Saturn Scene – An Astrological Look at Pop Culture

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Coco Hames is the lead singer, guitarist, and co-songwriter of The Ettes, as well as a member of The Parting Gifts.

We discuss Coco’s high school days as a seriously obsessed coxswain on the crew team, her transition into music, the time she heckled John Mayer, and a chance encounter with Peter Bogdanovich, among other things. Listen below:

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For more on Coco and The Ettes, including upcoming tour dates, check out TheEttes.com.

So suited. So handsome.

Hamm and Slattery are the perfect combo of salt and pepper. Bon mots and bondage Bobbie Barrett play.

Slattery knows what I’m talking about.

But you know who knows what both men smell like?

Former podcast guest Jamie Denbo!

Jamie has had Jon Hamm and John Slattery on her fantastic live show, Ronna and Beverly. In fact, Jamie and I discussed both of them during our conversation and I have isolated the audio where we speak of their scents:

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If you haven’t yet, do yourself a solid and listen to the whole episode with Jamie, because it is fantastic.

And get ready for a look at “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner coming soon.

Natasha Vargas-Cooper is a journalist, former union organizer, and author of the book Mad Men Unbuttoned. She has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York magazine, and The Hairpin.

We discuss Natasha’s book, her rabble-rousing high school days as an ink-stained pamphleteer, her transition into and out of the social justice movement, and why “Mad Men” is a thoroughly enthralling work of art deserving of close scrutiny. Listen below:

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For more on Natasha, including links to her articles, and more info on her live storytelling series Public School, check out her tumblr and her website.

All items/images found by Griffin on his route. More at his blog

As many people have noticed, between the ages of 27-30 some serious stuff goes down. Paul Rudd certainly knows what I’m talking about. When Saturn returns to the same place it was when we were born, it exerts an amazing influence in our lives. Suddenly things change completely and we find ourselves on a totally different path.

Periodically I’m going to post interviews with different people discussing what happened in their lives during their Saturn Return, as I’ve found it’s always something major. And with my friend Griffin, he found himself in a completely new world.

I looked up your Saturn and it’s in the 7th house of relationships, and it’s in Cancer, which is the sign of the home. So your Saturn Return would be about providing a home for your relationship and family via your work. Saturn returned to the same place it was when you were born in ’03, as well as ’04 and ’05. Can you talk a bit about that time?
I was bike messengering, and just getting high all the time. And then I got a job installing furniture, which jumped to a job at a furniture gallery that lasted for a month. But that month felt like fucking eternity, it was such a shitty job. And I thought that was what I was going to do because I was really trying to get into art installation. From there I went back to a messenger company I worked at for years before, but doing driving. I lost my mind doing that and quit. Then took an office position and lost my mind doing that.

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