KBOO-Man!
Friday, March 17th from 6 to 7 pm (PST) Katie from CodePinkPortland and myself will be guests on Portland’s Community Radio during Gabi’s Bread and Roses show on KBOO.
Just looking at the their site you can see that it’s a very “happening” station with all sorts of goodies and great people.
The hour is being kicked off with a phone interview with a woman who recently returned from a FOR delegation to Iran from 6:00 – 6:15.
Then it will be me and Katie talking about the rally and the Women’s Convergence, talking about
Eman Ahmed Khamas, a member of the CODEPINK delegation of Iraqi women’s trip here, and CODEPINK’s work on bringing the delegation here.
And other topics… nothing’s scripted and it’s all by the seat of our pink pants. We called each other tonight and decided that whatever else we talk about – we’re going to have fun, be ourselves and share our strength and our hearts.
The “war” and regime have got to be stopped, but I’m finding that for so many of us – working to STOP this war has helped us START to find ourselves. In fighting against this vileness, we are becoming healthy. In standing up against death and destruction, we are truly living.
I want to give out some kisses and huggles to Dada and BooMan for giving me excellent advice about radio. To OMIR the Storyteller for finding another way to hear the stream. mms://wm-live.abacast.com/kboo He says, “You’ll need Windows Media Player or something that plays WMP format files.”
And many margaritas to the Froggy Bottom Cafe Cyber Cheerleaders and my Hockey Pals for their incredible support and friendship.
I’ll be there thinking of you all. With sincere gratitude and admiration, I’ll also be thinking of a wonderful soul, RubDMC, his photographs have helped me find my feet and find my voice. At first, I wondered how the hell I could ever be a “Peace Activist”. I had so much anger. So much outrage. How could anyone not be outraged? I’ve learned to embrace my anger, to use it’s passion to find my way to where I need to be and to do what needs to be done.
Marching sometimes is the easy part. It’s the daily living, the daily choices that can be hard.
I’d like to share with you what James Benjamin shared with me recently about anger.
From the liner notes of an Archie Shepp album:
I think maybe that’s a part of what being a Peace Activist is about. I dunno… maybe. For now, it’ll have to do.
You touched on something very important in your diary. (No, not the bit about the litterbox cake.) The part about marching reminds me of something I once heard, that went something like: “To die for something, to die for a cause, that’s a very easy thing. Now, to live for something, to live for a cause . . . that’s the hard part.” Yet thanks to the Crawford Mafia, many of us are doing exactly that. I know I never intended to be involved in politics in any way, shape or form . . . yet here I am.
Just relax and be yourself tomorrow. You’ll be fine.
Yet here I am, too. Here we all are.
Just wait’ll to you find out I sound EXACTLY like Barry White.
Ohhh Babeee š
We just know you’ll have Love Unlimited with you, too š
I always wanted a nice basso profundo voice, whether it was the velvety bass of a Barry White or the deep booming bass I hear on this album of Russian folk songs in my collection somewhere (done by the Red Army Chorus or some similar group).
Yet here I am with this nondescript tenor. Ah well, it’s suited to the kinds of songs you would expect a banjo player to sing, things like “From the Indies To the Andies In his Undies” or “Father, Get the Hammer, There’s a Fly on Baby’s Head.” That’s the great thing about being a folk singer, having an oddball voice is not unexpected and in some circles is seen as a definite plus.
I had to read Danni those titles. She squinted her eyes and stuck out her tongue š High approval rating, obviously, from her. LOL
Oh… and for a great reader’s book with accents and all. Try Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm. It’s my all time fave to read to kids. There were kids at the old school who 5 years later would run up to me in a store or such and tell me how much they liked that story that I read to them in class.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins is the name of it. It is not a new book but it is one of the funniest books I know of, whether you are a child or a child who has lived a long time. Janet, I think your little boy would really like it. And so would you!
Also I was thinking about how cool it is that a little kid in 2006 counts Beach Boys CDs as his prize possession. I bet the Beach Boys would be tickled to know that. He should write them a fan letter, I bet they would send him an autographed photo!
