WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 19, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 4:07pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	4:39pm Neal Retke: Hello ~!
	8:30pm Arvo Zylo: Gonna be listening while I do space laundry
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Neal Retke @4:39 Thanks for poppin' in! Hope you can come back for the main event!
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:30 Those space-suits are very hard to press and fold.
	8:57pm Krys O.: Sending my regards! Must retire to bed. I have to get up in seven hours.
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:57 Sleep well!
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:58 Wonderful to see you in the digital salon!
	8:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:30 The space-time wash?
	8:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:58 Wonderful to be here
	9:01pm Mr. X: ...Igntion...and blast off...
	9:02pm Geoff-U: Hello space-people
	👻 9:02pm univac: Hello, all.
	👻 9:02pm univac: Space is, apparently, the place.
	9:04pm Imaginos: If the tear was an ocean, November would be the doldrums.
	9:04pm Imaginos: Year
	👻 9:05pm univac: I agree.
	9:05pm Imaginos: Happy Sheenaversary.
	9:06pm Mr Fab: Wow, your Sheena-versary. Very cool.
	9:06pm Arvo Zylo: Supposed to be 70mph winds out here tonight. Lights are already flickering. We shall see if I still have power by the time the show is over.
	👻 9:07pm univac: Yikes! Arvo.
	👻 9:08pm univac: Happy Sheena-versary Austin!!
	9:08pm Aitch: Lurking / working
	9:09pm laurapanic: dreamy work tunes
	👻 9:09pm ramencity: I am making space soba noodles. With space tofu!
	9:09pm Mr. X: One of the qualifications for being an astronaut is the ability to make up an acronym for every little thing.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: There's a lot going on behind the scenes here in the Lava Lamp Lounge, but it's wonderful to have so many folks hanging out in the Digital Salon. I'll try to keep an eye on the comments, but the synths need attention...
	9:10pm Imaginos: The music is very hypnotic
	👻 9:12pm univac: This is super excellent, Austin. Just what I need.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: laurapanic! The Ramen City Kid! Aitch! That's a party I want to be at.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:12 When I found the NASA tapes on archive.org, I went nuts. They're sort of relaxing to listen to.
	👻 9:12pm univac: I wish we could do this in real life.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:12 Yeah. I want more parties with my digital friends.
	👻 9:13pm univac: (meaning, hanging out and listening to this)
	9:14pm Mr. X: "Shortly after being launched on a rainy day at Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 12 was twice struck by lightning." I did not know that.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of "down time" if you listen to raw NASA tapes. Sometimes there's no voices for over an hour. So I have condensed a lot of them so we can hear more of the chatter.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 I'm astonished it still made the trip!
	9:16pm JM in Texas: Howdy everyone! Austin & anyone else up in the PNW corridor……please keep us posted when possible.
	👻 9:18pm Heather Z: Tuned in and loving these space sounds!! So good.....
	👻 9:18pm ramencity: Aww dang, the site that makes lo-fi hiphop out of air traffic control is down: www.lofiatc.com...
	9:18pm Charles: soothing
	9:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:18 I agree
	9:19pm Mr Fab: This show reminds me of Mike Rogers’ sadly short-lived “Sounds From Space” show.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 That show was so good.
	9:21pm Mr. X: The astronauts are getting excited now.
	👻 9:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I loved that show and miss it a lot. That was some great stuff.
	9:21pm Mr. X: ↳ JM in Texas @9:16 You too! Are you a grandpa yet?
	👻 9:21pm univac: This is really excellent.
	9:22pm JM in Texas: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I remember that show, I had a couple of cassettes of his show I recorded from the radio.
	👻 9:23pm univac: Gotta run. Thanks Austin! I'll catch the archive. Great show.
	9:23pm Mr. X: Apollo 12 carried "the first color television camera taken by an Apollo mission to the lunar surface, but transmission was lost after Bean accidentally pointed the camera at the Sun and its sensor was burned out."
	9:24pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ univac @9:07 It's not that windy right now, but it is supposed to be. And the lights are flickering, for whatever reason.
	👻 9:24pm ramencity: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 "celebratory flickering"
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Ouch
	9:25pm JM in Texas: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Proud to say I am! Pierce Alan was born last Wednesday 8lbs 21.5 there were a few complications but mom and baby got to go home Saturday……such a blessing!!!
	👻 9:26pm ramencity: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 Aww congrats!
	9:26pm Geoff-U: I like the ambient background sounds a lot - what did you make them with?
	9:27pm Mr. X: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 Awesome! Congratulations!
