Distant Worlds: The Music Of Final Fantasy With Arnie Roth

As regulars to the show are probably fully aware of, I'm not a huge fan of Final Fantasy. I've played the first NES game and a bit of 7 but beyond that, I'm not a player.

Last year, I had the oppertunity to check out Distant Worlds: The Music of Final Fantasy (which is coming to Toronto Saturday March 31). The tickets were a gift, my girlfriend loves the series, so why not.

And I completely enjoyed myself.

As a music nut, it was hard not to be impressed by the skill of the musicians involved as well as the music itself. Fast forward to this week and I got the chance to talk to Arnie Roth. Arnie's not a household name but his a Grammy winner, he's worked with everyone from the Irish Tenors to Barbie (ok...maybe not worked with but he did do the score for a number of Barbie films) and he's the conductor/arranger on the current Distant Worlds tour.

We spoke for around 24 minutes and one thing was made clear, he really loves the music he's performing.

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Mystery Asshole Theatre #11 - Star Wars - Part 3

Due to a number of factors (not the least of which being real life getting in the way of podcasting for both Assholes), this has been delayed, but no longer. The masses shall have our Star Wars commentary, and not a moment too soon.

Since it's been a while since the last episodes, this would be a good opportunity to go back and listen to them again, just to get yourself familiar with how annoyed we all were at this stage of the movies. Remember, the Two Asshole, and various Guestholes remained completely sober during the first three episodes (ie. the shitty episodes), with nothing to fuel us but spite and sugary cereals.

Needless to say, we were basically hammered 5 minutes into Episode 4, when we were finally allowed to drink. But you'll have to wait a bit longer to experience that one.

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Episode 31 (High Quality)

After a sizeable delay in the delivery of our regular episodes, we finally bring you a new one. Fresh off of the adventures of the Two Assholes at FanExpo, we bring you a hastily cobbled together podcast. I say hastily cobbled together because the lack of lead time meant that I was forced to forego all of my usual Photoshop shenanigans, and stick with rather simplistic imagery.

Next time, though, I am going to Photoshop the shit out of some cosplayers....

Download Episode 31 (High Quality) - iPod Enhanced Version

Episode 31

After a sizeable delay in the delivery of our regular episodes, we finally bring you a new one. Fresh off of the adventures of the Two Assholes at FanExpo, we bring you a hastily cobbled together podcast. I say hastily cobbled together because the lack of lead time meant that I was forced to forego all of my usual Photoshop shenanigans, and stick with rather simplistic imagery.

Next time, though, I am going to Photoshop the shit out of some cosplayers....

Download Episode 31 - iPod Enhanced Version