Episode 3: Coming into One's Own

Dear Loyal Listeners,

Today's show was a bit of a fiasco, but luckily, one of my favorite episodes of This American Life is the fiasco episode, so I don't feel so bad. Every DJ needs a disaster show.

To make a long story short, the guys who had a show before me left the sound effects machine on, so I'm pretty sure it made me sound like a machine for the first few times I spoke (it has no "off" button! what kind of machine has no "off" button!). And, then, when someone came to fix it, they left the mic on while we were having a conversation about it -- over a lovely tune by Plume Giant (more below). UPDATE: IT WAS NOT AS BAD AS I THOUGHT! Well, you'll see.

So. While I usually won't edit shows between air and when I put them on this blog, I will this time. You can't really hear what I'm saying in the opening segment over the music, and I think you will still hear my voice as a machine at some points. But I fixed most of it. If you want to know what I say in that first part (the gist of it is pretty much that the theme is coming into one's own), let me know, and I will send it to you.

Here's the link to the edited show.

This week's show was about coming into one's own. The show's contents were as follows:

Tunes:
"Wide Open Spaces" The Dixie Chicks
"Istanbul" They Might Be Giants
"Strawberry Fields" (cover) and "November" (original!) by Plume Giant, live in the studio
"Two Points for Honesty" Guster
"I Am a Rock" Simon and Garfunkel
"They All Laughed" Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
"Chicken Fried" Zac Brown Band
"When you Come Back Down" Nickel Creek
"A Little Less Conversation" Elvis, Remixed by JLX
"Smoking Gun" (original!) by Plume Giant, live in the studio
"The Way I am" Ingrid Michaelson
"The Circle Game" Joni Mitchell

Talk
Conversation Starter with Sarah Wolf (TD '10)
An interview (in addition to the live music!) with Plume Giant: Eliza Bagg (SM '12), Nolan Green (ES '12) and Oliver Hill (BR '12) [See more at http://www.myspace.com/plumegiant]
Serbin Speak & Sound with Rebecca Serbin (TC '10)
A sketch on Trolley Night and DTRing with Sam Purdy (DC '10) and MJ Truong (DC '10)

The show will return in 3 weeks, on March 25, same time, same place.

Happy Spring Break! and thanks for bearing with me,
Sarah