Jesse and Naomi shine a light on the lies of Yoda and Obi-Wan, incest taboos in South Alderaan, SciFi they can believe in, and the struggle to feel good about yourself. Featuring an acoustic duet performance of Asteroid Field. Part 2 of 2. SciFi with Jesse Mercury is now on PlayerFM!
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Due to some sort of cosmic idiot luck, I ended up reading as Frasier in a live episode of my favorite podcast with Matt Mira and Kevin Smith at Bumbershoot. Sometimes life is just rad. Check out this episode (I’m in the last few minutes) and all the others.
Jesse is joined by ofttimes collaborator and synth wizard Naomi Adele Smith on a fantastical journey through plot devices and deep feels. Part 1 of 2.
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Two projects that I am a member of will be performing at Bumbershoot on Monday, September 7th! Super Famous/RadioLARP 3:30PM Words + Ideas Stages Super Famous is a half hour musical comedy show featuring Lindsey Leonard and Randy Wood as Kenzie Kenzington and Chloe Bluntzer-Hurst, and I’ve had the pleasure of writing music and performing with them in some fantastic shows recently. RadioLARP is a live radio play starring several of our friends, and we are Read more…
Born and raised in Wisconsin, Anica is a Seattle based comic and erstwhile SciFi enthusiast. She began her comedy career in the back of a Thai restaurant, so she’s pretty much got this multiculturalism thing on lockdown. Anica’s comedy is an approachable blend of pop culture references, chemistry puns, and self-deprecating anecdotes. She has spread her love of language and Game of Thrones all along the west coast, having performed in Seattle, Portland, Santa Cruz, Read more…
Jesse is joined by Lindsey Leonard and Randy Wood, AKA Kenzie Kenzington and Chloe Bluntzer-Hurst of Super Famous. They discuss a wide variety of SciFi topics, including Randy’s growing disinterest in the genre, contrarian love for Jar Jar Binks, and shooting lasers from your butthole. Featuring the debut of their new track with Jesse Mercury, ‘Be Cool.’
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My music video Relativity (or: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Computer) has been selected for inclusion in the first ever Apex film festival, taking place Saturday, August 29th in Rochester, MN. I am beyond excited to have been selected from 400 submissions. According to festival coordinator Avai d’Amico they are only showing “the best of the best.” As if things weren’t exciting enough, the festival was written up in the Rochester Post Bulletin Read more…
Jesse’s guest this week is the lovely Seattle comic Anica Cihla, lover of intellectual science fiction and the #Poopstagram. Together, they read and discuss the Harlan Ellison short story ‘I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.’
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I spent my childhood hating the movie Armageddon and this song by association, but I think it’s one of those things where you can’t really understand a good love song until you’ve gone through the experience. I recorded this for Barton and Val’s going away video at Jean’s instruction, and discovered in the process that this song is actually pretty wonderful.
The final Mugatu show was by all accounts an incredible event. To everyone who came, thank you so much for helping make this one of the best nights of my entire life, and hands down the best rock show I’ve ever been a part of. Special thanks to Butt Dial and Chaotic Noise Marching Corps for joining us, and especially Lu Badu who arranged their participation. Although I will miss this band terribly, I am Read more…