English language radio.
Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing
I was really looking forward to listening to radio again but can't find shit
in english to listen to.
What stations should I try to tune in to?
I know about S&S but is there anything else?
Brian
Michael Cash
<la...@my.nuts.wouldja?> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>A couple of weeks back I bought a smooth little compo.
>I was really looking forward to listening to radio again but can't find shit
>in english to listen to.
Surprise, surprise!
>
>What stations should I try to tune in to?
None of them.
>I know about S&S but is there anything else?
I'm guessing S&S mean "Stars and Stripes", which is a newspaper.
You're thinking of AFN (Armed Forces Network), which you will
sometimes hear old farts refer to as FEN (Far East Network).
There's "InterFM" out of Tokyo, but they suck a royal root just like
all the others.
Ever since I got my handy-dandy little 30gb hard-drive mp3 player I
only listen to the radio about 10 or 15 minutes a day. I think I have
a larger music library than AFN does anyway. For talk radio, I record
off the internet and take it with me.
mr.sumo snr.
news:cm55qv0anoacudb7l...@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:59:51 +0900, "Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing"
> <la...@my.nuts.wouldja?> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
> only listen to the radio about 10 or 15 minutes a day. I think I have
> a larger music library than AFN does anyway. For talk radio, I record
> off the internet and take it with me.
>
I've found a few audiobook torrents at supernova. Plenty of versions of
Tolkien of course - I'm currently on the unabridged version of TFOTR - which
I burn, about 4 files at a time, to a CD-RW and then listen to in the car.
They're all in MP3 format of course so they'd easily fit on your MP3 player.
Back in the early 1990's I used to deliver demonstrator vehicles for
Vauxhall/Opel and got tired of listening to UK's Radio 1 by lunchtime every
day - fortunately Radio 4 were dramatizing the entire Sherlock Holmes
collection at the time - daily. A lot of cars were delivered past the
scheduled time 'coz the driver was sitting in a motorway service area
listening to Holmes once again struggling with Professor Moriarty.
--
jonathan
--
"Never give a gun to ducks"
Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing
> Surprise, surprise!
Hardee-har,eh?
>
> >I know about S&S but is there anything else?
>
> I'm guessing S&S mean "Stars and Stripes", which is a newspaper.
> You're thinking of AFN (Armed Forces Network), which you will
> sometimes hear old farts refer to as FEN (Far East Network).
Yeah,when I was still in the army in europe it was called Stars and Stripes
radio. Like the paper.
I also download radio shows like Stern to listen to.
I'll find more stuff to download.
Mr.Sumos' idea about the books is good too.
Brian
Michael Cash
<mr_...@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
You might enjoy checking out some of the old radio programs from
pre-television days. On your favorite p2p just search on "Old Time
Radio" or "OTR" and you'll find a wealth of stuff. Or just dig around
in the fap server and you'll find a growing collection of stuff.
I am very happily working my way through the 300+ Jack Benny episodes.
There are a lot or running gags, so it helps to start near the
beginning and go through in sequence. Files of that particular program
prior to about 1938 are of such poor quality that they're practically
impossible to listen to.
I've also started to check out episodes of "The Shadow". While they
are horribly dated and exceedingly quaint, they are fine material for
time spent driving. "Amos and Andy" is another interesting show, if
you get past judging it by modern standards. It is considered racially
insensitive nowadays. Still some good humor in it, and not race-based
either. I've ordered a 3 CD-R set of 237 episodes from a guy in
Indiana (http://www.billsparks.org). There's a link on that page
leading to his online store. Very reasonable prices, and a huge
selection of programs.
Geoff Thatcher
Say, where can you download the Stern show?
Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing
> Say, where can you download the Stern show?
Usenet. But you made need one of those high faluting webbased usenet
providers seeing as how most japanese usenet providers I have come across
suck dog balls.
Brian
Brett Robson
Inter FM is 76.1Mhz in Tokyo 76.5(?) in Yokohama. I don't like it much 'cause
they play a lot of R&B and the DJs tend to talk alot with saying anything,
cliches such as "... is in the house", "know what I'm talking about?" etc make
my head hurt after a couple minutes.
.
----
"No country hides itself behind the paper screen of cultural elitism like Japan,
which, considering they've bought their entire civilisation from other people's
hand-me-downs, is a bit of a liberty."
Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing
> Inter FM is 76.1Mhz in Tokyo 76.5(?) in Yokohama. I don't like it much
'cause
> they play a lot of R&B and the DJs tend to talk alot with saying anything,
> cliches such as "... is in the house", "know what I'm talking about?" etc
make
> my head hurt after a couple minutes.
>
Brian
Geoff Thatcher
Thanks very much! Found the newsgroup they're posted to.
Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing
> Thanks very much! Found the newsgroup they're posted to.
No biggie. Glad to be of help.
Brian