WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 23, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:58pm Krys O.: Hey, ho!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:58 Thanks for joining us, Krys! Grad a drink!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: Grab, even!
	8:59pm Krys O.: I'll have a Yoo-hoo. :)
	8:59pm Aitch: Don't feed the mutants
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @8:59 Aitch! Hooray!
	9:00pm Aitch: More fun to be had, when you lick the bag
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!!
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Party on!
	9:02pm Charles: I had a late meal and a stout and now I'm a bit woozy. Proper afterparty mood in other words.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Every music festival I've played has had an afterparty. And usually, there are musical happenings at these parties... often unplanned things!
	9:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Expect the unexpected.
	9:09pm Charles: Diggin' this music.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I think I mentioned this last time, but Instagon is usually all improvised. They might have a bassline ready, and they might rehearse, but they are largely making it up as they go...
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: As I understand it: this group met earlier in the day, to sort of talk though what they were gonna do, and try a couple things. But that was it.
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: They really know how to tickle the ivories.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: I was gifted, for my birthday, a couple hundred back-issues of the British comic, "2000 AD." Been fun to read some old sci-fi stories from the late 70's and 80's.
	9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Cool gift.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:19 I've always wanted to read through the Judge Dredd stuff, and there's a lot of other stuff in there that isn't that. Dredd is practically set in the Fringes, so it seems sort of related to my general Max Interests.
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 A Max Headroom comic would have been cool. Maybe done by Richard Corben?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:22 I love Corben's style, too! That would have been a great choice.
	👻 9:32pm Heather Z: Hanging out listening!! Working on a seeecret project!! I'll pop in to party soon!
	9:34pm Krys O.: Nighty night, all!
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Krys O. @9:34 Sleep well
	9:35pm Mr. X: Sorry I was detained in the hotel elevator with a famous author on my way to the afterparty...
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:35 Bummer! You'll have to tell us about it someday.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: Mitch has asked me to tell you that this is some of their favorite music I have ever played on the show.
	9:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This remind anyone else of Max Headroom?
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: I'm not sure how t0rphy composes their tunes, but the ones that I have heard are all sort of in this style of dance music.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38 A little bit!
	9:39pm Mr. X: Mitch is a good dancer. Who is that with her? The Weather Machine?
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:39 Woah! I haven't seen the Weather Machine in a long while. We don't really do a weather segment anymore. I'm glad Mitch stayed in touch. I think they dated for a while?
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: I was thinking about having a more "absurdist" style weather segment on the show again, to get that character back on. Just haven't gotten around to it. One of these days.
	9:44pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Cloudy with a chance of melting pocket watches.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:44 Precisely! Or, have the weather report more closely align with the theme of the show. Something like that.
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 In Gifts From Syria they did an anxiety attack report during the weather report.
	9:47pm Mr Fab: Driving around doing stuff, but I just wanted to say Austin, this is why public radio rules, and Spotify drools. Real humans playing music that you are not going to hear anywhere else.
	9:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Eykis not Syria
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:47 Ahhh, thanks! I appreciate that.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: In an earlier incarnation of the show, I had to do a legit weather report once an hour, so The Weather Computer did that. Then he became a whole character on the show, that sort of dropped off when I didn't have to do the weather reports anymore. But he was fun to get silly with. I should bring back The Weather Computer.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I'm sure there's really strange weather in the Mid-Valley.
	9:51pm Mr Fab: I like the idea of surreal weather reports.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:47 I usually ask, if I have to go to a public place, what they are listening to. It is always Spotify. It's really depressing. They really have taken over the "music at work" demographic. I used to listen to so much radio back in my retail days...
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:51 Noted! It was a fun bit.
	9:56pm Arvo: Howdy. Just dropping in late to say... Howdy...
	9:58pm Kat in the chat: I'm with Mitch, I liked those clubby sounds too.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: One of my favorite bits a friend would do on her show was "The Emotional Weather Report," where their friend Kimmie would call in and give the Weather Report, as filtered through their feelings that week.
