I. VIDEO PARADE
Here’s a few videos that have been sitting in the ‘Favorites’ folder that you might find useful or amusing or both.
Opener is Rogan Taylor, Liverpudlian author of The Death & Resurrection Show: From Shaman to Superstar, explaining the meaning of football (soccer) in three minutes…
The rest of these are (I think?) self-explanatory…
II. AND A BRIEF APPEAL
to paraphrase the minutemen album title...
What Makes a Woman Start a Pirate Radio Station?
And: what makes a ragtag multi-ethnic, multi-generational band of bohemianish volunteer deejays and engineers willing to risk arrest, fines and even jail time to keep that pirate station on the air, blasting handpicked music onto the barren FM dial 18 hours a day for two years?
Sue Carpenter's forthcoming feature-length documentary 40 WATTS FROM NOWHERE, a look back at her mid/late-'90s L.A.-based pirate radio station KBLT, will answer these questions. You'll learn how the station started, how it functioned day-to-day and hour-to-hour and why it had to be shut down, as told by Sue (a well-known career journalist) and as many KBLT alumni as she could get on camera. (For those wondering: yes, that includes me. Sorry!)
The film features new visuals from KBLT house artist Camille Rose Garcia, loads of vintage footage shot in 1998 by Robert Sullivan (Possum Dixon) and... well, it's supposed to include a lot of the music from the scene/era, but that requires some substantial $$$ for licensing/blahblah. Which is why there's a fundraiser.1 Please chip in some bucks if you can — it'll go a long way in helping make this labor-of-love film be the film it deserves to be.
More Landlines soon (organizing some backlog!),
Jay Babcock
Southern Arizona
Landline is cost-free to all but you can help keep Landline from getting disconnected—and receive occasional bonus ‘Landline Special’ emails—by making your subscription a paying one. The button below gives you a 50% discount, meaning only $20/year (that’s $1.67/month)…
Other ways to sustain Landline: buy the guy a coffee or leave a tip of any amount in the PayPal TipJar. Thank you kindly.
Previously announced fundraiser was cancelled. This is the one to support.
youtube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAOIsd7TRGEc57y6w4zqeTOMFv6PeWAHh&si=9PAJmYJyi2d4j25a