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Important Art

Important Art

By YMA Holdings

An audio deep-dive into the collected failures and pointless obsessions of some guy. If you like podcasts, this is one of them!!!
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00016 A Quick TV Show Idea & a Funny Thought

Important ArtJul 12, 2018

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00016 A Quick TV Show Idea & a Funny Thought

00016 A Quick TV Show Idea & a Funny Thought

What it says on the thing
Jul 12, 201800:47
00015 Smelled It and Felt It

00015 Smelled It and Felt It

I continue the tale of the 40-some people I've had as roommates in one apartment since 2005. Tonight's installment: I'm not saying her name. Anyway this is fairly good for being totally impromptu. Eat one, you hole!
Jul 07, 201811:32
00014 It's Not Right!

00014 It's Not Right!

A quick visit from Prof. Gordon A. Peenerson (just to keep this podcast sort of alive)
Jun 19, 201800:31
00013 Won't Be Home Tonight For Dinner, Darlin'!

00013 Won't Be Home Tonight For Dinner, Darlin'!

Pat Boone interview/R&B mash-up, cont'd
Jun 11, 201813:46
00012 Bark bark bark bark!

00012 Bark bark bark bark!

More notes! A reasonably ok ep with inexcusable audio quality. Will try harder next time, maybe!
May 31, 201819:43
00011 Bonk!

00011 Bonk!

Notes
May 26, 201803:58
00010 TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECTACULAR!

00010 TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECTACULAR!

Hooray!
May 17, 201801:27
00009 Ask Me Ask Me Ask Me!

00009 Ask Me Ask Me Ask Me!

Fun with old, offensive audio! Tales of the first 3 (of 40-some) roommates I've had in my current apartment! Another one of my horrible songs! Hooray? Segments: Funnsylvania Audio 3 (Sentences I Hope to Never Write; Bible Hour: Gay Marriage) Roommate Stories 1 Music: Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown") I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King) Mozart's Minuet (The Ventures) Home Sweet Home (Flatt & Scruggs) Hamburger James (The New Beatles UK) Tubthumping (unknown) Girl from Ipanema (unknown)
May 11, 201823:09
00008 You're Hot Tonight!  Hot!  Ooh Hot!

00008 You're Hot Tonight! Hot! Ooh Hot!

Horrible mouth noises! Horrible Jerry Lewis! My horrible music! If you like annoying things, this episode is right up your alley!

Segments:
"Gonna Roll Myself Up to the Top of the Hill" podcast 2
Jerry Lewis syndicated show 1
My music 1

Music:
Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown")
I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King)
It Doesn't Matter Any More (Buddy Holly)
The Man from Laramie (Al Martino)
The Death March (me)
I Remember You (Skid Row)
Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him (instrumental version) (The Ex Horses)
Dance w/ Me, Rockers (me)
My Heart Belongs to Rock n Roll (me)
My Heart Belongs to Rock n Roll (The [obscene name not allowed by itunes])
May 03, 201824:54
00007 I Never Knew a Person Could Play So Much Badminton!

00007 I Never Knew a Person Could Play So Much Badminton!

Swish! My robot friends and I tell 15 year old tales of basketball, dough-eating challenges, trouble on the high seas, vanity, fear, doubt, Linda Lavin, and stupidity. It's like having courtside seats... in your own room! Swish! Segments: Funnsylvania 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Music: Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown") I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King) Ponta de Lanca Africano (Jorge Ben)
Apr 26, 201827:13
00006 Cunnington!

00006 Cunnington!

SPECIAL FIELD TRIP EPISODE!!! In which we go on a walking tour of Green-Wood Cemetery and I mock the deceased!

Music:
Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown")
I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King)
Cholo Vest (Joe Strummer)
Apr 19, 201828:54
00005 She's Me Wife!

00005 She's Me Wife!

A look at the news! I accidentally talk about my favorite book of all time! (And it's Patti BOYD. I know. Christ.) Plus another doomed pilot script, this one about basketball and socialism, with a character based on the old Donald Trump, back when he was just a sleazy real estate developer! And another half-formed movie idea, this one a big budget space movie about interplanetary space wars! Plus another one of my terrible songs! I suck!!!

Segments:
Garbage Time 1
Attack of the Moon People From Planet Space! 1

Music:
Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown")
I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King)
Little Man with a Gun in His Hand (The Minutemen)
Apollo 11 (The Ventures)
Sleep (OBSCENE BAND NAME NOT ALLOWED BY ITUNES)
Apr 12, 201826:17
00004 MERRY Christmas!

00004 MERRY Christmas!

MERRY Christmas! Featuring the first episode of an unreleased podcast exploring the lives of people born on April 6th! Honestly! It's a thing I worked on! Listen to me get inundated with hate speech! Plus a Pizza Hut delivery story and some beautiful holiday music!

Segments:
Happy Birthday Today! 1
Funnsylvania Audio 2

Music:
Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown")
I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King)
Happy Birthday (The Birthday Party)
Assorted Klezmer clarinet loops
Oh Hannukah (Company)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Company)
Apr 05, 201823:02
00003 Nobody Plays Like Ray!

00003 Nobody Plays Like Ray!

Finally an episode where you don't have to hear my voice the whole time! Featuring the legendary Pat Boone's reflections on generously uplifting black artists by ruining their music! Pat Boone generously ruining black artists' music! And then me again, lifelessly reading from
another pilot that went nowhere! Plus a special message from Jerry Lewis! This one has it all, if by all you mean the few things that I just mentioned!

Segments:
Pat Boone 1
Class Sturggles 1

Music:
Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown")
I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King)
Poppa's Got a Brand New Bag (Pat Boone)
Get Down Tonight (Pat Boone)
Tears of a Clown (Pat Boone)
Soul Man (Pat Boone)
Celebration (Pat Boone)
I Can't Help Myself (Pat Boone)
When We Were Young (The Residents)
Eichmann at Epcot (The New Beatles UK)
Ain't Got No / I Got Life (Nina Simone)
Mar 28, 201826:06
00002 Mmm-mm!

00002 Mmm-mm!

Sophomore Slump! Featuring the beginning of a movie I wrote for a while without ever figuring out what it was! Fun found audio of a man being pretentious! The sitcom pilot that still makes me question how much longer I can take this misery! A pretty song with an ugly title! And a glitchy cavalcade of insensitive New Yorkers! Better than episode 1, but still finding its footing!!!!

Segments:
The New Mayor of Deadtown 1
Found Audio (EW Twin Peaks Podcast excerpt)
Rad Times 1
Funnsylvania audio 1

Music:
Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown")
I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King)
Cry of the Wild Goose (Frankie Laine)
Theme from The Third Man (Anton Karas)
Mellow Jam (blur)
Your Mother's [xxxx] (The New Beatles UK)
Mar 22, 201826:04
00001 I Am the Royal Duchess of York!

00001 I Am the Royal Duchess of York!

Series finale! A visit to the egg store goes amiss in less than hilarious fashion! Some dumb shenanigans give way to the lost preface of what will hopefully one day be known as the world's longest suicide note! Our friends the Ex-Horses stop by to play a song!

Segments: Funnsylvania 1
WHTTFC podcast 1

Music: Failure Face ("A Boy Named Charlie Brown") I Who Have Nothing (Ben E King) It Doesn't Matter Any More (Buddy Holly) Moments to Remember (The Four Lads) Moondreams (Buddy Holly) Why Me (The Ex-Horses) (written by K Kristofferson)
Mar 15, 201827:47