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Yesterday we finally got over to R's studio to record the first episode of The Radio Project, and it was pretty damn cool. We got through the process in a bit under four hours, and even before processing and addition of FX it sounds quite decent. The drop-in of dsrtao ripping me apart was especially fun to play around with, but really the whole experience is just cool. Radio theatre just seems to have a certain quality that makes it magical in ways that live theatre and film are not (not that they aren't magical in their own ways). I think part of it is that you are weaving an enigmatic virtual space, and yet unlike with film there is an immediacy to it, so that you the creators are almost as much transported to your creation as the audience. Even R, who has done a bunch of music recording there before, was caught up in the energy of it. I don't know whether this project will see any sort of socio-commerical success, but just doing it is in and of itself a success.

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Ordinary fuckin' people. I hate 'em. An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repoman spends his life getting into tense situations.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?
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And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
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So we shall let the reader answer the question for himself. Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?