SOUNDTRACK: GREASY KID STUFF–WFMU 91.9, New York City (1997-2006).
In my vast exploration of Greasy Kid Stuff (seriously, at least 15 minutes at work), I found the WFMU website. It turns out that Greasy Kid Stuff, the radio show broadcast weekly from WFMU from 1997 until 2006. Then they moved to Portland and couldn’t manage the remote connections properly, so the show ended on WFMU.
The good news is that you can hear weekly playlists of all of the shows from 2000-2006 on the playlist page. They have playlists that date back to the beginning, but there’s only audio starting in 2000. The bad news is that you the shows are all archived in Real Audio. Which, I don’t know, may or may not really work anymore.
But for a historical look at a funny and weird kids show check out the archives, and if you still have Real Player, give it a listen.
[READ: June 17, 2014] Operation Trinity
The Cahill Files were a series of “books from the vault” of the Cahill family. They were originally released as e-books and some of them have been collected as print books. The first was Operation Trinity. And like Vespers Rising, it chronicles the history of the Cahill Family.
The story is broken into three parts, each one chronicling the “life” of a painting. The painting in question is Jan Van Eyck’s altarpiece (see bottom of post for picture of it). The first part is set in Ghent in 1566. In reality, the painting was finished in the 15th century and was installed in the Saint Bavo Cathedral.
The story follows Matheus Jacobs, an ordinary, some might say even less than ordinary, boy whose family doesn’t seem to think all that much of him. Until one day when his mother says that she wants him to become an altar boy so he can protect this altarpiece from the Vespers. (His father doesn’t think he is worthy, but she disagrees). He doesn’t know why his mother chose him, or what his mother has to do with anything like this, until she reveals that she can speak several languages and is well versed in the history of the Vespers. He rides his untrusty mule to the church, where he marvels at the beautiful painting.
He soon meets Father Gerard who sends him on an errand. While away, he hears a man inciting a mob against the church. The mob grows incensed, as mobs do, and sets out trying to weed out the Catholics in the village. Matheus is freaked because they are heading for his home village. And when he arrives, he sees that the mob is trying to burn down his house. In the fracas, one of his family members is killed, and the rest of his family insist that he head back to the protect the altarpiece because the Vespers are behind the mob and they are headed for the church. (more…)
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