	9:27pm Arvo Zylo: There was a recent film that suggested the moon landing was real, but also they had a fake moon landing staged just in case. I do find it amusing that the craft they used to touch down did not look terribly sturdy. That they knew how to land on the moon in an area that wasn't unbearably cold is in itself a monumental feat.
	9:27pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 Congrats 🎉
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Whoops! We had a break for a moment! Sorry everyone!
	9:29pm JM in Texas: ↳ ramencity @9:26 Thank you!
	9:29pm Mr. X: So Mr. Bean went to the moon?
	👻 9:29pm Heather Z: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 Congratulations!!!
	👻 9:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 Ghosts?
	9:29pm Juli P: Here for it
	9:30pm JM in Texas: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 Thx for asking Mr. X, I appreciate it!
	9:32pm JM in Texas: ↳ Heather Z @9:29 Thx Heather, it’s been an incredible week!
	9:33pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @9:29 Gromit's master Wallace did. That's kind of similar.
	👻 9:33pm Heather Z: ↳ JM in Texas @9:32 I'm excited and happy for you and your family!!
	9:34pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:27 Thx buddy, I appreciate it!
	👻 9:35pm Heather Z: Happy Sheenaversary, Austin!
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:32 I'm happy for you.
	9:37pm Juli P: Teehee cute I've been looking for instruments can you post links to these companies?! I luv the sounds
	9:37pm Geoff-U: Hah I have a MicroGranny too! They are strange little boxes. I wrote a Python script to make it much easier to load samples into it.
	9:37pm Juli P: Teehee to instruments they make me giggle sorry lol
	9:38pm JM in Texas: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 Appreciate it, Sir!
	9:38pm Juli P: Synths: Oooo this tickles lol
	9:38pm Geoff-U: github.com...
	9:39pm Geoff-U: Please note this script has not been "productized" at all yet so there's not much documentation yet. I guess since I just got laid off (after 10 years) I'll have time to update it.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: Bastl Makes the MicroGranny, and many other things: bastl-instruments.com
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: And I do love a lot of stuff that KORG makes, including their KAOSS Pads. www.korg.com...
	9:42pm Mr. X: Apollo 11 was a tough act to follow, I'm sure. All the subsequent missions kind of blend together in peoples' minds, I think.
	9:42pm Geoff-U: I just got a Roland P-6 sampler, it's super fun too. Similar to the MicroGranny in that it's portable, has batteries and a built-in mic. The MG has better granular controls but the P-6 has it's own set of groovy features. Recommended!
	9:44pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I'd like to get a small, portable keyboard that I can use for shows. That's probably my next purchase.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 I understand. Sleep well!
	9:45pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Thank you
	9:47pm JM in Texas: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 Good night 💤
	9:49pm Juli P: A friend made a tape of the moon landings he found some sort of large old tape and a way to play them all for free lol I forget what kind
	9:50pm Juli P: I'm still not random objekts which make sound for musical purposes
	9:52pm Juli P: *in lol Weird.
	9:54pm Juli P: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Cool !!!!
	9:54pm Juli P: ↳ Geoff-U @9:42 Ty so much!
	9:55pm Juli P: I saved the show to reference the suggestions ty & also: Good
	9:55pm David Shortell: John Sturges' astronaut thriller "Marooned" (almost forgotten now) premiered 4 days before Apollo 12 launched.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:55 Didn't MST3K do that movie? Or am I thinking of something else?
	👻 9:58pm Heather Z: When I was a kid and someone would say, "Houston, we have a problem," I thought it was directed to a person named Houston. I still have to remind myself that it's the city when I hear them say Houston.
	9:59pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 They did! Even though it won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
	10:01pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather Z @9:58 I guess on Mid-Valley Mutations, we would say "Austin, we have a problem."
	10:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:29 I haven't seen flickering prior to this, been in this place almost a year. Maybe ghosts? Maybe there is some science I don't know about ionization or magnetism that can be a precursor to a wind storm ....
	👻 10:04pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 That's more likely, really. But I always have ghosts on the brain (literally, even!).
	10:05pm Arvo Zylo: I just hope to finish my space laundry before any electricity goes out....
	👻 10:05pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:01 I also wonder what happens if you're an astronaut and your given name is Roger. That is probably googlable.
	10:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:04 I interacted with a ghost that was a child choir boy. Constantly trying to play hide and seek and peek aboo while I was trying to sleep. About five years ago.
	👻 10:07pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:05 That is fascinating and I want to know more and also how dare he interrupt your rest!! Hide and seek is for waking time, Child Chost, choir robes or no.
