So, a million years ago, I met this writer on LiveJournal named Katrina Stonoff. I was just starting out podcasting and I had lots of ideas on how this site would turn out . One thing I thought I’d do is take lots of her blog posts and translate them into produced podcast pieces, because she had lots of interesting stories and a direct and sensual sort of writing style that really appealed to me. It was going to be a series I was going to call Stone Soup on Braindouche!.
None of it happened. Oh, I did some preliminary work on a few episodes, but they sucked. I didn’t have the right equipment, I didn’t have the time to do that much heavy production, and frankly I didn’t have the experience to produce these very ambitious pieces.
The other month, I was going through and doing a little tidying up in my audio production files, and I found one of the old abandoned pieces, and decided to try to finish it. It came together nicely, if a little creepily, I think. It’s worth noting that the whole thing was produced so grungy is because my source files were absolutely terrible, especially the ones I recorded at the time. Since I couldn’t clean them up, I decided to make them very, very dirty.
Anyway, the point is that Katrina wrote all this, more or less, and it’s on the internet somewhere. She currently blogs at Stone Soup, but you won’t find this story posted there — and I’m not going to be the one to tell you where to find it, either. Ask her. She blogs about writing novels and the hats she collects and being a mom to some enormously precocious kids and being married to a nuclear engineer genius and having dogs and, yanno, stuff.
She’s one of my favoritest people in the world.
Concerning the sounds…
The band is Tundra, the album is Aquaduct, and the tracks are I Know The Way and The Basics,off the Contra label, and the link is here. (Incidentally, I found it on archive.org.)
Alan Bainbridge did my voice of God in there, kindly gifted to me via the radiodaddy forum.(I’m trying to find more information about him right now, and I’ll update if I can get him better links.)
Some sounds came from the freesound project, some came from soundsnap.com, and some just got found on very old .WAV websites all over the internet, particularly the animal samples.
Other links of note:
hot glue media: I’m a professional nerd, I specialize in wordpress, Dani does graphic design, and we’ll do almost anything for money.
Sweet Tarragon: We also make jewelry, and we can make it custom for you, for money.
The Sweet Couch Experience: It’s a truism that if you start and stick with one podcast, you’ll have more eventually. Much like Braindouche! is a podcast I made because I couldn’t find any podcasts like it elsewhere and wanted to listen to one, The Sweet Couch Experience is a very simple podcast I couldn’t find anywhere else. It’s simple, a daily dose of cool, weird, cheesy, remarkably bad or simply peculiar audio I found on the internet. It’s a found-sound archive experiment. It’s kind of nifty and I look forward to listening to it every day and I program and produce the damn thing. (It also was kind of broken as of a few hours ago, but I think I have everything fixed and straightened out now.)
It’s past my bedtime. If I’ve forgotten anything I’ll update this later. Goodnight internet.

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