Åh, it’s been such a long time, I know -- and Stytzer’s off on holiday, and Alison appears to have given up blogging entirely and it’s just me left (so, in their absence, everyone should send me stuff)… Again, apologies. This last week, I’ve either had such a ridiculous amount of free time that I’ve been unable to find motivation to do anything (including sleep -- unless I’m asleep right now, and it’s quite possible I could be), or I’ve had an equally ridiculous amount of things to do and have been unable to find the time. However, this is one of my favorite things to do, so I hope that once I’ve adjusted to the new schedule (which I hope will happen with expedience), postings ought to become more frequent/regular.
To be quite honest, I haven’t even listened to anything new in at least a week -- probably longer. Well, that’s not true -- I have, but it’s been live, or someone playing something to me, not things I can keep and listen to at home fifteen times over and over on my headphones because I’m in love. But speaking of such things (the connection makes sense to me), lately I’ve been inundated with accordions. This whole post was going to be about the various encounters I’ve had with accordions over the course of the week, but I guess they weren’t all as cool as I initially thought, because I keep forgetting them.
And even if I hadn’t, I think that this other thing is far more cool -- or at least, timely. After a couple months of inactivity, Ashtrays (the radio show, I mean) is back on the air. New slot, new station, but same show. I’m pretty excited. You can tune in at www.kpsu.org -- 3 to 4 pm (Pacific time) every Friday. Or, there are also podcasts -- and, while I will always have a special place in my heart for KLC, I must admit that KPSU’s streaming and podcasting reliability is far superior to KLC's. Which means that you will actually be able to hear the shows if you want to. And again -- first one’s tomorrow. Don’t miss it.
If you didn’t start reading the blog until after KLC’s website completely died, and have therefore never heard my show, and until tomorrow is too long to wait, you can listen to the podcast of Matthew’s show from 13. June, on which I did an apprenticeship as part of my new DJ training. And in this case, by ‘apprenticeship,’ I mean ‘pretty much played the whole show.’ Unfortunately, there are a few dead air moments and a couple other technical difficulties, but I think that’s rather inevitable when you’re taking your first try with new equipment. (Hopefully tomorrow will be free of such errors.) The playlist is here:
1. Our Ill Wills - Shout Out Louds
2. Just Like Heaven - the Cure
3. P.U.N.K. Girl - Heavenly
4. Chinaberry Tree - Mew
5. Punk Rock Girl - the Dead Milkmen
6. Die All Over Me - the Kingdom
7. Turn It Out - Death From Above 1979
8. Teach Me Tiger - Speaker Bite Me
9. Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts - Wolf Parade
10. A Day in Space - ballboy
11. Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) - Pixies
12. Uninvisible - Medeski Martin & Wood
13. Arena Song - Sugarboom
14. Hush, Yeah Fly - Unicova
Since I didn’t realize I was going to be playing the whole show and that Matthew wasn’t bringing any music, I didn’t have quite an hour’s worth. (The podcast is an hour long, though.) Thus, there are a few songs which were thrown in, rather randomly, at the last minute. I’m not going to point them out, though, because I think you can probably tell which ones were mine or not.
I guess it’s fairly representative of what my show will usually be. Of course, I do normally play a bit more Scandinavian music (and a bit less Death From Above 1979-type music), and I normally talk in Danish a bit too. Although it’s been so long now since I’ve done that that I’m a bit frightened to. I will anyway, probably, but it’s equally probable that I’ll be rather rusty -- so if you’re a Danish speaker, bear with me. And thanks for listening. Friday 3-4. Okay.
--DL--Outside the Rhythm Plate (that's Matthew's show) Podcast (6-13-2007)
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