	10:12pm Mr. X: The romance of the moon missions was such a major backdrop to my childhood. Even though I've maintained interest in all the various planetary probes, Skylab, shuttle missions, and international space station, they just never captured that same sense of adventure.
	10:14pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 Down here along the bottom of the map high winds = tree branches making contact with power lines that causes flickering and sometimes blackouts.
	10:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather Z @10:05 LOL, that would be confusing. I would always be saying "What? Oh. Who Me? Oh, right. Waddaya want? Er, never mind."
	10:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:14 The winds aren't too bad here yet, though. They are expected to be 70mph tonight though.
	👻 10:17pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:15 Right?! Even if I knew everyone only used my last name, I'd turn my head every time!
	10:18pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:12 Robert Smith of the Cure did a recent interview about how the 60s were a reflection of an upward trajectory that has not come back. According to him, the moon landing was a major part of that, I guess with public morale and raised spirits, although I am not necessarily in favor of going back to the sixties, as a woman or a minority, etc, much less a white guy who is helplessly weird. Economically though, I do have a displaced nostalgia for a time when one could travel the world on a Janitor's pay rate.
	10:19pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:07 He was not malicious at all, but just a constant disruption. Constantly flickering in the corner of my eyes. Helplessly starved for attention.
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:18 Not to mention everyone smoked cigarettes everywhere you went.
	10:22pm Arvo Zylo: My initials are ALPHA ZULU, FYI
	10:24pm laurapanic: I lef tthe house came back, and I'm still in space....hooray!
	👻 10:24pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:19 Poor little buddy. But still, when it's time for sleep, it's time for sleep!!
	10:27pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:22 Well I could deal with that. I mean I don't want people to smoke on busses, trains, or airplanes, but I could deal with that. Women were often horrifically abused, and when they protested, they were sometimes put in a sanitarium where they may have been given electroshock treatment or even a lobotomy, for example. I could go on about this, but yeah I really have a deep passion for the ideal of living in a house and raising kids and having a car on a regular "entry level" wage. That just means a lot to me, and it is virtually unattainable in the USA at this time, where even people with college degrees are having trouble finding decent work, paying off debts, etc.
	10:28pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:24 This will be a bit woo woo for many, but I prayed to Saint Michael to neutralize the situation, and the ghost, Marvin, appeared and said hi to me, and left me alone shortly after.
	10:31pm Mr. X: "After raising a U.S. flag on the Moon, Conrad and Bean devoted much of the remainder of the first EVA to deploying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). There were minor difficulties with the deployment. Bean had trouble extracting the RTG's plutonium fuel element from its protective cask, and the astronauts had to resort to the use of a hammer to hit the cask and dislodge the fuel element." Bashing a container of plutonium with a hammer sounds like good fun to me. What could go wrong?
	👻 10:31pm univac: I'm back!
	10:32pm laurapanic: If you haven't seen The Dish (movie) it wonderfully lays out the Australian role in the moon mission/s. You guys had to switch to our telescopes when the world turned, you see. Check it out, the movie is very charming. An Australian mainstream classic.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:28 That's so good! I'm big on woo woo here so I totally believe it! I haven't had anything happen here recently and I think it's because I'm very content to let ghosts be if they let me be. We've got an agreement, I guess!
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: ↳ laurapanic @10:32 Oo that does sound fantastic! I'm making a note about that film now!
	10:36pm laurapanic: Dogs In Space is much beloved as well. More gritty realism than the charm of The Dish.
	10:36pm Aitch: ↳ laurapanic @10:32 A very nice little movie. Dogs in Space could have been any share house of the people I knew at Uni.
	👻 10:37pm ramencity: ↳ laurapanic @10:36 Austin and I used to theorize it's the "same car" in Dogs in Space, and Repo Man....
	10:37pm laurapanic: ↳ Aitch @10:36 Absolutely, Dogs in Space is close to home...
	10:37pm Aitch: ↳ laurapanic @10:36 They should all watch Bad Boy Bubby for a real taste of Oz. Or Ghosts of the Civil Dead.
	10:37pm Mr. X: ↳ ramencity @10:37 Ah! Of course!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I was introduced to Dogs in Space by my old friend Lyra, who I miss and haven't seen in a million years. But that soundtrack, damn... And, of course, that INXS guy is rather fetching...
	10:38pm laurapanic: ↳ Aitch @10:37 I haven't watched Bubby, I am too afraid! Ghosts of the Civil dead is brutal and a must see but only once, kinda movie.
	👻 10:38pm ramencity: It's been a while since I watched Picnic at Hanging Rock, I think I'll cue that up after our space mission here
	10:39pm laurapanic: ↳ ramencity @10:38 a Gothic styled classic!
