The Lowdown

So I've been getting ready to move back east to attend an undisclosed college (give you a hint: it isn't in Boston or NYC, nor in the South...good luck guessing!) 106.9FM has been down for about three months (more info at www.1069fm.org) and those wacky punks at FRSD are back on the air. Speaking of which, they're having a fundrasing show on Dec. 3rd down at the Kava Lounge, to be followed by a show at UCSD's Che Cafe on the 10th. 106.9 is having a benefit at Sparky's in North Park on the 15th. I know I'll attend the FRSD shows, but I have my doubts about the show on the 15th because I'm still pissed at radioActive, and I just know they'll be there in scads.

All things come to an end...

...and so does "The Underground Show." Due to conflicts of a completely personal nature, I have decided to leave RASD. I'm looking for another outlet to do a show, which would be similar in content to "The Underground Show" but have a different name. I have decided to keep the blog, however. I apologize to my listeners, all two of you, for having the show end so abruptly. As the Prisoner always said (with an ironic smirk on his lips and a toss of his hand):

"Be seeing you."

The calendar group vanishes again!

Because the calendar group flaked out, I'll keep it short and sweet, this Friday I'm going to do a show on the history of pirate radio, along with a pre-taped interview with two Leftists who dissented from the party line during the recent Balboa Park march/rally. Catch the illegality from 8-10ish on radioactiveradio.org.

What's going to be going on next month

Because it's October I'll be running episodes of Arch Obler's ancient "Lights Out" radio show during the second hour of the show. Because of a special event I won't be able to broadcast on the Friday before Halloween, so I will do a show either on Halloween night or the night before. Also, be prepared for more mind-numbing interviews with people like Dinesh D`Souza (good argument fodder there), Iraqi insurgent Sheik N'Bakk, Chalmers Johnson (maybe), and others.
With any luck it will be the strangest month we've ever had.

lost...iN...SPACE!!

There's not much to say; I was just too damn lazy to update the blog after the radioActive email calendar was given up on sometime around mid-August. I had built a rhythm; come up with a show on Sunday, email it to the calendar, then write some gibberish in the blog. Now the thing's back, so the blogwork reappears.

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This week (08-16), one or two of the guys from Telegraphica Occulta may show up for some more beery talk about why their station still isn't up, politics, and maybe pop culture. After, the show lurches towards hoaxes, with liberal samples of the "Hour of Slack" radio show put out by the Church of the SubGenius. And the obsolete weapon of the week: u-boats. Catch the weirdness this Friday from 8-10ish on www.radioactiveradio.org or in mono on 106.9FM.

I got bupkis. Literally.

After boring the audience to tears last week (08-12), I just...ran...out...of ideas. Thus I just don't know what the show will be about this week. It may just be a bunch of clips stolen from earthstation1.com, or a scathing indictment of how far KGB's morning show has fallen in 15 years, or just...nothing. Two hours of dead air. What do you think?

...and then the screaming starts

To the people who just wander in to the radioActive website or find 106.9FM by luck, and have been hearing my show for the last two weeks, I just can't apologize (though certain people at the station would probably like me to.) The mission of "The Underground Show" is to shock people into thinking, and sometimes the things I present break the "Points of Unity" the station is built around. Take, fer'instance the "Sheik tape" I ran two weeks ago. The track consists of an over-the-top member of the Church of the SubGenius (the titular Sheik) ranting about the death of punk legend G.G. Allen on the Philadelphia airwaves. Shocking, weird, horrendous stuff, but stuff that makes us ask the question: how far is too far, and does the first ammendment protect speech that breaks the FCC's broadcasting guidelines? It could have been worse: I wanted to run the Jonestown mass-suicide tape, but the equipment denied that to me.

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This week, we may finally have the Martin Eder interview, and I'll be compairing the Chinese Nationalist Army to the one we're building in Iraq, along with other jazz. Catch the madness this Friday from 8-10pm on radioactiveradio.org or in mono at 106.9FM