Sundays 12-2 is sometimes not the time when people want to be awake and listening to the radio. I understand this, and thanks to Stefan and Andrij on the Pan- African Hour, have now been archiving my episodes at their blog. If you need a fix and can't get out of bed to get it, you can now download for your very own self at:
or
www.archive.org under Community Audio- search Runny Noise.
Happy trails.
A short attention span can be a wonderful thing sometimes. The internet is a meta-world where links upon links can take you into under-explored sub-topics. This week I "stumbled on" paleofuture.com, the site that proficiently asks, "What ever happend to...?" I remember my computer science class in Grade 10, where Windows 95 was the greatest thing ever, and BBS boards were the proto-Facebook/torrent share/forum venue for the secretly extraverted introvert. Our parents worried ceaselessly about our Super Nintendo overusage. The teacher in my aforementioned class told us that in 20 years' time, all of our personal information and cash, especially, would be help on tiny plastic cards you could fit in your wallet. I actually argued the point, saying no one would ever be so stupid as to let...
In search of flamboyant avant-garde on a Sunday morning, I am scouring the pages at thewire.co.uk for their incredibly informative podcasts (look for Adventures in Modern Music). David Keenan seems the man about town in the world of The Wire. Free Folk, New Weird America, Hypnagogic pop: these are all his contributions to the practice of genre naming and getting to decide which artists get to be lumped into those categories.
David Keenan is the owner of the Glasgow label, record store, and distributor Volcanic Tongue, which Wikipedia says is concerned mostly with "free folk, psych, Japanese underground, noise, avant-garde, free jazz, blues, experimental, garage punk/DIY, minimal synth, drone, Industrial, sound poetry, prog, american primitive, private...
