as my facebook update says: "Kim is at the high school but his show is also live on the radio. how is this possible? discuss."

my dearest thanks to the lovely poeticdream, who right now is guest-hosting my show on WRFR since I had to make up time at work. I love you babe, and today you truly are "the voice of WRFR" (how many hours have you been there today? 6? 7?

you, Robin, quite literally and figuratively, rock.

You may now sign up for email updates when I update Live and Direct (the blog-cum-podcast for my WRFR radio show). Just click here, and sign up in the box on the right side of the page, and voila!, you're in the know.

Live and Direct episode #6 is up. I attended the protest on Sunday and interviewed locals about activism and protesting, specifically regarding the ongoing war and the Bush administration's intent.

as poeticdream said, I asked for callers and I seem to have gotten "the only pro-Bush Republican in Maine". Her quotes are priceless (for instance, I'm not sure how I'll see how great of a president Bush was after we've all been bombed to death...)

Here's the full quote from the caller:

I'm a Republican, and I think George Bush is the best president we've ever had, and this is all just a bunch of crap.

Let me just say: George Bush is only against slackers and sinners and terrorists, so if you don't like him, which one of the three are you?

Twenty years from now when they blow us all up, you'll remember that, and you'll say George Bush was a good president.

My WRFR radio show Live and Direct now has a LiveJournal feed: ld_feed

Gentle readers, I ask you: can my feed now have a posse? If you please, add ld_feed to your friends page to know when I update, or if you prefer, simply subscribe to the podcast using your favorite aggregator (iTunes, Google reader, etc.)

Thanks for listening!

NOTE: Wednesday's Live and Direct Listens episode will be posted shortly.

Live and Direct #2, "Auddities", is ready for you to get your hot little hands on. It weighs in at 62.5MB and clocks in at 1:08:15. "Auddities" = "audio" + "oddities". These run the gamut from odd sounds to unusual production techniques to strange content.

The Deluxe Remastered Podcast Edition has two bonus tracks that were not included in the on-air broadcast! Go, subscribe, listen!

I divided the show up into the following sections, each followed by the approximate starting time (should you wish to skip to a particular section):

1. Introduction, 0:00:00
   
2. Algorithmic music, 0:00:42
   
3. MIDI music, 0:04:52
   
4. Tracked music, 0:10:20
   
5. Sample-heavy music, 0:19:35
   (note for upstate NY peeps: Rochester/Vertex shoutout @0:33:30)
   
6. Digitally produced music, 0:34:00
   
7. Numbers stations (The Conet Project PDF; music: disc 1, disc 2, disc 3, disc 4), 0:42:40
   
8. Natural phenomena (Electric Enigma PDF; music: disc 1, disc 2), 0:50:10
   
9. Music about odd things, 0:54:46
   
10. Wrap-up, 1:07:18

The playlist for this show is as follows:

1. A Poke Cheer (links 1, 2, and 3), Atari basic source code by Lloyd Burchili
   
2. Rule 150 Binary, Java source code by Paul Reiners (IBM)
   
3. *Rule 150 All Binary, Java source code by Paul Reiners (IBM)
   
4. Fanfare, Ultima 3: Exodus, composed by Kenneth W. Arnold
   
5. Towns, Ultima 3: Exodus, composed by Kenneth W. Arnold
   
6. Bubble Bobble theme, composed by David Whittaker, Tim Follin, and Peter Clarke
   
7. M.U.L.E. theme, composed by Roy Glover
   
8. Runaway Scales, composed by U4ia
   
9. Gods theme, Nation 12 (composed by "John Foxx"/Dennis Leigh)
   
10. The Queen and I, 1987, KLF
    
11. House of the Dead, The Big Cahoona, Sequencial
    
12. Anna Denies Tattoo Rumor, Purveyors of Reason and Law, Quelnt (8bit peoples), Irdial-Discs
    
13. IiPP Three, Islets in Pink Polypropylene, Anthony Manning, Irdial-Discs
    
14. The Lincolnshire Poacher, The Conet Project, Irdial-Discs
    
15. Phonetic Alphabet NATO, The Conet Project, Irdial-Discs
    
16. Fish Rock Road Whistler Shower, Electric Enigma, Stephen McGreevy, Irdial-Discs
    
17. Eves River Auroral Chorus, Electric Enigma, Stephen McGreevy, Irdial-Discs
    
18. *The Power of Lard [explicit lyrics], Power of Lard, Lard
    
19. Plea From a Cat Named Virtue, Reconstruction Site, The Weakerthans

* only on the Deluxe Remastered Podcast Edition

Again, thanks for listening. Your feedback is always welcome.

Live and Direct #2 ("Auddities") did not quite go off without a hitch. LD2 in fact, did not go off at all, unless you want to count the first 5 minutes or so of introduction. The short story? Possibly a bad mixer, possibly user error and misconfiguration. It seemed to be an intermittent problem, which is always annoying as hell to diagnose. I know how to make sure it works now, and I'll give it another try next wednesday at 6. My apologies to anyone listening tonight.

(crossposted to the Live and Direct blog, and as always you can email me at radio@slawson.org)

I just re-encoded my first show as a 22KHz MP3, making it 49.4MB (roughly half the size it was at first); I apologize if that's still too big for some people to download. Thanks for listening!

EDIT: ravenstar poked and prodded me, and now there's a podcast, so go subscribe to it in itunes or odeo or whatever the cool kids are using these days.

I had my first show today! It went well minus a little technical difficulty (dead air == bad). Thanks to my dad for recording the stream so I could easily convert it to mp3 and upload it for your downloading and listening pleasure. check it out here: Live and Direct #1 (74.1MB, 53:57).

It features my introduction, a song by Enigma, and a speech by Terence McKenna entitled "Culture and Ideology are not Your Friends". It's dedicated to abigail_m, with a little surprise from her at the end.

As soon as I figure out how to do it, a podcast feed will be available. I will also work on reducing the file size for quicker downloads. Thanks for listening, and please share your thoughts.

(crossposted to my radio blog)

my radio show will be tonight, from 6pm to 7pm (EST) on WRFR 93.3/99.3FM Rockland/Camden, and on the internet at wrfr.org. in case you miss it, it'll be podcasted and annotated at the Live and Direct blog. you can email me at radio@slawson.org.

thanks for listening!

due to home restoration issues (*cough*grease fire*cough*) and time/todo conflicts, i am skeptical about my first wrfr show happening this week. this pisses me off, especially in light of my recent announcement.

it might happen if i get insomniac tonight or tomorrow, though. here's hoping i can't sleep!

good news on the radio show: all of the parties involved have given consent for me to use parts of their work on my show!

my first show will be next wednesday night at 6pm.

(now i just need to, you know, produce my first show)
(and set up the blog and podcast)

I:

• cleaned up my office at work (finally);
  
• got a refund on the boston museum of science tickets to see the body worlds show... we'll just have to find a time to go to boston before it ends in january;
  
• made an appointment with my audiologist to get an audio input cord and try a bluetooth audio input dongle (i'm going to have a dongle on my hearing aid... woot!);
  
• got nana36921's sim card shipped so she can have a cell phone (did i mention, t-mobile's customer service is the best?);
  
• interviewed with the station manager at wrfr: i have a radio show scheduled to start in january (i just have to get rid of this cough first): Live and Direct, 6pm, Wednesday nights... more info here as i know it;
  
• and thusly, contacted dennis mckenna (!) (brother and collaborator of the late terence mckenna) to request permission to broadcast terence's lectures and recordings of him speaking on the radio. we had a long, intelligent, two-way conversation in which i, surprisingly, did not go all otaku fanboy on him and uncontrollably blurt "OMG you and terence are soooo cooooooool and i've always wanted to talk to you!" so, that's good. you know, restraint and all... instead, i talked to him about his research and his and terence's experiences and the social implications of them. i even managed to bring up ormus stuff without sounding like a complete nutcase, and make the case that it could plausibly even be related to endogenous neurotransmitting effects of dmt that he studied. he kindly gave me terence's children's contact info so i could email them to ask if i could uh, broadcast their dead father's lectures on the radio. yeah, that'll be a dicey email...

so, one target of my radio show (almost) locked down. now to ferret out information on the current owner of the eclectic viewpoint and david hudson's past lectures. wish me luck!

(i still can't type a shift-j on this powerbook. funky.)

oh, and like a day almost a year ago, today is also a good day because abigail_m finished a fruitcake (thank you robin for seeing it, you rock!)

Happy Thanksgiving!

now, with that out of the way, i have news: i'm going to host a weekly radio show on WRFR (and likely podcast it)! so, what should i name said radio show/podcast? note, many of these are probably not serious (probably).
Poll #873950 radio show/podcast name
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

name?

other?