Sometimes I wonder if the radio station doesn't exist solely within my own mind, but usually when I start having those thoughts, I realize that I'm on-the-air and don't have time for Cartesian dilemmas...I'm about two minutes and five seconds (2:05) from complete disaster at any given moment...oh, make that 2:02...1:55...time compresses , expands and distorts while one is broadcasting...the last seventeen seconds of a piano note can drag on forever, but an eight-minute live track somehow barely seems to provide enough time to recycle coffee.Curiously, new laws now make it illegal for internet radio and podcasters to post their playlists ahead of time...each song is to be displayed as it is played...there are other stupid rules - you can't play more than four songs by any one artist in a three hour-period; you can't play more than three songs from any one album or boxed set during a three-hour span...I think I'm mis-quoting some of the rules but I'm too lazy to Google them, and anyway, about the last thing I have to worry about is posting my playlist in advance...I once actually did a show where I carefully timed out every song and announcement and it was the dullest two hours of live radio I have ever done in my life!
(Talk shows not included)
All I did was hit play, move a fader, hit play, move fader, hit play- repeat...boring!
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Q: Do you know what an expander ratio of 8:1 set at a -30db threshhold sounds like when applied to dynamic narration ?
A: It sounds bad. Leave the knobs alone!
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I start back at the Salt Mine tomorrow. Dread mixed with relief. I don't even know what my schedule will be...I hope it includes time for radio.
THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB, AUG. 15, 2009
Steve Hillage 1988 Aktivator/Live Herald
King Crimson- Cat Food/45 single
Bedtime Story- In A Cage
Ace NoFace- Snakes/Toxic Charm
Megaphone- Write it Down
Cary Grace- Undertow
John Cale - Graham Greene/Paris 1919
Damien Dempsey- Patience/Shots
Garbage- My Lover's Box
Green Man- Glory Box
Ashlee Rose-Devil's Town
Arvel Bird- Native Lovers
Jethro Tull- Rover/ Heavy Horses
Cat Dail- Squeeze Your Play
Clara Bellino- Swordfish Trombone/Embacardo Love
Eleni Mandell- I'm Your Girl/Wishbone
Area 27- Intergalactic
Guiltless Cult- Have to Say?
Jeannine Hebb- Things Haven't Been So Bad Lately
Cecile Corbel- O Stor mo chroi
HuDost- Royal Mountain/Trapeze
Manda Mosher- Lay Me Down
Underwhelmed- Freak Like Me/Revealed
Monacy-Twisted
Richard Thompson- Mr. Stupid/Sweet Warrior
Norine Braun- I'm The One
88 Sundays-Way Back Home
Tangerine Dream- Catwalk
