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Saturday, March 05, 2011

One Hit Wanderer

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This week's Self Help Radio will be the last one for a couple of weeks - a fortnight - as I take a brief weeklong break to travel to Dal...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

All The Answers In Ninety Minutes

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You are of course familiar with "the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, & Everything," from The H...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Plenty Of Answers - Tonight!

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Plenty of answers! Or at least one! What answer? The answer to this question: "How many songs about answers can you fit into a ninet...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Whither Answers?

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Q: Whom are you imitating now? A: Why do you always assume I am imitating someone? Q: Because you don't really have a style of your own....
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Preface To Answers: There Are No Answers Here

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If there are no answers, are there only questions? What if I wrote an entire blog entry about questions? Wouldn't that be ironic, while...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Help The Bearsuit Invade The United States!

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One of my favorite bands ever is a rag-tag group of fab-fab kids from Norwich, England, called Bearsuit. ( This is their website. This is...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

With Bells On?

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I resisted using the idiom "with bells on" - which means, in case you don't know, "eagerly, ready to participate" as...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Bells Are Ringing!

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To prepare you for tonight's Self Help Radio, which is about bells, please enjoy this odd YouTube video of famous bells in Europe: Thoug...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Whither Bells?

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Wow, there are a lot of songs about bells. Do you know which genre has the most songs about bells? You might guess something like electron...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Preface To Bells: For Whom Do They Toll?

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For me? You know the John Donne poem, right? No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

The Slightly Odd Return Of Self Help Radio Extra!

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I listen to a lot of music, but at times I don't get to do a lot of radio shows, mostly getting one a week during my entire time on the ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Can You Hear Me Now? Oooomph!

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As loud as Self Help Radio was last night, it was nowhere near loud enough to get everyone's attention, & as such, I am going to hav...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Loudest Radio Show Ever

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I forgot to mention, with it being Valentine's Day & all, that you can still download the songs from the Self Help Radio Valentine...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Whither Loudness?

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A decibel is a complicated thing (just read the wikipedia definition ) but for our purposes here it is a measure of loudness. It measures p...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Preface To Loudness: Ear Damage

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While everyone assumes that Self Help Radio is supposed to be listened to loud, it may surprise you that Self Help Radio actually cares abou...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

United States Of College Radio

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This is a nice web page: the Best College Radio Stations . It lists the criteria at the bottom: "Must be non-commercial; Must be affil...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

For You, On This Valentine's Day

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Oh you, you, you, my dearest vinyl covering, my darling caramel coating, my favorite cheese! Self Help Radio's Valentine's offering...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Valentine's Deliverance

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I don't really think much of Valentine's Day - but others do, & so I've devoted several Self Help Radios to it. I am all in...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Whither Love Songs?

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Well, I spoke too soon. It's snowing like a mothersnower out there. Gigantic flakes. It's like I'm living in a snow globe. It...
Sunday, February 06, 2011

Preface To Love Songs: A Love Song To Ronald Reagan

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Well, not a love song exactly. More like an antidote to the hagiography that has probably infected every little bit of media not swallowed ...