S8E23: Beautiful Noise with Susanna Hoffs
Added 2024-06-25 03:04:28 +0000 UTCSusanna Hoffs and Bret discuss the dreadful repetition of life on the road, watching Patti Smith go rogue and the refreshing ribaldry of This Bird Has Flown. Part 2 of 2.
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Great Episode! Crazy how The Bangles were never nominated for a Grammy, but Anora wins Best Picture. Times are a Changin!
The Lake Show
2025-06-28 20:54:33 +0000 UTCI found Anna Karenina a real slog. The most enjoyable "classic" novel I believe is Pride and Prejudice.
Gnome
2025-03-24 19:22:09 +0000 UTCWow she has great taste in books, film, and tv.
Alexander Quattlander
2024-07-16 14:11:16 +0000 UTCwhen i was reading it i was thinking bowie but after listening to this that clicked
Shaianne
2024-07-08 14:43:59 +0000 UTCBret did a little review of his work maybe six months ago i think. But he doesnt mention much.
Alexander Quattlander
2024-07-06 06:21:18 +0000 UTCHaime is opener on Taylor Swift tour and yes i think Bret is right if lead was hotter prob be bigger but the music isnt quite there either. And Bret still referencing Todd as his boyfriend...
Alexander Quattlander
2024-07-06 06:20:08 +0000 UTCMailer is a fascinating figure, he was influenced a great deal by the psychologist Wilhelm Reich in his writings- https://projectmailer.net/pm/The_Mailer_Review/Volume_10,_2016/Mailer’s_Use_of_Wilhelm_Reich
Tom
2024-07-03 17:31:24 +0000 UTCI might try it
Samer Akl
2024-07-03 17:09:36 +0000 UTCIf you're a transit commuter, Kindle is a must
E
2024-07-03 16:20:19 +0000 UTCThere’s a debate among my fellow readers about switching to kindle, the convenience of it, how it saves space and prolongs the reading experience as you age and your sight withers. I just can’t do it. Nothing about it excites me as much as paper, the feeling of a book, its thickness and its richness in my hands.
Samer Akl
2024-07-02 15:08:49 +0000 UTCHey Bret... forgive me if you already have, but have you ever talked about Norman Mailer? I just saw the most recent documentary about him which, all too predictably, focused on his exhibitionism more than his writing. He's a difficult, paradoxical writer to enjoy exactly, but passages of his work have stuck with me. Love to hear your thoughts.
Mike in Philly
2024-07-02 02:13:22 +0000 UTChttps://open.spotify.com/track/3vi2IS8APhNorymm9yTsj7?si=eGgquSQ8RzmF6PvXKcVj3g
Nikki Ferrari
2024-07-01 14:50:41 +0000 UTCThere is a prince version, a demo of this song on Spotify and it is also incredible like the Martika song
Nikki Ferrari
2024-07-01 14:50:17 +0000 UTComg I didn’t know he was a guest, I have to listen!
Tom
2024-07-01 12:07:13 +0000 UTCAnd directed by a former guest Ti West.
Billy Schafer
2024-07-01 12:02:09 +0000 UTCLove that Bret only reads physical books. Same and I can’t do audio.
Sodaheiress
2024-06-29 17:18:21 +0000 UTCShe’s great. Belinda Carlisle next please.
Phoenix
2024-06-29 16:05:43 +0000 UTCDefinitely two canon episodes.
Grant
2024-06-29 09:07:01 +0000 UTCShe's a great guest...should be a regular!
Brian Aldrich
2024-06-29 05:42:46 +0000 UTCExactly! It was a much needed mood shift for the pod
Ashley
2024-06-29 02:41:50 +0000 UTCShe def did. Like old friends even tho they didn’t know each other. Golden.
Patrick
2024-06-28 23:53:13 +0000 UTCjust found out about this on Twitter. had to join and listen. I'm so glad
oficinismo
2024-06-28 22:41:08 +0000 UTCAmong those that have read Hoffs’ novel, anyone else think that the Jonesy character was based on Prince?
Dave
2024-06-28 22:06:49 +0000 UTCAlways wondered whether Bret read in e-book form.
Dave
2024-06-28 21:54:30 +0000 UTCRun like an Egyptian
Gatsby
2024-06-28 20:10:33 +0000 UTCBret will you watching MaXXXine when it hits theatres next week? Seems to be right up your alley- 1980s neo-noir horror about dark Hollywood and the serial killer phenomena. Bares a number of resemblances to the The Shards.
