WXYC X-MASsacre IX Cabal Revealed!!!

Amidst hushed rumors which first began circulating on the internet about a month ago, early Friday morning, December 2, 2011, a new image

—specifically designed to recruit the global public at large: age- and gender-inclusive—
appeared on the wall of the facebook page titled “WXYC X-MASsacre.”

Covert-ops surveillance verify the page had lain dormant almost a full year, during which time assigned agents did relax their vigilance.  Over the past 5 years, however, it has been well-established that the masterminds of X-MASsacre rarely begin to stir before December, so the re-awakening of the facebook page was no shock, it was, in fact anticipated, and the monitoring of activities related to the event has been successfully reinstituted.

As has been the case in years past, there is every reason to believe the X-MASsacre *will* take place as advertised in the above graphic: Friday, December 16, 2011 from 15:30-23:30 ET [16/12/11 20:30 - 17/12/11 04:30 UT] on WXYC Chapel Hill 89.3FM.

Citizens who are interested in following the development of X-MASsacre IX 2011 (as well as X-MASsacre in general) are heartily encouraged to “like” the facebook page, “WXYC X-MASsacre.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WXYC Fridays (7-9pm) Fall 2011 – Besser Spät Als Nie™ Edition

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(yeah I know I’ve been horribly derelict, actually all year; I’ll do a massive Fall 2011 entry with flowsheet links to all my radio shows later. Most of them are Friday 7-9pm, but if there were sign-ups, the times would be 6-9pm, and I think I did a couple shows in addition to the Friday night dealy… I’ll get that squared away before Spring 2012, regardless, and they’ll actually replace this text in this entry, when I get around to it. No plans to change the time or date of this entry, when I finally update/edit. This has been a public service announcement of Eternal Return Radio.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WXYC Friday, September 2, 2011 7-9pm

The official beginning of the Fall 2011 series:

2/9/11 19:00-21:00

All our djs back in town, ramped up and ready to go, William the Conqueror sat in for this; Nameless was also in attendence for a bit, and woo-hoo, we’re putting callers on the air, again, so beware…

 

Also, for anyone following the saga of the 5-hour energy bottle, the balance of the liquid has been emptied, we know not by whom or what mechanism.  The empty bottle is still in the control room.

 

Thank you for choosing broadcast radio for your listening experience!

 

 

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Archers of Loaf – Cat’s Cradle – August 19, 2011

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My attendance at this show was a timely courtesy from the already well-established munificence of WXYC’s Ayatollah of Rock’n'Rolla.  (DJ Andyman, it’s *your* birthday coming up, I know, I know, but I really can’t even begin to imagine how I might match this!)

I only found out I was going to this show around a quarter till 8, while I was on-air, organizing a flow-strategy for the Karp request.  Hell, at that point I was just happy I had a Karp request, I had no idea how much better things were about to get.

Despite Matt Gentling’s quips that their advancing age was posing a danger to their ability to throw down (referencing kidney dialysis machines, strokes, prostate problems, etc.) they still went at it, full force, well over an hour, with two solid encores.

It *was* unimpeded, streaming gloriosity.

(Thanks, again, Ayatollah!)

 

*No delusions about photo quality here, but during the ~3 minutes when I wasn’t jumping up and down, dancing and/or flailing about, I thought it’d be a nice gesture to share a couple images.

Taking the stage for the first encore…

…and the requisite tuning

After I snatched that first pic (at the top of the blog entry), I was too into the music to bother with more pics, until their first encore.

They played “Wrong” in their first encore—which is my greatest of all time, favorite AoL tune—so any likelihood that I was gonna bother fishing around for a “camera” after that point was completely obliterated. 

 

 

 

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WXYC Friday, August 19, 2011 6-9pm

And there I was, thinking after 5 straight days of radio, come the 6th, I might be all tapped out:

19/8/11 18:00-21:00
 
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!  ‘sif!

I admit that what really pulled this thing all together was the plethora of requests, but in almost every instance, each request came at precisely the right moment to balance rotation, and *that* was a trip.  Had to go with second choices due to library deficiencies in a couple cases, but in 7 at-bats, I was able to bat 1.000, even if my slugging percentage was only .571

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to all fer lissnin’, and you callers, tonight, you were *da bomb*! 

