Flyswatter Show: Sushi

Flyswatter — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:28:38 +0000

Voicemail: 678-368-4935.

NaPodPoMo is winding down. I don’t know what my podcasting schedule will be after this month, but I will do my best to keep it up.

Shawn of Shawnogram left a very nice voicemail.

Today Halley, Maia and I went to a birthday party at an inexpensive sushi restaurant. We ate vegetarian. Then we went to a Korean grocery store to buy food for Maia to take to school tomorrow.

Also I applied for a job on the internet and when it got to the stupid psychology test that many employers make you take to weed out potential employees, I realized that I had mixed up the letters that indicated Strongly Agree with Strongly Disagree and had therefore failed the test. I am angry because I had already spent three hours filling out the application, in which they wanted to account for every single place I had ever worked in my life and also every period of unemployment, plus addresses, phone numbers, supervisors, etc. I am 50 years old. I can’t remember most of that information, and at any rate, many places of employment have moved or closed. I am growing extremely frustrated with the job search. I am beginning to believe I won’t find anything ever again.

Today I got a very nice thank you letter from a musician whose music I played on my show yesterday– Ilya Polishchuk, the incredibly talented Ukranian artist who does the one-man band Freeky Cleen. He sent “You Can’t Save Me” which is so fresh it was recorded yesterday. It is from his album Street Roots.

The only other musician in November 2009 who thanked me for playing his music is Adam Hoek, who is now a friend of mine on Facebook. It’s awesome when you can make friends with a musician–I have no musical talent myself and don’t really run around with too many musical people!

Flyswatter Show: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere

Flyswatter — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:31:08 +0000

Voicemail: 678-368-4935.

I am still having problems with my mixer. I replaced the USB audio interface, but the mixer is still cutting in and out and I’m getting bizarre effects at times. I also am still hearing radio interference when the mixer is on. I am not a happy camper. Obviously something is loose.

I just watched the six-part 1996 BBC miniseries “Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry. It was wonderful, though it was obviously filmed in low-budget videotape and the quality suffered greatly, reminding me of 1970s era Dr. Who. Neverwhere was a fantasy series involving a young Scottish guy named Richard who lived in London and who was engaged to be married, but a chance encounter with a young woman named Door who had been stabbed changed him and brought him into an alternative world called “London Below” as opposed to “London Above.” Brian Eno contributed the haunting score. There are quests, ordeals, betrayals, scary encounters, assassinations, riddles, and puzzles, and the episodic formula led to an adventure game quality. The series is out on DVD but I found it on Netflix Instant Watch.

For the music on today’s show, I play the southern-rock tinged “Jellyroll Lovin” by the one-man Ukranian band Freeky Cleen from the album Street Roots. I found the song on MusicAlley by Mevio.

Flyswatter Show » Freeky Cleen

Flyswatter Show: Sushi

Flyswatter Show: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere