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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: In honor of my German friend Alamar visiting Chicago for the first time, my friends decided to take him out to a karaoke night tonight, at this cheesy frat-bar place in the Lakeview neighborhood. A little of that goes a long way, though, so here is a drunken conversation we're all having on the Belmont sidewalk instead, making our way to Clark to patronize an indie-rock dive bar called the L & L.

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.