[Kzyxtalk] Heart of a dog.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Heart of a dog.

/"Some trainers say in order to understand your breed you have to 
imagine what their voices would sound like and what they'd say to you 
when you give them a command. So, give a command to a German shepherd 
and he'd say, Right, boss. No problem. Consider it done. Give a command 
to a poodle and it's: Please love me. I'll do anything if you just love 
me. But give a command to a terrier and they say, Um, is it gonna be 
fun? Because if it's not gonna be fun I'm just not interested."/

Here's the recording of last night's (2023-01-27) Memo of the Air: Good 
Night Radio show* on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and KNYO.org:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0525

As sometimes happens lately I had to start the show forty minutes late 
because of getting Juanita home from work when they move her schedule 
around, so that explains why just a few minutes into the recording I'm 
already telling you it's ten o'clock. To cover the time I was gone 
/this/ time I put on the sound from Laurie Anderson's film /Heart of a 
Dog/, a story about her life, key elements of her childhood, her 
relationship with her mother, a little about her husband Lou Reed's 
harrowing but philosophical months of dying of liver disease and, 
throughout, her tender love for her little dog Lolabelle ties the whole 
thing together. As with all Laurie Anderson's projects it works fine 
with just the sound, but you can find it on YouTube. Juanita's car is 
likely to be finished being fixed this week, so things will probably be 
back to normal next week. Nine to five is normal. Nine p.m. to five 
a.m., the best hours for anything creative or contemplative or that 
requires steady work and a steady hand and freedom from interruptions. 
My grandmother used to say, "Night air is bad air," but to me 
everything's always been better at night, including air. No-one you owe 
money to is bugging you for the money. They're all drunkenly asleep, 
dreaming of cakes and pies and sour-faced sausage-like women, breasts 
muffining out over the top of black rubber bathing suits, breathing like 
Darth Vader, rhythmically snapping a quirt across their fishnet 
pantyhose crisscrossed buttocks or merely against the arm of a chair, 
like Shirley Stoler in Lina Wertmuller's disturbing masterpiece /Seven 
Beauties/, which I was reminded of yesterday, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Here's a link to my dream journal project that I add to at random every 
week or so. I'd like to read /your/ dreams on the radio and I always 
offer to. Just email me.* Or include them in a reply to this post. Or 
send me a link to your dream journal and I'll make a note to go there 
and check for updates.
https://marcomcclean.medium.com/

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:

I love videos of this sport, though people who do it eventually all get 
killed. They're going 200 miles an hour within just a few feet of rock 
and ice. The slightest miscalculation, or a sneeze, and /POW/... But 
it's so wonderful when they live.
https://theawesomer.com/worlds-longest-wingsuit-proximity-flight/

Kitchen styles down the decades. The 1950s kitchens make me want a car 
in any of those colors. I think of one of them as 
retro-future-robot-green. You'll know it when you see it.
https://homesandhues.com/p/the-evolution-of-kitchen-style-in-the-late-20th-century

An astounding project. Watch this man take a few random wrecked 
motorcycle motors from the breaker yard, cut them all up, grind and 
fasten and weld everything in just the perfect way to make a single V-4 
engine that actually runs and doesn't even leak oil. He does everything, 
including fabricate the new crankshaft required, the mounts, the 
manifolds, the this, the that. Play it at 2X speed. My friend Dan and I 
once rebuilt a VW bus engine, no cutting nor welding required, just 
simply took it apart and put it back together around and in a new 
uncracked block; it took fricking months, and it never even worked right 
after that. It worked, but not right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0X2vXL0gCw

And Lucy Ellis – Just The Two Of Us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2u_-QomGXU

*Email your written work on any subject and I'll read it on the very 
next Memo of the Air on KNYO.

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