suck? LOL!
Jeff
April 22, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Grant you’re dead right about John Clarke – the best and funniest satirist around.
April 22, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Anne: We so much want to get to Melbourne, btw!!! We really miss Australia.
Jeff
April 22, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Jeff,
I’ll tell you once I download the podcast and start up the suck meter. It’s just been in getting repaired after I accidentally put some Uwe Boll movies through it.
April 22, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Ah! I thought you’d listened live. I hate live radio, so I always tend to over-analyze it afterwards.
JV
April 22, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I’m such a podcast junkie I don’t even listen to NZ national radio live….
I’m listening to the Allende section at the moment.
Hey, if you are even in Australia, you’re going to have to come out to New Zealand too. We have Tuataras!
April 22, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Oh, if we make it to Melbourne, we’re making it to New Zealand–I assume you’d be up for lunch or drinks or something?
JV
April 22, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Absolutely. I could give you a guided tour of Auckland. The beach! The city! The other beach! The other other beach!
April 22, 2008 at 9:22 pm
LOL! Cool.
JV
April 22, 2008 at 10:11 pm
OK, I have listened to the show and ran it through the suckmeter. Suck it does not.
Actually, it was quite the triumph. You summed up Steampunk very well. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Ramona Koval ask someone “what are you wearing” before either. Bonus points for the boingboing mention, along with Elfpunk and sandalpunk (sandalpunk was a new one for me – I wondered if this was a genre for crazy mashups of Charlton Heston biblical films, or a Life of Brian sort of thing. Alas, the wikipedia entry was far less interesting)
No mention of squidpunk though…
April 22, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Dammit! I forgot squidpunk!!!!! Damn.
Jeff
April 22, 2008 at 11:26 pm
A link to the podcast: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2225120.htm
Hey Jeff,
It would be great if you and Ann made it Melbourne.