I Don't Want To Watch Alone: Recent Episodes
Jordan Kaltz
Back again...who would've thought. Michael McKeown and I dissect the year 2022 in music, film and life at large. I scream into the mic and Michael leans back casually.
Highlights include- why film lists are unhelpful, Rom Com star Russell Crowe, special guest Isa cooks us dinner (again)
Welcome back for the first time to the revamped show. Now going under the name I Don't Want to Listen Alone...with Jordan Kaltz, I go deep on a new strand- 'Films that shaped us'. For the first edition I am joined by my father Andrew Kaltz, along with my brother Jake.
Highlights include:
Who's wearing trousers?
Jewish readings of The Graduate
More lore on the lost episode
It's finally time...time to skiff. Michael and I are back in the studio (the zoom studio, that is) to discuss Animal Collective's fresh record Time Skiffs. We let it sink in for a month or two and we are now ready to bare all on our nuanced, smart and clever opinions on this record.
Highlights include:
Titanic: The Ride
Michael's never seen Silence of the Lambs
Book Corner
I Don't Want to Listen Alone
A new signing off catchphrase
Michael McKeown and I starred in a film called The Tinder Swindler. It was made by our friend Jean-Mark (JM, Jimmy, Slim Jim). This is the first podcast that people outside of our immediate circle might actually want to listen to! We pull the curtain back on the Netflix hit documentary The Tinder Swindler as JM (Assistant Producer!!!) gives us the scoop on how this flick got made.
Highlights include:
JM drinks 3 beers
Our best and worst dating app experiences
Isa joins us
Ahoy....we set sail once again. This time we are digging into the solo projects of the loveable lad Avey Tare. Yes, Time Skiffs is now out, but whilst it sinks in, Michael and I traverse the highs and lows of Avey, from his first record through to Cows on Hourglass Pond.
Highlights include:
An interview with Animal Collective (yes!)
Initial impressions of Time Skiffs
Movie talk
Skateboarding games
A special mish mash episode. We talk movies AND Animal Collective. Trey Edward Shults' 2019 film Waves is the topic this week. Why this flick? It features 3 Animal Collective songs, of course! We lay into the feature for a bit with the ever effervescent Isa, and in the second half continue on to talk AC, diving into the colourful bleeps and bloops of the 2016 record Painting With.
Highlights include:
An opening sequence for the ages
Funny needle drops
2016 in music
Welcome back everyone! Sorry it’s been such a long time coming…but we are on the airwaves once more. With new AC singles being dropped and an album announced for February, we have decided to pull our fingers out and get to the rest of the Discog. This week we dive into the muddled album Centipede Hz, an album of highs and lows. Listen to Michael Mckeown and I lay into it and praise it for all it’s worth.
Highlights include:
Centipede Hurts
Autumn Leaves
Segway accidents
Lemmings
Welcome to yet another strand of the podcast. This time, on a special minisode, Isa, Michael and I chat whilst queueing at Thorpe Park. We talk coasters, movies and much more.
Highlights include:
Me embarrassingly confusing James Wan and James Wong
Isa's run in with security
Horror films set in theme parks
Derren Brown's Ghost Train Merch
We are back! After a little hiatus, me and Michael dig back into the Animal feast, this time taking on the solo projects. In this episode we discuss the first 4 albums of Panda Bear's: Panda Bear, Young Prayer, Person Pitch and Tomboy. This episode sounds good because Michael recorded and edited it so... thank you Michael.
Highlights include:
Samuel L Jackson bits
Magnum Ice Cream chat
Adrien Brody's embarrassing moments
Michael makes a complex Joanna Newsom joke
Depression is a bummer. I am lucky to have the support of a wife and a best friend to get me through that. This week, after a needed break, Isa, Michael McKeown and I decided to record an episode of us hanging out and eating a delicious Chinese takeaway and review it (as well as catching up). Hope you enjoy. Food from Lee Garden, N19.
Highlights include:
Food Film Recommendations
Opening up the fly
and as always
I Don't Want To Listen Alone
and Book Corner.
Welcome to our latest episode of I Don't Want to Peace-A-Bone where Michael McKeown and I take an Animal Collective album each week and give our thoughts and 'Feels'. This week we talk their hit record Merriweather Post Pavillion from 2009, with our very special guest Ben Wyborn.
Highlights include:
Our weekly Sum 41 break
Bad dates
I Don't Want To Listen Alone
Book Corner
The third episode of I Don't Want to Peace-A-Bone. Michael McKeown and I take an Animal Collective album each week and give our thoughts and 'Feels'. This week we talk Strawberry Jam from 2007.
Highlights include: I Don't Want To Listen Alone
Book Corner
Nostalgia
Being Mummy's boys
This week we get back to films. Ollie joins me this week to talk cinephilia in the modern age, torrenting and much more.
Highlights include:
Being contrarians
Rental stores
DVD collections
Book Corner
I Don't Want To Listen Alone
The second episode of I Don't Want to Peace-A-Bone. Michael McKeown and I take an Animal Collective album each week and give our thoughts and 'Feels'. This week we talk the aforementioned 'Feels' from 2005.
Highlights include:
I Don't Want To Listen Alone
Book Corner
The Beatles and other dumb band names
Isa's favourite AC song
Today we start a new strand of I Don't Want To Watch Alone. I Don't Want to Peace-A-Bone.
Michael McKeown and I take an Animal Collective album each week and give our thoughts and 'Feels'.
This week we talk Sung Tongs, their 2004 album.
Other highlights include:
Michael's new Animal Collective inspired theme song
How we got into AC
Elephunk's mixed messages
Enya jokes
The Beach Boys
No1 fan Sam Harris
This week on I Don't Want To Watch Alone I am joined by my dear brother Jake Kaltz. We talk about Jewish Identity in American Cinema and go in depth on the Coen Brother's film A Serious Man (2009).
Other highlights include:
Jake's Jewish festivities
Cinema trips with our father
Book Corner
I Don't Want To Listen Alone
Original theme music by Seafood Diet.
In this new episode of I Don't Want To Watch Alone we change up the format- for good (probably)!
This week I am joined by my favourite person in the world: my wife, Isa. We talk about the icon of New German Cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and his final film Querelle (1982), an adaptation of Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest.
Other highlights include:
Sandra Bullock film of the week
Book Corner
Testing Isa's German
Tattoo's that people may or may not have
Original theme song by Michael Mckeown (Seafood Diet)
Welcome to the first episode of I don’t want to watch alone. I am joined by Michael McKeown aka Seafood Diet. We talk about Lost Highway (1997) and Holger Czukay’s album ‘Movies’ (1979).
Other highlights include:
Michael reveals the theme song
Book Corner
Putting David Byrne and Brian Eno on blast
Ignore any mentions of podcasts being stupid, this was originally intended as a solely Youtube based venture but then I realised it’s not 2010 and that would be dumb.