Mar 02 2005
♫ Mud Radio Today
March 5th - 6:35pm (Atlantic Time): Tired, tired, tired. Working more intently on my thesis now than I ever have. Two hours of reading and writing and I need to take a serious nap. I don’t simply feel fatiqued, but sleepy, as in I can’t keep my friggin’ eyes open. This has been happening every day for the past two weeks since I really began to crack down on my thesis.
Anyway, the Mud Radio stream is up again. Don’t ask me what’s playing. It’s non-RIAA, but I don’t even know what categories I selected. Talk to you later.
By the way, here’s a rough outline of some things we’re trying to implement at Mud Radio.
SCROLL DOWN FOR MOST RECENT COMMENT.
March 1 - 9:55am: I just noticed that the Whole Wheat Radio stream is down and Jim’s nowhere to be found. So until Jim gets the stream back up (which I hope will be soon), I’ll be playing random tracks from my 5-hour playlist called Phillip’s Whole Wheat — a selection of my favourite non-RIAA recordings.
Update: The WWR stream is back up. Which means I can relax now… As I don’t have enough songs in my library (1300) to webcast even 12 hours a day without eventually playing the same songs over and over again, I’d rather just stick to this gig if I get it:
The guy who jumps in whenever the Whole Wheat Radio stream goes down. That I could handle.
Anyhow, thanks to everyone who tuned in and wrote in to express their appreciation. I guess it worked out all right.
Warmly,
— Phillip, at Mud Radio.
Thanks Phillip for filling in this morning, and fantastic Greg Brown
documentary!!!
Thanks Tonia, and everyone who emailed me.
2:30pm — I like what I’m hearing on WWR right now, so I’m simulcasting it. (This could change any minute, though, if some happy-pappy pop schlop song comes up, which ain’t my cup of tea.)
2:36pm — Well, that didn’t take long. Think I’ll play some blues…
4:00pm — Rant time on WWR, but the stream is down. Except this time I can’t jump in; doing something with my PC I can’t interupt.
Philips I’ve put a link to Mud Radio on our Links under Radio.
MUD RADIO for Wednesday, March 2nd: Right now I’m playing bluegrass.
I also have some audio work I have to do today, so the stream may be up and down.
7:50pm — I’ll be playing non-RIAA folk, blues, and some other stuff for the rest of the night. It’ll probably get repetitous (I’m working on it).
It’s funny how quickly people tune out as soon as a reggae song plays. Bunch of babies. People are pissing me off. Yeah, I know, there’s no accounting for taste, to each their own and all that. But it’s too bad people couldn’t be more like me. What a wonderful world that would be.
Hey Phillip, I’ve been listening off and on for a little while tonight. Enjoying listening to you as you figure out this webcasting thing… kinda like Jim when he was getting started. Listening to the… game was also amuzing. ;-) I heard you mention a chat board somewhere, but I didn’t catch where to find a link. Maybe that’s still being worked out? Anyways. I’m going to try to get you hooked up on my linksys wireless internet radio and listen while I make dinner. Catch up with you later.
Hey Sol, that was you? I thought you lived in California. Why the hell was I thinking you lived in California?
The chat room had too many bugs, so Jody deleted it. He’s testing another one as I speak/write.
And, yeah, things are very rough around the edges right now. Eventually I’d like to get some kind of system that will prevent songs from “randomly” being chosen more than others — but I also have a life and not much time for this stuff… so it could be a very slowly evolving project.
Update: I shouldn’t have played that old disk I had around from 1990. I guess I liked that music back then, but it’s really not the kind of stuff I listen to these days. Too much pop.
I would let you go to bed, but my kid is watching cartoons so I’m stuck on the computer. I need background stuff to listen to.
Mud Radio - March 3rd: I’m playing all the non-RIAA classical music in my library, about two hours worth. Then it’s going to repeat and keep repeating until I come home later this afternoon and add about another 6 hours worth. I may play classical music all day; don’t know. I find it easy to write with classical music in the background, so it could happen.
