The Attagag is moving to a new time and day this summer.
The show will return to the airwaves on Tuesday, June 21st at 5:30pm CST on Radio DePaul: Chicago's College Connection (radio.depaul.edu, the link is on the right of this page).
After spending the past several months as a morning drive show, I figure now is the perfect time to move to an evening show. Hopefully this will bring in more listeners. The show's format will be altered for the new time.
For instance, there won't be a news and weather spot at the top of the second hour. I will still deliver weather and maybe something interesting from the headlines (like something stupid or local).
Also in the past (especially during the first few weeks of the show) I tried giving away prizes (or rather bribes to get listeners, like movie tickets to second-rate Hollywood movies like No Strings Attached and The Eagle). I will not be giving away prizes anymore. This isn't a commercial station. Since this is a hobby I don't plan on wasting valuable airtime to other people's interests unless they interest me. (For example, if someone wishes to promote a charitable cause or a party in which I can genuinely help out or am invited, then I will promote such cause). I'm only on-air two hours, once a week. I can't waste any time.
Last month, the show was nominated for two awards at the inaugural Radio DePaul Awards: Best Show and Most Interactive Host. I did not win either one (and did not expect to.) I would like to improve more on the interaction between me and the listeners. I already have you guys sending me your requests online and via text but there must be more. I'm toying around with the idea of having people call in if there's a story or a topic I wanna discuss on-air (topical stuff like summer plans, BBQs, worst night out, best surprise birthday parties, lousy summer jobs, etc)
Here's a song I might play on Tuesday. It's from a band named after a US senator, Henry Clay (1777-1852).
Tune into "The Attagag", Tuesdays 5:30pm-7:30pm CST starting June 21st!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Childrens Hospital
Childrens Hospital-a highly irrelevant and occasionally offensive comedy mocking 'ER' and 'Grey's Anatomy'. Its back on Adult Swim, Thursdays at 11pm and online.
This episode features Jeffrey Ross, who seeks treatment for his show. But the hospital would rather have him stick around and have him crack jokes. It also features Adam Scott and Clark Duke as Star Trek nerds.
"Where the hell is the bionic arm I asked you for?"
"It doesn't exist, you idiot."
This episode features Jeffrey Ross, who seeks treatment for his show. But the hospital would rather have him stick around and have him crack jokes. It also features Adam Scott and Clark Duke as Star Trek nerds.
"Where the hell is the bionic arm I asked you for?"
"It doesn't exist, you idiot."
Friday, June 3, 2011
The Entire Transcript
I have here the entire script for my show. This is one way to see how my brain works.
THE ATTAGAG
6.3.2011 | Songs of Summer
[Try to keep intro at 90 seconds or less]
Good morning everyone! This is “The Attagag”, nominated for two Scottie Awards: Best Show and Most Interactive Host for moi. The awards ceremony is happening tonight. I’m excited. No matter who wins, I’m just glad that I was nominated. No, seriously. Its incredible that my passion for being on-air and playing some great music is being recognized by my peers and the brass. And I have you guys to thank you for this honor. Every request you made, every comment about the show is being fully appreciated with these nominations. You guys rock, and thank you for tuning in every week at this ungodly hour for the past several months.
(Shout-out to Scott)
This week, I’m gonna play some tracks that remind me of summer. All these were released during the hot and sunny months or were popular during the dog days of summer. Let’s start with this great cover of “Boys of Summer”, courtesy of The Ataris.
The Ataris “Boys of Summer” (2003)
WEATHER (8:30AM)
[30 SECONDS]
NEWS AND WEATHER [9:00AM]
PLAY RADIO ID DURING SONGS
THIS WEEKEND (9:15AM-9:20AM)
Do-Division Fest (Sat and Sun, Division between Ashland and Leavitt)
Slut-Walk (Sat)
Nearly Naked Charity Run (Sat)
TOPIC (9:21AM-9:25AM)
The Food Pyramid is replaced by a plate. This makes my Threadless tee of the food pyramid completely relevant.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY (9:30AM-9:32AM)
1937-The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. The Duke, once known as King Edward VIII, abdicated from the throne in December 1936. His brother, Prince Albert, would become King George VI.
Recommend “The King’s Speech”
1943- In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots. This would inspire a play by Luis Valdez and a 1981 dramatic movie. The play starred Edward James Olmos (he also appears in the film adaptation), won was nominated for a Tony for Best Feature Actor.
1989-The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. The Chinese government still refuses to acknowledge that Tiananmen Square ever happened, despite annual commemorations and protests.
