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Radio ... Radios ... Radio
‘and the meaningless drivel .....’
I love radio ... you’re never alone with a radio, know what I mean, home alone, @ the barbers getting your hair cut wishing it were your wrists instead and something happens from the radio, a favourite old song, a joke, whatever and it’s like HELLO there’s an old friend, for good or bad, it’s an old degraded/ forgotten about friend come back to make you happy or sad, mad or bad .....
If I could only own one thing it would be a radio, so here it is my tribute to the radio .... It’s personal and maybe slightly offensive in parts but hey ... transgressive arts right?
Psychedelic Furs Radio/Chaos
Joy Division. Transmission
System of a Down
Here’s someone you hear a lot on the radio now ... Justin Bieber whenever I hear him I wonder how many paper cuts to his body it would take to kill him, not an unpleasant way to spend an hour.
Back in the day.....H.G. Wells. War of the Worlds
Apparently when this was broadcast some people really thought the planet had been invaded and panicked. Pretty much everyone knows that but I thought I better include it because it’s important I guess and I didn’t want anyone thinking I didn’t know about it, personally if someone else had written this and I was reading it I wouldn’t bother with it but hey, it’s a ‘free world’ right ... well it’s not really that’s just something people say to make themselves feel better ... personally it doesn’t work for me so I drink vodka and have inappropriate sex because those things do make me feel free but not better maybe..
So What Is Radio
it’s the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. When I was, well I can’t really remember how old, ( in fact I hate it when authors and people often on chat shows incidentally) say with sentences like ‘when I was 7 or 8, like you can really remember that specifically ... no that’s a fake a fraud ... so anyway sometime when I was small I used to really worry about radio waves and walking about and having them around my head, so that’s it really I used to worry about that stuff, now I don’t so it’s not like I am mad or something, it’s just something I used to worry about and now don’t. There’s loads of stuff I used to worry about and now don’t, it’s not like I don’t worry now, I just worry about different shit that’s all. Anyway that’s what radio is ... waves and frequencies and visible light ... clear now ... No?
Radio @ The Movies
There’s movies about radios, this is a trailer for one. I have never seen this film, it just came up on a search engine thing, it looks crap and is bound to have a happy ending because it’s an American movie and they all have drivel happy endings ... I mean I don’t know why Americans have such a need for happy endings, maybe it’s cos they keep getting their asses kicked whenever they go to war ... Or have fucked up healthcare and shit I dunno really. I mean I have been there and it seems like a cool place and the people I met were really polite and friendly but somehow that’s not like the whole story. There’s also a lot of Christian radio there which I would for sure listen too if I lived there but I don’t, although I sometimes tune into Radio Catholica in Valencia.
Anyway Radio right ... so this is a great radio song about radios ... and if you want it’s a great song to dance too ... so come on ‘dance you motherfuckers dance’.
This is Radio Clash – innit.
Now it could get a little confused here ... here’s a video called ‘TV On The Radio with Trent Reznor and Pete Murphy. Now first off I think this maybe a David Bowie song, I don’t know, I don’t like David Bowie, he sounds like people do on the metro when they have music players plugged into heir ears and then start singing along, it’s annoying and so is David but anyway Trent Reznor’s pretty cool apart from the fact that just lately he has really muscled up and I am guessing that this time next time next year he maybe two separate people and I also don’t know if this Pete Murphy is the same Pete Murphy who was in Bauhaus the band not the art movement ... so anyway ...
Important stuff is still announced on the radio but mainly people hear about important stuff from TV and twitter and facebook but before then radio was king ... or master and here I don’t mean to be politically incorrect I didn’t invent language and I don’t mean to subjugate women it’s just the way it is I guess. BTW I do like to be subjugated and don’t really get that deal.
This next clip is not a radio announcement but sounds like it could be anyway it’s just a shameless attempt on my part to squeeze a favourite song of mine ...
This kid says he can pick up radio waves in his mouth ... hmmmm ... believe him?
Pirate or illegal radio stations used to be very political. In the 60’s more people in the UK listened to pirate radio than legal radio. These radio stations were mainly based off shore. Nowadays in England there’s load of radio stations which people mainly listen to at the hairdressers getting their haircut rather than their wrists but I think I’ve already said that.
Anyway ........
That’s it radio .. radio .. radio ....
Oh one last thing when I am on acid I really do think I can transmit shit so that odd thought you just had might just be me ......
This post was written for;
Dennis
Shane
Kier
Oscar
Frank
You all still come through nice and clear and loud and I still dance to your beats and always will. So Thanks .....
