Today's find, thanks to the Daily Bleed

[ritaxis]

The Daily Bleed by Auntie Dave has an email service my father connected me to a million years ago. Every day it sends a list of birthdays, death days, other events, and cool quotations. I don't usually get around to reading it but today the subject line was "Citizen Kafka" and that was intriguing because I had never heard of kafka referred to that way and I was unaware of anything special about Kafka having to do with Marc 14. Citizen Kafka is not Franz Kafka though: he turns out to be Richard Shulberg, mong other things one of the geniuses behind The Secret Museum of the Air, a radio show that ran for a couple of years at the milennium. "Historic Landmarks of the first half-century of recorded music." The link leads to an archive page were you can bring up recordings of individual shows. I've just listened to the Puerto Rican show and now I'm listening to the Rebetika one. Of course.

Anyway, it's great stuff.

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Secret Museum of the Air ran here for years, on the Pacifica station, WBAI, where everything runs for years and years. WBAI is not what one might call innovative, but rather legacy. Your program was here when we began, it's here forever, no matter what!

There's a great deal of turf battle blood letting at WBAI; periodically it makes the news that it has committed seppuku in these battle, its air space sold off to a right wing xtian station, but somehow always rises like the Phoenix, sounding exactly the same. With the exception that when one of the legacy program's owners dies. And, maybe, not even then!

Love, C.