#eric nuzum

[nubobot]

eric nuzum, integrity’s hosanna! music - I want to know you more the smithton outpouring (1999)

weird cause it looks like don moen but I don’t care.

[setokaibapetty]

Make Noise: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling - Eric Nuzum

While the audience for this is definitely people who are planning to (or even already) producing a podcast, many sections like audience building or how to lead a group of creative types could be valuable to someone producing other types of media like blogs or indie video games. It also doesn't discuss the technical details of taping a podcast, but rather how your idea can be refined and effectively reach an audience and keep the passion going so you don't end up dropping it a year in. If you happen to merely be a podcast consumer who just wants a peek behind the curtain? It was fun read, but it presents a lot of questions (what kind of audience do you want, can you describe your project in 10 words, etc) that you'd have to skip over. It does have a short history of the podcast that could be up your alley though and knowing that any great podcast takes way more than just the time it takes to record could help you appreciate them better. 

There are a great deal of anecdotes to emphasize and/or prove each point - this book could probably serve as an excellent first rough draft of the author's biography. Luckily each personal story was relevant or interesting (and most often both)! Nuzum shares credit and praise generously and does not name names when discussing what not to do (though he does bring up his own failures and why his work is better for acknowledgement of them).

[baseballcardbookmarks]

Yadier Molina and The Dead Travel Fast by Eric Nuzum.

[themeghanodea]

Nuzum’s writing about his dead friends (“I have seen a disproportionately large number of my friends die at young ages”) suffuses the book, and this elegiac mood, this Rust Belt of the heart, constitutes what is most indelible here. This book is an Ohioan love story. The beloved dead girl is a recurring poltergeist in American narrative art. The most transparent recent example is Laura Palmer in David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks.” An entire world spins out around Laura, and everyone, it seems, at one point or another, loves her. A second example, one that has haunted a great many people over the years, is Joan Vollmer, the young wife whom William S. Burroughs accidentally shot in the head. Ginsberg knew Vollmer and wrote some rather beautiful diary entries about her, some of which seem to haunt the very poem that Patterson gave Nuzum. The mistake of the dead-girl narrative is that you should have known her better while she was living; you should have loved her then, and this constitutes your shame, not hers.

‘Giving Up the Ghost,’ by Eric Nuzum

[largeheartedboy]

From Eric Nuzum's Largehearted Boy Book Notes music playlist essay for his memoir, Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted:

"God of Thunder" - KISS When I was 11, I was in a KISS cover band called KISS Junior, comprised of my friend Terry, who owned a guitar but hadn't learned to play it yet, his sister Tammy on tambourine, and me on electric organ. Since there were no KISS songs playable on one guitar, a tambourine, and electric organ, we would put one of the four KISS records we owned on the turntable and just play and scream along with it. Unfortunately, KISS Junior broke up following a harsh experiment in attempting to paint our faces like our heroes (after which we were accused of "being gay" by Terry's stepdad for wanting to wear make-up). The story has little to do with ghosts or being haunted, but I kept fighting for it to be included in the book and I won!

[unluckysatellite]

Which led me to drinking my own blood. Which led me to vomitting all over my bathroom. Which led me to the first thing I've learned in this quest: I am a total fucking idiot.

Eric Nuzum