Take Note
207 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsTake Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.
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Episode 199: Paul Jackson of baseball storytelling Project 3.18
April 05, 2024 17:28 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MBBaseball writer and storyteller Paul Jackson of Project 3.18 joins us to discuss his project, wherein he serves up truly fabulous true stories from baseball’s past. The kind of stories you’ll tell and re-tell at fantasy baseball drafts. Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende Project 3.18 by Paul Jackson. Baseball stories! an ill-fated night of Cleveland baseball flour-bombing at Chavez Ravine Jim McManus A’s to play in Sacramento Legatoria Pol...
Episode 198: Only the Present Moment
April 01, 2024 02:44 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBThe Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald Field Notes Flora Edition Emmy Star Brown Jenna Blazevich Pentel Sign Pen via Austin Kleon Uni Style Fit Motion
Episode 197: Voluptuous Staples
March 16, 2024 21:06 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBTrips to the museum, business dinners, digging into Ted’s pen haul from Jet Pens. Picasso at the Art Institute Werner Herzog’s book George Saunders substack Pilot ILMILY Sakura Ballsign Ohto FUDE Tick and Pick
Episode 196: Mountaintop
February 27, 2024 02:32 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBField Notes Foiled Again EnerGel Euro Needle-Point UniStyle Fit Slim Gel Pen TomBow Air Press Ballpoint Sakura Ballsign Gel Pen TomBow Mono Graph Lite Ballpoint Kinokuniya Bookstore Lauren Laverne on House Music Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters Josh Ritter Sermon on the Rocks Kehinde Wiley Notebook Believer Issue 40
Episode 195: The end of the moment before the internet
February 05, 2024 03:46 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBWe dig into our book club read Vertigo by WG Sebald, share our notebook of the week, and more. The Vaster Wilds by the master Lauren Groff Denim jacket stuff on our newsletter ABOUT: BLANKS, our notebook of the week Boston General Store The Locavore by Caroline Weaver Peter Mendelsund Vertigo edition with Mendulsund cover Take Note episode about Slacker Sebald obituary, NYtimes Support the podcast via Patreon
Episode 194: My Time in the Ballet
January 30, 2024 23:59 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBPapermate Flair Making Comics by Lynda Barry Three Potato Four Notebook Across the Moominverse Weird Science
Episode 193: Slow Typing
January 23, 2024 14:57 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MBThe Vertigo by WG Sebald reading project continues, Adam pushes Mitt, and Ted has a denim jacket project. Vertigo by WG Sebald, book club! Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley Foundation by Isaac Asimov the only Bob Dylan patch
Episode 192: Stegosauri
January 12, 2024 03:34 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MBGabbert Quote and Olives Pic Deep Vellum D For Dapper The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert Exteriors by Annie Ernaux World Within A Song by Jeff Tweedy Vertigo by WG Sebald
Episode 191: When the Glass Ends
December 11, 2023 13:00 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBAdam adjusts to getting glasses for distance and gives small business the business. Write notebooks Field Notes Patreon: jump in to receive the annual commonplace zine
Episode 190: Lucky Tuxedo
December 01, 2023 00:20 - 43 minutes - 47.6 MBThe Official Netflix Cookbook Amazon Has Hollywood's Worst Shows but it's Best Business Model Field Notes Birch Bark Field Notes Heartland Dan McCarthy
Episode 189: Enon Avital of Dapper Notes!
November 15, 2023 04:36 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBDapper Notes – Enon Avital’s unique, beautiful notebooks covered in lush paper and fabric and filled with excellent paper – occupy a special place in the notebook landscape. Brimming with color and texture, they elevate the pocket notebook to an art form, and the hand of their creator quite literally graces every book. Enon is that creator, and we had a lovely time learning why he started producing beautiful books, the pleasure he takes in sharing the process, and the care he takes in creati...
Episode 188: Sucker
November 09, 2023 19:09 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBCandy Cane Green Tea Clairefontaine Mini Notebooks Pocket Leuchttturm Evan Osnos' China's Age of Malaise Apple Store Employees Can't Use These Words Essayism Sara Levine Lindsay Hunter's Hot Springs Drive Maria Bamford Wilco at Metro
Episode 187: Megatherium
October 27, 2023 23:58 - 24 minutes - 33.5 MBTed and Adam hone their predatory instincts by writing daily poems. Field Notes Foiled Again Megatherium Creature Conservancy Daniel Clowes - Monica Last of the Summer Wine Patreon Email us at [email protected]
Episode 186: Carcasses
October 12, 2023 04:04 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBLemn Sissay Lemn Sissay and Lebogang Mashile on Start the Week The Trumpet of the Swan How Emilly Wilson Made Homer Wilson Modern Emily Wilson YouTube Field Notes Birch Bark Field Notes Shelterwood Robert Frost Birches Vandals Who Trashed Robert Frost's Home Take Poetry Classes as Penance Dromgoole's Clairefontaine Collection Atlas Stationers' Clairefontaine Collection Sakura BallSign ID Blackwing Matte Erasable Podcast
Episode 185: Thank You, Mr. Long Arms
October 04, 2023 04:29 - 37 minutes - 51 MBTed and Adam navigate numerous potential false memories. Adam remembers his trip to Poland – and a unique stationery store – quite well. Adam also runs through a haul of Japanese stationery. Texas Instruments model 104 watch Top Drawer Helvetica pen Midori Grain memo pad Olga Tokarczuk Ro-Biki notebook Kinokuniya Katy
Episode 184: Hardcore
September 13, 2023 13:17 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBField Notes Tin O Darts Field Notes Harvest Daniel Johnston and Wilco Field Notes Foiled Again Retirement the Margaritaville Way
Episode 183: Incompetent Crocodile
August 30, 2023 14:43 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBSummer is almost over, so what could be more appropriate than breaking down the stories in the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue? Ryan Slie joins us, to our delight. Sign up for the Substack newsletter! Field Notes DDC Standard Issue Factory Floor Elton John’s “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” Houston Astro Bill Doran Field Notes Kraft - Amber Dapper Notes
Episode 182: Lost Golf Balls
August 16, 2023 23:55 - 31 minutes - 42.7 MBWalking In Memphis "The Midnight Zone" by Lauren Groff Lauren Groff New Novel Raymond Chandler by Anthony Fowles Birnam Wood by Eleanor Cattan 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Oliver Burkeman Archive at The Guardian Dickerson on the Urgent/Important Matrix
Episode 181: Beware, Julia
July 10, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBSummer is in full swing as we read strange letters, overhear videos in strange places, look for Gogol in strange stores, and ever so much more. Some Came Running Lauren Groff Georges Simenon JustWatch Field Notes Dapper Notes Mulholland Drive Always Take Notes
Episode 180: Gloria
June 16, 2023 18:26 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBSolarpunk Judge John Hodgman: This is the Name of Your Mullet Galveston Railroad Museum Field Notes Coffee Farm Costa Rica Field Notes DDC Logos Dave Eggers on Maurice Sendak Jesse Ball Arthur Bradford's Dogwalker Adam's June 2023 Playlist (Apple Music) (Spotify) The Wager by David Grann The Collected Maxims of W.G. Sebald Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Episode 179: Primo Tolstoy
June 05, 2023 15:49 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBAdam reflects on his experience with Martin Amis, Adam’s archive is all screwed up, Ted bounces around San Francisco and reads a couple of books. And a correction: Ryan Slie was not reading Anna Karenina. Field Notes Leap of Faith Martin Amis Kinokuniya San Francisco Lamy Flagship Store San Francisco City Lights bookstore The Real Work by Adam Gopnik
