Contributor Lauren Baker reads a postcard from Florence. Recorded on a hike in the Sierra Nevada.
Postcard - Florence, Italy
A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum
You are what you do but sometimes that line moves, then blurs.
“I think about how far away from here I’ll be tomorrow. But tomorrow is only a horizon. It’s the line wavering under my feet — just a trick I’ve played on my eyes to convince me there’s a destination in sight. This must be time travel.” - Em Jiang
References:
https://archive.org/details/NightRide-V30-Trainhopping
http://www.billdaniel.net/who-is-bozo-texino/
Music:
Roots Connective - Yclept Insan
Motion by Gabrielle HB & Emilio Reyna via Discos Carnitas
Lost Train Blues - Price Goodson (public domain)
Field Recording of a song by Well (interviewee)
A Catalogue of Nights
Winter Solstice in São Paulo
"In January I left my home for 6 months of wandering and, of course, one of the main things I explored were the infinite shades of night in each new place. What I noticed more than ever is that every night is a finger print – each is unique, with no one the same as another. The sounds tell the stories." - Vanessa Lowe, Nocturne
Fool's Gold!
Extra Extra!! From the banks of the Satoshi River to the banks of the Reese River, a newspaper that propped up a honest-to-goodness LIARS CLUB, no lie, and a story from the city who built itself on such falsehoods. The secret history of bitcoin? The Toiyabe Mole Man in the mines of ERN, NEVADA? The TRUE story of TOTAL LIARS and the history they invented for themselves.
illustration by Em Jiang
This episode was directly inspired by Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything and his ongoing "False Alarm" series. Check it out here.
MUSIC
Roots Connective by Yclept insan
A long song written by me and the artist formerly known as Tea Haze.
A track from BluOrange
Kiss me Honey Kiss me used as exit music on Buster Blue’s album When the Silver’s Gone.
Symetree by Yclept insan
White Fur by Dear Nora.
KATHMANDU 666
There are a lot of Death Metal bands in Kathmandu, Nepal. Let's figure out why.