See ya,
Phillip Cairns
Founder and CEO of Mud Radio
CLASSICAL music everybody! Come on, what are you waiting for?!
Friday, March 4th: Anything could happen tonight.
Hi. It’s hard to find the last page of this chat.
Why not ask Jody put a link to the latest chat page on the status page?
Philip, I have days like that - just kinda sad for no reason and the best i can do is acknowledge it. I know the mood always goes - usually the next day. Sometimes, at a later date, I can see why I had felt that way. (Lovely music!)
I ate a can of tuna. Starting to feel better now. But, man, I sure woke up in a funk today.
Blues for the rest of the night!
(I seriously doubt this webcast will be around come April — simple fact: I just don’t have enough music. It’s only been a couple weeks, and I’m already getting sick of listening to the same stuff all the time. You’d think 1200 songs would be enough, but it’s not even close.)
Sunday, March 6th - 12:16pm: I’m playing a mixed CD of various reggae artists, including some guys who take a crack at Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.
Mud Radio — non-RIAA stuff, no reggae or classical.
The webcast is shutting off probably for the rest of the night. Honestly, I’m getting sick of hearing the same songs over and over again. I gotta find a way to give listeners control over what plays. Something. But right now things don’t look so good to me. Maybe I’ll restrict the webcast to evening hours for now on. I’ve also been in a really serious funk for the past few days, nothing to do with the webcast — but if I got behind the mic, I’d probably depress the hell out of anyone listening, if I haven’t done so already this weekend. So I’m going to spend some time to get my shit together, get back on track, whatever. I’m not going to worry about the webcast.
P.S. to SOL: Just by luck today, I happened to stumble on your blog entry about Mud Radio. I don’t plan on posting here, because that’s too self-serving, but I had a great time reading it, laughing out loud in all the right places. Very well-written, very well-told. Thank you.
A couple of nights ago you played some of our favorites: Gabriel, Lanois, etc. That was excellent because I hadn’t heard you play it on Mud Radio before. Maybe you should throw in stuff like that occasionally. Damn the RIAA.
I rewrote the Mud Radio main page today, but I’ll probably rewrite it again tomorrow to say that I’m giving up the morning show. No Chris In The Morning, no Phillip In The Morning. Until I can make the songs requestable and the expand the library somehow, there’s no point in webcasting 12 hours a day. And right now, I don’t even have the time to create simple playlists — I don’t have time for anything. It’s not the RIAA that’s bringing me down. The RIAA can blow me. It’s my damn thesis. I’ve done more work on my thesis in the past two weeks than I have in the past two years. I have virtually no time for anything else, and almost zero energy. I’ll probably still turn the stream on now and again throughout the day when I feel like it, or when I have the time, but it’s more fun in the evening, anyway, so I think I’ll just stick to that.
I’d like to learn how to webcast through jetAudio so I can easily record the stream (and maybe post the good parts as podcasts). But I don’t have time to figure that out either.
“And it’s time, time, time…” — Tom Waits
Mud Radio - Monday, March 7th (3:35pm): I’m simulcasting Whole Wheat Radio, their live Jeffrey Foucault interview.
5:40pm - Greg Brown, including several cuts from his latest CD, “Honey in the Lion’s Head,” which I’m lovin’.
This Greg Brown stuff is nice. Doing my taxes while it’s playing.
Greg Brown, Danny Schmidt and David Francey for the next hour until I go to bed (10:25pm).
Mud Radio - March 8th (8:00am):
I’ve decided not to turn the stream on until 4:00pm for now on. But nothing is written in stone. This morning I’m going to a RODIN exhibit. While I’m gone, I’ll be playing a variety of classical music over the stream. When I get back I might get on the mic and talk about RODIN.
The kiss!
Good one, Dave!
Mud Radio comments will continue here.