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| Story Corps Interview | |
| 10/21/2008 | Download File (26.39 MB) - right click to download | |
| Miss Ohio's Beehive Hairdo (Video) | |
12/6/2007 | Download File (11.76 MB) - right click to download |  | |
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With her boyfriend about to be released from prison, Miss Ohio visits La Jean Beauty Parlor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to get a little glamor into her life. It took several cans of hairspray to achieve maximum height for her beehive.
Show Notes
1. According to a review at billburg.com, La Jean Beauty Parlor will have you "bowing down before the altar of rat combs and peroxide." It's old school.
2. For more on the hipster capital of America, check out Free Williamsburg.
3. "Everybody Loves My Hair," by Captain WAM of the Podsafe Music Network.
4. Search The Hair Archives for more information on the beehive. | |
| Miss Ohio's Beehive Hairdo | |
| 12/6/2007 | Download File (11.76 MB) - right click to download | | |
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With her boyfriend about to be released from prison, Miss Ohio visits La Jean Beauty Parlor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to get a little glamor into her life. It took several cans of hairspray to achieve maximum height for her beehive.
Show Notes
1. According to a review at billburg.com, La Jean Beauty Parlor will have you "bowing down before the altar of rat combs and peroxide." It's old school.
2. For more on the hipster capital of America, check out Free Williamsburg.
3. "Everybody Loves My Hair," by Captain WAM of the Podsafe Music Network.
4. Search The Hair Archives for more information on the beehive. | |
| NYC Subway Music - Nicola | |
| 11/23/2007 | Download File (7.89 MB) - right click to download | |
| Location of Recording: Union Square Subway Station (Nov. 21, 2007)From Nicola's bio:
Over the last few years and 2 LPs, Nicola and her band have racked up an
impressive list of rock credentials: sheâs been featured on ABC World
Newsâ âMusic Under New York,â vh1.com, âWomen Who Rockâ magazine, and
NBC News; sheâs been a National Songwriters Hall of Fame featured
songwriter; she performed at David Blaineâs âDrowned Alive;â and sheâs
been heard on FM radio in a number of markets in addition to a recent
mini-feature on MTVâs Music Video Awards. Her Chicks with Guitars
college tour was a major success, and her myspace profile has over
127,000 hits. She and the band have been Spotlight Artists on
Sonicbids, and you may have seen them featured on an ABC TV special as
well as in Billboard Magazineâs âUnderground LPâ section for Breaking
Artists.
Nicola's latest album, âDonât
Take it Personally,â finds her and her band at the top of their game.
From the vicious attack of âMy Name Ainât Maryâ to the relatively
introspective âAlmost,â to the thrill ride of â(5, 6, 7, 8) Hot Date,â
Nicola is in complete control. Thereâs enough fiery, fun-loving,
fiercely independent attitude to blow your speakers off the wall. Her
passionate, extroverted, fantastically versatile voice is the ultimate
instrument for her unapologetic personality and irreverent wit.
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| JFK in Dallas - November 22, 1963 | |
| 11/22/2007 | Download File (20.36 MB) - right click to download | | |
| This is a series of images in QuickTime movie format of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963 and of the events following his assassination. The images are accompanied by the U.S. Army Band playing "From Sea to Shining Sea," which is also on the soundtrack from the Oliver Stone film JFK. For a direct download, click on the link below the .mov image of the Kennedy motorcade.
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| How To Carve The Turkey | |
| 11/21/2007 | Download File (2.90 MB) - right click to download | |
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Concerned about my culinary skills, my 90 year old father-in-law from South Carolina calls me and reads from an article in The Greenville News entitled, "How To Carve The Turkey." I'm still not so sure I'm ready to try carving a hulking bird. Debbie and I will probably go to Sylvia's Soul Food Kitchen in Harlem on Thanksgiving.
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| NYC Subway Music - The Drumatics (#2) | |
| 11/20/2007 | Download File (4.64 MB) - right click to download | |
| You can probably tell...I really like The Drumatics. This is an amazing group of performers who I listened to last weekend in the Union Square subway station. As the mp3 begins, I'm at a distance and walking toward the group. I knew that I was going to like them and started recording with the Belkin TalkTune Stereo attached to my iPod. Getting that gizzmo was the reason for my trip to the Soho Apple Store...an earlier podcast episode.Check out the review of The Drumatics at Concretebeat. | |
| NYC Subway Music - The Drumatics (#1) | |
| 11/18/2007 | Download File (4.74 MB) - right click to download | |
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The Drumatics are an amazing group of fusion musicians who I heard last Friday evening in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. They combine the bucket drums of hip hop street culture with African jembe, shaker, bass drum, African dun duns and the alto sax and bass sax of jazz. The group was formed by Bronx resident William Johnson, who has performed on the streets and in the subways of New York for over 10 years. You can find a discussion of The Drumatics on the blog Concretebeat. Artists: William Johnson (buckets), David Park (bass drum), Alla (jembe), Alissa (African dun duns), Joel (shaker), Welf Dorr (alto sax), Nick Gianni (baritone sax). | |
| NYC Subway Music - The Drumatics | |
| 11/18/2007 | Download File (4.74 MB) - right click to download | |
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The Drumatics are an amazing group of fusion musicians who I heard last Friday evening in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan. They combine the bucket drums of hip hop street culture with African jembe, shaker, bass drum, African dun duns and the alto sax and bass sax of jazz. The group was formed by Bronx resident William Johnson, who has performed on the streets and in the subways of New York for over 10 years. You can find a discussion of The Drumatics on the blog Concretebeat. Artists: William Johnson (buckets), David Park (bass drum), Alla (jembe), Alissa (African dun duns), Joel (shaker), Welf Dorr (alto sax), Nick Gianni (baritone sax). | |
