There is a LOT more to be said about what this means for public radio, and specifically Wisconsin Public Radio, but that's for another day. Today I'm choosing the be grateful that the staff found an institutional partner to house their archives:

americanarchive.org/special_coll...

Also made a new playlist of vibey, moody songs for early fall...

open.spotify.com/playlist/3k9...

In other words, it’s fine! It’s just fine! But it’s not a radical reimagining of the cultural life of the east side or whatever. I’m a Tone lover, this just felt like it was doing a lot of promotional work for a pretty small idea.

Yeahhhhh, but I think Tone and Madisonians can and should hold our cultural orgs and promotors to a higher standard than this. “Silent films with a live music element” is a remarkably unoriginal idea. And the fact that it’s free isn’t, like, a public service—it’s to entice people to come to a bar.

So, if I am reading this correctly, dude booked like 3 of the most well-known and screened films of the silent era, and…he has never seen them?! He “picked a few that sounded cool…” 🤦‍♂️

For all of its shortcomings, I think it is the best at seamlessly connecting local / downloaded files with streaming ones. I chuck all of my Bandcamp puchases in via the desktop app and then they sync to the cloud and end up on my phone.

Don't lose hope! I actually think Apple Music is pretty great. This happens to me from time to time; I think it's just years of old authorizations piling up. Just de-authorize all of them, and then authorize the machines you still use.

Also, congrats to Anelise on that PR!

Yes! Totally worth it. It’s my favorite EQ, but I have also worked with mixers and engineers much better than me, they always seem to have it in their signal chain as well. Feels like it’s close to an industry standard at this point.

So, just so I'm totally clear — Claire Rousay will be in the Cinematheque performing the score of THE BLOODY LADY?!?!

Whoa, cool! But I’m getting an error on Apple Music, just FYI.