[Kzyxtalk] Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio all night tonight!

Hi! Marco here. Deadline to email your writing for tonight's (Friday 
night's) MOTA show is around 6 or 7pm. After that, send it whenever it's 
ready and I'll read it on the radio /next/ week.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am on 107.7fm 
KNYO-LP Fort Bragg as well as anywhere else via the regular link to 
listen to KNYO in real time:
http://airtime.knyo.org:8040/128

Any day or night you can go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and 
hear last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night the recording of tonight's 
show will also be there. Also there you'll find a steaming heap of 
edutaining stew to squelch about in until showtime, or any time, such as:

Funky clavinet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3ue3rB8EY

Prolific meat-eating-Buddhist writer Craig Louis Stehr sent me the link 
to this fascinating Indian song and dance routine. I liked it until the 
camera went in close on the dancer's nose ring, which I don't need to 
tell you again is repulsive to me, but that's /my/ problem, I know, not 
hers. I don't know why I don't like them; maybe I choked to death on a 
nose ring (or eyebrow ring, or neck-stretching ring, or 
tongue-piercing-clothespin, or elbow-plug, or some other self-mutilation 
accoutrement) in a past life. The dancer here has big pendulous 
earrings, too, that could catch on a twig she walks past and rip the 
rest of her ear open. I don't like to think about it, but it catches my 
possibly neurotic eye and there it is. Lacy artistic tattoos are okay 
with me if they heal up without keloid scars. Big ugly blotchy tattoos, 
or Disney-character tattoos, are not, /especially/ if they're to 
disguise a birthmark or accident damage. There's nothing inherently 
unattractive about what's not a person's fault. One of the most 
delightful women I ever knew has burn scars on her cheek and down her 
neck from a fire when she was a child. She's smart, graceful, pretty, 
sweet, competent, and has a lovely voice, and she was never at all shy 
or defensive of the burns. Now imagine how you'd feel about her if she 
had the scars covered up by a big black-and-blue tattooed map of Italy, 
or the Philippines, say, or how you'd feel if you saw a person who 
/deliberately branded or burned a big shape/ on his or her flesh, or had 
devil horns implanted in his forehead and expanded his jowls down to his 
shoulders with springs. You see what I mean? It almost wouldn't matter 
what a good teacher or nurse or lawyer he might be... Oh, wait, I like 
it again when the dancer pretends to be a demon goddess and sticks her 
tongue out and claws at the air; that's so creepy it's cool. And the 
music is alternately funny/dramatic and startling/goofy; also cool. 
Thanks, Craig. That was fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUpxj7CyxEM

I've been collecting all different covers of Kate Bush's /Running Up 
That Hill/, and so far I like this one the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FW3Zu9IYfM

And the Wiener Cello Ensemble: /Bolero/. By the middle-end of it that's 
a lot of hands in there. It's like a scene in an old soft-focus French 
movie where an ensorcelled damsel has to traverse a hallway full of 
grasping arms and hands sticking out of the walls, but here the damsel 
is a cello and screams music. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUeysGoPFTk

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