[Kzyxtalk] Abaddon's bolero.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Abaddon's bolero.

/"The broken flower drooped over Ben’s fist and his eyes were empty and 
blue and serene again as cornice and facade flowed smoothly once more 
from left to right, post and tree, window and doorway and signboard, 
each in its ordered place."/

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-02-16) Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and 
KNYO.org (and, for the first hour, also 89.3fm KAKX Mendocino):
http://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0580

This show began with the murderously arch Iron Empress Blog of Eleanor 
Cooney (look her up on Amazon), then there’s a chapter or so each from 
half a dozen other local writer’s books. There are announcements and 
conflicts and notices of events and sales, and stories and poems and art 
and science, history and pornography, quips and queefs and wanton wiles, 
etc., in short, a feast, all night long, like they used to do in the 
booths of my grandparents’ Italian restaurant in L.A. when I was little. 
That’s what I guess I’ve been attempting to recreate: the grownups’ 
voices in the other room while I sat on the floor in the kitchen making 
cities and dinosaurs and rocketships out of old pizza dough. And after 
that the grownups’ voices from the kitchen of the house, rising and 
falling and laughing and smoking cigarets and drinking coffee like waves 
on a beach while I fell asleep on a book in my little bed.

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

Trio Mandili – Kakhuri. (via b3ta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDK9KOfknTw

Harpist uses odd electronics to make music for video games. They ship 
her random gizmos and she uses them with guitar pedals and other things 
she’s collected. She reminds me, in looks and voice and manner, of the 
young space-techie character Five, in the teevee show Dark Matter, 
actress Jodelle Ferland who, years before that, played Jeliza-Rose in 
Terry Gilliam’s Tideland, a dark, weird film about a little girl taken 
by her heroin junkie washed-up rock-and-roller father (Jeff Bridges) to 
his bleak childhood Texas prairie home in the middle of nowhere when her 
mother ODs. Whereupon /he/ ODs and gradually mummifies in a chair, 
leaving Rose to go quietly increasingly mad. That was what Terry 
Gilliam, of quirky comic Brazil and Time Bandits and Adventures of Baron 
Munchausen fame, made when they gave him the money and let him work 
without interference for a change. It didn’t do well, critics savaged 
it, but I was rapt from aborted Viking funeral in hotel room to 
explosive midnight passenger train wreck; I think Tideland is a work of 
genius.
https://theawesomer.com/ridiculous-music-tech/730313/

The all-new cutting-edge-tech rotary-dial telephone that will soon come 
to your town and put Edna out of work. The phone switchboard is all she 
has, now that Josiah is gone and her poor son Tom was killed overseas. 
Can’t they wait just two years? Just a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p45T7U5oi9Q

And, “Speed, the life’s blood of the newspaper! Speed, speed, speed! Get 
the news to the newspaper, get the papers on the street!” How 
wire-photos work. Also, count all those great jobs, that you could 
support a family and buy a house working at.
https://laughingsquid.com/1930s-wirephoto-technology/

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