Mon, 10 December 2012
All the answers to last weeks cliffhanger are revealed...
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Sat, 1 December 2012
This tape was made by Paul a man in New Jersey to let his family know that he didn't want them to interfere with his plans to go on a diet he hoped would cure him of AIDS. Logan Jaffe found this tape at a yard sale in Gainesville Florida.
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Mon, 19 November 2012
My brother-in-law Matthew has perfect pitch. So we spent a day going around the house looking for objects that make sounds and determining their pitch.
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Thu, 8 November 2012
Mastering the art of the followup quesiton.
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Thu, 18 October 2012
A HUANTED Teddy Ruxpin Tape.
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Thu, 20 September 2012
This man was killed by Drew Carey! (Sort of)
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Wed, 12 September 2012
This song showed up right after September 11th at the college radio station where my friend was a DJ.
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Fri, 7 September 2012
Election night 2008 at Sydney's Saloon in New Orleans.
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Fri, 31 August 2012
Listening to tapes on the roof with Matthew.
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Wed, 22 August 2012
That's a century in human years!
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Sun, 19 August 2012
A poem by Jim Tascio.
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Sat, 18 August 2012
This is what the world may sound like after the Apocaplypse.
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Mon, 6 August 2012
William Stout is best known for his dinosaur paintings. But he also worked in radio, did the storyboards for Thriller, and Raiders of the Lost Ark and deisgned the characters for Pan's Labrynth. But he got his start drawing portraits and Disneyland. This is a story of those humble beginnings.
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Tue, 31 July 2012
This may be an infinite fatal reset loop.
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Mon, 30 July 2012
Thanks to Myke Dodge Weiskopf for this recording of a call to prayer in Timbuktu
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Thu, 19 July 2012
Late one night I picked up a strange signal on my radio dial...
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Fri, 13 July 2012
The man they myth, no really the myth who is this guy?
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Thu, 12 July 2012
It's Alive!
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Fri, 6 July 2012
Frank Lloyd Wright recorded hundreds of talks in the living room of his desert compound, Taliesin West. In this talk Wright expounds on anarchy.
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Tue, 26 June 2012
Architect, 1 percenter and desert hobo David Doge didn't intend to design a musical staricase in his magnificant home on the outskirts of Phoenix. The song in this episode is My Xylophones Love me by Melodium
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Wed, 20 June 2012
Late on night Matthew Kielty got a mysterious call from an unkown number...
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Fri, 15 June 2012
What keeps the taggers tickin?
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Tue, 12 June 2012
We talked about it.
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Sun, 10 June 2012
On a recent trip to central America, Dennis Conrow wrote and recorded a short story and enlisted the help of some locals in San Pedro, Guatemeala to be characters in the story. This is some raw tape and an excpert form the porject.
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Fri, 8 June 2012
This is what english sounds like to someone who doesn't speak it?
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Wed, 6 June 2012
When Dan Newman 's ice boat crashed through the surface of the frozen lake he had no idea he was about to do something that had never been done.
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Mon, 7 May 2012
The sound of the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.
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Fri, 27 April 2012
An awkward moment with Jeffrey Lewis.
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Fri, 20 April 2012
A collection of field recordings made around the State of Colorado between 1982 and 1987.
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Wed, 18 April 2012
I lent my friend Moose a tape recorder and he returned it with with tape full of interviews he had done with his friends. One of those interviews was with Herbie, an artist who collaborated with a couple bearded friends to make a sculpture called Re-Neavus. I cut it up and added some music by Barin Darnew.
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Mon, 9 April 2012
Speed Levitch giving one of his signature wlaking tours of Columbia, Missouri.
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Sat, 31 March 2012
Luke Cumberland is a second-year student in the MFA writing program at
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Thu, 29 March 2012
I found this recording in a box of old tapes. I think I picked it up at a thrift store in Louisiana. It appears to be role playing excercises at a beauty school.
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Fri, 23 March 2012
Nason Smith's nonfiction has appeared on NPR: Hearing Voices and his fiction has been published in The Pinch. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Thu, 22 March 2012
Welcome to Florida. You look great!
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Wed, 21 March 2012
One of the great things about New Orleans is that you can set up a card table and sell booze in the street. This is what it sounds like.
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Mon, 19 March 2012
My friend Keaton was having some trouble working on a tandem bicycle at the bike shop he works at when a customer recommended a solution he found on the internet.