 

 

 

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WXYC Thursday, August 18, 2011 noon-3pm

Determined to atone for yesterday’s sins, *this* show was one of which I’m proud:

 

18/8/11 12:00-15:00

 

Stumbling into the old Brian Brain, “Fun With Music! (Part One)” in the rock vinyl library early in the show set the tone for excellence, and all the fates delivered on the omen.  Looking over the flowsheet, I made some data entry errors; the 13:00 break was just before the Bishop Manning, and I forgot to enter The Dogmatics, “Drinkin’ By The Pool,” which was played after The Mighy Mighty Bosstones and before the DJ Rashad.  I’m pretty sure I’m gonna put these mp3s up, cuz this was definitely a show worthy of a download, imo and I’ll try to have a corrected flowsheet available with those files.

This one was fun, and I think it sounded great, even before I listen to the mp3s…
I give it an 8 out of 10.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…thanks fer lissnin’ and thanks fer callin’. 

 

 

 

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WXYC Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6-9am

Once more, with the daylight sign-up fill-ins:

 

17/8/11 06:00-09:00

 

I totally forgot to take a picture of the “fuel” this morning, but trust me, it was still there.  I think in the exact same place.

As for music… man. I started out OK; looking over the flowsheet, actually, I was really digging it and stuff was going just how I wanted.   The old performance addage about “mess up all ya want in the middle, the only thing that counts is the end,” rings true for me today.  I’d forgotten about the good stuff I started with.  That last hour was completely (preferably) missable, as far as I’m concerned.  I haven’t listened to it yet, so perhaps I should withhold judgement?  I don’t know.  I didn’t like the way things fell together (apart) at all.  Radio shows like this one make me truly appreciate all the times I get it right.  As for our listeners, I’m sure it just made Gayle’s show, that came after mine, even more welcome and stellar than it usually is. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…If you were listening, thanks.  I guess on the upside, you may have had to get out of bed to turn the radio off?  Thanks, also, to my lone caller.  I hope you got to the doctor’s office before the genuine blown segues hit yr car radio!

 

 

 

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WXYC Tuesday, August 16, 2011 6-9am

I’m currently in my daylight cycle, so why not do some morning radio?  Well, now that you mention it, I don’t mind if I do… here’s what I did:

 

16/8/11 06:00-09:00

 

It was a fun show, and the (solicited) request for “breakfast music” brought out the Shitmat and Jonathan Richman, both of which I’ve not played in forever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

…listners get the love and when they call in, they can experience it, realized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WXYC Monday, August 15, 2011 5-6am

Surprise!  Totally spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, Richard-more-in-the-mood-to-spin-some-discs-than-the-dj-looking-at-doing-9-hours-of-radio-split-during-a-period-of-15-hours-so-let’s-do-this-thing-so-you-can-get-at-least-a-one-hour-break Radio:

 

15/8/11 05:00-06:00

 

Had I been paying closer attention to our internal workings, I’d prolly have done this whole shift, certainly I’d have come on-air before 5am, but this was really fun, no matter how ya slice it, because I was totally in the mood to do some radio… Thanks, Jon, for letting me get in the chair, and I hope it helped you get at least a smidgen extra rest before ya come back in at noon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and ya know I have nothing but thanks to alladem who call, and most of all thanks to alladem who lissen!  Hoooray for real radio and real human djs and real human lissners!  We are the all-time greatest!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WXYC Sunday, August 14, 2011 midnight-4am

This is a str8-up sign-up, fill-in-the-blanks style, so an odd four-hour overnight shift, which as it turns out I prolly coulda done the full six hours, but as it was, the dj after me had an excellent plan to take ya up to 6am, so we all won! Yay!

My damage report, Tull prankage inclusive:

 

14/8/11 00:00-04:00

 

Looking back over this flowsheet, I think I’m really gonna enjoy this show when I get around to listening to it.  Felt a tad guilty about dropping some of my own personal old chestnuts, but looking at the text record… I think it’ll sound just fine.

 

…you know the drill: thanks fer callin’, thanks fer lissnin’! 

 

 

                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WXYC Friday, August 12, 2011 6-9pm

*Still* haven’t entered the links from earlier this year.  But hey, I think I’m at least maybe gettin’ back on top of the recent shows?  Yowza, yowza, hyah ’tis:

 

12/8/11 18:00-21:00

 

Oh man, *now* I remember this show (I’m actually typing this Monday morning, ya see)… it was all going so well, and then… my flow got jostled, literally.  And then, when I needed The Specials’ “Ghost Town,” which we are definitely supposed to have in the station, and there’s no sensible reason for it to be missing, it was NOT on the shelf, and not tucked away anywhere else that one might logically look.  I really had been wanting to play that due to the London riots.  That and the physical interruption (people getting in the way of me getting to CDs) just had me all off-balance, all of a sudden.

It kinda got better near the end, I think, but I was sad for the clunkiness of the 7-8pm hour.  A couple listeners called in and said they liked the double Smiths ‘n’all, but [long, noisy inhalation], I wanted something different. 

Weird, messed-up confusion—not *mine*—is why I wasn’t on last week.  Sign-ups.  I guess it can be challenging for some people to figure out how to make the schedule.  We’re straight for next Friday, tho’, so just a li’l hiccup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

…as always: thanks fer callin’, thanks fer lissnin’! 

 

 

                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WXYC Friday, July 29, 2011 6-9pm

So I have yet to get any feedback on the mp3 site.  I’ll probably upload the mp3s for this show sometime, but without input, I have to assume the demand for it is low, and shift priorities. [INTJ information mode off; cue the http link to the text-based setlist]:

 

29/7/11 18:00-21:00

 

*Excellent* requests tonight.  I think if I’d not misplaced that Doors request, we may have been spared the final conflagration of miscues and tooferfriday forays, but stumbling back into the lost written note did help me wrap with a belter.  No surprise I’m still happy how Hell gave me an excuse to play the AC/DC… Nevermind how the entire set starts with a miscue on an album so it had to be stopped and flipped, all done real time.  Apologies to anyone who may have been dancing, cuz that *did* break the flow, but as far as reality goes, fairly sweet.  IMHO.†
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

†Remember, kiddies, when Richard types IMHO, H ≡ Haughty.
                                  (unless otherwise noted, of course)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

…as always: thanks fer callin’, thanks fer lissnin’! 

 

 

                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WXYC Friday, July 22, 2011 6-9pm

Wow.  Even *more* derelict in entering posts… hopefully this will be corrected before the end of August.  If nothing else, here is the setlist from this past Friday’s show:

 

22/7/11 18:00-21:00

 

…I’m also trying this kiwi6 site to upload the 30-minute mp3 files we make for internal review/evaluation/etc., which we’re also allowed to share with others on independent servers, so if ya missed the show, but wanna hear it (or you just want to hear part of it again or something), go to my regular profile page at kiwi6:

http://kiwi6.com/users/eternalreturn

I’m not yet sure if I’m going to try to upload the mp3 files like this every week, but it’s possible.  If you go there and download one of the mp3s, let me know if the process of doing so is as clean, quick, and smooth as promised.  (Get the email/contact info by clicking Contact Richard! there in the right column)

You may notice I’ve also included an html file with the mp3s, and that’s merely a saved copy of the flowsheet as linked above, but stand-alone, independent of the WXYC server.

So that’s it for now. 

 

 

…as always: thanks fer callin’, thanks fer lissnin’! 

 

 

                                                                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WXYC Fridays, July 1-15, 2011 6-9pm

All the entries for radio shows I did between February 11, 2011 – July 15, 2011 have been entered …August 15, 2011… Besser Spät Als Nie™ XtrA-XtremE build 3.0.666

 

 

1/7/11 18:00-21:00

 

8/7/11 18:00-21:00

 

15/7/11 18:00-21:00

 

 

Thanks fer callin’ and/or lissnin’! 

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WXYC June 2011 Fridays 6-9pm

All the entries for radio shows I did between February 11, 2011 – July 15, 2011 have been entered …August 15, 2011… Besser Spät Als Nie™ XtrA-XtremE build 3.0.666

 

3/6/11 18:00-21:00

 

10/6/11 18:00-21:00

 

17/6/11 18:00-21:00

 

24/6/11 18:00-21:00

 

 

Thanks fer callin’ and/or lissnin’! 

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