Saturday 10 August 2013

Welcome To Night Vale

Welcome To Night Vale is really bloody strange.

It's like H.P Lovecraft had a kid with Douglas Adams, which was then adopted by Lemony Snicket and raised on those Fact or Faked! shows that SyFy does.


I should explain. WTNV is, in case you haven't heard about it, a free podcast done to sound like a community radio show. There's Cecil, the narrator, Carlos, the scientist he has a occasionally stalkerish crush on, The Apache Tracker, Old Woman Josie and the angels-who-aren't-meant-to-exist, the dog park, the hooded figures, the Sherrif's Secret Police...

It's funny, weird, sometimes scary, often creepy, and occasionally existential.

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And now, for the weather.

Talented bastard. Co-writes weird podcasts, plays guitar, writes songs, sings...I bet he can juggle geese, too. Some people have to, I suppose. Joseph Fink, These And More Than These.

A slight departure from our regular programming, here. Nerdcore Rap, I believe. Satellite High - The Bus Is Late.

 Really, really, really love this. Two Gallants, Despite What You've Been Told

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In the words of Cecil:

"There is a thin, semantic line between weird and beautiful, and that line is covered in jellyfish."

Mollx

N.B. The pilot episode is very good, but I feel, as with most things, that it properly hits its stride after episode 2 or 3. So if you like it but you're not *sure*, give it a couple of episodes. Also, it's done in a way that I'm told is very NPR - that is, monotone. Cecil gets more animated after the first few episodes, though.