Take a look at this new music video that I produced for Singer/Songwriter Leah-Carla Gordone, and the new hit single "The Road" from her latest CD "Dancing On The Dragon". You can find out more at her website www.leahcarlagordone.com or on Myspace Music. I hope you enjoy it! So let me know what you think!
To those of you that haven't dropped your subscriptions, to those of you that are still subscribed, believing in your hearts that I haven't podfaded yet, despite the difficult year, I want to say thank you! Thanks for waiting, or being too lazy to clear out the old RSS feeds that aren't any good anymore.
I HAVEN'T PODFADED AND STILL WANT TO BRING YOU SHOWS!
Yesterday, I finally got a chance to check the site, and start to get things going again, and guess what happened?
That's right, no site! No site, no feed, no show, not even a homepage for my host, Blogmatrix.com, and no email telling me what was up! Imagine my surprise! Had I been cut off, squeezed out? Had the company gone under after being overtaken by the competition? What the hell happened? And why wasn't I notified?
I was able to find an email address for Blogmatrix support, and sent off an immediate email to find out just what was going on here. I was also able to locate the Blogmatrix.com blog which informed me that they were switching over to "V10" and had had some problems in the process. To their credit they answered immediately, and let me know that in the changeover they had elected not to move accounts that hadn't posted in the last 60 days. This included yours truly, and thus my show, and page was off the net. However, thanks to Tim Desjardins over at Blogmatrix, my podcast was back up and running by this evening. When I came home from a great open mic night in Monterey, there was an email from Tim informing me that my show was back. I went to my page at Blubrry.com, and all was well. They even gave me hosting credit for the inconvenience, which is a BIG help!
So, if you're still reading this I want to say thanks for sticking with me. I'll have a new show shortly, and be doing my best to get back on track. Maybe even serious! I've got lots of work to do to build my audience back up again, and I'm looking forward to every bit of it!
It’s amazing how just when you’re trying to get things going, real life butts in to throw you off the track. Not that I’m complainin’ mind you, just explainin’.
Today we’ve got Part 1 of the Robin Stine interview I’ve been talking about bringing you since, oh, forever. But it’s finally here, and I hope you enjoy it. Add music from the Podsafe Music Network, through in a dash of Spoken Word from the Ice Cream Man, add some Peeper Radio Theatre, Crazy podcasting News plus me jawbonin’ a bit, and you’ve got today’s show! We hit the one hour mark on the dot, give or take a few milliseconds, so it should be good for somebody’s commute. Yours maybe? Your favorite Aunt perhaps? Maybe you could download it for her to listen to on her one hour commute to the McDonald’s she works at.
So. After the last two weeks of being in computer hell, with failing hard drives, and all, my Powerbook is now completely hosed. It started with a failing hard drive, then escalated to being in pieces as my Apple savvy IT friend went at it to replace the screwed up hard drive with a new one. Unfortunately, time, exhaustion, and losing track of what screw went where (there’s a million of ‘em!) left my poor laptop pretty much toast. He got it back together but then the screen wouldn’t work! Crap! Tomorrow it goes to my local service center, along with it’s various pieces to be put back together. All this means that I have been holding up production of a new show since I’m not sure I can give you the same quality you’re used to with the equipment I have that is working. There’s still a chance I can get one out that sounds ok. If so, I will! I miss you guys! I want to rap with you, and play you some great podsafe music! I even have a new source for podsafe music, and an interview with Robin Stine , plus poetry, and more!
So don’t think I’ve pod-faded! I’m not out, just a little down. I’ve got some great ideas for 2006 that I aim to try out so I’m not going anywhere. Powerbook or no Powerbook!
Wish me luck!
-gt
p.s. Email from my listeners always helps to soothe the pain…
It’s stunning to watch when these two “things” come together in just such a way as to halt and change all your best laid plans. What was that saying about mice and men? At the moment I’m not sure which one I am as I run the treadmill of crashing computers, and a schedule that just won’t quit.
Of course, you don’t really care do you? You just want a new podcast, after all that’s why you susbcribed to this podcast in the first place, right?
On this we agree. I want a new podcast too! I’m chomping at the bit, but I have to get the machinery running again to bring it to you.
And I am. Even as we speak software is being reinstalled, and recovered. I know I’ve said it before, but a new podcast is coming. I swear, boss, I swear!
Please just bear with me as I get this sorted, and bring you another fine podcast that you’ll enjoy. Thanks for listening!
It’s surf music day! Cowabunga! Grab your boards and hit the waves as we talk motorcycle races at Laguna Seca, the foibles of fame, and cheap biker gear!
Our featured artists this week are none other than The Infrareds, with their brand of hot, surf music. Check them out at their website:
Check them out, and order their new cd, ‘Sounds from the Darkroom” if you like. You can sample it there as well. We also revisit the Cold War, and talk about industrial standards of the former Soviet Reuplic. We hear about the first time C7 got some tongue, and talk about freedom of expression. We take a look at Abstinence programs, and their effects, and C7 gives us important fashion tips. We talk about a book C7 is reading by author Bruce Schneier, ‘Secrets and Lies : Digital Security in a Networked World’. How does it all affect our lives? Also, we talk real estate in Harlem.
