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Every Wednesday Jake and Sasha slave and slave to put together a wonderful and informative program for your listening enjoyment. However, they have to compete with the likes of Grey’s Anatomy and other fall boob tube favorites. We just wanted to remind everyone how wonderful Jake and Sasha are. I heard they are space aliens from outer space. And also, every week they feature a family tree–a grouping of songs that are thematically linked or artists that have a common thread. Also, towards the end of each DJ shift (every Wednesday 7:30 to 9:30 PST) they play a stellar-stoner-freakout-jam. Tune in every week and you’ll be a better person for it.

Just got this in an email spam. The subject line just said “Elvis”.

Elvis MP3

Man, that voice is weird.

We all got together this Sunday to formally meet and greet eachother. From the looks of it, some of dj’s even found true love.

Inspired by his father’s profession as a dream psychologist, Andras Jones conceptualized a way to divine futures, interpret “music as if they were our dreams” through The Radio8Ball Show It’s a radio show on KAOS 89.3 in Olympia, Washington, and a live experimental stage show that travels. Capital Hill Arts Center (CHAC) in Seattle is home-base for the monthly stage show.

The premise for the stage show is as simple as it is unique. Audience members are invited onstage to ask questions of the oracle. Their answers are chosen by spinning a wheel which picks one of the musical artists’ songs. When the wheel stops the musical act plays the song and then, with the help of “Professor” Jones, the answer is interpreted.

This month’s musical guest is Jenny Jenkins, and the live show hosted by Andras Jones is Thursday, October 11th at 7pm.
Additional music by Osiris Indriya. $15/pre-sale. Has anyone seen this show before? Sounds pretty awesome…

You can watch this in its full film-quality glory Wed Oct 17! More info below…

Cast a Hook is playing Wed Oct 17 at Northwest Film Forum (map/directions) as part of the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Fest. The Music Box: Shorts show starts at 6pm. Clydeoskope and Prismatic will be in attendance, along with all your other favorite fabulous stars of the video screen. Come and vote!

Our streaming host has changed the ip address as of today.

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Lots of things going on at at Hollow Earth Radio : a growing group of dj’s and a lot of effort going into archiving found sound. You can go here to look at our little collection for downloads.

My friend,Tim Boucher, reminded me of this sci-fi daydream I had of the future of radio. I think it’s not really about radio so much as what’s happening with the fact that we are now so saturated with independent media. Here’s the thought:

“In the future - there will be a comeback for radio, and it will become popular again in the underground. With the overwhelming bombardment of music on the internet, and the forced accessibility - young people will grow bored of having everything at their fingertips. Out of this, a buzz will go around about building your own radios / radio stations.

There will be a shift in the way people think about media distribution. One of the reasons the radio comeback will be interesting will be in the actual physical hunt to find it - as the majority of frequencies will be short range and inconsistent. Picture people roaming the streets with homemade cyberpunk radios seeking out weak signals in the forest. With the large catalog of music to select from on the internet, people will seek out a different thrill. The balance will shift and the importance will be heavy on mixing of genres and broadcast performance, locality, genuine human experience. Perhaps just in the unique experience of being in that geographical place and that time and possibly being the only one listening. And because commercial radio will become have so outdated as to have gone out of business, the citizen band will be extended and the only radio will be what we would now call ‘pirate.’”

As Tim Boucher says: “we need to create a new internet”.

–Garrett Kelly

Hey All, DJ Tonjia Atomic here with the eighth and final installment of the Webelos tour diary.

09-01-07

Day Eight- Sacramento, CA

We are in Fairoaks which is a suburb of Sacrameto?
Played: NA
Other bands: NA

Ate at Sunflower and stopped at the Olive Pit

me: We woke up and turned on the TV. We just couldn’t tear ourselves away from Red Dragon for a while- Ed Norton and all (also it was awful). Then we went to Sunflower for nut burgers and smoothies. I guess that Fairoaks is known for having roosters that just live there and hang out. We went to the park and saw tons of roosters. Then Josh and I went to the hardware store so he could buy a little fan because it was so shit balls hot! Then it was off to I-5 for the long stretch home.

The longest drive ever happened to us this day. We kept trying to figure out if there was an easy way to get to highway 1 so we could drive along the coast, but alas, there was none. We drove back the way that we came- along I-5. All of the sudden (hours later) we saw this huge billboard for some place called the Olive Pit. Every couple of miles or so we saw these mystical glittering signs. The Olive Pit claimed coffee, ice cream, fruit, nuts, fun for kids, and olives…olives…OLIVES!!!! Some of the billboards portrayed a small boy completely enraptured by a large green olive. You know how kids love olives…. We were captured by the intrigue of this so called Olive Pit. We followed the signs for many miles and when, finally we reached this oasis we had to make a stop.

We were expecting a sort of rustic mom and pop type of country store kind of place from the billboards advertising the Olive Pit. What we found was a giant warehouse full of jars of Olives in what looked like an abandoned Sherry’s. The coffee that it boasted was an old pot of Boyd’s and the ice cream were opened boxes of Dryers sitting in a freezer. I made the mistake of buying an intense coffee slurpie. The one thing that did live up to its reputation was the tasting station where we had an olive or two in the name of adventure. I was disappointed that there were no lemon olives, which I recently discovered are really good tequila chasers.

Another long stretch of road and we were in Oregon where we stopped at an actual Sherry’s. I ordered stuffed hash browns but received regular hash browns and then decided that the stuffed hash browns were probably gross. From there we were going to drive all the way back to Seattle, but I was so tired and out of it that I wouldn’t have been able to make it the entire way. Jim called his friend, one that we met in at the house show the first night, and we stayed with her. Josh slept on the couch and I made a little bed on the floor next to him out of sleeping bags.

In the morning we woke up and were mesmerized by an Ed Norton movie that was on TV. I was also mesmerized by a cute black kittie that looked a little like mine. We went out for a nice brunch and then to the great big bookstore that is so famous.

Our ride home was much easier that day. We stopped at my parent’s house to get Josh’s car. Then Josh went straight to Hollow Earth Radio for his DJ shift!

After we unloaded the equipment I took Jim home to the now defunct S. S. Marie Antoinette. Then it was home sweet home!!

~DJ Tonjia Atomic