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Wed, 7 March 2012
Film maker Karim El Hakim told this story at a live storytelling event at the True/False Film Festival.
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Wed, 29 February 2012
This Mike West cover was performed by Walt McClement on banjo and Mary Go Round (the one time holder of the world record for spinning the most hoola hoops at once: 76 if my memory serves me correctly) on accordion and vocals. I recorded this late one evening in the upstairs of Mimi’s in the Marigny in New Orleans.
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Mon, 27 February 2012
I was walking my dog the other night when I came across Larry Boutan sitting on a concrete wall drinking a beer. I bought some beers and joined him. This is the story of Larry’s very first beer.
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Sat, 25 February 2012
Wilbert Rawlins Jr. is the band director at O Perry Walker High school in New Orleans. He runs one of the best marching bands in the state along with a concert band and a Jazz ensemble. Rawlins doesn’t just teach kids to play an instrument though, he provides discipline for a lot of kids who live in a chaotic environment. He teaches them about commitment and the benefits of hard work and education. He puts in a tremendous amount of work at O Perry Walker. When you ask him what the reward is for the countless hours he puts into teaching he says it’s a single moment that lasts for one maybe two seconds. This is an excerpt form a story I did a few years ago which you can listen to here. Wilburt Rawlins Jr. is also featured in the book Nine Lives by Dan Baum. Photo by:
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Thu, 23 February 2012
The Sound of Suffocation.
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Sat, 18 February 2012
James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New England Review, and Narrative. He has received the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. Charms Against Lightning, his debut poetry collection, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. During 2012 he will be in residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, Massachusetts. Photo by: Sean Hill
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Fri, 17 February 2012
I came across this piece of found tape today. I know nothing about it.
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Thu, 16 February 2012
A deleted scene from a story I produced for Marketplace Morning Report.
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Wed, 15 February 2012
They get fucked up in strange ways in Sweden.
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Wed, 15 February 2012
A recording of a tornado siren in a park in St. Louis, MO.
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Fri, 10 February 2012
Thaddeus Conti reading an excerpt from his poem Invite to the Pestilent with live musical accompaniment by Josh Wexler and Sunny Metha. You can purchase Thaddeus’ book here: http://www.amazon.com/%C3%A6poetics-Thaddeus-Conti/dp/1935084011. And you can hear the full version of this piece here: http://www.prx.org/pieces/47733-invite-to-the-pestilent Photo by: Craig Morse
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Wed, 8 February 2012
I can only assume Garrett was moved by the Christmas spirit when he left me this message. Or perhaps he was wasted on egg nog.
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Tue, 7 February 2012
Ever wondered how a couple of straights can satisfy a lesbian? Look no further. A friend of mine sent me a CD of old radio porn that included this track titled The Threesome.
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Mon, 6 February 2012
This poem appears in the October, 2011 issue of SOFTBLOW Alec Hershman lives in St. Louis where he teaches at St. Louis Community College and at the Center for Humanities at Washington University. His poems can be found in upcoming issues of Denver Quarterly, The Journal, The Burnside Review, Sycamore Review, Juked, and online at Transom, Anti-, Sixth Finch and The Fiddlehead. He is currently poetry editor for The White Whale Review.
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Sat, 4 February 2012
Category:Interview
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Fri, 3 February 2012
I’m not exactly sure what the purpose of this device is but it makes cool sounds. It was attached to the outside of a train station in a small town in northern Italy.
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Thu, 2 February 2012
Edgar spends most of his days sitting on a five gallon bucket in downtown Seattle. One night I hung out with Edgar and his friends and recorded their arguments songs and pushup competition. This piece was the first place winner of the Big Shed Verite+1 audio competition.
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Wed, 1 February 2012
I recorded this a few years ago outside the Pompidou in Paris.
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Tue, 31 January 2012
Philip Matthews is currently the Jr. Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has appeared in Trapeze, Phati’tude, Poets for Living Waters, and Sonora Review. He is continually influenced by surreal visual and sound art, and works as a gallery assistant at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
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Mon, 30 January 2012
I attended a fancy party where a beautiful woman modeled a dress that was hooked up to a garden hose. The dress sent streams of water into the sky and reminded my friend of this sad tale of enema addiction.
