some good Prince music

Listened to some great live Prince bootleg tunes on Morning Dew on WBAI tonight. Go
to the archives at WBAI here: http://archive.wbai.org/ (Only for 2
weeks though) and look up Saturday, 9-11pm,1/5/08.

The sound isn't great, no high end but lots of bass and since it was
recorded in the crowd, you hear people all around whoever was
recording it. Some great grooves. I taped 90 minutes of the Prince
stuff but there was more before and after that.

New Year's at my house this year

On the menu:
a large shrimp cocktail, some leftover Boston cream pie, a Hormel
"Compleats" roast beef and mashed potatos dinner (with "beef like
flavor" as an ingredient, I swear to god!), the remains of some not
Bailey's but McCormick's Irish Cream. ice tea and eggnog at other
times. (Sometimes together. My version of Thai ice tea...) I also
have some double-chocolate Milanos but I don't think I'm going to get
to them.

Listening to:
FMU in the afternoon and evening.

WNYC
Listened to Paul Winter's solstice celebration at the Cathedral of St
John the Divine. Nice to hear Wolf Eyes again after so long. I
remember playing that in the early 80s when I first got that record.
Hearing the cicadas sawing and the wolf's cries. Still moves me. And the
crowd howls along en masse! Bravo! And then to hear Minuit. Heaven.

Prairie Home Companion is re-running last year's show at the Ryman in
Nashville but are playing some good cuts from various shows before
that. In particular, Joe Ely's I'm Gonna Live Forever.

WBAI
Will listen to Peter Bochan's Short Cut through 2007 at 11.
Best line so far: "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald and I just died." (His real
obit!) Otherwise, I don't think I'll save any of it. I must be out of
touch with things audio. I didn't recognize many of the soundbites.

Watching:
Various channels. Later, CNN looking at various New Year's Eves around the world with
the sound off, listening to Short Cuts.

And poking around the web.

The ball drops 8 seconds after my computer's clock says it is New
Years. Who's right? timeanddate.com says I am...

12 minutes after midnight. What else is on tv...

Happy New Year, world.

Tonight, on WBAI

This is where I'll be tonight. (From the WBAI website) Mon, Dec 31 11PM - Midnight Shortcut Through 2007

Note: This show will be rebroadcast January 1st from 6PM - 7PM

An hour-long retrospective of the year--an explosive, emotional mix of the sounds, music and events of the past twelve months, "A Shortcut Through 2007" opens with an introduction by the late sonic pioneer, Karlheinz Stockhausen and ends with a coda from Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. Blending the concerns over our fragile social and ecological state -- the clash between celebrity and fame at any cost, the perilous drive to succeed in politics, business and sports by any means necessary, with answers to the question-"What will you remember about 2007"

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Featuring commentary from Art Buchwald, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Marcel Marceau, Jerry Falwell, Gerald Ford, Woody Allen, Ricky Gervais, Alec Baldwin, Don Imus, Oprah Winfrey, Rev. Al Sharpton, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt, Tony Soprano and family, George W. Bush, Michael C. Hall, Baraka Obama, Joe Torre, George Mitchell, Barry Bonds, Larry King, Roger Clemens, Anna Nicole Smith and many others.

Music from Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Dre Dog, Bruce Springsteen, The Real Tuesday Weld, Peter Bjorn and John, Forro In The Dark (featuring David Byrne), Iron and Wine, The Sandpipers (with Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, Roy Campanella & Tommy Henrich), Boots Randolph, Boris "Bobby Pickett, Freddie Scott, Oscar Peterson, Ike & Tina Turner, Max Roach, Joe Zawinul(Mercy, Mercy, Mercy), Robert Goulet, Luther Ingram, Dakota Staton

Tributes to Luciano Pavarotti, Lady Bird Johnson, Porter Wagoner, Lee Hazelwood, Hilly
Kristal (CBGB), Evel Knievel, Grace Paley, Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard), Ingmar Bergman,
Michelangelo Antonioni, Merv Griffin, Tom Snyder, Joey Bishop, Tom Poston, Calvert
DeForest (Larry Bud), Charles Nelson Reily, Al Viola, Denny Doherty, Eric Von Schmidt,
Teresa Brewer and many more.

Produced by Peter Bochan

The Mysteries was a series of three plays put on by the National Theater of London which were based on mystery plays like mummers plays.

There is an excerpt of the first one, or perhaps the whole first one, The Nativity, here.