Alot has happened since my last daylog (2 days ago,
I believe).
On Monday (
March 26, 2001) I went to a
Free Radio Asheville meeting at a local
coffee-shop called
Vincent's Ear.
First,
Free Radio Asheville(FRA) is an
illegally run
radio station running on the
frequency 107.5
FM (right now) over the Buncombe County,
North Carolina area, I could give you lots of
little facts about FRA, but I don't want to, because I don't know who on
E2 is affiliated with the
FCC.
Plus, right now I'm kind of
afraid of the
government, after reading a
book about how
David Koresh and his peacefull cohorts were gassed and burnt much like
Jews in the
Holocaust by
Good 'Ole
Uncle Sam Himself.
Anyhow, I went in last night for my first
radio "show", and went back today around 3:30, and I
plan on going again until about 5:30
tomorrow.
Basically, anyone can get a spot on FRA, because there is alot of
Dead Air, which is
bad.
A quote from the FRA handout for new
DJ's:
"
Anything is better than silence. We'll take amature drivel, rawness, or confusion over silence."
So I said "
Hey, I can do drivel, rawness and confusion!"
So, I've taken on the
radio DJ surname. "
Curious Yellow", which is the
famous Vurt Feather in the
Jeff Noon books
Vurt and
Pollen.
I'm thinking of a
name for my show right now. I'm thinking of something along the lines of "
The Ill-Bent Radio Show".
Note: Ill-Bent is a term that
DJ Spooky made up in order to describe his own music, I think it's a
pretty nifty term, I hope he doesn't mind if I use it.
Special Note to Paul D. Miller: Spooky, if you ever read this, and you don't want me ganking your ideas, you can just /msg me, and I'll stop.
Anyhow, what I've been doing on the show is playing
intrumental tracks, like
hip hop instrumentals (
Wu-Tang Clan instrumentals, mostly, although I'm not a remendous Wu-Tang
Fan) or just
electronic music like
DJ Logic, or
Autechre, while
simultaneously playing around on one of the
turntables, scratching anything frum
Sun Ra to
educational wax about
The Scarlet Letter or
The Boston Massacre.
It's a really fun thing to do to pass the time between
work,
school,
noding and
sleep.