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p.s. Hey. Today the invaluable writer, artist, blog maestro, and d.l. 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies' pays tribute to that crackly, increasingly underdogged medium known as radio on our behalf, and, clearly, enjoy yourselves and spread your spawning thoughts far and wide please. Thank you so very kindly, 'SSP'. Tonight is the (world) premiere of Gisele Vienne's (and O'Malley's, Rehberg's and my) new piece 'Last Spring, a Prequel', which is also the official start of our giant 'Last Spring' project that will occupy a bunch of our lives and energies for the next year, so I'm excited of course. And, even though it's hardly the premiere, tonight 'This Is How You Will Disappear' kind of returns home in a way since we made the piece on the very stage where it will finally be performed in front of the public starting at 9 pm tonight. So, big day, I guess. Uh, oh, I have a train back to Paris in the morning, but I'll do a p.s. before I leave, although it'll probably be a little hurried. ** Oscar B, Ah, you're back from your pre-marital adventures. Lovely. I'll be back in the big P tomorrow afternoon. I want to see you and your new room. Oh, you or M please send me the room number so I can call you, yeah? ** David Ehrenstein, Hey. Thanks much for the link report. It works, and I'll get to read it later on. ** Sypha, Hm, very interesting about the 'Dragon Age' game. I hope someone I know picks it up so I can test it out. I'm guessing it's not a Wii game, and my computer is too deathbedded to handle a computer game's memory use, etc. Oh, ha ha, I'm sure your parents are used to the verbal slings and arrows of non-ELP fans by this point. ** Alan, Hey. No, the Paris Review's thing with interviews to have someone both very familiar with the writer's work and someone the writer will feel very comfortable with, almost always a friend or trusted colleague/ comrade. That's always been their interview approach. My agent makes sense because he knows my work inside and out, and, through the years, he's been at different times my agent, publisher, editor, publicist, etc. Yeah, I'll get to rewrite/revise it as much as I want, as I understand it. Thanks for the well wishes, man. ** Andrew, The Playboy bunny logo still has a kind of ironic hipster meets gangsta cred over here. You see it around a fair amount. Oh, the old collages I made re: my novels. The images in them came from everywhere from hardcore porn to ads or news articles to Tiger Beat to National Geographic or whatever suited the purpose. The one that The Big Pink used on their cover was a mix of porn, an ad for an airline or something, and a couple of things I can't remember. ** David, Yeah, the Zimmer/ Buggles thing was a surprise. But even the fact that he scored a bunch of earlyish Herzog films was a big surprise to me me. I guess I'd never paid any close attention to him before. ** Colin, Hey. Yeah, the Berlusconi line was a real score. I think I might have even snapped my fingers when I saw that one. Really glad to hear the London reading went well. It's cool to see the ad for your book on HTMLG. Oh, I'm hot for your book's blog post when you're ready. Nice to see you, pal. ** 'Matt', Hey. You don't have Gisele's email? Uh, yeah, sure, send it to me, and I'll forward it to her. No problem. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, The camera lingered extensively on Zimmer's humongous synth during the documentary, no surprise, Oh, man, no problem re: the escorts. Get some sleep and glug some Thera-flu or whatever. Wait, you came back! Cool. I'm thinking that maybe all it would take is one or two rich guys to make that Bel Ami guy's efforts worth it? But I don't know. I come across escorts rather regularly who charge, like, 3000 Euros an hour. And not just in Monaco or wherever either. Like escorts in the Philippines and India and stuff. Maybe it works. Anyway, all of which is to say thank you for waking up and bringing your game. I so appreciate it! ** Steevee, I would have guessed bronchitis too. Bad cold sucks, but, yeah, it's a silver lining too. Feel much better. ** Brendan, I don't know, obviously, but you probably just can't detect the connective tissue 'cos you're too involved or something. Or fuck connective tissue. Who needs it anyway? (Sorry, I'm kind of fried over here.) My vacation ... well, the last blog post before my/its vacation will be on the 23rd. Then there might be a random postcard style post or two over the following week maybe if I want to and if I can. Then I'll post the slaves day on the 31st, maybe with a p.s., it'll depend. Then my vacation will end, and the blog will return in normal mode on April 2nd. ** _Black_Acrylic, LeBonBon was the hit. I can't always guess who'll be the hit, but I had an idea that he would be the hit amongst those who don't just cruise the photos looking for boner material. Glad the jab was just a jab, man, obviously. Good, good, good. Wow, isn't that unusually quick for a new YnY to come out, or is my sense of time all out of whack? Good news, in any case. ** Chris Cochrane, Dude, ELP, so bad, like, sooo bad. Greg Lake should be illegal. ** Squeaky, The whole 'sponsor' thing at the Recollets is confusing, even to me, and I've lived there for practically ever. Maybe the best thing is if I ask them about that when I get back. Some people apply with sponsors attached. Some apply and the Recollets hooks them up with sponsors. It's a weird system to be sure. What time of year, or, rather, what three month period are you thinking of coming? Oh, ha ha ha, awesome viewing