as the internship seems to be winding down, now entering my last week as an intern, so has the work required of me.
as a result, more time for a final project.
and i've done two things...
1st: a faux music show that is a wannabe 2 hr program on XM Cafe featuring some of my favourite (yes, i prefer the british spelling of that word) songs currently.
2nd: the food show i mentioned some posts back.
i've completed a couple 10 minute interviews, one about markets, and one about soup. i also might throw in a segment about making chorizo and/or uncle brothas hot sauce, a local favourite (i managed to do it again).
and i have some perfect Tuvan throat singing for the interlude!
hopefully this will all be done by tomorrow.
cheers.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Soul Street
I finally plugged my Inno into my TV so I can blast it throughout my row house for my roomates and neighbors to hear.
all i find myself listening to is Soul Street...just too many grooves...
The Emotions - Best Of My Love
i wish i could just embed it already!
all i find myself listening to is Soul Street...just too many grooves...
The Emotions - Best Of My Love
i wish i could just embed it already!
Friday, March 7, 2008
Radio+ Food + DC
In the past few weeks I've been coming up with ideas for a final project. And while I love doing music shows, and I have a playlist going that I plan on voicetracking over (that would porobably fit well on XM Cafe or XMU), I would like to do something more challenging and utilize at least some of my journalism skills.
Anyways, I'm going to do a food show.
Name ideas:
DC Eats
District Consumption
Patomac Grub....
...ok, im still working on the name...but clearly you can tell, it would initially be focused on food in DC.
segments:
In the midst of this whole bacon craze, I have recently become obsessed with sausage. In the past week alone i have eaten Chorizo, Italian, and North Carolina Loose Sausage...and I'm dying to try more.
Luckily I live 3 blooks from Eastern Market where I can get a wide variety of home made sausages from my man Jose at Canales Deli.
anyways, so yea, we got a segment on sausages, types, making them, their history, blah blah blah...
Something I've noticed sausage goes exceptionally well with is Soup...
here we talk soup, preferably with a soup kitchen owner, discuss recipies, caned vs box soups, puree vs chunky, home made vs restaurants, and then if we have time, garnishes and accompaniments.
While in DC i've become fascinated with Carryout joints accross this city. For those of you who have never been outside of DC, it isnt there.
So why not do a Carryout taste test tour. Go from street to street tasting the best Lo Mein Friend Chicken Pizza. I shall begin this journey on H street.
There are many more ideas in the works, from Papusarias, to Ginger Milk Shakes, to the explosion of Gourmet Cupcakes, and of course a few restaurant reviews....
hopefully this will come together.
Anyways, I'm going to do a food show.
Name ideas:
DC Eats
District Consumption
Patomac Grub....
...ok, im still working on the name...but clearly you can tell, it would initially be focused on food in DC.
segments:
In the midst of this whole bacon craze, I have recently become obsessed with sausage. In the past week alone i have eaten Chorizo, Italian, and North Carolina Loose Sausage...and I'm dying to try more.
Luckily I live 3 blooks from Eastern Market where I can get a wide variety of home made sausages from my man Jose at Canales Deli.
anyways, so yea, we got a segment on sausages, types, making them, their history, blah blah blah...
Something I've noticed sausage goes exceptionally well with is Soup...
here we talk soup, preferably with a soup kitchen owner, discuss recipies, caned vs box soups, puree vs chunky, home made vs restaurants, and then if we have time, garnishes and accompaniments.
While in DC i've become fascinated with Carryout joints accross this city. For those of you who have never been outside of DC, it isnt there.
So why not do a Carryout taste test tour. Go from street to street tasting the best Lo Mein Friend Chicken Pizza. I shall begin this journey on H street.
There are many more ideas in the works, from Papusarias, to Ginger Milk Shakes, to the explosion of Gourmet Cupcakes, and of course a few restaurant reviews....
hopefully this will come together.
Writing for Radio
Writing for radio is harder than it seems. I've been assigned to write a lot of intros for shows and audio books, and im noticing how easy it is to sound confusing and incoherent while still being completely grammatically correct.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Shim Sham
I'm finally done editing massive amounts of radio dramas. Woot!
The past three weeks, I've essentially locked myself on one of those dalet booths and chopped up about 400 or so radio dramas for non-commercial play. Fun and engaging, yet at times tiresome and repatitive. I'm definately looking forward to some new projects....
