Click, download, listen! Live and Direct number 9 (Live and Direct Listens ep #3) has arrived. It's 48.9MB, and 56:10 long. In it, I featured an album composed in real time on the Internet by a group of musicians collaborating with some software called NetPD. NetPD in turn relies on PD, which is a graphical programming language particularly suited to music synthesis and composition, but also extensible to video and other forms of data, hence the name "Pure Data". The album is "dub" in style, featuring samples and loops that wind here and there at the whim of the collective controlling them. I played most of it, sans the last bit, which I had to cut for time constraints whilst on-air. If you wish to listen to it, you can find the whole thing here as an mp3. It's 72.1MB and 1:18:44 long, and the bit that I cut starts at 1:08:03 and goes till the end. If you're interested in playing around with PD, you should check out the main site listed above as well as other sites on the PD webring. PD comes in Mac, Windows, and Linux flavors, so chances are it's compatible with your hardware. There's also a book, which gives some of the philosophy and context of PD's development as well; you can download the whole thing in pdf format here. Wrap your mind around the idea, install PD, download some other people's patches (PD programs are called patches), and then give it a whirl. It's free, you're bored, go create something! As always, feel free to let me know what you think. In the future (given a large enough listenership) I'd love to do an experiment in live radio where you, the listener get to influence the music going live on the air. Whether this is via a web browser which interfaces with PD behind the scenes, or some such similar arrangement, I think it'd be fun.

= Live and Direct episode #8 has arrived. It features background and critical analysis concerning the Federal Reserve System, why it is illegal and unconstitutional, and why it must be abolished. This episode runs for 55:33, and is 50.9MB. For your convenience, the times listed below in parentheses indicate the start and end of each segment. The song I played is Money For Nothing, by Dire Straits (it's between 01:12 and 09:12). I then played the intro to Aaron Russo's documentary "America: Freedom to Fascism" (09:48 to 13:30). "Freedom to Fascism" is a timely, shocking expose of the duplicitous and corrupt nature of not only the Federal Reserve, but also the IRS and the federal income tax. You may watch a low-quality version of it here on Google Video, see it in select theatres, rent it, or buy it directly from Aaron's site. Aaron also maintains a blog on the site with timely news, interviews, and commentary. Next up is a 2002 speech before Congress by Ron Paul, current Presidential hopeful and monetary-reform advocate (14:05 to 19:22). You may watch it on YouTube or read it at the House's web site as well. I followed Ron Paul's speech with another excerpt from "Freedom to Fascism" detailing the creation of the Federal Reserve, its unconstitutionality, and the ways in which it harms the American people and government (20:24 to 33:44). Lastly I read from Dr. Cleon W. Skousen's publication "The Urgent Need for a Comprehensive Monetary Reform". I have included it here on my site (in an easy to read and print PDF format) as the original at the National Center for Constitutional Studies seems to be defunct. You may check out the table of contents, the first section "Development of the United States Monetary System", the second section "How the Federal Reserve System Operates and Why it Has Failed", or the third and final section "Providing the United States with a Sound Money System". I retrieved the above linked pages with the help of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, mentioned in my show as a handy online research tool. I continue to delve into the conspiracies by a powerful few elite bent on controlling and dominating the rest of the people, aided by money-hungry politicians, complicit industries, and helped along here and there by a few sad historical accidents. Please stay tuned to Live and Direct for more provocative and imperative issues. Listen to WRFR locally in Midcoast Maine at 93.3 and 99.3FM, online, or subscribe to my podcast and listen at your convenience using your computer, iPod, or other MP3 player. As always, please email me with what's on your mind. It's a pleasure to produce this show, and I'd love your feedback.

A scant week later, it's time for Live and Direct, episode #7. This week I've assembled a hypothetical soundtrack to the 80's comedy Real Genius, starring Val Kilmer. I say "hypothetical" because there was never an official soundtrack, however many fans have compiled their own lists of songs heard in the movie. This week's show is 44.5MB and runs for 50:36. The playlist for the show is below, along with the point in time at which each song starts (minutes:seconds). The only song played in the movie that is not included is Tonio K's "The Tuff Do What", as it is unreleased and apparently unavailable in the wild. (however, if you have it, please, please send me a copy?) You Took Advantage of Me - Carmen McRae, 01:31 I'm Falling - The Comsat Angels, 03:32 Number One - Chaz Jankel, 08:01 All She Wants to Do Is Dance - Don Henley, 11:50 One Night Love Affair - Bryan Adams, 17:01 The Walls Came Down - The Call, 21:26 Pleasure Seekers - The System, 25:47 Standing in the Line - The Textones, 30:25 Summertime Girls - Yesterday & Today, 34:51 You're the Only Love - Paul Hyde and the Payola$, 38:25 Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears, 44:16 a Real Genius sequel? What you say? That's right, at the end of last year multiple news sites, wikipedia, and blogs were reporting that Val Kilmer has announced a desire to reprise his role as Chris Knight in a sequel to the original Real Genius. A fan has started a site dedicated to this hypothetical sequel. We'll see how that pans out. I suppose it could work, though I'm leery of sequels by default. If you haven't seen the movie, you should. In the immortal words of Chris Knight, it's a moral imperative! Enjoy this "what if" soundtrack, and as always, please let me know what you think.

