WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 16, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	8:59pm Krys O.: Hello!
	9:00pm Mr. X: How was camping, Austin? Mountains, coast, or in-between?
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I hope Imaginos, Krys O and Mr. X are enjoying themselves! It's very hot here in the mid-valley.
	9:06pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Keeping cool here. I've got one of those newfangled little desktop coolers that you add water to pointed at me.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:06 I have been curious about those! Maybe someday I'll get one of those.
	9:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Keeping cool and comfy
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:12 That is important.
	9:15pm Imaginos: Oranges and lemons sing the bells of St Clemens
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 Ha!
	9:17pm Mr. X: Austin, I appreciate how you are not shy about reaching out to famous people and entertainment industry insiders for interviews. These are valuable contributions to history.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:17 I had fun putting this one together. It touches a lot of parts of pop culture and history, and Brian is a pretty friendly guy.
	9:20pm Geoff-U: Good evening
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: I would have loved to see Brian sing in a musical. (Which, apparently, he did a LOT of in college.)
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:20 Ahh, thanks for joining us, Geoff-U!
	9:25pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Happy to be here as always!
	9:27pm Laura Panic: Been lostening in the car. Great interview. And now Nomeansno?! Yay!!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: I do love Brian's story, of starting out as a farmboy, and working his way up to a Hollywood PA working on a huge comedy. That's the story that everyone wishes would happen to them.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @9:27 Yeah, you have to have Nomeansno. (And since they have retired, all we have are the records...)
	👻 9:29pm Heather: Tuned in and enjoying the show! Your editing and production always knocks my socks off, Austin!!!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I feel VERY lucky to have seen Nomeansno four times. I talk to kids now, who never got to see them, and they are very jealous. I recognize that I was lucky!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:29 Thanks Heather! And you helped make this call happen, so THANK YOU.
	9:30pm Laura Panic: I saw them a few times, they came down here....so good. Amazing!!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @9:30 It's why I want to play bass! I'm not that good at bass, but damn... who wouldn't want to try and play like this?
	👻 9:31pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I'm so honored and lucky to be a part this!!
	9:31pm Geoff-U: Joe Preston took me to my first NoMeansNo show in 1988. I didn't know who they were - my assumption going in was "just some punk band Joe likes"
	9:31pm Geoff-U: I was floored by them
	9:33pm Laura Panic: Friends from here just toured with Thrones in US....the band is Dead.
	9:33pm Imaginos: Yup
	9:33pm Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids?
	9:34pm Laura Panic: Sydney's cream of the the punk drummer crop were all drum side of stage, in front of the drums just out of their minds.
	9:34pm Laura Panic: Oh!! So cool. I've played with them...they just got home
	9:35pm Laura Panic: There is an old interview in archives with Dead....
	9:35pm Nick K: Hi everyone
	9:38pm Imaginos: Grossberg?
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @9:35 I'll have to dig up the time I ran sound for them. They were SO GOOD.
	9:40pm Imaginos: The only movie with a longer title than Dr Strangelove
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:40 I think Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite stories.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: 15 year old dating significantly older women? I think this movie was reading my mind as a kid.
	9:44pm Imaginos: Lol!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: I feel like I'm always waiting for the man...
	👻 9:48pm Heather: I'm still waiting for that film crew who wants to film in my very average perfectly nice house!
	9:48pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "I'm Waiting For The Man" by "The Velvet Undergrou... $26
	9:49pm Mr. X: How many movies have been filmed in Rochester so far?
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I'm Waiting For The Man" by "The Velvet Undergrou... When I lived in PDX, every bar I ever went to, would have this song play at some point in the night. Every party. Every bar. It's like the #1 hit song of everyone who goes out late at night.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:48 It's a little more than that now, I imagine.
	👻 9:49pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 They did a Spiderman here! That's it for big films, as far as I know.
	9:50pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather @9:49 That's pretty cool.
	9:50pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 Inflation.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:49 www.imdb.com...
	👻 9:51pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @9:50 It was neat. We never get stuff like that here so it's a real novelty.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:51 According to the IMDB list I just send you, it apparently happens a lot.
	9:52pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 What th-? Terror at Blood Fart Lake? (Filmed in Rochester...)
	👻 9:52pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Oo... I see Terror at Blood Fart Lake made the list!! We do have an indie scene here. Brian whom you know, Austin, has acted in a number of those here and in Buffalo.
	👻 9:55pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @9:52 I doubt they had a budget to build out my porch to be a wraparound, sadly....
	9:56pm Imaginos: Wood was also in The Ghost and Mrs Muir
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:56 Yes! That's a great movie. She's been a lot of stuff, but you can't mention everything.
