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Playlist: O'Dark 30 episode 114 (3-10)

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KUT's O’Dark 30 heads out of the winter doldrums with more of the very best from the world of independent radio production this week. Every Sunday at midnight on Austin's KUT 90.5 and also at 4pm on digital KUT2 we present 3 hours of a little bit of everything from the world of independent radio production.

Episode 114 (3-10) includes Pride of the Lady Cubs...Do You Want It by Brentton Harrison of Fusion Youth Radio...The Tobolowsky Files - Memories of Groundhog Day...The Sonic Environment...Car Tunes...Dance That Brings The Dead To The Living

Pride of the Lady Cubs

From Eric Winick | 18:08

With his comedy career stalled, 30 year-old Scott Schultz enrolls as a Freshman at down-and-out L.A. City College, and is named Sports Editor of the school paper by default. Then the college's legendary basketball coach, Mike Miller, enlists Scott's aid in assembling LACC's first women's basketball team -- an experience that changes Scott's life.

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Scott Schultz
 has been a comedian, journalist, photographer and editor for various newspapers, blogs and magazines, covering sports, music and science.  He has been a regular contributor for LA Record, since 2008, and his work has appeared in L.A. Weekly, L.A. Times and Maxim En Espanol among others. As a comedian he has performed at clubs and colleges across the country. Having grown up in Marblehead, MA and moved to Southern California via Greyhound bus when he was 18-years old, Scott graduated from UCLA.  He currently lives in the seaside town of Winthrop, MA and participates in storytelling and readings throughout Cambridge, MA.  His favorite basketball movie is Hoop Dreams, and his all-time favorite basketball coach is John Wooden.

View photos of the 1998-99 Lady Cubs with Coaches Miller and Schultz here.

Do You Want It by Brentton Harrison of Fusion Youth Radio

From YouthCast | 09:21

This week on Youthcast, we're featuring a piece by Brentton Harrison, a 19 year old culinary school student who lives in South Carolina. Do You Want It not only asks and answers questions about food, culture and community — it also features Brentton's singing, and the grooves of his high school band, Reverend B and the Wanna Bs. Check it out on Youthcast.org: http://youthcast.org/?p=2114

Chickenwafflesandwich_small This week on Youthcast, we're featuring a piece by Brentton Harrison, a 19 year old culinary school student who lives in South Carolina. Do You Want It not only asks and answers questions about food, culture and community — it also features Brentton's singing, and the grooves of his high school band, Reverend B and the Wanna Bs. Check it out on Youthcast.org: http://youthcast.org/?p=2114

The Sonic Environment

From Chatterbox Audio Theater | 57:46

The presidents play poker, two sisters wake up in Baghdad, and Superman gets fired in this vignette-style performance piece based on the writings of students from East High School, Millington Central High School, and Houston High School. Performed live at Germantown Community Theatre on February 14, 2009.

This project was funded through an Arts Builds Communities grant, a program funded by the Tennessee General Assembly and administered in cooperation with the Tennessee Arts Commission and ArtsMemphis.

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The Sonic Environment grew out of a collaborative project involving Chatterbox Audio Theater, Germantown Community Theatre, East High School, Millington Central High School, and Houston High School. The project, which we titled "Thinking Out of the Box," was the brainchild of GCT Executive Producer Bo List.

Over the course of five weeks, Bo, Julia Hinson (GCT's Director of Education and Outreach), and I raided three classrooms in the above-named schools, teaching the basics of audio theater and challenging the students to respond to a variety of writing prompts. We then arranged those responses into the scenes, lines, stories, quips, exchanges, confessions, and flights of fancy that you will hear acted out in this show.

It was Chatterbox's first shot at an outreach program, and our first concerted attempt to mine the enormous educational potential of our troupe. What we experienced only made me hungry for more. I think you will be impressed, as I was, by the depth and range of the students' work; by their honesty, their wit, and their creativity; and by how unabashedly weird they can be when their minds are allowed to roam freely.

The cast and crew of this production also deserve special mention for so ably bringing these writings to life. Over the course of our month-long rehearsal process, they gracefully weathered scheduling issues, family emergencies, and other assorted disasters, never giving less than their all. The show reflects their individual voices as much as the students'. Plus they were a great deal of fun to work with, and already I miss seeing them at our nightly rehearsals.

In addition, I owe a great debt to Bo, for his unfailingly good ideas; to the amazing Angelo Rapan; to our three collaborating teachers, Ms. Weirich, Ms. Hall, and Ms. Cotton, who welcomed us graciously into their classrooms; and especially to Julia, who scheduled and created and called and typed and organized and brainstormed and arranged, and is the heretofore-unsung hero of the entire project.

--Robert Arnold

Car Tunes

From Off the Dial Music Radio | 59:41

Songs about cars.

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This is a brief radio show from "Off the Dial Music Radio with George and Mark".  This program features songs about cars and various situations good and bad involving automobiles.  There are brief discussions in between songs about the role of cars in rock-and-roll songs of different eras.  The format is spontaneous and humorous with some information about the songs and the artists performing them.  Fun. Fun Fun... 'til your daddy takes your T-bird away!

Dance That Brings the Dead to the Living

From Jake Warga | 03:00

A 3min commentary about Christmas shopping in November.

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I walked downtown today and felt like crying. It's not even December, but the decorations are up. Phones to ears in agony, no one is  smiling. Crazy people, ghosts, prowl downtown…ignored because they're crazy, or crazy because they're ignored. No one notices me,  I am unremarkable in the shared cold.

I blast a song in my ears, the ipod clicking up with the volume, the  lyrics: "this is the dance that brings the dead to the living."

Commodity fetish, Karl Marx, all around. Happiness is behind the thick windows.

A girl, thin, attractive, no face, only the small of her back exposed as she squats in a department store window, her flesh the same color of the mannequins she is bowing to, who she is dressing, or is it the other way around?

Movie, just to escape, escape by immersion. Johnny Depp with large blade greets me, threatens me for noticing too much.

"What is the What" is in paperback and audiotape in the bookstore below, Sudanese refugee story, free gift-wrapping.

I see a ghostly reflection in the window: a cancer patient, bald, unhappy, aware that time is short, but it is only me. A clicking, random, rapid, arcade game in the theatre lobby. Man fires with pink gun, a final volley, letting it all out before his quarters expire. 
To kill.

A disheveled babbling woman walking past Santa's village, it's started to rain, it's always started to rain. She talks to and past me. She yells. I yell. No one notices, I click-up the volume, “This is the dance that brings the dead to the living”
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