Air America Radio: On the Air
Posted on March 31, 2004 at 11:42 am | No Comments
In less than 30 minutes, Air America goes live.
It’s Al Franken’s new baby, a left-leaning talk-radio network, and it’s here to help balance out the right-dominated airwaves. Finally. Other on-air hosts include Janeane Garofalo (a three hour evening slot!), comedian Lizz Winstead, and Public Enemy’s Chuck D. Can’t wait to hear what they’ve got planned.
Unfortunately for us Bostonians, it’s only available in NYC, LA, Chicago, Portland, and Inland Empire, CA. According to their website, however, they’ll offer online streams as soon as they go live, in addition to an XM Satellite Radio feed. Great news. If the streams appear online, I’ll be listening closely.
update: The stream is up. “Broadcasting from an underground bunker 3500 feet below Dick Cheney’s bunker.” Click here to listen live. The first official episode of “The O’Franken Factor” has hit the airwaves, and while there’s some expected network congestion, Al already has me laughing.
“To Bill O’Reilly: Satire is still protected speech, even if the subject of that satire doesn’t get it.”
another update: : After a little searching, I’ve discovered that one of the stations on Air America’s initial broadcast list, Portland, Oregon’s KPOJ, has their own online stream. Go here for the hookup. For now, it’s much more stable than the direct Air America feed.
Paging Mr. Shields / Hellboy
Posted on March 30, 2004 at 8:53 am | No Comments
The elusive (and muchly missed) Kevin Shields speaks. That little taste of his work on the Lost in Translation soundtrack was just not enough to satisfy… all we can do is hope for more. Which we’re pretty used to doing, actually.
I love finding out that MBV referred to that mind-bending breakdown during You Made Me Realise as “the holocaust”.
(and I know this article is, by now, two weeks old. What can I say? I was outta town.)
So we saw a preview of Hellboy last night, and it was just excellent. Nearly matched my dangerously high expectations. Visually right on, incorporating bits of existing Mignola stories, great casting (although it’s impossible for me to take Jeffrey Tambor seriously in anything thanks to Arrested Development). I really hope this sucker does well this weekend… goes without saying that I’d like to see a sequel or three.
Memo to the all-too-serious: It’s A Comic. Book. Movie. About a huge, red, kitty-loving, nacho-eating, horned guy. Yes, it’s a little over the top… it’s supposed to be. Yes, logic gets the short shrift at times (clothes vs. fire?), but try to ease up on the nitpicking. Do yourself and your fellow audiences members a favor and let yer imagination take over when you go.
Here’s a little treat. The Breeders, doing the Pixies’ Gigantic, with Joey Santiago guesting on guitar. If the Pixies reunion weren’t already happening, this sure would have fueled those rumors.