radio free gak #15 - "You're my thumb and you're number one"

A sharp blast of Yukon-chilled air brought a taste of winter back to the Lower Mainland, including a bit of Friday night flurry action that caught me somewhat unawares and completely soaked as the monster-sized snowflakes fell furious. Thankfully, listening to the African middle of this episode helped keep me mentally warm and otherwise thermally bewildered.

I was really hoping to have my homemade kalimba ready to play a bit during this episode, but finding out my Japanese-toted construction kit included a difficult mix of softwood, hardwood and tiny nails that smashed the former when it couldn't penetrate the latter thwarted that minor ambition. Originally, I was going to include more tracks featuring the little thumb organ but the twenty or so I wound up using sufficed.

Other than blowing the background music to this week's concert listings (obtusely labelled as Green Street Intro and taken from Beastie Show Breaks, which is something I want more information on), which means I can recycle that for another purpose (maybe as my show intro?), the show went quite well. It drifted more on the experimental side, but I trust I guided you, the gracious listener, through all the peaks and valleys.

If you're curious about Jodorowsky's plans for his version of Dune, read on. As well, I'd recommend listening to the Wojciech Kilar's theme to the film Salto on a stereo since headphones didn't really give that piece as much justice as the studio's monitors did. It's actually quite groovy.

One last drag: I hosed part of my blog's layout, so now there are bad colours and weird things sticking out in ways I'm still figuring out how to repair. I may have to rebuild from scratch, except ditch the strange double stylesheet issue and then really sit down and figure out all the modules, widgets and other bizarrely documented code fragments that get my goat. I know what I want it to look like; I'm getting stonewalled from anonymous points.

Playlist follows: