{"id":9478,"date":"2014-08-25T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9478"},"modified":"2014-08-25T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T19:30:48","slug":"nostalgia-radio-days-and-coming-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9478","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia, Radio Days, and Coming Attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"RadioDays_poster\"<\/a>

See? It IS possible to design a functional yet striking poster not reliant on airbrushed, faux painted big actor heads.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here\u2019s the first of several reviews held in stasis while the internet was being fixed (apparently it was a \u2018mapping issue\u2019) and I was primarily working away from home base during the interim.<\/p>\n

First up is Woody Allen\u2019s Radio Days<\/a><\/strong> (1987), released on Blu-ray by Twilight Time.<\/p>\n

I remember buying the soundtrack album years ago (RCA Novus, if I recall correctly) which featured some bouncy period songs.<\/p>\n

My favourite period in pop culture and nostalgic gear sort of begins with live TV in the fifties, but the sound guy part of me has a soft spot for certain aspects of radio \u2013 not the shows or the music, but just like live TV, the excitement of creative and technical teams putting on a show live, and audiences transfixed \/ addicted to what they hear or see, or imagine.<\/p>\n

There are easy parallels with later generations grown up with TV in the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, but as Julie Kirgo writes in the excellent essay, \u201cPerhaps, someday, there will be a poignant, streaming memoir, Web Days.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Radio bled into TV \u2013 the ad sponsorship format, commercial breaks, star system, tuning into daily \/ weekly shows, and buying related merchandise \u2013 so it\u2019s not hard for fans glued to episodes of ABCs Lost<\/strong> (2004-2010) to relate to audiences tuning into a show in 1944, but what will be nostalgic and what constitutes a sense of nostalgia is a bit grey if everything is easily accessible.<\/p>\n

Maybe the correlation lies in simply having deep affection for wanting to re-experience a beloved series of media events rooted to good feelings, or collective enjoyment.<\/p>\n

If fans of Twin Peaks<\/strong> can still wax on in 2014 about the fervor over David Lynch and Mark Frost\u2019s iconic show (Season 1 + a third of Season 2; the rest was shit), it\u2019s hard not to believe those hooked on Homeland<\/strong>, Game of Thrones<\/strong>, and Breaking Bad<\/strong> will have nostalgia for being excited, frustrated, and pining for more goodness (but maybe not that period of withdrawal when you know It\u2019s Over; There Will Be NO MORE; and You Must Find Another Show OUT THERE To Love<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Coming next<\/em>: Twilight Time\u2019s Blu-ray of Garson Kanin\u2019s Born Yesterday <\/strong>means one thing \u2013 that I voluntarily watched not only the great 1950 film, but that 1993 remake. In real time. And never once hitting the shuttle button. Because I\u2019m that intrigued in seeing how good intentions go very, very wrong.<\/p>\n

And right after:<\/em> Brick Mansions<\/strong> on Blu from VVS. I know, I know. But it\u2019s that faint hope where maybe Luc Besson might not hammer out another lazy franchise installment. Sigh\u2026.<\/p>\n

And then<\/em>: Working on stuff. Over the last 2 weeks I\u2019ve gathered seven interviews of which\u00a0 five will be podcasts, and two will be transcripts, plus a print version for Rue Morgue\u2019s October issue.<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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