Things and Stuff for July 3, 2010

[borrisinabox]

KirBoom! Persplode! Wizz! Pop! Oh yeah, it's time for fireworks, and other bad things, such as this week's episode of Things and Stuff. Let's cut to the point: What?
This show was a particularly crazy one, which was a little slim on phone calls, due to a technical issue I only found after the show was over. Oh well. I only missed calls from Byron. No big loss, right? Oops, did I say that?
Here's a summary of the badness contained in this week's terrible 111MB waste of space:

• Derek's traditional first call turned into an interesting discussion about the fact that he deserted his listeners to go make money, unlikely iPhone applications of the future, and other things.
• Josh is now a proud father as of July first. Even so, he called to discuss radio stuff.
• Because it's the time of year for it, have "the all American patriotic sign-off" from WMNA FM, recorded in 1997. There's something you don't hear too often these days, especially on FM. This was followed by some... um... liners?
• Byron sent in two odd versions of 'I walk the line,' as one was mentioned by Josh.
• Cliche? over played? Too bad! With independence day, or as I like to call it, anti-UK day being just around the corner at the time of this show, a few tracks from Stan Freberg's 'the United States' came out of the closet for something to do.
• Open microphones outside revealed the occasional firework, and a bunch of crickets.
• I bought a cheap $2 flute in Tennessee last month, and forgot about it until it was thrown at me. It's not in concert pitch, and isn't really even in tune with itself. Does that stop me from playing with it, along with a randomly selected performance from the Motif XS? What do you think?
• Negativland: enough said. We like that around here.
• Crickets and carts through effects processors (Did I ever mention I really like my Digitech Quad IV?)
• Near the end of the show, I landed on some blues thing in f major, and got this sudden urge to sing about cigarettes. I really have no idea what came over me, and I apologize for it.

And there you have it. As I'll be in Phoenix next Saturday, there will be no Things and Stuff for the first time since December 12 of last year, not counting Radio Failure and FakeTime 20o10, at least not a live one. I'm sure Derek and I will stream at some point during the convention, so stay tuned to my twitter, Derek's twitter, or both, for late breaking news on stupid things as they happen.
Speaking of twitter, freakyfwoof has one of those now. You can now follow freakyfwoof if you use that service. Who saw that coming?