	9:57pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather @9:55 Let alone relocate that neighborhood power line that serves three counties.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: I appreciate that I got to use the "2001" theme music drop TWICE in this episode, once as a joke, and once seriously.
	9:58pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 9:59pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 Blood Fart Lake budget probably couldn't even get me some touch up paint, alas.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: I saw 2001 when I was VERY young... and it immediately became my favorite movie, and made me love Sci-Fi. (I started reading the book the movie was based on, then more Arthur C. Clark work, then anything Sci-Fi.) That movie really affected me as a young man.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:58 Sleep well.
	9:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 Thank you
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:59 That title makes me laugh, because there was an 80's hardcore band called Blood Fart from Louisville, KY. I've played them on the show before. (More than once.)
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: Silent Running is also one of my favorite films.
	👻 10:00pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:58 Good night!!
	👻 10:00pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 Oh that's awesome! There can't be a connection! But.... what if there were?!?
	10:01pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 The pace of 2001 is so sleepy, yet it somehow keeps my attention every time I see it.
	10:01pm Mr. X: Silent Running is pretty great.
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:01 It opens with the government cutting funding on the forests, so they decide to nuke them. And that's the beginning!
	10:03pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 Some critics wring their hands over the fact that Bruce Dern's character has to commit murder to save the trees.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:03 Yeah, I think my politics might have a LITTLE something to do with movies like that. Usually, the government is wrong, and the people who blindly go along with the worst decisions will, eventually, have to be eliminated. Oh well.
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 Bruce Dern was the Steve Buscemi of his day.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 Oh, wow! That's a very good observation.
	10:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 That guy you love to hate. Silent Running was an exception for Bruce Dern, where he gets to play the actual protagonist.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:15 I mean, he does some pretty unlikable things. But that role is sort of an exception for him, in a lot of other ways.
	👻 10:17pm Heather: I'm loving hearing about all these steps again. It truly is an honor to be part of this project. It's nearly unbelievable that Martin Newell even noticed my invite to "like" our FB fan page, much less message to say Steve had been his landlord back in the day!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: Brian really loves movies. That's what I got from this call.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: Now, you can hear the scene he was talking about, with James Earl Jones...
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "For Your Entertainment" by "unwound" I'm very excited to be seeing Steel Pole Bath Tub and unwound in October, at a show where they are "recreating 1994."
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: "Pick your life apart. / Throw away your art. / Finding something new / was never hard. / That's: ENTER-TAIN-MENT."
	10:23pm Laura Panic: Steel Pole Bathtub!! Wow
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: This was the first unwound song I became obsessed with; I heard it on the radio, taped it off of KWVA, and kept that tape forever. I harassed the band the first time I saw them to tell me what album the song was on, so I could buy it, after the show. It was very memorable.
	👻 10:24pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 I'm excited you're going to see them!!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:23 Yeah! I'm very stoked!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Even when he's retired, he still has a million projects he's working on.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: I used a lot of audio tools to create instrumental versions of songs, or to create versions with just the lyrics, for this episode. It helps with some of the background music, of if you want to make sure people can parse the lyrics.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: Brian is politely trying to not call anyone out here...
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: I'm 95% sure this is the commercial he's talking about.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: This version of King Kong might be the first movie I ever saw, period. It's the first movie I remember seeing on TV, as a kid, and LOVED IT.
	👻 10:45pm Heather: Just out of curiosity, did you message Brian that this was on tonight?
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:45 I did, but did not hear from him. I'll send him a link, when it's done.
	👻 10:47pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 I wonder if he's tuned in! I would be!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Brian's phone was going off the entire time we were talking, with phone and e-mail messages. I tried to edit out most of them, but occasionally it was interfere with the sound on Brian's call. He's a busy guy! His phone rings all the time, I bet.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Knowing what I know about both Miley Cyrus and Brian, I want to know about them partying together!
	10:49pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 It took me most of my life to figure out the name of the first movie I saw in a theater. Still not 100% sure, but I believe it was The Magic Sword (1962.) The two-headed dragon gave me such nightmares. I was only three.
	👻 10:49pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Even from what he's been saying, it's a sure thing he's super busy! It's been great hearing this again and, I know i repeat myself all the time, but you kicked some major butt producing this!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Don't Cry Baby, It's Only A Movie" by "The Televi... I didn't know the Television Personalities as well as I should, but recently I've been getting VERY into this record.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:49 I've never seen that. I should look into it.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: I would LOVE to be Cary Grant. That guy is so cool!
