BeDelaBlock Playlist - June 27, 2011 2pm-4pm

Today's set was great fun. Much appreciation to all those who called in, sending requests.

Gil Scott - The Crutch
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Mena Thelo Enan Andra
Banjo or Freakout - Can't be Mad for Nothing
Radiohead - Karma Police
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Ffunny Ffriends
Panda Bear - The Jetty
Bon Iver - Calgary
Prefuse 73 - The Only Guitar to Die Alone (feat: Adron)
The Strokes - Machu Pichu
1,2,3 - Sacred, But Not that Sacred
Regina Spektor - Whisper / Your Honor
The Decemberists - Eli, the Barrow Boy
Fleet Foxes - Lorelai
Darlings - Spit it Out
Crystal Slits - Through the Floor
Rainbow Arabia - Blind
Starfucker - Medicine
The Luyas - Too Beautiful to Work
My Disco - Closer
Yuck - Get Away
Paris Suit Yourself - Lost my Girl
Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Cheated Hearts
The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires
Senor Coconut - Tour de France
Caribou - Bowls
Green Day - Basket Case
Kings of Leon - Talahina Sky

BeDelaBlock Playlist - June 20, 2011 2pm-4pm

It's a few days late, but better late than never. Here's the playlist from Monday's show. Sue me.

Thao & Mirah - Little Cup
Jookabox - Nice Boy
I'm from Barcelona - Battleships
TV on the Radio - Second Song
Cut Copy - This is All We've Got
Metric - Empty
Boat - King Kong
Sambassadeur - Days
Malachai - Snowflake
Built to Spill - Hindsight
Radio Dept. - Where Damage Isn't Already Done
Tony Castles - Black Girls in Dresses
Royksopp - The Alcoholic
Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say
The Aquabats - Martian Girl
Wild Beasts - Plaything
Gorillaz - Detroit
The Feelies - Should Be Gone
Hunx & His Punx - The Curse of Being Young
Theh Black Keys - Howlin' For You
White Fence - Enthusiasm
Oh Land - Sun of A Gun
Lily Allen - LDN
Juice Aleem - A La Fu Remix
Empire of the Sun - We are the People

BeDelaBlock Playlist - June 13, 2011 2pm-4pm

It took me a while to realize that, as a DJ at WRGP, I should probably be putting up the playlists somewhere online. Here would be nice.

Here We Go Magic - Backwards Time
Movits! - Pa Drift, Norrbotten (ft. Olie Nyman)
Hauschka - Mount Hood
Machine Drum - alarmaaaaa
Tired Pony - Dead American Writers
Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship
Interpol - Rest My Chemistry
Asobi Seksu - Sighs
Senor Coconut - Autobahn
Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
Little Scream - Boatman
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Lajtha Lassu
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
Noir - Sleeping Children are Still Flying
Fugazi - Turnover
Panda Bear - Surfers Hymn
Pepper Rabbit - Older Brother
Malachai - Simple Song
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Girl of 1000 Dreams
Elliott Smith - Pitseleh
Paris Suit Yourself - Rollin' On
PIXIES - Hey
Prefuse 73 - The Only Hand to Hold (feat. Shara Worden)
Tabi Bonney - Nuthin' But a Hero
Junior Boys - Bits & Pieces

King Zuckerberg

Strange thought. Have you ever wanted to create a time machine, travel back to feudal Europe, kidnap a peasant, and bring him back to present day Times Square to watch him freak out?

What a coincidence.

“What sorcery!” he would exclaim, upon looking at the motorized carriages whizzing by only a couple feet away from him; the gigantic moving pictures perched one hundred feet above; the likenesses of scantily clad women suggestively peering down from their thrones of glory.

He’s not used to this – understatement. He’s not even used to regularly seeing books, because in his time they have not yet been made readily available by the printing press. Now he stands among thousands of people with their own pocket printing presses, able to capture discrete moments of time and publish them for the world to see instantly.

His face, or what’s left of it, would be priceless. Tourists would capture it and publish it on Facebook, where they go to socialize and to be entertained. His idea of a night of socializing and entertainment entails going to the local tavern where music and storytelling could be enjoyed – all things that can be done on Facebook.

The both of us are standing on Broadway and 45th. If he still had the wits to speak, and knew how to speak modern English, I would explain to him how his face might soon appear side by side with famous storytellers on this book of faces.

This will soon be possible, for the King of Facebook (Mark Elliot Zuckerberg) has been in talks with Television networks to convince them to allow him to display their content. It is of King Zuckerberg’s opinion that people increasingly define themselves by the media they consume. 

“Listening to music is something that people do with their friends,” Zuckerberg said. “Music, TV, news books — those types of things I think people just naturally do with their friends. I hope we can play a part in enabling those new companies to get built, and companies that are out there producing this great content to become more social.”

Obviously, King Zuckerberg is aware of a recent herald by the marketing consulting firm Ideas & Solutions! claiming that pay-TV is on its way out as more of the new generation, his generation, is turning to newer methods of consuming entertainment.

King Zuckerberg acts as a catalyst of change in the entertainment industry, among others. He will soon bring Two and a Half to the internet masses, and there will be much rejoicing.