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Sun, 29 January 2012
Today's episode of Random Tape features a song by artist Daryl Waits. You can find the track, Jennifer Love on the album Eastern Front & Digital Penetration at paradeco.com
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Fri, 27 January 2012
I was hanging out in Cabrini Park, a dog park in the French Quarter in New Orleans when Badass Emma saw my microphone and asked me to interview her. She told me the story of how she lost her dogs in Katrina and about her job as a cook. We talked about the good old days and the future of New Orleans. This is one of several vignettes that make up a portrait of one of the baddest ass women you’ve ever met.
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Fri, 27 January 2012
I was hanging out in Cabrini Park, a dog park in the French Quarter in New Orleans when Badass Emma saw my microphone and asked me to interview her. She told me the story of how she lost her dogs in Katrina and about her job as a cook. We talked about the good old days and the future of New Orleans. This is one of several vignettes that make up a portrait of one of the baddest ass women you’ve ever met.
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Fri, 27 January 2012
I was hanging out in Cabrini Park, a dog park in the French Quarter in New Orleans when Badass Emma saw my microphone and asked me to interview her. She told me the story of how she lost her dogs in Katrina and about her job as a cook. We talked about the good old days and the future of New Orleans. This is one of several vignettes that make up a portrait of one of the baddest ass women you've ever met.
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Fri, 27 January 2012
I was hanging out in Cabrini Park, a dog park in the French Quarter in New Orleans when Badass Emma saw my microphone and asked me to interview her. She told me the story of how she lost her dogs in Katrina and about her job as a cook. We talked about the good old days and the future of New Orleans. This is one of several vignettes that make up a portrait of one of the baddest ass women you've ever met.
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Wed, 25 January 2012
I was hanging out in Cabrini Park, a dog park in the French Quarter in New Orleans when Badass Emma saw my microphone and asked me to interview her. She told me the story of how she lost her dogs in Katrina and about her job as a cook. We talked about the good old days and the future of New Orleans. This is one of several vignettes that make up a portrait of one of the baddest ass women you've ever met.
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Wed, 25 January 2012
Thaddeus Conti is the self-proclaimed poet laureate of Hog Alley. This poem can be found in Thaddeus’s book Aepoetics which you can purchase here: http://www.amazon.com/%C3%A6poetics-Thaddeus-Conti/dp/1935084011
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Mon, 23 January 2012
My girlfriend recorded this gem while doing interviews for a radio story about the closing of the beloved Sugar Park Tavern in New Orleans.
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Sun, 22 January 2012
This is the song of the barge, bobbing on the river near Hopeville.
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Sat, 21 January 2012
I wore a wire for several years and secretly recorded my life. I recently produced a story about this period in my life for the radio show Wiretap. One of my ideas for the piece was to record myself calling up people from my past to explain that I had recorded them without their knowledge. This is a recording of one of those conversations. You can hear the Wiretap story here: http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/episode/2012/01/20/man-vs-machine/
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Fri, 20 January 2012
"Nothing can stop us. Not even if they try. Not even if they want to, or ask the question why. Mr. Torino, why did you lie to me in seventh grade?" -Mark Excelle Mercer IV
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Thu, 19 January 2012
Sometimes you wish audio had pictures.
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Wed, 18 January 2012
Most days you can find Tim Raines playing guitar on the corner of Ninth and Olive in downtown St. Louis. He's the electric guitar player with a stuffed bear dressed in prison garb perched on the lip of his guitar case.
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Tue, 17 January 2012
James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New England Review, and Narrative. He has received the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. Charms Against Lightning, his debut poetry collection, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. During 2012 he will be in residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, Massachusetts. Photo by: Sean Hill
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Mon, 16 January 2012
When I was a kid I had this clown doll that would laugh when you pushed a button in its chest. It was terrifying. It's more the cackle of a chain-smoking maniac than the laughter of a clown but then again some clowns are heavy smokers.
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Thu, 12 January 2012
I recorded this fiery sermon that I heard on the radio in West Virginia.
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Wed, 11 January 2012
After a successful meal Captain Tom has no trouble patting himself on the back for a job well done.
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Tue, 10 January 2012
Back when I was a deckhand on the M.V. Ptarmigan, a glacier tour boat in Alaska, I used to hang out in the wheelhouse and listen to Captain Tom tell stories. I called him up recently and asked him to tell me the one about about the time he won a ham in a furthest listening contest.
