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Tour Bible Part 1 Episode Transcript. Length - 41:16 
Magnetofunky No. 190. It's Friday, August 27th, 2021. [intro theme] Yeah. Larry here. The month since the last episode has been a stretch of rabid dog days indeed, as I got a little sculpture work done and slowly moved on with the bike trailer cargo frame, all while I waited an extra two weeks for new music to come in before deciding to just curate some tunes currently burning up the charts at Australia's Triple J Unearthed. Nice spread... [song] - 01:12 Ok, that was Smashmouth - 1300, a Hip Hop outfit in Sydney, whose bio is straight up - WE JUST WANNA PARTY. The song was Uploaded 11 Aug 21... This is a laid back (and often explicit - you bet your ass) underground international personal journal of extremely eclectic music and progressive politics, with a focus on mobile energy independence and creative West Coast wanderlust. My podpage is 1223studios.com/mfunky.h. The Twitter is @Magnetofunky. [Grid Theory] - 05:15 Tour Bible Baby Steps In Grid Theory, Which is more bike touring theory, in between working on the sculpture for submitting to the art auction (ain't heard back for the past two weeks, maybe it's not black enough for 'em), I started working on another Pre Launch project - a customized tour bible to supplement whatever maps and smartphone apps I'll use to navigate my walkabout. Back in April I mentioned the travel phone app, Avenza Maps, that supports an offline state benchmark map that shows public and private land, nat'l park and BLM boundaries. That's a starter for stealth camping and possible boondocking, but I also want to add other resources, like which free or dispersed campsites have good or lousy ratings using 'Green Book' standards, if possible. I might need to sign up with Outdoor Afro for that kind of info. Is there a site every 30 or 40 mi. to stealth camp? Some state or federal park campsites are once per season use and not open year round, some are in active or contained fire zones and won't be available until they recover. That info will need to be monitored and updated. Another specific resource would be a list of bike shops along the coast. I haven't found one online yet, so I'm slowly following the Pacific Coast Bike Trail with Google Maps. Anyway, the first part is printing out the brochures of state parks along the coast with Hike or bike campsites, with maps showing where the camps are. Turns out there are differences in each park, but most of these spots are primitive, no facilities (hey, just give me a water supply). The crucial thing here is a phone number to secure a spot before arrival and see what the nightly fee is - is it still $5 or $10?----[bell] Ok, back to the cargo frame in a bit... [Back To The Stage] - 08:07 Ok, Back to The Stage, continuing the set of tunes from the TripleJ Unearthed charts. First up we have UBER (feat.M7) - Drowzee, Hip Hop crew from Perth, Uploaded to Tripple J on 29 Jul 21. No bio, nice piece... [song] - 08:32 Next up it's 50km - RATSALAD., a Hip Hop, Metal, Punk, Rock band in Mid West And Wheatbelt, WA, AKA Three mates jammin' in a kitchen in Gero. This number Uploaded 05 Aug 21... [song] - 11:16 Ok, next piece is somewhat not worksafe, so just skip the next 3 1/2 min. if you need to... R0LL1N' H1LLZ - Shady Nasty, Punk outfit from Sydney. No bio, nice groove. Song Uploaded 19 Aug 21... [song] - 15:17 Ok, wrapping the set with a piece for dancing - PEGS - Tonix, a Dance, Electronic, Hip Hop, Indie, Pop group from Adelaide, SA. Having started in only January of this year, Tonix differ themselves in their heavy use of improvisation from both the saxophone and synthesiser. This tune was Uploaded 01 Aug 21... [song] - 19:09 ["Geeknotes"] - 23:08 Geeknotes: Rabid Dog Days... Hey, Geeknotes! Well, this past month has been the rabid dog days of continued strife, of violent anti-naskers, the ongoing west coast fire season sending smoke to mingle with east coast hurricanes, the roving bands of domestic terrorists that police ignore while hunting for antifa, but the current media focus has shifted from CRT to the rapid collapse of Afghanistan's government as Pres. Biden withdraws from the occupation. Apparently it's all his fault if you only listen to all the former generals and right wing hacks who made money off the BS 'war on terror'. Sorry, there's a long line of assholes blame, starting with Dick Cheney and his sidekick Dubya, who turned the response to 9/11 into a welfare program for the miitary-industrial complex, who knew damn well in 2001 that if you really wanted to fix the terrorist problem, the two countries to invade were (and still are) Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. They're still good business partners so don't hold your breath. Meanwhile, the BS Calif. recall election is nigh, the caper designed to waste millions of dollars, generate more stress, and threaten chaos for the next 15 months. I don't care which rabid right winger gets in if enough Democrats here don't get off their dead asses and return their ballots, you can count on a spike in COVID deaths, a wave of Proud Boy/police terror, and voter suppression attempts. At the very least will get a couple months of 'stolen election' noise if the recall goes down in flames. For my part, I'm not working a polling place this