	👻 10:40pm ramencity: Now that I think of it - I think the first Werner Herzog movie I ever saw was The Green Ants Dream
	10:40pm Mr. X: ↳ Aitch @10:37 Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Priscilla Queen of the Desert...
	10:41pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 Soundtrack by Max Q, was Hutchence from INXS and a local electro fella called Ollie Olson. Good record.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: If you wanna get sad, watch that Radio Birdman Documentary. Or, just watch the first half if you want a really GREAT movie.
	10:43pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 I think there are a lot of variables beyond our understanding. I don't think ghosts necessarily haunt for easily understood reasons. I am of the opinion that some of them are cognizant, and others are residual, based on prior events. In my case, Marvin was both. He was a child that died in the place I was staying. Sometimes ghosts just repeat instances, while others interact. I guess I will stop there before I derail too much.
	10:43pm Aitch: ↳ Mr. X @10:40 Walkabout Nicholas Roeg, so only kinda Australian. Really creepy in an ick way, rewatched recently.
	10:48pm Arvo Zylo: There were two movies this year that dealt with mutiny on a space shuttle. One was called I.S.S. and dealt with Americans and Russians on the same ship plotting to kill each other. The other one was about psychosis between passengers on a space shuttle, set to sleep for months at a time, and then wake up hallucinating and infighting. I cannot remember the name of that one.
	10:49pm laurapanic: I love Ozploitation stuff myself. Patrick is on youtube, creepy as. Starring Sir Robert Helpman as a baddie www.youtube.com...
	10:50pm Arvo Zylo: There was also a foreign film called "Moon Thieves" that dealt with people trying to steal Neil Armstrong's watch that he wore on the moon.
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:43 I've heard a rumor there may be a ghost story coming up in 2025 and I'd think this could be a great topic! I do hope Marvin is at peace now or will at least keep letting you sleep without interruption!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:48 I do appreciate any big-budget movie set in space that is NOT a franchise film. Not that franchise films aren't good, but... there are soooooooo many...
	10:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 I didn't care for the Alien rehash ... Speaking of...
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:49 What movie am I thinking of, that had the very creepy "Bunyip," song in it?
	10:51pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 I have already told that story on one of Austin's shows! I haven't lived with Marvin since 2017...
	10:51pm laurapanic: Snapshot is another great Ozploitation one www.youtube.com...
	10:52pm laurapanic: And you must find Turkey Shoot
	10:53pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Dot and the Kangaroo? That is a kids cartoon movie but it fucked me up as a kid
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:53 Oh, that might be it! I just remember a really creepy songs about bunyips, which is how I first heard of them.
	10:54pm Mr. X: ↳ laurapanic @10:49 Would you consider Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) to be Ozploitation? I've been thinking of working with Austin on a Mutations show about him.
	10:55pm Arvo Zylo: This is the movie I was trying to remember. Laurence Fishburn was pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(2024_film)
	10:56pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 I don't remember if I told the ufo story on Austin's show, if he wants...
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:51 A good and bad thing about me is my memory is selective trash so old stories are so often new to me!
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 I have a new UFO story!! From just this past summer!
	11:00pm Mr. X: Good show, Austin. I am thoroughly zoned out.
	11:01pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:57 I wanna hear about it!!
	11:02pm Arvo Zylo: Ok good show! I will hang if there is still a transmission happening.
	👻 11:02pm Heather Z: Thanks for another awesome show, Austin, and a lovely chat time, everyone! Good night, all! Arvo, I'll email you the story!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:00 If I can help you zone, I've have done my part.
	11:03pm Aitch: Thanks for show
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: There's also Mad Max. I'm a sucker for those films... even Thunderdome has a few moments I like.
	11:04pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:57 Yay! Night all! Also my UFO story is here https://arvozylo.medium.com/my-report-of-a-ufo-sighting-491c3ff1fa17
	11:07pm Mr. X: Austin, I think we need to do something about dinosaurs in space.
	11:08pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:03 Whatever happened to Auntie Entity?
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:08 Didn't she have at least one hit off that film?
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:07 I'm into that! Dinosaurs want to explore space like everyone else.
	👻 11:13pm Austin Rich: Winding down. Thanks everyone!
	👻 11:15pm univac: Thx Austin! I've been lurking and writing

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 19, 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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November 19, 2024: November In The Stars: Walking On The Moon: Special Apollo 12 Tribute Broadcast

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Mini-Mutations	Sounds From Space "Sounds From Space" by "Mini-Mutations"	Sounds From Space	Mid-Valley Mutations	2023

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Listener comments!
