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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski  The Brian Frankish Interview Part 1   Favoriting The Brian Frankish Interview  20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org  2024 
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Shadows In Blue  Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme   Favoriting Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme  Self-Released  2024 
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Getting Started
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski  The Brian Frankish Interview Part 2   Favoriting The Brian Frankish Interview  20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org  2024 
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Nomeansno  Now   Favoriting 0+2=1  Alternative Tentacles  1991 
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Making Movies
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski  The Brian Frankish Interview Part 3   Favoriting The Brian Frankish Interview  20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org  2024 
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The Velvet Underground & Nico  I'm Waiting For The Man   Favoriting The Velvet Underground & Nico  Verve Records  1967 
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Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski  The Brian Frankish Interview Part 4   Favoriting The Brian Frankish Interview  20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org  2024 
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The Eleven-SixtyFours  Digitize Me!   Favoriting Fringe Life EP  Self-Released  2022 
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That's How It Works
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski  The Brian Frankish Interview Part 5   Favoriting The Brian Frankish Interview  20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org  2024 
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unwound  For Your Entertainment   Favoriting Repetition  Kill Rock Stars  1996 
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That's What I Love
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski  The Brian Frankish Interview Part 6   Favoriting The Brian Frankish Interview  20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org  2024 
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The Television Personalities  Don't Cry Baby, It's Only A Movie   Favoriting Don't Cry Baby....It's Only A Movie  Damaged Goods  1998 
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Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski  The Brian Frankish Interview Part 7   Favoriting The Brian Frankish Interview  20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org  2024 
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Shadows In Blue  Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme   Favoriting Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme  Self-Released  2024 
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Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski  The Brian Frankish Interview Part 8   Favoriting The Brian Frankish Interview  20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org  2024 
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Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar 8:58pm
Imaginos:

Ahoy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Krys O.:

Hello!
Avatar 9:00pm
Mr. X:

How was camping, Austin? Mountains, coast, or in-between?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Austin Rich:

I hope Imaginos, Krys O and Mr. X are enjoying themselves! It's very hot here in the mid-valley.
Avatar 9:06pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @9:03
Keeping cool here. I've got one of those newfangled little desktop coolers that you add water to pointed at me.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @9:06
I have been curious about those! Maybe someday I'll get one of those.
Avatar 9:12pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:03
Keeping cool and comfy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:12
That is important.
Avatar 9:15pm
Imaginos:

Oranges and lemons sing the bells of St Clemens
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:15
Ha!
Avatar 9:17pm
Mr. X:

Austin, I appreciate how you are not shy about reaching out to famous people and entertainment industry insiders for interviews. These are valuable contributions to history.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @9:17
I had fun putting this one together. It touches a lot of parts of pop culture and history, and Brian is a pretty friendly guy.
Avatar 9:20pm
Geoff-U:

Good evening
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

I would have loved to see Brian sing in a musical. (Which, apparently, he did a LOT of in college.)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Geoff-U @9:20
Ahh, thanks for joining us, Geoff-U!
Avatar 9:25pm
Geoff-U:

↳ Austin Rich @9:20
Happy to be here as always!
  9:27pm
Laura Panic:

Been lostening in the car. Great interview. And now Nomeansno?! Yay!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
Austin Rich:

I do love Brian's story, of starting out as a farmboy, and working his way up to a Hollywood PA working on a huge comedy. That's the story that everyone wishes would happen to them.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Laura Panic @9:27
Yeah, you have to have Nomeansno. (And since they have retired, all we have are the records...)
  🎸 9:29pm
Heather:

Tuned in and enjoying the show! Your editing and production always knocks my socks off, Austin!!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

I feel VERY lucky to have seen Nomeansno four times. I talk to kids now, who never got to see them, and they are very jealous. I recognize that I was lucky!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @9:29
Thanks Heather! And you helped make this call happen, so THANK YOU.
  9:30pm
Laura Panic:

I saw them a few times, they came down here....so good. Amazing!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Laura Panic @9:30
It's why I want to play bass! I'm not that good at bass, but damn... who wouldn't want to try and play like this?
  🎸 9:31pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @9:29
I'm so honored and lucky to be a part this!!
Avatar 9:31pm
Geoff-U:

Joe Preston took me to my first NoMeansNo show in 1988. I didn't know who they were - my assumption going in was "just some punk band Joe likes"
Avatar 9:31pm
Geoff-U:

I was floored by them
  9:33pm
Laura Panic:

Friends from here just toured with Thrones in US....the band is Dead.
Avatar 9:33pm
Imaginos:

Yup
  9:33pm
Barno (from Akron):

How do you do, fellow kids?
  9:34pm
Laura Panic:

Sydney's cream of the the punk drummer crop were all drum side of stage, in front of the drums just out of their minds.
  9:34pm
Laura Panic:

Oh!! So cool. I've played with them...they just got home
  9:35pm
Laura Panic:

There is an old interview in archives with Dead....
  9:35pm
Nick K:

Hi everyone
Avatar 9:38pm
Imaginos:

Grossberg?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Laura Panic @9:35
I'll have to dig up the time I ran sound for them. They were SO GOOD.
Avatar 9:40pm
Imaginos:

The only movie with a longer title than Dr Strangelove
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:40
I think Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite stories.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
Austin Rich:

15 year old dating significantly older women? I think this movie was reading my mind as a kid.
Avatar 9:44pm
Imaginos:

Lol!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Austin Rich:

I feel like I'm always waiting for the man...
  🎸 9:48pm
Heather:

I'm still waiting for that film crew who wants to film in my very average perfectly nice house!
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Mr. X:

↳ Song: "I'm Waiting For The Man" by "The Velvet Undergrou...
$26
Avatar 9:49pm
Mr. X:

How many movies have been filmed in Rochester so far?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "I'm Waiting For The Man" by "The Velvet Undergrou...
When I lived in PDX, every bar I ever went to, would have this song play at some point in the night. Every party. Every bar. It's like the #1 hit song of everyone who goes out late at night.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @9:48
It's a little more than that now, I imagine.
  🎸 9:49pm
Heather:

↳ Mr. X @9:49
They did a Spiderman here! That's it for big films, as far as I know.
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Mr. X:

↳ Heather @9:49
That's pretty cool.
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Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @9:49
Inflation.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:50pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @9:49
www.imdb.com...
  🎸 9:51pm
Heather:

↳ Mr. X @9:50
It was neat. We never get stuff like that here so it's a real novelty.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @9:51
According to the IMDB list I just send you, it apparently happens a lot.
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Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @9:50
What th-? Terror at Blood Fart Lake? (Filmed in Rochester...)
  🎸 9:52pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @9:50
Oo... I see Terror at Blood Fart Lake made the list!!

We do have an indie scene here. Brian whom you know, Austin, has acted in a number of those here and in Buffalo.
  🎸 9:55pm
Heather:

↳ Mr. X @9:52
I doubt they had a budget to build out my porch to be a wraparound, sadly....
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Imaginos:

Wood was also in The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:56
Yes! That's a great movie. She's been a lot of stuff, but you can't mention everything.
Avatar 9:57pm
Mr. X:

↳ Heather @9:55
Let alone relocate that neighborhood power line that serves three counties.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Austin Rich:

I appreciate that I got to use the "2001" theme music drop TWICE in this episode, once as a joke, and once seriously.
Avatar 9:58pm
Imaginos:

Getting sleepy
  🎸 9:59pm
Heather:

↳ Mr. X @9:57
Blood Fart Lake budget probably couldn't even get me some touch up paint, alas.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Austin Rich:

I saw 2001 when I was VERY young... and it immediately became my favorite movie, and made me love Sci-Fi. (I started reading the book the movie was based on, then more Arthur C. Clark work, then anything Sci-Fi.) That movie really affected me as a young man.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @9:58
Sleep well.
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Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @9:59
Thank you
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Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @9:59
That title makes me laugh, because there was an 80's hardcore band called Blood Fart from Louisville, KY. I've played them on the show before. (More than once.)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
Austin Rich:

Silent Running is also one of my favorite films.
  🎸 10:00pm
Heather:

↳ Imaginos @9:58
Good night!!
  🎸 10:00pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:00
Oh that's awesome! There can't be a connection! But.... what if there were?!?
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Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @9:59
The pace of 2001 is so sleepy, yet it somehow keeps my attention every time I see it.
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Mr. X:

Silent Running is pretty great.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:01
It opens with the government cutting funding on the forests, so they decide to nuke them.

And that's the beginning!
Avatar 10:03pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @10:02
Some critics wring their hands over the fact that Bruce Dern's character has to commit murder to save the trees.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:03
Yeah, I think my politics might have a LITTLE something to do with movies like that. Usually, the government is wrong, and the people who blindly go along with the worst decisions will, eventually, have to be eliminated.

