Hello again. After taking a week off (thanks again to Mr. Walker for filling in for my time slot with an extended version of The Jazz Show) and having the web server take a nap whilst I was on vacation, I arrived back in Vancouver late Sunday night, leaving little time to prepare for this week's show. I fell back on a script I had setup a few weeks ago, involving longer-than-usual songs. Particularly, the Boredoms tracks, which easily took half the show to fully play.
Naturally, a forty minute track presents some problem for covering all the important nitty-bitty details which act as the grout that connect the songs together. The script I came up with at the last minute held up until the end, when I flopped around with additional information and tackled a few too many cart requirements that broke the flow. As well, dropping in a station ID in the middle of the song came off as clunky as the levels were off.
Overall, the longer songs allowed for a great arc to the show as they all took their time to build up to their climaxes. The Beck track acted as a gentle bridge from the generally mellow introductory pieces towards the heavy drones of the back half from Japan. If I had time, I would combed through the latest Boris album — I also had The Orb's comeback album cued to a track before deciding to let the show ride out as it had.
The only major change in the background is that I worked off my new laptop, which has a good chunk of my music from the older one, except that due to the file table differences between Windows and Mac OS X, some files wouldn't copy over due to funny characters. The good news is I figured out how to copy over the Romantic languages, but I still have to figure out what to do about the Eastern European characters. I also formatted the iPod for the Mac now, which posed no problem.
Playlist follows:
Vittorio Gelmetti: Treni D'onda A Modulazione D'Intensita (Early Modulations: Vintage Volts, 1963) Caipirinha
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band: Blindblindblind (13 Blues for Thirteen Moons, 2008) Constellation
Beck: Deadweight (A Life Less Ordinary OST, 1997) A&M
V∞redoms: Livwe!! (Super Roots 9, 2007) Thrill Jockey
Black Dice: Endless Happiness [Eye Remix] (DFA Compilation #2, 2004) DFA
No concert listings this week as I was still catching up on events in this terminal city.
As I've moved to the Mac, I realize that the stylesheet for this web site looks rather portly in sections now. This means some tweaks, though I really need to sort out the other problems with the Movable Type configuration, like why certain additional archives aren't available.
Rough plan are afoot for a show swap later in the month throughout CITR. Then, before the new school year starts, I should look into a better show name, though the feelers I've put out on alternate names have gone less than well.
You can download the entire episode of Bored, but never boring as an MP3 dirge [82.5 Mb, 90:06]