	👻 9:58pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo @9:56 Hi Arvo! Looking forward to your DJ ep!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:58 Kat in the chat! Nice to see you!
	9:58pm Arvo: Hi Kat!
	9:59pm Mr Fab: Someone who worked with a Bonzos and Viv Stanshell?! Major score, dude. Can’t wait for that.
	10:00pm Arvo: Hi Heather! Thank you!
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:59 Heather and I have become friends with Steve Roberts, even. He messaged me the other day to give me his DJ setlist for the show!
	10:00pm Kat in the chat: Hi Arvo!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:59 He also worked with the Beatles... but we're more excited about the movie he made with Vivian.
	10:01pm Arvo: I was watching Groundhog Day the other day... and Bill Murray was a cranky weather reporter in it.
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:01 That's right! I keep meaning to re-watch that one. I remember it being good.
	10:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 Very good.
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 I'm excited about his dogs, too! They're awfully cute!
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:03 The last time I saw that... might have been when it came out? Or not much after.
	10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 Have you ever seen LighYears aka Gandahar?
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:04 No! But this looks like an intersection of so many of my interests! I might have to watch that.
	10:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed, A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved and what can't be avoided will be.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:06 I'll have to check that out. Maybe this weekend?
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: (It goes without saying: this is a 30 year old documentary about what life, 30 years in the future, would be like.)
	👻 10:09pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 Sounds awesome!!
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: I have always been interested in what people of the past thought of the future. It's often so interesting, even when it is wrong.
	10:11pm Arvo: Just another late-to-the-party comment, but Spotify supports weapons manufacturers and lets major labels get stock options so that they can screw over their artists more easily... Spotify and Amazon were instrumental in appealing the verdict when musicians fought to get the pay to be 60/40 instead of .00000001 % of profit. I've had a membership with them before, but I can no longer bring myself to do it.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:11 Yeah. They are a whole lot of no fun.
	10:12pm Arvo: I really like the headline image for this evening, by the way.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: Arthur C. Clark is worried that if we keep our phones on all the time, it'll be hard to sleep. How do we tell him how right he was?
	👻 10:13pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo @10:11 That's good info to have, sadly. I mostly use the service to check out a friend's podcasts on there but hmm. I'll see if they post elsewhere.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:12 Thanks! I'm getting better with the visual design, as the years go on. It's fun to work on for stuff like this.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Things are different on Plutonia Beta. They're starting over and are in their early days of industry.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: Arthur C. Clarke was born before most of the United States had Electricity, and radio was still being developed. He lived to use computers hooked up to the internet, and used e-mail quite a bit. He LOVED technology, and had a lot to say about it.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: My first favorite author, as a VERY young child, was Arthur C. Clarke, I read anything of his I could find, probably around the age 11 or 12. I used to know a lot about him that I have, sadly, forgotten.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: He's saying that we'll be able to work from home.
	10:20pm Arvo: I've heard that China has reverse-engineered UFOs and I'm still waiting for hoverboards and dinner with aliens.
	10:21pm Arvo: I saw a recent prediction from some evolutionary scientist person, and they said that we will evolve to have cellphone technology embedded into our bodies/skin/brains etc.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: I'm certainly of the age where I wanted a jet-pack VERY badly, as a kid.
	10:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Arvo @10:20 Just be sure you can digest what is served
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:04 Directed by the same guy who made Fantastic Planet.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:21 In the comic, "Transmetropolitan," telephone is a "drug" you take, and then your body changes to be able to make / receive calls.
	10:24pm Arvo: I'm reminded of the one Nightmare on Elm Street Movie where a tongue comes out of the phone...
	10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Arvo @10:24 That scene was creepy
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:24 Haven't seen that, probably since it came out! Probably time for a revisit. I remember there being some charm to all of those.
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Rich and mutants
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:25 Hi Coel!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:25 coelacanthø! Time to really get the party started.
