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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U_D_M Detour 22, 2015 December 18
Here Am I, Your Special Island: Transmission 301, 2016 September 14
Running Towards Nothing: Transmission 300, 2016 September 7
U_D_M Detour 21, 2015 November 30
Something Might Happen, But I'm So Tired of That Word: Transmission 299, 2016 August 31
U_D_M Detour 20, 2015 October 30
You Say You Love the Shadow: Transmission 298, 2016 August 24
A Cheap Affair, A Sordid Truth: Transmission 297, 2016 August 19
When I Considered Chaos a Career: Transmission 296, 2016 August 17
Then They Expect You To Pick a Career: Transmission 295, 2016 August 10
It All Comes Down to Girls That Break My Heart: Transmission 294, 2016 August 8
Walk Me Down the Lane Where Shadows Will Be: Transmission 293, 2016 August 3
I Know That You Would Like Me If Only You Could See Me: Transmission 292, 2016 July 27
Gold Is the Sky in Concentrate: Transmission 291, 2016 July 20
Why the Grass Is Green and Why the Wind Is Never Seen: Transmission 290, 2016 July 16
A Discontinuous Continuity: Transmission 289, 2016 July 13
Hustlers Rustle and Pimps Pimp the Beat: Transmission 288, 2016 July 9
We'll Do Better Next Time, I Promise: Transmission 287, 2016 July 6
Gun For Hire, No Business Attire: Transmission 286, 2016 June 29
Feel Like A Soldier, Look Like A Thief: Transmission 285, 2016 June 22
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