I love listening to your programs. Your topics always resonate w me and your music additions are very interesting. My brothers always gifted me an album for my birthdays, me being the little sis, offering me the artists they were into. They have both passed but the memories are here. I have very diverse playlists which also stems from my daughter’s era growing up from the 90’s onward. Thank you again!
I have had a similar experience with music in the last few years, Eric. I am getting ready to make a second attempt of getting off the smartphone. The apple gods wouldn’t allow texts on the light phone I got a year ago or so. I eventually caved when my daughter upgraded hers and I went back to the pocket computer.
When the thing in my pocket was literally just a telephone! I had a noticeable shift in “hearing” the muse more again- it was a slow shift back into an energetic field of listening and activating that creative hum. I ended up spending more time sitting at my desktop- but that is a bit more manageable to walk away from. I can’t put that in my pocket! I still haven’t found the natural ease to be picking up my guitars or playing the piano like I used to before The Cove. Three decades I have spent with music as a a way of life and the last two years especially it all but ceased. A big part was loosing Tob in 2022z And the other big part is the weird world we inhabit now that is so much different than before we all got arrested in our homes.
I love it when you talk about the quality of audio allowing the listener the freedom to move, like clean the closet (which I was literally doing when you said it once). Today I was doing a partial demo on my kitchen sink while finally moving on a slow going kitchen remodel.
I appreciate that you are taking conversations inward. This is the most human thing we can do right now.
Your tunes are super Pisces. All the ways the feels can go and never sure where it’s gonna take you melodically.
Wow, such mixed emotions with which i heard about your plans. Too bad you won't be on as often, sounds like at best you'll be on twice a month. Already there's a severe shortage of intelligent programing. Sam and Mark Bailey usually do something once a week. Jesse Zurawell used to do something every weekday. but he has taken a leave, for all i know it might be permanent. There's tons of drek on You Tube, i use it as filler background when i make breakfast and dinner, both of which involve extensive prep from scratch, and the ads drive me NUTS.
But i would NOT want you to do any episodes unless you feel totally motivated to do them. Anything smacking of self coercion to do something because it's in the schedule would just result in something which doesn't hold up as well. So, i would say listen to your heart.
One thing you said i wasn't sure about, regarding how people used to find sex partners before the Internet and even before ads by having to talk to strangers. Most people found such partners from among the peers they grew up with, be it childhood friends, high school acquaintances, or people they went to college with, either in their classes, their dorms, parties their friends had,..... In such cases, people said hi without sex necessarily being on their minds, not even remotely. just being social.
In my personal case, i was socially inhibited when in elementary school, in Israel. I was just getting over it in 5th grade. But the next year we moved to the US, to New York, in fact. Inhibited by language barriers for a couple of years. And by the time i was over that, i started high school Bronx Science was the only one of the 3 New York science-centered high schools which even allowed girls back in the early '60s, it's where i went (not just for that, it was also the closest to where we lived). But even it was overwhelmingly male. Unless one was super assertive, you didn't score well socially. And then, college, a commuter school, no such thing as meeting people in dorms or the like. And my major was mechanical engineering. There was ONE woman in that major by the time i was graduating. After lower division chem and physics, there were zero women in my classes. I did join a social frat, but i found the parties to be "dismal, dull affairs," good for nothing but drinking. It wasn't till i graduated, moved to the SF Bay Area, and started breaking away from my parents' ways and mores that i stated breaking out of the social isolation.
And now, i find myself back in the same mode, with my town Berkeley and the entire Bay Area acting the part of Hitler's Bunker in the Covidian era. I've been quite isolated since getting divorced 30 years ago and finding myself an aging "white" heterosexual counterculture male in an area all these traits were considered undesirable, and the last four years have just accentuated matters. I am not about to trade in my values, so i reckon things won't change, though i remain open in mind, just as i remain free.
Mark and Sam work as a team to put out a 20 minute show. I have been working alone putting out a three hour show (including all the music editing, design and programming), every Friday at 5 — while editing and writing other publications. I expect I will have the same amount and approximate balance of content, just distributed differently on a more relaxed schedule. And I am giving myself to emphasize the personal on the longer FM show in a more intimate atmosphere. The science interviews don't need to go there. They will go on Substack.
"They will go no Substack." I assume you mean "...on Substack," right? Good to hear, BTW, that you will be bringing up our colleagues. In a way i feel very pessimistic, feels like we've reached anyone whose mind is even slightly open, too many people are clinging to the dominant narrative, in desperation and fear, but it doesn't hurt, and besides it's good reinforcement for the dissidents.
I talked about all of this on last week's premier program...my point here is that my show has to give me flexibility, and also reflect more of who I am as a person and not just as a journalist. and imagine that I write and coordinate a 4,000 word illustrated (by me) publication on Thursdays and have had to then produce and coordinate three or four hours the next day. For years on end...That's fucking crazy.
I was not informed of last week's program, FM page said "back on Sept 6"!
EDIT: You mean the 8/31 program? OK, didn't realize that was really the comeback, it was pretty much all astrology. Not that this is forbidden or anything, i just didn't pick up on it being the return.
I love listening to your programs. Your topics always resonate w me and your music additions are very interesting. My brothers always gifted me an album for my birthdays, me being the little sis, offering me the artists they were into. They have both passed but the memories are here. I have very diverse playlists which also stems from my daughter’s era growing up from the 90’s onward. Thank you again!
