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mediageek

@mediageek@mastodon.social

Podcasting and radio, with a dabbling of film and digital photography. Professionally, Chief Insights Officer at audio research firm Signal Hill Insights.

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mediageek, to random
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@inquiline @Chanders Now I can’t help associating you with Mr. Bean.

mediageek,
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@inquiline @Chanders Time for mrbean.social

inquiline, to longbeach
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I still try to give the neighbors space on the sidewalk when I encounter them
#CovidIsNotOver #LongBeach

mediageek,
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@inquiline We have a cute mallard couple roaming our neighborhood, which our dog is way too interested in investigating. They're quite nonplussed, but nevertheless we keep her at a distance.

ernie, to random
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you ever have something go so viral that it gives you writer’s block

mediageek,
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@ernie humblebrag? :coolcat:

mediageek, to random
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At least two-fifths of Roth-era Van Halen lyrics are just DLR having a conversation with the voices in his head:
“Hello, hey you
Who said that?
Baby, how you been?”

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In the continued adventures of Glenn Flies A Lot (trip #8 by air in last 14 months), I have a terribly early morning return in a couple days home…and Alaska already put me in first class. The flight, to be fair, will be half empty. I think this is a repositioning flight they do for timing reasons. I earned Alaska status last year and I will take the reward. So far, been offered or given premier and first class on about 70% of flights!

mediageek,
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@glennf As a PNWer I definitely appreciate Alaska status. I barely miss getting upgraded to Premier, at least. I don't know if you do this, but you can usually upgrade yourself to Premier ~24 hours before a flight, rather than wait for it to happen automatically.

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I love it when a podcast listener reaches out to tell us about their new book, which is completely up our alley. While I'm sympathetic to the desire to chase a mass audience, my heart is with the joy and power of niche.

ernie, to random
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Can’t wait for the winnings from Scarlett Johansson’s OpenAI settlement to help Colin Jost pimp out that ferry he bought with Pete Davidson

mediageek,
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@ernie
I'm on a ferry
I'm on a ferry
Everybody look at me, 'cause I'm sailing on a ferry
Take a good, hard look at the motherf**king ferry

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On this show I played some of my favorite tracks brought to us by the late Steve Albini (gone too soon). Then I dived into the global jazz fusion sea. Featuring The Jesus Lizard, Murder Inc., PJ Harvey, Shellac, Big Black, The Ex, Melt-Banana, Zeni Geva, Robbie Fulks, Gogol Bordello, Niemen, Happy End.
https://www.mixcloud.com/djscummyb/not-american-top-40-062-transmissions-from-albini/

mediageek, to random
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Traversing so many rich garden paths on the internet tonight. So many fertile delights just underneath the factory farmed topsoil.

mediageek,
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Stone cold classic: Sonic Outlaws. I had a 2nd or 3rd Gen VHS, and this YouTube rip is superior.
https://youtu.be/7UvW0Nq79Jw

mediageek,
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BTW copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.

mediageek,
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I mean, even Steve Jobs agreed: you must rip, mix and burn.

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Trolling the @internetarchive tonight and just had to share this compilation of music videos from 3/4" Umatic tapes, but starting off with a classic media collage culture jam. https://archive.org/details/pwvids-12

ernie, to random
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My milk crates arrive tomorrow. 20 pounds of milk crates, just like the Good Doctor ordered.

mediageek,
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@ernie Sounds like a new business. Tedium the Desk kits, just $599 + shipping.

inquiline, to random
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Something terrible happened (saw a Cybertruck)

mediageek,
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@inquiline still a cybertruck virgin here in Oregon.

ernie, to random
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I have an idea. I would like to build a desk for myself using a slab of wood and a bunch of milk crates.

Milk crates are cheap. You can buy them for $5-$6 each on specialty sites.

I have the perfect spot for it on my third floor, next to a window. I could theoretically fit a 100-inch slab of wood in the spot.

mediageek,
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@ernie In the olden days, you'd just nick them from behind a supermarket.

inquiline, to random
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Aw man RIP Steve Albini 😭

mediageek,
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@inquiline Right? None of us needs to be perfect, just own up to your own shit.

Gone too young, too soon.

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"The walled enclosures that crowded out much of that acre of developed land still reside within an infinite expanse of possibility. There are no limits to the web — if it has borders, they are ever expanding. We may feel as though we are trapped in a tiny, crowded, noisy space, but it is only because we don't see over the walls."

Yes, we CAN have a different web! Hooray @molly0xfff 💯

Also, I might argue we do have a different web now, when we peer over those walls.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

Defiance, to music
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I was unaware Daryl Hall did this kind of power pop / post-punk music. Is all of his solo stuff like this? Digging this track rn. 🎸 🤩

#music #PowerPop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJaMfQtvuis

mediageek,
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@Defiance This is THE Daryl Hall record! Recorded with Robert Fripp producing, then shelved by the label for a few years because they worried it would interfere with the rising popularity of Hall and Oates. He's otherwise never done something quite like it. It was a a bit of a holy grail for a long time, though re-released finally a few years ago and available for streaming, too.

Fripp was recently on Daryl's TV show performing the same track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd7BdzzY8BQ

mediageek, to random
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Columbia University student radio reporting live on NYPD advancing in campus and Hamilton Hall. Station’s website is up and down due to traffic but direct streaming link is stable.

http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u

ernie, to random
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Catching up on the Watcher controversy and nobody is talking about the obvious reason this whole mess came up: There were things that they liked making that couldn't get sponsors, and they wanted to make those things.

It's the same reason Neil Young once made Trans. They are stuck with an audience (and an algorithm) that wants one thing and they want to make something else.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/another-youtuber-couch-apology

mediageek,
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@ernie This pretty much sums it up, doesn't it? "A subscription-based business requires an active fandom. And an ad-supported business requires a much bigger, and thus, usually more passive fandom."

Tough to build for both. If you're extremely successful with a huge audience, then you may have an opportunity to tack on subscription. But not necessarily.

mediageek,
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@ernie Isn't that the classic struggle of art in mass media?

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Rob Ray @shimmeringtrashpile workshopping in the MAL - we're livestreaming to Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology) via the Panasonic OmniMovie VHS Movie Camera Recorder/Playback System

mediageek,
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@mediaarchaeologylab @shimmeringtrashpile Love seeing that 80s style footage. That looks more like tube pickup than a CCD. I know some early OmniMovie models used tubes -- what model is that one?

mediageek, to random
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We can still say, “OK, Boomer,” right? ‘Cause we still need to.

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