Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 62: Chaos is the Road to Wonder

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I’ve just completed episode 62 of Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand. First of all, thanks to RBCP of the Snow Plow Show for playing an excerpt from SAFTWR episode 37. That was really neat to hear.

So here is episode 62. I started work on this this past Saturday evening and had a bunch of audio clips but not much in the way of music, so I put the project on hold until tonight, being the final night of April, 2018. I’ll close out the old month and open the new with a new collage.

Here’s a run-down of samples used:

“Lost for Words” — Pink Floyd
Excerpt from end of Snow Plow Show episode 459: “Sunday Night Homeowners”

From Jadusable/Haunted Majora’s Mask “TheTruth.rtf”
“Turn Down Day” — Cyrkle
“Stand Up Be Strong” — Shiro Sagisu (from a Bleach OST)
“Main Street Electric Parade” – Disneyland
“She’s a Rainbow” — Rolling Stones
DragNet intro
“Death is the Road to Awe” — Clint Mansell
Intro to the first episode of the radio show “Quiet Please”, episode called “Nothing Behind the Door”
“Hey Survivor” — Blank and Jones
Clip from episode one of the YouTube series “Petscop”
Interview clip from David Lynch, talking about ideas
Beethoven piece. Can’t find it in my folders again to put a name to it
I talk about discovering the Phone Losers back in late 2012
I talk about how I started doing podcasts back in 2005
“How to CB”, discussing Citizen’s Band radio
“Steppin’ Out” — Joe Jackson
Intro to an early Radio Free Caemlyn episode, back when it was called Radio Rand al’Thor and used the RaT Project Live intro. No full episodes of The RaT Project remain on the Internet.
“We Will Fall Together” — Streetlight Manifesto
Clip from Monty Python’s “Trivializing the War” sketch
Shortwave recordings
Loop of Unhappiness from Marble Hornets
“Only You” — Yazoo
“Mr. Blue” — Yazoo
Marble Operator intro
“A to Fade In (Adorable Cover)” — Broken Little Sister

Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 61: Ghosts of Our Past

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Did you think this was finished?

This episode combines a newly made collage and something from the archives I don’t think I’ve officially released. Major themes of the first half of the episode include the closing of K-Mart, represented by old store recordings, and the YouTube series Petscop.

Samples used include:
Xyzqwa show intro (“Not Making People Cry” episode)
Madhouse Live intro, Carlito calls KMart (A Group of Like Minded Men, Feb. 3, 2018)
My Fair, My Dark – Ida
French Catalog (Three Variations on the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel) – Brian Eno
Together We Will Live Forever – Clint Mansell
Petscop Audio/Music (including Petscop Even Care Recreation by Fred Stoyva)

Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 60: The Eternal Now

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This may be my first sound collage for 2018, created here in the last half of February. This is the first sound collage I’ve made since migrating content over to the Internet Archive, where this episode will debut. This is a meditation. This is a pause to think, to consider, to rethink, to pontificate. To think in silence and solace.

A thank you to everyone who has been listening since the Great Migration to Internet Archive began.

A list of sources sampled, maybe not in a correct chronological order, follows. It’s an attempt to document what happened tonight.

Playlist:

“The Wider Sun” – Jon Hopkins (“Insides” album)
Jack Kerouac reads from “On the Road”
“From the Beginning” – Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (“Trilogy” album)
“Away” – Gurban Abbasli
Japanese lesson, from Masafumi Takeda, my Japanese professor from Western Carolina University
“Tomorrow” – Chandeen featuring Anji Bee (“Teenage Poetry” album)
“Lena Beamish” – Miranda July (“Binet-Simon Test” album)
“Transcending Duality” – Alan Watts
Unknown file, simply titled “a thing”
“I Know You’re Out There Somewhere” – Moody Blues (“Sur la Mer” album)
“Question” – Moody Blues (“Question of Balance” album)
“Voices in the Sky” = Moody Blues (“In Search of the Lost Chord” album)
“An Attempt to Tip the Scales” – Bright Eyes (“Fevers and Mirrors” album)
“Kaze No Ne (Sound of the Wind)” – Kumi Tanioka (“Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles” (GCN) Soundtrack (Title Theme))
“Please switch off the TV” – old BBC bumper
The sound of two black holes colliding (via NASA)
“Refuge” – David Wax Museum (“Knock Knock Get Up” album)
“The Problem” – Lambchop (“No You C’mon” album)
“Ghost of Future a Future Lost” – Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet (“Requiem for a Dream” album)
“Who Knows Where the Time Goes” – Sylvie Simmons
“Steady Waves” – Cross Record (“Wabi-Sabi” album)
“There are No People in the Future” – Artist Unknown
“Gemini” – Boards of Canada (“Tomorrow’s Harvest” album)
“Earth People” – Dr. Octagon (“Dr. Octagonecologyst” album)

Dedicated to the mad ones.

Missing Podcast Episodes

I’ve recently been digging through my own personal podcast archives, after being told that TalkShoe has deleted most of their RSS feeds. That means that older Radio Free Caemlyn episodes and all of Marble Operator are no longer available to download on that site.

So my reaction was to drop my own files to Google or DropBox or Box or something somewhere (probably the Internet Archive) to make them permanently available somewhere. I started digging through my backup drive and notice that I have a lot of episodes missing.

Here’s a rundown of what I do not have:

I have nothing from The RaT Project, but I’m not too upset by that.

From Radio Free Caemlyn, I’m still going through the files, but I only have episodes 1-102 and 112 of Friday Night Trivia. I also have episodes 196 and 197 (the final two episodes). This means that episodes 103 through 111, and 113 through 195 are missing from the archives. I’m missing around 90 episodes of Friday Night Trivia, and they’re all from the back half, meaning all the better episodes are gone.

Marble Operator isn’t so badly hit, because it didn’t have as many episodes, but there are missing episodes there, too. I’m missing episodes 14 through 47, episode 49, episodes 54 through 60, and episodes 68 through 97 of Marble Operator.

All of these episodes are still listed on their respective TalkShoe pages, but TalkShoe has apparently deleted their local files, meaning you can’t actually download them from there. I’m working on making what I have of these podcasts available elsewhere (again, probably over on the Internet Archive). If you have any of these episodes, please let me know; I’d like to have complete archives once more.

The Marble Operator Archives

Marble Operator is a podcast I began in mid-2011 as a result of wanting to hear discussion of the YouTube series “Marble Hornets” in podcast form, but failing to find anything beyond a few episodes of an already-ended podcast called “Slender Nation”.

The show was hosted on the website TalkShoe, a site that allowed for conference calls that were broadcast live. Of late, the Marble Operator archive there has been killed, but luckily I managed to have not deleted my own personal archives of the show. I’m currently in the process of migrating the archives over to the Internet Archive. Here I’ll collect the links to the episodes.

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13

My own personal archives are incomplete. Missing episodes are either somewhere on my backup drive and I can’t find them or on backup drives I no longer have access to.

Super Awesome Fun Time With Rand 58: A Time to Begin

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The 58th episode of my sound collage series has been made and posted, although it isn’t really the 58th episode, that’s just a lie, as I start and never finish a lot of sound collages all the time; I make short segments, small collections of loops and layers and sounds and thoughts and ideas and everything, creations that never make it out of my computer except in my mind.

Loops include:

Cheap Trick – Say Goodbye
Various Nintendo eShop music
Miranda July — Lena Bearmish Binet-Simon Test
Cultdom Collective intro
Original CIA Intro
Original Friday Night Trivia Intro
2013 Friday Night Trivia Intro
Random Rab – Apparently [the predominant paint on the canvas this episode]