This episode and the next are about clearing the decks, a “before and after” tableau, if you will. They are about how I cannot seem to perform the deck-clearing in a spontaneous, immediate way, and how I compensate (if that’s what I am doing) by making big changes at the level of concept. All of this is a fancy way of saying (as I seem to do with increasing frequency) that it was the end of one era and the beginning of another. I guess this archive is a way of keeping it all straight.
At this time my show was still “airing” on Wednesday nights, but because Covid was keeping us all out of the studio I was required to submit pre-recorded episodes on Tuesdays. This meant that the episode had to be planned, sequenced, and pasted together at some earlier point than that. I’m dancing around the unpleasant topic of May 25, 2020. I have forgotten what I thought about George Floyd’s death in the first 48 hours afterward. Maybe at the time I considered it merely another in a long line of murders (which of course it was), another video I didn’t want to see (which it also was).
One theory of “how music programs should respond to tragedy” is that they should offer some kind of escape, and I guess this program works in that way, if you want to see it that way.
You know what, though? I’m through “making sandwiches” and giving a platform to my inner critic. Let him get his own, and let the haters hate (I don’t imagine anyone considers this little radio show important enough to “hate” on it). What can I tell you? I am not 100% consistent and I am always doing my best in the moment. What “my best” is will always be an elusive, ephemeral thing, as I keep re-discovering.
BOMBAST playlist, 2020 May 27, 2100-2300:
time won't always heal and it eats at my mind
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We Smoked in Heaven and We Laughed Off Hell: Transmission 363, 2017 August 23
Everybody Tests the Membrane, But No One Pushes Through: Transmission 362, 2017 August 16
I Don't Want To Hear About Your Doom: Transmission 361, 2017 August 12
Here Comes the Bishop's Daughter: Transmission 360, 2017 August 5
U_D_M Detour 31, 2017 February 19
U_D_M Detour 30, 2017 February 12
U_D_M Detour 29, 2017 February 5
U_D_M Detour 28, 2017 January 29
U_D_M Detour 27, 2017 January 8
U_D_M Detour 26, 2017 January 1
U_D_M Detour 25, 2016 December 18
U_D_M Detour 24, 2016 November 13
Occasionally Lucid Commentary: Transmission 359, 2017 July 26
Cleaner Lyrics, For the Most Part: Transmission 358, 2017 July 22
Spiritually and Emotionally Uplifting Properties: Transmission 357, 2017 July 19
Missing from My Own Head: Transmission 356, 2017 July 16
Get Nowhere Twice As Fast: Transmission 355, 2017 July 13
Presumably, Supposably: Transmission 354, 2017 July 12
The Magic Wound: Transmission 353, 2017 July 8
Real-Time Critique Mode: Transmission 352, 2017 July 5
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