Monthly Archive for March, 2007

Live A Little at LuxuriaMusic.com!

Starting this weekend, the fine folks over at LuxuriaMusic.com will be presenting “C’mon! Live A Little,” a new show hosted by Yours Truly. The program will run for an hour at 3PM (Pacific Time) on Saturdays, and feature the kind of edifying fun and music readers of the Bostworld adventures have come to expect.

Naturally, when they offered me this opportunity, I jumped for it. I’ve been a huge fan of the station since day one. Though I don’t have the time to immerse myself in their online community as much as I’d like to, I love their restless playlist of lounge music, obscure rock, jazz, novelties and pop music from around the world. My current podcast series “Your Favorite Little Podcast,” taken from a show I did several years ago, is directly influenced by them. In fact, when Luxuria returned to the air four years ago (after a two-year hiatus), I donated all the songs from that show to them. Many of them are still in rotation.

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Save Internet Radio

Last week, the new royalty rates for streaming radio stations were announced. A station with 1000 listeners will now have to pay $150,000 a year in royalties. This effectively forces independent webcasters off the air. The worst part: the rates are effective retroactively to the beginning of 2006!

Help get this senseless policy overturned: http://savenetradio.org/

Sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/SIR2007r/petition.html

Read more: http://www.save-internet-radio.com/2007/03/02/save-internet-radio/

Stamp Collection, Part Two: Eastern Europe

Though I’ll never make it to full-grade philatelist, I have to admit that I’ve enjoyed doing the research for this series. While navigating the labyrinth of spotty stamp collecting info available on the web, I’ve browsed auction sites, fan collections and home pages of philatelic societies. I’ve found thick tomes of arcane info, scanned in their entirely and uploaded as huge graphic files into back corners of the internet. I’ve learned about forgeries, inversions and imperforates, and about the rival enthusiasm among collectors for the different varieties of cancellation marks.

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Your Favorite Little Podcast: Episode Two

They say an ill-considered partisan rant can kill a good blog. Well, I’ve posted enough of ‘em to figure I’ve chased away all but the most die-hard kool-aid drinkers in the choir. If it weren’t for my semi-celebrity status and my excellent search engine optimization habits, it’s likely my visitors would have dwindled to nada by now. But the opposite seems to be happening instead. Visits are up, comment spam is way up, and the comments in the spam seem very complimentary. On a good day, Google even ranks me as one of the top authorities on German hyperinflation.

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Classic Country On YouTube – The SleepyCreek Collection

I only heard about RFD-TV Channel a couple months ago. My cable provider doesn’t carry “Rural America’s Most Important Network,” and I’m almost tempted to switch to a satellite service to get it. But it’s not the agricultural or equine content that intrigues me, it’s the musical programming. Apparently, back in the late seventies, television producer Normal Lear bought a Nashville station and wanted to get rid of the station’s huge library of regional programs from the 60s and 70s. This library included whole runs of classic shows by Porter Wagoner and the Wilburn Brothers. In stepped none other than Willie Nelson, who bought the whole lot of it. After languishing in safety for a few decades, the plums from this collection are finally creeping onto the air at RFD-TV.

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