Radio

I like radio. Most of the time...

Youth Radio is becoming a corporation. Or something like it. We sit in meetings all day long and get NOTHING resolved! We should be out there prepping for the next show, not sitting in meetings! Granted, there have been less meetings, but I think we should take them down to the minimum that we need them, say, everyone comes in, gets their assignment for that week, from the PRODUCER, not Roberta, and then go do it! And those reflection sheets! Ha! I don't think we need those, either! If you've got something to say about the show, say it afterward, while we're decompressing. Don't say it in those reflection sheets! The week should go like this:

Monday: Meet, find something on the sticky board (where all our ideas are) or think up something new, check it with the producer, and go start on it.

Friday: Come to the station, work on your piece, if you need something from someone, like music, go tell them.

Sunday: Finnish piece, run through the show in Studio C, eat, then go on air. Repeat.

I think that's how the week should go, to avoid those pointless meetings, and to appease Roberta, Paul, and Marcos, it makes us use our inter-personal skills more. If we interact with individuals more, then we build up our own relationship skills. I know that the meetings supposedly create a group mentality (or a collective, as the terminology at KUNM goes.) but there must be a better way to achieve this!!! Merely working together creates a group mentality more than meetings where everyone falls asleep. I've noticed that people form friendships and help each other out much more when we're working on something than when we're in a meeting. New ideas could also be fed to the Producer for that week if we ran out of things from the sticky board.

We could do "Freeform" shows where we get maybe some poets, a Radio Theatre piece, etc. and then just put some nice music in between. The show also doesn't have to be so serious. Lighten it up a bit! That's what I was trying for with that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory bit and the Wacky Adventures of Youth Radio. I think that we are acting too much like NPR. Don't get me wrong, I like NPR, but I don't think that's what we're going for. We ARE the Youth of the Nation, and we should act like it! No more stuff you would hear on the Evening Report or ATC! We need youth issues and not things like Hurricane Katrina. Focus on the youth, not on the adults; we need to reexamine who our listening audience is.

There are many more seeds of problems right now that will grow into full-fledged ones, so, expect more entries like this periodically.

Indictment!!!!

YES!!! I have started two of my last two posts like that....but anywho...Lewis Libby got indicted!!! Hahahahaha!!!! My brother is whining "Get off the computer, Evan..." Yada, yada. Bye. Just ckeck Google News, you'll see. Yay! Happy Indictment Day!

Halloween's a comin'!

YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! Halloween!!! I love Halloween! Woo-Hoo! I'm going to be a block head (picture to follow, hopefully.) And I hope I get LOTS of candy! I will keep trick-or-treating until I can get that much out of the jar as I pass it out to those ungrateful little brats who come to my door...(note to self, try not to be soooo hypocritical...) Yum. Candy.

Y'know, if you're reading this, and you pass out candy, or, more importantly, if you buy it to pass out, then just don't bother with anything other than chocolate. no. Just don't get those Twizzlers, those Skittles, those Starbursts, and especialy no apples, health food or money (unless it's a $100 bill for every kid). No. Just get chocolate, that's what kids want, and if they don't, they're dentists in disguise (actually, with all the chemicals....who knows?) Also, chocolate creates....um.....endo-fisheis? Anyway, you feel like you're in love. You should let them because that's the closest they'll get to love. (for most of us anyway....). And chocolate feels so good on the tongue. (I SPELLED IT RIGHT!!!) It has that smooth, warm, creamy texture that we all love. I'm making myself hungry for chocolate....yum.

