2008-12-31
Hendrix In Cows’ Company
One of my favorite performed poems is a New Year’s Eve 1969 memory by John B. Lee, “Jimi Hendrix In The Company Of Cows” (1:49 mp3):
From the compilation of Canadian poets Word Up.
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2008-12-31
Christian the Lion
Sweet video my wife found, “Christian the Lion”:
From a movie by the Born Free Foundation (YouTube channel).
2008-12-31
HV044- Memory Book
Hearing Voices from NPR®
044 Memory Book: Looking Back at Life
Host: Ceil Muller of KQED-FM
Airs week of: 2010-04-14 (Originally: 2008-12-31)
“Memory Book” (52:00 mp3):
Recollections, remembrances, and mnemonics for recalling time:
“Lynchpins” (10:19) Joe Frank
Lester Nafzger recites his litany of lynchpins, memories that lock his life together, excerpted from Joe Frank’s hour Performer.
“Persistence of Memorex” (8:20) Ceil Muller
Host Ceil Muller takes us on a tour of her own memory palace, made with bits of unused tape recordings gathered over the years.
“Death in Venice” (26:30) Larry Massett
We roam the beach with retired folk in Venice, Florida, finding seashells, shark’s teeth and distant memories; narrated by Joe Frank, piano by Larry Massett.
“Remember Me” (1:30 excerpt) The Moving Star Hall Singers
From the album Been in the Storm So Long: A Collection of Spirituals, Folk Tales and Children’s Games from Johns Island, SC (Smithsonian Folkways).
Drawing at top: Phrenology Symbolized, © 1895– by Prof. Wm. Windsor: The Symbolical Phrenological Head, Showing the Location of the organs of the Brain; from his book How to Become Rich (1898).
2008-12-30
2MFN: Trailer Park Trash, Recycled
Bernice was bad; she used to date Biker Bob. She beat him up one day… Another ZBS 2 Minute Film Noir. Aired on NPR Day to Day; by producer Tom Lopez of ZBS, “TitleOfMP3” (3:02 mp3):
2008-12-24
We Wish
And a happy new you. Guitar by Jesse Boggs, vocals by his son Eli — at 4 years old. “We Wish” (1:41 mp3):
2008-12-24
Sarah Vowell- KCRW DJ
As part of KCRW’s Guest DJ Project: Sarah Vowell Live @ KCRW. “I thought we could start with Loretta Lynn’s song ‘The Pill.'” Any set that starts w/ Ms Lynn has gotta be good. Read the transcript and d/l an mp3 of Sarah’s song pix at KCRW.
2008-12-24
HV043- Go By Train
Hearing Voices from NPR®
043 Go By Train: Riding the Rails
Host: Calvin Johnson of K Records
Airs week of: 2010-06-30 (Originally: 2008-12-24)
“Go By Train” (52:00 mp3):
Musician Calvin Johnson (of the band Beat Happening, and owner of K Records) hosts train tales:
“Julie the Amtrak God” (2:17) Jenny Asarnow.
An existential interaction with an automated Amtrak voice.
“Aunt Grace’s Train Trip” (3:00)
Calvin reads from his Great Aunt Grace’s diary of a 1891 train ride from Boston to San Francisco.
“America- Before the War” (8:59) Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Quartet performs the first movement of Steve Reich‘s Different Trains.
“Jules Shear’s Train Song” (5:07) Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler
In the Song & Memory series, musician Jules Shear recalls singing for a school principal while riding the rails as a kid.
2008-12-23
Rwanda: Genocide’s Ghosts
The victims and perpetrators of genocide in Rwanda must daily confront their everpresent, past ghosts. Aired on NPR Day to Day; by producer Jake Warga, “Rwanda: Genocide’s Ghosts” (8:57 mp3):
Longer (better) version, includes a delightful woman who started her own orphanage: (10:00 mp3):
2008-12-22
Yellowstone Elk
Nice photo by Sean Sperry in my local paper, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle:
Elk congregate in an area burned by the 1988 fires near Tower, in Yellowstone National Park.
© Sean Perry, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
2008-12-18
After The Forgetting
A Vermont family changes as their mother’s dementia progresses. What happens to love when there is no memory? An evolution of relationships reveal themselves in these conversation between Gregory Sharrow, his mother Marjorie, and Greg’s husband Bob Hooker.
