OTB 35 - 03/24/09

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Outside The Box - 03/17/2009

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Episode #34

taintradio announcers post their six-word essays! (An ADD tribute!)

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on February 25, 2009 @ 4:52 am | 1 Comment

Hello Fellow Tainters!

I hope everyone’s 2009 is getting off to a somewhat respectful start, despite all of the negativity around us.  A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to Public Radio where they were having a discussion about Six-Word Memoirs, particularly as it related to the subject of love (Valentine’s Day was just around the corner).  The concept of the Six-Word Memoir is an old one, begun by Ernest Hemingway, who, when asked to write a full story in six words, responded: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”  The link to the NPR story is here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100510986

Listening to this story got me to thinking:  What would some of our taintradio announcers submit as their own Memoir?  (notice that I did not add the six-word requirement as that would be very un-taint-like to have such a structured format!).  After all, these are some of the most creative people I know, it would be interesting to hear their voices on such an interesting writing project.

So, I sent an e-mail out to our announcers and, as I expected, they came through with flying colors!  Here, in no particular order, are our submissions for your perusal.  Feel free to add your own by commenting on this blog or by contacting your favorite announcer directly.

Enjoy our Six-Word (more, or less) memoirs!

Dave Tilley - “Old microphones, vacuum tubes, quartet wailing…”

Barry Everitt - “NO!!! I can beat the compression!”
“Fuck, whats a watershed?”
“tag team radio rules ok?”

Bob Rogers - “Hey y’all, listen to this!”

Rafi Zabor - “Visse, scrisse, amo. Lived, wrote, loved.”

J. Michael Harrison - “Life is short, make something happen!”
“Sitting at the feet of my Lord!”
“Here to see yet another day!”
“Do fries go with that shake?”
“Get the fuck out of here!”
“Play that funky music white boy!” (to be used where appropriate)!

Ken Field -” I did it my friggin way!”
“Kept an eye out for opportunities.”
“Education in science; career in music.”

Pearl Shelby Sharpe - “My drug of choice Robert Bonner.”

Brian Cullman -”Hey, what’s this red button for?”

“You think this will work? Maybe?”

“License? You need a license to…”.

Mitchell Feldman - “Please pass the salt. Thank you.”

Todd Morman - “Start, stop, turn around, swing, repeat”
“What the hell am I doing?”

Kevin Spurlock - “Destined for greatness - Work in progress”
“Headed to Weight Watchers - McDonalds obstructed!”
“”Radio or Me!” - I chose radio!”

Outside The Box - 02/24/2009

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on February 24, 2009 @ 12:00 am

Outside The Box Episode 32 (Rising From The Ashes)

taintradio welcomes Mike Zwerin!

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on January 25, 2009 @ 12:46 pm | Post a comment

Our latest program, Mike Zwerin’s “Mike Zwerin’s Shuffle From Paris” will debut 2-4pm (eastern) Wednesday (1/28-08).  ”Mike Zwerin’s Shuffle From Paris” will repeat midnight-2am Sunday night (Monday morning).  Mike was for many years the jazz writer for the Herald-Tribune in Paris and later for Bloomberg News.  He is the author of “Paris Jazz Chronicles,” which was published by Yale University Press.  Mike is also a very accomplished trombonist who played in Miles Davis’s “Birth of the Cool” band as well as (among other ensembles) Maynard Ferguson’s band.  We are very pleased to welcome Mike Zwerin to the tainthood.

taintradio welcomes Todd Morman!

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on January 25, 2009 @ 12:31 pm | Post a comment

We have a new one-hour program called “Monkey Mind,” hosted by Todd Morman.  The first run will be Sundays, 2-3pm w/rerun on Fridays 7-8pm.

Todd will also host a two-hour version “Monkey Mind 2″, which we’ll air on Mondays, 3-5pm (Eastern) w/reruns on Thursdays, Midnight-2am (Eastern).

All of us at Taintradio welcome Todd to the line-up!

Outside The Box - 01/13/2009

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Underground Railroad Love [URL] - 12/05/2008

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on December 5, 2008 @ 12:00 am

Skin 1 Julius Hemphill, Reflections
My Funny Valentine Dianne Reeves Palo Alto Sessions ‘81-’85
Separate Vacations Dianne Reeves Palo Alto Sessions ‘81-’85
All Blues Miles Davis My Funny Valentine
Blues In Advance Clifford Jordan Live At Ethell’s Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me Blossom Dearie Sings Comden & Green
As Of Yet Arthur Blythe In Concert Metamorphosis The Grip
Survival Of The Fittest Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage
You Don’t Know My Mind Odetta Lookin’ For A Home
Funny How Time Slips Away Al Green Call Me
Spirits Albert Ayler Trio Spiritual Unity
Women Of The Veil Ornette Coleman Sound Museum: Three Women
Order Of The Pharaonic Jesters Sun Ra Greatest Hits Easy Listening For Intergalactic Travel
Serious (After Hours) Bernard Allison Chills & Thrills
Berimba Papete Brasil: A Century Of Song -
lHere I Am (Come and Take Me) Al Green Call Me
Yeqer Mèmèkatesh Mahmoud Ahmed Ethiopiques, Vol. 1: The Golden Years Of Ethiopian Music 1969-1975

Nokia Develops Table-Top Net Radio

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on December 4, 2008 @ 3:16 am | Post a comment

From RAIN:

NOKIA’S FIRST DESKTOP NET RADIO PLAYER BRINGS FRESH LOOK TO OLD DESIGN

Nokia’s Home Music Wi-Fi desktop Internet radio player is the company’s first such device. Featuring a design similar to other desktop players, with a small display off-set by a single speaker, the Home Music player has a sleek and smooth look — quite different from those wood-paneled models.In addition to streaming Internet radio and accessing podcasts, the device can play stored music via a home network. And with SPDIF and RCA outputs, you can connect the device to a home stereo or home theater set-up. Read more at Engadget here.

Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77

Posted by Kevin Spurlock on December 3, 2008 @ 2:28 am | Post a comment

www.nytimes.com/

Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77

Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77.

The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager. He added that she had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Odetta sang at coffeehouses and at Carnegie Hall, made highly influential recordings of blues and ballads, and became one of the most widely known folk-music artists of the 1950s and ’60s. She was a formative influence on dozens of artists, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Janis Joplin.

Her voice was an accompaniment to the black-and-white images of the freedom marchers who walked the roads of Alabama and Mississippi and the boulevards of Washington in the quest to end racial discrimination.

Rosa Parks, the woman who started the boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Ala., was once asked which songs meant the most to her. She replied, “All of the songs Odetta sings.”

Odetta sang at the march on Washington, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement, in August 1963. Her song that day was “O Freedom,” dating to slavery days: “O freedom, O freedom, O freedom over me, And before I’d be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be free.”

Full article here