Episode 178: Noise
May 19, 2023 14:46 - 36 minutes - 66.5 MBAll Known Metal Bands Dapper Notes Playground Field Notes Craft Plus Pentel Calme The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross Kundun Soundtrack Phillip Glass Eric Nusbaum on Take Note Radio 3 Record Review G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the Twentieth Century
Episode 177: Natural Dream Talent
April 21, 2023 17:32 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBWe talk more about notebooks for a specific purpose, wherein Ted gives up on his dream journal while Adam thrives as a dream journaler. Meanwhile, Packaging World breaks news of new Pentel packaging: we break it down. Dapper Notes Pentel Reimagines Blister Packs as Plastic-Free, Packaging World magazine Saving Time by Jenny O’Dell
Episode 176: Stuck Truckhorn
April 04, 2023 13:35 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBWe talk journals for specific purposes (aka a good excuse to start another journal) and Ted shares his books and stationery explorations in Charlotte, NC. And listener Scott B. builds on our discussion of refilling Pilot pens. Main Street Books, Davidson, NC BOOKS! Good Postage Elisa Gabbert Fine Point Communications Write Notepads Paper Journal Banana
Episode 175: Conduit
March 20, 2023 06:38 - 39 minutes - 71.8 MBJohn Prine "Lake Marie" The Decembrists "Don't Carry It All" Michael Marra "The Lonesome Death of Francis Clarke" Buster Keaton "One Week" Uni Ball Jetstream Uni Ball Signo 207 The Rest is Noise Kakuyo Lead Pencil 1.3 Field Notes Unexposed Dapper Notes Playground Baseball Prospectus 2023 David Lynch Weather Report Radio France La B.O. Klimt (Malkovich) Rodin BBC3 Sounds of Cinema Animals Behaving Badly
Episode 174: Parading
March 01, 2023 15:12 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBAdam returns from Mardi Gras to share tales of the spectacle and we ponder privacy settings spurred by news of an unsettling Roomba-related breach. Sue Halpern: Private Eyes
Episode 173: Bedtimify
February 16, 2023 01:42 - 25 minutes - 47.4 MBThe Fabelmans Spoiler Salman Rushdie on The New Yorker Radio Hour CityCast Chicago Dapper Notes Texas Monthly 50th Anniversary Cover
Episode 172: Backdraft
February 01, 2023 15:42 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBAdam makes a song recommendation that becomes a cultural tidal wave in Ted’s household, and they swap yarns about going for the double cheeseburger, cabin fireplace safety, radical baseball honesty, and more. Spy novelist Mick Herron Field Notes Hatch Print Michael Marra on Spotify BBC Radio 3 (DJ honorific to Sarah Mohr-Pietsch) Robert Burns
Episode 171: Bartok
January 25, 2023 04:13 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBSometimes we don't like notebooks, and we get into it by way of Murakami and Saunders.
Episode 170: Brain
January 13, 2023 18:47 - 78.4 MBField Notes Snowy Evening Schon Design Pocket Six The Candy House by Jennifer Egan A Promised Land by Barack Obama Nemone on BBC6 Lessons by Ian McEwan Midori Traveller's Notebook Anderson Pens Vintage Pens Field Notes Hatch Print Lamy Tipo Platinum 3776 Standard Memorandum 2023 McDonald Observatory Dapper Notes Flying To Lady Into Fox by David Garnett Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Dinner b...
Episode 169: Everything's a Folk Song
December 25, 2022 22:12 - 26 minutes - 54.2 MBAdam provides a timely addition to the ongoing summer beverage series, we run through some new stationery acquisitions, and Ted revels in a playlist Adam culled from the far reaches of Radio France. Costco Vonbee Honey Citron & Ginger Tea Fourth Pres Church, Chicago Lousy Liner recycle ink and pens craighill.co Kepler pen Main Street Books Davidson DDC Draplin "Surplus Green/Hazard Yellow" Field Notes kameterior notebooks Dapper Notes and Stationery Folk Songs for Fones, playlist by...
