Searching for something to do during government-mandated social distancing, Here Be Monsters host Jeff Emtman recently digitized his cassette collection, and re-edited them into blackout poems and proverbs.
While in the process of doing this, Jeff re-discovered a mixtape he made in 1999, the product of endless hours of waiting by the boombox in the basement with a hand hovering over the 🔴 button. And on this old mixtape, a 10 year Jeff attempted to make a fancy edit: swapping out the intro of one song for another’s. It didn’t sound good at all, but it may have actually been Jeff’s first ever audio cut, predating the start of HBM by over a decade.
On this episode, Jeff shares a couple dozen of his recent blackout proverbs and short poems, made from a variety of bootlegged self-help audiobooks found in the thrift stores of New England.
Producer: Jeff Emtman
Editor: Bethany Denton
Music: The Black Spot, August Blicher Friis
HBM086: Eve is Hungry
HBM085: Ascended Fiction
HBM084: Are You Sure You're Awake?
HBM083: Sweet Like Snap Peas
HBM082: MI5 MI6 KGB CIA
HBM081: Kinnikinnick Nick VS The Bear
Psychic Blob and The Radio Race
HBM080: The Ocean of Halves
HBM079: The Tingles
HBM078: Sagittarius Has $45
HBM077: Snow on Date Trees, then on Pines
HBM076: Griff's Speech
HBM075: The Weight of Science
HBM074: Benedict Arnold Makes People Nervous (Rumble Strip)
HBM073: A Trial Ghost Hunt
HBM072: Ant God
HBM071: The Evangelists of Nudism
wet-slop-plop.wav (Among Other Sounds)
HBM070: The Way The Blood Flows
HBM069: Redwoods of the In-World
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