[Kzyxtalk] Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga.

/"This morning a bird woke me up. It was a lark, or a peacock; something 
like that. So I said hello. And it vanished, flew away, the very moment 
I said hello! It was quite mysterious. So do you know what I did? I went 
to my mirror and brushed my hair two hundred times, without stopping. 
And as I was brushing it, my hair turned mauve. No, honestly! Mauve! 
Then red. Then some sort of a deep blue when the sun hit it… I'm sixteen 
years old, and every day something happens to me. I don't know what to 
make of it! When I get up in the morning and get dressed, I can tell 
something's different. I like to touch my eyelids, because they're never 
quite the same. Oh, oh, oh! I hug myself till my arms turn blue, then I 
close my eyes and cry and cry till the tears come down and I can taste 
them. I love to taste my tears. I am special. I am special! Please, God, 
please don't let me be normal!" –Luisa, in The Fanasticks/

Here's the recording of last night's (2022-03-11) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0479

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

And thanks to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, which provided at almost 
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.

For some reason, I spent three hours editing the recording of last 
night's show to try to make it sound better. I don't do that, but I did 
it; I took out all the places where I or a caller stuttered or repeated 
ourselves, and removed whole chunks of where I clearly sounded like I 
was saying something I did not mean to say. It's so different when 
you're hearing it from when you're saying it; how can people ever even 
communicate? I edited out long sections of dead air and places where I 
interrupted and was stomping all over the caller... I just tried by 
digital artifice to make it sound like we're all smarter and like I knew 
what I was doing, you know? (Also I removed about twenty /you knows/ or 
/ums/.) And the whole time I was thinking: This is wrong, to do this. 
It's only radio; it's what it is, it was done when it was over. Stop 
this compulsive egotistical scab-picking and touching-up. But I did not 
stop. And I put off saving the file because it's enormous, it's an 
eight-hour-long WAV file and it takes like five minutes to save it. So 
of course eventually my editing program seized up and wouldn't recover 
and I lost all the modifications, and I didn't even say a swear word 
about it; honestly, I was relieved. On one hand, there goes three hours 
of tedious work for nothing. But on the other hand, it taught me a 
lesson. And you get the whole goulash, the original un-messed-with show, 
see above.

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:

Let it go.
https://boingboing.net/2022/03/07/watch-little-girl-in-ukrainian-shelter-sing-let-it-go.html

Opus 3 – It's a Fine Day. This girl has the most perfectly-shaped skull 
I've ever seen. She's like a CGI character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM8iDJw39QA

Princess Octopockle. (via WeirdUniverse)
https://twitter.com/factoryyouth_/status/1496558853701390340

And the first commercial drum machine. The musicians' union tried to 
have it banned. (If you don't care to know how it works and you just 
want to hear it play, skip ahead to 6:50.)
https://theawesomer.com/the-first-drum-machine/659819/

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