Sunday, July 26, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Book Idea
I found the following passage in Henry Miller's "The Books In My Life", in the chapter about Blaise Cendrars.
"not least among, we shall probably discover one day, being the ten volumes of Notre Pain Quotidien which he composed intermittently over a period of ten years in a chateau outside Paris, to which manuscripts he never signed his name, confiding the chests containing this material to various safety vaults in different parts of South America and then throwing the keys away. ("Je voudrais rester l'Anonyme," he says.)"
The idea for the book would be to try to track down these volumes and write a literary detective story about the attempt. fail or find it would make a great story...
"not least among
The idea for the book would be to try to track down these volumes and write a literary detective story about the attempt. fail or find it would make a great story...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Public Access Show
Set up talk show with guest pulled randomly from phone book. Edit 3 hour conversation down to 30 minutes of best material. Try to capture essence of person, use good questions to untap potential. Maybe a little vino.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
national radio station
Pitch to XM radio or Sirius:
A radio stations with best college/ indie station volunteer djays in the world, with an emphasis on local music. DJs from each station would be screened and each dj who passed muster would get a two hour set in which to shine. There will be highly coveted prime time (paid) residencies for the djays who hold the highest national ratings.
The reason this station will succeed is two-fold.
There are far better volunteer djays on local stations than those paid by any xm or sirius station, and much more diversity. There is a landslide of incredible and largely undiscovered music out there and when discovered by a great dj, the results are remarkable. XM (or Sirius) would quickly gain a reputation as the best "music lover" station on the air.
But there's a second even more sound reason to embark on a nation to nation local music station. The local stations emphasize local music. If there is a constant supply of djays from around the nation, then there will be a constant supply of local bands who will now have representation and power. This is a win-win. Radio station plays local bands and local bands will talk up the radio station. This will result in a grassroots cross country advertising campaign that will be constantly expanding.
To take the idea of local representation further, a smart idea would be to feature local shows and have an FM/ digital simulcast, so that, say, the KGNU listener in Boulder would hear the same thing at the same time as the XM/Sirius listener. This way not just the band, but the local station itself will be in league with the national station.
A radio stations with best college/ indie station volunteer djays in the world, with an emphasis on local music. DJs from each station would be screened and each dj who passed muster would get a two hour set in which to shine. There will be highly coveted prime time (paid) residencies for the djays who hold the highest national ratings.
The reason this station will succeed is two-fold.
There are far better volunteer djays on local stations than those paid by any xm or sirius station, and much more diversity. There is a landslide of incredible and largely undiscovered music out there and when discovered by a great dj, the results are remarkable. XM (or Sirius) would quickly gain a reputation as the best "music lover" station on the air.
But there's a second even more sound reason to embark on a nation to nation local music station. The local stations emphasize local music. If there is a constant supply of djays from around the nation, then there will be a constant supply of local bands who will now have representation and power. This is a win-win. Radio station plays local bands and local bands will talk up the radio station. This will result in a grassroots cross country advertising campaign that will be constantly expanding.
To take the idea of local representation further, a smart idea would be to feature local shows and have an FM/ digital simulcast, so that, say, the KGNU listener in Boulder would hear the same thing at the same time as the XM/Sirius listener. This way not just the band, but the local station itself will be in league with the national station.
Monday, May 25, 2009
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