Juvenalia

Áine O’Connell of the new books podcast I Think You Should Read joins us as we get super earnest about Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 spectacular spectacular Moulin Rouge . We just kind of geek out about it really Sarah and Áine both have a deep and lengthy relationship with film so there was a lot to talk about. It’s a good one. Áine is @ainereads . She co-hosts I Think You Should Read , a podcast about boo...

WELCOME TO THE JAM. Author Richy Craven joins us to talk about the biggest Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes crossover event of 1996, Space Jam . We also find time to talk about Tom Cruise’s love of cinema as is only right and proper. It’s a good time. Richy is @RichyCraven . His debut novel Spirit Level is out April 25th. Alan is @alan_maguire . Juvenalia is his main thing right now but he’s doing a bi...

Comedian Tim Platt from Rude Tales Of Magic and Oh These Those Stars Of Space joins us to talk about the impact that Jim Carrey and The Mask had on him as a child. We talk about Carrey’s performance and Cameron Diaz and Milo The Dog and the special effects of course but also about figuring out your artistic vocation, The Mask as alcohol, Man On The Moon , and the editorial biases of Edge City’s ne...

Welcome to The OC bitch! Jessa Hastings, author of the Magnolia Parks Universe books, joins us as we put on our collared t-shirts and huge belts to talk about The OC! We talk about how Adam Brody changed nerds forever, finding Marissa annoying, Sandy and Kirsten, the music, the clothes, and how The OC is directly responsible for the scripted reality explosion of the mid-noughties. It’s a good time...

Comedian Sophia Cadogan joins us to talk about 1994’s Interview With The Vampire . We talk about the hair, and the necks, and the blood. But also about Kirsten Dunst’s amazing performance. We try to figure out why the coffins are important. We admire Brad PItt’s character’s action-oriented problem-solving methods (setting fire to everything all of the time). We had a lot of fun. You will too proba...

Comedian Alexandra Haddow joins us as we try to talk about how much we love Robin Williams without crying Alexandra is @MissAHaddow . She’s on tour right NOW. You can find all the info right here . Alan is  ⁠@alan_maguire⁠ . He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right now. Sarah is ⁠@griffski⁠ . Her books are in all good bookshops. Her newsletter is at ⁠griffnotes.ghost.io⁠ Than...

Welcome to our first proper episode of 2024. If you listened to our Weezer episode or our Patreon episodes then you know that Andrea and Alan are big fans of Pat Finnerty. Pat makes a fantastic youtube series called What Makes This Song Stink. We were delighted when he agreed to appear on the show and even more delighted when he picked Spinal Tap. P.S. there’s a bit near the end where Pat says U2...

Happy Weird Inbetweeny Bit of the year where nothing’s really happening. We realised that people don’t get around to Christmas episodes of podcasts until January so we just talked about some non-Christmassy things we’d been watching lately. We also did our Off Menu menus just for the hell of it. We’re going to take a break for a couple of weeks while we get everything lined up for 2024 but we’ll b...

What’s this? What’s this? Meg Hyland’s back to talk to us about The Nightmare Before Christmas. We were going to rewrite all the lyrics to What’s This to be about the podcast but literally none of the words associated with this podcast scan with the meter of the song so instead just listen to the episode. It’s about creative burnout, and mall goths, and passing the wierd parts of yourself onto you...

Award-winning podcaster Andy Gaffney returns to Juvenalia to stun us with the depth and breadth of his Power Rangers knowledge. We talk about b-sides of Power Rangers singles, the two Rita Repulsas, Power Rangers Live In The Point Depot Dublin, Jedward(?), and lots, lots more. PS There’s a little bit of talk about Santa, so if you listen to Juvenalia around believers, it might be better to keep th...

Author and journalist Lauren Bravo joins us to discuss in a most genteel aspect the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. The Colin Firth one. Much like Mr. Darcy and the lake, we dive right in to talking about wet shirts and sideburns. But we eventually talk about other things too. Lauren is @LaurenBravo everywhere. Her debut novel Preloved is out now. Alan is  ⁠@alan_maguire⁠ . He does a b...

Jenny Maguire is one of the co-ordinators of Trans And Intersex Pride Dublin and she’s been obsessively watching Drag Race since she was eleven years old so it seemed only right that she came on Juvenalia to talk to us all about it. Alan is a former big fan who’s fallen off a bit and Andrea watched her first season of Drag Race for this episode. It was a good mix, we had a good time. (we had some...