This, the sixth episode of Live and Direct is now available for your consumption and critical analysis. It's me, interviewing protestors and activists who were at last Sunday's demonstration and who are involved with several local organizations whose causes include pro-impeachment, anti-war, and pro-peace groups. This episode is 53MB and features 57:56 of thoughtful, non-mainstream political discussion. What follows is an annotated timeline. I first interviewed Sue Ferra (at 1:33) and George Miller (at 2:58) at the From Every Village Green protest on Sunday. NOTE: in the show I got the percentage wrong of Americans who would favor impeachment, given Bush's lies about the war. It was actually 53% in favor of impeachment vs. 42% against. For details, see Majority of Americans Support Impeachment. As George suggests, you should google "federal reserve bank ownership" and read for yourself the history and true nature of what many Americans assume is a branch of their government. Here is a 2002 speech by Congressman Ron Paul advocating the abolishment of the Fed. For those of you who prefer to watch a video, here you go. The solitary, yet appropriate song I played during the show is Deirdre Flint's "Presidential Succession". Should you wish to listen, it's from 12:42 to 15:40. Deirdre also has a podcast. The two people I interviewed on the air were Deb Atwell and Steve Burke. Deb is the local contact for Maine Impeach, and Steve is one of the original founders of the Midcoast Peace and Justice Group. Midcoast Peace and Justice holds meetings at 7PM on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Rockland. They are free and open to the public. Both Maine Impeach and Midcoast Peace and Justice will provide pro-impeachment stickers and yard signs, should you desire that. There are many such groups around Maine. The two largest are Peace Action Maine in Portland, and the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine in Bangor. An umbrella organization is the Maine Coalition for Peace and Justice. I had a first for Live and Direct, a caller expressing her views. The transcript of that segment is below: (this exchange happens between 29:48 and 31:29, for those of you eager to hear it) Female Caller: I'm a Republican, and I think George Bush is the best president we've ever had, and this is all just a bunch of crap. Kim: Well, I understand those are your political views and you're welcome to them. We have the people that we're interviewing, and they're welcome to theirs as well. Caller: Let me just say: George Bush is only against slackers and sinners and terrorists, so if you don't like him, which one of the three are you? Steve: I guess I can try and answer the lady's question, or at least give my spin on it. I don't think George Bush is a Republican at all. I think the Bush administration is pretty much run by neo-conservatives and they've defied most of the tenets of the Republican party. Most Republicans aren't really thrilled with the ideas of military adventurism, they support fiscal responsibility, a balanced budget, in the Reagan tradition they're against increasing the size of the federal bureaucracy, and the Bush administration has failed at all of this. I think that true Republicans are going to be severing ties with this administration pretty fast come election time. Caller: Twenty years from now when they blow us all up, you'll remember that, and you'll say George Bush was a good president. Kim: Thank you for your call. I thank everyone that took the time to talk to me for their thoughts and criticism, opinions and analysis of the most important—but least aired, in mainstream media—political issue of our time. As always, I welcome your dialogue and criticism. If you are so inclined, please contact me.

