For countless generations, the wonderful world of television has given the feeble and illiterate something nice to look at as they wait for the end.
But the strength of television is also its weakness -- the picture! Sure, we can see almost any event real or imagined at any time of the day. But, because of this, did you know that over 99.9% of the television-viewing public have no ability to picture things in their minds?
It may sound magical and paranormal to you, but before television the majority of Americans and other peoples were able to picture fanciful visions in their own minds: Dancing with a pretty girl at a rich-person’s ball, fighting lions in a Roman colosseum, seeing an historical figure like Davy Crocket crossing the Delaware, flying a rocket to the Moon... the possibilities are limitless to what can happen in your own brains!
This is why Radio will always be superior to Television (and its know-it-all stepchild the Computer): Radio abilitates the power of your IMAGINATION! Picture this: An old man shuffles through a cold and snowy Michigan night. He smokes a nasty ol’ cigar and wheezes as he carries a heavy satchel of records. He makes it to Western Michigan University’s radio station WIDR. The young college students there constantly insult him by pointing out to the old man that they weren’t even born when he began his radio career there...
But the old disk jockey becomes young again as he plays MUSIC of the AGES, a colorful array of sounds that activate the minds and imaginations of the few who have them.
You can’t put something like that on television. That’s what we’ve been told so many times. So screw those bastards at Cable Access.
Hear radio program Bat Guano’s SwaG!, and try to imagine something.
SwaG! Broadcast of January 27, 2010.
SwaG! Broadcast of February 3, 2010.
SwaG! Broadcast of February 10, 2010.
