Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Psykick Dancehall Stream
We have the technology (at least for now). Stream the Psykick Dancehall radio show here. Due to bandwidth and storage concerns, there'll probably only be a week or 2's shows up at any one time.
Friday, April 15, 2005
Talk Talk
Jim Ebenhoh, who once did an 8 hour MDID "marathon" on his college radio show at WHRB, gets me to be positively chatty in this interview. Jim lives in New Zealand now, and has changed his middle name to Ulysses, and his last name to Bastard. I hear his friends call him by his nickname, Lucky. Guess that Harvard education makes 'em smart after all. In an amazing coincidence, recent MDID bass king Matt Swanson has also changed his middle and last names to the very same thing, shortly after sending me detailed emails regarding fly fishing off the New Zealand coast with David Kilgour. Earlier last year, he was enjoying the crisp breezes of Norway.
Pop ups
I'm sure the web savvy among you have already figured this out, but the store page requires you to temporarily disable pop up blockers for it to work.
Somebody shoot me
before I ever become a "heritage artist".
Saturday, April 09, 2005
My Pope is Dead
I was raised Catholic, served as an altar boy until I was about 14, and left the church around the time my mother died in 1978, the year John Paul the II was "elected". If you want to know how I feel about the Catholic church now, just download this. I haven't actively watched any of the media coverage. I'm not watching much of any media coverage of anything these days, as real news reporting (at least on television) has gone the way of the dinosaur. Actually, it has recently been discovered right here in the triangle area that dinosaur bones have more flesh on them than most TV news reports these days. Still, traveling through airports this week made JPII funeral coverage unavoidable. What I do remember about the teachings of Jesus Christ are far far removed from the pomp and circumstance I briefly saw on those TV screens. I heard enough superlatives about the Pope in 5 minutes to know that no one was discussing his ridiculous (and dangerous in a world where AIDS is still increasing exponentially) ban on condom use, or any kind of birth control, his refusal to consider women for the priesthood, his refusal to consider to allow priests to marry, his lack of decisive action in the church's massive child abuse scandal. It's unbelievable that Cardinal Law, who did everything in his power as archbishop to cover up the scandal in his Boston diocese was allowed to lead one of the masses at JPII's memorial service. Maybe such discussions are not appropriate for a funeral, but I saw the same elevation to sainthood of an equally flawed world leader in the Reagan funeral. At least the Pope spoke out strongly against the Iraq war, although the media in this country hypocritically buried that voice at the time, and many devout Catholics are ignoring that obvious disconnect with their own support of the war. I'm not keeping my fingers crossed that the church will "elect" any pope that will give any ground on any of these issues. I think it's more likely that we will see more of the "morality" police (as if advocating against a practice (condom use) that could save the lives of thousands of people is moral), and more political capitulation. I'd love to be proven wrong.
The Store
You may have noticed a new link over to the left to the MDID store... I spent a few hours setting up a Paypal account to accept credit cards, so you can now purchase MDID stuff from this website directly. Note: You do NOT have to have a Paypal account to do this.. (just decline the sign up option when it comes up..)
Over the next few months, I'll be adding some special items here, including some live performance CD's, outtakes, and maybe even a video or 2.
I'm curious to know if this is all working properly so shoot me an email if you buy something.
Over the next few months, I'll be adding some special items here, including some live performance CD's, outtakes, and maybe even a video or 2.
I'm curious to know if this is all working properly so shoot me an email if you buy something.
