Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar Feverish Velocity

Posts from July 2008

Our Morning Dog Walk

OR, yet another reason I love being back in Austin.
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If only the meat train took us to burger town…

Yesterday Katie and I posted our 26th I want to see that Podcast, live on tape from Katie’s childhood bedroom in Baytown, TX. I wanted to film the episode in the car as we drove there from Austin, but Katie was concerned that I would crash the car while trying to be funny for […]


Mushiking in Egypt

Joel is a friend of mine from Consumating. He is on a world tour right now. This photo of him from Egypt accurately depicts just how awesome he is - he can fucking fly over the Sphinx.
Check out his blog, Homework Party for more awesome, including more free music than a stick should […]


Dance, Romych! Dance!

Right before moving back to Austin, Katie and I went camping with our friend Romych for his birthday. By camping I mean we spent a weekend on a luxury houseboat dancing to DJ sets in between swimming in a beautiful mountain lake. As you can see from the video above, a good […]


The Future of Radio

Jesse Thorn from The Sound of Young America and JJGO (a podcast we used to sponsor…) just posted an interesting essay about the cancellation of two “youth-oriented” public radio shows.   Many of the things he wrote remind me of the issues facing contemporary publishers of all types.  Now that we live in a time of […]


The Dark Knight

I just got back from seeing The Dark Knight.  The theatre was packed, and I had to wait in line in the hot Texas sun, but boy oh boy, it was worth it.