GBA 311 Jez Kemp

Summary: In GBA 311 we get better acquainted with Jez Kemp. He talks learning how to make your own music, the danger of false equivalence in the time of Charlottesville, Brexit and Trump, being a femme cisgender man, realising that Nineteen Eighty-Four isn't as radical as you thought, creating and selling dinosaur and unicorn T-Shirts, the man who tried to trademark the π symbol and lots more. Jez plugs: Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/jezkemp Twitter: https://twitter.com/jezkemp JezKempInsta: https://www.instagram.com/jezkempinsta I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ We mention: Liz: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-liz-episodes Lisa: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-147-Lisa-Findley Picasso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso Charlotteville: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/charlottesville-attack-170813081045115.html 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four Fight Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club Lord of the Rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings The Hobbit Film Extra: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/29/extra-too-brown-the-hobbit Warhammer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_Fantasy_Battle Mitchell and Webb - "before the incident": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE Placebo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_(band) The Manics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Street_Preachers Muse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_(band) Clash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash I believe in dinosaurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK9UUjLH93g The Horned Warrior Friends: https://www.facebook.com/hornedwarriorfriends/ Queen Raptorcorn: https://twitter.com/jezkemp/status/855172298692866049 Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/ Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.co.uk/ Blog posts: http://jezkemp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/this-guy-just-stole-pi-and-zazzle.html http://jezkemp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/some-loser-has-tried-to-trademark.html http://jezkemp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/zazzle-pi-fiasco-communication-problem.html Wired article on pi trademark: https://www.wired.com/2014/05/pi-takedown/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ Bandcamp: https://bandcamp.com/ Myspace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace Let Toys Be Toys: http://lettoysbetoys.org.uk/ Let Clothes Be Clothes: https://letclothesbeclothes.uk/ Scene on Radio: Seeing White: http://podcast.cdsporch.org/seeing-white/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!