Sitting Under A Tree with Aidan Jones

208 - Taping The Special

I'm taping my special on Friday, it's finally happening! After months of waiting and delays and lockdowns and bullshit, this Friday at Stupid Old Studios I'm recording my first hour of stand up comedy and I am very excited.

Ep 207 - Melbourne

Melbourne is back and the people are voracious for LIFE!! I feel so rushed and manic which is honestly my favourite state to be in, however unsustainable.How manic, I hear you ask? Well, I waited 15 minutes for a coffee at a cafe this morning and somehow I managed to talk about that for around 20 minutes just now. Pretty manic, eh?!

Ep 206 - Casey Gothard

Another guest this week! Casey Gothard is an artist and comedian based in Melbourne. She's had a bit of exciting national and international press in the last few weeks for doing a portrait of Dan Andrews out of fairy bread, but she's been making cool shit for years. We talked about her high school art teacher supporting her and bringing the principal of her grammar school along to watch her fill the drama theatre knee-deep with garbage while fascist propaganda films played on a projector. We talked about blood, art, and we took a pee-break in the middle. This was a fantastic conversation!
 
Follow Casey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseygothardAnd buy some fairy bread merch on her website: https://caseygothard.com/

Ep 205 - Moralising

I've been re-reading a bit of Bukowski this week. His writing is so direct and free from moralising and sappy reflections. It feels like as the reader, he doesn't feel the need to explain himself all the time. He gives you credit for being an intelligent, thoughtful person, and so rather than justifying all the things he's saying, he just tells you them as they are and lets you make up your own mind about what you think about them. I think I learnt something about that while doing the pod this week.

Ep 204 - The Young Ones

I feel down this week, I had hoped to talk about British comedy classic 'The Young Ones' and how the irreverent violence of it reminds me of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'. I did a little, but also just meandered around for a while. That's how I feel right now, so if we judge the podcast by how well it reflects my current state of mind, then I guess this is a resounding success!

Ep 203 - Breakfast At Tiffany‘s

This week I read Truman Capote's novella 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', then I watched the movie inspired by it. The novella was a beautiful representation of the feeling of loving someone who used to be in your life, missing them, and remembering who they were to you. The character of Holly Golightly felt so enigmatic and real, and reminded me of a few people I've known in my life. The movie was pretty good, until the end, when it instantly became rubbish. I hate it. Pathetic. Thanks for listening!

Ep 202 - Moving House

Last week I moved out of my beloved Brunswick house where I've lived for the last 3.5 years and into a share house in Coburg. I've moved a lot of times in my life, usually from one shithole to another. This time the move feels much more intentional. I told a few stories about the first place I lived in after I moved out of home when I was 19 - running through wet paint barefoot on acid in the living room kinda vibes. Great podcast, this one.

Ep 201 - Aurora Campbell

This week on the pod I chatted to Aurora Campbell, she's an artist I know through comedy friends and from being around Melbourne, but she escaped back to Brisbane before lockdown. We spoke about art, creativity and why we do the work that we do. Great chat, good vibes, strong heart.
Follow Aurora on Instagram @aurora_campbell
And follow the podcast @sittingunderpodcast

Ep 200 - Constructive Anger

I forgot it's the 200th episode!! Hahaha well there you go. I've been thinking a lot about how useless it is to get angry about things we can't control. Anger is a painful thing to hold on to, and no matter how much we hold onto it, there are some things we can't change, so in being angry we're really just hurting ourselves. The one thing we can control is how we react to things. I spoke about that, and then read an email I wrote to a rapper me and my mate loved in high school who, as far as I can tell, has disappeared from the internet. Lots of searching in here.
 
Spotify link for Arecee's album 'Beating A Dead Horse'
https://open.spotify.com/album/7xP9IgDIc7CMCKtogHosSB?si=XN2Zj7KXSqOpMw_RC30Fow&dl_branch=1

Ep 199 - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are widely regarded as a pretty uncool band. All of ska music even, it's just not what cool people listen to. But I listened to it, I went deep when I was a teenager, and I loved it. Then in my early 20s a guy who I thought was really cool said that ska is "just white boys playing fast reggae", and it was never the same for me. This week I've revisited them and the guy was right, it is just white boys playing fast reggae. But man - I still love it!