Podcasting about art and activism since 2005
Hey kids! I am opening a show this Friday, so I am going to take a break from podcasting this week. Next week should be a big one, tho. I will be producing my first show for the Central City Co-op, and some other suprises. Stay tuned!
The short film Wow and Flutter is on the DVD that came with this month’s Paste Magazine. It tells the story of an adolescent boy and his love affair with music and the process of making a mix tape for his first crush. Just great, and this kid reminds me a little too much of …
After reading Thurston Moore’s Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture (thanks Curtis!), my longing for the days of making mix tapes has grown. Back before CD burning was so commonplace, and before I digitized my CD collection, I would sit on the floor of my apartment surrounded by CDs, mixing, and listening, and backing …
This is where Tookie Williams will be tucked in by Gov Arnold tonight at 12:01AM. Funny how these horrifying images never quite make it onto CNN. [image long since lost] Thanks to bicyclemark for directing me to these pics.
I’ll have a new show up late tonight or sometime tomorrow. FYI, I will be on Yeast Radio’s Thanksgiving Episode, discussing the Dec 13th execution of five time Nobel Prize Nominee Stan “Tookie” Williams with the illustrious Ms. Weinsteins. I’ll have more info about that on my show as well. More later.
A writer for The Houston Press is going to come over on Monday morning to interview me and hang out while I record an episode of MikeyPod on the Bayou. He is doing a feature story on Houston Podcasters, just in time for me to rant about prop 2. At last, the world is catching …
I really can’t bear to stay here knowing that 76% of the people of Texas hate me. I have been through this before tho, so I would like to say that I am beginning to explore the idea of moving to Brooklyn. Would you be willing to give me some of your financial guidance as …
I won’t be posting another show until later in the week. I am working on getting my audio better and I refuse to do another show with that damned high frequency noise. As a minor consolation, I posted a downloadable mixtape on my livejournal that you may enjoy. Look forward to a brand new MikePod …