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Phone Messages
By Paul Mason FotschSociety & Culture
Phone Messages episodes
- 31 Emile Westergaard (Chris 3)Emile was my college dorm neighbor and a decent musician. He also inspired a song by Chris Pearson.10 min
- 30 Albert Died Today (outgoing 10)My pet rat Albert died in fall of 1988. He was buried in an empty lot behind Bret Harte Elementary School.5 min
- 29 Guitar Riff (James 3)In the 1990s, Chicago became the center of a so called "post-rock" scene. Did my record collection, passed on to James Warden, play a role in this?5 min
- 28 Brian's First Message (Brian 1)Brian Omelia hails from the Quad Cities, where my father's parents also have roots, specifically in Davenport's Germantown.8 min
- 27 Madison (Jason 2)Madison Wisconsin, known for its hippie lifestyle and radical politics, also had great dance clubs.5 min
- 26 Doing Bad (Chris 2)Chris Pearson describes his life in 1988 Chicago and how he entered his career as a decorative painter.9 min
- 25 Albert Ayler (outgoing 9)Albert Ayler lived a brief high intensity musical life in search of spiritual unity. John Coltrane and a few other supporters saw him as visionary, but he was largely underappreciated in his time.7 min
- 24 Durenberger (mom 4)David Durenberger served as Minnesota Senator from 1978 to 1995. He fell in the moderate middle of the Minnesota Republican Party,7 min
- 23 The Anne Question (Anne)Was it Anne that left this message in Fall of 1988? If it was Anne, which Anne was it? And where was I that night? Did we go up north as planned? This and other mysteries are explored.6 min
- 22 Up North (James 2)While living in Hyde Park, the north side of Chicago provided a space to escape our neighborhood joints and dance in nightclubs like Club Berlin and the Smart Bar.4 min
About Phone Messages
From the publisher's feed
This podcast will play and discuss old phone answering machine messages. In the late 1980s, while living in Chicago, I selected certain messages to be duplicated using a double cassette recorder. Playing them back leads me to explore the intersection of personal history and the larger social and cultural context through the lens of an outdated technology.
New episodes will be posted Sundays.