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.
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Cruising Altitude Departure 21, 2016 July 23
Best Thing for You To Do Is Hide: Transmission 318, 2017 January 11
We Let In Light and We Banish Shade: Transmission 317, 2017 January 4
Night Is Warm and the Stars Are Bright: Transmission 316, 2016 December 31
Haven't Got a Good Mind for the Details: Transmission 315, 2016 December 28
Cruising Altitude Departure 20, 2016 June 4
You Want It, You Buy It, You Forget It: Transmission 314, 2016 December 26
Consensus Or Confession, I Don't Recognize Depression: Transmission 313, 2016 December 21
Franchises of the Mind: Transmission 312, 2016 December 17
Memory Serves Us To Serve You: Transmission 311, 2016 December 14
Cruising Altitude Departure 19, 2016 March 13
You Don't Change, Or I Don't Notice Your Changing: Transmission 310, 2016 December 7
Unaware, Certainly, of Some Imminent Disaster: Transmission 309, 2016 November 30
Derange and Disengage Everything: Transmission 308, 2016 November 16
Just You and Me and Our Conspiracies: Transmission 307, 2016 November 9
As We Push Back the Frontiers of Science: Transmission 306, 2016 October 26
We Move Like Children Think Sometimes: Transmission 305, 2016 October 12
Tight As Slow Motion But Crazed With Devotion: Transmission 304, 2016 October 5
I Lose Myself in the Rituals of Bad Art and Failure: Transmission 303, 2016 September 28
Supposing We're All Wished Right Out Of Space: Transmission 302, 2016 September 21
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