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Between Awesome and Disaster with Will Carey

Comedian and musician Will Carey sees life as a balance between two kinds of moments, awesome and disaster. He sits down with a guest to talk about their life, creative interests, and taking a disastrous moment and turning it into an awesome one. www.awesomedisaster.com
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Now displaying: January, 2022
Jan 31, 2022

Bright Ugly Drummer and Will's bandmate Lawrence Miller combines the mind of a philospher with the raw physical energy that comes from being a punk, metal and jazz drummer.

He talks to Will about the nature of performance and the physicality of playing drums, watching belief systems get broken down while studying philosphy in college, discussing the cultural impact of jazz music, growing up on heavy metal, moving to New York City, and what he thinks makes his band with Will Bright Ugly work so well.  

Listen to Lawrence and Will's band.

https://brightugly.bandcamp.com/releases

Lawrence on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lorcan_builds/

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Did an overhaul of the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster

Jan 24, 2022

Comedian Sean Lynch brings his background in Theater and Comedy into writing independent films.  He talks to Will about how Star Wars blew his mind as a kid, The Big Chill's influence on how he works with actors and approaches screenwriting, the movie he is currently in production on, His beginnings as a comedian at the Comedy Cellar, some sage show business advice from a veteran in the field, his upcoming starring role on broadway in the play Girls Who Walked on Glass, his upcoming one act play he wrote titled The Wildfire Dogs, and his films Greenpoint Tavern and Every Other Sunday, plus some great comedy stories from the road, opening for Todd Glass, and Robin Williams.

 

Sean on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/seanlynchcomedy

Sean on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/geezerlynch/

Sean's first two movies:

https://www.amazon.com/Every-Other-Sunday-Adam-Mucci/dp/B083GFW9VP

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0845VYG15/ref=atv_sr_def_c_unkc_1_1_1?sr=1-1&pageTypeIdSource=ASIN&pageTypeId=B08463F8D6&qid=1642986062

Jan 17, 2022

Will's bandmate in Bright Ugly Freddie Heinemann have a very similar entry into the arts.  Freddie tells Will about using humor to deal with Bullying as a kid, playing in punk bands while studying Jazz, how numerous run ins with Authority figures in both College, and UCB shaped his life and career, moving to New York City to pursue comedy, recovering from a failed suicide attempt, why he had to stop doing comedy, and how he got back into playing music and starting the band he is in with Will Bright Ugly.

Listen to Freddie and Will's band.

 

https://brightugly.bandcamp.com/releases

Freddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mr.pinsandbuttons

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Did an overhaul of the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster

Jan 10, 2022

Comedian Nick Vatterott's new Stand up film Disingenuous showcases the solid joke writing and wry absurdity that Nick has been honing for years.  He talks to Will about Pinball, Comedy, and life, how similar the three are, starting in Chicago, the tone of arguments on social media, Stand up comedy's value in society, his new special Disingenuous, and how a movie he's making turned his home into a horder house.

Rent Nick's new Special:

Amazon Prime Video: https://amzn.to/3JlztZ5

AppleTV: https://apple.co/3ky4f66

Comcast Xfinity: https://xfin.tv/3H2RgSz

Google Play: https://bit.ly/3J6aBnV

Vimeo: https://bit.ly/3rNIZxx

Microsoft XBOX: https://bit.ly/3H2yLhf

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pg5lGb

Nick's podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get-rich-nick/id1475300868

http://www.nickvatterott.com/

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Did an overhaul of the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster

Jan 3, 2022

Russ Rankin's 1st solo album was a learning process of writing and solo performance, and he's brought everything he's learned about arrangements and songwriting into his upcoming 2nd solo effort Come Together Fall Apart out January 28th 2022 on SBAM Records.  He talks to Will about how he has grown as a performer and songwriter since his first solo album Farewell Catalonia, his admiration for the songwriting of Rhett Miller of the Old 97's, Good Riddance's origins in the California punk scene, the bands long relationship with Fat Wreck Chords, avoiding the label wows of some of their peers, what the Major Labels missed in their approach to signing and working with punk rock bands, why being vegan on tour in Japan is difficult, and his work as a Hockey Scout.

Listen to Good Riddance:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Yunxnwa5znrQ9Ha7dZeHO?si=eVr6bGG7TIGabkmApgyhYg

Listen to Russ Rankin:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0MEz39CfxGXNOK4qAnvsvC?si=RJktOdKrQdK6viJidyk5Ag

Will's Website: www.awesomedisaster.com

Podcast Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/between-awesome-and-disaster

Did an overhaul of the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/awesomedisaster

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