6.7.18 - A Fistful of Promises Kept

Leave it for the nights that I fly solo to be the ones where my listeners get the unfiltered introspection that I normally don't vocalize. That's cool. It's important to me I'm human on air, and in that, it means being vulnerable enough to show the things that challenge me. Today was about recognizing the effect you have on others. I ask bands to be a part of my show in hopes that I can help them find a larger audience - one I feel they des...erve. (Bigger bands that play my show have the same mission - they want to grow our platform to get the smaller artists more attention). This, to me, seems like a degree of trust. So when a video launch goes well, I'm fulfilling that trust. But sometimes it doesn't, and for things that aren't always in my control, I sometimes feel as though I've failed the artists I'm trying to help by not actualizing that trust. But today, and tonight, I thought that wasn't giving me enough credit. The success is not only in making something that can exist, but in building a platform that artists want to be a part of. I will always do my best to help them, and I will learn from every success and shortcoming, to always be improving how I can do that.

May 24, 2018 - A Fistful of Salad Days

This week, Gabi from Innerspace Radio hung out for a bit, and we talked about how the higher you get in age, the more of a bottleneck free time becomes. I had a conversation with a friend while we grabbed coffee this weekend. I had about 90 minutes to hang out between my morning run and meeting with another friend who was helping me edit my Jeff Rosenstock interview. My coffee friend courageously expressed that he didn't like how it felt... like every time we hung out, I was trying to fit him between two other commitments. From my perspective, I felt like I was trying to get as much mileage out of my free time as possible, but from him perspective, I wasn't making enough time to make him feel valued. So we put a date to kick it again in both our Google calendars, and I came away being more conscious of the way that I choose to spend my and how it affects others, and grateful for those who choose to spend their precious free time with me (even just listening on the radio :) )

May 17, 2018 - A Fistful of Hinds'Aite

Tonight, returner @anagarlock_ kicked it and represented the @teragramla on air, and we chatted about the LA music scene, puns involving Hinds, nerd shit, and I had her roll the D20. We asked some good questions, and had some good answers - did you know that Ana's first crush was Paul Walker, or that she gets down to @spindoctorsband, or that she wants to hear #BeastOfBurden covered by @nas?

@HINDSband - Linda...
@WALTERetc - Dumb Angel
@Interrupstagram - She's Kerosene
@Bobbys_Oar - Jealous
#SISSYandtheBLISTERS - Let Her Go
@official_MCCAFFERTY_band - Paper, Pencil, Copyright
@PUPtheband - Never Try
@HINDSband - The Club
@colleengreen420 - TV
@CherryGlazerr - Told You I'd Be With The Guys
@TheVaccines - Your Love is My Favorite Band
@DEADMILKMENofficial - Punk Rock Girl
@RafiqBhatia (of @son_lux) - Breaking English
@CoryHenry & #FunkApostles - Trade It All