	10:26pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Heather!
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Woohoo!
	10:27pm Mr. X: I was curious about ChatGPT, but then I found out you have to give them your phone number to use it. Gee, what could possibly go wrong with that?
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 I'm sure they could scrape that date from somewhere, so I guess giving it to them directly is like consent for them to start texting you?
	10:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 🐟🐟🐟🐠🐠🐠
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: * scrape that data....
	10:30pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Not that I'm paranoid or anything like that...
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: I think Heather and I have talked about this on our podcast: anything that you could be paranoid about NOW, was just as awful and terrible THEN. We just have fancier tools. But the impulse to be creepy, and do creepy things with our data, is an old idea.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:30 That sounds smart to me and not paranoid at all, really! I'll use a made up email and phone number for every site that lets me. Or.... maybe I'm paranoid, too.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 We have and it's true. We're also, I think, more aware now and the grifter doesn't have to come to our doors to do the grift. They're just on an.... oil rig.... in Serbia.....
	10:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 Or you could use a shield mail from duckduckgo
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:34 Heck yeah! That's a good idea! Though it is fun making up fake AOL addys.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Future of The Past" by "Mini-Mutations" For those who are curious: this is an entirely "collage" assembly. The music track is assembled from about 25 different audio samples that I mangled and added FX to, which I then played back and triggered live for a recording. Then I cut up the documentary into samples that could play on their own, and did a live track of just triggering the samples, live, to get them spaced out. Then I did some fine tuning, added in some embellishments, etc. But it's all samples, and FX.
	10:36pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I had a nerd friend in high school who was a fan of Clarke's Tales of the White Hart. But I was more into his novels than his short stories. His characters are all so forgettable, but his tech was always impressive and feasible.
	👻 10:37pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 It's amazing and such a cool listen!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:36 He did the research, for sure. But yeah: I can never tell any of his characters apart from each other; they are all pretty flat.
	10:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Like characters in a math problem
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: I was trying to find a good link for Honey Vizer - who I sampled on this tune - but I don't think they have a good web presence, unfortunately. But if you can find anything, Honey Vizer is great.
	10:45pm Mr. X: I have this vague memory that Gandalf's Den gaming and hobby store in Eugene in the 80s had a working hologram. I think it was like a 3-D elephant about 8 inches tall? It sure beat those dumb shiny plastic flat "holograms" - similar to the little hologram patch on your credit card these days.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:45 That's pretty cool! If I had known, I probably would have begged my mom to take me there. I think I had heard of that place, but never went myself.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Talking to machines? What kind of madness is he talking about...
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Ahem. "Person - Machine Interface." Boy, is this dude 30 years out of date...
	👻 10:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Hey Google! Hey! Hey Google? Hey! Google! Ugh, I'll just turn on the light myself.
	10:50pm Mr. X: Like when Scotty talks to the mouse, so he can design transparent aluminum.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:50 "The keyboard. How quaint."
	10:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 I love it when Madeline walks in and Dr Nichols panics for a second.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 Watching that movie recently, I was amazing. "Damn. They really got the lock of the 80's right when they time travel." That is the benefit of making your time travel movie in the 80's: your authentic 80's sets look PERFECT. And at no cost.
	10:52pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I love the part with the punk and his boombox on the bus.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: got the look, pardon...
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:52 We get to meet that punk again, in the Picard series. That was sort of cute.
	10:53pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @10:52 Kirk Thatcher who wrote the song. I have the full version
	10:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Definitely a highlight of Picard.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:53 He's a very interesting cat. He's done a lot of cool things!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I'm just the typo king tonight. Sorry 'bout that.
	10:54pm Mr. X: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:53 We need to get Austin to play it on MVM.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Looks like we're gonna go over! Sorry everyone!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:54 That's a good theme for a show: songs inside of movies and TV.
	10:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 We forgive you for being awesome.
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:55 I second this statement!