Episode 168: Dandelion Whine
December 19, 2022 10:00 - 26 minutes - 48.9 MBLeuchtturm Notebook Papier Plume Hugh Laurie on The Late Show Elba Four-Ring Paper Freewrite Bartleby, the Scrivener
Episode 167: Any Vendor
December 08, 2022 04:44 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBAdam and Ted get some IRL face time, Ted watches the old Willow with the family, and Adam negotiates with his reptile guy and puts in place a backup plan. We also talk about the new Field Notes edition and Field Notes Kraft Plus edition anvil cards, Houston Field Notes Hatch Show Print edition Huckberry x Draplin Field Notes Take Note Substack newsletter (sign up!)
Episode 166: The dead bird
November 17, 2022 13:00 - 33 minutes - 45.3 MBWe tangle with tough questions about social media and how to break unsatisfying cycles. Meanwhile, Ted finds his missing Lamy Safari, Adam enjoys an oversharing pilot who, disturbingly, compares a plane to an old operating system, and Adam tees up a clever Irishman. Fiskars scissors Lamy Safari James Acaster
Episode 165: Leaf Coach
October 31, 2022 03:13 - 27 minutes - 50.8 MBThe Longships by Frans Bengtsson Sexy Viking Sexy Beast Tár Fulgentius
Episode 164: Blood Blister Blue
October 20, 2022 14:32 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBWhat’s the proper note-jotting etiquette? Notebook vs. phone? We dig into the etiquette a little further. In whaddya gots, parents must choose whether to display their allegiance, Adam spins a yarn of disrespecting Natalie Merchant via submarine sandwich, has a near-miss medical non-situation, and plans ahead with Baron Fig. Field Notes Harvest edition Natalie Merchant Tigerlily on Spotify Baron Fig planner Sakura Pigma Micron Logan Huntzberger
Episode 163: The Squeaky Plunger
October 12, 2022 04:30 - 24 minutes - 44 MBHDPE Tear Tabs Mainstreet Books Davidson Radiolab Loops No. 91/92 by Lauren Elkin
Episode 162: The Rimbaldi Sequence
September 30, 2022 02:47 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBPrepared with a nearly full set of hex wrenches, Adam takes note of his 10th anniversary of carrying a Field Notes book in his pocket, Ted enjoys a trip to the indie record store, Adam encounters a concerned citizen, a new thrifting strategy. We also take a look at the new Field Notes edition and talk Wilco. Vinal Edge Records Field Notes Hatch Direct from Nashville Blackwing 200 Coffeehouse Edition Blackwing 55 Nakabayashi Logical Prime spiral notebooks Jacques Herbin Shogun Pitchfo...
Episode 161: It Stinks!
September 22, 2022 04:35 - 27 minutes - 50.7 MBField Notes Leap of Faith edition Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias Zebra V-301 Field Notes Green Mind Green edition Field Notes Wilco edition
Episode 160: Magic Sunday
September 12, 2022 15:33 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBRyan Slie joins us and brings some tales from getting to the ballpark, Adam enjoys a special day at the dive bar, we share Sunday rituals and salami slices choices, and we test inks! Riding the high from Adam’s discussion with Keith McLeary, we run through a selection of ink samples and see what lands. Wabash Feed Randomthinks Diamine Inks Anderson Pens
Episode 159: Salty Girl
August 30, 2022 13:50 - 54.2 MBEzra Klein "How We Look Matters as Much as What We See" Nope Weekday Matinees Field Notes Salt Shed Notebooks Robert Earl Keen "No. 2 Live Dinner" Robert Earl Keen "Picnic" Jody Rosen "White Christmas" "Willie Nelson's Long Encore" One True Podcast "The Trees" by Percival Everett "Oh William!" by Elizabeth Strout "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan "Nightcrawling" by Leila Mottley We launched a Patreon.