I have had a similar experience with music in the last few years, Eric. I am getting ready to make a second attempt of getting off the smartphone. The apple gods wouldn’t allow texts on the light phone I got a year ago or so. I eventually caved when my daughter upgraded hers and I went back to the pocket computer.
When the thing in my pocket was literally just a telephone! I had a noticeable shift in “hearing” the muse more again- it was a slow shift back into an energetic field of listening and activating that creative hum. I ended up spending more time sitting at my desktop- but that is a bit more manageable to walk away from. I can’t put that in my pocket! I still haven’t found the natural ease to be picking up my guitars or playing the piano like I used to before The Cove. Three decades I have spent with music as a a way of life and the last two years especially it all but ceased. A big part was loosing Tob in 2022z And the other big part is the weird world we inhabit now that is so much different than before we all got arrested in our homes.
I love it when you talk about the quality of audio allowing the listener the freedom to move, like clean the closet (which I was literally doing when you said it once). Today I was doing a partial demo on my kitchen sink while finally moving on a slow going kitchen remodel.
I appreciate that you are taking conversations inward. This is the most human thing we can do right now.
Your tunes are super Pisces. All the ways the feels can go and never sure where it’s gonna take you melodically.
Welcome back, Eric.
Wow, such mixed emotions with which i heard about your plans. Too bad you won't be on as often, sounds like at best you'll be on twice a month. Already there's a severe shortage of intelligent programing. Sam and Mark Bailey usually do something once a week. Jesse Zurawell used to do something every weekday. but he has taken a leave, for all i know it might be permanent. There's tons of drek on You Tube, i use it as filler background when i make breakfast and dinner, both of which involve extensive prep from scratch, and the ads drive me NUTS.
But i would NOT want you to do any episodes unless you feel totally motivated to do them. Anything smacking of self coercion to do something because it's in the schedule would just result in something which doesn't hold up as well. So, i would say listen to your heart.
One thing you said i wasn't sure about, regarding how people used to find sex partners before the Internet and even before ads by having to talk to strangers. Most people found such partners from among the peers they grew up with, be it childhood friends, high school acquaintances, or people they went to college with, either in their classes, their dorms, parties their friends had,..... In such cases, people said hi without sex necessarily being on their minds, not even remotely. just being social.
In my personal case, i was socially inhibited when in elementary school, in Israel. I was just getting over it in 5th grade. But the next year we moved to the US, to New York, in fact. Inhibited by language barriers for a couple of years. And by the time i was over that, i started high school Bronx Science was the only one of the 3 New York science-centered high schools which even allowed girls back in the early '60s, it's where i went (not just for that, it was also the closest to where we lived). But even it was overwhelmingly male. Unless one was super assertive, you didn't score well socially. And then, college, a commuter school, no such thing as meeting people in dorms or the like. And my major was mechanical engineering. There was ONE woman in that major by the time i was graduating. After lower division chem and physics, there were zero women in my classes. I did join a social frat, but i found the parties to be "dismal, dull affairs," good for nothing but drinking. It wasn't till i graduated, moved to the SF Bay Area, and started breaking away from my parents' ways and mores that i stated breaking out of the social isolation.
And now, i find myself back in the same mode, with my town Berkeley and the entire Bay Area acting the part of Hitler's Bunker in the Covidian era. I've been quite isolated since getting divorced 30 years ago and finding myself an aging "white" heterosexual counterculture male in an area all these traits were considered undesirable, and the last four years have just accentuated matters. I am not about to trade in my values, so i reckon things won't change, though i remain open in mind, just as i remain free.
Mark and Sam work as a team to put out a 20 minute show. I have been working alone putting out a three hour show (including all the music editing, design and programming), every Friday at 5 — while editing and writing other publications. I expect I will have the same amount and approximate balance of content, just distributed differently on a more relaxed schedule. And I am giving myself to emphasize the personal on the longer FM show in a more intimate atmosphere. The science interviews don't need to go there. They will go on Substack.
"They will go no Substack." I assume you mean "...on Substack," right? Good to hear, BTW, that you will be bringing up our colleagues. In a way i feel very pessimistic, feels like we've reached anyone whose mind is even slightly open, too many people are clinging to the dominant narrative, in desperation and fear, but it doesn't hurt, and besides it's good reinforcement for the dissidents.
yeah its a typo; you know I am a terrible typist and am sick of staring at a screen every day for 40 years.
🤣 🤣 🤣 I made five typos typing out that response.
There will be steady mini shows covering science and other issues. Jesse is up this week.
You mean he's coming back? YEAHHHH!!!! And good to hear about the mini shows.
I talked about all of this on last week's premier program...my point here is that my show has to give me flexibility, and also reflect more of who I am as a person and not just as a journalist. and imagine that I write and coordinate a 4,000 word illustrated (by me) publication on Thursdays and have had to then produce and coordinate three or four hours the next day. For years on end...That's fucking crazy.
I was not informed of last week's program, FM page said "back on Sept 6"!
EDIT: You mean the 8/31 program? OK, didn't realize that was really the comeback, it was pretty much all astrology. Not that this is forbidden or anything, i just didn't pick up on it being the return.
I sent announcements via both Substacks...PW and PWFM...on Aug 31...for the Sept 2 show...done early for New Moon...linked from present page
I edited. Didn't realize that was the return. Sept 2? i don't see any note for that.
Will you send me a link to the Psychic Bolt Cutters on Amazon, please?
NFS
you have to make it yourself.
Will you send me a link to Making a Psychic Bolt Cutter on YouTube, please?
Brian what is the issue?
No specific issue. Just comedic nonsense by me.