Snore & Guzzle Radio Hour # 16

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NEWSFLASH: There will be a brief intermission from Snore & Guzzle updates in the month of November. The show will resume come December 1st. There’s a groundswell of activity in the substrate, but these projects are a wee more labor-intensive than the standard; thus the delay. Here’s what is going on just beneath the surface. I’m writing a non-fiction piece about Delmore Schwartz + Lou Reed + Saul Bellow. I’m assembling a profile and extended interview with Norman Greenbaum. I’m starting to compile the materials for a graphic arts project involving classroom charts. I’m in the midst of working on a visual music micro-cinema program involving the films of the Whitney Brothers and musical accompaniment by Adam Forkner, to be staged in Portland, Oregon. These projects will start to see some light over the next couple months.

THIS MONTH: While there are no major updates, I did create the next installment in the series of podcasts. This brings us up to Snore & Guzzle Radio Hour # 16, in a finite series of 24. The Radio Hour this month is a pair of flushed cheeks. These are sounds good for ushering in hibernation, songs that hold hands with bourbon sipping, ember-gazing, quilt-wrapping and chapped lips. One of the big inspirations this month was a quote from a music review for Broadcast’s most recent album. Of the record, the critic said that it was, “Like a nursery rhyme trapped in amber.” There is much more to be found in the graphic I designed to accompany this set of music. See above.

LASTLY: As something of a ruse, I thought I would experiment with posting to Tumblr via a mobile phone, mostly as a way to get a summer’s worth of photos off the thing. I’ve been having fun with the device, and below is a selection of the results. If you want to see a continuous string of this stuff, check in at Faff&Natter on tumblr. I think of this as a little pet-project of Snore & Guzzle, to be managed on a much more micro level than this site.

~Michael R. Neault