The radio station studio is still closed. stay at home.
new installments of the coronus diary in hour two & in hour three
if you are really paying attention (and yOur hOst was nOt) the audio readback misidentifies the second to last song in hour one. it is corrected below, italics.
PLAYLIST
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS – where do we go now but nowhere
IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS – no mas
WINDY & CARL – the silent ocean
MDOU MOCTAR – ibitain
JIM WHITE AND MARISA ANDERSON – the lucky
FAY VICTOR – there they are
JEREMY CUNNINGHAM – the breaks
SVITLANA NIANIO & OLEKSANDR YURCHENKO – untitled 7
ANDREI ORLOV – only in black
KALI MALONE – sacrificial code
MIKA VAINIO & FRANCK VIGROUX – un peu apres le soleil
ROKY ERICKSON – two-headed dog
JOHN PRINE – i found my love today
CHIP LAMP – weather blues
BLACK SABBATH – sweet leaf
SONIC YOUTH – mary-christ
TENNISCOATS + THE PASTELS – vivid youth
MILES DAVIS – in a silent way/it’s about that time
THE DRAMATICS – and i panicked
SHIRLEY & LEE – don’t leave me here to cry
BILL WITHERS – lean on me
The radio station studio is closed during the global pandemic. stay at home. yOur hOst of air pOwer has been ‘producing’ L I V E shows from home, trying to make them as live as possible. most of the talk-back sets are recorded and uploaded remotely to the station’s computer as the music tracks play live on the air. so…as live as possible in this time of shelter in place.
been using a mini recorder to create a sort of coronavirus covid-19 diary. titled coronus diary. new installments of the coronus diary in hour two. hour three is a long story complete with post-production sound effects and tears. show ends with a mitchell moment–on the fifth anniversary of joni mitchell’s near death.
PLAYLIST
campanas de la iglesia de guadalajara con escoba
REDD KROSS – stay away from downtown
THE MOLES – breathe me in
THE SEA AND CAKE – paper windows
THE SEA AND CAKE – window sills
JIM WHITE AND MARISA ANDERSON – the lucky
MARISA ANDERSON & TARA JANE O’NEIL – you’d be so nice to come home to
MACHINEFABRIEK – piano.wav
DUMP – draw a hole in the ground
ROBERT HAIGH – painted serpent
WAXAHATCHEE – ruby falls
DAS COOLIES – 100%
KALI MALONE – sacrificial code
AU REVOIR SIMONE – let me go
LOUP UBERTO – gsm ll
STEPHEN MALKMUS – what kind of person
MINUTEMEN – maybe partying will help
MINOR THREAT – screaming at a wall
MISFITS – all hell breaks loose
THE STOOGES – i need somebody
WILLIAM TYLER – cookies theme
THE NATIVE CATS – run with the roses
HOUSE AND LAND – blacksmith
SANDY DENNY – who knows where the time goes
JOHN PRINE – i found my love today
the radio station studio is closed during the global pandemic. stay at home. yOur hOst of air pOwer has been ‘producing’ L I V E shows from home, trying to make them as live as possible. most of the talk-back sets are recorded and uploaded remotely to the station’s computer as the music tracks play live on the air. so…as live as possible in this time of shelter in place.
been using a mini recorder to create a sort of coronavirus covid-19 diary. titled coronus diary. parts two and three of this edition of air pOwer have coronus diary entries and some great music to help out hugh, the air pOwer listener.
playlist:
AOIFE NESSA FRANCES – land of no junction
WAXAHATCHEE – ruby falls
FOUR TET – baby
PERFUME GENIUS – on the floor
DAS COOLIES – 100%
A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN – keep it dark, deutschland
TAL SOUNDS – no rise
STEPHEN MALKMUS – what kind of person
KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – expanding electricity
DETTO MARIANO – ratataplan
WILLIAM TYLER – cookie’s theme
HENRI TEXIER – mr. donald cherise
SARAH LOUISE – nimrod in the forest
MAHER SHALA HASH BAZ – yesterday, yes a day
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – no easy way down
EDDY ARNOLD – make the world go away
JAD FAIR/DANIEL JOHNSTON – yes we can
TALL DWARFS – missed again
MODERN LOVERS – hospital
KALI MALONE -spectacle of ritual
PRINCE – something in the water
LITTLE SISTER – i’m the one
THE 5TH DIMENSION – stoned soul picnic
THE SPINNERS – i’ll be around
Not gonna post the playlist because these songs are so well-known (and defamed), that it would warn you off from listening. There is nothing funny about this three-hour set. It is complete, gotta give it that. Best listened to as the three-hour block. The totality of it is the only redeeming quality. The conceit is solid, the execution is decent, your capacity for listening….well, that is up to you.
The Stockton Year in Review begins at the one-hour eleven-minute eleven-second mark. Mostly enjoyable tunes before that point.