	10:54pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 I believe there's an MST3K treatment of The Magic Sword.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: I'm a huge Last Starfighter fan, and really had to resist the idea of talking his ear off about producing that movie.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:54 Oh! Wow. I'll have to find that.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: We'll go about 8 minutes over.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Some of these old Hollywood people are fairly right wing, and have questionable politics. I try to keep it about the movies, but I realize that so much of Hollywood is embedded in a lot of questionable politics, so finding a place to draw the line is difficult sometimes, without dismissing everything.
	11:05pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:01 Yeah, Red Dawn was mentioned a moment ago. I saw that with a friend in Bozeman, Montana, and the locals let us know in no uncertain terms that we were mocking or cheering for the wrong teams. We snuck out before in the dark just before the credits started rolling.
	11:05pm Laura Panic: Thanks Austin
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:05 Yeah, that movie. I loved it as a dumb kid, but wow... it means something very different in today's political climate.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @11:05 Thanks Laura! Keep up the good work.
	11:06pm Mr. X: An amazing document for the ages! Thanks Austin!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 16, 2024

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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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July 16, 2024: The Brian Frankish Interview: Stories From A Hollywood Veteran

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Radio On... "Radio On..."
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Brian Frankish Interview Part 1	The Brian Frankish Interview	20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org	2024	0:04:08 (Pop-up)
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Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Self-Released	2024	0:05:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	0:07:13 (Pop-up)
Getting Started "Getting Started"
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Brian Frankish Interview Part 2	The Brian Frankish Interview	20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org	2024	0:14:19 (Pop-up)
Nomeansno	Now "Now" by "Nomeansno"	0+2=1	Alternative Tentacles	1991	0:28:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	0:33:10 (Pop-up)
Making Movies "Making Movies"
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Brian Frankish Interview Part 3	The Brian Frankish Interview	20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org	2024	0:38:17 (Pop-up)
The Velvet Underground & Nico	I'm Waiting For The Man	The Velvet Underground & Nico	Verve Records	1967	0:49:16 (Pop-up)
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Brian Frankish Interview Part 4	The Brian Frankish Interview	20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org	2024	0:53:47 (Pop-up)
The Eleven-SixtyFours	Digitize Me!	Fringe Life EP	Self-Released	2022	1:03:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	1:06:23 (Pop-up)
That's How It Works "That's How It Works"
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Brian Frankish Interview Part 5	The Brian Frankish Interview	20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org	2024	1:10:11 (Pop-up)
unwound	For Your Entertainment "For Your Entertainment" by "unwound"	Repetition	Kill Rock Stars	1996	1:21:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	1:28:42 (Pop-up)
That's What I Love "That's What I Love"
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Brian Frankish Interview Part 6	The Brian Frankish Interview	20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org	2024	1:33:14 (Pop-up)
The Television Personalities	Don't Cry Baby, It's Only A Movie	Don't Cry Baby....It's Only A Movie	Damaged Goods	1998	1:53:01 (Pop-up)
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Brian Frankish Interview Part 7	The Brian Frankish Interview	20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org	2024	1:55:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Lava Lamp Lounge Ambience	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023	2:02:50 (Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Self-Released	2024	2:06:15 (Pop-up)
Austin Rich & Heather Zajkowski	The Brian Frankish Interview Part 8	The Brian Frankish Interview	20MinutesIntoTheFuture.org	2024	2:08:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:15pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	8:59pm Krys O.: Hello!
	9:00pm Mr. X: How was camping, Austin? Mountains, coast, or in-between?
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I hope Imaginos, Krys O and Mr. X are enjoying themselves! It's very hot here in the mid-valley.
	9:06pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Keeping cool here. I've got one of those newfangled little desktop coolers that you add water to pointed at me.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:06 I have been curious about those! Maybe someday I'll get one of those.
	9:12pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Keeping cool and comfy
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:12 That is important.
	9:15pm Imaginos: Oranges and lemons sing the bells of St Clemens
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 Ha!
	9:17pm Mr. X: Austin, I appreciate how you are not shy about reaching out to famous people and entertainment industry insiders for interviews. These are valuable contributions to history.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:17 I had fun putting this one together. It touches a lot of parts of pop culture and history, and Brian is a pretty friendly guy.
	9:20pm Geoff-U: Good evening
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: I would have loved to see Brian sing in a musical. (Which, apparently, he did a LOT of in college.)
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:20 Ahh, thanks for joining us, Geoff-U!
	9:25pm Geoff-U: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Happy to be here as always!
