Category: anonradio

ASFO 2024–04–06

Owing to a mishap, the actual show starts about 20 minutes into the recording. It’s just long enough for me to mention progress with blast, and compare the Coire Glas pumped storage scheme in Scotland, which will be the largest in the world with 30 GWh of capacity, to the daily output of one EPR nuclear generating unit, of which two are being built at Hinkley Point C, 38·4 GWh. The UK grid is already one of the best–provided in the world with storage, with 24 GWh. Since average electrical consumption of the UK (over the course of a year) is 36 GW, the total after this addition will be 90 minutes of average system load. A far cry from the 10 days or more that wind– and solar–heavy energy supply projections call for!

Objects In Mirrors Episode 8: “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Cool’ Show But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” (2024-04-05)

(with apologies to André 3000)

Archive Download

  • Crosby, Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships
  • Caetano Veloso – Mora Na Filosofia
  • Weyes Blood – God Turn Me Into A Flower
  • Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir – Like A Ship
  • Everything But The Girl – Run A Red Light
  • Burial – Upstairs Flat
  • Arooj Aftab – Last Night
  • Lil Yachty – the BLACK seminole.
  • Galaxie 500 – Summertime
  • Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
  • The Clientele – We Could Walk Together

SUYF: the other side – 3/31/24

“Have a great day!”

“Jesus, etc.”
sorry for the dead air for a minute or so and the server chopping up the show in 30 min morsels again.

“Have a great day!”

ASFO 2024–03–30

Electricity is the only industrial commodity that must be consumed before it is produced — a koan for the modern age? Also, a warning against attempting to live in the world of signs, rather than of things signified ; and the case for a railway in Iceland.

Objects In Mirrors Episode 7: “Mixtape Messenger Service” (2024-03-29)

Archive Download: part 1, part 2

  • The Church – Reptile
  • Visage – Fade To Grey
  • Bauhaus – Stigmata Martyr
  • DAF – Der Mussolini
  • Garbage – Cities In Dust
  • Echo & The Bunnymen – Never Stop
  • M83 – America
  • Joy Division – A Means To An End
  • Cabaret Voltaire – Sly Doubt
  • Sharon Van Etten – Comeback Kid
  • Chris & Cosey – Hazey Daze
  • Zola Jesus – Night
  • Kraftwerk – Neon Lights
  • Buzzcocks – Nostalgia

Objects In Mirrors Episode 6 (2024-03-22)

Archive Download: Part 1, Part 2 (no idea why it got split)

  • Velvet Underground & Nico – Sunday Morning
  • Michael Kiwanuka – Solid Ground
  • Bill Withers – Lonely Town, Lonely Street
  • Townes Van Zandt – Big Country Blues
  • Marvin Gaye – Checking Out (Double Clutch)
  • Tricky – Hell Is Round The Corner
  • PJ Harvey – I Inside The Old I Dying
  • Arlo Parks/Phoebe Bridgers – Pegasus
  • Quincy Jones – Summer In The City
  • Spoon – Who Makes Your Money
  • Can – She Brings The Rain
  • Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Summer Wine
  • Childish Gambino – Terrified
  • Lana Del Rey – Love
  • John Prine – Summer’s End
  • José González – Heartbeats

ASFO 2024–03–16

The difference between disextensification (better name urgently needed) and degrowth is the difference between “doing more with less” and “doing less with less”. The former views the un–sustainability of economic expansion as primarily a practical, the latter as primarily a moral problem, and that in turn reflects the question of what value we place on human life and welfare. Also, is “building the world’s largest aeroplane for a single narrowly–defined purpose” an invariable sign of an idea that has been taken too far, and fallen into absurdity?