Pimp

Haven't pimped in a long damn while.

If you haven't been listening to The Marketplace of Ideas, here are the luminaries you've been missing:

• Mayan Cycle composer Jeremy Haladyna on converting seemingly every possible nonmusical thing, the Mayan calendar included, into music
• Capturing Reality documentarian Pepita Ferrari, on the art of documenting other documentarians
• The Philadelphia Lawyer on the total and utter suckage of the legal profession
• Laurie Brown and Andy Sheppard, host and producer of CBC Radio 2's The Signal, which is probably the perfect music show
• Comic artist and comic journalist Peter Bagge on what it's like to draw cartoons for Reason and what the deal is with bums
• Treeless Mountain filmmaker So Yong Kim on how, exactly, she made one of the finest films of 2008 (and why Hirokazu Koreeda is so inspirational)
• WFMU general manager Ken Freedman on what makes a great freeform station great
• Slate wine columnist Michael Steinberger on what happened to French cuisine, and why
• Nick Drake's biographers Trevor Dann, Patrick Humphries and Peter Hogan on the 40th anniversary of Five Leaves Left
• On religion and falsity with Your Religion is False author Joel Grus

If you haven't been reading Podthoughts, here are the podcasts you've been missing:

• The Tobolowsky Files
• Edgy Podcast Reviews
• Critical Thinking
• Wiretap
• Airborne Event Dronecast
• Common Sense
• CD Baby DIY Musician Podcast
• The Japanofiles
• BBC World Service Documentaries
• The New Yorker: Fiction
• More Than One Lesson
• The People You Don't Know
• Adventures in Modern Music
• The Phil Hendrie Flashback
• TEDTalks

If you haven't been listening to Barely Literate, here are the books you've been missing:

• Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
• Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater
• Joseph Heller's Something Happened (featuring Battleship Pretension's Tyler Smith!)

If you haven't been reading The Humanists, here are the cinematic masterpieces you've been missing:

• Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up
• Wayne Wang's Chan is Missing
• Hirokazu Koreeda's Maborosi
• Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy

If you haven't been reading The KCSBeat, here are the chapters of freeform radio history you've been missing:

• A Brief History of KCSB, part VIII: the technological 2000s
• A Brief History of KCSB, part VII: the transformative 1990s
• A Brief History of KCSB, part VI: the Sean Hannity-y late 1980s
• A Brief History of KCSB, part V: the high-powered 1980s
• A Brief History of KCSB, part IV: the improvement-filled late 1970s
• A Brief History of KCSB, part III: the identity-questioning early 1970s
• A Brief History of KCSB, part II: the riot-y 1970
• A Brief History of KCSB, part I: the fledgling 1960s

If you haven't been listening to Soundforum, you can stream back shows on its site. (Many more to be added there in a sec.)