a list of works in progress

1. biographies of hosts and guests (warning: these may be factually inaccurate)
2. an episode guide
3. works of fiction (that aren't biographies)
3.14 an art collective

more to come

Kevin Brown's Guide to Avoiding Injury

Subtitle: Fun half-naked diagrams to exercise to this summer!

An Explanation of Infrequency

Good morning all!  We apologize for the infrequency of our podcast so far - there have been a few hiccups along the way.  First of all, while I was pleased with the overall content of our first podcast, as I mentioned upon posting the audio, I wasn't entirely pleased with the actual audio quality, specifically the volume levels of the recording.

Regardless, Shannon and I were all geared up for recording a second podcast this past weekend, seeing as our goal was to post at least one podcast per week.  However, we encountered a couple issues.  First of all, we weren't exactly sure what we should be talking about - should each show have a theme?  Should we simply talk about our day and hope something interesting comes of it?  Should it be entirely or moderately scripted or pre-rehearsed, if at all?  We were discussing these things for a while as we were sitting down, and when we came to a common understanding and wanted to test the mics for functionality, we realized that my mic was working and Shannon's mic was not.  This was a problem, and I immediately realized that this was issue that caused the volume problems of our first recording.

You see, Macs come with this great software to record audio called Garage Band, which is a really awesome venue to create a podcast, if you so choose.  However, there is this one hangup such that traditionally, you can only record audio through a single USB microphone - any other additional microphones plugged into a different USB port will fail to pick up audio.  There exists a roundabout way to solve this dilemma if you would like to record audio from two distinct mics (as we are), and I thought I succeeded at following through with this method, but I realized that I failed to complete the last step of the process, thus no microphone for Shannon in our first podcast, and thus low volume levels for Shannon.  The good news is that I have now gotten the kinks out of our audio problems, and the next step is to actually figure out what kind of content we want to include in our podcast.

So, with that being said, we plan to have a new show recorded and up on this site within the coming week.  But in the meantime, to keep our (abundance of) listeners satiated, I found a really old video of what must be one of my great-grandfathers or something.  It must have been recorded in the '20s or something seeing as its really grainy.  If you look really closely, though, I feel like there is some significant resemblance between the subject on the video and myself.  Here, have a look for yourself!

Introductions, authenticity, music, and more!

Welcome to our podcast/blog!  Above, you'll find the first episode that we recorded last night.  In it, we introduce ourselves and our motives behind broadcasting within this kind of medium, we take part in a short discussion of the desire and search for authenticity, and we share with you a few songs we quite enjoy lately.  Take note that this is our first episode, and as we made mention in the recording, we are still experimenting with the medium, seeing what works and what we can improve upon.  In this episode in particular, forgive some of the sound issues - particularly instances where I'm slightly distorted and where Shannon might be a little too soft.  Regardless, please listen and let us know what you think with a comment below.  If you really like what you hear, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of our podcast.  Enjoy!

Masterfully Masterfade

Here is Andrew Bird's "Masterfade", but with a special twist. The twist comes close to the 1:30 mark in the song. Enjoy.