| Taxi Ride To Apple Store Soho | |
| 11/15/2007 | Download File (8.17 MB) - right click to download | |
| On my way to the Apple Store Soho, I talk computers with a cabbie named Nick, who builds his own. I was a bit foggy on the directions, having been a big hurry as I was looking at the Google map. I had the street wrong. Luckily Nick knew just where the Apple Store was. The fare from Parsons The New School for Design (Fifth Avenue and 13th Street) to the Apple Store at 103 Prince Street cost $8.00 including the tip. | |
| In Ohio On Some Steps | |
| 11/13/2007 | Download File (3.11 MB) - right click to download | |
| A few months ago, while listening to Tartanpodcast by Mark Hunter, I heard a track called "In Ohio On Some Steps," by the indie band Limbeck.I had just driven across Ohio for the first time to visit two friends who had attended Kenyon. It rained most of the way. There was something about the song that captured the mood of the whole trip - a mixture of whimsy, randomness and displacement. I've been a Limbeck fan ever since. | |
| Dark Ambient | |
| 11/12/2007 | Download File (9.08 MB) - right click to download | |
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I came across Dark Ambient this week - an excellent ambient music podcast by Jim Butler that he launched in December 2006 and recently got picked up by PodShow. I am a fan of this kind of music and subscribed to the feed. Dark Ambient doesn't adhere to any sort of regular publication schedule. It looks as though one or two new tracks (usually one hour long) appear about every three months, but are worth the wait.
Genre Background:
Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling
technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances
in music. Dark ambient is a very diverse genre; it is often closely
linked with industrial music, noise, ethereal wave, and sometimes even black metal,
yet can be free from any derivatives and connections to other genres or
styles. The term is generally used as a catch-all for any form of
ambient music that has dark, foreboding, ominous, or discordant
overtones.
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| NYC Subway Music - Saxaphone Player | |
| 11/10/2007 | Download File (3.47 MB) - right click to download | |
| One of the random things that makes New York City great, an abundance of musicians - many of them very good - who play on the subway platforms every day. Many times I take them for granted; but just as often I stop and listen...and contribute. I heard this solo saxaphone player on the Seventh Avenue subway platform at 14th Street. The sound was captured with a Micromemo mp3 recorder by XtremeMac, which I attached to my iPod Classic (formerly Video iPod: I love the way Apple relegates fairly new equipment to the ancient category). | |
| New York City Subway Saxaphone Player | |
| 11/10/2007 | Download File (3.47 MB) - right click to download | |
| One of the random things that makes New York City great, an abundance of musicians - many of them very good - who play on the subway platforms every day. Many times I take them for granted; but just as often I stop and listen...and contribute. The sound was captured with a Micromemo mp3 recorder by XtremeMac, which I attached to my iPod Classic (formerly Video iPod: I love the way Apple relegates fairly new equipment to the ancient category). | |
| JFK in Dallas | |
| 8/22/2007 | Download File (38.65 MB) - right click to download | | |
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I recently took a trip to Dallas, Texas, a city I have studiously avoided all my life. There are many reasons why I was never interested in visiting Dallas. Here are a few: fear of big hair, lack of football knowledge, fundamentalist preachers and right-wing lunatics. But my wife has family in Dallas, and to keep the peace, I reluctantly agreed to the trip. Well, I take that part back. I did have an alterior motive: I have always been obsessed with the Kennedy assassination. If anything would ever get me to Dallas, it would be to see Delay Plaza, the site where President Kennedy was shot. I got a first-hand tour of the location by an Elvis impersonator, who pointed out all the sites where conspiracy theroists place shooters other than Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963. I do have video of this guy, who is truly a work of art, but that is not what my video post today is about. Rather, "JFK in Dallas" is a tribute to the final moments in the life of a President who had great potential, but whose life was cut short during - to use Jack Valenti's words - "a day of mindless malice." | |
| Solstice | |
| 6/25/2007 | Download File (2.17 MB) - right click to download | |
| This is a "guitar solo" that I composed on an M-Audio Keystation 49e. I will repeat my disclaimer of having more time on my hands than musical ability. -- Urban Kook | |
| Lullaby For Lawyers | |
| 6/23/2007 | Download File (2.60 MB) - right click to download | |
| "Lullaby for Lawyers" was written by Steve Newman and released on his 2005 album Old Country. Putting a lawyer in his place:"You seem to have more than the average share of intelligence for a man of your background," sneered the lawyer at a witness on the stand."If I wasn't under oath, I'd return the compliment," replied the witness. | |
| Modern Cavemen | |
| 6/22/2007 | Download File (3.39 MB) - right click to download | | |
| A group of guys in South Carolina gather around a bonfire on New Year's Eve, discussing a movie about the Ice Age and listening to the radio. Some of their children are seen and heard as they play in the vacinity. A solitary figure watches the events from a kitchen window. | |
| Music From The Stars #1 (Nebula) | |
| 6/11/2007 | Download File (6.07 MB) - right click to download | |
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This is the first ambient electronic podcast of Urban Kook, which I composed on a Midi keyboard recently. I am not a musician and claim no musical ability at all, but do claim to have too much time on my hands. That said...I wasn't unimpressed with the result. I will continue to post these ambient podcast episodes from time to time in addition to the video segments I've been posting. | |
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