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One for Friday: The Actual Tigers, “Standing By”

Dan Seeger

I’d been away from radio for several years in the summer of 2001 when I finally found myself back in the midst of a faction of the broadcast spectrum that I hadn’t experienced in nearly a decade. I was part of radio, this time as an advisor rather than a student. Still, I was right there in the heart of the station, my original office located directly across from the main booth. After a lengthy stretch of having to engage in hefty outside scholarship to stay connected to the music that I most enjoyed, it was now all around me … Continue reading One for Friday: The Actual Tigers, “Standing By”

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Spectrum Check

Dan Seeger

This week, I fulfilled my primary film criticism duties by writing about a nice feature debut by Zeina Durra. It’s one of those films that’s good enough to immediately stir up interest over what she does next. On the other end of the film quality scale, I wrote about a favorite bad movie that is the pure definition of “Guilty Pleasure” to me. Everyone seemed to especially enjoy the opening paragraph. I also had a music review go up. I faced the always tricky challenge of writing about something that didn’t particular move me one way or the other. So … Continue reading Spectrum Check

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One for Friday: Close Lobsters, “Let’s Make Some Plans”

Dan Seeger

Close Lobsters is a band that was always part of my college radio experience. I can’t recall how I found them in the first place, I have no stories about revelatory moments playing their music and I never had a connection to them beyond the couple of releases that were nestled into the music library at 90FM. I believe I know more about them now, after researching a brief blurb written for last week’s College Countdown post than I ever knew during the days when I regularly shared their songs with the central Wisconsin listening public (and make no mistake, … Continue reading One for Friday: Close Lobsters, “Let’s Make Some Plans”

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Great Moments in Literature

Dan Seeger

“‘He had always been appalled at the fast hysterical pace with which businessmen marched toward death and the end of time. And yet he didn’t honestly know how a man, how he, personally, Victor Norman, should use his time. He had only the sense of thus far being a spendthrift with it, and the unexpressed urge not to fling it away so extravagantly, not to tip, as it were, employers with it. How in this brief life, this life that had been gadgeted and gimmicked half to death, could a man use time? Where could he hunt and savor time … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature