I just sent an e-mail to Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber who does a very cool radio show called Crap from the Past on KFAI in Minneapolis and he mentioned that I was listening on the air! I also told him about my radio days at KUMM in Morris (which he seemed to think was near Winona -- can you even pick up KUMM in Winona?) which was very cool.

He has an extensive archive of every CFTP show he's done since 1992 on his Web site. The show I'm listening to now should be available as a podcast on his site in the next day or so.

Update: I just got an e-mail reply from Ron himself:

Joey - Very cool!  I told my KUMM story on the air...

I don't have any of those three songs, but it gives me stuff to look for!

Thanks for writing!
Ron G

The three songs I requested were "Little Girls" by Oingo Boingo, "Garden Party" by Marillion, and "The Animal Song" by The Europeans. I know the first two should be fairly easy to find either on CD or online, so maybe I'll reply to Ron later about those.

Yes, I know this video is silly.

Here's the playlist for the HomeKUMMing radio show that Shannon and I just did:

Artist	Album	Song	N/R
Golden	Hurry Up & Wait - Album Sampler	It's Okay	
Thursday	Couting 5-4-3-2-1	Counting 5-4-3-2-1 (Radio Edit)	N
Michael W. Smith	Healing Rain	Healing Rain	
Mint	Magnetism	The Magnetism of Pure Gold	N
Powerman 5000	Destroy What You Enjoy	Destroy What You Enjoy	N
Roachford	Roachford	Cuddly Toy	
Ivor Cutler		Gruts for Tea	
J Dilla (Jay Dee)	Donuts	Track 2	
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Straight Outta Lynwood	Don't Download This Song	
Culture Club	Kissing to Be Clever	I'm Afraid of Me (Remix)	
The Walkmen	A Hundred Miles Off	All Hands and the Cook	N
4HIM	Christian Rock of Ages	Where There is Faith	
Better Than Ezra	School House Rock! Rocks	Conjunction Junction	
Ray LaMontagne	Till the Sun Turns Black	You Can Bring Me Flowers	N
Bruce Springsteen	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions	John Henry	
The Sleepy Jackson	One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird	I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree	N
Gnarls Barkley	St. Elsewhere	Just a Thought	N
Wax on Radio	Exposition	Today I Became a Realist	N
Missing Persons	Missing Persons	Mental Hopscotch	

More later.

DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS SONG!!!

(Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong.)

I've been playing around with GarageBand on my new iMac this weekend. My fiddling has resulted in a remix of Senator Ted Stevens' recent "Series of Tubes" speech about Net neutrality.

In addition to my adaptation of Stevens' speech, there are a couple of others out there, such as this amusing video. Thank you for inspiring us, Ted!

Burning Sensations - "Belly of the Whale"

Missing Persons - "Mental Hopscotch"

EBN-OZN - "AEIOU Sometimes Y"

Plane Geometry - "Angle Dance" (from Square One TV)

As I was eating dinner tonight, I had Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions playing in the background courtesy of Napster's free music streaming (though I don't think I'd buy anything there). This is an excellent album that I'll need to buy for my iPod. According to the links from the album's Wikipedia entry, Bruce and his (non-E Street) band recorded the whole album live in two daylong recording sessions.

If you haven't listened to this already, I think you should!

Check this site out: http://www.randybmusic.com. This is the official site of Randy B., a budding R&B musician and one of the Web developers who works with me. Stay for a while and listen to his grooves.

I was sitting here listening to the 128 kbps stream of KUMM when they started playing Radio Goethe, which seems to be a very cool German music radio show -- At least one doesn't have to travel 4,000 miles to hear fine music like this!