BIRTHDAYS [9:32AM, KEEP AT 60 SECONDS OR LESS]
Anderson Cooper is 44 (CNN)
Jason Jones is also 44 (The Daily Show)
John Hodgman is 40. Comedian, writer, actor, the PC in the Mac commercials, bestselling author of The Area of My Expertise and More Information Than Required, also a correspondent for “The Daily Show”
Finish the show with Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folks”
PLAYLIST
The Ataris “Boys of Summer”
Blink-182 “The Rock Show”
Black Eyed Peas “Let’s Get It Started”
Eve featuring Gwen Stefani “Let Me Blow Ya Mind”
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas “Heatwave”
Usher “U Remind Me”
Justin Timberlake “Summer Love”
Garbage “Cherry Lips”
Sophie Ellis Bextor “Murder on the Dancefloor”
OK Go “Get Over It”
Metro Station “Shake It”
Sum 41”Fat Lip”
Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out”
Sugarcult “Memory”
Modest Mouse “Float On”
The Killers “Somebody Told Me”
Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks”
Pitbull “I Know You Want Me”
Plastic Operator “Parasols (Remix)”
Baby Bash featuring Frankie J “Suga Suga”
TLC “Waterfalls”
Stereophonics “Dakota”
Hot Hot Heat “Middle of Nowhere”
Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule “I’m Real”
Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folk”
THE ATTAGAG
6.3.2011 | Songs of Summer
[Try to keep intro at 90 seconds or less]
Good morning everyone! This is “The Attagag”, nominated for two Scottie Awards: Best Show and Most Interactive Host for moi. The awards ceremony is happening tonight. I’m excited. No matter who wins, I’m just glad that I was nominated. No, seriously. Its incredible that my passion for being on-air and playing some great music is being recognized by my peers and the brass. And I have you guys to thank you for this honor. Every request you made, every comment about the show is being fully appreciated with these nominations. You guys rock, and thank you for tuning in every week at this ungodly hour for the past several months.
(Shout-out to Scott)
This week, I’m gonna play some tracks that remind me of summer. All these were released during the hot and sunny months or were popular during the dog days of summer. Let’s start with this great cover of “Boys of Summer”, courtesy of The Ataris.
The Ataris “Boys of Summer” (2003)
WEATHER (8:30AM)
[30 SECONDS]
NEWS AND WEATHER [9:00AM]
PLAY RADIO ID DURING SONGS
THIS WEEKEND (9:15AM-9:20AM)
Do-Division Fest (Sat and Sun, Division between Ashland and Leavitt)
Slut-Walk (Sat)
Nearly Naked Charity Run (Sat)
TOPIC (9:21AM-9:25AM)
The Food Pyramid is replaced by a plate. This makes my Threadless tee of the food pyramid completely relevant.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY (9:30AM-9:32AM)
1937-The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. The Duke, once known as King Edward VIII, abdicated from the throne in December 1936. His brother, Prince Albert, would become King George VI.
Recommend “The King’s Speech”
1943- In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots. This would inspire a play by Luis Valdez and a 1981 dramatic movie. The play starred Edward James Olmos (he also appears in the film adaptation), won was nominated for a Tony for Best Feature Actor.
1989-The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. The Chinese government still refuses to acknowledge that Tiananmen Square ever happened, despite annual commemorations and protests.
BIRTHDAYS [9:32AM, KEEP AT 60 SECONDS OR LESS]
Anderson Cooper is 44 (CNN)
Jason Jones is also 44 (The Daily Show)
John Hodgman is 40. Comedian, writer, actor, the PC in the Mac commercials, bestselling author of The Area of My Expertise and More Information Than Required, also a correspondent for “The Daily Show”
Finish the show with Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folks”
PLAYLIST
The Ataris “Boys of Summer”
Blink-182 “The Rock Show”
Black Eyed Peas “Let’s Get It Started”
Eve featuring Gwen Stefani “Let Me Blow Ya Mind”
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas “Heatwave”
Usher “U Remind Me”
Justin Timberlake “Summer Love”
Garbage “Cherry Lips”
Sophie Ellis Bextor “Murder on the Dancefloor”
OK Go “Get Over It”
Metro Station “Shake It”
Sum 41”Fat Lip”
Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out”
Sugarcult “Memory”
Modest Mouse “Float On”
The Killers “Somebody Told Me”
Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks”
Pitbull “I Know You Want Me”
Plastic Operator “Parasols (Remix)”
Baby Bash featuring Frankie J “Suga Suga”
TLC “Waterfalls”
Stereophonics “Dakota”
Hot Hot Heat “Middle of Nowhere”
Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule “I’m Real”
Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folk”
Thursday, May 26, 2011
My Next Performance
I am performing this text for a performing spotlight show at school next week. Here is what I must know by heart and perform 110% so that the audience will be blown away.
