After getting laid off six years ago, I mostly just sat around at home at loose ends, listening to Luxuria Music. Then they themselves were all laid off, due to the station’s acquisition and subsequent termination by the ubiquitous Clear Channel Communications. Robbed of my principal diversion, I filled the void with a show of my own. I dubbed it “Your Little Radio Show” and fed it out onto the web via a low-fi RealMedia stream, hosted by my father, (unbeknown to him). The weekly half hour ran for six months before I finally succumbed to a general malaise in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and pulled the plug. I resurrected it shortly afterward as “Your Favorite Playlist” (a sop to the then embryonic craze for iTunes), but finally chickened out amid too much scary press about the consequences of “pirate” web broadcasting.
Recently, however, my friends the Teenage Fanclub have begun podcasting in a format very similar to the one I used. So, emboldened by their efforts, as well as a million share blogs (including my own), I’ve decided to offer the show once again, this time as a podcast. You can can either subscribe to it using the standard feed and the reader of your choice, or you can use the second link to load it directly into iTunes. To those of you unable to figure out how to get it to work, I can offer this reassurance in advance: I tested them both and they work fine for me. Your mileage may vary, but we’ll see.
The memory of Luxuria (now happily resurrected and broadcasting with impunity once again) is apparent by my song choices: all lounge music, bubblegum and cheesy listening. In fact, this first episode is actually taken from a show I put together for Lux’s old “Virtual Deejay” segment, which used to run at lunch time. On the day it was on, I dutifully logged into the Lux chat room, preparing to run interference during the broadcast. As it turned out, I wound up butting heads with their midday jock. For this current version of the program, I’ve left off her whithering on-air denunciation of me. My own unfortunate goofy voice-overs remain, however.
“Your Little Radio Show” was a labor of love for almost a year, and I still enjoy listening to it from time to time (though I like to think that my vinyl digitizing skills have improved a little since then). And I see no reason why I should deny Bostworld visitors the opportunity to share my enthusiasm, especially in the face of what’s shaping up to be an inordinately hectic and busy year. Hopefully, “Your Favorite Little Podcast” will offer you as much pleasure as it will give me some breathing room.
Episode One Tracklist “Slag Solution” – Buffalo’s Band “Mexico” by Long John Baldry “Sad Old Kinda Movie” – Pickettywitch “Airport Love Theme” – Johnny Pineapple “I Apologize” – P.J. Proby “Up Came Oil” – Exxon’s “Spirit of Achievement” “Bahia” – El Coco “Shadows on a Foggy Day” – Frank Sinatra, Jr. “Baby Portable Rock” – Pizzicato Five “One Person” – The Goldiggers
Fabulous listening – thanks! You’re my first official podcast subscription. Slowly, but surely, I will creep and crawl my way into this decade and beyond.
Once you trade that clunky portable CD player for a sleek new iPod, you’ll never look back!
Lovely stuff Derrick. Can’t beat a bit of cheese!
Thanks George! Being a vegan, it seems the only dairy I get anymore is from my music collection.
Hey, I remember this! I did the Virtual DJ thang for LuxuriaMusic, too. That chick WAS annoying.
Any chance you’ll give us the mp3 option for each show as well, for our click-n-listen pleasure?
I’m afraid having people play the stream off the server might overwhelm my host and get me booted for excessive bandwidth use (again). But it’s not hard to figure out where the file is, once you click on the feed link.
You are my favorite drummer ever. Not related to article, but figured id tell you.
Ima get that james brown album tho.
Thanks Jake!
Get both James Brown albums.
I broke my portable cd player when the weather was really cold. My wool gloves couldn’t hold on to it, and the coat I had on didn’t have a big pocket…then I read about the Beatles not being singles only available, and it seemed right to me. You’re tempting me,but it’ll be my 5th switch since vinyl.
I jumped on board via Mark’s recent BoingBoing link, and have subscribed in iTunes. But I’m having a small technical difficulty maybe you’ve covered somewhere herein already: episode one starts great then stops about a minute in. I found some way of accessing each episode online as an individual mp3, but even though it indicates episode one is 27.5MB, when I download it, it turns out to be only 1.1 and done. At some point, I thought if I just deleted the episode from my library, and tried subscribing again, that’d at least give me a chance of retrieving the full episode, but no dice. Now, I don’t even have that promising first minute! Is there any hope?
I’m sure it’s just the Boing Boing effect: too many people hitting the file at once and it’s timing out. I get that every now and then from certain popular podcasts. It usually comes through fine if I wait and try again later.
I too discovered your wonderful podcast via BoingBoing, and am enjoying it immensely. Alas, the MP3 file for episode one still seems to be corrupted. I’ve tried downloading it by both the RSS feed and through iTunes, and like Damon, have also found that it’s truncated at about 1:11 (file size 1,163,620 bytes).
Thanks for the heads up, Russ!
I replaced the file. Give it another try.
Looks like that did the trick, I can now download the whole episode. Thanks again!