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Minnesota Public Radio just got it's (relatively) newly acquired third channel up and running today. It's eclectic music, heavy on various flavors of rock but with other things as well, on 89.3 in the Twin Cities. Several familiar voices from some earlier alt music stations plus a couple of new folks. The have a webcast if you are interested or just feeling bored with other options.

If anyone wants to http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/totn.caller.instructions.html.

http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/index.html

Does anyone ever listen to these? Oh, well. I thought this one was worth sharing. The part at the beginning reminds me a bit of finding the right piece of music for a vid.

From tonight's All Thing's Considered
The Man Behind the Music of the Movies
NPR's Michele Norris profiles Hollywood music supervisor Chris Douridas. Douridas has picked music for American Beauty, Shrek and Sex and the City, and is responsible for the "shagadelic" sound of the first Austin Powers movie.

I spend most of my day at work either listening to the radio (mostly some form or another of Minnesota Public Radio) or music. Over the last couple of days MPR has had a couple of bits that seem to intersect the fringes of my thoughts and wishes regarding fandom. I'm afraid there are no transcripts only real audio files.

One, from the show segment http://news.mpr.org/programs/futuretense/ about Musiclink going non-Profit. I like the concept of Musiclink, which provides what is basically a pay pal-like connection between musicians and fans, but unfortunately I don't think it's a paradigm that will ultimately succeed. While I do have issues with some aspects of the current theory of intellectual property, seeing folks get paid for what they have created is not one of them. Or rather it is. I'm for it.

The other one that caught me was Kurt Anderson speaking on the nature of the amateur spirit which made me think of much of what I like about fandom and about much of what I miss in fandom's source material.