This week’s HV cast is “Rocky Mountain High” (mp3), from the Song and Memory series, produced by Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler. Jeffery Carpenter explains the sectarian severance special connection to John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” (4:11):
(Also check WFMU’s X-rated John Denver.)
Please, someone tell me who produced this gem:
It’s a mock ad (radio-safe) extolling the virtues of Tequila, and listing in standard pharm-ad fashion “Side-effects may include loss of money, loss of clothing, loss of virginity, delusions of grandeur, table-dancing…” The mp3 is all over the web with filename: AlcoholWarning_MMH.mp3, but no site credits an author. Anyone?
This week’s HV cast is “Pedestrian Fanatic” (mp3) by Abner Serd: The paving of America as seen from the shoulders and sidewalks of our country’s roads. Musings-in-motion recorded during a 5000 trek from Arizona to Georgia to Maine. “It is becoming illegal to travel this country by foot.” Music by Jeff Arntsen of Racket Ship. (9:55):
The Nature Conservancy: Nature Stories podcast has been having an HV orgy lately. Recent casts include HV pieces by Scott Carrier, Jeff Rice, Jack Chance, and me.
Once again I try to get music stuck in my head out, and into yours. This week it’s Samuel L Jackson’s smokin’ cover of the trad Stack-O-Lee (mp3):
It’s from the soundtrack to the movie Black Snake Moan, w/ R L Burnside’s band backing. For you fellow on-air radio types, here’s an edited (de-fuq-ified) FCC-friendly clean mp3, cuz the original sure ain’t.
Found the file at Salon‘s Daily Download, which also linked to the masterful Mississippi John Hurt 1928 vers (mp3 at archive.org):
This 1980’s recording caught KABC-TV Los Angeles news-face Paul Moyer not playin’ nice with his co-anchor Ann Martin just before they go live:
(MP3 found — okay, stolen from Jim Russell’s Program Doctor site.)
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The other night, I walked into a liquor store in San Diego. I wanted a bag of chips. I walked over to the rack. I couldn’t buy the bag of chips. But I left with a new found respect for OCD.
It’s a behaviour that can produce aesthetically pleasing results.
I downloaded some audio (OCD Chips, the soundtrack mp3) from an experimental narrative film about OCD called “Closed In,” filmed by Nathan Heartman.
I like to imagine it’s what goes through the store owner’s head when he’s putting chips on the shelves. Listen here:
From the BBC kids TV series Listen with Mother, Ann Driver as Mom demands to know: “Where’s Your Balls!” (mp3)
(Off the out-of-print LP: Dead Parrot Society: The Best Of British Comedy, Rhino 1993. Thanks to Lukas Geyer, fellow KGLT-er; check his posts at the great WFMUs Beware of the Blog: Lukas Posts.)
Michael Bronner wrote this real-world drama from 9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes (August 2006 Vanity Fair). This web version is accompanied by mp3s from tapes labeled “Northeast Air Defense Sector—DAT Audio Files—11 Sep 2001.” Here’s an excerpt, a conversation between NORAD’s Senior Airman Stacia Rountree, Tech Sergeant Shelley Watson, Master Sergeant Maureen Dooley:
ROUNTREE: A plane just hit the World Trade Center.
WATSON: What?
ROUNTREE: Was it a 737?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (background): Hit what?
WATSON: The World Trade Center–
DOOLEY: Who are you talking to? [Gasps.]
NORAD: Is this real-world or exercise?
BOSTON CENTER: No, this is not an exercise, not a test.
‘Sides wrangling this here Hearing Voices radio rodeo, for 30 years I’ve also DJ’ed at KGLT-FM. There’s always a few songs I can’t wait to get up there and play, songs I can’t get outta my head; but I’ll try, by putting ’em into yours.
Here’s “La Familia” (mp3) from Mirah’s new CD Joyride: Rexmixes: