Favoriting The Acousmatic Theater Hour with Karinne and Jason G: Playlist from May 17, 2009 Favoriting

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Favoriting May 17, 2009: Gregory Whitehead


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read Wings of Eros manifesto on Transom

sayeth GW:

I begin with the idea of radio as an adventure, and part of the idea of an adventure is that you don't always know precisely where you are. To my ears, a good radio program invites the listener to navigate. Sometimes the waters get choppy, or the fog rolls in. I always remind myself that the first community of radio artists was a community of maritime distress and rescue, the community of S-O-S.

In fact, the first trans-Atlantic radio broadcast was the single letter "S" in Morse code, dot-dot-dot. It's a twitching finger, a nervous finger, and radio is a nervous medium, we never really know who is really speaking, or why, or from where, it is a medium of permanently suspended disbelief. Rather than pretend the fog doesn't exist, I've always tried to embrace it, listen for the buoys, and hopefully float a few of my own. There's nothing more pretentious than imposing an artificial clarity on a nebulous, and even convoluted, world.

I believe it was the poet Leopardi who said that the smallest confused idea was superior to the most lucid grand idea. Not to say that we should aim to create confusion, but good programs, to my mind, are an invitation into a field of associations, where the conclusion may not be entirely clear. The open adventure of thought, not the delivery of predetermined conclusions.

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Artist Track Album Comments
Faust  giggy smile   Favoriting Faust IV  thematically we 
Gregory Whitehead  Mr. Whitehead, Are You There?   Favoriting    
Gregory Whitehead  Catastrophe Class   Favoriting    
Gregory Whitehead  Shake, Rattle, Roll   Favoriting    
Gregory Whitehead  Respirator   Favoriting    
Gregory Whitehead  On a Very Dirty Street   Favoriting    
Gregory Whitehead  As We Know   Favoriting   "outlaw epistemology" 
Gregory Whitehead  Megapolis Song Schpiel   Favoriting    


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Listener comments!

  9:10pm
texas scott:

gregory whitehead,where are you?
  9:12pm
Karinne:

Texas Scott are you there? are you --
  9:14pm
texas scott:

i feel very sleepy...
  9:15pm
alfred whitehead:

it's really just a series of footnotes to plato.
  9:15pm
?:

manic depression..
  9:17pm
jeff-a-chusetts:

ray bolger, is that that you dancing with blackie lawless?
  9:18pm
CHOM:

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
  9:19pm
Ray Bolger:

WHY YES! Blackie keeps trying to put a strange harness on me.
  9:19pm
Ray Bolger:

If I only had a brain. And no freaking wasps!!!!!
  9:19pm
say it ain't so,:

blackie

wake up,CHOM

there'll be a test after the show!
  9:20pm
Jason G:

This version of it is way better than Bill Haley's.
  9:21pm
CHOM:

WHA, essay or math?
  9:21pm
jeff-a-chusetts:

does he make you dance like ray bolger on top of a car in traffic jaLm?
  9:22pm
texas scott:

essay, ESSE!
  9:23pm
CHOM:

Gesunt!
  9:23pm
texas scott:

and your time starts................................................................................................................................................................
NOW!
  9:24pm
Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P.:

Yo, whatsup, peoples!!!

Just partying down with my bud THE SCARECROW. We are gonna drink some Jack, do some lines, and bird-dog chicks!
  9:24pm
Bono:

delete Shake

alter Roll to Hum

voila, creativity
  9:24pm
Karinne:

Blackie Lawless I have no idea what any of those things are!
  9:25pm
CHOM:

WHAT UP B LAW!
  9:25pm
etc:

sorry for tex,he's a bit emotional tonite.
  9:26pm
CHOM:

BONO I KNEEL AT YOUR VOILA.
  9:26pm
jeff-a-chusetts:

Sheik Ritalin Rhol, who's that?
  9:28pm
CHOM:

Tex, what's going on? We're here.
  9:29pm
Bono:

