From Somewhere, Volume Two

There will be Cons….

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by mike.
Categories: werks.

Alrighty, Spring is here. And Con season is upon us. I have two appearances thus far to let you know about:

TIMEGATE- This one’s a Doctor Who / Stargate con going down in the ATL Memorial Day Weekend (May 23rd - May 26th). I’ve been invited to take part in a few of the Who and Torchwood related panels.

You can check them out right HERE (I am there on the event schedule for the panels, however the scheduling folk misspelled/ mis-listed my pen name twice-but I won’t hold it against them) .

DRAGONCON- Of course, there’s always Dragon Con- it’s Labor Day Weekend (August 29th - September 1st). I’ll be there with the Need Coffee faction. Events (with guests so special, I don’t even know about them yet). TBA.

And you can get more info about the con HERE .

You can also visit our friends at the Brit Track and X-Track HERE and HERE , respectively.

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The Playlist Episode 2.06 : Name Value

Posted on April 26th, 2008 by mike.
Categories: radiowerks presents...., werks.

(PL16) In an entirely new episode , we have a bunch of songs about names.

Featuring selections from: Kaiser Chiefs, Buddy Holly, Stevie Wonder, Sons & Daughters, The Decemberists, and more…..

 

 The Playlist, Episode 2.06 : Name Value [62:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (48)

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The Playlist, Episode 2.05: Crimewatch

Posted on April 16th, 2008 by mike.
Categories: radiowerks presents...., werks.

NOTE: This episode was originally recorded and released in October of 2007. Before everything went haywire with WordPress and PodPress. Hopefully, since we’ve upgraded behind the scenes- this episode will actually go out this time.

So, in an experimental testing kind of way, we’re re-releasing 2.05. And if this goes well, we can finally get 2.06 out…..

 

 The Playlist 2.5: Crimewatch [56:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (34)

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Weekend Justice picks

Posted on March 24th, 2008 by mike.
Categories: Uncategorized.

My picks from the current Weekend Justice episode:

1. The Best Actors in the World: Shakespeare and his Acting Company by David Grote
2. Night Time, Fires Dances, and Pandemonium by Killing Joke (EMI, Reissues)
3. Lust Lust Lust by The Raveonettes
4. Sunshine (DVD)- Directed by Danny Boyle
5. Buffy Season Eight Volume 2 : No Future for You by Brain K Vaughan

We also mentioned Life On Mars, The Closer, Astonishing X-Men: Second Stage, QI, Nevermind the Buzzcocks, Top Gear, and Dexter.

NOTE to BBC WORLDWIDE: If QI, LoM, Top Gear, and Buzzcocks were commercially available in the United States- I could have linked to those products as well. Makes you think, doesn’t it?

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Follow ups

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by mike.
Categories: SCA, fiction, from somewhere notebook, radiowerks presents.....

Ok, responding to a a few questions I’ve gotten in:

1) No, I don’t know why iTunes hasn’t updated the recent Playlist episodes. I’ve checked and validated the feeds, and they all seem to work. I believe the issue is somewhere on Apple’s end (I know quite a few folks having the same issue).

2) In my continuing efforts to organize my schedue, The Playlist will become a monthly show. The next episode is called “Crimewatch” will pop up in March April (having to reapply upgrades to various softwares-ackkkk!!!) . Thank you for your patience.

3) The “pilot” for Weekend Justice version 3.0 went up on Need Coffee over the weekend. I think Widge has licked the audio issues in the test run- so hopefully the first proper show will ditch the underwater sound :-).

4) RE: My Weekend Justice pick in that test run was Distortion by The Magnetic Fields. And if you swing by the Nonesuch Records store and order the CD, you get a high quality (320kbs, people) download of the album as well.

While you’re there, pick up the There Will be Blood score by Johnny Greenwood. It’s a brilliant score, and the lack of Oscar love is criminal.

5) Current Projects are as follows:

1. Need Coffee dot com: General Commentary, Television News and Reviews (when TV resumes after the strike, that is..), Music Forum Moderator, Ning area content guy and occational talking head on the Weekend Justice podcast.
2. The Playlist : Monthly Episodes resume in March.
3. Undesirable Notions : Flash fiction in small, bite sized doses. coming soon.
4. Worlds Tour: yep, still scribbling. trying to get the levels right. we’re closer still- stay tuned.

6) Oh yes, there will be cons. We’ll talk about that soon….

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Radio Song

Posted on January 26th, 2008 by mike.
Categories: rants.

Before I went into illness, I posted about Atlanta’s 99x skipping off the FM dial to the internet. Since that switch went down Friday, I thought I’d update.

