The Occasionalists Podcast

We march further into Musical Movie May with a long look at how Music Videos evolved from simple moving illustrations on a nickelodeon into an essential short-form storytelling mechanism for musicians of all types.
We discuss the masters of the craft and break down a few select music videos, including two short film-length music videos from two completely and totally scandal-free, normal musicians: Michael Jackson and R. Kelly.
And since Chemma is in the fold this month, we deliver two pitches for our original musicals using existing music.
Tally ho!

We are back with our first movie review of the month, tackling the 2005 spoof musical Reefer Madness!
For those of you who said spoofing an anti-marijuana propaganda film from the 1930s and turning it into an irreverent musical couldn't be done, well, I am very pleased to tell you that you were dead wrong, buddy!
From maniacal dope fiends, to William Shakespeare, to anthropomorphic edibles and FDR...this movie has it all!
Take a hit, won't ya?

Our first full episode of Musical Movie May finds us diving into Scores & Soundtracks! We break down some of the history of how music and film have been intertwined forever and dig into some of the terminology as well.
Is there a little acting? Maybe!
Singing?! Definitely not.
There is a section of favorites that I can promise you.
Let's get to it!

We are jumping (or perhaps dancing?!) into a new month with one of our classic themes: it's Movie May!
HOWEVA, we have a fun twist for this month. This month will be Musical Movie May. Oh yeah, that's right, folks! We are dedicating a whole month to the scores and soundtracks of movies and diving into actual musicals.
We're even including the Movie Music Video! We are gorging on the cross-section of film and music this month, and we invite you to pull up a seat and dig in with us!

Due to a few unforeseen circumstances, we had to adjust the final episode for this month. We are doing a wrap-up minisode instead of a full-blown episode. No big deal! This episode is still chock-full of good stuff.
Including a vigorous defense of the theme song rankings, and a peek at some of the stuff we would do for the full episode. 
It's good and if you don't listen, you're a bad person!

We are back with the companion piece to our Classic TV Tropes episode that covers, you guessed it, Modern TV Tropes!
As the visual language of TV has changed over the years, so too has the storytelling shorthand for the medium. Thus, we have a whole new set of tropes emerging on television, and many that are going extinct.
Tune in this week to find out more!

We are back with a piping hot, fresh new episode for Boob Tube April. This time, we are diving into the shorthand storytelling methods TV creatives have been using for decades to get a story across quickly: AKA TV Tropes!
We are starting with the classic tropes many of you might be familiar with. These tropes are still used or called out today in many cases. We dig into their origins and discuss some shows that either flip the trope on its head or luxuriate in tropey goodness.

Welcome to a brand new month, suckas!
It's Boob Tube April, a full month dedicated to all things television. What better way to start this month out than to lean directly back into our year-long music theme with an episode dedicated to TV theme songs.
But wait! What if those theme songs were all ranked?! Even better!
Disagree? Bring it on, dude!