Firefighter and Ambulance

So a friend of mine is a producer at a local tv station and got me on a morning news program.  Like most right thinking people, I flat out love the video of Dan Deacon on the Baltimore morning show, and I batted around various ideas for ways to tip my hat to it.  Everything I thought of seemed way too literal, so I kept it mostly in my head.

The actual experience of doing the show was all kinds of bizzare.  I set up my table in a very large gray concrete room that contained little else besides a couple of cameras and the roll away kitchen island which I guess they use for segments about cooking.  I was by myself in the room for the better part of two hours, save for the several times when the camera guy would come in to film thirty seconds of me doing my thing.

The big concrete room is located directly next to the room where the hosts of the show were recording their stuff, so I felt like I had to creep around and be super quiet.  There was  a red light that came on when they were recording.  During commercial breaks I could make sound and check my levels,  however, I only had one big speaker and no monitors (my fault entirely) so I couldn’t really get my ears around how things sounded.  From now on I’m going to start using one of those little hotspot monitors. 

The anchors did their best to be enthusiastic about my weird jams- I think they may have said ‘unique’ about a zillion times- but they got my name wrong twice, two different ways, and said I’m releasing a cd, rather than a record.   Also, the website lists Computers At Sea, which is about one letter away from correct.

All this isn’t to say that I’m miffed about it, or that I didnt’ have a good time.  It was just a really peculiar flavor of good time I hadn’t run across before.  Anyway, click the headline for the video link.

Casper Electronics is amazing.