Juvenalia

Jenny Maguire is one of the co-ordinators of Trans And Intersex Pride Dublin and she’s been obsessively watching Drag Race since she was eleven years old so it seemed only right that she came on Juvenalia to talk to us all about it. Alan is a former big fan who’s fallen off a bit and Andrea watched her first season of Drag Race for this episode. It was a good mix, we had a good time...

Hello, everybody's scheduled got all messed up so we didn't get a chance to record a new episode this week. We thought you might like to check out our Patreon-only bonus series Started/Finished where we, guess what, talk about what we've started and finished lately. In this one from earlier this year, Alan and Sarah talk about Citizen Sleeper, Tunic, Piranesi, Pokerface, and Chris Ware. We hope you like it and we'll be back with a regular episode in two weeks...

Marty Ryan of Limerick band Anna’s Anchor joins us as we dive into the sweaty indie night in 2006 to talk about landfill indie. All the greats are mentioned, The View, The Pigeon Detectives, The Wombats. We also try to figure out what makes a landfill indie band and take some time to mention the bands that get lumped into that genre that we still actually like quite a lot like The Futureheads and Maximo Park.

Marty is the frontman of Anna’s Anchor...

Writer and podcaster Miranda Reinert joins us to talk about Death Cab For Cutie’s 2005 album Plans. We talk about how it fits into the Death Cab discography, Steely Dan Dads, re-engaging with your teenage earnestness, The Postal Service, Seth Cohen, and more.

Miranda is @mirandareinert. She co-hosts the podcast Endless Scroll and her newsletter Step One Of A Plan is at mirandareinert.com

Alan is @alan_maguire. Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Andrea  @AndreaCleary_...

Writer and broadcaster Aoife Barry returns to the podcast and she’s brought one of the big topics, one we assumed would have come up at some point in the previous 178 episodes but it’s here now and that’s the important thing. It’s Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride! We enthuse wildly about the film before jumping into a discussion about the types of films Hollywood is willing to make now. It’s a great hour.

Aoife is @SweetOblivion26...

We thought it might be nice if we got all three of us on the same episode for once to tell each other about something we thought the others might not know about. Sarah told us about the Tower Of The Sun in Osaka. Alan told us about Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s Long Earth series, and Andrea told us about Ryan Gosling’s 2009 folk-horror-doo wop album Dead Man’s Bones. We hope you like it.

This is the thing Sarah’s talking about here: https://en.wikipedia...

Comedian Peter McGann returns to Juvenalia and he’s brought us one of our favourite films, Hot Fuzz! How thoughtful of him. We talk about scripted vs improv comedy, Edgar Wright’s style and his imitators, the wonder of Nick Frost, and lots more. We had fun, we hope you like it.

Peter is @peterjmcgann. He’s on tour in September with his show Great Lad. You should go see it. Tickets are here

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠...

The Daily Beast’s Allegra Frank joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about Weezer! Allegra is a longtime superfan of all Weezer, Alan and Andrea are longtime superfans of early Weezer so it was a good chance to explore the bits of Weezer that we maybe haven’t given a fair shake over the years. It really was a joy to get a chance to have a big long talk about Weezer.

Allegra is @LegsFrank. You can find her work at The Daily Beast.

Alan is @alan_maguire...

Author Elaine Feeney joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Jonathan Demme’s 1991 Oscar-sweeping, pop cultural juggernaut, The Silence Of The Lambs. We talk about the complicated and controversial legacy of Buffalo Bill, looking Clarice in the eyes, our favourite shots, the magic of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, and Elaine tells us about showing scary films to her kids. It’s a good one.

Elaine is @ElaineFeeney16. Her latest novel How To Build A Boat is out now...

Comedian Ally Ryan joins us to talk about Aardman Animation’s first feature film, Chicken Run (2000). We talk about feminism, communes, revolution, loads of stuff. We surprised ourselves at how much we took from it really. It was a good time.

Ally is @UpYourAllyRyan. You can find all her upcoming gigs there.

Alan is ⁠@alan_maguire⁠. He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now.

Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠. Her books are in all good bookshops...