Since I started listening to FIP, I stopped buying music. Everything I needed from music was being given to me by FIP, the whole range...
I could not agree with you more. My girlfriend got me hooked on FIP and FIP has been my friend eversince.
Such a great story about how that lone antenna made people move houses (!) just to be able to listen to it -- and most of all, the part about how the guy wasn't breaking any laws after all.
Nick Hornby needs to turn that into a novel, or better yet a screenplay.
Thanks for writing it up and spreading the word about FIP! Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
Man, but it puts a smile on my face!
Having heard some of the selections from Nick Hornby's book about music I reckon he just ain't never heard FIP.
And...tell me if this is your experience...I still can't work out what they're playing! Something with a sitar on now, before that it was "Young Americans" by David Bowie...
It's like meeting an old friend that I thought had gone for ever....and now here she or he is...back!
Now playing, french rap! with all kinds of influences in there--no other station I've heard compares!
But a friend has told me about a station broadcasting out of Texas (on the internet)...really...radio...
heh! How about this one? They say that there are three things that know no national boundaries.
And by "know" I mean, "They do not understand, comprehend, recognise, or are aware of"
The three are: Music, food, and love. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
All the time. I often ask myself, "Who are these people, and where do they get this stuff?" But whatever oracle they are channeling, may they keep it up, and ever be protected from typical commercialism and marketing techniques.
Absolutely. Here in China I can only listen to it over the Internet, of course, but when I feel like I need to get "out of" China and go back to my "old self", turning on FIP does the trick.
Was the best gift my girlfriend gave me.
(It's also great to have in the background while memorizing Chinese characters.)
That would be fantastic. Though I can hardly believe it. When I lived in Austin, I almost lost my mind listening to half hour to 45-minute loops all day long, desperately looking for stations that had more variety and/or taste. (My roommate's sister was a salesperson for Clearwater, and she was the sweetest thing, but at the time I did not realize she was doing the work of the Dark One.)
But shhhhhh! There are ALWAYS evil gits out who want to stop your FREE FUN. They HATE free fun, coz there's no money changing hands.
Someone here must have done a diary about great things that emerge spontaneously for the "pure love it", with no incentives for money, fame, power, etc., that bloom into spectacular yet delicate flowers, but eventually get found out, co-opted, bought out, standardized, corporatized, branded, sterilized, and/or just crushed out. Please let that not happen to FIP. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
I read an interview once, where some people from here went over and interviewed the FIP people. Turns out (at least back then) that the presenters do six hour slots, but they rotate through the week, so if I was a presenter I might have the 1200-1800 slot one day and then the 2200-0400 slot another. "If you listen carefully," said the interviewer, "you can hear the different tastes and styles."
They have a HUGE musical collection, wrote the interviewer, which all presenters can pick from (and add to, I presume.) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Oops, that would be Clear Channel.
Must have been conflating Clear Channel and Blackwater. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
The three are: Music, food, and love.
And sports, and the importance of family, too, no?
And as a special case of music, I would highlight karaoke. How great is it to go to a karaoke club with thirty people from ten different countries and see everyone having the time of their life and not wanting to go home. Happens over and over. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
For sport, think: England vs. Germany.
For importance of family think: Romeo & Juliet.
Heh!
I think there are others that leap...science maybe, maybe "beauty" (? wot dat be? Maybe "in the eye of the beholder, but that eye of the beholder can't tell 'it's gorgeous' from 'it comes from place X'...)
Anything where, you imagine a border, (sport=Manchester United vs. Man City), some strict delineation (you aren't marrying anybody who's an X!)...
A friend of mine just doesn't understand competitive sport.
"I can understand games," he says, "but basically it's 'I have a red shirt, you have a blue shirt--and we will win!"
Oh how I rambleth! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Then I fired up ET at lunch time and found this thread. Another case of ET synchronicity :-)
Thanks for the background and the links: I was only aware of FIP from the 'Internet Radio' list on my SqueezeBox.
My other favourite 'net radio is the 'Groove Salad' channel at http://somafm.com/ where the only voice appears to be from 'The AI with the beat' speaking via a Festival speech synthesiser.
Money changes hands? A bit. I'm about to contribute my annual French public broadcasting license fee, €116. Glad you can get a piece of it in Brighton! When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
Here you go:
BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Science Archive
James Clerk Maxwell - great 19th century physicist
And yeah, I may have mentioned FIP a couple of time previous. Cough cough! %>})
I still, though, find it hard to express my pleasure at finding FIP on my radio...after it seemed it had gone.
(It seems the FIP internet site shuts down at 11 pm, while my radio just keeps on going...the later it gets the stranger the selections...) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
