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Montana Wants Wackos

This was sent me years ago, when MT was home to assorted newsworthy wackos. Not sure of the source other than it was a Billings radio station, “Come to Montana” (1:05 mp3):

Radio Dial A’cappella

Recorded by a friend off South American radio, vocalists unknown, “radio dial tuning a’cappella” (1:00 mp3):

Bush Pardons Entire GOP

SF Chronicle columnist reports “Bush Pardons Entire GOP:”

Prez “pre-emptively” saves all Repubs from becoming “prison bitches.”
Dems: “Can he do that?”

Recording Skype

Doug Kaye of The Conversations Network has posted on his Blogarithms an in-depth guide to Recording Skype Interviews, which he sez can now exceed the audio quality of a high-end telephone hybrid.

Earth Ear CD Sale

EarthEar’s Giant Fantabulous Yard Sale has CDs for $3-5 by master field-recordists such as Chris Watson, Bernie Krause, and Gordon Hempton, along with enviro sound collage music by Annea Lockwood, Paul Winter, the Thai Elephant Orchestra, and lots more.

Mark Z. Danielewski

One of three mp3s on an old post at Salon.com Audio, Mark Z. Danielewski performs from his book House of Leaves to music by his sister Poe, off of Haunted, “Hey Pretty” (3:50 mp3):

Brian Briggs- Brian Damage

For a while I’ve hoped for a CD-release or mp3s of Brian Briggs classic 1980 wave record Brian Damage — both my copy and that of the local station, KGLT-Bozeman, have gone missing. Well, wait and ye shall find (motto of the Internet?), it’s now up at the Play It Again, Max blog, “featuring out-of-print LPs never issued on CD.” Lotsa great tunes on the album, but the KGLT fave was this story song about a Frankie & Moe’s fast & furious game of chicken: train vs. scooter, “See You on the Other Side” (3:33 mp3):

Citizenship Test

Could you pass the U.S. citizenship test?; July 4 Special at MSNBC.com. An online quiz of twenty questions from the civics test the Citizenship and Immigration Services (INS) during the naturalization interview.

Heat (extended) cast

This week’s HV cast for a hot Summer’s day— It is 120°. The birds and animals, and even insects hide. We hear the the words, thoughts and sounds of desert residents: writer Charles Bowden, the Tohono O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda, and ambient composer Steve Roach, whose composition “Slow Heat” scores the piece. A story by Jeff Rice, “Heat- extended mix” (7:30 mp3):

Frontier Psychiatrist

My bud and WFMU Blogger, Lukas posted the source of many of the samples in The Avalanches‘ classic audio collage “Frontier Psychiatrist.” They appropriated a 1959 comedy piece of the same name by Canadians Wayne and Shuster, “Frontier Psychiatrist” (mp3 at WFMU Blog). The Avalanches’ vid for their song is about as good as MTV ever got, “Frontier Psychiatrist:”

The 365 Days Project at WFMU also recently posted one of the most heavily sampled LPs of all time: “Virginia Belmont’s Famous Singing & Talking Birds.”

Bong Hits for Harvey

Oldie but goodie Paul Harvey cut-up (1:24 mp3):

Editor unknown. I’m guessing Bose and fire-alarm commercials provided the audio fodder. There’s a musical vers at DIYmedia.net – Paul Harvey Collage.

Botched USA Paramilitary Police Raids

Cato Institute has a Google map of SWAT and paramilitary police raids in USA where innocents were harmed: Botched Paramilitary Police Raids, along with their policy paper “Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids.”

(Found at Center for Citizen Media: Blog.)

Rush Sings I’m A Nazi

Posted at DIYmedia.net among some other Rush Limbaugh Collages is a cut-up musician calling himself Rush Limbaugh Hater with “Rush Sings I’m A Nazi” (3:41 mp3 | lyrics):

(Heard at Some Assembly Required.)

Kinetic Sculptures of Theo Jansen

Theo Jansen “is an artist and kinetic sculptor living and working in Holland. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals which are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering.”

From the videos at YouTube, “Theo Jansen- Wind Art:”

(Found at WFMU’s Blog.)

iTunes U

Inside the newly released iTunes 7.3 is an online University. iTunes U, sez Apple, is “giving higher education institutions an ingenious way to get audio and video content out to their students.” Already a dozen colleges offer course materials and podcasts via this new feature inside iTunes Store (link launches iTunes). Find out about “The Future of the Internet” (iTunes) from Stanford University, view the virgin “Mary in Folk Art and Belief” (iTunes) at Otis College of Art and Design, or figure out “Physics for Future Presidents” from UC Berkeley

The Frug

Just ran across this ol’ KGLT fave, a killer tune by Rilo Kiley, from the movie “Desert Blue” (and hey, I think that’s Randy from My Name is Earl in the vid), “The Frug:”

The Pledge cast

This week’s HV cast for Independence Day— People with different regional, ethnic, and national accents recite and reflect upon the single-sentence, century-old poem “The Pledge of Allegiance.” A story by Barrett Golding, “The Pledge” (5:23 mp3):

UFO Encounters

The 365 Days Project, hosted at WFMU’s Blog, posted mp3s of the 2-CD set: Factual Eyewitness Testimony Of: UFO Encounter. Here’s Side 1 (23:06):

Reminds me of a favorite 80s-wave songs, Suburban Lawns “Flying Saucer Safari” (2:08 mp3):

How a Bill Becomes Law

Inspired by Josef’s comment, here’s Schoolhouse Rock on “How a Bill Becomes a Law”:

July 4- Vincent Collins

Have a happy July 4th weekend; here’s some exemplary government spending, for America’s 200th birthday, funded by a Bicentennial Project Grant, animated by Vincent Collins, this film was produced by the United States Information Agency: