Gary Snyder * 3.12.87 * University of California -
Berkeley
30/Jun/2010 |
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A poetry reading by Gary Snyder on March 21, 1987 at the University of California - Berkeley. Enjoy.q
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Tom Waits Tales
01/Jun/2010 |
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Spoken word revelries from Tom Waits on his 2008 "Glitter & Doom" tour. Ain't nothin' else like Tom tellin' a tale...
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An interview with Tom Robbins * Bellingham, WA *
5.14.09
01/May/2010 |
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I had the amazing opportunity to interview the legendary author and psychedelic spelunker Tom Robbins on stage at Boundary Bay Brewery in Bellingham, Washington on May 14, 2009. We gave a reading from his novel B is for Beer to a sold-out audience in the outdoor beer garden, accompanied by live music, skits and general revelrie.
At the end of the event, I joined Tom on stage for a conversation -- I had over 20 questions prepared and rehearsed, though got less than half-dozen out. He was particularly interested in me asking him "How did you get started as a writer?" This question set him up for a delectable riff involving Elvis, a dwarf in a green suit, a blonde-in-distress and secret underground lakes beneath Graceland. Photo by Scott Glackman!
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Spring Equinox 2010 : Samish Island to Mount Baker
29/Mar/2010 |
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I bought a Flip MinoHD video camera in mid-March and was looking for a way to play around with it, see what it could do, so I decided to document "a day in my life." On the vernal equinox, I woke up on Samish Island in coastal Skagit county and proceeded to wind my way up back roads to the Mt. Baker Ski Area, approximately 60-some miles to the east. The video depicts the adventures of the day.
A couple of things I learned: it is much harder to deal with "filming" while snowboarding than I expected. I had to limit recording to very easy runs, cat tracks, etc. Also, I learned after reviewing the footage that one needs to keep the Flip as steady and unmoving as possible to get quality footage -- better yet, having it stationary on a tripod delivers the best quality. Finally, the processing and editing of the footage took much, much more time than the actual recording, which makes me want to be sure I really, really want to do a project before I start capturing video!
All in all, lots of fun and a quirky take on a typical day in northwestern Washington.
The soundtrack is provided by the Grateful Dead, Quantic, An-ten-ae and the Cinematic Orchestra.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by the Muppets
11/Mar/2010 |
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Saturday Morning with DJ Christafari * KMTN 96.9 FM *
1998
24/Jan/2010 |
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Just for fun, here's another recording from way back when I was the Saturday morning DJ for KMTN 96.9 FM in Jackson Hole, and had the special job of coaxing the town awake and out in to the day -- whether that meant using my music to get people out of bed and to the slopes or to their jobs, proper song selection and pacing was essential. I always loved the notion that I was spinning the soundtrack for thousands of people as they began another day in the Hole. I also had to handle the morning snow and weather reports, lost dog announcements, a 1-hour world beat show and an on-air garage sale-type-thing called Trash & Treasure.
The region reached by these radio waves is home to ski bums, cowboys, billionaires, spud farmers and movie stars. DJ'ing to the local musical tastes required reaching a careful blend of bluegrass, reggae, funk, folk, classic rock, jam band and other genres that don't typically sit next to each other. This episode shows me attempting to find the balance with the Allman Brothers, Allison Krauss, Blue Traveler, Morphine, Ani Difranco and Bob Marley. One other note -- I tried to talk and play commercials as little as possible, especially in the early hours, and tried to spin as many consecutive songs as I could.
This set appears to be from the springtime shortly before I moved on to other work -- I could take working every Saturday morning at 5 am for only so long-- and some of the song selections are now cringe-worthy to my ears, but still, it serves as a fun time capsule recording from my stint as a small town disk jockey in Wyoming in 1998.
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Gary Snyder * 5.27.09 * KUOW FM Seattle
26/Dec/2009 |
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Podcast featuring Snyder interview on KUOW 94.9 FM Seattle, May 27, 2009 + Gary Snyder on Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" via NPR 2008 + "Poetry Off the Shelf" profile, June 2008
Poet Gary Snyder returns to Seattle for reading
By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times staff reporter
Back before all the asphalt, the cars and the strip malls, this was a forested glade, where Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, would beat a path into the woods to his secret camp, to snug down with the quiet night, dreaming a fifth-grader's skinned-knee dreams.
One of America's most celebrated environmental writers and a lifelong conservationist, Snyder returned to his boyhood home Tuesday in Lake City. He is in town for a reading tonight at Benaroya Hall, part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures series.
Known for his writings imbued with sense of place and love of nature, Snyder reflected on how the local landscape has changed since he first explored its tangled woods as a boy, and how loving and knowing a place is the first step to preserving it.
Long before he grew into one of America's most famous Beat poets and was immortalized as Japhy Ryder, the fictional hero in Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums," before he put down roots in California and crisscrossed the Pacific, over and over, to study Buddhism in Japan, Snyder grew up here, living with his parents on a subsistence farm.click for more...
