We Came From Celluloid

Nicky P
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At the intersection of music and movies, there is a band from Ohio. These are their conversations on life, music, and more.

  1. 4d ago ·  Video

    If Taking Back Sunday Went Jazz: Vethaken on Mystique, Merch, and the Ocarina of Tour | We Came From Celluloid 030-G

    Pravin from Vethaken is in the chair this week, the first of two guest episodes sitting next to If He'd Had the Hair. I found him on Instagram looking for bands coming through Cleveland, and I'm not going to lie: the hair is what brought me in. He's a Jersey kid who moved to Brooklyn, spent years as a freelance jazz guitarist, then spent a year and a half learning how to scream. The band is post-hardcore prog jazz. They're at the Foundry on November 17 with We Used to Cut the Grass and Spilly Cave, on a Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time tour, in a sexy queer goth Link costume. We talk about not over-explaining the work, and getting a rabid raccoon out of the house before you hit record. We play out with FairyTale, off I'm All Out of Beautiful Thoughts.

    If Taking Back Sunday Went Jazz: Vethaken on Mystique, Merch, and the Ocarina of Tour | We Came From Celluloid 030-G

  2. 6d ago ·  Video

    If He'd Had the Hair: Rewriting The Bodyguard And Our Lives | We Came From Celluloid 030

    Nicky P and Brian Pritchard are back together after Brian Noll sat in last week, and the conversation takes a left turn into hair. Nicky describes army tests on Native American trackers who supposedly lost their edge after military haircuts, and argues that hair is part of your nervous system, something you feel the wind with. Brian runs that idea through Hair the musical and Samson. Nicky adds Tarzan and Johnny Bravo. Then they rewrite The Bodyguard: if Kevin Costner hadn't had the military cut, he could have kept his eyes open in the snow instead of kneeling there listening for footprints. They also get into the ransom note that still cracks Brian up, why we build celebrities up so we can watch them fail, Muse and Loathe living in the Beatles' shadow, Dave Grohl and Nirvana, Brian skipping Danny Elfman for chicken fingers at a Kentucky festival, and an It Follows bonus feature that has Brian wanting Puma Thurman to finish some music videos. Because the songs, he says, are worthy of the push.

    If He'd Had the Hair: Rewriting The Bodyguard And Our Lives | We Came From Celluloid 030

  3. Oct 26 ·  Video

    Back to the Boones: A-Dub HDX on 20 Years of Cleveland Hip Hop, From Peabody's to a Concept Album | We Came From Celluloid 029-G-G

    Cleveland rapper A-Dub HDX booked a run through Houston, New Mexico, Vegas, Phoenix, and California, paid for the car and the hotels, and asked his crew to just buy a flight. Nobody came. His son was three months old. He went anyway. Brian and I talk with A-Dub about 20 years of shows since his first one at Peabody's, why he added HDX so people could actually find him, rapping only about his own life, and why backing vocals on your verses is basically karaoke. Plus: Yacht Rock's version of Warren G learning he's smooth, not hard, the real story behind his album Back to the Boones (it's an actual road), Cleveland venues closing faster than we can book them, and the mixed-genre Devils Night bill we're sharing at the Maple Grove. We play out with his track Another Dimension.

    Back to the Boones: A-Dub HDX on 20 Years of Cleveland Hip Hop, From Peabody's to a Concept Album | We Came From Celluloid 029-G-G

  4. Oct 24 ·  Video

    Make It Faster, Add Punk, Cut the Intro: Akron Pop Punk Band In A Rut on Songwriting | We Came From Celluloid 029-G

    In A Rut, from the Akron area, join Brian and me before we share a stage at the Maple Grove. Chad, Chris, and Steve are married homeowners with kids, dogs, and day jobs, and they sat down and did the math on going pro: a label would have to pay them $70,000 to $100,000 per person, per year. That's probably never happening, so why keep doing it? Brian's take: anybody can do anything once. The question is whether you can do it twice. We also get into how every new song idea comes in and gets told to go faster, add punk, and cut the intro. Plus Tom Cruise's Tropic Thunder dance synced to their music, Dave Grohl's bumper-sticker songwriting formula, my '70s prog tribute band losing its drummer to Florida, and their new song Leniency, built on 50 layered voices and shot at an empty skate park.

