The Party Party

When you find yourself living in a time and place where the leaders are moving the herds down the road of the new dark ages and all around you is a disney colored walmart cheapness bizzaro world of what might have been you have two basic choices....off yourself or dance on theheads of the powerfull until they either drag you away or you cave in thier skulls.

And thus we find The Party Party

Listen, dance, and in the process hope a few thick skulls crack open. If not, ya still had a nice groove going.

SoundSeeing Tours .. Everything old is new again........

In the last couple of months all manner of recording archavists have been putting up amazing new recordings whose roots go back much further than most of the creators realize. For instance, sound seeing tours are going great gang busters, but for decades the recording of a time and place has been happening in force. Of course with the nets reach these old things, and the new ones, are reaching a wider audience than ever before.

Something Old....

" In the late 1950s, photographer O. Winston Link decided to document the end of an era -- capturing steam trains in pictures and sound recordings. Using an 80-pound tape recorder hooked up to a custom-built portable power supply, Link recorded on the trains themselves, and in the towns they passed through."

Jean Shepherd 1970 tour of a steel mill

Something New....

Adam Curry records a chunk of his day which includes an interview at the BBC, a train ride and some London street happenings.

Father Roderick goes deep inside the Vatican palace, where no journalist has ever been before.

More new Tours

Old Time Radio Podcasts

As with all tech Old Time Radio will always find a place in the brand new jimmys. So now we got podcasting. Here are a few I am doing up, please post more if you know of them.

Flashback Radio

Jean Shepherd Podcast

Creator Consumer

Once again the tech has come to be such that the ease of entry is within the reach of folks who just a few months ago were not able to create all the wonder and glory that is the brand new jimmies. The new tech is the simple RSS feed with a special tag called an Enclosure. This somehow has made it so folks can create an MP3 of their musings, interests and the like and create what is now called a Podcast..

So what are some way to post up your Podcast? Glad you asked...

Blogcastng - This page will show you how to use a simple Blogger.com blog as the one and only thing you will need to roll the rss+enclosures and pass out the feed. Its just a simple bit of Blogger.com template code, totally low tech and totally free. And yes that's one of mine, how else did it get the first slot in this list?:)-

Webjay - Webjay is the child of Lucas Gonze and it is one of the slickest web based podcasting app. Webjay is a place to create playlists that can be shown as Podcasting rss+enclosures as well as xspf and even a spiffy bit of javascript to show on other websites..like blogger.com. Not only does Webjay offer a way to get your podcasts up, it is also the place for thousands of other playlists of goodies that you can incorporate into your list. Yep, you can reap the treasures others are listing up...the combinations of goodness abound. There are also methods to show the newest entries across the whole of the Webjay community and also which ones are getting the most play. Dive in and you'll come up in a month or two.

These are just two of my fave podcasting methods. What are yours?

Benjamen Walker's Theory Of Everything

The things I am finding in the flood of podcasting, webjaying, netstreaming goodness is astounding. Aside from the new stuff there are the old time radio shows, NPR regulars and the like...but every now and again something hits me and sticks. Benjamen Walker's Theory Of Everything is one of these.

At its core its a quest to know.

Ok here is something new in the way of listening to the items you see listed here. One of the regulars at webjay. The idea is a flash based mp3 player that can contain links to playlists. The upshot is you can listen to things via your browser maybe just to get a taste, maybe for the whole thing.

So here is a little first try. Just click on the play button to enjoy all of The Theory of Everything...

BashPodder

Podcasting? Yea its another buzzbuzz artifact word of the iPlod degeneration-ecccch, but the
idea is something that has been a long time in tweaking. Put simply podcasting is a way to automagicaly snag regularly posted audio reports from folks who have something worth hearing or from musicians who put out a steady stream of goodies and put those sound files someplace you can listen to them.

Yes, some of you are already wondering if you have heard this one before, and in fact you have but now of course it has the letters POD in it so somehow its new, amazingly new, really really new and by gum the world is going to change because of it. Imagine a flood of audio files form all the folks who blog talking about all the stuff they blog about because you know each and every word spoken is going to be precious and unique not to be missed by any intelligent thinking person. In short , and lets repeat this till it sinks in, 95% fecal matter 5% good.

So what do you need to be apart of the revolutionary brandnewjimmy? No, you don't need an iPlod, lets get that out of the way right off. If done right all you should need to do is make a list of sites with RSS feeds that you want to monitor every day for new goodies and then have those feeds gone thru looking for new goodies and finally have those goodies put somewhere you can get to them easily for listening.

I can hear some of you regulars mouthing the words "Wget" and by gosh by gum you are right on the money. Enter BashPodder

BashPodder is about 44 lines of shell scripting with this gem at its heart.....

wget -q -P $datadir "$url"

All you do is add the rss feeds you want to monitor in a file called bp.conf and run the script bashpodder.shell every day or so (you can even automate this with a single line in a crontab). Let it rip and come back latter to find the audio files in neat dated directories with playlist files to tie them all up if you want.

I love tech like this. It strips the BS off the marketing buzz and gets down to the heart of the matter. I also love this logo...



OK so if you must have some sort of graphical easy to use front end for your podcasting needs, try BPConf. This is a nice kde based gui that uses BashPodder as an engine to do the magic. Enjoy.

RAW and the Explorers of You

Two bits from a growing collection dedicated to the field of Psychedelic Futurism.

Consciousness, Drugs, Yoga And More

Part 1

Part 2

"new modern-day sort of communists"

"No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They don't think that those incentives should exist." Bill Gates

Playlists and Archives for Thomas Edison's Attic

Playlists and Archives for Thomas Edison's Attic: "WFMU 91.1 fm 90.1 fm wfmu.org

The audio curator at Edison National Historic Site rummages through the archives of the legendary Edison Laboratory of West Orange, New Jersey. Tune in for Edison cylinder and disc record rarities, many not heard since 'the old man' himself stashed them away, featuring: Tin Pan Alley pop songs, ragtime, vaudeville comedy sketches, flapper dance bands, old-time country tunes, historic classical music, laboratory experiments and other artifacts - all dating from 1888 through 1929."

The 12/07/04 show in MP3 format