That was me being cretive. Wanna step outside?
  9:29pm
Karinne:

later on there will be a respirator unit for all y'all, so just hang on
  9:31pm
CHOM:

Only if we can: VOILA.
  9:32pm
texas scott:

chom,where are you?

we are here.
  9:32pm
Sheik Ra Tilanrol:

Bono, we will have to have a word with you. Eventually.
  9:32pm
CHOM:

CHOM IS IN THE SHAKE AND AROUND THE ROLL.
  9:33pm
Brian Wilson:

Could you use a ride in my little douche coupe? My car is warm and dry. Don't worry, Phil's behind bars. It's a beater, but we can shake rattle and roll in the back seat. I know a good place.
  9:34pm
Karinne:

Brian Wilson I have no idea what any of that means!
  9:34pm
chom is not:

1,2 rattled, in the least bit
  9:35pm
skinny:

this part sounds like a religious cult.
  9:35pm
Stephen Joyce:

Finnegans Wake and Here Comes Everybody are still under copyright. That'll be two million dollars to my grandfather's Estate, please.
  9:36pm
Jason G:

Sorry, Brian Wilson, Karinne hasn't heard all the outtakes from Smiley Smile yet.

Hi, CHom, Bono, Jeffachusetts, Scott, Blackie, and all!
  9:37pm
CHOM:

I WANT TO DRINK SOME KoolAID AND PRAY FOR THE COLLECTIVES SOULS OF YOU ALL. HI JASON, MY LEADER.
  9:37pm
texas scott:

i'll have a roll with that shake,please.

schizophonic is am!
JG...yes.
  9:38pm
Jason G:

Wow, look at all the famous people on the comments! What are we, Tom Scharpling?
  9:38pm
jeff-a-chusetts:

hi Jason! This is a great way to finish a Sunday. thanks!
  9:39pm
texas scott:

i'll take my soul singularly,CHOM
  9:39pm
Karinne:

Jason G, see schizophonic community.
  9:40pm
CHOM:

TS -- one soul coming up. SUPERSIZED
  9:40pm
G:

actually, the "bird-dogging girls" reference was to the last Scharpling show, I do believe...

as long as we are less out-there than the artist,w e are ok!
  9:41pm
texas scott:

table for one,please...
  9:43pm
jeff-a-chusetts:

Blackie just quietly left. all bird-dogged out i guess. he smells like sulpher every time he leaves.
  9:43pm
CHOM:

LOL JASON
  9:46pm
matt g:

oh snap brother
  9:46pm
G:

Karinne, you were being literal about the respirator! Excellent!!!!
  9:46pm
Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P.:

NO I'M HERE DUDE!!1! JUST OVER IN THE HOT TUP LO I AM SO F*UP RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
  9:47pm
Karinne:

G, I am extraordinarily literal-minded. You can always count on it.
  9:48pm
FCC:

I'm getting a little concerned here, folks
  9:49pm
Karinne:

that's breath in GENERAL
  9:49pm
captain fantabulus:

oh goodness, this is just the wonkiest lovelies in all of broad new jerseyland
  9:49pm
Jason G:

Get your mind out of the gutter, FCC.
  9:50pm
FCC:

It's a gift O:-)
  9:51pm
tacotacotaco:

get your gutter out of the fcc, mind
  9:55pm
jeff-a-chusetts:

Fcc, blackie was about to Tellus something about cassettes, then he threw his codpiece at us. Lamonte and Harry feel just awful over the whole thing. filthy mouth, too.
  9:55pm
CHOM:

Gregory Whitehead, I bow before Thee.
  9:58pm
Gregory Blackhead:

I never got a grant. I am an outsider artist.
  9:58pm
ocatocatocat:

Harry, blackie was about to codpiece something about Lamonte, then he threw his tellus at us. CHOM and FCC feel just awful over the whole thing. filthy cassettes, too.
  9:58pm
CHOM:

Karine, let us pray.
  10:00pm
jeff-a-chusetts:

thanks for putting up with us Jason! g'night.
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