Chuck Klosterman
"McDiculous"
From Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006)
Staying alive is complicated. It’s the single most difficult thing every single person does every single day. There is just so much in this wicked world that can kill us: cancer, avalanches, liver failure, electric chairs, death squads, hammerhead sharks, werewolves, and a boundless cornucopia of other coldblooded entities who solely exist so that we may not. Everything is bad for you. Food is bad for you. Food—something you need in order to stay alive—is killing you right now. Food hates you. But food cannot be held accountable for its diabolical actions, even if Morgan Spurlock thinks otherwise.
Spurlock is the director of the documentary Super Size Me. The film chronicles Spurlock’s performance-testing on his own thirty-two year old body: for 30 days, he ate nothing but food from McDonald’s. If it wasn’t on the menu, he did not consume it.
The results are staggering: he gains 25 pounds, watches his cholesterol spike 62 points, shows signs of liver failure, becomes profoundly depressed, and sporadically vomits.
It may be irrational to question the reality of Super Size Me, since the evidence appears on the screen. We see Spurlock go to the doctor, we see him eat a shitload of Big Macs, and then we see him go back to track his devolution. Around Day 21, the doctor suggests that Spurlock may die if he doesn’t change his diet.
I question that diagnosis, and here’s why: I once did something very similar to this. In 1996, I ate only Chicken McNuggets for an entire week. And you know what happened to me? Nothing. I gained exactly one pound. In fact, my cholesterol and blood pressure went down.
Now did I feel stellar at the end of the week? Not quite. I felt like I was coated in petroleum jelly. I consciously exaggerated that discomfort for the benefit of the article. It wasn’t a big deal. But in this movie, Spurlock starts struggling immediately. By the third day, he starts to act like a junkie. It all seems pretty sketchy.
Super Size Me is somewhat exaggerated; if it wasn’t, it couldn’t exist. You could not sell a movie about eating fast food and feeling fine. Spurlock didn’t just eat. He gorged himself at every possible turn. He was ramming down 5,000 calories a day. He was eating unreasonably on purpose.
Super Size Me is a movie about alleged victimization. The biggest problem with America is not faceless corporate forces. The biggest problem with America is people who blame faceless corporate forces instead of accepting accountability for their own lives. The movie is about blaming a chain restaurant for offering a product that people choose to consume.
Early in the movie, Spurlock poses an important question: where does personal responsibility end and corporate responsibility begin. He never answers that question so I will. Corporate responsibility begins when corporations start breaking the law and personal responsibility never stops. Spurlock questions the ethics of offering consumers 64-ounce beverages and massive portions of fries because people can’t help themselves. “It’s just human nature to eat what you get, even if you don’t need it or want it,” Spurlock tells me. Well whose fucking fault is that? Why is a restaurant supposed to worry about people who get fat by eating food they supposedly don’t want?
Now I don’t feel altogether comfortable defending McDonald’s. It almost feels like I’m saying “Hey man, Darth Vader had every right to build that Death Star. He had all the proper zoning permits.” However the paradigm advocated by Spurlock is wrong. McDonald’s is a publicly traded capitalist venture. Its function is to earn as much as it can by giving people a product they want. Perhaps you hate that notion. Well, go ahead and hate it. But your personal distaste for an ideal has nothing to do with your real-world problems.
Commercials for McDonald’s claim their food is marvelous and you should eat it constantly. And maybe you believe that. Maybe you need documentary filmmakers to protect you from yourself, because life is dangerous. And life is dangerous. Like I said, staying alive is complicated. But I’ll take my chances.
Chuck Klosterman
"McDiculous"
From Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006)
Staying alive is complicated. It’s the single most difficult thing every single person does every single day. There is just so much in this wicked world that can kill us: cancer, avalanches, liver failure, electric chairs, death squads, hammerhead sharks, werewolves, and a boundless cornucopia of other coldblooded entities who solely exist so that we may not. Everything is bad for you. Food is bad for you. Food—something you need in order to stay alive—is killing you right now. Food hates you. But food cannot be held accountable for its diabolical actions, even if Morgan Spurlock thinks otherwise.
Spurlock is the director of the documentary Super Size Me. The film chronicles Spurlock’s performance-testing on his own thirty-two year old body: for 30 days, he ate nothing but food from McDonald’s. If it wasn’t on the menu, he did not consume it.
The results are staggering: he gains 25 pounds, watches his cholesterol spike 62 points, shows signs of liver failure, becomes profoundly depressed, and sporadically vomits.
It may be irrational to question the reality of Super Size Me, since the evidence appears on the screen. We see Spurlock go to the doctor, we see him eat a shitload of Big Macs, and then we see him go back to track his devolution. Around Day 21, the doctor suggests that Spurlock may die if he doesn’t change his diet.
I question that diagnosis, and here’s why: I once did something very similar to this. In 1996, I ate only Chicken McNuggets for an entire week. And you know what happened to me? Nothing. I gained exactly one pound. In fact, my cholesterol and blood pressure went down.
