La Jolla Babylon: The Making Of A Suburban Punk

Spartanburg

Chapter 67 Spartanburg The last episode of season 3! Keep us in your feed - we’ll pop up everyone once in a while with some bonus eps between now and season 4! We’ll see young Adam get in and out of trouble. And then in again. We’ll see post-adolescent Adam meet some fates. In this episode: Adam gets hired as a professional tour manager and breaks down in the buckle of the Bible Belt. A Baptist family tries real hard to convert him. First of all - when I wrote the conversations between Adam and Bishop, I was not considering that I would need to read his voice some day. What you’re hearing is a white guy from the west coast - who is not an actor - trying to change his voice just enough so the listener knows the character has changed. When I switch to a character that is not Adam, I am only trying to indicate that the voice is from the south. I am not trying to indicate the person is of another race. This is Aaron being a bad reader with a shitty southern accent. NOT Aaron doing “black voice.” I love this episode and I love the people I met in Spartanburg so many years ago. It was 72 hours that changed my life for the better and if there’s a microbe that comes across as disrespectful, I apologize sincerely. Please write in to lajlooababylon@gmail.com and let me know how I should have handled it. Or write me and I’ll dish more about that band I managed.  Additional music: Katie’s Podcast Song (unreleased) Vibes: A. Walker Spring Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com Let us know what’s what: Have a story about growing up as a latchkey kid? Did you have a sibling who lived a completely different life than you? Did you cause mayhem in the 1980s? Send us your questions, comments, corrections and condescensions. We read every DM and email we receive. Find us: @lajollababylonpodcast on Instagram or write us at lajollababylon@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you! More Links: Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/ https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

The You-Know-What Episode

The You-Know-What Episode  Chapters 64 WOLFIE 65 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 66 FILMMAKING Explicit content. In other words, another one the in-laws might want to skip. Adam makes a Porn for college credit. In which Aaron miraculously gets out of reading in front of people. This is a recorded version of what our live show could have been. When it’s time to move out of a small town, it’s really time to move! “I’m not self aware enough to know what cartoon animal I would have been.”  Some of my favorite fake live albums: Nighthawks at the Diner Beach Boys Party! Charles Mingus presents Charles Mingus - asking waitresses not to rattle the ice! I was always singing the Nutcracker, so my dad got me the album for my 7th birthday. But when I saw the word “ballet” on the jacket, I asked if I could switch it for another record. We went back to Sam Goody’s and I was able to exchange it for KISS Alive 2! Apparently the drummer was so drunk they had to re-record the entire album and add the live sounds later. My explanation of Annie Sprinkle comes from memory - apologies if I missed some important details. Here’s a bit more about Linda/Les and Annie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104733/ Shout out to the Olympia International Film Festival! Don’t fact check me on whether Holy Mountain and El Topo were really banned in the US.  Mentioned: Zak Margolis - Here’s his insane animations! https://zakmargolis.com/ [https://zakmargolis.com/]  Additional music: I Don’t Know How To Surf-Rock (un-released) Drums: Germaine Bacca  Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com More Links: Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/ https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/

Everybody But Me Wang Chunged That Night

Everybody But Me Wang Chunged That Night Chapters: 62 KURU 63 TWO QUICK THINGS Aaron dishes about getting kicked out of the band he thought was going to make him a rock star. Altogether now: “It was the 90s.” Afraid of being an “unreliable narrator” - Aaron asks Katie not to let him off the hook. As the stories get closer to modern day, it’s getting less cute to hear about Adam and his bad choices. As Katie says, “If you’re looking for someone to dress you down, I think you should pull our other siblings in here.” Aaron talks about the metaphor that saves his relationship. Some other notable quotes: “Sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing” “The man who edits controls the knowledge” Correction: It’s the PRESIDENTS of the United States of America. But you knew that. **Update! We chose not to air another episode. This is going to be a pretty short season! These stories can sometimes cut a little close to the bone, and we felt like what would have been episode 5 might be pushing too far into other peoples’ lives. It was a good one but we decided to err on the side of privacy. Email us a lajollababylon@gmail.com if you want to know more (we’ll tell you everything privately). Mentioned links: Previously unseen link to the show where Old Time Relijun’s drummer throws his drums into the audience. https://youtu.be/gS_3khRt9l8 [https://youtu.be/gS_3khRt9l8] Aaron’s band being introduced by an iconic singer in1999. https://youtu.be/LgiJbVglQEI?si=sATy7zibUXgnlhk0&t=97 [https://youtu.be/LgiJbVglQEI?si=sATy7zibUXgnlhk0&t=97] Golem live! https://youtu.be/ze6ONmmBBbA?si=3xf1ziWn14ua0U9q&t=126   Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com

Hold On Tightly, Let Go Lightly

The end of Dan Jones. Friend break-ups are the hardest. Katie and Aaron talk ADHD. **Update! We chose not to air the episode Aaron describes at the end of this one. These stories can sometimes cut a little close to the bone, and we felt like what would have been episode 4 might be pushing too far into other peoples’ lives. It was a good one but we decided to err on the side of privacy. Email us a lajollababylon@gmail.com [lajollababylon@gmail.com] if you want to know more (we’ll tell you everything privately). Also, I was diagnosed with ADHD and am trying out some meds to see what they do. All I know about astrology I know from Harvey Sid Fisher songs. In the same way that all I know about Christianity I know from Jesus Christ Superstar.  Mentioned links: Video of 10 year old Elijah killing it at the talent show - https://youtu.be/yATe2qeWspc [https://youtu.be/yATe2qeWspc] Recently unearthed video of Harvey Sid Fisher playing a couple of his astrology songs in Olympia, 1995. https://youtu.be/eEsl6Ddni2k Telephone Call by Old Time Relijun - https://arrington.bandcamp.com/track/telephone-call  Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com [http://saralundrum.com] Let us know what’s what: Have a story about growing up as a latchkey kid? Did you have a sibling who lived a completely different life than you? Did you cause mayhem in the 1980s? Send us your questions, comments, corrections and condescensions. We read every DM and email we receive. Find us: @lajollababylonpodcast on Instagram or write us at lajollababylon@gmail.com [lajollababylon@gmail.com]. We’d love to hear from you!  Follow Katie Hartman at https://www.katiehartman.rocks/ https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/ [https://www.davidandkatiegetremarried.com/]

Post-Halloween Special!- Everyone has a Ghost Story

Adam meets someone special in the bathroom. In this bonus episode, Aaron tells a true story in which he sees a ghost and then teases Katie for believing in ghosts. Big brother/ little sister dynamic! Katie and Aaron talk about Halloween as the punk Christmas, get woo-woo, talk wearing costumes on stage, ghosts and all that jazz (spoiler: Aaron is a party pooper).  Video of Old Time Relijun playing insane Halloween party and Aaron’s ghost costume: https://youtu.be/EG3Okwy3Mj4?si=AK_3sPfA7vX37dju&t=129pumpkin photo Our sister Karen Hartman’s substack: https://the100dayreckoning.substack.com/ [https://the100dayreckoning.substack.com/] go to https://www.instagram.com/lajollababylonpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/lajollababylonpodcast/] to see Katie’s Graucho Marx costume and Aaron as a Stormtrooper. Music: La Jolla Babylon Theme by Aaron Hartman Vocal: Alicia Jo Rabins @ohaliciajo | aliciajo.com Drums: Sara Lund @lundun_calling | saralundrum.com [http://saralundrum.com]  Additional music: “Uncool Oncologist” by Aaron Hartman https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/track/uncool-oncologist [https://marinelayer.bandcamp.com/track/uncool-oncologist]