time, because this shouldn't even be a thing - the state party has had almost 20 years to fix the fractured recall rules that can allow, say a 49% NO vote be eclipsed by a 20% (or less) vote for any of these scubags that could never win a fair election. But this give weight to the argument that if some people are cool with that kind of minority, they shouldn't have a problem with a multiparty system. The other reason I'm frankly kinda burned out on politics is my frustration with the status quo corporate Democrats here and in DC, and my suspicion that many of them wouldn't really lose any sleep if the GQP managed to steal back Congress and the White House. Face it, a lot of comfortable establishment types got no problem living in a Nazi Regime... Anyway... If you like, or hate the show, go to ratethispodcast.com/mfunky. And, if you have non-Zoom promos, pluggers, gig info, an art opening, etc, send me an email. The address is [email protected]. And bands, artists and poets - download links, no attachments, please, and no promises... [Grid Practice] - 27:24 Outside The Frame Ok, In Grid Practice, Which should be touring practice... Last episode I started on tweaking the cargo frame to make it secure but also removable as a unit... There's a vast array of fittings and connectors available for the metal components, and thanks to places like the McMaster-Carr hardware and tool website, I built and tore down quite a few mind's eye models to get from fussy to simple design. So far: I went from trying to clamp the frame to the cart in favor of just cargo strapping the bottom shelf down and using cap nuts as simple feet... The three 18 x 24" shelves will have regular holes for the support rods (1 1/2" in and down from each corner) instead of the fancy beam hanger clips I was looking at to avoid drilling... The bottom shelf will have small shallow notches cut to fit the base of the side rails, roughly half an inch wide... For the middle shelf, 1 1/2 - 2" diameter hose clamps can hold the frame to the side rails. The gap between the rails is 17 7/8", so a narrow hole 3/4" in should work for a non load bearing anchor point. The notches and anchor holes I'll mark on the actual board, not the mockup... For the top rail I imagined 90 degree elbow fittings and two more 24" rods, but I measured the actual length of the tie points on the folding solar panel, and it came to about 32", which means 36" rods for the panel to sit on, and corner brackets and eye nuts to finish. After the first of the month I got the top rails, 8 cap nuts made of nickel (which will react with galvanized washers unless I keep 'em dry). I tried one-hole brackets, but two-holes are better. What's left are the 4 eye nuts which will definitely be bought online - let's see if I can avoid Amazon... So, that's 95% of the metal fittings; now I can see about the shelves... [One More Tune] - 30:28 Ok, for this week's One More Tune, we close out with one of the only numbers submitted that wasn't ambiguous as to being available for free MP3 play - a little Something for hardcore UK ravers, I'm Too Sexy Two - Horton Jupiter, a London-based wild style DJ and dancefloor trip engineer. This is dropped from the Brand new rave e.p. ALL NIGHT WRONG, including remixes of Lionel Richie, some Turkish acid, and Right Sed Fred among other techno goodies. Tis number released August 6 on Bandcamp. Enjoy... [song] - 31:15 Nice... The music bed this time is the other submitted tune - Winter Tide, Part 1 by the recently featured Norwegian ambient / electronic artist Erik Wøllo by Renowned Erik Wøllo [whirrlo], all-new electronic music composed for his concert at SoundQuest Fest 2021 (a 3-day online festival). Wøllo’s one-hour continuous live set is presented as a suite in 8 parts, released July 20 on Projekt Records... Well, OK. [Closing] - 38:55 Hey, this show is a 1223studios joint. I'm on almost all the popular podcast platforms, the latest being Apple Podcast Connect. You can also say "Alexa, ask AnyPod to play Magnetofunky". Show notes are on the podpage. Send email to [email protected]. If you like the show, tell your friends, and: VP Kamala Harris is currently in Vietnam while swinging through SE Asia beating the China drum as we crank up the next cold war, but while the West keeps framing China as the Communist menace, they keep hoping no one notices China's viewpoint. The wild hair up every Chinese leader's butt, from Mao up to Xi Jinping, has been their forced introduction to capitalism by way of the Opium Wars. It's partly why China is so active in Europe's former colonial playground, the African continent, why China is so hardass toward Hong Kong, and why they someday will invade Taiwan, but that's a whole other shitshow. Anyway, lazily referring to China as simply 'Red' is the same old myopic approach that all empires embrace when they start to decline. But that's history... Show themes "Rocket Power" & "Spy Glass" by NY musician and composer Kevin MacLeod. Some additional audio from freesound.org. Next episode is set for after the recall debacle which will be a friggin mess however it breaks... I'm Larry, trying hard to stay chill at my garrett in the Mission, and this is Magnetofunky, from San Francisco, where we are still slogging through, but no longer into, the darkness. |
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