Episode 158: Old Silver-Plated
August 15, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBWe chat about toddler hijinx on the road this summer, salty lox conundra, and Adam’s fountain pen phase, while Adam spins up some surprise endings and Ted describes the chaos of notebooking while traveling. We launched a Patreon, so if you’d like to support the show, we’d greatly appreciate and will put everything back into it. Lamy 2000 Field Notes "The Great Lakes" Fancy Chimpanzee from Ryan Slie Nanami Seven Seas Writer French Truck Coffee The Good War by Studs Terkel Knots and C...
Episode 157: Randomthinks
August 10, 2022 04:21 - 42 minutes - 77.1 MBRandomthinks Instagram A5 Hobonichi Techo Cousin Field Notes End Papers Elisa Gabbert on the NYT Book Review Podcast Japanese Hanko Stamp Lamy 2000 Colorverse Hubble Diamine Inks Ink Flight Box Goulet Pens Anderson Pens Vanness Pens Pen Chalet Goldspot Pens
Episode 156: Sorry Gops, or Articulacy
August 03, 2022 04:04 - 80.3 MBN+1 Unleash the Niche Tombow Unions Hat Cervezas Polar Hat Rachel Syme "How I Learned to Wear a Baseball Hat" Lauren Collins New Yorker Archive Kansas City Katz Sweatshirt Portland Beavers Jersey La Michoacana Premium New Yorker July 11, 2022 Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived In The Castle "The School" by Donald Barthelme Denis Johnson's Angels Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers William Eggleston W.G. Sebald
Episode 155: The Great Lakes
July 14, 2022 04:04 - 33 minutes - 60.7 MBIn Our Time (BBC) Death of Stars In Our Time (BBC) Shakespeare's Sonnets "Step" Vampire Weekend Many Glacier Guided Boat Tour and Hike Field Notes "Leap of Faith" Field Notes "The Great Lakes" Field Notes "National Crop" Field Notes Subscriber Box by René Arceo Nanami Seven Seas Writer
Episode 154: Road Trip Notebooks
July 09, 2022 20:34 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBWe dig into notebooks on vacation and the associated techniques; read our summer magazines backwards; a touch of vertigo kicks off some movie reflections for Adam; Ted takes on an electric pencil sharpener restoration project. Monocle Magazine Moleskine Paris notebook (this looks different from the one I used) Write purbound notebook Nanami Seven Seas Writer
Episode 153: Hackles and Haunches
June 23, 2022 04:39 - 27 minutes - 50.4 MB- Zebra Sarasa 0.3 - Pilot Juice Up 0.3 - Ballsign ID Mysterious Black 0.4 - Midori Brass Ballpoint Bullet Pen - Pentel Energel 0.5 - Dad Jokes Served Fresh Daily - Country Songs for Clones (Spotify) - Country Songs for Clones (Apple Music) - Folk Music is Insane - Donald Barthelme - City Life Barthelme - McSweeney's 24 - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - Inprint Houston - Take Note Patreon
Episode 152: Dagwood
June 10, 2022 18:33 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MBAdam and Ted discuss sandwich dreaming, how to get excited about and make the most of a writing workshop, why we write down lists, and whether to post a kids’ book on Goodreads. Also, we launched a Patreon. We welcome your support of this podcast, which is a real passion project for us that we hope has provided you with some laughs and some thoughts. Inprint Houston University of Houston Creative Writing Donald Barthelme A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
Episode 151: Islands in the Stream
June 06, 2022 04:15 - 28 minutes - 51.1 MBRuff House Print Shop T Magazine Coney Island restaurants Country Songs for Clones (Spotify) Country Songs for Clones (Apple Music) Field Notes Signs of Spring Uniball Signo UM-153 Tombow Mono .38
Episode 150: Sweaty Books
May 31, 2022 01:13 - 41 minutes - 57.2 MBRyan Slie joins us for our 150th episode, in which we share our latest round of waddya gots, Ted asks readers to share how your Prius died (because we know it did and we know it was weird), and we exchange sweaty summer book ideas and our creativity goals for the sunny season. Quiet Collector on Etsy Nature Girl by Carl Hiaason The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante Vacationland by John Hodgman Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere