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July 30, 2004
How to Bowl
It's official. Patrick and I will be hosting a new radio show on CJSF called "How to Bowl." We made a demo tape this week and here's what was on it:
- The Idle Race - On With the Show
- Sister Roberta - God Made Sprinter
- The Doers - One End Snaps
- John Rydgren - Girl Watching
- The Tempters - Hey Hey Boy
- Frank Pahl - Charlotte Russe
- Channels 3 & 4 - Streets
- Bakelite - Dewey Decimal
- The Arcade Fire - Woodlands National Anthem
- Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Toby, Take a Bow
- Carl Kress and Dick McDonnaugh - Stage Fright
- Canned Hamm - Father & Son
- The Shaggs - Wheels
Even though we had to keep it under 20 minutes, we managed to play enough short songs to make it like a mini-show. Had some trouble trying to explain our format because we really don't have one.
Stay tuned to find out when our regular timeslot will be.
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July 22, 2004
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July 14, 2004
The ABCs of Deconstruction
A: Language was "fixt"
B: Language is not fixed
C: Language is broken
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July 11, 2004
Escapism
Leave the phone/Off the hook
Teach the cat/How to cook
Be a man/Not a mouse
Sell your car/Rent your house
Get away/Right away/Like today
For once in a lifetime/Get into this world
Let the golf/Take its course
Let the car/Get a horse
Leave the house/Up a tree
Lock the door/Lose the key
Get away/Right away/Like today
For once in a lifetime/Get into this world
Pan Am/Makes the going great
Pan Am/Makes the going great
Leave the mail/In a box
Tie the hands/Of the clocks
Hang your tears/Out to dry
Leave your house/On the fly
Get away/Right away/Like today
For once in a lifetime/Get into this world
Let the smoke/Blow its stack
Leave the smog/And the flack
Turn the rain/Into shine
Head for cloud/Number nine
Get away/Right away/Like today
For once in a lifetime/Get into this world
Pan Am/Makes the going great
Pan Am/Makes the going great
Audio via (The 365 days Project)
Now the challenge is to make your own Pan Am song!
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July 09, 2004
Today I Thought Of
Thanks to Josh for starting this game. I hope more people join in.
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French Soul
Yesterday was our last practice radio show--next time's for keeps. Patrick and I both skipped class to be there and dispensed with playing by the playlist rules. Here's what happened:
- Balls of Ice - Three Inches of Blood (by request)
- The Duel - Giles Gobbeil and Rene Lussier
- She Ain't No Use to Me - The Ugly Ducklings
- South' Gonna Rise Again - Herschell Gordon Lewis
- Girls in Cages - Wavy Gravy
- Crazy World - Peck's Bad Boys
- Sex Before Marriage - Kadane Bros.
- Body Not Your Soul - Greenhornes
- Kalarash - Black Ox Orkestar
- Stampede - Chantal Dumas/Christian Calon
- Who Could Win a Rabbit - Animal Collective
- Get Up and Go - Intelligista
- H. C. She - Trin Tran
- Dedans le Sud de la Lousianne - Magnolia Sisters (for Annie!)
- ? - Jandeck
- Noise - Beat Happening
- Smoke and Mirrors - The Film Stills
We should have our own show in August with a regular weekly timeslot. Stay tuned. Maybe we'll upload our demo tape here when it's ready...
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July 03, 2004
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July 02, 2004
The Organ
Congratulations to The Organ who have been number 1 on the CJSF charts for weeks now now and probably every other college radio chart in the country.
Too bad the "skateboard to your house" song didn't make the new album but here is a version performed on CBC. The song is called Can You Tell Me.
You will probably hear them peform it if you go and see them live next Thursday at Richard's on Richards. I'm excited about the show because I finally get to see Bakelite, who is opening for them.
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July 01, 2004
I'm way behind...
but I'm starting to catch up. Sorry if this is old news for some of you.
Dumbrella is a loosely affiliated group of serialized, DIY art projects including Song Fight, a cooperative/competitive version of Songs to Wear Pants To that's been around for years.
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More From Steven
I can't keep up with all the great stuff Steven sends my way. Hmm, maybe it's time he (re) started his own blog...
Free Advice for designers collected by Ellen Lupton, author of Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students.
Lakeland Cam: daily pictures taken by a postal worker on his walks through the English Lake District.
On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino.
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U B U W E B
Ok, I've known about this for a while but I guess I wanted to keep it a secret cause it's almost too good to be true. Ubuweb is a treasure-trove of downloadable art and criticism from avant-garde superstars to so-called "outsider artists." It's all about the "pan-liguistic dreams" of concrete poetry and utopian technology. Multimedia.
From the About Ubuweb page: "UbuWeb posts much of its content without permission; we rip full-length CDs into sound files; we scan as many books as we can get our hands on; we post essays as fast as we can OCR them. And not once have we been issued a cease and desist order."
Could this explain my wanting to keep it secret?
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Phonograph
I've never really had much hands-on experience with vinyl until I started doing this radio thing and I'm really getting into it. I've been wondering how feasible DIY vinyl might be and in my research, I've found some interesting websites:
- Weird Records has lots of mp3s of found sound recordings and links to other sites covering everything from wax cylinders to vinyl pressing equipment.
- Scopitone was a jukebox system that also played films. It was a brief sensation in France during the sixties. A precursor to the music video and the karaoke machine.
- Play it Again, Mr. Edison: a bit of Mr. Wizard type background on Edison's phonograph including a link to how to make your own.
- Phonograph makers from around the world.
- Vestax VRX-2000: a really expensive gadget, like a CD burner for vinyl. They make some pretty cool turntables, even vertical playing ones.
- DIY Audio Forums: mad scientists comparing notes on how to take over the media or at least the means of production.
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Short Films
If you're a sucker for good short filmmaking like me, you'll probably want to voluntarily look at commercials sometimes. UK Showreels has lots of good ones in one place and in Quicktime format (via Joel N).
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