Not So Shy John News 8/21/13

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My So-Called "Great" Depression

It happened again tonight as I left the WREK studios. I walked out of the Student Center and paused out on the sidewalk to gaze up at the midnight-teal sky, feeling the cool edge of a breezesoothe my cheek. The skyscrapers of downtown Atlanta rose around me, glowing with golden light, and the whole outside world was pulsing with life, full of intrigue a-borning and teeming with promise and possibilities. I stood there in the shadows and sensed its visceral vibe like a heartbeat. At that moment I wanted nothing more than to jump the fence and run away into this magical night to join this wonderful, fascinating world...and then I assessed my sad reality. My shoulders reflexively slumped back into the default position, and I walked disconsolately to my beater car. It's not the first time that's happened there. Every couple of months or so, I happen to leave at just the right moment, and BOOM--something about the ambient campus breezes and the jewel-like color of the night sky begin to speak to me. They beckon and lure me, and always, ALWAYS, every single fucking time, I turn away and slink back to my lonely hole. But the way things are looking for me right now, my future seems so bleak that I feel as if I'm retreating back to my grave. Saturday is the loneliest night of the week, and it has been for going on twenty years. But that's a constant thing. But after a year and a half of unemployment and dwindling prospects have abraded my psyche raw, it's an even worse a burden. But I figured that since I've been scraping along on the underside of a spiritual nadir, what the hell--I may as well just give into my despair, and go with it and turn out the most depressing show I possibly could. I couldn't get it done in time for last week, and that depressed me to no end. But it wasn't like I didn't have expert help--I was assisted in my search for the lowest of the low by such gutter-level luminaries as Dave Cloud, Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band with the Rootettes, Jehova Hates Phred, Eydie Gormé, the Ass Ponies, the Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Diamanda Galas--and the two aces in my aching soul-pit of sadness, Marvin the Paranoid Android from the BBC Radio version of HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, and the madmen and -women of THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD. And don't worry, there's not much me in it. Now that I've delivered this announcement, I think I'm going to try to sleep it off. No, I don't mean my mood--I mean my entire life.

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The LNI Presents IVOR CUTLER!

Tonight, Doc Ellis takes a solo look at Ivor Cutler, a demented Scottish visionary and rogue SubGenius. In a long and varied career, this quirky eccentric transformed life into an obtuse, loopy goof, turning words and music on their ear and out their ass to create visions of captivating charm and arresting insight. Some may recall his role as the bus conductor Buster Bloodvessel in The Beatles' MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR--at any rate, after tonight's show, everyone will be hip to the beat when it comes to this intriguing icon of bizarre Slack. Here--if you don't believe me, look at his wiki page... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Cutler

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Tucker Booth Needs A Job! #40

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Luis Leon of the Dream 9

Luis Leon was born in Veracruz, Mexico but has been living in the U.S. since the age of 5 with his parents. In 2011, after graduating high school in Marion, NC, Luis self-deported to Mexico because of the high cost of higher education to undocumented immigrants here. In July, he and 8 other immigrants who'd been living in the U.S. attempted to publicly re-enter from Mexico. This week's episode features a conversation with Luis about his experiences in Western NC, moving back to Mexico, being detained in Arizona and now being back in the U.S. and fighting for the chance for higher education. The National Immigrant Youth Alliance: http://theniya.org/ NC Dream Team: http://ncdreamteam.org The Playlist can be found here: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/7490

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Broadcast One Hundred Forty Six

Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, DIY, freeform exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound and music in all genres ... including 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, vinyl records and even endangered cds. Each week I play an ecclectic blend of tunes released between 1900 (more or less) and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture in the spirit of free radio

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Broadcast One Hundred Forty Five

Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, DIY, freeform exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound and music in all genres ... including 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, vinyl records and even endangered cds. Each week I play an ecclectic blend of tunes released between 1900 (more or less) and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture in the spirit of free radio

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The Lucky Ones

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Craig Street cats

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amanda & hayes @ longboards obx

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amanda &hayes obx

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Saturday Morning Live 13.08.24

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The Taxcast (August 2013)

In the August 2013 Taxcast: We look at why development money is being invested in developing countries via tax havens and the under-reported elements of the tensions between Spain and Britain over the territory of Gibraltar. Also: tax and the environment: making the polluter pay instead of paying the polluter. The Taxcast investigates the Carbon Tax in British Columbia, Canada.

