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With Dan on sabbatical, Merlin is joined by John Roderick of The Long Winters to talk about life as a bull in a china closet, craving real-world constraints, making better records, and being banned for life from Interpol’s corn chip bowl.

Links for this episode:

• Van Halen - Hot For Teacher - YouTube
  
• Def Leppard- Bringing on the Heartbreak - YouTube
  
• Robert John "Mutt" Lange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Highway to Hell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• University of Washington - washington.edu
  
• The Long Winters
  
• john roderick (johnroderick) on Twitter
  
• John Roderick (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• 012: Interview: John Roderick | The Merlin Show
  
• 016: Interview: John Roderick, Part 2 | The Merlin Show
  
• 017: Interview: John Roderick, Part 3 | The Merlin Show
  
• 018: Interview: John Roderick, Part 4 | The Merlin Show
  
• Video: John Roderick on String Art Owls, Copper Pipe, and Bono's Boss | 43 Folders
  
• Flickr: Merlin's extensive "John Roderick" gallery
  
• "Blue Diamonds" - the Long Winters - YouTube
  
• The Long Winters: "The Commander Thinks Aloud" - YouTube
  
• The Long Winters - Through With Love Preview - YouTube
  
• Harvey Danger - Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo - YouTube
  
• reading room | the long winters library & archive
  
• Impasto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Helen Frankenthaler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Richard Hugo reads "Degrees of Grey in Philipsburg"
  
• Wesley Stace | John Wesley Harding
  
• MISSPEAK: "For Those About to Rock We Salute You" (not "Highway to Hell")
  
• Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• [SPONSOR] Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp
  
• [PDF] The Believer: John Roderick Interview (June/July 2005)
  
• Venom (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Ashcan Rantings: Interview with John Roderick of The Long Winters
  
• Harm's Way by Jeff DeRoche - Seattle News - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
  
• The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964) High Definition [HD] - YouTube
  
• John Roderick: A Night on the Town - a set on Flickr
  
• Alex Van Halen: Artists: Modern Drummer Magazine
  
• Comparative History of Ideas Program
  
• Cheer-Accident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• John Vanderslice
  
• AC/DC - “Back In Black” (1980) 
  
• kung fu grippe - "Before my heart overflowed."
  
• Air-Raid #60: Hobos of the Future with John Roderick – The Air-Raid Podcast
  
• Hanford Site
  
• Mr. Show: Gay Son/Grass Valley Greg - YouTube
  
• Western State Hurricanes "Car Parts" - YouTube
  
• Tampabay: 'They said they were glad it wasn't me'
  
• kung fu grippe - Jim? What a horrible, foul-mouthed little man. ...
  

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