Behold, Live and Direct #5. This, the second episode of Live and Direct Listens, and the 5th episode of Live and Direct, is upon us. This too-long-for-the-air, uncompromising, special podcast version runs for one hour, ten minutes, and seventeen seconds, and will set you back 64.4 megabytes of disk space. Today's featured Listen is ESCM by BT (also known as Brian Transeau). This album was released in 1997 following his debut album Ima. The US version (featured in this podcast) included the track "Lullaby for Gaia" (5:26); in the UK, the track included instead was "The Road to Lostwithiel" (8:38), which I have not heard but will attempt to dig up. I didn't have time to play tracks 5 and 6 ("Memories In A Sea Of Forgetfulness" and "Solar Plexus") on air, but I've inserted them in the proper place in the podcast, thanks to Audacity, a podcaster's best friend. BT rose to fame in the late Nineties and helped define the sub-genre of Electronica called Trance (specifically "Dream Trance"). His albums, however, often avoid categorization and jump genres happily. He has created and employed several production effects, notably the "Stutter Edit" and "Break Tweaker", which are both slated to be released by BT's software venture this year. Speaking of software, BT codes much of the software used to produce his music himself, by hand. Check out some of the interesting trivia and hard-core geekiness behind his latest effort, This Binary Universe. On a more domestic note, "BT has said that the album has a lullaby-like quality, inspired by his newborn daughter, Kaia, who sat on his lap throughout most of the song writing process." [from this Wikipedia article] As one of my listeners noted, sadly, BT's studio was recently burglarized again (the first time was in 2001), and hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment stolen. This includes the data for his current show. On his site, Transeau discusses his intent to create a non-profit dedicated to helping musicians recover stolen gear and also to providing equipment to aspiring musicians who would not otherwise be able to afford it. If you have ideas for future Listens, please email me. Good night, and enjoy.

Live and Direct episode 4 is available for you to download and enjoy. It's 44.4MB in size, and 48 minutes and 24 seconds long. Live and Direct Listens is a new series on my show where I'll play cohesive albums in their entirety, as they were meant to be heard. This week's album is Chill Out, by the KLF. I prefer to listen to this album at night, because of the atmosphere and mood it evokes. It brings to mind a road trip through the Deep South, which was the artists' intent: I've never been to those places. I don't know what those places are like, but in my head, I can imagine those sounds coming from those places, just looking at the map. Chill Out is one of my favorite ambient albums of all time, by one of my favorite artists of all time. Let me know what you think of it, and if you have any suggestions for future albums to feature on Live and Direct, drop me a line.

Here is my third episode of Live and Direct. This one clocks in at 45:18 long, and 41.5MB big. This show is about weather, specifically of the man-made variety. Here's the playlist of songs: They Might Be Giants - The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb Here are some pictures demonstrating atmospheric phenomena that most people would agree are beyond the common understanding of meteorology: holes punched out of clouds: geometric cloud patterns: wave fronts in existing clouds made by scalar weather manipulation (clouds aren't supposed to have r-r-r-ridges): "boiling sky/boiling clouds" - I saw this phenomenon, along with many other people, at the 2005 Common Ground fair in Unity, ME. Check out my gallery of weird weather from 9/25/05. Regretfully those pictures are terribly overexposed, but I have increased the contrast so you might be able to see the "artificial domes" in the cloud bottoms that fair attendees saw that day. Compare the relatively normal clouds in the first picture (taken at about 12:30pm) with the rest of the pictures (taken roughly two hours later). an image of the same phenomenon from Barium Blues I talked about a number of web sites and people in the show, and here are links to some of them: A short list of "starter" sites about weather modification: Scott Stevens' Weather Wars site (some pictures from the site are included below) Tom Bearden's site about weather phenomena Ken Adachi's Educate Yourself, a site featuring many, many interesting, compelling, and far-from-mainstream topics, including chemtrails and weather modification. discussion and hyperbole about chemtrails and weather modification, as well as speculation and very loosely-connected other topics. User-centric forum for discussion of chemtrails and related phenomena. As with the last few sites, your discretion is advised. Many of these sites need to be taken with a rather large grain of salt and with your conspiracy-theory aluminum foil hat firmly on. Sites about the mathematical and scientific background behind scalar weaponry and weather modification technology: a long and interesting essay urging that we re-examine classical electromagnetism in light of comparatively recent discoveries in particle physics, by John Bedini, an alternative energy researcher. [NOTE: as is elaborated there, Lorentz (not Heaviside as I suggested) was responsible for truncating Maxwell's equations into two components: the traditionally used and recognized "Poynting" component, and the neglected and ignored, but potentially more significant "Heaviside" component.] Tom Bearden has an overview of Gabriel Kron's "negative resistor" employed by the Navy's 1930's GE/Stanford University project named the "Network Analyzer" (now postulated to be an overunity energy device). This has, according to Bearden and Bedini, been a serious and long-standing oversight in the physics community, and that, would we recognize Kron's "open path" model in favor of our more limiting "closed-path" model used in classical circuitry and electrical engineering, we would be much further along. [PERSONAL NOTE: it is altogether likely that along with such amateur scientists as Bedini and Bearden, the likes of Tesla, the Russians, and now the US and other governments are using this knowledge. Disclosing this knowledge to the scientific community at large would, however, necessitate a lot of subsequent explaining of their motives for suppressing the knowledge. Alternately, one could speculate that most scientists are not willing to stick their neck too far out against the science orthodoxy ("Never attribute to malice of forethought what can be attributed to ignorance.")] The Revealed Secrets of Classical Electrodynamics, "Generalised Classical Electrodynamics for the prediction of scalar field effects" (also linked here), a lengthy and dense, but illuminating scientific paper by Koen van Vlaenderen of the Netherlands The Wilhelm Reich Museum, Orgonon, in Rangeley, Maine. They have copies of Reich's books available for purchase and they host an annual conference on Orgonomy (this year's will be from July 29 – August 1, 2007) PORE - Public Orgonomic Research Exchange has current work related to Reich's ideas The Orgone Biophysical Research Lab is a current, practicing laboratory exploring orgone googling Steiner Biodynamics will show some of the similarities between Reich's and Steiner's energy theories. After Steiner's death several people applied biodynamic principles to the atmosphere's behavior with some success. Sites about the politics of weather modification: GovTrack's page about S. 517 [109th]: Weather Modification Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2005 Weather Modification a Long-Established, Though Secretive, Reality by Mary-Sue Haliburton (I swear that's got to be a pseudonym, else it's timely irony) The Air Force's Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 Tom Bearden's site mentioned above has the following quote (mirrored in an archive of the Defense Department's page) from the former Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference:"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." finally, another Blogger user has posted a concise and informative overview of weather modification. Once again, thanks for listening to my show. I welcome any feedback you have. Keep looking up and don't lose your sense of wonder. Also, feel free to send me pictures of strange weather phenomena that you have witnessed. As Lao Tzu said, "The master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision."

