[Kzyxtalk] The itsy shvitzy spider.

[John Sakowicz]

Great show, Marco! Thank you!

-- John


> On 07/25/2020 7:23 PM Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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
> 
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