Saturday, January 13th, 2007 - RC03: First! (archive)
FIRST!
First place, first chair, first in line, first done, first of the year, first time, first home, first arrest…. Americans are obsessed with being “First”, but what exactly does “first” mean? Is it the physical presence of being before everyone else? Is it the feeling of accomplishment when your opponents are left in the dust? Is it the fear creeping up on you from the unknown? Or is it the pain of your initial tooth?
This program delved into all the inaugural, premier, virginal, and paramount meanings behind the word “First”.
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Lee Montgomery pragmatically explaining yet another mystical moment…
Lee Montgomery started the lovely little day off with a revisiting of Neighborhood Public Radio’s first transmission.
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Ashley Neese with her first short story since 5th grade in hand.
San Francsico artist Ashley Neese was up next and she had prepared an extra special surprise. Exploring the theme of “First” Ashley decided it was time to take pen in hand, which she hadn’t done since 5th grade, and write a short story.
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Katina warns an onlooker to be quiet while storytime is in progress.
Barry Finnerty and Kyle Keelman (hope the spelling is right on that) share a lovely recording centering on how damn screwed up this country is right now. Dubbed “Political Circus”, it is just that. Terrific!
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Artist and visionary Katina Papson on air spilling her greatest fears for all to hear. Get it while it’s hot! Amongst other things she tells us the origin of her beautiful name and her familial nickname!
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Zefrey Throwell babbles on about some such…
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Linda Arnejo gets heated with a Mission resident.
Linda and Bryson discuss the first amendment of the ol U.S.of A.. They even delve into what it means to say “squat” on the air and question who makes all the rules. Is it the “man”? Find out!
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Linda Arnejo, LeE Montgomery, & Steven Short get to the bottom of this 1st Amendment of ours…
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Bryson De Jong rakes ‘em over the coals
Bryson De Jong talks about the hottest of the rods with fellow car enthusiasts Thomas Elliott and Dan Hanes. Experts imported from Lodi, California discuss fast autos from 1908 all the way through present day.
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Uniman Construction as they set up to rock the living daylights out of SOEX.
Charlie Calahan rocks the drums like mere mortals never could…
Stop asking! YES there was a basson there!!
Uniman Construction (complete with their own witty spokesperson) showed up and literally tore the throats out of the friendly inhabitants of the Mission. Terrific jams of the kind not heard since Sun Ra burned down a Lutheran church in the name of solar eclipses right to rule, you’ve got to hear this!
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Kenoli and Marc prepare for the community roundtable…
Community talking up some issues.
This is what people care about! Finally! The people speak!
The neighborhood begins to change it’s policy on graffitti (what do you think of that Gavin?)
Neighborhood Assemblies Network set up shop in front of SOEX and with remote mic in hand began a conversation with whomever happened to be walking by. From youngsters to oldsters, from the hip to the homeless, NAN was on the scene. This is community involvement truly at street level. Delicious!
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Inge Hoonte in that striking Myspace pose…
Inge Hoonte phones in from Brooklyn and shares with us her experiences of first meeting people. Some slight technical difficulties (blasted phones), but over all an excellent piece.
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Michael Trigilio about to lay down the law with his new analog synth
Law laying in progress…
Michael Trigilio (the 5th smartest man in the world. Proven!) decided to build a analog synthesizer from scratch. One might suspect that given that it was a homemade model it would be subpar, but there you would be wrong my friend (we are afterall, talking about the 5th smartest man in the world). Trigilio warps minds and makes eyeballs bleed with pleasure as the frequencies of madness thrill the bones of all present. Listen to this lunacy and be one with the analog vortex!
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Whizz and Christina eat pie and ruminate about small farms…
Christina and Whizz talk about firsts for woman
In a truly lovely half hour, Whizz and Christina discuss “firsts” for woman. They start off with an interview from Susan Pedrick from the Woman’s Center on 18th in the Mission. Then on to politics… Barack and Hillary anyone? And then they have an interview with a personal heroine of San Francisco, Penelope Houston, front woman for The Avengers. Thrilling stuff!
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February 6th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
From our archive to yours:
According to OUR archives, there are several factual errors in the 1st NPR interview
It’s the 3rd anniversary of NPR not the 4th
The most frequent sponsor of Nat’l PR programming during the period discussed was not Burger King, but the Corp for Public Broadcasting, but KRON Channel 4 followed by European Sleepworks.
There was day time programming also on January 18th, which featured the Fletcher/Reichert interview of Robert Barry as well as the attendance of Mayor Jerry Brown
Keep up the good work.
sl
February 8th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
SL,
You are correct on every point… my apologies… my rhetoric on the sponsorship over the past 3 years (3rd anniversary…heading into 4th year) has morphed, I guess from “one of the most mentioned sponsors” to “the most mentioned sponsor” …. still I would be inclined to say Burger King coming in in the top 10 still leaves me aghast.
Luckily I’m not blogging now for Jon Edwards… or that would be a real problem…. Now as for the Robert Barry bit… I played an excerpt from that despite my personal estrangement from the interviewers… and since Jerry didn’t stick around long enough to get on the air… I didn’t mention his brief attendance… hell … I didn’t even realize he was him until after he left… so the last comment seems to be nit-picking.
I still love 21 Grand…even if i don’t leave my house much anyomore… what with the new baby and my arthritis…. and am more than happy to sing it’s praises whenever possible… just did today to a group of Berkeley undergrads… smooches all around.
Keep up the good work your own selves. I want us to have our 5th/4th anniversary at 21 G…but I think that happens in 20 years.
February 12th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
You are correct about the nit-pickiness of the last comment. My apologies. Congratulations on the arthritis and sorry about the baby, uh, wait, that should be the other way around.
xo
sl