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A cold reading of James Joyce’s "Finnegans Wake" just to hear it out loud.
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April 16, 2025
<p>There's nothing quite like ticking off a bucket list item, and today is the day, where Toby and TJ come to the end of the long reading road to finally finish Finnegans Wake. Before we get there, though, we have superstar guest Neil Wechsler to guide us through his favourite section of the book, along with passionate opinions on Hollywood hypocrisy, problematic shortcuts, and how the unique structure of the Wake is not a joke, nor a gimmick, but in fact proof that the human race is not entirely doomed. Joyce gives us an ending that's worth the wait, and feels well earned, as the pain of the cycle ends in a note of hope. We may have finished with the Wake, but we have a feeling it's not quite finished with us yet.</p><p>This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young</p><p>Progress: 628 pages complete, 0 pages to go; 100% read.</p><p><strong>Contextual Notes</strong></p><p>James Joyce Collection at the University at Buffalo: <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/</a></p><p>The Wake at the UB collection: <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/catalog/vi-finnegans-wake/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/catalog/vi-finnegans-wake/</a></p><p>A proposed JJ museum through the Buffalo collection: <a href="https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/pdf/james-joyce-museum.pdf" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/pdf/james-joyce-museum.pdf</a> </p><p>Joyce-again's wake: An analysis of Finnegans wake, Bernard Benstock: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331509.Joyce_again_s_wake" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331509.Joyce_again_s_wake</a> </p><p>A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake, William York Tindall: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59480.A_Reader_s_Guide_to_Finnegans_Wake" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59480.A_Reader_s_Guide_to_Finnegans_Wake</a> </p><p>Jeffrey Jarome Cohen: Monster Culture: Seven Theses: <a href="https://ptfaculty.gordonstate.edu/rscoggins/Cohen,%20Monster%20Culture%20(Seven%20Theses),%203-20.pdf" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ptfaculty.gordonstate.edu/rscoggins/Cohen,%20Monster%20Culture%20(Seven%20Theses),%203-20.pdf</a> </p><p>Sorry Finn <a href="https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/finn-fordham" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/finn-fordham</a> </p><p>Benstock, Bernard. Joyce Again’s Wake.<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/65023908/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.loc.gov/item/65023908/</a></p><p>Neil Wechsler’s website:<a href="https://wechslerprojects.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://wechslerprojects.com/</a></p><p>Neil on Instagram:<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wechslerprojects/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.instagram.com/wechslerprojects/</a></p><p>Our favourite play, Grenadine:<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Grenadine-Neil-Wechsler/dp/0300149921" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.amazon.ca/Grenadine-Neil-Wechsler/dp/0300149921</a></p><p>Neil on New Play Exchange:<a href="https://newplayexchange.org/users/37010/neil-wechsler" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://newplayexchange.org/users/37010/neil-wechsler</a></p><p><br /></p><p>For early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at <a href="http://patreon.com/wakepod" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">patreon.com/wakepod</a>, or check out our Linktree, at <a href="https://linktr.ee/wake.pod" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/wake.pod</a>. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!</p>
April 9, 2025
<p>In the grand tradition of Finnegans Wake, WAKE has looped back around on itself to become a self-generating machine, as we welcome back musical innovator and the most reckless of stramashers, Tommy Mackay, to talk about WAKE: the Album! Yes, this very podcast is honoured to be the inspiration for at least half the tracks on Tommy's new (stra)mash-up album of music, smashing WAKE readings into the music of Taylor Swift, Wham!, Devo, and more, with more groan-worthy dad-joke pun titles than you could possibly handle. </p><p>There's a sailor on a horse! There's an invitation to suck a sugarstick! There's Gráinne O'Malley's girl power! </p><p>Join us for a track-by-track odyssey through WAKE: the Album, in the hope that no takedown notices emerge to ruin anyone's fun.</p><p>This week's chatters: Tommy Mackay, Toby Malone, TJ Young</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p><a href="https://tommymackay.bandcamp.com/album/wake " target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">WAKE: the Album on Bandcamp</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.dailyreckless.com/2025/04/04/wake/ " target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">WAKE: the Album on the Daily Reckless </a></p><p><strong>Album details:</strong></p><p>A collection of stramash-ups by Tommy Mackay drawn from readings of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'</p><p>Main sources:</p><ul><li>WAKE podcast - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/@WAKEpod" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.youtube.com/@WAKEpod</a> </li><li>One Little Goat Theatre Company - <a href="http://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake</a> </li></ul><p><br /></p><p>Released April 4, 2025</p><p>Clips used by permission from the WAKE podcast by Toby Malone and TJ Young and also the audio-visual book by One Little Goat Theatre Company read by Richard Harte, directed by Adam Seelig.</p><p>Individual credits in song info.</p><p>all rights reserved</p><ol><li><strong>Finnegan's Wake</strong> 03:38. trad. Played and sung by Kevin Kennedy from the One Little Goat theatre company production, directed by Adam Seelig. <a href="http://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake</a></li><li><strong>Wake Me Up Before You Goan</strong> 03:13. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production. Music - Maucoli the pianoman's version of Wham's 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.''</li><li><strong>The Ballad Of Persse O'Reilly</strong> 06:31. performed by Meg Logue from the Wake podcast.</li><li>Thunderwords 01:58. read by Adam Harvey, Joyce Geek - <a href="http://joycegeek.com/thundervideos/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">joycegeek.com/thundervideos/</a> Music - Thunderbirds theme tune</li><li><strong>Tip It!