	10:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 I can also send Don't Let Go from CreepShow
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Anyone else fool around with those early phychiatry chatbots? They've been around since the 80's, but I guess this guy had one in the late 60's / early 70's.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:57 I would need that acoustic song from Phantasm, too.
	10:58pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 I'm Else the doctor. Come come! Elucidate your thoughts.
	10:58pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Eliza
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:58 Every nerd party I went to eventually devolved into people chatting with Eliza, at one point or another.
	11:00pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 Closest we got to that was a career counseling program, in high school, over the teletype machine to a mainframe in another town, in the mid-70s. It told me I should be a truck driver.
	👻 11:00pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 I wish I had. I have messed around with the newer Google one which writes very boring skits and also often suggests I may be depressed when I try to interact just to chat. Sure sure, google.
	11:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 Remember text games?
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @11:00 I played one not that long ago! The Hitchhiker's one still stumps me!
	11:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:01 Me too. I played text hockey
	11:03pm Mr. X: Good show again, Austin. Thanks!
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: murmurmurmurmrrrrrrr
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: Making a 7 11 run for something to share round the fire!! See yall in 15. Thanks for an awesome show and after party chat!
	11:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Looking forward to working on that project
	11:07pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Rich! tchau peeps
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @11:06 I think it will be fun.
	11:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:07 I think so, too.
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: MUTATION FEST IS OVER. LONG LIVE MUTATION FEST.
	11:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Heading to sleep. Had a great time
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @11:09 Thanks for joining! Sleep well.
	11:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:09 You, too when you do.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 23, 2023

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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May 23, 2023: The After Party

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Instagon	Live at Luna's Cafe on 2016-03-14 [Excerpt]	Live at Luna's Cafe on 2016-03-14 [Excerpt]	0:05:59 (Pop-up)
t0rphy	A Few Selections "A Few Selections" by "t0rphy"	A Few Selections	0:36:17 (Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	The Future of The Past	Live At Mutation Fest Afterparty	1:00:42 (Pop-up)
Arvo Zylo	Sick Kitchen [Excerpt] "Sick Kitchen [Excerpt]" by "Arvo Zylo"	27 February 2023

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:42pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:58pm Krys O.: Hey, ho!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:58 Thanks for joining us, Krys! Grad a drink!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: Grab, even!
	8:59pm Krys O.: I'll have a Yoo-hoo. :)
	8:59pm Aitch: Don't feed the mutants
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @8:59 Aitch! Hooray!
	9:00pm Aitch: More fun to be had, when you lick the bag
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!!
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Party on!
	9:02pm Charles: I had a late meal and a stout and now I'm a bit woozy. Proper afterparty mood in other words.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: Every music festival I've played has had an afterparty. And usually, there are musical happenings at these parties... often unplanned things!
	9:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Expect the unexpected.
	9:09pm Charles: Diggin' this music.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: I think I mentioned this last time, but Instagon is usually all improvised. They might have a bassline ready, and they might rehearse, but they are largely making it up as they go...
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: As I understand it: this group met earlier in the day, to sort of talk though what they were gonna do, and try a couple things. But that was it.
	9:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: They really know how to tickle the ivories.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: I was gifted, for my birthday, a couple hundred back-issues of the British comic, "2000 AD." Been fun to read some old sci-fi stories from the late 70's and 80's.
	9:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:16 Cool gift.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:19 I've always wanted to read through the Judge Dredd stuff, and there's a lot of other stuff in there that isn't that. Dredd is practically set in the Fringes, so it seems sort of related to my general Max Interests.
	9:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 A Max Headroom comic would have been cool. Maybe done by Richard Corben?
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:22 I love Corben's style, too! That would have been a great choice.
	👻 9:32pm Heather Z: Hanging out listening!! Working on a seeecret project!! I'll pop in to party soon!
	9:34pm Krys O.: Nighty night, all!
	9:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Krys O. @9:34 Sleep well
	9:35pm Mr. X: Sorry I was detained in the hotel elevator with a famous author on my way to the afterparty...
