Author: Fabulous Phil
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Summertime Blues
Mid-June, 2024. Not quite summer, but it’s close. For the last couple of months, I’ve been playing some music at WUSC. Regular show hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am to noon. I sometimes stay late to keep playing. I also slip into the station for renegade shows whenever I can, but the last couple…
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Happy Memorial Day!
As I recline on my living room sofa watching Charlie Sheen’s ‘Platoon’, not for the first time, I recall my time in the service… It was 1982, and I was 19. I graduated high school at Northeast in Columbia that spring and signed up for Airborne Artillery on Decker boulevard shortly afterwards. I remember waiting…
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Toasty Kilns
So… we just finished an incredible Maymester ceramics class in McMaster. Our instructor, Bri, was one of the most knowledgeable, helpful, and aware professors that I’ve known in the art department. Bri handled our class with the utmost of care, guided us through tons of material in a very short period of time (a four…
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What’s Missing?
So, it’s been a couple of crazy months. About a week after last semester ended, I jumped into a Maymester experience the same week I landed behind the booth at WUSC. During that short week break I rebuilt my analog stereo setup at the house and went music shopping at some of my favorite places.…
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They Call It Stormy Monday
Just putting it out there… some days are better than others. So I’m waiting for my DJ results, and the length of time it’s been tells me that it doesn’t look good :~(. There’s been some kinda radio showdown at school – unrelated to me for once, and I got blamed today for something I…
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Somebody Else’s Art
Headed totally off the reservation here… got an assignment to ‘redraw and improve by 50% someone else’s drawing’. Wonderful exercise, and keeping the original artist in mind throughout, I thoroughly enjoyed working on top of someone else’s creation – a kind of absent collaboration. Keeping the original artist in mind, I can tell you that…
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Cool Beans
sonicsweatshop_wusc Had a great time tonight at Mind Gravy over at the Cool Beans Coffeehouse. Hanging with my boys, some new talent, and a couple of cups of coffee. Mind Gravy appears at Cool Beans every Wednesday night. Come see us, bring your poetry, have some fun.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
School-load is humdrum, I’m managing to get by under the radar. Somehow all of my assignments, papers and projects are working out and things are moving along. Not my best work possible, but certainly improving. Figuring out my schedule, getting enough sleep, plenty of good food and some recreation. The temp is bearable outside today,…
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“The waiting is the hardest part…”
Tom Petty said it best, no doubt. I’ve been waiting years and years to introduce new music and ideas to people who want new music and new ideas. The testing requirements to join the staff at WUSC have been grueling for me, and I’m nearing the end. It is truly like adding another class to…