My house was broken into recently. I was not home at the time. ADT alarm went off at 4:30AM. Police caught a woman, a neighbor, walking down the street with some of my stuff. Six bottles of booze in a canvas bag, a set of skeleton keys, a coin purse, and a pair of binoculars. Oh, and my kitchen timer. Police don’t think she acted alone. I don’t either. Someone rode off on my bike. One of the tires has a leak. A deflated football is missing. (Clubhouse man for the Patriots behind it?) The escaped thief was in such a rush he left behind the air pump. Doesn’t help me much.
A couple of nights ago the police called, said I could retrieve the Evidence. Keys are back on the nail. Bottles in the liquor cabinet. I used the coins to buy some food that was cooked to perfection because of the kitchen timer. Sounds like I’m back to normal? I’m not. A neighbor broke into my house. That confuses me. I’m not sure what all I need to change. Everything? Nothing? The locks? Do I need to surround the house with video cameras? I’ve been using the binoculars to scan the yard for more intruders. The extended family of raccoons used to be my main worry. Raccoons I can understand. They are animals.
The canvas bag remains in the Police Evidence Bag. Speared with camp ax in a tree out front.
Had I not been scatterbrained with disbelief my grief might have been expressed differently, and I probably would been aware of the things I was doing or not doing. Usually my Saturday show airs from 6pm until 9pm. To broadcast live Switch Number One must be flipped from the automation position to the LIVE position. Hitting Switch Number Two makes the radioharborcountry.org website read LIVE SHOW IN PROGRESS. Switch Number Three starts the recording device. I hit Switch Number Two then Switch Number Three but forgot about Switch Number One. This is all boring stuff had it not meant that for three hours the station played dead air. Powerful tribute or mistake? This is the recording that was made while the station broadcast silence.
Then spoke Town Clerk Albert Prince. Prince said the Ambulance Response Time (ART) is down to seven minutes and 32 seconds. That time represents the quickest ambulance response time in the history of Stockton. (Record keeping began in May of 2002.) Seven minutes and 32 seconds sounds nice, and it is, of course. And facts are facts when read aloud in a cold community center function room, snow as big and wet as ravioli falling in the parking lot beyond the windows, a pulsing halogen bulb over the commissioners’ table, but the record is a fluke. There was a preponderance of prank phone calls in October. Actually, the calls were real. They were made, the emergency number was dialed. The emergency phone rang and was answered. But no ambulance was dispatched. Some of the situations calling for an ambulance were fictional. Those that were fictional drove down the ART. Do not think the responders dismissed calls that were deemed ‘fictional’, that is not the case. Burned once by a prank, responders began to employ the caller ID function on the Lucent Technology phone. Through that system they came to recognize the phone number of the prank caller. For the record, though, the calls were made and an entry was put into the ART folder, and the corresponding ART was entered as zero. Those instances should have been entered as Not Applicable (N/A), and not been part of the ART tabulation. The rotten youth responsible for the prank calls has been given the attention and discipline for which he cried out so wantonly. In response to the skewed ART numbers local accounting firm Nuferr Staffing will create a new product to re-tabulate and re-adjust the ART for October, if necessary. Some, well, one of the public in attendance at the board meeting wondered if doing so will only encourage more prank calls. Confused murmurs issued throughout, “How was that conclusion drawn?” “Just you watch. America must repent.” A stout group of the public wondered about the expense of hiring Nuferr Staffing. “Yeah,” they said, “Yeah.” This group once again challenged the competency of Town Clerk Prince. Prince said he had nothing to do with the hiring, “It was done over my head.” Someone whispered, I wish it was done over your dead body. Somebody asked was Albert Prince in the can when the hiring was approved? Because the numbers seem pretty easy to re-tabulate, just take out the prank calls.
I’ve been asked for this recipe many times. The requests come after I say I invented Cookies In The Mouth. Surprisingly some people don’t know of Cookies In The Mouth. So here is the recipe for these simple no bake, but seemingly oven-fresh chocolate-chip cookie
Preparation time: 15 minutes. It usually took me that long to run an errand for my parents, say getting hot dog buns from the store three blocks away. I’d ride my bike. They knew I’d spend the change, usually on baseball cards, but sometimes on the ingredients for Cookies In The Mouth, if I didn’t like what was being prepared for dinner.
Ingredients:
One small package of plain M&Ms.
One small package of pretzels (Seyferts Butter Pretzels if possible, if you can go back in time to buy a carton of the 25-cent bags. There was something about the way the salt sat on those thin buttery pretzels). Must be classic pretzel design those looped knots. Pretzel sticks and mini-pretzels DO NOT work, the salt to dough ratio is out-of-whack.
Bite two loops from a single pretzel. You can set the third loop back in the bag, or on the table, or just hold it in your hand while you chew. Continue to chew. Work the two loops into a fine paste. Let sit on tongue while you add to your mouth two or three M&Ms (two for less chocolate-y taste, three for more chocolate-y taste). Chew pretzel paste and M&Ms together. Swallow after a while. It is really quite good isn’t it? And oven-fresh, too!
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