Thanks Ductape!! Wesley is astonished he didn’t discover the Beach Boys LOL He asks people all the time if they know the Beach Boys and he’s AMAZED they know of them. š
He isn’t much into “stars” or autographs. He met Teemu Sellanne from the NHL and wanted to talk to him about a movie made by another Finnish dude and Sellanne’s incredible car. š
He’s turned many kids his age onto the Beach Boys though.
Whether or not you’re a great songwriter, you ARE a GREAT song title-meister. You inspsired us here (my wife, daughter, 84 year old mother and 80 year aunt) to come up with other politically incorrect children’s song titles.
Done by the Jackson 5…”Fun Things to Drink Under the Sink.”
Any Country Singer…”Daddy Drinks ‘Cuz You cry”
Ozzie Osborn…..”Pop Goes the Hampster and Other Microwave Games”
These songs will fit any voice.
When I read the from the Indies to the Andies in his Undies, I went and told all our visitors from out of town about this hilarious thing I’d read on BooMan and that started our goofiness.
I wish we’d had more time to plan — I can see us cafe cyber cheerleaders in little pink cheerleading outfits and poms poms.
Good luck tomorrow DJ. I’m sure you’ll be great!
Thanks Mary š We’re taking the color pink back from Barbie and Mattel. š
I read a story of a woman who was about to embark on a flight to go on her own journey in this path called activism. She was alone and crying in the bathroom of an airport. She went to wash her hands and pused the button for the gel soap and out glooped out a big glob of bright magenta hand soap. She thought of CodePink and her sisters and couldn’t help but smiling. š
Thank you for a beautiful post, DJ. Thanks also for info on how to hear you! Hope to do it live (sans pompoms, but with open heart & open ears) — 9 pm New York Mountain Time.
Ha! Hey Luscious! I’ll have some espresso on the way for you š Doing my part to partake in your share.
My son knows and he doesn’t quite get it. He went and got his precious treasures (his CDs) Beach Boys even and said I could borrow them š
What a sweet, sweet child you have, DJ. I’d sure bring them along!
As for the java, if espresso hits you the way it does me, don’t make my share too big! š
We he’s sweet untill you ask him to do something horrible and cruel.. like take a shower or round up his dirty laundry. LOL
I get an iced Americano by a hot Ukranian. š
Hm — he sounds a bit like me š
(I refer to Wesley, not the Ukranian.)
Just went over & had a look at the site. Looks like a great place to be!
Plus: after seeing the call letters a few times, I’m reading it ‘Ka-BOO’!
They are pretty damn cool over there at KBOO. It’s an honor to be on it with all the work they are doing. It’s all volunteer run.
I keep seeing it as KBooMan thanks to CabinGirl and Booman š
All right! A Beach Boys fan. “The Little Saint Nick” is one of my favorite Christmas carols. I love harmony when they do the “oooooo” leadin to “Merry Christmas, baby.”
Do you think he would like surf music? I’ve been “taping” a program from one of our local community stations called “Pull the String” (check it out at http://pullthestringradio.com ) and the host plays this cool mix of surf, rockabilly, blues and Les Paul-style overdubbed country. If it’s anything he might be interested in, I’ll be glad to provide links. I know it’s not exactly Beach Boys, but it’s a similar time period.
Coolness Thanks! I’ll check it out with him tomorrow.
Wesley taste in music is pretty good but it does tend to gravitate towards movie soundtracks. He has tons of movie soundtracks and if he digs a particular group from a movie song – he’ll start collecting that group.
The Beach Boys came from Herbie Fully Loaded AND James Bond has a Beach Boy song in it. California Girls in A view to a Kill.
And Wesley is here to check my info is correct š He says my favorite is All Summer Long. I’m sure he’s correct about that, too š
PS No doubt I’ll like the links myself š Surf,Rockabilly, and Les Paul!!! Wowzers! š
The show’s opening theme is by a guy name Deke Dekerson (sp?). It sounds a lot like Les Paul and in fact that’s who I thought it was the first time I heard it.