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:35 Bummer! You'll have to tell us about it someday.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: Mitch has asked me to tell you that this is some of their favorite music I have ever played on the show.
	9:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: This remind anyone else of Max Headroom?
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: I'm not sure how t0rphy composes their tunes, but the ones that I have heard are all sort of in this style of dance music.
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38 A little bit!
	9:39pm Mr. X: Mitch is a good dancer. Who is that with her? The Weather Machine?
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:39 Woah! I haven't seen the Weather Machine in a long while. We don't really do a weather segment anymore. I'm glad Mitch stayed in touch. I think they dated for a while?
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: I was thinking about having a more "absurdist" style weather segment on the show again, to get that character back on. Just haven't gotten around to it. One of these days.
	9:44pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Cloudy with a chance of melting pocket watches.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:44 Precisely! Or, have the weather report more closely align with the theme of the show. Something like that.
	9:46pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 In Gifts From Syria they did an anxiety attack report during the weather report.
	9:47pm Mr Fab: Driving around doing stuff, but I just wanted to say Austin, this is why public radio rules, and Spotify drools. Real humans playing music that you are not going to hear anywhere else.
	9:47pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Eykis not Syria
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:47 Ahhh, thanks! I appreciate that.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: In an earlier incarnation of the show, I had to do a legit weather report once an hour, so The Weather Computer did that. Then he became a whole character on the show, that sort of dropped off when I didn't have to do the weather reports anymore. But he was fun to get silly with. I should bring back The Weather Computer.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I'm sure there's really strange weather in the Mid-Valley.
	9:51pm Mr Fab: I like the idea of surreal weather reports.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:47 I usually ask, if I have to go to a public place, what they are listening to. It is always Spotify. It's really depressing. They really have taken over the "music at work" demographic. I used to listen to so much radio back in my retail days...
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:51 Noted! It was a fun bit.
	9:56pm Arvo: Howdy. Just dropping in late to say... Howdy...
	9:58pm Kat in the chat: I'm with Mitch, I liked those clubby sounds too.
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: One of my favorite bits a friend would do on her show was "The Emotional Weather Report," where their friend Kimmie would call in and give the Weather Report, as filtered through their feelings that week.
	👻 9:58pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo @9:56 Hi Arvo! Looking forward to your DJ ep!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:58 Kat in the chat! Nice to see you!
	9:58pm Arvo: Hi Kat!
	9:59pm Mr Fab: Someone who worked with a Bonzos and Viv Stanshell?! Major score, dude. Can’t wait for that.
	10:00pm Arvo: Hi Heather! Thank you!
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:59 Heather and I have become friends with Steve Roberts, even. He messaged me the other day to give me his DJ setlist for the show!
	10:00pm Kat in the chat: Hi Arvo!
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:59 He also worked with the Beatles... but we're more excited about the movie he made with Vivian.
	10:01pm Arvo: I was watching Groundhog Day the other day... and Bill Murray was a cranky weather reporter in it.
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:01 That's right! I keep meaning to re-watch that one. I remember it being good.
	10:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 Very good.
	👻 10:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 I'm excited about his dogs, too! They're awfully cute!
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:03 The last time I saw that... might have been when it came out? Or not much after.
	10:04pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 Have you ever seen LighYears aka Gandahar?
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:04 No! But this looks like an intersection of so many of my interests! I might have to watch that.
	10:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed, A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved and what can't be avoided will be.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:06 I'll have to check that out. Maybe this weekend?
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: (It goes without saying: this is a 30 year old documentary about what life, 30 years in the future, would be like.)
	👻 10:09pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:08 Sounds awesome!!
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: I have always been interested in what people of the past thought of the future. It's often so interesting, even when it is wrong.
