Juvenalia is a pop culture nostalgia show where Alan Maguire, Sarah Maria Griffin, and Andrea Cleary invite interesting people to tell them about something they were obsessed with when they were young; how they felt about it then and how they feel about it now. We've talked about books, films, tv shows, musicians, computer games; we're interested in it all! It's nice, you'll like it.
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episode 98: 98: MTV Base with Dean Van Nguyen
Music writer Dean Van Nguyen joins us to talk about the bit of pop culture that looms large in his childhood: MTV Base. In our last episode we flirted with doing a whole episode about a TV channel but this week we're going all in. We talked about Beats, Rhymes, and Life, The Lick, Jay Z vs Nas, Napster, Destiny's Child, the legacy of Jackass, and much more.
We're still self-isolating and recording remotely so please forgive any technical hiccups or sound oddities.
Jenn is @deanvannguyen You can find his writing in Pitchfork, The Guardian, and loads of other places and his book Iron Age: The Art Of Ghostface Killah is out now.
Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.
Sarah is @griffski. Her many books are in all good bookshops.
This episode was produced and edited by Cassie and Alan.
Thank you to Dee McDonnell for our artwork.
We have a Patreon! You can get bonus episodes and free lil bits of merch. It's patreon.com/juvenalia
Sarah, Cassie, and a very cool group of women writers, many of whom have been Juvenalia guests, have launched a new project called Rogue. For €4 a month you get four great, exclusive, articles in your inbox every Sunday. You should check it out.
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