Tell you what, I will make an MP3 of Pull the String on Saturday and put it up for you and Wesley to give a listen to. I could do it now if you had the capability to listen to OGG format files, but not everyone does or is inclined to install the codecs needed to listen to OGGs. (Ogg is what I use for stuff I record for my own use — the audio quality is better, and there are other reasons too.)
Oh, and tell Wesley I have liked All Summer Long ever since George Lucas used it as the end credit music in American Graffiti. Actually I liked the Beach Boys when they were popular back in the Sixties. (Geez, that makes me feel old.)
We love American Graffiti. I got it for him this December and he about jumped out of his skin with glee. He likes the cars, the music and the fact we lived near San Rafael for several years.
He hasn’t any real favorite song or movie. He loves them all and also rotates.
At a local Burgerville here they have a jukebox and everytime he goes in they start whistling Beach Boys tunes because they know what’s gonna happen. He’s going to sit there and stuff tokens in it and play NOTHING but Beach Boy songs.
I truly wish I could record my recently acquired, nearly mint Jan & Dean lp onto CD for both you & Wesley.
In the same box at our recycling center I also found plenty of examples of the other music you mention — much obscure & out of print.
Thanks for the link, Omir!
I’d guess most vinyl’s out of print now, isn’t it?
There’s still a little out there but most of it is used by club DJs and the like.
I remember the day a guy I worked with came into the office and said, “History was made today. The #1 album on the Billboard chart is not available as an LP.” That was in 1989 or so. Wow.
And speaking of albums, I was at the thrift store on Saturday and scored the cover to Spike Jones’ album “Music Depreciation.” It reminds you of why they are called albums — inside the cover are six sleeves and it looks like a photo album. The sleeves were filled with Count Basie and Duke Ellington 78s rather than Spike Jones, but that’s OK, I bought it so I could display the cover.
Mmmm – albums.
What we’ve lost with CDs, aside of a certain sound quality, is the type of interaction with visual art we could experience with a full-size lp. For many of us, I think album covers initiated that relationship — & the art could be owned, held in our hands, appreciated again & again, at any time. Not everyone could visit a gallery or museum, but lps were accessible to everyone.
CD inserts just ain’t the same. Think of the head-sized PB & J inside the jacket of the Airplane’s ‘Volunteers’ — a CD-sized’ PB & J hardly has the same impact (if it’s included in the package at all, which I doubt).
Knock ’em dead, DJ!
I’m proud of you Janet :o)
Go git ’em! community radio rocks!
love the Shepp quote — firemusic indeed!
there’s a Max Roach tune on the album “percussion bittersweet” recorded during the civil rights movement, featuring Eric Dolphy (among others) whose title I lifted once for a poem (dedicated to ED) that seems apt:
<tender warrior</i>
I’ll put on something pink tonight while you are on th air!
Aaackkk – it will clash with my green…oh well!
Go Janet!!!
Way to go Janet. . .!!!!
I will be listening and telling my captive audience (the dog and two cats)…listen up, this is my sister Janet from Booman and she is doing good stuff!
You will be fabulous, both of you.
Big Hugs,
Shirl
Thanks
I’m guessing drinking rootbeer while on the set wouldn’t be a good… BURRRRRRP… idea, huh? š
Hey there,
I emailed my cell number to you. Did you get it?
I’ll be in Manhattan tomorrow. You’re marching Sunday?
I’ve got it š Yup I’ll be out on Sunday. All day as I’m staying later to help with the clean up.
there’s a pretty good chance that MrTracy will be listening too. He isn’t allowed to be naked though until afterwards…otherwise what if we missed your show. Most likely I will also cry. The hurt and passion connected with your mind and speaking through your soul will probably be someone’s closed minded undoing you know girlfriend!
What can I say Janet..I love you…you and your friend will be great cause you’re great.
“I had a chance to pre-tape an interview with Noble Peace price recipient Dr. Wangari Maathai last night and I will air that during the second half of the program (I will save the woman on Iran for a later show). That means you
two can go on at 6.”
Again, thanks for the positive vibes and good loving. If you like what you hear on KBOO see about slappin’ em an email. š
Okay I’m off. Love! Janet
You’re going to be great, DJ. Have fun!