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Mon, 9 January 2012
I spent an afternoon in the parking lot of the grocery store asking people to read me their grocery lists and these are a few of the responses i got.
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Mon, 9 January 2012
Bill Keaggy responded to postings by musicians on fiverr.com who offered to write and record a song for five dollars. He sent each of them a found grocery list and asked them to record a song inspired by the list. This is my favorite track from Let's All Go to the Grocery Store, an album of songs inspired by found grocery lists which you can download for absolutely free here: http://www.grocerylists.org/
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Sun, 8 January 2012
This is the sound of hundreds of electronic slot machines on the floor of Lumiere Casino in downtown St. Louis.
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Sat, 7 January 2012
If you ever did any late night channel surfing between 1993 and 2001 you probably came across the legendary pitchman Don West hollering about sports cards and Beanie Babies on the Shop at Home network. A friend of mine made a CD of some of the best Don West television moments and this is but a taste.
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Fri, 6 January 2012
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Thu, 5 January 2012
Do you want the love of the fire? Cuz I’m not gonna wait around to give you my desire. For some reason an ex-girlfriend of mine gave her number to a guy who called himself The Dragon. Not surprisingly he left her a string of insane voice messages. These are just a few of The Dragon’s many attempts at wooing.
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Wed, 4 January 2012
This is the sound of Matthew Shifrin using his BrailleNote—a computer for the blind that pushes plastic nodes through tiny holes to display text in braille.
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Wed, 4 January 2012
Five Days after I began broadcasting classical music over one of St. Louis' existing Christian stations Albert Pujols announced he was leaving the St. Louis Cardinals for the Los Angeles Angels. Now what does Albert Pujols have to do with JOY-FM you might be asking. Pujols was one of the major donors to the down payment fund for the purchase of KFUO. I propose Pujols take JOY-FM with him and in exchange we get one of L.A.’s classical stations. We would even settle for kMozart 1260 AM. For this episode of Random Tape I hit the streets to find out what people in St. Louis think of Pujols’ departure.
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Wed, 4 January 2012
Classical music station KFUO in St. Louis was one of the oldest radio stations west of the Mississippi. The stationed was owned by the Lutheran church up until last year when it was purchased by Gateway Creative Broadcasting’s JOY-FM. On July 6th, 2010 KFUO broadcasted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor and then went silent. The following morning JOY-FM began it’s broadcast of Christian contemporary pop music. There are now six christian stations in St. Louis and zero classical stations. On Saturday December 3rd, I powered up the 40-watt FM transmitter I built and “tagged” a Christian station (89.5 FM) with Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor K. 626: Sanctus. For a couple square miles at least, you can hear classical music on the radio again coming from high atop the chimney of a former convent. This is a recording of the moment my signal went live.
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Mon, 2 January 2012
My friend Casey was a holdout during Hurricane Katrina. He worked occasionally for a friend who owned Old Time Photo, one of those business where you take fake historical photos with your friends. On the night president Bush came to the city there was a seven-o-clock curfew. Casey was heading home at seven twenty when he had an encounter with a couple of state troopers. Casey tells the story of what happened next.
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Mon, 2 January 2012
I was walking my dog the other night when I came across Larry Boutan sitting on a concrete wall drinking a beer. I noticed he was missing his right thumb so I asked him how he lost it. This is the story of that fateful night when a large woman started hurling canned goods at him…
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Mon, 2 January 2012
Francis Matherne was the organist at St. Henry’s catholic church in New Orleans for 25 years. A while back he brought some of his poems over to my house so I could record them. This is a short clip from that recording session.
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Mon, 2 January 2012
I came across this LP from 1963 that features three naked women playing bongos on the cover. It’s one of the most inexplicable recordings I’ve ever heard. Each side is a single fourteen-minute track of what appears to be two people having sex on a rusty bed while a man plays the bongos and shouts in what may or may not be a real language. I give you the final two minutes of side A. Now that’s what I call goddamn great drum music!
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Mon, 2 January 2012
These voice messages were left on my friend Danny’s phone by his dad. They are two of my all-time favorites. We’ll never know how the second message ends. The machine cut Danny’s dad off mid-message.
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Mon, 2 January 2012
I was reading in bed one night when I heard a strange sound coming from the foot of my bed...
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My cousin Gavin does the best T-Rex impersonation I’ve ever heard. It puts my terrible acting to shame.