Radar Eyes: State your name and purpose...
Brian Turner: Brian Turner, WFMU Music Director, Jersey City
RE: What are you wearing?
BT: A Sir Mix-A-Lot promotional construction hardhat and my Rusted Shut black tee.
RE:Rubber dress or leather dress?
BT: Michelin man tire suit.
RE: No panties please!!!! So what's going on with the station right now?
BT: Wow, well, we are raising funds to keep going another year. It's the 2010 Marathon. Two weeks, ending March 14. completely nonprofit here. No underwriting, money tied to the man with strings attached.
RE: We do this every year, and it's what keeps us going.
BT: It's a crazy two weeks. Lots of tag-team DJs, prizes, we have a ton of swag. KISS' manager just pulled up this morning and brought a big box of coffee table books and signed stuff... In fact, he loves the station!
RE: Yes!
BT:
These are the individual premiums DJs have made for their show to bring in interest, nice stuff. we have killer tees, Jad Fair shot glasses, a trip to Primavera in Barcelona etc. My personal premium is a collection of extreme heavy jams called
Los Atascos Son Pesados Vol. 2.
RE: Amazing! Have you heard from any of your international listeners?
BT: Its very easy to support this station, there's really a unified kind of thought about making radio art as disparate and unique as possible while blurring the lines all together. Kinda the anti-separatist mentality of satellite, etc. Yep, we have. Tom Scharpling's Best Show was getting tons of Australian calls this week. We have em all over though, UK, Asia, Europe, Australia, Japan, Canada, South America. All of the info up at
wfmu.org.
RE: Excellent! So after all of this madness you guys are going to set up shop at SXSW, right?
BT: Yep. March 19 at Encore with Aquarius.
WFMU curated:
Pierced Arrows
Liturgy
Sonny & the Sunsets
Dengue Fever
Drunkdriver
Home Blitz
Moon Duo
From Aquarius:
True Widow
Shit & Shine
Todd
Epileptinomicon
Headdress
Iron Man
Speedwolf
BT: No Sir Mix-a-Lot...
RE: Ha! Or Rusted Shut...
BT: Where are you guys playing?
RE: With Acid Mothers Temple somewhere officially on Friday night... and a couple of others - if we make it...
BT: We had hoped to get Buffy Ste Marie in which case we would have HAD to segue to Rusted Shut next... An official SXSW Rusted Shut show! That's why the earth shifted on its axis!
RE: I hope it shifts a drum set our way...
BT: That guy from Leno's show quit, you should try to recruit him.
RE: Nah, he sucks.
BT: True.
RE: Just kidding... So are you guys going to broadcast your showcase?
BT: We are....for the most part. Starting 7 p.m. central til 2 a.m. We have a lot of fun. Totally looking forward to it.
RE: Hopefully there won;t be any F-bombs... or brainbombs for that matter - do you bring a beeper? You're broadcasting live, no?
BT: Haha its been a problem. But we have board ops with the delay/kill button.
RE: Ha! I should've known!
BT: Why, were you planning on crashing and doing your Dice Clay routine?
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