Season Two is here! It's been a long time, we shoulda' never left you! We decided to continue on to 11 rather than start back on 1 for Season Two. To avoid confusion and make each episode easier to find. On this episode, we have a wonderful guest – our best bud Vanessa (who we lovingly call Vanunu) of YouTube fame (VaneWPC) who came to visit us from Chicago. She's known on YouTube as a make-up maven, and can also be followed on her Tumblr page at www.imsovane.com as well as on her Twitter page @VaneWPC. We were using a different microphone for this episode to test it out, but it didn't work out too great. We kept moving around, etc. so the volume is a bit unstable on this one. Still listenable though–but just a warning. We hope you enjoy. We had fun recording it.

Download Pedestrian License Episode 11

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In This Episode:


• Vanessa!

• Events that took place on my (Jean Goode) birthday (2/19).

• Scriptina is the new Comic Sans. R.I.P. Comic Sans.

• Julian Casablancas' Concert!

More photos of Julian Casablancas at Terminal 5 at Stereogum


Julian sings some "Empire State of Mind". Man, we're so sick of that song!

• Castle's music: The last few instrumentals on the podcast were his. If interested, you can download his music for FREE at his bandcamp page HERE. It's really tasty.



Unrelated to this podcast, but I wanted to give a shout out (even though that's Teddy's specialty) to John Book and HIS podcast called "This Is Book's Music". Click on that right there and check it out. He put my "To Everything I've Never Missed" demo and Transit Venus' "This Is" on his latest. I find his podcasts to be very easy to listen to, even when most of it is music I haven't heard before. So, it's quite refreshing!

Also, before I forget – here's the link to my SoundCloud page once again: Jean Goode's SoundCloud Page

I've also updated my website recently (www.jeangoode.com) I've got other links to other sites I'm in on the top (including Facebook), and a FREE download of "This Is" Sonograd Remix featuring Skyzoo.

That's all it is baybeebiz! We'll get back to you in a timely fashion with the next one, hopefully. Thanks for all the love and support by the way. We've been getting downloaded much more frequently. Makes us feel straight cozy!

-Jean Goode

I was just being nostalgic about 2007. That year had a specific mood about it. Me and Walter were working on our Transit Venus album, and things in general were just...different. We had some good times. One of those good times was in March of that year. Me, Walter, Teddy, and a mutual friend of ours then named Glen Ashlee hung out to brainstorm about ideas and things of the sort. Glen grabbed the guitar and started doodling as usual. We then eventually started to sing with him and this very amusing song (if you can call it that) came about called "Love Is A Scary Thing". It's pretty hilarious, actually. I had my muppet voice going and I couldn't help but laugh at Walter's tomfoolery. Ahhhh 2007. You were special.

Anyway, I decided to share this funny song with all of you in the spirit of Valentine's Day. I used to be a semi-grouch on this commercial holiday, but hey! Let's make the most of these commercial holidays. They are an excuse to buy chocolate you don't see the rest of the year (heheh).

Download this song with artwork by clicking this link: Love Is A Scary Thing

I know some of you have been waiting to hear the next Pedestrian License episode. We promise you, it's coming! We'll probably be recording one this week! By the way, we really appreciate all of the support. Pedestrian License has been gaining popularity and we've been getting downloaded more frequently. Amazing!

Actually, there are a lot of good things going on at the moment that I can't really say just yet. All I can say is progress is being made w/ my solo project. I really have a good feeling about it. I'll be posting updates on that project here, along with other unrelated material as usual. Also, as some of you may already know, Teddy and I are called Bad Life Plus Gadgets when we come together to work on remixes, and other projects that we feel are appropriate under that name. We haven't released anything just yet, but you can hear our Logan Lynn remix for "Write It On My Left Arm" below! We'll be working on fun stuff for you guys to hear. There are some unfinished ideas, if you will. By the way, Logan Lynn's album is now available to buy at Walmart and Target if you're interested and want to get a physical copy from a physical store. Remember, Logan Lynn's album was produced entirely by Carlos Cortes of Assemble the Empire who is working with me on my project (along with Asteroid Belt), so it would be good to give it a listen.

One more thing before I end this here update blog-I've created a SoundCloud page (CLICK HERE) where I've posted instrumentals I've worked on in the past including one I did last week. I'll be posting random music doodles on there to ease the itch of making musics while other things are going on. You can find Carlos and Teddy there on my "following" section to the right. Hope you enjoy, and have a lovely Valentine's Day all. Everyday the 14th!

