Colin Marshall

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You might not know that I host and produce a public radio program called The Marketplace of Ideas. If you haven't been listening, or at least haven't been listening since the time of my last Pimp post, here are the luminaries my conversations with whom you've been missing:

• Thinker, writer and "Agent of Change" Seth Godin
• Chris Bohn, editor of The Wire, the finest music magazine in existence
• On Romantic music, poetry and philosophy with James Donelan, the only professor to ever give me an A
• Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll on the arrow of time and the challenges of science writing
• North Korea scholar B.R. Myers on the worldview of the "Hermit Kingdom" as revealed by its propaganda
• Musician, writer, and ex-blogger Nick "Momus" Currie on the occasion of his 50th birthday and the closing of his blog
• Cinematic curator and journalist Livia Bloom on the films and personality of documentarian Errol Morris
• Economist, rationalist and Overcoming Bias blogger Robin Hanson
• On advertising, marketing and narrative with New York Times "Consumed" columnist Rob Walker
• Economist Steven Landsburg on how to address philosophy's big questions with the techniques of economics
• Oxford historian Chris Wickham on how to do the history of the Middle Ages right

You might also not know that I've been transcribing my Marketplace of Ideas interviews on a weekly basis and posting the transcripts to 3QuarksDaily for yr reading pleasure. Here are the texts currently available:

• B.R. Myers on North Korean propaganda
• Seth Godin on not being a cog
• Wire editor Chris Bohn on running a successful modern-music mag
• Merlin Mann on escaping "tip" culture and doing less stuff better
• WFMU general manager Ken Freedman on the craft of freeform radio
• ZBS Foundation president Thomas Lopez on audio dramatism
• Three music writers on Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left
• Nick "Momus" Currie on enjoying, and leaving, blogging
• Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt on broadcasting the best conversations with authors
• Robin Hanson on being rational and signaling status
• The Sound of Young America host Jesse Thorn on bringing something new, and apparently frightening, to public radio
• Ramin Bahrani on being a "neo-neorealist" filmmaker

And hey, have your realized that I also write a monthly film column called "The Humanists" on that very same site? Well, I do. Here are the films I've covered there in the past five months:

• Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse
• Jia Zhangke's Still Life
• Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light
• Frederick Wiseman's High School
• Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up

Speaking of columns and media, I also write one on podcasts, called "Podthoughts", for The Sound of Young America's web site. Podcasts recently reviewed include:

• The Pipeline
• RISK!
• Superego
• Talk to Me
• Arts and Ideas
• Creative Destruction
• The SModcast
• XO
• Well-Rounded Radio
• Chatterbox Audio Theater
• The World in Words
• The Mustache Rangers
• The Popdose Podcast
• The Amateur Scientist Podcast
• KEXP: Music that Matters
• Sound Opinions
• X Minus One
• Everything from Resonance FM

OTHER FUN FACTS: I also host and produce a radio program on local arts and news issues with the Santa Barbara Independent. For that outlet, I also write a column on the past, present and future of KCSB, the station from which that program broadcasts.

Now if only any of this stuff paid a dime, I'd be sittin' pretty! I understand lives of crime are paying awfully well these days.

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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.)

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

• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen on creating one's own economy
• Greg Milner on the history of recorded music
• The Criteron Collection's Kim Hendrickson on the early career of filmmaker Shohei Imamura
• FORA.tv founder Brian Gruber
• Lawrence Osborne on Bangkok
• David Sheppard on the life and career of Brian Eno
• John Scott on the quarrel between Hume and Rousseau
• Alain de Botton on the pleasures and sorrows of work
• Travis Elborough on the vinyl LP
• 43Folders founder Merlin Mann on doing stuff
• Richard Eoin Nash on publishing
• Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy writer Jon Raymond
• Podcaster, blogger, critic and intellectual shock jock Edward Champion
• Goodbye Solo director Ramin Bahrani
• Electroacoustic musician Ethan Rose

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

• The Musicology Show
• Frank and Erik Internet Famous
• Stuff You Should Know
• The Indie Travel Podcast
• Low Budget FM
• Left Field Cinema
• Uhh Yeah Dude
• Science and the City
• Arrive Having Eaten
• Tom vs. The Flash
• A Life Well Wasted

(At this point, I should really write a book about podcasts or something.)

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

• Joe Haldeman's The Forever War
• Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle

(Many more of these coming very soon.)

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

• Wes Anderson's Rushmore
• Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep
• Ming-liang Tsai's What Time is it There?

If you haven't been reading the rationality-themed Overcoming Bias community blog spinoff Less Wrong, they you probably haven't noticed that I've started contributing. My first post there is a revision of a popular old post from here.

If you haven't been listening to Soundforum, you can stream back shows on its site.