[Kzyxtalk] The itsy shvitzy spider.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The itsy shvitzy spider.

The recording of last night's (2020-07-24) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg and KMEC-LP Ukiah* is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0394

Among the regular and irregular features, this show has, half an hour 
in, the second in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's summer radio drama 
series /Tales of the Resistance/. This week's installment of Jay 
Frankston's serialized book El Sereno begins about two hours and ten 
minutes in, rather than later when you're used to it being. And the show 
ends not with the Fulity Closet podcast but with a half-hour recorded 
reading of Jonathan Nolan's haunting short story /Memento Mori/.

Furthermore, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a fresh 
batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless 
worthwhile educational items I set aside for you while gathering the 
show together. Such as:

She’s so happy. This is so great.
https://geekologie.com/2020/07/tracking-month-by-month-electric-guitar.php

Or these kids. It’s too bad the trumpet and the sax are so far down in 
the mix. This is 2011; they ought to be kings of the world by now. It’s 
a little rough in the middle part, they get a bit lost, but that just 
makes you smile harder. I have this because Juanita misheard something I 
said from the other room as “Frankenstein with a horn section,” and she 
found like a dozen of them and sent links to me for review. There 
actually are plenty of versions of this song done by really fine bands 
with a horn section, a couple of them are even all-horn bands, but 
they’re precise, lifeless as a player piano, no wildness, nothing to 
stir the blood, they’re just playing the notes, where these kids are not 
just playing nor just performing but being music. This is a shining 
moment. They help play each other’s instrument to keep the sound going 
when they /switch instruments/. Note the transfixed groupie girls on the 
left, seen only from the back– there’s a story there. The honking 
shitty-sound-system feedback (remedied finally by the bass player 
reaching over and shutting off the guitarist’s guitar). You can easily 
imagine future alien archeologists machine-scanning through billions and 
billions of videos made by the sadly vanished Earth people and stopping 
on this one. /Oh./ The one who caught it, the one at that machine, calls 
its fellow researchers to come see. They float around the monitor with 
their great big eyes and flexible ear holes flapped wide open. They 
watch it over and over and over. They determine to find some cells 
somewhere and recreate this lost ancient race and their fascinating world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FHiceYcQVQ

And some moons. Here’s something interesting: the escape velocity of 
Mars’ smaller moon, Deimos, is thirteen miles-per-hour. The whole band 
in the previous item and the happy guitar girl could theoretically run 
and jump off Deimos, carrying their instruments, and never be drawn back.
https://theawesomer.com/moon-size-comparison/581718/

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org,
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com