	👻 4:07pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	4:39pm Neal Retke: Hello ~!
	8:30pm Arvo Zylo: Gonna be listening while I do space laundry
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Neal Retke @4:39 Thanks for poppin' in! Hope you can come back for the main event!
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:30 Those space-suits are very hard to press and fold.
	8:57pm Krys O.: Sending my regards! Must retire to bed. I have to get up in seven hours.
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:57 Sleep well!
	8:58pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:58 Wonderful to see you in the digital salon!
	8:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:30 The space-time wash?
	8:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:58 Wonderful to be here
	9:01pm Mr. X: ...Igntion...and blast off...
	9:02pm Geoff-U: Hello space-people
	👻 9:02pm univac: Hello, all.
	👻 9:02pm univac: Space is, apparently, the place.
	9:04pm Imaginos: If the tear was an ocean, November would be the doldrums.
	9:04pm Imaginos: Year
	👻 9:05pm univac: I agree.
	9:05pm Imaginos: Happy Sheenaversary.
	9:06pm Mr Fab: Wow, your Sheena-versary. Very cool.
	9:06pm Arvo Zylo: Supposed to be 70mph winds out here tonight. Lights are already flickering. We shall see if I still have power by the time the show is over.
	👻 9:07pm univac: Yikes! Arvo.
	👻 9:08pm univac: Happy Sheena-versary Austin!!
	9:08pm Aitch: Lurking / working
	9:09pm laurapanic: dreamy work tunes
	👻 9:09pm ramencity: I am making space soba noodles. With space tofu!
	9:09pm Mr. X: One of the qualifications for being an astronaut is the ability to make up an acronym for every little thing.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: There's a lot going on behind the scenes here in the Lava Lamp Lounge, but it's wonderful to have so many folks hanging out in the Digital Salon. I'll try to keep an eye on the comments, but the synths need attention...
	9:10pm Imaginos: The music is very hypnotic
	👻 9:12pm univac: This is super excellent, Austin. Just what I need.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: laurapanic! The Ramen City Kid! Aitch! That's a party I want to be at.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:12 When I found the NASA tapes on archive.org, I went nuts. They're sort of relaxing to listen to.
	👻 9:12pm univac: I wish we could do this in real life.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:12 Yeah. I want more parties with my digital friends.
	👻 9:13pm univac: (meaning, hanging out and listening to this)
	9:14pm Mr. X: "Shortly after being launched on a rainy day at Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 12 was twice struck by lightning." I did not know that.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: There's a lot of "down time" if you listen to raw NASA tapes. Sometimes there's no voices for over an hour. So I have condensed a lot of them so we can hear more of the chatter.
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:14 I'm astonished it still made the trip!
	9:16pm JM in Texas: Howdy everyone! Austin & anyone else up in the PNW corridor……please keep us posted when possible.
	👻 9:18pm Heather Z: Tuned in and loving these space sounds!! So good.....
	👻 9:18pm ramencity: Aww dang, the site that makes lo-fi hiphop out of air traffic control is down: www.lofiatc.com...
	9:18pm Charles: soothing
	9:18pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:18 I agree
	9:19pm Mr Fab: This show reminds me of Mike Rogers’ sadly short-lived “Sounds From Space” show.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 That show was so good.
	9:21pm Mr. X: The astronauts are getting excited now.
	👻 9:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I loved that show and miss it a lot. That was some great stuff.
	9:21pm Mr. X: ↳ JM in Texas @9:16 You too! Are you a grandpa yet?
	👻 9:21pm univac: This is really excellent.
	9:22pm JM in Texas: ↳ Mr Fab @9:19 I remember that show, I had a couple of cassettes of his show I recorded from the radio.
	👻 9:23pm univac: Gotta run. Thanks Austin! I'll catch the archive. Great show.
	9:23pm Mr. X: Apollo 12 carried "the first color television camera taken by an Apollo mission to the lunar surface, but transmission was lost after Bean accidentally pointed the camera at the Sun and its sensor was burned out."
	9:24pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ univac @9:07 It's not that windy right now, but it is supposed to be. And the lights are flickering, for whatever reason.
	👻 9:24pm ramencity: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 "celebratory flickering"
	9:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Ouch
	9:25pm JM in Texas: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Proud to say I am! Pierce Alan was born last Wednesday 8lbs 21.5 there were a few complications but mom and baby got to go home Saturday……such a blessing!!!
	👻 9:26pm ramencity: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 Aww congrats!
	9:26pm Geoff-U: I like the ambient background sounds a lot - what did you make them with?
	9:27pm Mr. X: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 Awesome! Congratulations!