And then threre's the fact that you get to dress up REALLY freakily, hoboes, Republicans, you name it. Something you would never dress up as normally. Unless you were in Mrs. Dupre's class....gar. I'm going to be a block-head this year. T'will be fun. Yes, yes, my precious. WOAH!!! what was that?! I'm not gollum! Or am I, precious? I was a skunk one year, you know. It was fun. I went up to random people and "sprayed" them. Lovely. I was about six at the time. I had no sense of public image....In fact, I'm unsure I have one now....I wore that costume to preschool, too. I loved it; my mumzi made it for me. It was fuzzy. And comfy, and warm, and—I'll stop now. About the skunk at least. Last year I was a stem-cell scientist that got mauled by Republicans. I am a politicly active little devil. Fun! Josh and Matt, two of my friends, are going to be T-Birds from the movie Grease. Josh is Danny and Matt is Kinicky. I just recently saw that movie, it's really funny. I liked it. If Scot reads this he'll just say "Well WHY did you like it?" and then that will mean Josh, Matt, Lucas, and I will just have to dress up in sweater-vests and get scraggly beards next year. That will scare the begiezers out of everyone!!!

My, my, I've written a lot, more than usual, in fact, and I think that that's enough on this particular topic. Or is it, my precious?

Satan loves you, this I know, for the Right-Wing Bible Nuts told me so.

What a nice title! But the reason behind the glaringly odd title is that Kinky Friedman is running for Governer of Texas. A Jewish cowboy as a REAL Texan governor. wouldn't that be nice? I think so, I also liked his ad. It is very funny. You should watch it or Domino's will be knocking at your door...

The pizza delivery guy is watching you....

A very scary look at the future of pizza delivery.


But the scariest thing: this COULD HAPPEN!!! The US State Department recently approved RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Passports that would be able to broacast your personal info to a handheld scanner at customs. (Engadget) The pizza companies already keep track of your orders; when my mom calls out for pizza, they ask "Mrs. Moulson, would you like what youi had last time?" Even SHE doesn't know what we had last time!!! And it's not such a stretch to extend a humourous episode of Arrested Development,in which a picture of A pair of balls circulates throught the government via the PATRIOT Act, to the point where, if they pay for it, companies can have your entire life story. I don't think this is a farfetched idea, no, no, I think that the government will know everything about everyone (like the Mormon Church) by the end of the century. I should suggest this to Kyle...

Good Day, Ladies And Gents.

I am happy because today was a good day. I finnished my animation (which I hope to post sometime), I made another (oooo) and I got to smash pennies. Fun. Buh Bye.

Did you ever wonder....

Did you ever wonder WHY people are so stubborn? I just did, and no my head hurts. Ouch. But I did get some actual thoughts in there before I got this huge headache (which is probably being compounded by the screen), namely:
1. I noticed that people will keep thinking what they want to think (which they tell you is NOT what they want to think) even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
2. There is no #2. Sorry.
I also wondered if school will get any better. Right now, it has it's ups and downs but it seems to be on a drooping trend. Oh well. I won't plot anything like Andrea. Wow. That's funny watching her make up stuff. Bye. I have to go watch Expedited Deconstuction now.

Oh, Look! A picture!

I think this is a Basenji's nose....

I like pictures....

Pictures are fun....woo-hoo!!! Like some that I will post IF blogger lets me....*twiddles thumbs*...dum-dee-doo.

Oh. My. God. My first post.

First, let me clairify, Oh. My. [insert diety here]. there. Done. My, my, that was fun. But anywho, I am Evan. I go to school at a local middle school, normal in every way, ok, maybe I'm lying, but still, I'd like to think that everyone I know is normal. The lovebrds, the psychos, the nerds, the geeks (two VERY differant things, my friend.), the....um....the people. Yes, I know quite a few people. And ALL of them are crazy.
I also work (volunteer, if you must) at a community radio station here and I do the Children's Hour and I contribute to Youth Radio, "A Brand New Show on KUNM, Youth Radio..." that stuff. I also did Freeform once with Katie Stone. That was fun. Speaking of KUNM, Scot ( a blogger here and also my Humanities and Film teacher) posted something about the Radio Wars of the late eighties on his blog, http://frannyzoo.blogspot.com. I found it quite interesting as I, being "blessed" with youth as I am, was not around at the time. My mom was actually Music Director during the years leading up to the Radio Wars. She told me a lot about it. Fun. Well, I must now leave you. buh bye now.