Africa Unite! : Jazz Sessions on 96.9 KMTN FM
07/Dec/2009 |
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A recording
from my archive collection of radio shows I did on KMTN
96.9 FM in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the mid-Nineties.
Every Sunday night, I'd hunker down in the studio, a
short bike ride from my log cabin on the compound, to
host the long-running 6-hour Jazz Sessions show. As
this mix shows, my definition of "jazz" was pretty
loose. For this hour, I started out playing
Africa-inspired jazz music, and then branched out from
there. Lots of people liked the freshness and
creativity I was bringing to the air waves, but I
always remember one phone call from a listener very
upset that I had deviated from the traditional jazz
format and I was ruining his Sunday nights. Ah well.
Had to keep myself entertained too.
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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"Salmon Worship: Is It Wrong?" Pt. 2
06/Dec/2009 |
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photos by Chrisitan Martin, copyright 2009
A fundraiser for the Liam Wood School of Fly Fishing and River Soldiering featuring David James Duncan, Sherman Alexie and Jeffrey Foucault; WWU * 9.25.09 * Bellingham, WA. Part two. Download by subscribing to Radio Free Fundi via links at the top of the sidebar, or stream below.
"Salmon Worship: Is It Wrong?" Pt. 1
14/Oct/2009 |
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Gary Snyder * 5.27.09 * Benaroya Hall, Seattle
13/Jul/2009 |
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Gary Snyder visited Seattle in May 2009 at the invite of Seattle Arts & Lectures and North Cascades Institute (my daytime employer). Without any new collection of poetry or essays to promote, Snyder read from a variety of books, notes and a letters in a warm, intimate presentation at Benaroya Hall. Asked by the Institute to speak a bit about his time as a fire lookout in the North Cascades in the mid-1950s, Snyder reminisced and read several poems written during that time period, including "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" and "The Late Snow and Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-four" -- two of my favorites.
Snyder also discusses the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, his Wobbly grandfather soapboxing in Pioneer Square, learning how to cut wood on a stump farm north of Seattle and Finnish anarchist newspapers published near the mouth of the Columbia River in this very special appearance on his home ground of western Washington State. Another podcast will be released in the near future with the question & answers & conversation he partook in after this reading.
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Gary Snyder * 2.14.56 * Reed College
28/May/2009 |
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Gary Snyder
Reading from “Myths & Texts,” "Riprap" and other poems at Reed College, Portland, OR
February 14, 1956
On February 13, 1956, Gary Snyder ’51 returned to Reed College with Allen Ginsberg for a poetry reading at Anna Mann Cottage. The next day, when the poets read again, the unscheduled event was recorded.
The reel of audiotape containing the Ginsberg reading, including his reading of “Howl,” was discovered in 2007 in Reed’s Hauser Library by John Suiter, a writer doing research for a biography of Snyder. Beside the reel was a note that contained disappointing news about the Snyder half of the reading: “Tape #1 Missing.”
Then, the morning after the “Howl” story appeared in Portland’s Oregonian, Steven Halpern ’85, a Portland-based photographer, showed up at the door of Reed’s special collections with an audiocassette copy of the missing tape. He had made the copy 25 years before as an English major doing research on Snyder’s friend and fellow-poet Lew Welch ’50. Tape 1 contained Snyder’s reading. Furthermore, Halpern had meticulously transferred from the original reel all the labeling information, which not only confirmed the exact date of the reading—February 14, 1956—but also included this note:
Poetry Reading made in the school year ’55–1956 at Reed College [when] Snyder was on a trip North from San Francisco that is briefly described in Dharma Bums trip with Allen Ginsberg. Snyder talks about his lookout experiences and early poetry writing.
Although the original reel has yet to surface, Halpern’s cassette is a superb copy—virtually equal in sound quality to the Ginsberg companion reel—and is more than twice as long, containing a lengthy selection of 46 Snyder poems.
--Copyright 2008, Reed College (for educational purposes only!)
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More info on this reading at The Oregonian and in this pdf story by Snyder scholar John Suiter.
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Planet Soup : Women's Voices
01/May/2009 |
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From the vaults comes
another classic late-90's episode of Planet Soup, a
Saturday morning radio show on KMTN 96.9 FM in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming that was once hosted by DJ Christafari, a
good friend of the Podcast Cafe. "Women's Voices"
features a wide variety of music stylings from some of
the best female singers and musicians in the world...
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Edward Abbey : Freedom & Wilderness II
06/Apr/2009 |
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I am currently packing up my backpack for a forthcoming trip to the redrock country of southern Utah. Been pouring over topo maps of Canyonlands National Park, consulting hiking books and making plans with my two compatriots who will join me in the desert from San Francisco and Taos. And, of course, been brushing up on my Edward Abbey, to get in the proper spirit of the desert. To that end, I thought it's as good a time as any to post the second half of his "Freedom & Wilderness" readings -- I up'd the first half right here, along with some background info on these recordings.
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Mary Anne Hobbes * "West Coast Rocks" * 021009
10/Feb/2009 |
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"Mary Anne Hobbs went on a mission out to LA and San Francisco to check out the fast emerging, new electronic music scene, headed up by Flying Lotus. We hear from West Coast DJs and producers, including Glitch Mob, Daddy Kev, Kid Kamelion,Samiyam, DJ Tomas and The Gaslamp Killer. Along with sets from LA hotspot, Low End Theory and San Francisco's 103 Harriet Club."
An audio excerpt, hijacked for dBM on February 10, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/
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