Here we are, at the end of a concept. At least that's what I think, though as always I didn't know it at the time. I did not even "give up" on account of this night's disasters. Earlier in the evening I'd been accosted by the guy on the commons hawking his shitty rap cd; having already made the mistake of buying it a few years ago, tonight I said "no thanks" as I walked by, only for him to tell me to "shut the fuck up." Ok, happy to. It was the dreaded "playlist reporting" period at the station, but when I arrived my laptop "arbitrarily" decided it wasn't doing internet anymore, so that was a neat obstacle. I began recording my show late, as you will hear--apologies to The Durutti Column. And I couldn't give away tickets to Stop Making Sense, from which I can only conclude that absolutely no one was listening.
"What else can go wrong," I ask at one point, though without these disclosures you might not know it from hearing hour 1. Sure, the Slits segue was late, and the Underground Youth segue was too soon. (What would Bombast be, without, etc.). It's not a terrible mixtape. I might well have continued in this vein, had I not been "radicalized," for lack of a better description. But I was, so I haven't.
I'm sure the program will continue to sound just as ragged and haphazard, but maybe more intentional "going forward." And, yes, this is a difference. My therapist says I have more power now--is it because I have changed, or did I change because of it? The forensic analysis is not yet complete. But things are different now.
Was it good, while it lasted? Mostly, sure. I mean let's hope so. I spent more than six years on this.
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Amateurism Arises When the Culture Around You Won't Let You Out of Where You Are: Transmission 254, 2015 December 23
Accidental Christmas Tunes To Come: Transmission 253, 2015 December 22
Everyone Has To Have an Interest: Transmission 252, 2015 December 16
Can't Cry When I Don't Have Your Shoulder: Transmission 251, 2015 December 9
Maybe We Are Thinking the Same Thing: Transmission 250, 2015 December 8
U_D_M Detour 14, 2014 November 14
If You Finish, There's Hot Chocolate: Transmission 249, 2015 December 2
Cruising Altitude Departure 13, 2014 November 8
Emergency Festivals Are Still Festive: Transmission 248, 2015 November 28
That Ghost That Lives in Your Head: Transmission 247, 2015 November 18
Skin in the Game: Transmission 246, 2015 November 11
Terror Takes the Sound Before You Make It: Transmission 245, 2015 November 4
The Look of a Stranger Is Almost a Smile: Transmission 244, 2015 October 28
No, I Don't Know, Too: Transmission 243, 2015 October 21
Revenge Is Sweet to Those Who Have Never Known Anything Sweet: Transmission 242, 2015 October 14
Let's Send the Sucker Headfirst Into Space: Transmission 241, 2015 October 7
I Won't Be Waiting Here Like Undiscovered Treasure: Transmission 240, 2015 October 4
So Agitated That I'm So Agitated: Transmission 239, 2015 September 30
Shallowness is Forever: Transmission 238, 2015 September 29
Trying to Capture Something That Was Beyond My Capabilities: Transmission 237, 2015 September 22
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