	9:27pm Arvo Zylo: There was a recent film that suggested the moon landing was real, but also they had a fake moon landing staged just in case. I do find it amusing that the craft they used to touch down did not look terribly sturdy. That they knew how to land on the moon in an area that wasn't unbearably cold is in itself a monumental feat.
	9:27pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 Congrats 🎉
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Whoops! We had a break for a moment! Sorry everyone!
	9:29pm JM in Texas: ↳ ramencity @9:26 Thank you!
	9:29pm Mr. X: So Mr. Bean went to the moon?
	👻 9:29pm Heather Z: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 Congratulations!!!
	👻 9:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:24 Ghosts?
	9:29pm Juli P: Here for it
	9:30pm JM in Texas: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 Thx for asking Mr. X, I appreciate it!
	9:32pm JM in Texas: ↳ Heather Z @9:29 Thx Heather, it’s been an incredible week!
	9:33pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @9:29 Gromit's master Wallace did. That's kind of similar.
	👻 9:33pm Heather Z: ↳ JM in Texas @9:32 I'm excited and happy for you and your family!!
	9:34pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:27 Thx buddy, I appreciate it!
	👻 9:35pm Heather Z: Happy Sheenaversary, Austin!
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ JM in Texas @9:32 I'm happy for you.
	9:37pm Juli P: Teehee cute I've been looking for instruments can you post links to these companies?! I luv the sounds
	9:37pm Geoff-U: Hah I have a MicroGranny too! They are strange little boxes. I wrote a Python script to make it much easier to load samples into it.
	9:37pm Juli P: Teehee to instruments they make me giggle sorry lol
	9:38pm JM in Texas: ↳ Imaginos @9:35 Appreciate it, Sir!
	9:38pm Juli P: Synths: Oooo this tickles lol
	9:38pm Geoff-U: github.com...
	9:39pm Geoff-U: Please note this script has not been "productized" at all yet so there's not much documentation yet. I guess since I just got laid off (after 10 years) I'll have time to update it.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: Bastl Makes the MicroGranny, and many other things: bastl-instruments.com
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: And I do love a lot of stuff that KORG makes, including their KAOSS Pads. www.korg.com...
	9:42pm Mr. X: Apollo 11 was a tough act to follow, I'm sure. All the subsequent missions kind of blend together in peoples' minds, I think.
	9:42pm Geoff-U: I just got a Roland P-6 sampler, it's super fun too. Similar to the MicroGranny in that it's portable, has batteries and a built-in mic. The MG has better granular controls but the P-6 has it's own set of groovy features. Recommended!
	9:44pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I'd like to get a small, portable keyboard that I can use for shows. That's probably my next purchase.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 I understand. Sleep well!
	9:45pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Thank you
	9:47pm JM in Texas: ↳ Imaginos @9:44 Good night 💤
	9:49pm Juli P: A friend made a tape of the moon landings he found some sort of large old tape and a way to play them all for free lol I forget what kind
	9:50pm Juli P: I'm still not random objekts which make sound for musical purposes
	9:52pm Juli P: *in lol Weird.
	9:54pm Juli P: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 Cool !!!!
	9:54pm Juli P: ↳ Geoff-U @9:42 Ty so much!
	9:55pm Juli P: I saved the show to reference the suggestions ty & also: Good
	9:55pm David Shortell: John Sturges' astronaut thriller "Marooned" (almost forgotten now) premiered 4 days before Apollo 12 launched.
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:55 Didn't MST3K do that movie? Or am I thinking of something else?
	👻 9:58pm Heather Z: When I was a kid and someone would say, "Houston, we have a problem," I thought it was directed to a person named Houston. I still have to remind myself that it's the city when I hear them say Houston.
	9:59pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 They did! Even though it won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
	10:01pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather Z @9:58 I guess on Mid-Valley Mutations, we would say "Austin, we have a problem."
	10:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @9:29 I haven't seen flickering prior to this, been in this place almost a year. Maybe ghosts? Maybe there is some science I don't know about ionization or magnetism that can be a precursor to a wind storm ....
	👻 10:04pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 That's more likely, really. But I always have ghosts on the brain (literally, even!).
	10:05pm Arvo Zylo: I just hope to finish my space laundry before any electricity goes out....
	👻 10:05pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:01 I also wonder what happens if you're an astronaut and your given name is Roger. That is probably googlable.
	10:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:04 I interacted with a ghost that was a child choir boy. Constantly trying to play hide and seek and peek aboo while I was trying to sleep. About five years ago.