Music by Karinne Keithley. Check Transom for more on this story. Aired on NPR Day to Day; by producer Erica Heilman, “After The Forgetting” (8:57 mp3):
Marj Sharrow
Marjorie Sahrrow and Bob Hooker
2008-12-18
Wish We Could Tell Our Parents
The secrets teenagers will never reveal to their parents. Aired on NPR Day to Day; by producer April Winbun & Curie Youth Radio, “We Wish We Could Tell Our Parents” (2:21 mp3):
Curie Youth Radio group photo
2008-12-17
Winter Soldiers video
“Winter Soldiers”- Iraq Veterans Against the War testimony (warning: includes picture of the dead):
Boots-on-the-ground soldiers and marines testify in March 2008 “giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out.” Winter Soldiers is a project of Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Winter Soldiers Testimony from former Marines: Jon Turner and Michael LeDuc and former Army Soldiers: Clifton Hicks, Garrett Reppenhagen.
Photos and video from veterans: Jon Turner, Scott Ewing, Kristofer Goldsmith, Daniel Fanning, Lars Ekstrom, Mike Totten, Andrew Duffy, Hart Viges, Clifton Hicks, Steven Casey, Steve Mortillo, Jesse Hamilton, Adam Kokesh, Abby Hiser.
Video produced by Max Darham, audio produced by Scott Carrier & Barrett Golding for Hearing Voices. Music by Jeff Arntsen. More Winter Soldiers audio…
2008-12-17
Travel Tips
A travel writer’s tips for international travelers via an audio postcard from Taiwan.
Aired on The World; by producer Jake Warga, “Travel Tips” (4:30 mp3):
See Jake’s Taiwan photos.
2008-12-17
Day to Day Done
NPR has cut about 60 jobs and 2 series: News & Notes and Day to Day (which runs our twice per-month HV/D2D series of stories.)
D2D and N&N’s last shows are March 20 2009. NPR’s press release has who, what and why: “Tough Economy Forces NPR to Address Unexpected Shortfall In Revenue.”
UPDATE: There’s now a Save Day to Day group on Facebook.
2008-12-17
HV042- Yes to God
Hearing Voices from NPR®
042 Yes to God: Mother Mary & Thomas Merton
Host: Beverly Donofrio of Nada Hermitage
Airs week of: 2009-12-16 (Originally: 2008-12-17)
“Yes to God” (52:00 mp3):
Sound-portraits of the Virgin Mary and a Trappist monk:
“Riding in Cars with Boys” (2:39) Beverly Donofrio
This week’s host reads a home for Christmas story from her book Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good (music: Trans-Siberian Orchestra “Christmas Eve, Sarajevo” & The First Noel” from Christmas Eve And Other Stories
“Thomas Merton” (17:24) Noah Adams
In 1980 NPR traveled to the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky to talk to those who know Thomas Merton (), the Catholic writer (The Seven Storey Mountain) and Trappist monk.
“Looking for Mary” (23:39) Sound Portraits
Ms. Donofrio goes cross-country looking for those who see visions of the Virgin, a Sound Portraits production. More…
2008-12-16
Mother Theresa’s House
[Carmen Delzell lives in Mexico, travels to India, and does occasional audio essays for us. Here’s the first of what we hope will be a series of posts & pix she’s calling the Bag Lady’s Guide to What’s Left of the Planet. This one’s from India…]
Today I took my regular rickshaw to Mother Theresa’s house to see if there was anything I could do to help or just see the poorest of the poor. I was expecting to be horrified by all the suffering but it wasn’t really as bad as I had expected. When I say it wasn’t as bad I mean it wasn’t as bad as the miserable beggars I see everyday on the streets of Delhi and Jaipur. At least at Mother Theresa the people I sat with were clean, comfortable and most of all smiling.
Years ago when I was at Mother Theresa in Calcutta a traveler girl told me that the ladies loved to be touched and hugged and patted. So I did that and I sang to them and I started to dance my version of Bollywood style movements waving my arms and undulating my hips. They were delighted… all of them old ladies or very brain damaged young women. More…
2008-12-15
12 Days Christmas
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
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2008-12-14
GFEM for Media Grants
The GFEM Media database just launched:
“Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM.org) is a new online portal that allows media funders to learn about quality media projects. Our intent is to create a destination site for grantmakers who want to support public interest media.”
Check our HV entry.
2008-12-13
rx in the UK
A smashup of Sex Pistols’ trax, performed by Brit PM Gordon Brown and Conservative Party head David Camero, “god save the queen vs anarchy in the uk” by rx:
2008-12-12
Playing For Change
This Ben E. King song is performed “by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.” Then it’s mixed into a moving whole, as part of the project and documentary film “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music” (producer Mark Johnson on Bill Moyer’s Journal).
Playing For Change: Song Around the World “Stand By Me”