1-800-Weirdos

In a row boat on a lake - that's where this was actually created. Granted, I did a lot of post production on it, but I really enjoyed doing this one. It's also the first to have a video shot during the creation, so it's the first episode in the new 1-800-Weirdos video podcast that I'll be premiering in the next few days. I couldn't do any readings of random text since I was busy rowing, but there seemed no end of things to talk about. Pieces include "why wouldn't they rent me a power boat?"

Sorry, Weirdos for missing the Monday night podcast. I was exhausted after climbing Mount Lafayette. This is a live broadcast I did when I had just returned home. I still have a lot of video and audio from the trip to edit, so i'll be posting that ASAP. Also, I'm going to start a separate video blog for the videos. More on that soon.

It was raining and I was rowing with my shirt off, so I couldn't actually create this broadcast out on Lake Sacandaga. But, I hope next week to actually broadcast from a mountain top in a tent. We'll see. Be grateful I'm posting anything at all - I am on vacation. Anyway, pieces this week include "thinking about thinking" and "the big room inside my mind". Video has been posted, but I moved the link to the Weirdos website because in iTunes folks couldn't access the audio file, just the video. It's here. Perhaps this is the beginnning of a vlog? Only time and madness will tell. The video is now posted as part of the 1-800-Weirdos video podcast.

Why is it so long (that's a rather personal question)? Well, I went back to the old method of creaqting this stuff using the Yamaha QY-70. I may hjave to keep doing it this way - I'd forgotten how flexible it is for this sort of thing. So it came out as long as the original live Weirdos Broadcasts (episodes 1-15) but is at twice the bit rate, so the file size is a bit larger than I usually would limit it to. The "bonus DV jam" is tacked on at the end. It represents the method I'll be using to record the podcasts during my vacation over the next two weeks. I may record directly to a DV camcorder, hence the name.

You never really know with these broadcasts, but the important thing is that I never really know. This one is particularly unknown to me, and I kept myself guessing throughout. Included pieces are "Future Services" and "I Need More Weirdos" (which I do). We need more of you to take over the World and stamp out normality forever. Why haven't you called 1-800-Weirdos yet? Are you normal? All the more reason to call and freak out now. Splunge. I'm a little worried about the strength of this episode. YOU definitely SHOULD not under any circumstances TAKE LOTS OF DRUGS before listening to this recording...

Verge is not dead, although they do smell funny. Having heard from the original drummer, Bob Jakuc, I have dedicated this broadcast to him and included the messages he left on my home machine while I was concocting this particular episode. Text includes Shakespeare's Ninth Sonnet and an excerpt from The Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Never and always (at least before knowledge) try not to know anything before always eating the end of your mouth inside of the mind of the thinker which indeed knows the end of the always ever expanding things. So many voices - what are they all talking about? They don't even know. Included is the story of the "Superlative Horse" that I told my dying grandfather.

The video podcast is still not listed in iTunes, so subscribe through Feedburner. Thanks to james walsh, gemma forrest, kurt radcliffe and james sellars for calling in and inspiring this live broadcast! Hooray for Manchester, where the Weirdos of England are hiding and ready to stamp out normality. Readings are from a piece by Nathaniel Willis on the death of Edgar Allan Poe, and the inscription from Oscar Wilde's gravestone.

The video podcast still hasn't shown up in iTunes, so go through Feedburner to subscribe. Now, this podcast is really just the soundtrack to the video, so sorry if it doesn't make any sense without seeing the visuals. I'm afraid that's going to happen a lot - it's way too much work to do a separate show for the video. However, I am only wearing underwear in the video, so that alone may be worth it for you. Included segments are "Take These Back" and "Look at This".