	👻 10:07pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:05 That is fascinating and I want to know more and also how dare he interrupt your rest!! Hide and seek is for waking time, Child Chost, choir robes or no.
	10:12pm Mr. X: The romance of the moon missions was such a major backdrop to my childhood. Even though I've maintained interest in all the various planetary probes, Skylab, shuttle missions, and international space station, they just never captured that same sense of adventure.
	10:14pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 Down here along the bottom of the map high winds = tree branches making contact with power lines that causes flickering and sometimes blackouts.
	10:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather Z @10:05 LOL, that would be confusing. I would always be saying "What? Oh. Who Me? Oh, right. Waddaya want? Er, never mind."
	10:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @10:14 The winds aren't too bad here yet, though. They are expected to be 70mph tonight though.
	👻 10:17pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:15 Right?! Even if I knew everyone only used my last name, I'd turn my head every time!
	10:18pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:12 Robert Smith of the Cure did a recent interview about how the 60s were a reflection of an upward trajectory that has not come back. According to him, the moon landing was a major part of that, I guess with public morale and raised spirits, although I am not necessarily in favor of going back to the sixties, as a woman or a minority, etc, much less a white guy who is helplessly weird. Economically though, I do have a displaced nostalgia for a time when one could travel the world on a Janitor's pay rate.
	10:19pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:07 He was not malicious at all, but just a constant disruption. Constantly flickering in the corner of my eyes. Helplessly starved for attention.
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:18 Not to mention everyone smoked cigarettes everywhere you went.
	10:22pm Arvo Zylo: My initials are ALPHA ZULU, FYI
	10:24pm laurapanic: I lef tthe house came back, and I'm still in space....hooray!
	👻 10:24pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:19 Poor little buddy. But still, when it's time for sleep, it's time for sleep!!
	10:27pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:22 Well I could deal with that. I mean I don't want people to smoke on busses, trains, or airplanes, but I could deal with that. Women were often horrifically abused, and when they protested, they were sometimes put in a sanitarium where they may have been given electroshock treatment or even a lobotomy, for example. I could go on about this, but yeah I really have a deep passion for the ideal of living in a house and raising kids and having a car on a regular "entry level" wage. That just means a lot to me, and it is virtually unattainable in the USA at this time, where even people with college degrees are having trouble finding decent work, paying off debts, etc.
	10:28pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:24 This will be a bit woo woo for many, but I prayed to Saint Michael to neutralize the situation, and the ghost, Marvin, appeared and said hi to me, and left me alone shortly after.
	10:31pm Mr. X: "After raising a U.S. flag on the Moon, Conrad and Bean devoted much of the remainder of the first EVA to deploying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). There were minor difficulties with the deployment. Bean had trouble extracting the RTG's plutonium fuel element from its protective cask, and the astronauts had to resort to the use of a hammer to hit the cask and dislodge the fuel element." Bashing a container of plutonium with a hammer sounds like good fun to me. What could go wrong?
	👻 10:31pm univac: I'm back!
	10:32pm laurapanic: If you haven't seen The Dish (movie) it wonderfully lays out the Australian role in the moon mission/s. You guys had to switch to our telescopes when the world turned, you see. Check it out, the movie is very charming. An Australian mainstream classic.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:28 That's so good! I'm big on woo woo here so I totally believe it! I haven't had anything happen here recently and I think it's because I'm very content to let ghosts be if they let me be. We've got an agreement, I guess!
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: ↳ laurapanic @10:32 Oo that does sound fantastic! I'm making a note about that film now!
	10:36pm laurapanic: Dogs In Space is much beloved as well. More gritty realism than the charm of The Dish.
	10:36pm Aitch: ↳ laurapanic @10:32 A very nice little movie. Dogs in Space could have been any share house of the people I knew at Uni.
	👻 10:37pm ramencity: ↳ laurapanic @10:36 Austin and I used to theorize it's the "same car" in Dogs in Space, and Repo Man....
	10:37pm laurapanic: ↳ Aitch @10:36 Absolutely, Dogs in Space is close to home...
	10:37pm Aitch: ↳ laurapanic @10:36 They should all watch Bad Boy Bubby for a real taste of Oz. Or Ghosts of the Civil Dead.
	10:37pm Mr. X: ↳ ramencity @10:37 Ah! Of course!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I was introduced to Dogs in Space by my old friend Lyra, who I miss and haven't seen in a million years. But that soundtrack, damn... And, of course, that INXS guy is rather fetching...
	10:38pm laurapanic: ↳ Aitch @10:37 I haven't watched Bubby, I am too afraid! Ghosts of the Civil dead is brutal and a must see but only once, kinda movie.