We touch on the recent London bombings, and send our condolences. We talk about the “Thrilla at the Miller” in Big Sur, that is the 8th Annual West Coast Championship Poetry Slam coming up next weekend. We also talk about other upcoming shows, as well as the newest club in town to invite Poetry in, Monterey Live. Their website is:
There you have it folks. Hope you enjoy the show. We’ll be back next sunday with another edition of Sunday Go To meetin’! Til then, be good to each other! Peace!
Hope you enjoyed it Dad! We’re back for another show (we missed you all!), and I’ve got a rundown for you. So, here goes -
We’ve got Father’s Day greetings, silly stuff going on in the news, lurker listeners, and podcast stuff. c7 wants to know about the Dawn & Drew Show, and all life halts for cell phones. The $18,000 bar of soap and other expensive “art”.
We speak about Child Labor in the modern world, and what can be done. Here’s a film everyone should see called “Stolen Childhoods”. Please click this link http://www.stolenchildhoods.org/
We get on with the business of raggin’ on GM, and the Hummer H3. Then it’s adult spelling bee envy, as c7 does Mike Tyson, and Garland T. does Michael Jackson. We talk Iranian election strategies, upcoming poetry shows, blind skiers and cow racing. Then it’s our end of show wrap up.
Music featured this week by our very own DJ Dice with a mix he calls ‘Full Circle”. Check out his other mixes at http://www.straylightproductions.com
Catch him live on wednesdays at Morgans Coffee & Teas in Monterey, 498 Washington St.
Til next week everybody, be good to yourselves. And check out the links below.
C7 had to study all weekend for finals this week. So, no show for this Sunday. Of course I
may get a wild hair on Monday to do a podcast, but barring that expect us back next
weekend with a fresh new show.
It’s sunday and time for a new show. Today we bring you The Poetry Show. We focus on
poetry and related things starting with a reading we did on Saturday night. We also
remember Allen Ginsberg, The Day They Shot John Lennon, Tourettes without Regrets,
and play The Mack Man. Also Jill Scott, a no show at The Poetry Center: what happened?
The San Quentin Poetry Slam, Garland remembers traffic court: the day he channeled
Clarence Darrow, and our end of show wrap up.
Todays featured poets include:
Mack Dennis a.k.a. The Mack Man, and his CD,
‘The Mack Man, Spoken Poems by Poet Mack Dennis’
That’s it for this week. Hope you enjoy the show. Take care, and try to have some fun this
week. Go see some live poetry, and some theatre too. You won’t regret it.
Until next week, my nizzles!
Peace,
Garland T
P.S. If you’re into Blogs, feel free to
check out mine, Radiodogg, at:
Hope your weekend has gone well, and been spent in good company. We had a lot of fun
doing our latest show, and hope you dig it. Here’s the rundown:
Introducing Magnanimous G of Greg’s Magnanimous Open Mic, a definition of ‘bumpin’,
Viagra and blindness, Magnanimous Greg talks Yoga, our tribute to Eddie Albert, Saturday
night show at the Cherry Bean Coffeehouse in Salinas, environmentally friendly hoopties,
Paris Hilton’s new commercial, censorship, the seven dirty words, TV was Mom’s best friend,
reality shows, the measure of success in life, living off the radar, The Salinas Report with
Monterey County Herald reporter, and poet, Marc ‘Lostboy’ Cabreras, end of show wrap up,
and a closing poem, ‘The Fallen’ by Garland T.
Our featured artist is Para La Gente, a band out of Cal State Monterey Bay (CSUMB) fronted
by singer/rapper Michael Fernandez.
Track 6: Honda Hybrid
Happy sunday to you, and welcome to our spot under the cyberspace sun.
Today we discuss Star Wars (we couldn’t resist), George Lucas and life, Garland T relives great moments of his childhood through audio art, Gilligan’s Island was a noble story, C7 gripes about the club scene, watching the dynamics of people, what it means when the phone rings at 2AM, and our end of show wrap up.
Our featured artist of the week is:
Ekayani and the Healing Band
with her new CD “Full Length”
available now online at http://cdbaby.com/cd/ekayani3
or call toll free in the U.S. at 1–800-448–6369 PST and talk to a real person!
Also, check her out at www.ekayani.com and live at the Knitting Factory-Old Office on June 9 www.knittingfactory.com
So until next week paisans, be good to yourselves and each other. You deserve it!
It's a weekly podcast with Garland T. I find time somewhere in the week for a rolling conversation about culture, society, and everything in between. Podsafe music, audio art, live guests, interviews, and good conversation is what I'm looking to find here. Maybe you are too? Join me in the search, and let's see where it takes us...