	9:27pm Laura Panic: Been lostening in the car. Great interview. And now Nomeansno?! Yay!!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: I do love Brian's story, of starting out as a farmboy, and working his way up to a Hollywood PA working on a huge comedy. That's the story that everyone wishes would happen to them.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @9:27 Yeah, you have to have Nomeansno. (And since they have retired, all we have are the records...)
	👻 9:29pm Heather: Tuned in and enjoying the show! Your editing and production always knocks my socks off, Austin!!!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: I feel VERY lucky to have seen Nomeansno four times. I talk to kids now, who never got to see them, and they are very jealous. I recognize that I was lucky!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:29 Thanks Heather! And you helped make this call happen, so THANK YOU.
	9:30pm Laura Panic: I saw them a few times, they came down here....so good. Amazing!!
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @9:30 It's why I want to play bass! I'm not that good at bass, but damn... who wouldn't want to try and play like this?
	👻 9:31pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I'm so honored and lucky to be a part this!!
	9:31pm Geoff-U: Joe Preston took me to my first NoMeansNo show in 1988. I didn't know who they were - my assumption going in was "just some punk band Joe likes"
	9:31pm Geoff-U: I was floored by them
	9:33pm Laura Panic: Friends from here just toured with Thrones in US....the band is Dead.
	9:33pm Imaginos: Yup
	9:33pm Barno (from Akron): How do you do, fellow kids?
	9:34pm Laura Panic: Sydney's cream of the the punk drummer crop were all drum side of stage, in front of the drums just out of their minds.
	9:34pm Laura Panic: Oh!! So cool. I've played with them...they just got home
	9:35pm Laura Panic: There is an old interview in archives with Dead....
	9:35pm Nick K: Hi everyone
	9:38pm Imaginos: Grossberg?
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @9:35 I'll have to dig up the time I ran sound for them. They were SO GOOD.
	9:40pm Imaginos: The only movie with a longer title than Dr Strangelove
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:40 I think Dr. Strangelove is one of my favorite stories.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: 15 year old dating significantly older women? I think this movie was reading my mind as a kid.
	9:44pm Imaginos: Lol!
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: I feel like I'm always waiting for the man...
	👻 9:48pm Heather: I'm still waiting for that film crew who wants to film in my very average perfectly nice house!
	9:48pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "I'm Waiting For The Man" by "The Velvet Undergrou... $26
	9:49pm Mr. X: How many movies have been filmed in Rochester so far?
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I'm Waiting For The Man" by "The Velvet Undergrou... When I lived in PDX, every bar I ever went to, would have this song play at some point in the night. Every party. Every bar. It's like the #1 hit song of everyone who goes out late at night.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:48 It's a little more than that now, I imagine.
	👻 9:49pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @9:49 They did a Spiderman here! That's it for big films, as far as I know.
	9:50pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather @9:49 That's pretty cool.
	9:50pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 Inflation.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:49 www.imdb.com...
	👻 9:51pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @9:50 It was neat. We never get stuff like that here so it's a real novelty.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:51 According to the IMDB list I just send you, it apparently happens a lot.
	9:52pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 What th-? Terror at Blood Fart Lake? (Filmed in Rochester...)
	👻 9:52pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Oo... I see Terror at Blood Fart Lake made the list!! We do have an indie scene here. Brian whom you know, Austin, has acted in a number of those here and in Buffalo.
	👻 9:55pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @9:52 I doubt they had a budget to build out my porch to be a wraparound, sadly....
	9:56pm Imaginos: Wood was also in The Ghost and Mrs Muir
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:56 Yes! That's a great movie. She's been a lot of stuff, but you can't mention everything.
	9:57pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather @9:55 Let alone relocate that neighborhood power line that serves three counties.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: I appreciate that I got to use the "2001" theme music drop TWICE in this episode, once as a joke, and once seriously.
	9:58pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 9:59pm Heather: ↳ Mr. X @9:57 Blood Fart Lake budget probably couldn't even get me some touch up paint, alas.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: I saw 2001 when I was VERY young... and it immediately became my favorite movie, and made me love Sci-Fi. (I started reading the book the movie was based on, then more Arthur C. Clark work, then anything Sci-Fi.) That movie really affected me as a young man.
	👻 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:58 Sleep well.
	9:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 Thank you
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:59 That title makes me laugh, because there was an 80's hardcore band called Blood Fart from Louisville, KY. I've played them on the show before. (More than once.)
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: Silent Running is also one of my favorite films.
	👻 10:00pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:58 Good night!!
	👻 10:00pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 Oh that's awesome! There can't be a connection! But.... what if there were?!?
	10:01pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:59 The pace of 2001 is so sleepy, yet it somehow keeps my attention every time I see it.
