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Archives for October 2007

The Daily Loper – October 31, 2007

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Don’t Believe The Things That You See On TV Edition

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The Daily Loper – October 30, 2007

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Radio Nowhere Edition

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Happy 25th Anniversary to KFSR

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Jim at KFSR in 1985I’d like to wish a happy 25th Birthday to KFSR, 90.7 FM, the radio station at California State University, Fresno.

I know that if you check their website, it claims that they went on the air in the evening of October 31, 1982, but that’s dead wrong.

I can totally see how the mistake happened: in the early days, it always made total sense to combine the anniversaries with Halloween parties, and over the years, it just became accepted that the station was born on Halloween.

But it wasn’t: KFSR went on the air at noon on Saturday, October 30, 1982. I should know, I was there, having been looking forward to it since I got involved with the station in early 1981. And a quarter-century later, here’s what I remember for sure:

  • It had been raining really hard.
  • The first song played was Ramones “We Want The Airwaves.”
  • Nothing was ever the same.

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The Daily Loper – October 29, 2007

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Ain’t No Sin To Be Glad You’re Alive Edition

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Your Helpful Pre-Writers Strike Primer

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Unless a miracle happened over the weekend and I missed it, there’s a good chance that the writers in Hollywood are going to strike. As you know, the major issue on the table between the producers (the major studios and networks) and the writers relates to residuals for new media. One side says there’s no way to predict the future; the other side says “Remember the DVD!”

As a rallying cry, that’s not so bad.

New media is one of those fuzzy concepts — on the surface, it means any means of distribution not considered “traditional”, i.e, television or video. More specifically, it means distribution to your mobile phone or home computer. But it breaks down even further, and it’s helpful to understand the different models currently being contemplated. Once you understand those, you’ll see that “new media” isn’t so much a revolution as it is a way to expand the current distribution process.

For the sake of ease, I’m going to correlate the “new” to the standard terms used by the industry. Like I said, the basics aren’t all that different.
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The Daily Loper – October 26, 2007

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“Kirk is Dwight!” Edition

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  • Schilling puts Red Sox in position
    I guess we answered the question of whom God roots for. Schilling. Always Schilling. Hate hate hate HATE him, of course, but Jesus Fucking Christ does he get it up for the post-season!
  • Stunner! Britney’s new CD is good
    While we’ve never been close to her target audience, we are not immune to the super-pop charms of her earliest singles. Still, we’ve never bothered with Brit-Brit for the length of a full album — Three Dog Night made a buttload of great singles too, but no need to ever hear a full-length from them, either — but it would be ironic if this album actually did well on a commercial and critical level. She would hardly be the first artist to score professionally whilst her personal life was crumbling all around her. Even if by "artist," we mean "complete creation of evil Eurotrash studio wizards."
  • Facing Stiff Competition, ‘Guitar Hero III’ Cranks Gameplay to 11
    deedlely deedely deedlely deedely deedlely deedely whoawwww rarrragng ka-chung ka-chung ka-chung deedlely eeerrrrrahhhhhhhhaoooooohhhhh deedlely deedely wahhhhhhhhhhh

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The Daily Loper – October 25, 2007

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The Terrorists Appear to Have Complete Control of Our Imaginations Edition

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The Daily Loper – October 24, 2007

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It’s Not a Spaceship, It’s a Time Machine Edition

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To CD or Not to CD

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With all of the talk about the death of the music industry, I thought it might be interesting to post another installment of “Medialoper Classic,” our series where we resurrect some of our older writings that might provide perspective on subjects we are currently discussing. This one is about how I made the decision to switch from vinyl to CDs.

It was originally published in CSUF’s Daily Collegian on February 3, 1989

I guess that it all started last summer when I spent almost a month trying to get The Primitives on album. I wandered in Tower Records, a place that I have literally haunted for over ten years, and was shocked and dismayed to discover that they only had it on Compact Disc. As a matter of fact they only had everything on Compact Disc. There was barely a record to be found. And suddenly I woke up. I realize that I’ve spent the last couple (OK, several) years in a drunken haze, and that even sober I not exactly cognizant with the real world, but it has just recently struck me hard in the fact that my most favorite vehicle of recorded music — the 12-inch 33 RPM polyvinylchloride long-playing phonograph record — is fast becoming as obselete as the 8-Track tape, bell-bottom jeans, or the Democratic Party. But why, dammit? Why are records dying??

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The Daily Loper – October 23, 2007

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Fired Up Edition

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