The Recommendations Section, Podcast Edition

In honor of my favorite podcast, Once More With Feeling, this is the recommendations section. This week, it's podcasts.

1. Once More With Feeling
   
2. Jonathan Coulton's "Flickr" (available for free on iTunes as part of his Thing a Week podcast). Actually, any of the songs are really hilarious -- "Code Monkey" has gained some notoriety for its inspiration of a really embarassing YouTube video.
   
3. Kevin Smith's SMODCast, which you probably all knew about. But it's better than his blog, which has fortunately moved away from detailed descriptions of his frequent fucking of his wife. In bragging news, I have met his wife and she is very nice, but needs to eat about seven sandwiches.
   
4. Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. The NPR podcasts are all famous and shit, so this one is lamely obvious, but it's a really good resource for those of us who like to pretend we keep abreast of current affairs and have witty things to say about them.
   
5. IndieFeed. Learn four band names a month that you can drop at illegal Williamsburg loft parties and look significantly hipster-er than you are. Which, for me, is not at all, so listening to this shit (and, let's be honest, like your average mid-90s Ani DiFranco album, about 80% of it is) allows me to barely hang -- or at least distracts people from my the clothes which I so boringly purchased first-hand.
   
6. All Songs Considered. More obvious NPRage, but you can get whole concerts by excellent bands like Spoon, The New Pornographers, Belle and Sebastian, and Sleater Kinney. Some episodes are guest hosted by such rock and roll luminaries as M. Ward, Joanna Newsom, and (wait for it) WEIRD AL.
   

That's all I've got for now. What was it I told you about being a sucky blogger?