Unplugged
Posted in Podcasts on May 16th, 2006
Going without electricity for even a few days convinces Barb and Susie that pop culture simply wouldn’t exist without it. Cut off from communications and media, the connections that tie us together, there simply wouldn’t be any trends, since we wouldn’t know what anyone else was doing in a timely manner. Candlelight, anagrams, reading, and going to bed early were the order of the day. Romantic? Not so much.
Music: There Is No Electricity by Memory Boy from the compilation album Disco Nouveau
Old Comments says:
I actually discovered podcasts due to power outages!
For some reason the morons that run the electricity supply in my city
are surprised each and every year when the temperature hits 40 degrees and above (104 degrees and above in your language). Despite
the fact we have many days of this temperature each summer as soon as it happens and more than 3 residents of the city turn on their air- conditioning the power supply goes out for anything up to 24 hours.
During the 04/05 summer I decided I’d had enough of reading via candle-light (the candles often melt in the heat anyway) and playing board games (who can be bothered when you’re sweating so hard the board pieces fall out of your hands). Being too cheap to buy audio books for the iPod I was given as a birthday present I went online
and discovered podcasts.
Now in summer I keep the iPod and lithium powered speakers all charged up and make sure to download a few new podcasts each day. Then as soon as the power goes out we hip play, sit in the dark with
the last of our melting ice and listen to pop goes the culture and all the other good shows.
Bernadette • 5/22/06; 5:07:31 AM #
December 21st, 2006 at 4:26 pm