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PGR Highlights Now Available

Hey Soul Mates,
if you're reading this right now, you're home on a Saturday night. Or maybe Sunday morning. I've spent my evening editing my appearance on Pop Garden Radio into the Reader's Digest version. It took a while. Had to cut out the music that DJ Adam Waltemire spun, including ours, for legal reasons and to condense it from 2 hours to 19 minutes. Listening to it back, it's kind of revealing... and every bit as informal as our Monday Show appearance. I hope you will enjoy it. Just click NOW or on the title above and you can stream the track from our website. It will be available for a limited time. It's only 4 MB so it shouldn't take fast carriers too long to access. The compression makes it sound like how it would through AM radio (which it was broadcast on last week); but I do have a supremely clean version. If you want to hear the sweet digital version, e-mail me and I'll arrange it for you. Remember, this is streaming audio, please be patient. And I do recommend realplayer for playback.

There are pictures up on our website of my visit to WMEL. Check them out, too. That way you can put faces and places with the audio. Fans from MySpace and WPB, listen for that shout out. Hard to fathom that my visit to Melbourne was a week ago. Literally. This time last Saturday, Eastern Standard Time, we were just driving back to Vero from the station. I'm still jet-lagged.

We've been busy this week: sending out press kits and contacting and being contacted by numerous podcasters about being added to their shows. Stay tuned, we'll let you know which shows pick us up.

Managed to get a flu shot today. What a relief. Last year, I didn't get one and there was hell to pay. The Doc did give this bit of free advice: Saline nasal spray. Kinda like the Graduate... "Plastics." Anyway, he told me that a couple of hits of that each day will keep the flu bug away. So I pass that along to you.

Finally, I found a really nice Ted Baker suit deeply discounted. Nothing like looking good on the cheap. It's a classic grey, 2 button suit. Just watched Cary Grant in North By Northwest. Damn, he looks suave in a similar get-up. Watch out, y'all.

Love, Power, Peace

Comments

Anonymous said…
Great highlights. I hadn't gone back and listened to the Cds yet, so it is good to hear that they did actually turn out well. It was a fun night and I hope to see you on the 11th. -Adam
5:35 AM, October 17, 2005
Anonymous said…
WPB!!!
2:28 PM, October 17, 2005
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