Now did I feel stellar at the end of the week? Not quite. I felt like I was coated in petroleum jelly. I consciously exaggerated that discomfort for the benefit of the article. It wasn’t a big deal. But in this movie, Spurlock starts struggling immediately. By the third day, he starts to act like a junkie. It all seems pretty sketchy.
Super Size Me is somewhat exaggerated; if it wasn’t, it couldn’t exist. You could not sell a movie about eating fast food and feeling fine. Spurlock didn’t just eat. He gorged himself at every possible turn. He was ramming down 5,000 calories a day. He was eating unreasonably on purpose.
Super Size Me is a movie about alleged victimization. The biggest problem with America is not faceless corporate forces. The biggest problem with America is people who blame faceless corporate forces instead of accepting accountability for their own lives. The movie is about blaming a chain restaurant for offering a product that people choose to consume.
Early in the movie, Spurlock poses an important question: where does personal responsibility end and corporate responsibility begin. He never answers that question so I will. Corporate responsibility begins when corporations start breaking the law and personal responsibility never stops. Spurlock questions the ethics of offering consumers 64-ounce beverages and massive portions of fries because people can’t help themselves. “It’s just human nature to eat what you get, even if you don’t need it or want it,” Spurlock tells me. Well whose fucking fault is that? Why is a restaurant supposed to worry about people who get fat by eating food they supposedly don’t want?
Now I don’t feel altogether comfortable defending McDonald’s. It almost feels like I’m saying “Hey man, Darth Vader had every right to build that Death Star. He had all the proper zoning permits.” However the paradigm advocated by Spurlock is wrong. McDonald’s is a publicly traded capitalist venture. Its function is to earn as much as it can by giving people a product they want. Perhaps you hate that notion. Well, go ahead and hate it. But your personal distaste for an ideal has nothing to do with your real-world problems.
Commercials for McDonald’s claim their food is marvelous and you should eat it constantly. And maybe you believe that. Maybe you need documentary filmmakers to protect you from yourself, because life is dangerous. And life is dangerous. Like I said, staying alive is complicated. But I’ll take my chances.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
New musician spotlight
Here's an artist I heard about from Jim, a friend and fellow on-air personality at Radio DePaul. He's the host of Campus Curmudgeon, which airs Tuesdays 12:30pm-3:00pm from now til the end of the summer.
Friday, May 20, 2011
It's (not) the end of the world as we know and I feel fine about that
THE ATTAGAG
May 20, 2011 | It’s not the end of the world and I feel fine
According to an evangelical leader of a small and strange Christian group, the world is going to end Saturday. That man is crazy, and so is anyone who keeps predicting the Earth’s inevitable end. Let’s not fret over doomsday. Go out to the park, go meet with friends, go call your mom and meet for lunch. Go out on a date night with your partner or spouse, go to the theatre, to a baseball game, bar crawls, the beach, or have a BBQ. Go do something that is exciting and frightening. Stop freaking out about the end and focus on today. It’s all we really have. #
PLAYLIST
R.E.M. “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)”
The Wombats “Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves)”
Cage the Elephant “Around My Head”
Rage against the Machine “Sleep Now in the Fire”
Empires “Damn Things Over”
Dirty Vegas “Changes”
OK Go “Here It Goes Again”
MGMT “Kids”
TV on the Radio “Will Do”
New Pornographers “Moves”
Metric “Gold Guns Girls”
Shakira “Loca”
Jimi Hendrix “Fire”
Sugarcult “Memory”
The Raconteurs “Level”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Snow”
May 20, 2011 | It’s not the end of the world and I feel fine
According to an evangelical leader of a small and strange Christian group, the world is going to end Saturday. That man is crazy, and so is anyone who keeps predicting the Earth’s inevitable end. Let’s not fret over doomsday. Go out to the park, go meet with friends, go call your mom and meet for lunch. Go out on a date night with your partner or spouse, go to the theatre, to a baseball game, bar crawls, the beach, or have a BBQ. Go do something that is exciting and frightening. Stop freaking out about the end and focus on today. It’s all we really have. #
PLAYLIST
R.E.M. “It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)”
The Wombats “Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves)”
Cage the Elephant “Around My Head”
Rage against the Machine “Sleep Now in the Fire”
Empires “Damn Things Over”
Dirty Vegas “Changes”
OK Go “Here It Goes Again”
MGMT “Kids”
TV on the Radio “Will Do”
New Pornographers “Moves”
Metric “Gold Guns Girls”
Shakira “Loca”
Jimi Hendrix “Fire”
Sugarcult “Memory”
The Raconteurs “Level”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Snow”
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Song I Found on a Xfinity Channel
I heard this song while I was baking (yes I bake) and I had the Alternative channel on Xfinity. It's a pretty cool channel/station for a Wednesday afternoon.
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