At 5:30 on Friday morning, modern rock / ‘alternative’ minded 99x vacated its 99.7 frequency to top 40 sister station Q100.

The last song played by 99x was inexplicably Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”, while far better final song choices (Elvis Costello’s “Radio, Radio”, REM’s “Radio Song”, and The Smiths’ “Panic”) were aired by the remaining DJs to end their shifts.

Following the Green Day song, however, a technical gaffe caused both 99.7 and 100.5 frequencies to air a looped recording advising people looking for Q100 to tune the new 99.7 frequency-which, in what would seemed like 99x’s final misguided dose of irony, knocked Q100 off the air altogether for about eight minutes. But, it was simply not to be- as 99x’s new Windows Media-based ‘visual radio’ internet existence bowed in just after 11 AM, over an hour later than its advertised debut.

Welcome to the internet, 99x. You won’t survive the experience, of course, and no one really expects that. But it’s been a fascinating train wreck to watch.

Good riddance, indeed.

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99X returns to the dust: 1992-2008

Posted on January 13th, 2008 by mike.
Categories: from somewhere notebook, rants.

Interesting news for readers in the Atlanta area. 99x, the big Alternative station in town-is being quietly taken out back and shot, possibly for playing far too much Fall Out Boy and still trying call itself “alternative”.

99x is set to leave the airwaves over the next two weeks in a slow phase out as its Top 40 sister station Q100 settles into the 99.7 frequency. Meanwhile, the influential alternative format station will remain on life support via internet streaming and for the estimated three people in the market who have HD radio.
The planned phase out of 99x into the eventual Q99 (?) is eerily reminiscent of 99x’s original October 1992 roll out, replacing then Top 40 Station “Power 99″.

Before I moved here, picking up 99x was always a sign that I was close to Atlanta- but not close enough to pick up the infinitely superior Album 88. But for what it was- 99x showcased the ‘mainstream alternative’ acts and had a pretty good relationship with many of the local scenes.

Certain members of 99x’s talent are currently rumored to be moving over to Q100’s soon-to-be-vacant 100.5 frequency in a new “rock leaning” format said to be headed up by the return of the Regular Guys Morning Show.

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Blog Management Lesson #4782: re-purposing and down sizing

Posted on January 9th, 2008 by mike.
Categories: werks.

Over the holdiays, plans were made for some exciting changes and happenings over at Need Coffee.  And to go along with that, I’m making a few more changes to my own blogs:

FROM SOMEWHERE, VOLUME TWO (which would be here) is going to continue on with the usual assortment of random thoughts, funny bits, and observations. Going forward, though, the items here may be less entertainment based.

Much of my TV coverage is in the process of going over to Need Coffee, which sort of leaves TEST PATTERNS in a bit of a limbo right now- as we try test the waters to figure out which portions of the television coverage (reviews, essays, the news bits, or all of the above) works best at NC.

Due to technical difficulties (ahem, BLOGGERSUCKS cough, cough), the WGA strike, and a complete disinterest in ‘reality’ television- TEST PATTERNS hasn’t really had much to say.

But if you’ve come looking for TV stuff, or if somehow you’ve wandered this way due to my participation in Bravo’s TV BIG SHOT game , please hop on over to Need Coffee and support.  

I will, however, continue to periodically update my experience with the game over at the PATTERNS.

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The Playlist Class of 2007

Posted on December 30th, 2007 by mike.
Categories: radiowerks presents...., werks.

The Best of the Best Super Sized Episode featuring Spoon, The Go! Team, LCD Soundsystem, Battles, Bloc Party, The Shins, Traveling Willburys, Radiohead, Mark Ronson and more…

 

 The Playlist Class of 2007 [87:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (56)

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Vivendi and Activision Merge- all your addictions is ours

Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by mike.
Categories: from somewhere notebook.

In a move that, well, damn well suprised both EA and Microsoft (who were also courting them not too long ago),  Vivendi and Activsion will merge (in a series of complex combo transactions of stock and cash that would make any World of Warcraft player proud) to form Activision Blizzard.

For the record, Activision will oversee production of all the (formerly Universal) Vivendi games, franchises, and IPs (Crash, Spyro, Call of Duty); Blizzard (WoW, Warhammer, Diablo) will continue to operate mostly independently.

And since Activision also bought Guitar Hero pub Red Octane earlier this year, that places both your GH Axe and you WoW axe under the same roof. It also makes the combined company the largest Vid Game publisher, just overtaking EA until they buy someone else.

(Atari on line two….)

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