We at HV occasionally explore science reporting. A post on the new blog Wallet Mouth (on consumer tools– buycotts & boycotts) links to a study which contends walking has a heavier carbon footprint than driving: Amuse-bouche: walking the walk. It also links to the reasons this s’pose-they’re-serious study is pure nonsense. Both point out the ways partial presentations of facts n’ figs can mislead.
(Wallet Mouth is writ by the better half of the quiet american radio family.)
Just in time for Dias de los Meurtos, the 365 Days project has posted mp3s of Drop Dead: An Exercise in Horror, an LP by ol’ time radio innovator Arch Oboler (Lights Out). Track 1 is an “Introduction To Horror” (2:34 mp3):
Turning on the news yesterday I couldn’t help notice that LA is on fire…again. All my life it seems LA has been on fire–in one way or another. Floods, fires, mudslides, celebrity antics and the slow disaster of constant traffic—a theme park of natural, and un-natural, disasters. I’m not too worried when I see Southern California’s flirtation with the apocalypse continuing, because I know it’s prepared. I’ll never forget, growing-up in North Hollywood, all the preparedness drills we went through in school. More…
KPBS-FM has made a Google Map for wildfire updates in the San Diego area. And here’s Los Angeles wildfire updates from the LA Times. Both are linked from the maps.google front.
Saw Joe Frank a couple weeks ago perform “The Blue Room” at Largo’s in LA, along with a live groovin’ Frank-en-jazz band. Quite the show. Don’t have audio from that night, but here’s another taste of JF live— his acceptance speech for the Third Coast International Audio FestivalAudio Luminary Award:
Today’s most pressing news is not from Iraq, Wall Street, or the Presidential campaign; rather it can best be expressed as music, specifically some ancient hippie crap from the 60s Boston band Earth Opera (w/ Peter Rowan and David Grisman) whose song-title sez it all— “The Red Sox Are Winning” (3:32 mp3):
This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We end our series with editor Andrew Carroll and project creator Dana Gioia (Chairman of the NEA) discussing the book and its contributors; and we hear troops reading their works. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “Operation Homecoming- NEA” (5:47 mp3):
Sound artist BJ Nilsen has a new CD (Touch Records) “based on field recordings and electronics, with mostly analogue equipment, using up to 50 year-old tapemachines, filters and generators.” From The Short Night here’s “Black Light” (4:16 mp3):
This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Part 5 in our series: Sergeant Clint Douglas exchanges some bizarre cordialities between bitter enemies. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “Lunch with Pirates” (5:47 mp3):
Painful & amusing video of NPR host (from new Bryant Park Project) trying unsuccessfully to melt the frozen Icelandic band Sigur Rós, repeatedly pursuing unpromising lines of questioning, which NPR titles “When Good Interviews Go Bad.”
This has inspired Stereogum to collect bad musician intervus. And while you’re wincing, here’s some Sigur Rós;, “Untitled 4” (mp3):
Just in time for Dias de los Meurtos, the 365 Days project has posted mp3s of 
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Saw Joe Frank a couple weeks ago perform “The Blue Room” at Largo’s in LA, along with a live groovin’ Frank-en-jazz band. Quite the show. Don’t have audio from that night, but here’s another taste of JF live— his acceptance speech for the Third Coast International Audio Festival 
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