We Came From Celluloid

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this one's a little different. This is the last episode we recorded before Puma Thurman hit the road for our first real tour. And I don't say that as a throwaway detail. By the time you hear this, we're already different people. Whatever version of us is in this recording, that's the old guys. The pre-tour guys.  ...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where Brian and I talk about the movies and music that keep us sane, and occasionally stumble into conversations that remind us why we started playing in the first place. I'm Nicky P., here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we're joined by Dennis of PsyDefects out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.   Here's how this episode came to exist: Puma Thurman is going...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian, and this week we've got our Milwaukee connection on the pod, Tlalok Rodriguez, the guy who single-handedly made our Wisconsin tour stop possible by doing something apparently rare in this business: seeing a post and actually doing something about it.   Tlaloc is a Milwaukee-based multi-instrumentalist operating under the band na...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, the show where we start talking about a Michael Bolton tour shirt and end up at the uncanny valley. I'm Nicky P., here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we accidentally made an episode about one of the defining questions of the moment: why does everything fake feel worse, and why does everything real feel better?   We open where any great conversation open...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where two dads from Ohio prove weekly that the most interesting conversations happen when musicians decide they also care about movies. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and today we've got Nico Cellz from Bag of Humans sitting across from us, which, if you're just tuning in, is not a band name I made up. Here's the thing about Nico: we're sharing a st...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, the podcast where two guys from a band in Ohio overthink movies until something useful falls out. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we went somewhere I genuinely wasn't expecting. We started the way we always do: talking about nothing in particular. GPS disasters, MapQuest horror stories, the existential terror of 80-degree weather. And t...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, the podcast where two musicians who think too hard about movies talk to other musicians who think too hard about everything else. I'm Nicky P., Brian Pritchard is here doing his thing, and today we've got TJ Costanza from Neighbor Dan, a band out of the Youngstown/Mercer, PA area that plays what one very smart show attendee once described as "calculated loud...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where Brian and I have started filming ourselves just vibing about music and film until something catches fire. This week is one of those episodes where we don't have a film on the docket, just two guys in Ohio who are currently overwhelmed and somehow still talking into microphones about it.   Here's the deal: Brian has this thing he calls the three table l...

There's a moment somewhere in the middle of this episode where Joe Petrich says he was "truly, truly miserable," and the word he uses, twice, lands differently than you'd expect from a guy who's been in bands for thirty years and toured with Trans-Siberian Orchestra and done the Eyehategod run and opened for Cannibal Corpse with a band that had a trombone player. He wasn't being dramatic. He was j...

There's a voice memo I've never sent anyone. It's from a parking lot outside a venue in Columbus, some year that doesn't matter, and it's just me going "I think I just met my guy." I don't know why I'm telling you this. I just know that this episode ends with how Brian and I actually met, buried at the back like an Easter egg for people who made it all the way through, and it felt like the right w...

Brian mentioned to me at practice the other day, that he had something to tell me but he was gonna wait until the show. Brian doesn't do that. Brian is not a "wait until the show" guy. So naturally I spent the whole drive home running through scenarios. The reality: Connor wrote a song, and wanted it to be about Total Recall. Specifically the "See you at the party, Richter" moment where Arnold rip...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid. I'm Nicky P, here as always with Brian, and this week we went and made it a tripod. Corey, vocalist from Imperil, a Cleveland-area band we shared a stage with a couple weeks back, joined us, and what started as a get-to-know-you conversation about local music turned into something I wasn't expecting: a pretty honest conversation about what it actually takes...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where two middle-aged musicians from Ohio sit down with absolutely no agenda and end up somehow solving problems they didn't know they had. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we went in with nothing and came out with an actual business idea that I am legally not supposed to talk about, and then talked about it anyway.   Here's how it went:...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this week's episode was supposed to be a casual check-in. Instead it turned into a full-on rabbit hole about how instruments actually work, why two of the weirdest bassists in rock history happened to be roommates, and the ongoing soap opera that is trying to finish a Puma Thurman record while also, you know, being...

Brian sent me a voice memo recently. Just a rough idea, heavy, intentional, something he'd written specifically to sound like a metal song. Which doesn't sound remarkable until you know Brian, and then it's actually a signal that something has shifted. His old bandmate Max is coming back around. Re-engaging with music after a few years dealing with adulthood. And something about that, the possibil...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where two Ohio dads from a band you've probably never heard of show up to talk about film, music, and whatever tangents we can't avoid. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we saw movies. Two of them — the Baz Luhrmann Elvis documentary and Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die — and somehow still ended up debating whether Blur or Oasis won the ninet...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, the podcast where two middle-aged musicians talk about movies and, apparently, sometimes talk about everything except movies. I'm Nicky P here with the great Brian Pritchard, and I'll be honest with you — we fully intended to talk about film this week. That didn't happen.   What did happen? A genuinely candid conversation about what it actually takes to keep...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where two middle-aged musicians from Ohio sit at the intersection of film and music and end up in arguments nobody asked for. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we went from Adam West's Batman to the existential future of AI music somehow, so buckle up.   We opened, as one does, with Brian watching 60s Batman catwoman episodes on YouTube b...

It's We Came From Celluloid episode 8, and we're her to prove middle-aged dads from Ohio can absolutely pursue artistic dreams while maintaining boundaries with your children. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, ready to talk about the exciting, terrifying reality of Puma Thurman's upcoming summer tour.   We've been doing this music thing for decades, but we both have failed to check off our l...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, the podcast that exists at the nexus of music, film, and middle-aged dudes who still believe they can make it. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard - a man of a certain age who's about to go see Paul Thomas Anderson's new film in IMAX. And yes, I'm pushing the "dad band" thing just to drive it home.   This week kicks off with Brian heading to see  One Batt...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where two pop culture nerds and band geeks sit at the apex of music & film and tackle issues like why losing Robert Redford hits differently than other celebrities. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we're processing the death of one of the last true movie stars while somehow ending up deep in John Candy territory.   Look, Redford's death...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, the podcast where two middle-aged dads from Ohio prove that expensive hobbies can occasionally pay for themselves. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we're diving deep into what happens when Tom Cruise's Lestat starts whispering song ideas in your head.   Look, I'm not gonna pretend we're not a dad band. We are absolutely a dad band. But w...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where film and music collide in the messiest, most honest way possible. I'm Nicky P, here with Brian Pritchard, and this week we're dealing with some heavy shit - the kind of losses that make you question everything while simultaneously getting excited about what comes next.   August has been a month, folks. We lost Ozzy Osborne, Brent Hines from Mastodon, a...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where two middle-aged guys from Ohio continue to prove that you can combine your obsessions and somehow make it work. I'm Nicky P, back with Brian Pritchard for another deep dive into the beautiful intersection of music and movies - and this week, we're getting practical about it.   Brian just got back from Nashville (Music City, as they insist on calling it...

Welcome back to We Came From Celluloid, where film and music crash together like a beautiful disaster that somehow works. I'm Nicky P, back with Brian Pritchard for another deep dive into the stuff that keeps us up at night - and trust me, after this conversation, you're gonna understand why we can't just talk about movies like normal people.   This week started simple enough: Brian saw Superman t...