	10:11pm Arvo: Just another late-to-the-party comment, but Spotify supports weapons manufacturers and lets major labels get stock options so that they can screw over their artists more easily... Spotify and Amazon were instrumental in appealing the verdict when musicians fought to get the pay to be 60/40 instead of .00000001 % of profit. I've had a membership with them before, but I can no longer bring myself to do it.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:11 Yeah. They are a whole lot of no fun.
	10:12pm Arvo: I really like the headline image for this evening, by the way.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: Arthur C. Clark is worried that if we keep our phones on all the time, it'll be hard to sleep. How do we tell him how right he was?
	👻 10:13pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo @10:11 That's good info to have, sadly. I mostly use the service to check out a friend's podcasts on there but hmm. I'll see if they post elsewhere.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:12 Thanks! I'm getting better with the visual design, as the years go on. It's fun to work on for stuff like this.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Things are different on Plutonia Beta. They're starting over and are in their early days of industry.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: Arthur C. Clarke was born before most of the United States had Electricity, and radio was still being developed. He lived to use computers hooked up to the internet, and used e-mail quite a bit. He LOVED technology, and had a lot to say about it.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: My first favorite author, as a VERY young child, was Arthur C. Clarke, I read anything of his I could find, probably around the age 11 or 12. I used to know a lot about him that I have, sadly, forgotten.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: He's saying that we'll be able to work from home.
	10:20pm Arvo: I've heard that China has reverse-engineered UFOs and I'm still waiting for hoverboards and dinner with aliens.
	10:21pm Arvo: I saw a recent prediction from some evolutionary scientist person, and they said that we will evolve to have cellphone technology embedded into our bodies/skin/brains etc.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: I'm certainly of the age where I wanted a jet-pack VERY badly, as a kid.
	10:22pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Arvo @10:20 Just be sure you can digest what is served
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:04 Directed by the same guy who made Fantastic Planet.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:21 In the comic, "Transmetropolitan," telephone is a "drug" you take, and then your body changes to be able to make / receive calls.
	10:24pm Arvo: I'm reminded of the one Nightmare on Elm Street Movie where a tongue comes out of the phone...
	10:24pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Arvo @10:24 That scene was creepy
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @10:24 Haven't seen that, probably since it came out! Probably time for a revisit. I remember there being some charm to all of those.
	10:25pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Rich and mutants
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:25 Hi Coel!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:25 coelacanthø! Time to really get the party started.
	10:26pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Heather!
	10:27pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Woohoo!
	10:27pm Mr. X: I was curious about ChatGPT, but then I found out you have to give them your phone number to use it. Gee, what could possibly go wrong with that?
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 I'm sure they could scrape that date from somewhere, so I guess giving it to them directly is like consent for them to start texting you?
	10:28pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 🐟🐟🐟🐠🐠🐠
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: * scrape that data....
	10:30pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:28 Not that I'm paranoid or anything like that...
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: I think Heather and I have talked about this on our podcast: anything that you could be paranoid about NOW, was just as awful and terrible THEN. We just have fancier tools. But the impulse to be creepy, and do creepy things with our data, is an old idea.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:30 That sounds smart to me and not paranoid at all, really! I'll use a made up email and phone number for every site that lets me. Or.... maybe I'm paranoid, too.
	👻 10:33pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:31 We have and it's true. We're also, I think, more aware now and the grifter doesn't have to come to our doors to do the grift. They're just on an.... oil rig.... in Serbia.....
	10:34pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 Or you could use a shield mail from duckduckgo
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:34 Heck yeah! That's a good idea! Though it is fun making up fake AOL addys.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Future of The Past" by "Mini-Mutations" For those who are curious: this is an entirely "collage" assembly. The music track is assembled from about 25 different audio samples that I mangled and added FX to, which I then played back and triggered live for a recording. Then I cut up the documentary into samples that could play on their own, and did a live track of just triggering the samples, live, to get them spaced out. Then I did some fine tuning, added in some embellishments, etc. But it's all samples, and FX.
