Stationary Joystick

Stationary Joystick returns after three weeks of absense (due to laziness)! This episode should have been a kickass driving episode (note the reference in the episode’s title to one of the first Twinkie Beyond episodes), but the sound was crappy and muffled for a still unknown reason, so I return with another episode recorded in the bedroom. Nothing interesting or important has happened since the last episode, so instead I talk about:

• Stuff I’ve been wasting my money on. In particular, a vanishing coin bank and a “will return” novelty clock.
• Shoutouts to Twinkie Beyond and the Experimental Life Wondercast.
• Things I should be working on while I have time during the summer, but probably won’t.
• A short movie review of “Doomsday”. Wait a minute, I saw “The Dark Knight” too! Why the hell didn’t I talk about that!?
• I complain about people not using Twitter enough. Hit me up!

So while this probably wasn’t as interesting as the actual driving episode, it’s still not that bad (I don’t think). I might try cleaning up the audio of the driving episode to see if I can extract at least a few bits to compile together for another short episode. That will probably be a while though, because procrastination is what the cool kids are doing.

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This mess of a Stationary Joystick episode is what happens when you podcast to fill your quota (and really, a podcast “quota” is strange because most people podcast as a hobby and don’t need to fill a quota). Well, for better or for worse, here it is. Some things [crappily] covered in this episode:

• Vocaloid, the inexplicable fascination of every anime nerd. Seamless segue™ into a plug for Synthesia, formally known as Piano Hero.
• Madison, Wisconsin. Specifically, the Henry Vilas Zoo and State Street (also known as “tear gas alley” once a year).
• Short reviews of “WALL•E” and “Vantage Point”.
• Beijing Summer Olympics 2008. Or Something.
• Wow, this episode is bad. I even say that within the episode!

So, it’s obvious that I didn’t like this episode, but as always, your milage may very. This episode is 45 minutes long, and I bet at least 1/3 of that is comprised of the words “um” and “uh”.

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