The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 12:  Quality Otter Haircuts and the Pirated Music of Bjorkestra (not necessarily in that order)

Tune in to see just how the words in the title actually combine to form a coherent episode of The Slacker Factor.

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Meandering Rant: Business and Competition by Christian

Book Report: Music Piracy by Rob

Music Segment:  Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra

The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 11:  Crazy like Patty (or Snooki)

Your crack team of Slackers explores what’s real and what’s faux and Patty decides she’s cooler than Snooki in her “Reality is
Overrated” rant. Christian ponders the future of the suprising long-time coming electric car. And we feast our ears on the alt-pop of Draz. Now that’s a show! (or is it?)

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Meandering Rant: Reality Is Overrated by Patty

Book Report: Electric Cars by Christian

Music Segment:  Sunday Rain by Draz

The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 10:  Green Fairy Drink Drink

Absinthe, three ways. Oh, yeah, and there was also some ranting about something..um… Rob invents an economic theory on the fly and some music by Zero 7…the rest remains a bleary, blurred whirl.

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Meandering Rant:
Rob invents a new economic theory on the fly (slackernomics?)

Book Report:
Absinthe Tasting – the crew downs three different Absinthes: Lucid, Absente, and La Fee, and barely makes it through the rest of the episode.
The Little Green Book of Absinthe by Paul Owens and Paul Nathan

Music Segment:  Zero 7

The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 9:  We’re Next, We’re Now

The way things are today does not mean they need to stay that way. We can influence the future of music. Our interview with Tammy Erickson, author of Whats Next Gen X? confirms that we can upgrade the quality of professional lives. Listening to the music of Trixie Whitley brings us into the here, right now..

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Meandering Rant on How We Can Influence the Future of Music by Patty

Book Report: A Conversation with Tammy Erickson, the author of a new book about the challenges Generation X face in the workplace entitled, “What’s Next Gen X”

Music Segment: Trixie Whitley with Daniel Lanois in Black Dub

The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 8:  Misty, Water-colored Whatnot

Lamentations about what we lack – the time to make memories, and our (in)ability to recollect them – drives us through the conversation of this Slackcast. We close with the memory-haunting music of St. Vincent.

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Meandering Rant on Time by Chris

Book Report: Memories (or lack thereof)

Music Segment: St Vincent

The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 7:  Drop Everything

 Getting rid of your pretensions, your cable bill, and the boundaries of your life are the themes of this episode of The Slacker Factor.  Are we all hypocritical?  Will traditional television remain with the availability of online TV?  Have you listened to inspiration in the music of Slacker?

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Meandering Rant on Hypocrisy by Patty

Book Report: Online TV

Music Segment: Slacker (check out his MySpace here)

The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 6:  Pondering Nirvana

Haunted by a love/hate relationship with the music of our past, Rob struggles in his quest not to achieve Nirvana. We are confused by guys/girls and the words around them in a discussion on gender speak. Finally, Chris attempts serenity with NPR’s top songs of the decade and breaks out cool/questionable jazz.

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Meandering Rant on the Lack of Teen Spirit by Rob

Book Report: Gender Speak

Music Segment: NPR’s 50 Most Important Recordings of the Decade

The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 5:  It’s the Little Things

The group ponders Pattys Small-Mac Attack and Christian rants about the
ever uplifting media coverage of celebrity death.  Rob discusses the
perils of sobriety.  And Patty brings the randomness and angst of the
plastic fantastic music genre that is Scene.

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Meandering Rant on the Death of Icons by Christian

Book Report: When Rock Stars Get Sober

Music Segment: Scene featuring Porcelain and the Tramps and Scary Kids Scaring Kids

The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 4:  Mary’s Gone Slackers

We’re mysteriously hungry for crackers, thirsty for new music, high on caffeine but not motivated enough to get this podcast done in a more timely manner. Subscribe with iTunes

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Meandering Rant on Slacking by Patty Pino

Cool Products Book Report featuring:

• Keurig Coffee Machine
• Mary ’s Gone Crackers
• Walk Fit Shoe Inserts

Music Segment on Ghostly International and the iPhone application, Ghostly Discovery

Episode 3: Always looking for something else or something other to the somethings we experience every day, we focus on the changed experience of finding new music and the challenges to the way we eat.  We wrap with the Jolly Green Giant’s favorite musician, Scout Niblett.

<Check out Rob’s Why All New Music Sucks, a Meandering Rant from TSF3>

Episode 2: The Slacker Factor team ponders the Power of Tape, the advent of Social Networking with all of its love and annoyances, as well as the music of School of Seven Bells who are aptly named after a mythical South American pickpocket training academy (or so says the all knowing Wikipedia).

<Read pp’s The Power of Tape, a Meandering Rant from TSF2.>

Episode 1: Our first attempt to control the world through the power and not-so subliminal messages of slackerdom. We discuss what it means to be Generation X, our ever so hip fashion, and the “weirdest and stinkiest” underground dance music of Damian Lazarus.

<Ponder the words of cg’s What it means to be Generation X, a Meandering Rant from TSF1.>

Episode #0 – The Episode before the Episode
A somewhat lame attempt to introduce you to the Slackers behind The Slacker Factor. We did all of this stuff in weird, fractured sessions, as opposed to our usual slick and always-perfect episode recordings. (Do you even, really, care?)

<Without taking a breath, read this episode’s Dust on the Ceiling, a Meandering Rant from TSF0.>