	👻 10:38pm ramencity: It's been a while since I watched Picnic at Hanging Rock, I think I'll cue that up after our space mission here
	10:39pm laurapanic: ↳ ramencity @10:38 a Gothic styled classic!
	👻 10:40pm ramencity: Now that I think of it - I think the first Werner Herzog movie I ever saw was The Green Ants Dream
	10:40pm Mr. X: ↳ Aitch @10:37 Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Priscilla Queen of the Desert...
	10:41pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 Soundtrack by Max Q, was Hutchence from INXS and a local electro fella called Ollie Olson. Good record.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: If you wanna get sad, watch that Radio Birdman Documentary. Or, just watch the first half if you want a really GREAT movie.
	10:43pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:32 I think there are a lot of variables beyond our understanding. I don't think ghosts necessarily haunt for easily understood reasons. I am of the opinion that some of them are cognizant, and others are residual, based on prior events. In my case, Marvin was both. He was a child that died in the place I was staying. Sometimes ghosts just repeat instances, while others interact. I guess I will stop there before I derail too much.
	10:43pm Aitch: ↳ Mr. X @10:40 Walkabout Nicholas Roeg, so only kinda Australian. Really creepy in an ick way, rewatched recently.
	10:48pm Arvo Zylo: There were two movies this year that dealt with mutiny on a space shuttle. One was called I.S.S. and dealt with Americans and Russians on the same ship plotting to kill each other. The other one was about psychosis between passengers on a space shuttle, set to sleep for months at a time, and then wake up hallucinating and infighting. I cannot remember the name of that one.
	10:49pm laurapanic: I love Ozploitation stuff myself. Patrick is on youtube, creepy as. Starring Sir Robert Helpman as a baddie www.youtube.com...
	10:50pm Arvo Zylo: There was also a foreign film called "Moon Thieves" that dealt with people trying to steal Neil Armstrong's watch that he wore on the moon.
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:43 I've heard a rumor there may be a ghost story coming up in 2025 and I'd think this could be a great topic! I do hope Marvin is at peace now or will at least keep letting you sleep without interruption!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:48 I do appreciate any big-budget movie set in space that is NOT a franchise film. Not that franchise films aren't good, but... there are soooooooo many...
	10:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 I didn't care for the Alien rehash ... Speaking of...
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:49 What movie am I thinking of, that had the very creepy "Bunyip," song in it?
	10:51pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 I have already told that story on one of Austin's shows! I haven't lived with Marvin since 2017...
	10:51pm laurapanic: Snapshot is another great Ozploitation one www.youtube.com...
	10:52pm laurapanic: And you must find Turkey Shoot
	10:53pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Dot and the Kangaroo? That is a kids cartoon movie but it fucked me up as a kid
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:53 Oh, that might be it! I just remember a really creepy songs about bunyips, which is how I first heard of them.
	10:54pm Mr. X: ↳ laurapanic @10:49 Would you consider Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) to be Ozploitation? I've been thinking of working with Austin on a Mutations show about him.
	10:55pm Arvo Zylo: This is the movie I was trying to remember. Laurence Fishburn was pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(2024_film)
	10:56pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 I don't remember if I told the ufo story on Austin's show, if he wants...
	👻 10:56pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:51 A good and bad thing about me is my memory is selective trash so old stories are so often new to me!
	👻 10:57pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:56 I have a new UFO story!! From just this past summer!
	11:00pm Mr. X: Good show, Austin. I am thoroughly zoned out.
	11:01pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:57 I wanna hear about it!!
	11:02pm Arvo Zylo: Ok good show! I will hang if there is still a transmission happening.
	👻 11:02pm Heather Z: Thanks for another awesome show, Austin, and a lovely chat time, everyone! Good night, all! Arvo, I'll email you the story!
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:00 If I can help you zone, I've have done my part.
	11:03pm Aitch: Thanks for show
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: There's also Mad Max. I'm a sucker for those films... even Thunderdome has a few moments I like.
	11:04pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:57 Yay! Night all! Also my UFO story is here https://arvozylo.medium.com/my-report-of-a-ufo-sighting-491c3ff1fa17
	11:07pm Mr. X: Austin, I think we need to do something about dinosaurs in space.
	11:08pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @11:03 Whatever happened to Auntie Entity?
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:08 Didn't she have at least one hit off that film?
	👻 11:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:07 I'm into that! Dinosaurs want to explore space like everyone else.
	👻 11:13pm Austin Rich: Winding down. Thanks everyone!
	👻 11:15pm univac: Thx Austin! I've been lurking and writing

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 19, 2024

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