How To Make Your Own Pirate Radio Station! Short Video...

I just stumbled across this quick video from the good pirates over at Free Radio Berkeley and even though it's dry it's a decent introduction to the basics of low-power FM broadcasting. The beginning is fairly technical as he explains how the actual circuitry of the transmitter works but then he quickly shows you how simply and easily you can set up and start rocking out! Humboldt Free Radio Alliance works primarily the same way though we have an amplifier to boost our signal to about 55-60 watts and those are easy enough to purchase over the web for under $100. So go out and take back the airwaves people!

How To Make a Radio Station from Seth Gadsden on Vimeo.

Recent Talk By Noam Chomsky!

New Episode Of SANDWICHES TIME! Finally PodCasting!

Its been far far to long since my last podcast, therefore i am super excited to have Episode 4 of my Pirate Radio broadcast SANDWICHES TIME! up on line at long last! Sorry for the delay and a huge thanks to our resident red rasta wizard who came through in the clutch with the technology blast! that allowed me to record my show once again. Check out the link on the sidebar to my podomatic page and remember dear reader/listener, a time when finalfantasy VII ruled the world and enjoy this random hiphop/thrash barrage of a show!

Ani Kuri 1 minute shorts are pretty damn sweet!

I just recently found out that the 1 minute short i posted a while back titled Ohayou (good morning) was just one of 15 or so minute long shorts that were aired between programs and were overseen by some of the most acclaimed directors in Anime, hence the name Ani Kuri which is a short on the Japanese pronounciation of anime creator. Some are really great and others just so=so, but i only wish we had filler programing of this quality over here in the U.S.! here is Episode #11 and i dedicate it to little JetGirl. ill post some other quality ones as i find them...

Great Northern Comic Reviews! BLACK SUMMER/ DOOM PATROL/ WATERLOO SUNSET

Yes yes time for another quick comic review as I have spent the last weekend nestled in the dry craggy nooks of the Sisikyou County mountains relaxing with friends in their converted bus doing absolutely nothing but eating and reading sweet comics! Thanks again Joe for the new books! Lets start with BLACK SUMMER, a single 8 issue trade that came out in 2005 done yet again by Warren Ellis. Can't help but like how the book starts off, with a masked superhero, once part of an elite citizen defense team, now turned anti-government vigilante, walking into the White House press room drenched in gore calmly stating that he has just killed the President and his cabinet for their numerous atrocities, and demands that we citizens hold free elections to start anew. Super amazing and ultra detailed art by Juan Jose Ryp in the vein of Geoff Darrow. As with a lot of the single books that Ellis puts out, I only wish that this series would have gone on longer. As with OCEAN and ORBITER I felt that those stories and histories could have been stretched over many many issues. They just seem to go so gosh darn quick! But then I must keep in mind that I am furiously reading this thing all at once and not waiting month to month for each issue to come out...

Next Up: DOOM PATROL by Grant Morrison. Written in 1989, classic 60's super heroes are revamped by Morrison into a completely new and surreal take on the genre. This is most definitely a predecessor to THE INVISIBLES as again we are dealing with a group of anti heroes who defy all our social and political expectations, they are all outcasts, all handicapped in some way and are dealing with very unconventional situations. Very Grant Morrison like themes of Meta fiction and dreams/reality. Super. Awesome. I don't know why it has taken me so long to read this thing. Cant wait to get my hands on the next trade...

I am also in the process of reading WATERLOO SUNSET by Andrew Stephenson. Thanks again joe! Just a little way into this thing and it is warming up to me. It has the atmosphere of WASTELAND, a comic I am not particularly fond of. And here again we have another mysterious be-goggled "hunter" who wanders the post-apocalyptic landscape, but this seems to be going in a direction that's keeping me interested....we shall see...

Thought I would repost this beautiful animated short by one of my favorite Japanese animators, Satoshi Kon (PAPRIKA, PERFECT BLUE, PARANOIA AGENT). It is very simple and illustrates the lighting and the mood that makes me love Kon's animation. I stumbled across this 1 min. short on Paul Duffield's blog (Artist for FREAKANGELS) which is a very interesting read in itself. Thanks Paul!

DN! Interview With Author/Activist Tariq Ali On England's Political Mess:

Here is a quick clip from today's episode of Democracy Now! featuring an informative interview with British author/activist Tariq Ali. If you are at all interested in the current bizarre political crisis unfolding in the UK, check this interview out. Its brief but Ali does a decent job of breaking down the UK political parties and laying out the situation in a fairly simple way for someone unfamiliar with the British political scene. Watch closely because England's political descisions are directly intertwined with those of our own country concerning the continuing war in Afghanistan and according to Ali, it doesn't look like things are going to change.