[Kzyxtalk] Wonders of the post-satirical world.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Wonders of the post-satirical world.

/"I axed mad Asians. I axed Chinese, too! Ain't nobody have turtles, 
Ace! They said come back in the summer!"

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-04-08) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0483

Thanks a lot to Hank Sims for all kinds of tech help over the years, as 
well as for his fine news site: https://LostCoastOutpost.com

Plus thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided about an 
hour of the above eight-hour show's most locally relevant material, as 
usual, without asking for anything in return. Though I do pay $25 
annually for full access to all articles and features, and you can too. 
As well as go to KNYO.org, click on the big red heart and give what you 
can. Also email me your work on any subject and I will read it on the 
radio this coming Friday night.

You'll hear the difference in tone of this particular show. I did it 
from Juanita's place, after being away for many weeks (last five shows 
were from the studio in Fort Bragg (CA). Juanita was exhausted from her 
trip in a rental car the whole length of California to L.A. for 
Skipper's funeral, on like an hour of sleep in three days; she returned 
the car with two minutes to spare. You can hear her sleeping in the 
background nearly the whole show. I'm talking very quietly but with my 
mouth right on the mic so not to wake her up. I sound like a hostage 
with nothing to lose, or a golf announcer, or a miner in a jam, or an FM 
radio. Maybe you like it this way. Let me know. I can do it on purpose.

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

Mongolian wind burial. This is very like the hand-done animation Ray (of 
Ray and Miriam) Rice used to make in Mendocino in the late 1960s and 
early 1970s.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/04/mongolian-wind-burial.html

And –ermagerd!– someone put a few of Ray's dreamlike videos up on the 
web! Here:
https://rayandmiriamrice.com/ray-rice/films/

Distorted amplified acoustic guitar is pretty cool and it's strange that 
it's not more widespread in music. In the late '70s I used a pair of 
headphones as a microphone, clamped over the bell of my guitar, plugged 
into a tube amplifier I made out of a thrift-store tape recorder, and 
turned it up to eleven. Also there was a white reggae band that used to 
play at the Caspar Inn where the guitarist used a similarly distorted 
acoustic guitar. I don't remember his name; he looked just like the 
leader of the robber gang in /Point Break/ but with tangled ropes of 
blond hair down to the middle of his back. I half-remember that he might 
have been Lilia Albuquerque's boyfriend.
https://theawesomer.com/rammstein-fingerstyle/625757/

Wake up! Huh? Wha? AAAIIIEEE! (plop) Wake up! Wake up! Huh? Wha? 
AAIIIIIEEE! (plop). It used to be, when you'd see a person at a fair who 
didn't want to go on the rides, you'd wonder what was wrong with them. 
Then you get a little older and you see the wisdom. Also, whether you go 
on the rides or not, don't eat anything they sell there. And don't look 
anyone in the eye; they might be off their meds, or on self-meds, and 
focus on you. And the strobing Edison bulbs, and /noise and smells/ of 
all the diesel motors and calliopes and the cow shit from the auction 
stables and the go-kart races and ocean waves of screaming and teenagers 
throwing up their smuggled-in liquor and consequently fair-food vomit 
everywhere. Thanks for reminding me. You kids go have fun decapitating 
yourselves and getting pregnant by being stabbed by a broken Zipper-ride 
girder; I'll be doing literally anything else, anywhere else.
https://boingboing.net/2022/04/08/watch-this-insane-amusement-park-slingshot-ride-make-two-teenage-girls-pass-out.html

And half an hour of peaceful video of Studio Ghibli film backgrounds. 
The exact opposite of the hellscape of a county fair.
https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2022/04/peaceful-visuals-from-studio-ghibli.html

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