Coming up this Saturday (March 29), I’ll be at the Cleveland International Film Festival, and I’ll be talking to the organizers about several films that include pop, rock, soul and other genres of music. I’ll also be talking to my friend, Vince, who’s featured in one of the films.
If you have a music request for this Saturday, you’ll have to queue up early, as Phil Musick used to say. I won’t be able to take any phone calls during the show.
Next Saturday (April 5) is Spring Carnival weekend at Carnegie Mellon University, home of our flagship station, WRCT 88.3 FM. That means the first part of the show will likely be pre-empted on WRCT for coverage of CMU’s sweepstakes races; we’ll start the whole show at the usual time on Tube City Online Radio.
Good Lord willing, my plans are to broadcast the April 5 show from the WRCT studios on the CMU campus (in the basement of the concrete-reinforced and blast-proof Cohon Community Broadcast Bunker), rather than from our giant revolving rooftop ballroom in McKeesport.
So if you’re coming to CMU for the spring carnival, please stop by between 12 and 3 p.m. and meet me, CMU’s oldest living juvenile delinquent. I may even have some kind of crappy trinket to give away.
Also on the April 5 show, we’ll hopefully be talking to folks from Thurber House, the historic home of cartoonist, author and humorist James Thurber in Columbus, Ohio. We’re no relation but considering I stole my DJ name from him 20-plus years ago, I’m a considerable fan. Thurber House is currently suffering from some financial difficulties, so I’ll be asking what the public can do to help.