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Radio Sweden The Searchers 1960s

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Chelsea Manning, Immigration Reform, Egypt Crisis

Sentence handed down to individual formerly known as Bradley Manning, plus Egypt in conflict and immigration reform struggle.

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444 - US-sponsored Coups in Iran, Egypt, Syria

News You Need to Know: US-sponsored Coups in Iran, Egypt, Syria; Between the Lines; music.

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News Update - Firehouse Theatre

Firehouse Theatre developments, including the resignation of four more board members and the new managing director. Since late last year, the venerable Richmond theater has been rocked by shakeups after the ouster of former artistic director Carol Piersol

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Operation Sack Lunch (OSL)

Interview with Beverly Graham, Founding Executive Director of Operation Sack Lunch (OSL) the largest meal provider program for the homeless and food insecure in Washington State.

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Eat the Airwaves! - 08/24/13

Wrap-up of the past weeks news with Maria Tomchick of Eat the State!

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Prisoner Justice Day

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Sefan Christoff

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Reform or Revolution?

Cindy interview Jonathan Simon, author of Code Red: Computerized Election Theft And The New American Century, is a co-founder and currently Executive Director of Election Defense Alliance (www.ElectionDefenseAlliance.org)

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#661 - Countering Intelligence 4

This week, a radio adaptation of Drone Nation, the last part of Scott Noble's Counter Intelligence film, which begins by noting that the under the NDAA, the US president has claimed the power to kill anyone, any time, without notice. It traces the logic back from US drone attacks which trialled the same amorality abroad, but notes that US skies are increasingly populated by drones from the FBI, Police Forces or other government agencies. Next, a talk by Medea Benjamin, author of "Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control", followed by a keynote speech from Glenn Greenwald at a Civil Liberties conference.

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August 23, 2013

African "tradi-mod," where folkloric music meets electronica; salsa under construction in the 1950's; the best of reggae's summer of 2013; the bluesy sounds of North Africa

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Out of the Woods - Show #177 8-23-13

This version of the program is divided into 6 segments so broadcasters who desire to use this content can insert your station info, etc. The segments vary in length, but I try to keep them approximately 30 minutes in most cases. Out of the Woods is an earthy, wires and wood, mostly acoustic program featuring some of the best new and established artists from the worlds of folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriters, alt.country, Americana, classic country, old-time, Celtic, and everything that falls in between. The show is an unpredictable mix flowing like a river between moods, often with an edge or in a melancholy minor key. On occasion, Out of the Woods features interviews and live in-studio performances with national and international touring musicians. Past guests have included artists such as Bela Fleck, Si Kahn, Brown Bird, Dana Robinson, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Bill Bourne, Karl Shiflett, Rachel Bissex, Darryl Purpose, Bow Thayer, Cosy Sheridan and many others. Out of the Woods grew out of Jon 'Chip' Colcord's former acoustic programs, The Song Swap and Music For The Mountain, separate folk and bluegrass programs which aired in New Hampshire during the 1990s. As a child, Colcord grew up a ravenous music fan with an ear for both rock and folk, from Arlo Guthrie to Aerosmith. All of these influences converge on Out of the Woods to bring you a mix which is as much on the edge as it is down home. Folk music with a rock 'n' roll soul

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The Happy Station Show August 24, 2013

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The Kelly Alexander Show August 24 2013

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Classic Media Network August 24 2013

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Switzerland In Sound August 24 2013

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Media Network Plus August 24 2013

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