Then yes­terday there was yet another emer­gency request for DJs, and we cov­ered that too. That went really well, I was deeply sat­is­fied with my first set, and made sure every­body in radi­oland knew it, too.

Playlist.

Someone called in just to say they were glad we played the opening Uncle Tupelo song, which was cool, since I love that song. My expe­ri­ence with DJing so far is that you’re con­cen­trating so hard on get­ting the next song or two lined up and the PSAs played at the appro­priate times that you often don’t focus on the songs, so you forget people might actu­ally be enjoying them. The other thing I’ve learned: I speak way fast when I’m on the mic.

Then yes­terday evening I went in for my last appren­tice­ship, with local radio per­son­ality Arwulf. Arwulf’s MO is bringing in spliced up remixes of movie sound­tracks he keeps on cas­sette, and live lay­ering them with found audio and fringe musical events. He has CDs and records and most of all cas­sette tapes stacked up around on every sur­face. Maybe this is fun to listen to at home, it may well be, I don’t know. But it was unspeak­ably won­derful to be there to watch it. Halfway through his opening mon­tage of William S Burroughs and syn­the­sizer Vagner he got up and killed all but the christmas lights and nov­elty lamps in the studio. Then throughout the show he would jump up to con­duct the boards, waving his arms and grin­ning. I just sat there with my feet up on the turntable board and shook my head and laughed out loud. Except for the parts with Jim Jones. That was really creepy. On the whole, an expe­ri­ence I wouldn’t expect or forget. Just for interest, here’s that show’s audio. There is no playlist.