pleasure there, thank you, D. I simply must give others a chance. Everyone, d.l. Squeaky gave me a viewing pleasure, and, having had said viewing pleasure, I now pass this viewing pleasure onto you. You game? ** Chris (British), High five on the notice given. Well, it's nice if people are sorrowful, no? And if the big man isn't sad or is too big to show it? Cool. Pizza sounds nice. ** Syreearmwellion, Hey, man! Great to see you! You've been missed. Oh, so did you make the Seattle move? I guess so, right? That video is kind of awesome. The one on your blog. Is that an unlit cigarette in your mouth? Very cool. Everyone, excellent writer and d.l. Syreearmwellion is the true and secret star of a Poetry Slam-style reading event video that you can view over on his blog aka here, and it's ... yeah, just check it out. That's awesome. Again, really glad to have you back! ** Inthemostpeculiarway, I watched the video finally. So, when I watched the trailer, I was, like, hm, I'm not sure, although the fact that it was Swedish was good enough for me. But then I watched the 'review' video of the movie -- did you watch that one? -- whereupon, after seeing more footage and etc., I thought the movie looked pretty cool. So, yeah, thank you! Uh, 'Last Spring' has an opening at 6:30 pm, and then 'TIHYWD' plays at 9 pm. 'LS' is like an art installation, so it'll just be there and watchable for three weeks whenever people come to museum and want to see it. Yeah, 'Hollywood Ending' was not Mr. Allen's finest ninety minutes. Not that it's awful, like you said. For me, I guess, it's there's 'VCB' and 'Match Point' at the top and then rest are sort of varying degrees of lesser as far as the 00's era work goes. 'Rubber' sounds a little too ... I don't know. That's too bad. If it ends on Syfy or somewhere, I'll watch it. I hate wet hair pillow halos. There's something ... I don't know. I never read 'Silence of the Lambs' either. Seems like watching the movie was enough, but I don't know. I liked the bugs/ blades of grass thing. Pretty and so true. And your drunken cousin came off as sweet. My day: After the blog, I called Gisele to what was going on. She said they were fine tuning the sound on 'LS', and I decided not to join them because I would have just been sitting there watching them do that. So I met up with my agent. His name is Ira, so I'll call him that from now on. I took him over to the theater to see the 'TIHYWD' set and introduce him to whoever was around, which ended up being Jonathan Schatz, Margret, and Gisele's manager Anne-Cecile. Then we walked around Brest a little and had a coffee and came back to the hotel to do the first interview. When we showed up, he got in trouble because I guess he moved a couch from the hall into his room and the hotel found out, and they weren't happy, so he apologized and stuff, and then he interviewed me for about two hours. The plan was to talk only about the theater stuff, but we ended up talking about this and that other thing too. He asked me to talk about George Miles, and so I talked about George and his importance to me and my work, and I started crying, which was weird and really surprised me and him too because I don't think he'd ever seen me that emotional before. So, yeah. I guess it went okay, and we'll do another two hours of that today. Then we walked around again and tried to find a place to eat lunch, but Brest is one of those smallish French cities where everything closes in the afternoon, so we had to eat pastries at a cafe. Then I went over to the theater for the dress rehearsal of 'TIHYWD'. It went okay apart from a couple of technical screw ups that we can fix, but the theater people freaked out about how loud the sound/music is, which is weird since the sound has always been loud, and they knew that very well since we made the piece there. They told Gisele we have to turn down the volume, and we were, like, fuck that, no way. I think we're going to just do it at the same volume we always do it and they can just deal with it, but I don't know if they ended up working out a compromise later. So, that was irritating,. But otherwise, it was fine. We got the first copies of the 'Jerk/ Through Their Tears' book/CD package, and it looks really great, and I guess it'll come out in two weeks. We had dinner at the theater, and I came back here and watched Al Jazeera for a while (Libya, Japan) and crashed. Onto today. How was yours? ** Misanthrope, Hey. Well, there's at least a certain look in the French escorts I pick. I could probably stump you if I picked French escorts from outside my comfort zone, ha ha. Weird sleep. But weird is better than none. Sometimes a lot better. If Cyndi Lauper comes after me, I'll go Gaddafi on her ass. ** L@rstonovich, Hi, L. I was hoping someone would note that fine escort text. Thank you. I want to hear how Devo was. I just ... the idea of seeing fat Mark Mothersbaugh jumping up and down ... I don't know. It freaks me out. I guess he probably doesn't jump and down anymore, which is kind of depressing too. But I love Devo, so ... yeah, tell me how it was. Oh, no, you're obviously right about the 'Time After Time' reference. I was just making a convenient leap. Shit. I'll bet you, though, that if I asked Stephen his opinion of the Lauper song, he'd say something very witty and not positive at all. ** Okay, I need to go do all my stuff now. You are in fine hands with Mr. 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies' today. Be suitably regaled and regale him and each other suitably in return, yes? Thank you. See you tomorrow.
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