Hello, everybody's scheduled got all messed up so we didn't get a chance to record a new episode this week. We thought you might like to check out our Patreon-only bonus series Started/Finished where we, guess what, talk about what we've started and finished lately. In this one from earlier this year, Alan and Sarah talk about Citizen Sleeper, Tunic, Piranesi, Pokerface, and Chris Ware...

Marty Ryan of Limerick band Anna’s Anchor joins us as we dive into the sweaty indie night in 2006 to talk about landfill indie. All the greats are mentioned, The View, The Pigeon Detectives, The Wombats. We also try to figure out what makes a landfill indie band and take some time to mention the bands that get lumped into that genre that we still actually like quite a lot like The Futureheads and...

Writer and podcaster Miranda Reinert joins us to talk about Death Cab For Cutie’s 2005 album Plans . We talk about how it fits into the Death Cab discography, Steely Dan Dads, re-engaging with your teenage earnestness, The Postal Service, Seth Cohen, and more. Miranda is @mirandareinert . She co-hosts the podcast Endless Scroll and her newsletter Step One Of A Plan is at mirandareinert.com Alan is...

Writer and broadcaster Aoife Barry returns to the podcast and she’s brought one of the big topics, one we assumed would have come up at some point in the previous 178 episodes but it’s here now and that’s the important thing. It’s Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride! We enthuse wildly about the film before jumping into a discussion about the types of films Hollywood is willing to make now. It’s a grea...

We thought it might be nice if we got all three of us on the same episode for once to tell each other about something we thought the others might not know about. Sarah told us about the Tower Of The Sun in Osaka. Alan told us about Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s Long Earth series, and Andrea told us about Ryan Gosling’s 2009 folk-horror-doo wop album Dead Man’s Bones. We hope you like it. Th...

Comedian Peter McGann returns to Juvenalia and he’s brought us one of our favourite films, Hot Fuzz ! How thoughtful of him. We talk about scripted vs improv comedy, Edgar Wright’s style and his imitators, the wonder of Nick Frost, and lots more. We had fun, we hope you like it. Peter is @peterjmcgann . He’s on tour in September with his show Great Lad . You should go see it. Tickets are here Alan...

The Daily Beast’s Allegra Frank joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about Weezer! Allegra is a longtime superfan of all Weezer, Alan and Andrea are longtime superfans of early Weezer so it was a good chance to explore the bits of Weezer that we maybe haven’t given a fair shake over the years. It really was a joy to get a chance to have a big long talk about Weezer. Allegra is @LegsFrank . You c...

Author Elaine Feeney joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Jonathan Demme’s 1991 Oscar-sweeping, pop cultural juggernaut, The Silence Of The Lambs . We talk about the complicated and controversial legacy of Buffalo Bill, looking Clarice in the eyes, our favourite shots, the magic of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, and Elaine tells us about showing scary films to her kids. It’s a good one. Elaine is...

Comedian Ally Ryan joins us to talk about Aardman Animation’s first feature film, Chicken Run (2000). We talk about feminism, communes, revolution, loads of stuff. We surprised ourselves at how much we took from it really. It was a good time. Ally is @UpYourAllyRyan . You can find all her upcoming gigs there. Alan is  ⁠@alan_maguire⁠ . He does a bit of standup but Juvenalia is his main thing right...

PARKLIFE, SunshEEEine, and so forth. We’re talking about the cultural juggernaut (for approximately five years) that was Britpop with Michael Orange aka Feather Beds. We talk about Blur v Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene deep cuts, and try to figure out if The Bends was Britpop. Along the way we take diversions into No Disco, 120 Minutes, and City Pop. Michael is @Feather_Beds . His new album Softer Meas...

Yip Yip! We’re talking about Avatar: The Last Airbender with author Amy Clarkin. Avatar is so good! Alan and Sarah had not watched Avatar before this but now they would die for Aang and the gang. Did we talk about the one specific thing that you think is important about Avatar? Maybe! We talked about a lot of things so hopefully your thing is one of them. Amy is @amyclarkinwrites . Her debut novel...

Artist and podcaster Carly Monardo returns to us for the third time and this time we’ve got a doozy. We’re talking about Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm (2005). We talked a lot about being twenty. It’s very much about being twenty and working in Urban Outfitters, and discovering things for yourself. We also took a slight detour to deliver a pep talk about following your dreams and making tha...

We're seven years old today! To celebrate, we decided to put one of our Patreon-only episodes up for everybody. On our bonus series Started/Finished, we talk about what we've started and finished lately. On this one from Jul 2022, Alan and Andrea talk about Stranger Things, Elena Ferrante, Disney Cruise Youtube Walkthroughs, and the Portal games. One of these things turned into an extended...