I'm a sad panda... (Okay, not seriously.)
Feb. 4th, 2004 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserLast night I BT'ed a copy of every single This American Life ever made! That's eight years of them!
For those not in the know, TAL is a radio show on National Public Radio. It's sort of "storytelling", but the stories are always real things that happened to the speaker. Each week they have a theme, and four people tell a story about it. Example: Once the theme was "being restricted" (or something along those lines) and one person told a story about being a bitch in prison and how one survives in there, etc. On some sexuality-related issue, they had a woman who worked for years in an X-rated video store. The speakers are always amazing, just simply amazing. Not only do they have great voices and storytelling abilities, you can tell they're drop-dead outstanding writers, too.
Anyway, so I downloaded them all last night, and I uploaded one year of them to Catlove so I could listen to them here at work. *sniff* It appears as though the upload didn't work though, as I can't access it now. I was so looking forward to it, too. Maybe at lunchtime I'll have time to stop at home and check out what happened to the file.
The show itself is played on the weekends here in this area, but you can hit TAL's homepage to find out when it plays by you. (You can also listen to the old shows from the website, just check the links on the left. I suppose that's how I'll do it for now.)
Other than this little roadbump, life's not too shabby. Work sucks (of course), but other than that things are okay. I'm walking nightly (which I'm enjoying, even though I can't walk anywhere near as long as I want to yet), bills are paid, cat's healthy. What more could you ask for? :)
ETA: TAL does a songclip between each story, and in one they used an Elvis Presley song. I've never really thought about or listened to his stuff much, but he really has a nice voice! (I always kind of thought the folks of that generation went gaga over him because of the daring hip-thrusting, but I suppose he could really sing, too.) Interesting!
For those not in the know, TAL is a radio show on National Public Radio. It's sort of "storytelling", but the stories are always real things that happened to the speaker. Each week they have a theme, and four people tell a story about it. Example: Once the theme was "being restricted" (or something along those lines) and one person told a story about being a bitch in prison and how one survives in there, etc. On some sexuality-related issue, they had a woman who worked for years in an X-rated video store. The speakers are always amazing, just simply amazing. Not only do they have great voices and storytelling abilities, you can tell they're drop-dead outstanding writers, too.
Anyway, so I downloaded them all last night, and I uploaded one year of them to Catlove so I could listen to them here at work. *sniff* It appears as though the upload didn't work though, as I can't access it now. I was so looking forward to it, too. Maybe at lunchtime I'll have time to stop at home and check out what happened to the file.
The show itself is played on the weekends here in this area, but you can hit TAL's homepage to find out when it plays by you. (You can also listen to the old shows from the website, just check the links on the left. I suppose that's how I'll do it for now.)
Other than this little roadbump, life's not too shabby. Work sucks (of course), but other than that things are okay. I'm walking nightly (which I'm enjoying, even though I can't walk anywhere near as long as I want to yet), bills are paid, cat's healthy. What more could you ask for? :)
ETA: TAL does a songclip between each story, and in one they used an Elvis Presley song. I've never really thought about or listened to his stuff much, but he really has a nice voice! (I always kind of thought the folks of that generation went gaga over him because of the daring hip-thrusting, but I suppose he could really sing, too.) Interesting!