Tom
2024-06-28 08:11:11 +0000 UTCNice energy to this episode. I think Susanna helped lift Bret’s spirits. Spinal Tap is so funny 🎶 gimme some moneyyyy 🎶
Ashley
2024-06-27 22:51:48 +0000 UTCI am born in 1974 and my cultural experience growing up in LA was mixed due to the rapid technological change that occurred every few years in a constantly changing time. Bret and Susanna's conversation who is slightly older made me appreciate their cultural knowledge and personal inspiration in a slower time before the internet. And they have a lot in common. Plus, sharing the experience of living in LA during an era slightly before mine made me appreciate an era of Los Angeles that I only got to experience at the end when it was in decline. Great podcast
MisterBlasty
2024-06-27 20:20:49 +0000 UTCLove how Susanna is assigning Bret homework.
Dave
2024-06-27 18:34:45 +0000 UTCGreat part 2 and overall conversation on all our favorite topics. It was wonderful to hear Susanna talk about my hometown, Oxford, and how it inspired her novel. I will definitely re-listen to both episodes again soon!
Darren
2024-06-27 16:12:50 +0000 UTCHe died. A truck got him.
Lionel
2024-06-27 15:53:17 +0000 UTCAre you back yet?
Knokkel knokkel
2024-06-27 15:09:04 +0000 UTCVery good guest. Great episode.
Peter Guzzo
2024-06-27 13:10:57 +0000 UTC😂
Patrick
2024-06-26 22:00:28 +0000 UTChttps://open.spotify.com/track/6lHsW2WVG6aNmlc8L3aBRj?si=5hpNE64sRyOFk9pNTJtRXg&context=spotify%3Aartist%3A51l0uqRxGaczYr4271pVIC
Knokkel knokkel
2024-06-26 21:06:17 +0000 UTCDefinitely the episodes that dive into literature are my favorites. I think since books are mostly out of the current conversations, these episodes are like fresh air. Thank you, more of this please.
Tomás Diana
2024-06-26 20:35:43 +0000 UTCI’m going to make a demand: that every podcast is accompanied by a special playlist selected by Brett and the guest. Another great song written by prince and sung by a female is Love, Thy Will be Done by Martika. Unbelievable song, which gets hardly any play—I had not heard it until recently! I got it off Lorde’s at home playlist on Apple Music—altogether a work of art in itself. I infer she and martika have something in common—“we crave a different kind of buzz.”
Stephen Curry
2024-06-26 19:15:07 +0000 UTCThank fuck, finally a good episode
Richie Laufman (Dixie who went Yank)
2024-06-26 17:11:46 +0000 UTCam going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.
richard owain roberts
2024-06-26 16:04:17 +0000 UTCMy crush on Susanna Hoffs rekindled! … In all seriousness, this was such a great set of episodes. It was just fun. A great conversation between two friends. Your chemistry was palpable. I laughed out loud when she enthusiastically went: “We should go to the New Bev!” And Bret was like: “Nah… I don’t do people…” I also watched her Criterion Closet thing. I agree that Bret should do one of those. She’s just adorable. Love her taste in movies, music and literature.
Erix Antoine
2024-06-26 14:18:24 +0000 UTCshe just got tired
Oleg
2024-06-26 14:08:15 +0000 UTCThe Pet Shop Boys call it the imperial phase. Whatever you do its successful. After that its downhill. The bands that survive this. Keep there fan base, while surviving the backlash.
Stevan Popovic
2024-06-26 09:43:05 +0000 UTCI was wrong. After the first part I complained about her interrupting and talking over Bret too much. This episode was much better. The problem was probably me.
Steve
2024-06-26 01:28:17 +0000 UTCShe’s gorgeous & very talented… great episode.
PETER GREER
2024-06-25 23:30:52 +0000 UTCAlso I listened back to "Manic Monday" after the first episode of this podcast dropped. Even if I didn't already know Prince wrote it, you could easily guess it. The opening verse, vocal pattern and lyrical content is fairly similar to "1999." Go listen to them back to back and you'll hear it. It's probably why he didn't keep the track for himself, he likely felt that he already wrote it once before and it was too similar to "1999."
John Q. Thompson
2024-06-25 18:25:35 +0000 UTCI've never cared about or enjoyed any Patti Smith or Barbra Streisand and I'm a fan or moderately enjoy just about any other band or artist mentioned here. Maybe ya gotta be a woman or a certain type of male to appreciate that stuff? And I like plenty of gay artists, but somehow I just don't connect with the female artists that gay men really tend to like, but I do enjoy some Donna Summer. I don't care about the poetry stuff of artists that I do enjoy like Jim Morrison or Henry Rollins. I think there's a time and place for that stuff and for me it ain't on a record.
John Q. Thompson
2024-06-25 18:15:15 +0000 UTCLots of Todd references in this one. But, I’m glad BEE sounds in good spirits. Also, I like like Hoffs now. Also, “Someone To Lay Down Beside Me” is a cool song, and it sounds like something Hoffs would sing. Great choice.
M. Nero Nava
2024-06-25 04:24:42 +0000 UTC
