Behold a stream of conciousness – a free association of ideas as our lad struggles to keep up his end of the conversation with y’all. But succeed he does, so settle down and marvel as he manages to fill a full half hour.
Outro Music : Marianne Faithfull – Broken English – ‘Working Class Hero’.
Direct download: Episode_015.mp3
Lordy ….. it’s that man again. Yep, having another go at being a podcaster of a sort with this long overdue episode. We cover our recent trip over to the U.S. – to Florida and to Pelham Alabama. Speech is a tad throaty and snuffly …… but when is it not, gentle listeners; & the blame lies squarely with long haul aeronautics.
Outro Music: The Motors – Greatest Hits – “Airport”.
Direct download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/englishpaul/Episode_014.mp3
Our happy hero creaks into action, fires up the Zoom and commences this latest offering in the continuing saga, in petty detail, of a life lived. Swiftly dispensing with Happy Holiday festivities, he then proceeds to muse upon his dislike of moonlight, his brother’s health issues, bookish matters and the general trashiness of neighbourhood inhabitants – those who dwell in the higher floors of Paradise Towers naturally being excluded from his harsh judgements. Enjoy!
Outro music: Alison Moyet – Voice – ‘La Chanson Des Vieux Amants’.
Plan to get off my lazy ol’ holiday ass tomorrow, Monday, and get cracking with the Zoom at some point during the day. Did start to record on Saturday – but Mike interrupted me a couple times and I lost the will to live with the thing, so junked the file.
It is no loss to the podcasting world – the content was boring even me so it was all for the best, mayhap?
Until the morrow then, gentle listeners ……. all five of you. 
Our intrepid fellow drags himself back to the microphone and summons up some recollections of Christmas as it was in the days of his childhood. Not only that, he’s been out & about again with his binaurals, this time on a shopping trip to the local marketplace. This part of the episode is not as accomplished as he would wish – due to there being a bit of a tussle with fucking Audacity, the thing misbehaved and not all of the intended edited clips survived into the finished product. ‘Tant pis……’
But, what the hell ……..
Our much improved, emotionally, chappie settles down at the dining table [a.k.a. Studio C], dusts the glitter and tinsel from his hands and gets cracking on his weekly update. His artistic endeavours regarding the decorating of the Xmas tree as well as the apartment are relayed, that flat pack Ikea item gets a mention as well as his new WordPress page. Apart from those, he wanders thru’ memories of his Texas trip and fetches up admiring the view of central London before him as he gazes out the window.
Outro music: Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster – ‘Alejandro’
Well here we are again, me back using dear old clunky WordPress and it’s not speeded up any since the last time I spent any time with it.
The Libsyn page is sooooo basic that I am not surprised everybody has another more user friendly site to use for regular communication. I’ve had this one for a couple months now but have only really today taken the trouble to cross-post the entries from the Libsyn one. And I must say that it is nice to get back to the written word once more ….. me and a keyboard are much more a natural pairing.
As I mentioned in my last podcasty thing, I am somewhat down in the dumps at the moment – a product of too many grey & gloomy days here in the U.K. Sort of a seasonal thing ……… perhaps I should invest in one of those ‘natural daylight’ lamps and irradiate myself in its glare to boost the old serotonin levels. Or something. I’m currently taking some days off work in an attempt to restore a measure of sanity and calmness to my mind.
*Sigh*
Our plucky podcaster overcomes his reluctance together with residual feelings of frustration and offers this little potboiler in order to keep up his batting average. Mike’s numb thumb and flat pack furniture from Ikea are mentioned – although the two issues are not connected.
Outro Music: Gregorian – Masters Of Chant – ‘Still I’m Sad’
Firstly we hear our hero explaining about the marvellous Margarita Pracatan – last heard tunefully trilling as outro music in the previous episode. He then moves on to talking about what exactly he does for a living. The scene then moves to an al fresco setting as he takes his gentle listeners along on his commute to work, this segment terminating in the locker room of the O.R. [It must be said that he has yet to become fully accomplished with the requisite levels for the binaurals - so this bit is a tad muted.] [Next time he'll be speaking a helluva lot louder.]
Intro snippet of music: Ry Cooder – Music By – ‘Main Theme’
Outro Music: The Wallflowers – Bringing Down The Horse – ‘One Headlight’
Work stuff, the highlight thereof being a flood in my O.R. and my escaping being crushed under a collapsing ceiling as I dashed heroically thru the torrents to save my anaesthetic machine from inundation. The result of a fractured pressurised water pipe up in the roof space. Well …. that’s roughly what happened. Good news about an upcoming vacation in April next year. The finale of the sorry tale regarding David ……… and other random stuff.
Intro sound FX – Classic Sound Effects – Cathedral Interior.
Outro music: Margarita Pracatan – Live At The Palladium – ‘Hello’.
[Margarita Pracatan is an older lady, a somewhat demented wannabe diva - out of Cuba via New York City - had her own amateur cable show - and she both sings and plays a keyboard very badly indeed. As you can hear.]
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Whispering Into The Void Podcast