    Make It Faster, Add Punk, Cut the Intro: Akron Pop Punk Band In A Rut on Songwriting | We Came From Celluloid 029-G

  5. Oct 24 ·  Video

    Devil's Night at the Maple Grove: Puma Thurman's Next Moves After Their First Tour | We Came From Celluloid 029

    Pritchard's off doing movie pictures with his wife, so Puma Thurman guitarist Brian Noll sits in for his first time on the show, at 9:21 at night, fresh out of parent-teacher conferences. We start with the greatest villain dances in film, from Mr. Blonde and Patrick Bateman to a guy in the Reacher spinoff Neagley who gets ready to torture someone while dancing to Ambrosia's How Much I Feel. Then Halloween candy-trading economics, a 10-page Heidegger paragraph, and Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen. Then the real stuff: Brian's honest look back at our first actual tour, from homesickness and brutal heat to getting better every single show, and why he calls the whole thing a laughing contest we all won. Plus what's next for Puma Thurman: a new church creed, a week-long run around Cleveland, acoustic con shows, and our Devil's Night show at the Maple Grove with three rappers and three bands.

    Devil's Night at the Maple Grove: Puma Thurman's Next Moves After Their First Tour | We Came From Celluloid 029

  6. Oct 17 ·  Video

    The Show Must Go On: The Femaliens & Why All-Ages Spaces Matter | We Came From Celluloid 028-G

    This week we fit an entire band on one screen. The Femaliens, out of Pittsburgh, join Brian and me on their Tuesday practice night: Emily "Kay Yoss" on vocals, Candrika on bass, Julez on drums, and Eve on guitar. Turns out their band exists for the same reason Brian and I do: somebody refused to cancel a show. They put together their first set in two months for a female feature fest in Erie, and they've been going ever since. We get into writing songs in the room, a Chupacabra anthem born from a hungover cabin retreat, why there's no such thing as too silly in an alien-themed punk band, and Eve's side gig playing power violence under an actual bridge. Plus a crash course on Pittsburgh's crowded DIY scene, why all-ages spaces matter, and the reason their first original song is called Uranus.

    The Show Must Go On: The Femaliens & Why All-Ages Spaces Matter | We Came From Celluloid 028-G

  7. Oct 11 ·  Video

    When Marketing Doesn't Know What It's Got: Failing to Connect to Audiences | We Came From Celluloid 028

    Brian Pritchard and I start with Doug Liman's Go and the '90s wave of too-cool-for-the-room crime movies, and end up somewhere I didn't see coming: who gets pulled up in Hollywood, and why. Brian tells a story from a Heath Ledger documentary about Ledger's LA house becoming home base for Cate Blanchett, Guy Pearce, and Naomi Watts. Jonah Hill landed Accepted because he was Justin Long's roommate. Robert Pattinson told Cronenberg to put him in anything. Nepotism, or just trusting the people you know? We argue about it. Plus my early horror binge, including the gloriously baffling She Loved Blossoms More and Nicolas Cage not saying one single word in Willy's Wonderland. There's also Mandy, Tom Waits as the devil, why Brian is done giving Baron Munchausen the benefit of the doubt, Cronenberg's bleak streak, and Viggo Mortensen aging out of the pretty-guy roles.

    When Marketing Doesn't Know What It's Got: Failing to Connect to Audiences | We Came From Celluloid 028

  8. Sep 25 ·  Video

    Where's Your Energy Going? Jeremy Jones on AI Show Posters and Bands That Phone It In | We Came From Celluloid 027-G

    This week Brian and I sit down with Jeremy, the guy who books the bands, runs the sound, and secretly runs the social media at Maple Grove Tavern. We talk about what it's like being the most second-guessed man in any bar, including the guy who wanted the PA pointed at his barstool, and the one question every band should ask themselves: where's your energy going? Jeremy has a warning for bands using AI on their show posters. I've got a punk-rock rant about cutting up magazines. We also get into Final Fantasy VII, Fallout, BioShock Infinite, Bandersnatch, and why Stubbs the Zombie had one of the best soundtracks ever. Plus the studio Jeremy's building near Cleveland's steel yard, and the domain name we tried to hand him on air. It opens with Paul Rudd saving my morning.

    Where's Your Energy Going? Jeremy Jones on AI Show Posters and Bands That Phone It In | We Came From Celluloid 027-G
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At the intersection of music and movies, there is a band from Ohio. These are their conversations on life, music, and more.

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  • Creator
    Nicky P
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025
  • Show Website
    We Came From Celluloid