...in thoughts...I've been going to this 'Japan! Culture + Hyperculture' event at the Kennedy Center and seeing some awesome, culturally unique, and perhaps quite weird music. I realized that they not only have free music everyday at 6pm for this event, but 365 days a year just about. Plus...there are no media sponsors...I think daily or weekly live events like these would be perfect for live or taped broadcast. Not only would this be a great marketing initiative on behelf of XM, but it would be an opportunity for all forms of music from pop to classical to avant garde/experimental to be heard, live...and yes i know theres an XM Live channel...but is it doing unique stuff quite like this?...
...and in a much more loosly related item regarding radio...i think one day i'd love to host a radio cooking and food show...it'd be a mix of cooking, recipies, criticism, interviews, international cuisine...just everything food!...Boss!
The past three weeks, I've essentially locked myself on one of those dalet booths and chopped up about 400 or so radio dramas for non-commercial play. Fun and engaging, yet at times tiresome and repatitive. I'm definately looking forward to some new projects....
...in thoughts...I've been going to this 'Japan! Culture + Hyperculture' event at the Kennedy Center and seeing some awesome, culturally unique, and perhaps quite weird music. I realized that they not only have free music everyday at 6pm for this event, but 365 days a year just about. Plus...there are no media sponsors...I think daily or weekly live events like these would be perfect for live or taped broadcast. Not only would this be a great marketing initiative on behelf of XM, but it would be an opportunity for all forms of music from pop to classical to avant garde/experimental to be heard, live...and yes i know theres an XM Live channel...but is it doing unique stuff quite like this?...
...and in a much more loosly related item regarding radio...i think one day i'd love to host a radio cooking and food show...it'd be a mix of cooking, recipies, criticism, interviews, international cuisine...just everything food!...Boss!
Monday, February 4, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Not having a computer has really hindered my capacity to blog. But in the meantime I've been making use of this handy little notebook of mine to record thoughts and also anything i need to know regarding databases or ingestion (a rather disturbing sounding word for CD ripping).
I realize that I always come into a new place with the expectation that it runs somewhat perfectly. And then everything I discuss about it ends up sounding negative because I dont always see the point of discussing something that runs smothly.
But cathcing a free show of the North Mississippi All Stars in front of 40 or so people is pretty fucking awesome. And I really enjoy, although it becomes rather repetitive, editing all these old radio dramas. I realized that I've never really listened to them before and its quite a shame that they will never again become prevalent in American culture. The masses just don't have the patience for it anymore.
Which makes me wonder what the ratings for Sonic Theater are. I really wonder how the ratings in general for all the unique XM talk and music channels line up to the basic hits stations or syndicated news channels.
In two weeks, I've also had some grievences about a few elements of XM radio. But most of them have become subdued after realizing that many idea's i've had have already been considered and/or implemented.
But there is still one thing...
I can't seem to reconcile the fact that all the posters of musicians around the headquarters are of old/classic artists, with the exception of Lenny Kravitz, whom I would argue is on the verge of washed up. I just think we could use some fresh faces around, especially walking into the lobby. I mean c'mon, who really wants to watch an acoustic performance of REO Speedwagon's "Heard It From A Friend Who..." (or whatever its called) everytime one comes into work. I'm sure there have been some better, more recent performaces worth projecting...(at least, hmm, North Mississippi All Stars).
Okay, back to the editing bay.
I realize that I always come into a new place with the expectation that it runs somewhat perfectly. And then everything I discuss about it ends up sounding negative because I dont always see the point of discussing something that runs smothly.
But cathcing a free show of the North Mississippi All Stars in front of 40 or so people is pretty fucking awesome. And I really enjoy, although it becomes rather repetitive, editing all these old radio dramas. I realized that I've never really listened to them before and its quite a shame that they will never again become prevalent in American culture. The masses just don't have the patience for it anymore.
Which makes me wonder what the ratings for Sonic Theater are. I really wonder how the ratings in general for all the unique XM talk and music channels line up to the basic hits stations or syndicated news channels.
In two weeks, I've also had some grievences about a few elements of XM radio. But most of them have become subdued after realizing that many idea's i've had have already been considered and/or implemented.
But there is still one thing...
I can't seem to reconcile the fact that all the posters of musicians around the headquarters are of old/classic artists, with the exception of Lenny Kravitz, whom I would argue is on the verge of washed up. I just think we could use some fresh faces around, especially walking into the lobby. I mean c'mon, who really wants to watch an acoustic performance of REO Speedwagon's "Heard It From A Friend Who..." (or whatever its called) everytime one comes into work. I'm sure there have been some better, more recent performaces worth projecting...(at least, hmm, North Mississippi All Stars).
Okay, back to the editing bay.
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