	10:36pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I had a nerd friend in high school who was a fan of Clarke's Tales of the White Hart. But I was more into his novels than his short stories. His characters are all so forgettable, but his tech was always impressive and feasible.
	👻 10:37pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 It's amazing and such a cool listen!
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:36 He did the research, for sure. But yeah: I can never tell any of his characters apart from each other; they are all pretty flat.
	10:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 Like characters in a math problem
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: I was trying to find a good link for Honey Vizer - who I sampled on this tune - but I don't think they have a good web presence, unfortunately. But if you can find anything, Honey Vizer is great.
	10:45pm Mr. X: I have this vague memory that Gandalf's Den gaming and hobby store in Eugene in the 80s had a working hologram. I think it was like a 3-D elephant about 8 inches tall? It sure beat those dumb shiny plastic flat "holograms" - similar to the little hologram patch on your credit card these days.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:45 That's pretty cool! If I had known, I probably would have begged my mom to take me there. I think I had heard of that place, but never went myself.
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Talking to machines? What kind of madness is he talking about...
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Ahem. "Person - Machine Interface." Boy, is this dude 30 years out of date...
	👻 10:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Hey Google! Hey! Hey Google? Hey! Google! Ugh, I'll just turn on the light myself.
	10:50pm Mr. X: Like when Scotty talks to the mouse, so he can design transparent aluminum.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:50 "The keyboard. How quaint."
	10:51pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 I love it when Madeline walks in and Dr Nichols panics for a second.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 Watching that movie recently, I was amazing. "Damn. They really got the lock of the 80's right when they time travel." That is the benefit of making your time travel movie in the 80's: your authentic 80's sets look PERFECT. And at no cost.
	10:52pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 I love the part with the punk and his boombox on the bus.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: got the look, pardon...
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:52 We get to meet that punk again, in the Picard series. That was sort of cute.
	10:53pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Mr. X @10:52 Kirk Thatcher who wrote the song. I have the full version
	10:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Definitely a highlight of Picard.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:53 He's a very interesting cat. He's done a lot of cool things!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I'm just the typo king tonight. Sorry 'bout that.
	10:54pm Mr. X: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:53 We need to get Austin to play it on MVM.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: Looks like we're gonna go over! Sorry everyone!
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:54 That's a good theme for a show: songs inside of movies and TV.
	10:55pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 We forgive you for being awesome.
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:55 I second this statement!
	10:57pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 I can also send Don't Let Go from CreepShow
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Anyone else fool around with those early phychiatry chatbots? They've been around since the 80's, but I guess this guy had one in the late 60's / early 70's.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:57 I would need that acoustic song from Phantasm, too.
	10:58pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 I'm Else the doctor. Come come! Elucidate your thoughts.
	10:58pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Eliza
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:58 Every nerd party I went to eventually devolved into people chatting with Eliza, at one point or another.
	11:00pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 Closest we got to that was a career counseling program, in high school, over the teletype machine to a mainframe in another town, in the mid-70s. It told me I should be a truck driver.
	👻 11:00pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:57 I wish I had. I have messed around with the newer Google one which writes very boring skits and also often suggests I may be depressed when I try to interact just to chat. Sure sure, google.
	11:00pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:59 Remember text games?
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @11:00 I played one not that long ago! The Hitchhiker's one still stumps me!
	11:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:01 Me too. I played text hockey
	11:03pm Mr. X: Good show again, Austin. Thanks!
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: murmurmurmurmrrrrrrr
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: Making a 7 11 run for something to share round the fire!! See yall in 15. Thanks for an awesome show and after party chat!
	11:06pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Looking forward to working on that project
	11:07pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Rich! tchau peeps
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @11:06 I think it will be fun.
	11:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:07 I think so, too.
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: MUTATION FEST IS OVER. LONG LIVE MUTATION FEST.
	11:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Heading to sleep. Had a great time
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @11:09 Thanks for joining! Sleep well.
	11:10pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @11:09 You, too when you do.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 23, 2023

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