Sunday, November 16, 2014

Random Radiation Notes
From All Over The Dial

Can't live w/ it, can't live w/o it.
Via LAObserved, Harvey Kubernik (Pointless disclosure: I may have been introduced to Mr. Kubernik once, or perhaps not; he knew, & may still, the rock crit faction of the Angry Samoans.) wrote a book about the radio. Local Area radio. ("Boss Radio" KHJ is no doubt mentioned therein, not that it ever broke any new acts or was worth hearing. "93 KHJ!" is now owned & operated by Roman Catholics, & programmed accordingly.)

Actual point, if there is one, is that Kubernik was interviewed (And on the radio, yet. Ironic, or wut?) recently, saving us all the trouble of buying/reading the book.

Goobers by whom we have not been unamused, what w/ only listening to the radio when out & about & seldom leaving the bunker prior to mid-afternoon. What, NPR? Radio music? The bourgeois horror of NPR music? Buy an i(diot)Phone?

One more peripherally related to radio & music item for a trifecta of tedium. Wonder how much Brazilian bus magnate Zero F. would pay for the M. Bouffant collection?

1 comment:

Weird Dave said...

From the time when 49 meters was considered 'short'*.

One of the links:
If KPCC is a Prius, the Petros and Money Show is a Camaro clown car.
That's a keeper.

The problem with Zero's collection is most of it will never be heard again.
I hope with yours you at least sometimes listen to them.






*I believe technically the AM band is considered medium wave.