</strong> 04:37. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production. Backing track - 'Whip It!' by Devo.</li><li><strong>Denti Alligator</strong> 02:43. From the Wake podcast, read by Toby Malone, TJ Young, Tommy Mackay. Music - 'See You Later Alligator' Bill Haley and The Comets</li><li><strong>Thunderslog</strong> 04:06. from the Wake podcast -Toby Malone, TJ Young. Music Steve 'n' Seagulls live cover of AC/DC's 'Thunderstruck.' Lady Macbeth - Kate Fleetwood from the 2010 Rupert Goold production.</li><li><strong>Cunstuntonoplies</strong> 02:48. read by Patrick Horgan, 1985. Music - 'Istanbul Not Constantinople' by They Might Be Giants.</li><li><strong>Wake It Off</strong> 03:45. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production. Backing track 'Shake It Off ' by Taylor Swift.</li><li><strong>Respectable</strong> 03:20. Seth Austin from the Wake podcast. Music - 'Respectable' by Mel and Kim.</li><li><strong>Suck It Yourself, Sugarstick! </strong>03:48. Toby Malone, Sarah Kane from the Wake podcast. Music - 'Suck It And See' by Arctic Monkeys.</li><li><strong>Wake That</strong> 06:20. performed by Richard Harte from the One Little Goat theatre company production. Music - 'Never Forget instrumental' by Take That.</li></ol><p><br /></p><p>Bonus Tracks:</p><ul><li><strong>Hi Ho Silver Sailor </strong>https://www.dailyreckless.com/2025/04/06/hi-ho-silver-sailor/ </li><li>Fanfare for ALP</li><li>Olwen Fouéré’s riverrun: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/feb/14/riverrun-joyce-finnegans-wake-olwen-fouere-national-theatre" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/feb/14/riverrun-joyce-finnegans-wake-olwen-fouere-national-theatre</a> </li></ul><p><br /></p><p>Other references:</p><p>Allaster Mckallester: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mckallaster/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/mckallaster/</a> </p><p>ReWiggled: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7pMmcRjBt41hvqnFQHqYb2" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://open.spotify.com/album/7pMmcRjBt41hvqnFQHqYb2</a> </p><p>Finnegans Dreams: <a href="https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/08/15/finnegans-dreams/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/08/15/finnegans-dreams/</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003335870-8/denti-alligator-airtight-alligator-john-mccourt " target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">McCourt, John. ‘Denti Alligator' or ‘Airtight Alligator': Reading Dante with Joyce and Beckett. </a><br /></p><p>For early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at<a href="http://patreon.com/wakepod" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> patreon.com/wakepod</a>, or check out our Linktree, at<a href="https://linktr.ee/wake.pod" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> https://linktr.ee/wake.pod</a>. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!</p>
April 2, 2025
<p>Book Four is upon us, and it is with mixed feelings, both excited and sad, that we launch into the final segments of Finnegans Wake. Helping us along the way is fan-favourite WAKE veteran, internationally-acclaimed author, Lucy "old rubberskin" Brazier, who helps us get into a typically ribald discussion of Simlish, Instagram thots, tortoise dreams, terrible superhero names, fan fiction, and a plan for a Biddy the Hen statue in Phoenix Park. Come for the reading, stay for our brutal takedown of the Oxford World's Classic: it's more fun than a sailor on a horse!</p><p>This week's readers: Lucy Brazier, Toby Malone, TJ Young</p><p>Progress: 613 pages complete, 15 pages to go; 97.61% read.</p><p><strong>Contextual Notes</strong></p><p>Brancusi’s Whirligig <a href="https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/ulysses/brancusis-symbol-joyce" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/ulysses/brancusis-symbol-joyce</a> </p><p>AO3 James Joyce Fanfic: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Finnegans%20Wake%20-%20James%20Joyce/works" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Finnegans%20Wake%20-%20James%20Joyce/works</a> </p><p>Finnegans Wake and Spongebob Fanfic: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/9436142" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archiveofourown.org/works/9436142</a> </p><p>Mutt and Jeff <a href="https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/comic-art/about-this-exhibition/early-years-1890s-to-1920s/mutt-and-jeff-an-unlikely-pair/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/comic-art/about-this-exhibition/early-years-1890s-to-1920s/mutt-and-jeff-an-unlikely-pair/</a></p><p>Three Castles Burning on early houses: <a href="https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/the-dawning-of-the-day-last-orders-at-the-early-house" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/the-dawning-of-the-day-last-orders-at-the-early-house</a> </p><p>Lucy Brazier’s website<a href="https://portergirl.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://portergirl.com/</a></p><p>Finnegans What?: Finnegans Wake - A guide by an idiot<a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Finnegans-What-Wake-guide-idiot/dp/1092156100/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.amazon.ca/Finnegans-What-Wake-guide-idiot/dp/1092156100/</a></p><p>Lucy on Instagram<a href="https://www.instagram.com/brazierlucy/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.instagram.com/brazierlucy/</a></p><p>Lucy on Facebook<a href="https://www.facebook.com/@lucybrazierauthor/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.facebook.com/@lucybrazierauthor/</a></p><p>Lucy on Twitter<a href="https://twitter.com/@portergirl100/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://twitter.com/@portergirl100/</a></p><p>If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMndH8QiI4" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMndH8QiI4</a></p><p>If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title Part 2 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzMsbdAQRg4&t=0s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzMsbdAQRg4&t=0s</a> </p><p>If Movies Ended When Someone Said the Title 3 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT41rqh-Udk" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT41rqh-Udk</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>For early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at <a href="http://patreon.com/wakepod" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">patreon.com/wakepod</a>, or check out our Linktree, at <a href="https://linktr.ee/wake.pod" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/wake.pod</a>. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!</p>
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