Here is Live and Direct episode #2, "Auddities" in a slightly edited podcast (i added two songs; think of it as the Deluxe Remastered Podcast Edition). It weighs in at 62.5MB and clocks in at 1:08:15. (I ran over due to excess blabbing... good thing the hosts of the show after mine couldn't make it :) "Auddities" = "audio" + "oddities". These run the gamut from odd sounds to unusual production techniques to strange content. I divided the show up into the following sections, each followed by the approximate starting time (should you wish to skip to a particular section): Introduction, 0:00:00 Algorithmic music, 0:00:42 MIDI music, 0:04:52 Tracked music, 0:10:20 Sample-heavy music, 0:19:35 (note for upstate NY peeps: Rochester/Vertex shoutout @0:33:30) Digitally produced music, 0:34:00 Numbers stations (The Conet Project PDF; music: disc 1, disc 2, disc 3, disc 4), 0:42:40 Natural phenomena (Electric Enigma PDF; music: disc 1, disc 2), 0:50:10 Music about odd things, 0:54:46 Wrap-up, 1:07:18 The playlist for this show is as follows: A Poke Cheer (links 1, 2, and 3), Atari basic source code by Lloyd Burchili Rule 150 Binary, Java source code by Paul Reiners (IBM) *Rule 150 All Binary, Java source code by Paul Reiners (IBM) Fanfare, Ultima 3: Exodus, composed by Kenneth W. Arnold Towns, Ultima 3: Exodus, composed by Kenneth W. Arnold Bubble Bobble theme, composed by David Whittaker, Tim Follin, and Peter Clarke M.U.L.E. theme, composed by Roy Glover Runaway Scales, composed by U4ia Gods theme, Nation 12 (composed by "John Foxx"/Dennis Leigh) The Queen and I, 1987, KLF House of the Dead, The Big Cahoona, SequencialAnna Denies Tattoo Rumor, Purveyors of Reason and Law, Quelnt (8bit peoples), Irdial-Discs IiPP Three, Islets in Pink Polypropylene, Anthony Manning, Irdial-Discs The Lincolnshire Poacher, The Conet Project, Irdial-Discs Phonetic Alphabet NATO, The Conet Project, Irdial-Discs Fish Rock Road Whistler Shower, Electric Enigma, Stephen McGreevy, Irdial-Discs Eves River Auroral Chorus, Electric Enigma, Stephen McGreevy, Irdial-Discs *The Power of Lard [explicit lyrics], Power of Lard, Lard Plea From a Cat Named Virtue, Reconstruction Site, The Weakerthans * only on the Deluxe Remastered Podcast Edition Again, thanks for listening. Your feedback is always welcome.

Here is my first show in mp3 format, minus the technical difficulties: Live and Direct #1 (49.4MB, 53:57). It features my introduction, a song by Enigma, and a speech by Terence McKenna entitled "Culture and Ideology are not Your Friends". It's dedicated to my daughter Abigail, with a little surprise from her at the end. As soon as I figure out how to do it, a podcast feed will be available. EDIT: I re-encoded it as a 22KHz MP3; I apologize if that's still too big for some people to download. Thanks for listening, and please share your thoughts.