Eighty eight point one El Cerrito, 97.7 San Pablo. KECG. The voice of Stephen Hawking is filling in as announcer for Radio EdSoft Films. On the web at www.edsoftfilms.com slash Radio. This is the second episode, this time the theme is - self. Specifically, the self of our DJ, a recent college graduate, who is eager to find his place in the universe.
Graduating from college is a schizophrenic period in a persons life, both intimidating and celebratory at the same time. Perhaps a proper place for "Bubbles in the Wine," but also a time for self-reflection and apprehension. Worries of future employment (or the lack thereof), student loans, and a worsening economy accompany a sense of joy and excitement.
From one point of view, graduating is ending a life, separating yourself from your peers and the lifestyle you practiced for as much as twenty years, or more. In another sense it is like being reborn, entering a new world where anything is possible. You're free from homework, reeding stuff that may or may not interest you, buying textbooks, midterms and final exams.
However, the benefits of this new stress-free life are short-lived. Unless you're a millionaire, or otherwise liberated from the costs of living, you have to enter a workforce to survive. The debt racked up during your institutionalized personal growth has to be eliminated or suffer the consequences.
Consequences.
Consequences that are being suffered by a larger and larger group of people every day, as the economy dives and our nation of debt is forced to come to its senses.
More than anything though, the time spent in school is missed. You might have friends who still have more studying to do, and you've left them behind.
But you can not live in the past. You have to look forward and become a student in the "new school term" of the future.
With mind towards the future, we began with "Put On Your Sunday Clothes," by Michael Crawford for the musical "Hello Dolly," and more recently used in the film Wall-E. And this is "Bubbles in the Wine" remixed by Dex Bubious. Up next, "New School Term 5" by the Kuricorder Pops Orchestra, on Radio EdSoft Films. 88.1 FM El Cerrito, 97.7 FM San Pablo. K,E,C,G.
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"Cats on Mars" (featuring Gabriela Robin) might remind us to stay upbeat in these trying times, looking forward to the "Evening Glow" (by Ta ku EEwahsaki). However, some things are only measured at "three centimeters" (by Yoko Kanno). I guess we all must try to find "A Satisfied Mind" (by Johnny Cash).
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It's time for a news update, but first let's back-announce the tracks you've just heard. "Secret World" by Peter Gabriel, and a mix of A-10 and M-4 (you can find a description of these tracks on the "Show 2" page on the web at www.edsoftfilms.com slash Radio. And now it's time for some news.
Being in a drought is no fun - Firestorms in southern California destroy property, yet I bet the lawns in Palm Springs are still green.
Members of congress want to bail out more failing companies, delaying the inevitable.
A 7.5 earthquake has shaken Indonesia, killing at least two people. Tsunami warnings are in effect in the applicable countries.
On the lighter side of news, The Obamas are getting a puppy. Joy.
Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie, was number 1 at the box office this weekend. And deservedly so.
And finally, TRL is canceled. You have no idea how happy this makes me.
It's almost enough to make me forget about our dying economy.
Next up, Jimi Hendrix.
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Manic Depression is searching my soul, I know what I want but I just don't know. So Frail, the Ego Boundary. I'm surrounded by people who are bipolar alcoholic drug addicts. Is there even anyone out there that isn't bipolar? Am aye bi-polar?! I can never tell what people think of me. I hear them talking badly about other people. When I'm not around, are they talking the same about me? Paranoia Prima. All I want to do is go home and do nothing. Watch more depressing television. Tune in, tune out. The TV reveals our nations true nature. TV Reveals. By John Williams, up next, on Radio EdSoft Films. 88.1 El Cerrito, 97.7 San Pablo. KECG. Hopefully, some good old 1970s John Williams will return my brighter spirits.
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Caetano Veloso treated us to a performance of "KooKoo Roo KooKoo Paloma," a song I first heard in my freshman year of college, in the film "Talk to Her". And the Mario Galaxy Orchestra has been serenading us with "Rosetta's Comet Observatory." "Super Mario Galaxy" had one of the best video game soundtracks of the last ten ears, if not the best. Up next, a mash up of tracks from one of the best video game soundtracks of all time, "Room Number" by Kay ichi Suzuki, from the Mother 2 (known as Earthbound in the US) soundtrack.
Mother too, a cult-classic video game famous for its humor as well as its elegy. Written by the famed Japanese copywriter, She gay sah toh Itoi, the game stays in the hearts of everyone who plays it.
The game will make you happy, but it will also make you sad. A cult of people practicing "happy happyism" kidnap the game's main female protagonist. And despite calling themselves happy happyists, they all wear blue, and one of their goals is to paint the world blue. The cows in Happy Happy Village are all painted blue, and the happy happyists wear blue robes, and resemble klansmen. Their leader is known as Mr. Car-paint-er, resembling the leaders of the infamous cults of the 1980s and 90s.
Once past the insane cultists, however, you participate in more bizarre and compelling events! For a game with very little character animation, you are still emotionally attached to them and the things they do. The strongest feeling the game inspires in you is when the game is over, because you wish it could go on forever.
Doesn't that sound familiar?
88.1 El Cerrito, 97.7 San Pablo, KECG. Radio EdSoft Films. Up next, "Meeting" by Elmer Bernstein.
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"Carry That Weight" by The Beatles, and "The Good, The Bad And The Queen." Why do things continue to be both good and bad at the same time? Where are the friends we can depend on? Sometimes I just wish I could live "A Happy Life."
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