2 posts tagged “this american life”
The piece I worked so hard on before Christmas finally made it onto Chicago Public Radio.
The one place I'd hoped it would end up...
It was a little like the scene in "That Thing You Do" when the guys hear their song on the radio for the first time.
Exciting, but impossible to stop listening.
My most sincere thanks go out to my Aunt & Uncle for letting me invade their lives for a couple months.
Listen to the final piece that aired on Chicago Public Radio...
http://chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=16608
P.S. - when I played the piece for my family, the 2 seconds from when the piece ended to when they began crying was the hardest 2 seconds I've ever had to swallow in my entire life.
It's amazing what a great story will do...
It's Official...
I will be spending 2 months of my summer as a "Radio Specialist".
Camp Chi as it's called will be my home for this time period. Located in central Wisconsin, the summer camp has been a learning place for 9-16 years old boys and girls for over 80 years. It is a Jewish camp that offers its campers everything from sailing...to fine arts...to tennis...and radio.
It will be a learning experience for both the campers and myself. I hope to show them radio can still have some sex appeal. Not the Maxim, Stuff, and FHM magazine type sex appeal...but sizzle. Radio used to be mentally arousing. I like to think/hope that it still can be.
Thank the gods for NPR!
The campers will do everything (hopefully...if they find it interesting) from playing DJ...to field interviews...and some WILD radio theater. Summer camp is a time that creates unforgettable friendships and fantastic memories. I hope to tap directly into this summer camp life-blood. I hope I can give these campers the most random, weird, and amazing summer experience they've ever know.
*check out this episode of "This American Life"...it's all about the magic of summer camp.
http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=109
