November, 2007

North American Farewell Tour - Episode 2: The VLA

In the second episode of the NAFT, me and Gabe head down to New Mexico and visit the Very Large Array, a
radio telescope in the desert.

NAFT Episode 2: The VLA from dustrotter on Vimeo.

Listen to this weeks (11/28/07) Royal Radio now!

I got a recording of my show from this past week, you can listen to a stream of it here.
I'm on the air Mondays at 6pm HST (8pm PST) you can listen at uhhradio.com

I know everyone can't tune in all the time, so I'll try and periodically post an mp3 so you can hear what you're missing.

Royal Radio (11/28/07)

Fighting Nature: Part 2 (The Revenge)

Click here for Part 1

A few nights after my first run-in with the centipede I was sitting on the sofa in the living room when I saw something slithering across the floor. Lo and behold! It was the same chap who had stung me in my own bed a few nights earlier. This proved 2 things: first, I was right about that other centipede not looking right and being much smaller than I remember and second, apparently centipedes are fairly common. At least in my bedroom. We have a can of Raid but I forgot about it, so I used a drink coaster.

Happy Thanksgiving!

So I waited until the last minute to buy a turkey and it was frozen, so
instead I made chicken. Other than that Thanksgiving was kinda quiet, I
cooked (and did a pretty darn good job) and me and Ian watched Batman
Begins.



Note the antibiotics.

Know what I've been doing the past few days? Fighting Nature. (Part 1)

A few nights ago I was asleep in bed, minding my own business, when I felt a small, sharp pain in my left arm; I was half a sleep and scratched at it, thinking a pebble or something was poking me. The pain persisted and I felt another sharp pain in my shoulder. At this point I was fully awake and went to the bathroom to investigate what was scratching my arm. I looked in the mirror and saw no cuts or blood, I figured maybe there were glass shards in my bed. Going back to the bedroom, I pulled the covers back and started to sweep off any debris that might be on the sheets, when I lifted the pillow up, I saw it....

A centipede. A centipede had crawled
into my room, onto my bed, and stung me once on arm and once on my
shoulder; my shoulder is near my head, a centipede was near my head while I was sleeping. Thats when I started jumping up and down and yelling. I ran out into the
living room, started turning on the lights and woke up Ian. My arm
started feeling progressively worse, the stinging sensation grew more
intense, Ian grabbed a can of Raid from the garage and we went into my
room to kill this thing. When I initially saw him he ran over the edge
of the bed between the mattress and the wall so I started pulling off
all the covers and mattresses looking for this guy. Thats when we saw
this:


(Note the dime for scale)

When
I saw it I was a bit disappointed; "That!?", I was hoping he would be a
foot long with steel fangs and we could do battle and I would slay him.
Maybe it was still the haze of sleep and being instantly jacked up on
adrenaline that caused me to exaggerate what I saw. I could have sworn

First Night On

My first day on the air went great! Thank you for everyone who tuned in, the text messages, IM's and emails were a lot to juggle with playing CD's MP3's, PSA's, station ID's and all the other stuff but I had a blast and thank you all so much for listening and offering encouragement.


The Program Director said I did a good job as did many of you, the music was good, I really can't say enough about how much fun I had.

North American Farewell Tour - Episode 1: Royal Gorge

Me and Gabe drive over a thousand miles in 36 hours. In this part of the trip we saw the Rocky Mountains, the Royal Gorge and more....

NAFT Episode 1: Royal Gorge from dustrotter on Vimeo.

Royal Radio

So I've been in Hawaii for a month and a half and I got a radio show. (!) Pretty neat huh?

The show is Mondays 6pm - 8pm Hawaiian. (8pm - 10pm Pacific) and it starts today (November 5th) I'll be playing a lot of indie rock from the UK and other places abroad and sometimes I'll cheat and play something domestic or classical or whatever I feel like. You can listen to the show @ www.uhhradio.com

Listen to Royal Radio.