	10:01pm Mr. X: Silent Running is pretty great.
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:01 It opens with the government cutting funding on the forests, so they decide to nuke them. And that's the beginning!
	10:03pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:02 Some critics wring their hands over the fact that Bruce Dern's character has to commit murder to save the trees.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:03 Yeah, I think my politics might have a LITTLE something to do with movies like that. Usually, the government is wrong, and the people who blindly go along with the worst decisions will, eventually, have to be eliminated. Oh well.
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:00 Bruce Dern was the Steve Buscemi of his day.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 Oh, wow! That's a very good observation.
	10:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 That guy you love to hate. Silent Running was an exception for Bruce Dern, where he gets to play the actual protagonist.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:15 I mean, he does some pretty unlikable things. But that role is sort of an exception for him, in a lot of other ways.
	👻 10:17pm Heather: I'm loving hearing about all these steps again. It truly is an honor to be part of this project. It's nearly unbelievable that Martin Newell even noticed my invite to "like" our FB fan page, much less message to say Steve had been his landlord back in the day!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: Brian really loves movies. That's what I got from this call.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: Now, you can hear the scene he was talking about, with James Earl Jones...
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "For Your Entertainment" by "unwound" I'm very excited to be seeing Steel Pole Bath Tub and unwound in October, at a show where they are "recreating 1994."
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: "Pick your life apart. / Throw away your art. / Finding something new / was never hard. / That's: ENTER-TAIN-MENT."
	10:23pm Laura Panic: Steel Pole Bathtub!! Wow
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: This was the first unwound song I became obsessed with; I heard it on the radio, taped it off of KWVA, and kept that tape forever. I harassed the band the first time I saw them to tell me what album the song was on, so I could buy it, after the show. It was very memorable.
	👻 10:24pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 I'm excited you're going to see them!!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @10:23 Yeah! I'm very stoked!
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: Even when he's retired, he still has a million projects he's working on.
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: I used a lot of audio tools to create instrumental versions of songs, or to create versions with just the lyrics, for this episode. It helps with some of the background music, of if you want to make sure people can parse the lyrics.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: Brian is politely trying to not call anyone out here...
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: I'm 95% sure this is the commercial he's talking about.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: This version of King Kong might be the first movie I ever saw, period. It's the first movie I remember seeing on TV, as a kid, and LOVED IT.
	👻 10:45pm Heather: Just out of curiosity, did you message Brian that this was on tonight?
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:45 I did, but did not hear from him. I'll send him a link, when it's done.
	👻 10:47pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 I wonder if he's tuned in! I would be!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: Brian's phone was going off the entire time we were talking, with phone and e-mail messages. I tried to edit out most of them, but occasionally it was interfere with the sound on Brian's call. He's a busy guy! His phone rings all the time, I bet.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Knowing what I know about both Miley Cyrus and Brian, I want to know about them partying together!
	10:49pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:42 It took me most of my life to figure out the name of the first movie I saw in a theater. Still not 100% sure, but I believe it was The Magic Sword (1962.) The two-headed dragon gave me such nightmares. I was only three.
	👻 10:49pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:47 Even from what he's been saying, it's a sure thing he's super busy! It's been great hearing this again and, I know i repeat myself all the time, but you kicked some major butt producing this!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Don't Cry Baby, It's Only A Movie" by "The Televi... I didn't know the Television Personalities as well as I should, but recently I've been getting VERY into this record.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:49 I've never seen that. I should look into it.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: I would LOVE to be Cary Grant. That guy is so cool!
	10:54pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 I believe there's an MST3K treatment of The Magic Sword.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: I'm a huge Last Starfighter fan, and really had to resist the idea of talking his ear off about producing that movie.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:54 Oh! Wow. I'll have to find that.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: We'll go about 8 minutes over.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: Some of these old Hollywood people are fairly right wing, and have questionable politics. I try to keep it about the movies, but I realize that so much of Hollywood is embedded in a lot of questionable politics, so finding a place to draw the line is difficult sometimes, without dismissing everything.
	11:05pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:01 Yeah, Red Dawn was mentioned a moment ago. I saw that with a friend in Bozeman, Montana, and the locals let us know in no uncertain terms that we were mocking or cheering for the wrong teams. We snuck out before in the dark just before the credits started rolling.
	11:05pm Laura Panic: Thanks Austin
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:05 Yeah, that movie. I loved it as a dumb kid, but wow... it means something very different in today's political climate.
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Laura Panic @11:05 Thanks Laura! Keep up the good work.
	11:06pm Mr. X: An amazing document for the ages! Thanks Austin!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 16, 2024

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