The Signal Music Weblog

The Signal: EP089 - Beamed directly to you with serious intent.

45 minutes of amusements for ears. File available for a limited but unspecified period of time. Snoozing is again equated with "losing." Not even tiger blood can help when the calendar man skips down the lane, as no one has ever said. There are notes below that may not add much and a track list in the id3 tags of the file. The id3 tags will reveal that much of this mix came from one place. A good place. (That place is not "my heart" if you're guessing instead of looking at id3 tags.)

So there you go. And there we are. (Or are you reading this in the far-flung future, looking back at us and wondering what were files, or calendars, and how did one used to "fling" a future? Welcome! We're probably all dead now, but you can hear these words in your brain! Isn't that crazy? Maybe that's not crazy in the future. But back here, we still think telepathy from the dead is pretty neat.)

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The Signal: EP088 - Dogs and cats, living together! Musical forms from around the globe somehow glued together into a shambling 45 minute creation that may one day turn on its very master! SHIVER in your homes!

Okay, people. We all like a good scare, but let's relax, huh? It's just a music mix that's available for a limited amount of time with a tracklist in the id3 tags. It's not like it's---

UCK!

IT'S GOT ME! HEEEEeeeeelp.... only... have strength for... lower-case letters! And proper... punctuation!

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The Signal: EP087 - We've got a great one for you this time around, folks. Blindfolds are optional, just like at a firing squad.

Let's see, what do you need to know. The mix is 45 minutes and provided gratis for a limited time only. I've put the tracklist into the id3 tags if you get curious about who exactly you're listening to at any given time. If you're new to the downloading-of-files game (first, Welcome!), you can right click on the image or link above and choose whatever your computer's version of "Save Target As..." may be. The rest of the downloading-of-files game is pretty cut throat, so I'm not going to give you any more hints, because what if we end up playing on opposing teams?

You're going down, sunshine, that's what's going to happen.

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The Signal: EP086 - not at all an attempt at brainwashing via neurological manipulation.

Blah blah blah, track list is in the id3 tags, it's 45 minutes of stuff I like to put in your ears and maybe you have similar ears, limited time only, notes below. The usual. I've done 86 of these things.

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I don't like to assume the worst about people, so I'm going to assume you already know about The Thrilling Adventure Hour, that collection of playwrights and comedians and actors who do old-timey radio plays in live performance and put them out in new-timey formats, like mp3s via RSS feed.

And of course you probably know that stand-up comedian Paul F. Tompkins has a recurring role in their best recurring show, Beyond Belief, as half of Frank and Sadie Doyle, upper-class alcoholics who also know a few things about the supernatural and have adventures and whatnot.

So what I've done for you is gone through the RSS feed and pulled all the links together for just the Beyond Belief segments. (But by all means, go listen to their other shows and see how you like them... Sparks Nevada: Marshal on Mars is another of my all-time favorites.)

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