episode 2 - 02/19/08 - stephin merritt

Joe Hendel opens the show with the latest comments on the day’s news and welcomes Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, who performs “The Nun’s Litany” from their new album Distortion and talks to Joe about recording the album, his ambition to do 50 successful Hollywood musicals and silent movie scoring. Joe talks about vampires, frogs from hell and amuses himself and his viewers with anagrams of presidential candidates names before closing the show with an impromptu performance of Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek” with Stephin Merritt on vocals, Joe on the piano and Alex Charak on stand-up bass.

part 1 Joe Hendel opens the show with the latest comments on the day’s news.

part 2 Joe welcomes Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, who performs “The Nun’s Litany” from their new album Distortion and talks to Joe about recording the album, his ambition to do 50 successful Hollywood musicals and silent movie scoring.

part 3 Joe talks about vampires, frogs from hell and amuses himself and his viewers with anagrams of presidential candidates names.

part 4 Joe closes the show with an impromptu performance of Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek” with Stephin Merritt on vocals, Joe on the piano and Alex Charak on stand-up bass.

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