Yes, I am. A little elf.
Toiling away. Working while you sleep. Making your shoes.
Ok, not shoes. That’s an allegory. I just remember a story about a tinker who fell asleep, and when he woke up, the shoes he’d been making were finished.
Or maybe that was Nike, and maybe the elves were Malaysian children.
In any event, I’m not Malaysian. But I have been working very hard on this site, even though you haven’t seen me.
I’ve been trying to restore the archived shows, and it’s stupidly complicated and labor intensive. Everything has to be re-sampled, re-coded, re-labeled and uploaded all over again. Hours are missing, files are mislabeled, and there’s a weird quirk in the WordPress program that results in some mp3s being played back at double-speed, but you never know which ones until you actually upload them and try to play them. So of course those have to be re-re-sampled and re-re-coded and re-re-labeled and blah bah blah.
I know, it’s boring. And if it’s this dull to read about, imagine how soul killing it is to actually be doing it.
So today marks two weeks of work. Two weeks of working on pretty much just the archives, stopping only to gain three pounds eating candy.
And at the end of two weeks, I’ve got about 40 shows archived. Out of a few hundred. So we have that going for us.
But all is not lost!
Because now I have a team. Team Archive. Three warriors - athletes, really - doing what they have to do to bring this fucker home.
There’s longtime ex-listener and frequent speedballer Roger, uploading years worth of missing shows to my server. There’s Red Sox devotee and fellow Keurig abuser Gina, converting hundreds of Windows Media files from 2003 and 2004. And now there’s the big pile of handsome himself, the delicious John Foley, working to unlock the Hardy Boys Mystery of the Double-Speed MP3s.
And me? I just popped a a Darvocet.
9 responses so far ↓
1 esmeralda // Sep 8, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Glad to have you back on board, sounds like you have had your hands full of audio equipment and computers. I appreciate all the work you do, my son worked his way through college filming and computer editing school dance shows from 3 cameras, hang in there……..
2 Dylan // Sep 8, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Godspeed, you warriors of hilarity. GODSPEED.
3 pal Jacky // Sep 8, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I’ve got a complaint. Everywhere I look there’s Jerry Lewis dropping the other ‘f-word’ and not a single comment on his mental state during the incident. He was worse during his fat head years, but they didn’t let him linger on camera. Have people gotten so jaded with reality television that this sort of mental breakdown goes un-noticed? Or perhaps they are pulling a Don Imus and didn’t even bother to check out the context(Imus was quoting the spike lee ‘joint’ ’schooldaze’). Lewis was going in and out of these bizarre episodes that somhow seemed like he was trying to do a skit, but they didn’t go anywhere or mena anything. Of course, he built a carreer out of such nonsense, but the ones this time were just creepy.
4 April // Sep 8, 2007 at 8:24 pm
pal Jacky, the Jerry Lewis thing has been gnawing at me for a few days now, sort of like the thing that Ricardo Montalban put in Chekov’s ear in Wrath of Kahn.
I’m going to post a short blog about it, and maybe we can all start a thread. I’m interested to hear what other people are thinking.
5 John Foley // Sep 8, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Ceti Dust Worm!
6 larval-tweezer // Sep 8, 2007 at 10:29 pm
ahhhhhh, those young tele-thoners can be found between the plates of the jointed carapace!
7 Silent 3 // Sep 9, 2007 at 7:31 am
April, thanks for slogging through the past and making your past shows available. I just discovered your site, courtesy of a friend who KNEW I needed an MP3 of the Muppet Show in Hebrew.
If you need further candy supplements to fuel your continued work, I recommend Peanut Chews (formerly made by Goldenberg’s in Philly, now made by the Just Born company - the people who bring you Peeps).
8 pal Jacky // Sep 9, 2007 at 2:44 pm
April,
I have an answert to a question you had about German covers of English language songs. There was so much propaganda during the second world war, that German pop culture was hated by much of the people when the third Reich fell. This caused American pop culture brought by the US military to replace that of Germany’s. The covers were popular about the time the post war babies who grew up on english lyrics were at the age of buying music themselves.
9 jim // Sep 10, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I smell your pain.
Mere text cannot now convey just HOW grateful I am that you didn’t take me up on my regrettable lapse into humanity w/ that offer of MP3-converting. Also, I’m worthy to be voted off the sacred soil of Coder-Island, due to my cyber-tard status. Not saying you’d get hours of Sapphic Erotica clips instead or anything, buuuuuuut.
Jerry Lewis is now actually FAR creepier than Jerry Lee Lewis … & that guy was shagging his 13-year-old cousin - when he wasn’t busy being busted on Elvis Presley’s lawn in the dead of night w/ a loaded gun. Or destroying pianos.
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