I’ve just discovered Odeo, a web page that collects podcasts that you can listen to on your own time. I’ve been using it to catch up on old Studio 360 shows that I have missed due to my work schedule.
The October 22 show is an interview from 2002 with the late Spalding Gray, with many live bits of Spalding performing in Seattle cut in. It was very moving and quite sad as the details of Spalding’s overwhelming depression come to light, but also nice in a way to get to hear ol’ Spald again.
Besides wonderful shows on March Of The Penguins (focusing on how the Christian Right have tried to make it their own and closing with the absolute best point, that March of the Penguins is….FRENCH), and Herman Melville (where host Kurt Anderson shares that he is also a Starbuck's triple grande latte drinker - ah! AND Laurie Anderson calls Melville "the master of the jumpcut", as well as the author of the weirdest book she has ever read) you can hear a re-broadcast at your leisure of my all-time Studio 360 show, when I discovered The Lonesome Gal.
The Lonesome Gal was a radio host (Jean King)who was first broadcast in Dayton, Ohio in 1947. She did fifteen minutes spots of intimate, one-on-one type romantic interludes, managing to work in ads for tobacco and beer amongst the soft background music. She played an important part in many a lonely, single man’s life in the day, if the interviews with fans are to be believed. You will be shocked at her voice – it is as if she is speaking directly to YOU, in your head. A Laurie Anderson internal, soft, and low quality, but WAY more sexy.
If I remember correctly, someone found old vinyl records of the Lonesome Gal shows…THAT would make a cool CD….
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