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[randommedia] is a semi-regular podcast I have been producing since spring 2005, using a Blogger webpage and a free service called Audioblogger.com; recordings are made from my cellphone, and because of technical limitations are never more than five minutes in length. I use the podcast mostly to record interesting small conversations during random moments in my life; interviews with local scenesters, reports from artistic events, drunken conversations with friends at parties and the like. Episodes are originally posted in real time to my Blogger webpage, then reposted to this site later for archival purposes; the MP3 tracks found here have already been edited in iTunes and contain metadata and photos about the episode, while the tracks at the Blogger page do not. Both sites have podcast-friendly web feeds for just the audio reports; here is the one for Blogger and here is the one for this site. (To use, right-click on the link and choose "Copy Link to Clipboard;" then paste the link into the "add feed" window of your favorite podcast software or feed reader.)

This episode: A conversation with my friend Anna, while attending a Halloween party at a mutual friend of ours, Uptown neighborhood, Chicago. In particular we are watching the Stanley Kubrick version of The Shining on television while making this recording, and adding smartass commentary to the scene we happen to be watching at that moment (the one where the naked woman gets out of the tub and starts making out with Jack Nicholson, and then suddenly becomes the rotting corpse of an old woman).

Copyright 2005, Jason Pettus. All rights reserved. This was published under a Creative Commons license; click here for details. Contact: ilikejason [at] gmail [dot] com.