-Jean Goode aka your friendly neighborhood JeGo

The older I get, the more I realize and feel the evils of this world. Infested by a money worshipping, racist, apathetic, hypocritical, lying, ridiculous, unhelpful, and arrogant bunch. Proud followers of all of the above. Yes, the world is beautiful when you ignore or mentally subtract the negative forces that weigh down on the rest of us every waking day. The rest of us who would like to find each other, and who wish there was a way to turn it all around, but feeling helpless because one person alone can't make a difference. Unwillingly being taken by a wave of greed and destruction. Feeding it with our own defeatism.

From the know-it-all atheist who believes a science centralized only on the material dimension is the answer to all existence and resists any explanation or evidence that there's more to it than this material world, to the religious psychopath who fears God, and believes in Jesus' teachings, yet teaches his children that not everyone deserves to be treated with love and respect—we've got much to learn. I'm far from perfect. However, as an observer, a person who truly wants to do good in this lifetime, and learn as much as life can teach me, I must say, I'm highly disappointed in humanity. As much as I try not to think about the negative things that society has shown me exist, it's really become hard to avoid. Especially with the over saturation of people's opinions and thoughts on the internet. Everyone's real-time thoughts via Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace. It becomes evident how distracted we all are with work, events that occur in popular culture, and unimportant material things. The more time goes by, the more distracted we become. When does the distraction stop progressing?

Another thing that concerns me is how everyone is so quick to apply to themselves the thoughts, styles and preferences of the current rich and famous superstars. It's a phenomenon I don't understand. It's fine to enjoy their music. Music is a powerful thing that should be enjoyed, but I believe we should take into consideration what these artists are selling us.

I grew up and live in an urban area where Hip-Hop and R&B are dominant genres people listen to, and follow. I myself grew up with this music, but as I matured, I became turned off by it for various reasons. I suppose you can say it just didn't resonate with me as much anymore, because I grew to really understand the lyrics in rap songs and the superficial and limited nature of the lyrics in most current R&B songs (not to say this only occurs in R&B ). Rappers walk around with their flamboyant jewelry of ridiculous size. Photographed next to fancy cars, and pockets full of cash. Next thing you know, kids in my neighborhood are doing all they can to get big ridiculous jewelry (real and not-so-real) to appeal to this Hip-Hop image or standard. Using disgusting vocabulary they learned from the lyrics of their favorite song by their favorite rapper. It came to a point where aspiring rappers or Hip-Hop artists feel they have to have bulky jewelry and lyrics about drug-dealing, "hoes and bitches", guns and gunshots, etc. to be any kind of relevant. What happened to just being talented, better yet being genuine? Apparently, sometimes that's not even needed.

"People–'specially 'round here, worship the negative. They like that villainous story. They love that drug dealer. They champion the loudmouths. They idolize the aggressive. They feel it's power." -Teddy Forthewin of Asteroid Belt

Couldn't have said it better myself.

How about the female superstars who are made to sell us sex? The more time passes, the more naked and lustful these artists are marketed. Artists on the spotlight make a luxurious living selling us sex, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol (specific brands sometimes) and the rich life most of us will never live because we're not meant to – and that's probably for the better. Things like this... the media, the television programs we watch, pop culture; it's a powerful tool for changing the perspective, opinions and preferences of the masses, and it does just that. We follow oh so obediently. Most of the key periods in time were brought upon by popular opinion. Remember the holocaust?

We need to look up to different people. We need to set different examples. Better ones. Positive ones. Why aren't we doing that? I don't want to discredit the people out there who are indeed trying to steer things the right direction, but we tend not to pay them as much attention as we should. Not even the television shows made for our children are satisfactory. We all know Disney sells sex like crazy, shows like SpongeBob SquarePants teaches stupidity, and cartoons were always filled with violence. There are also those problematic commercials that follow. Repeatedly advertising junk food to our childrens' vulnerable and spongey minds and getting them hooked with their featured promotional toys. I'm pretty sure every child the age of 3 and up (maybe even younger) in North America knows what McDonald's is. Just listen to this conversation I had with my 4 year old nephew:

Are we hopeless? Have we reached a point where the media, pop culture, and the ever-changing technologies have jaded us completely? I will remain positive and wish for the best. I think we can still turn it all around once we all realize how unforgivingly ridiculous we've let everything become. Or perhaps the Earth has to turn upside down before we can get some sense knocked into the collective consciousness.

"Change doesn't happen the way you say it's gonna' happen, without dramatic events that accelerate thinking. I wrote this thing. It might take decades or longer to create a reaction before it anchors into consciousness... " -Vick in Lady In The Water

-Jean Goode