Oh well.
Avatar 10:14pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @10:00
Bruce Dern was the Steve Buscemi of his day.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:14
Oh, wow! That's a very good observation.
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Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @10:14
That guy you love to hate. Silent Running was an exception for Bruce Dern, where he gets to play the actual protagonist.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:15
I mean, he does some pretty unlikable things. But that role is sort of an exception for him, in a lot of other ways.
  🎸 10:17pm
Heather:

I'm loving hearing about all these steps again. It truly is an honor to be part of this project. It's nearly unbelievable that Martin Newell even noticed my invite to "like" our FB fan page, much less message to say Steve had been his landlord back in the day!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:17pm
Austin Rich:

Brian really loves movies. That's what I got from this call.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:19pm
Austin Rich:

Now, you can hear the scene he was talking about, with James Earl Jones...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "For Your Entertainment" by "unwound"
I'm very excited to be seeing Steel Pole Bath Tub and unwound in October, at a show where they are "recreating 1994."
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:22pm
Austin Rich:

"Pick your life apart. / Throw away your art. / Finding something new / was never hard. / That's: ENTER-TAIN-MENT."
  10:23pm
Laura Panic:

Steel Pole Bathtub!! Wow
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Austin Rich:

This was the first unwound song I became obsessed with; I heard it on the radio, taped it off of KWVA, and kept that tape forever. I harassed the band the first time I saw them to tell me what album the song was on, so I could buy it, after the show. It was very memorable.
  🎸 10:24pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:21
I'm excited you're going to see them!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:24pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Laura Panic @10:23
Yeah! I'm very stoked!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Austin Rich:

Even when he's retired, he still has a million projects he's working on.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:37pm
Austin Rich:

I used a lot of audio tools to create instrumental versions of songs, or to create versions with just the lyrics, for this episode. It helps with some of the background music, of if you want to make sure people can parse the lyrics.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Austin Rich:

Brian is politely trying to not call anyone out here...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:39pm
Austin Rich:

I'm 95% sure this is the commercial he's talking about.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:42pm
Austin Rich:

This version of King Kong might be the first movie I ever saw, period. It's the first movie I remember seeing on TV, as a kid, and LOVED IT.
  🎸 10:45pm
Heather:

Just out of curiosity, did you message Brian that this was on tonight?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Heather @10:45
I did, but did not hear from him. I'll send him a link, when it's done.
  🎸 10:47pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:45
I wonder if he's tuned in! I would be!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Austin Rich:

Brian's phone was going off the entire time we were talking, with phone and e-mail messages. I tried to edit out most of them, but occasionally it was interfere with the sound on Brian's call. He's a busy guy! His phone rings all the time, I bet.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
Austin Rich:

Knowing what I know about both Miley Cyrus and Brian, I want to know about them partying together!
Avatar 10:49pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @10:42
It took me most of my life to figure out the name of the first movie I saw in a theater. Still not 100% sure, but I believe it was The Magic Sword (1962.) The two-headed dragon gave me such nightmares. I was only three.
  🎸 10:49pm
Heather:

↳ Austin Rich @10:47
Even from what he's been saying, it's a sure thing he's super busy! It's been great hearing this again and, I know i repeat myself all the time, but you kicked some major butt producing this!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Don't Cry Baby, It's Only A Movie" by "The Televi...
I didn't know the Television Personalities as well as I should, but recently I've been getting VERY into this record.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:49
I've never seen that. I should look into it.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:53pm
Austin Rich:

I would LOVE to be Cary Grant. That guy is so cool!
Avatar 10:54pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @10:53
I believe there's an MST3K treatment of The Magic Sword.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Austin Rich:

I'm a huge Last Starfighter fan, and really had to resist the idea of talking his ear off about producing that movie.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @10:54
Oh! Wow. I'll have to find that.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
Austin Rich:

We'll go about 8 minutes over.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Austin Rich:

Some of these old Hollywood people are fairly right wing, and have questionable politics. I try to keep it about the movies, but I realize that so much of Hollywood is embedded in a lot of questionable politics, so finding a place to draw the line is difficult sometimes, without dismissing everything.
Avatar 11:05pm
Mr. X:

↳ Austin Rich @11:01
Yeah, Red Dawn was mentioned a moment ago. I saw that with a friend in Bozeman, Montana, and the locals let us know in no uncertain terms that we were mocking or cheering for the wrong teams. We snuck out before in the dark just before the credits started rolling.
  11:05pm
Laura Panic:

Thanks Austin
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr. X @11:05
Yeah, that movie. I loved it as a dumb kid, but wow... it means something very different in today's political climate.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 11:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Laura Panic @11:05
Thanks Laura! Keep up the good work.
Avatar 11:06pm
Mr. X:

An amazing document for the ages! Thanks Austin!
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